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L IBER E CSTATICA
T HE B OOK OF P LEASURE
L IBER E CSTATICA
L IBER E CSTATICA TM
T HE B OOK OF P LEASURE
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L IBER E CSTATICA
T HE B OOK OF P LEASURE
A R ESOURCE ON S LAANESH , THE D ARK P RINCE OF C HAOS
T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
The Dark Prince of Chaos
Sample Secret Societies
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Young Blades
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Excess, Perfection, and Obsession
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The Gourmand Society
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Chaos Cults of Slaanesh
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The Dove & Rose
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Gifts of Slaanesh
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The Brotherhood
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Mortals and Slaanesh
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The Bootstrappers’ Guild
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The Promise of Perfection
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Background
The Price of Excess
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The Mark of Slaanesh
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Running the Adventure
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Minions of the Dark Prince
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Eye for an Eye and Edge of Night
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The Hordes of Slaanesh
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Recent Events
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Marauders of Slaanesh
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Kelsydra–the Mirror of Desire
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Chaos Warriors of Slaanesh
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The Obsession Tracker
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Chaos Sorcerers of Slaanesh
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Obsessive PCs
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Beastmen and Slaanesh
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Suitors for the Hand of Esmeralda
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Anatomy of a Creature Card
Leopold von Bruner
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Guthrie von Hammastrat
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Lesser Servants
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Tomas von Karstadt
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Greater Servants
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Maximillian Aschaff enberg
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Mortal Servants of Slaanesh
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The Object of Aff ection: Esmeralda
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Mark of Slaanesh
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Hilda
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The Aesthetes
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Heissman von Bruner
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Other Mortal Warriors
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Lord Rickard Aschaff enberg
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Daemonic Servants of Slaanesh Stats
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Ludmilla Aschaff enberg
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Mortal Servants of Slaanesh Stats
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Alfred Karstadt
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Anatomy of a Secret Society Sheet
Rupert Fenstermacher
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Part One: Loved and Lost
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Secret Society Sheets
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An Old Man’s Bargain
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Membership
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Why Us?
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Special Abilities & Events
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What Do We Get?
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Inner Circle
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Love Conquers All
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Talent Slot
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Taking Sides
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Getting Out
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Dealing with the Suitors
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I’ve Got a Plan!
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The Hopeless Romantic: Leopold von Bruner
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The Second Trial: Ancestral Blessing
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Encounter: Grand Inspiration
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The Third Trial: Places of Power
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The Brawny Fool: Guthrie von Hammastrat
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And Now for Your Reward...
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Encounter: They Say Men Fear the Beast!
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Part Three: Fragments of Desire
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The Wealthy Commoner: Tomas von Karstadt
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Inside the Mirror
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Encounter: Bad Debts
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Maze of Memories
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The Noble Brat: Maximillian Aschaff enberg
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The Way Out
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Encounter: The Last Laugh
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Conclusion
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The Maiden’s Note
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Notable Personalities
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Part Two: Trials of the Heart
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Notable Personalities Stats
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The First Trial: A Lost Locket
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C HAPTER O NE
T HE P RINCE OF P LEASURE
Slaanesh, called among other things the Prince of Chaos and the
Dark Prince, is the youngest of the Ruinous Powers. His is the
domain of decadence and excess, but only a fool believes that
Slaanesh is concerned only with the idle pleasures of the fl esh.
Rather, Slaanesh is fuelled by extremes of sensation, experience,
and emotion. The Dark Prince of Chaos grants the power to excel
in all things, pushing those who serve him far beyond the normal
limits of human passion, desire, and obsession. None have dreamed
until they have dreamed of the power Slaanesh can grant, their ho-
rizons expanding infi nitely in the very instant their soul is forfeited.
While the Dark Prince is as yet the least of the Four Great Powers,
his potential is limitless, for it is defi ned only by the evils men can
dream of infl icting upon one another.
OF C HAOS
Were a man of the Empire to travel northwards, passing out from
the shadow of the deep forests, over the cold plains of Kislev and
the blasted Troll Country, and into the northern wastes, he would
eventually reach the borders of the Realm of Chaos. The poles of
the world are realms of seething magic centred upon the remains
of the polar gates, where reality and unreality merge, where
the physical and the spiritual intermingle in ways not possible
anywhere else in the mortal realm. Were the traveller to somehow
survive the predations of the savage tribes and ravening, twisted
beasts that haunt the land, he would, perhaps without realising
it, step across an invisible barrier and pass from the real world
of stone, air, and fl esh into a universe that does exist in any true
sense. Rather, the domains into which he has passed are the king-
While none of them would openly acknowledge it, the other
Chaos Powers secretly fear Slaanesh. While Khorne, Nurgle, and
Tzeentch fuel wars, plagues, and machinations within the world of
men, Slaanesh gains power by feeding humanity’s darkest urges,
stoking the fi res of all that drives men forward. Ultimately, such
power is self-sustaining, for heresy begets heresy. One day, Khorne
will run out of foes, Nurgle’s tally of plagues will be completed, and
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Tzeentch’s schemes shall reach their conclusion. None, however,
can foresee a time when men shall set aside their darkest passions
and selfi sh desires and forego that which they most crave.
