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Beasts, parasites and horrors of the galaxy
Xenos Bestiary
Not every threat marches under a banner. These are the beasts, parasites and stranger things of the 41st Millennium: what they are, where they come from, and what happens to the people who meet them.
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Ork beasts
Artwork coming soonOrkoid Beast · Snakebites herds · Feral Ork worldsSquiggothA squig grown to the size of a tank or a Titan, saddled with a fortress and driven into battle by Orks who think nothing is funnier than a stampede.
Orkoid Fauna · Every Ork world · Food, tools and weaponsSquigsRound, toothy, hungry and endlessly varied, squigs are the fungal beasts that feed, clothe, heal and arm every Ork warband in the galaxy.
Orkoid Fauna · Every Ork world · Food, tools and weaponsSquigsRound, toothy, hungry and endlessly varied, squigs are the fungal beasts that feed, clothe, heal and arm every Ork warband in the galaxy.Death world predators
Artwork coming soonApex Predator · Catachan · Segmentum UltimaCatachan DevilA giant scorpion-centipede up to thirty metres long, the beast that gave Catachan's knives and its deadliest soldiers their name.Artwork coming soonBurrowing Predator · Luther McIntyre IX · Segmentum SolarAmbullA barrel-chested tunneller with diamond-hard claws and heat-seeing eyes that digs through rock, ice and bulkheads to drag its prey into the dark.
Apex Predator · Fenris · AsaheimThunderwolfWolves the size of warhorses from the frozen heights of Asaheim, ridden into battle only by Space Wolves mad or brave enough to break them.Artwork coming soonSea Leviathan · Fenris · The World OceanFenrisian KrakenThe many-armed horrors of Fenris's storm-wracked seas, which the sagas say can drag a longship and all its crew into the black water in a single heave.Artwork coming soonGreat Crusade · Urisarach · "One-Forty Twenty"MegarachnidBlade-limbed giant spiders of the world called Murder, the xenos that slaughtered an entire Blood Angels