T HE D ARK P RINCE
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The outermost of the six rings is the Circle of Avidity, where
the intruder is tempted with riches beyond measure, yet to accept
them is to become immobilised in the form of a shimmering statue
of the gold, the soul entrapped within for all time. The Circle of
Gluttony off ers any sensory excess imaginable, yet to partake of it
is to engorge oneself until the body explodes under the strain. The
third is the Circle of Carnality, a realm of fl eshly pleasures where
daemonettes masquerade in whatever bodily form the intruder
most covets, only to tear him limb from limb before his desires can
be assuaged. The Circle of Paramountcy off ers power in its many
forms, yet to linger in its halls is to succumb utterly to the doubt
and paranoia that assail even the most outwardly powerful of men.
In the Circle of Vainglory the intruder is seduced by visions of his
own glory, yet his past victories will be mocked for eternity should
he halt in the scented arbours of hubris. The last defence is the
Circle of Indolency, through which one must pass before gaining
egress to Slaanesh’s Palace of Pleasure. It is the most deadly, for it
seduces with the promise of eternal rest yet ultimately grants noth-
ing more than oblivion.
In the guise of welcoming guests to his lands, Slaanesh entraps
both friend and foe. Once enslaved to the Dark Prince’s will, death
is a merciful release of which the damned can only dream. Those
few who somehow pass through the six circles of the Dark Prince’s
domains fi nd themselves before Slaanesh himself. Mortals perceive
Slaanesh as a lithesome youth, clean of limb and of indeterminate
gender, though most perceive him as more male than female. His
features are beguiling and young, and to look upon them is to lose
one’s soul utterly. An eternity of damnation awaits the souls en-
slaved to the blasphemous desires of the Dark Prince of Chaos.
E XCESS , P ERFECTION ,
doms of gods and daemons, a land made from the stuff of souls
and sustained by the dark will of its most powerful inhabitants –
the dread Gods of Chaos.
Within this limitless, shifting Realm of Chaos, each of the Chaos
Gods has his own territory, the unreal borders of which wax and
wane as the power of each ebbs and fl ows. The territory of the Dark
Prince of Chaos can be imagined as a peninsular of spirit-matter, a
spit of land which, while nowhere near as expansive as that claimed
by other gods, is supremely defensible, and utterly under the sway
of Slaanesh.
In particular, the nobility seem most attracted to the gifts of
Slaanesh. Without the need to toil just to place food on the table,
nobles are at leisure to pursue whatever pastimes they desire, and a
life of indolence is strewn with entrapments to ensnare the unwary
soul. Wealth and noble birth grant power, which is all too easily
abused. Nobles have access to resources few others can imagine,
including libraries of ancient texts and treasuries full of priceless
artefacts. What forbidden knowledge and arcane relics lurk within
such places, just waiting to entrap the soul of the dilettante? There
are also stories of noble-owned hunting lodges deep in the Reik-
wald, where the sons and daughters of the Empire’s highest-born
lines retire to practise dalliances they could never risk pursuing in
the cities. Some even claim that by night, they cavort about roaring
fi res with the beastmen of the forests, sealing some unholy pact in
the name of the powers of Old Night.
Unlike the other Ruinous Powers, especially Khorne, Slaanesh
does not maintain a fortress or stronghold as such. Instead, his
court is found inside a vast, shimmering pavilion where the every
excess contrived by humanity is practised to the utmost degree. It
is said that this terrible place heaves with such extremes of emo-
tion and experience that it radiates into the dreams and desires of
mortals, stoking hidden fl ames and nurturing secret desires. It is
even said that such extremes are practised in the form of contests,
adjudicated by Slaanesh himself so that his champions can be cho-
sen and sent into the world to spread their evils amongst men.
Such a place may appear vulnerable to attack by the cohorts of the
Dark Prince’s brother gods. With the hosts of Slaanesh disport-
ing themselves in every manner possible beneath the eaves of his
pavilion, surely his enemies could attack and destroy his domains
once and for all. But Slaanesh’s holdings are well protected indeed,
for their defence is the weakness of the intruders themselves; any
attacker must fi rst pass through six circles of temptation before
entering the Dark Prince’s territory.
But it is not only members of the nobility that seek the extremes
of experience. While many think of Khorne, the God of Blood
and Murder, as the patron of warriors, many such men beseech
the favour of Slaneesh as well. While Khorne revels in the simple,
uncomplicated act of killing, however it is achieved, Slaanesh seeks
the perfection of the killing blow itself and the experience of killing
and dying. Warriors that look to the Dark Prince do so to perfect
their skill at arms into an artful performance, one in which each
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AND O BSESSION
Slaanesh gains power and infl uence within the Realm of Chaos
by fuelling and feeding upon extremes of emotion and experience
unleashed within the mortal domains. While no mortal is immune
to the temptations of the Dark Prince, some men are more likely to
attract his attentions than others.
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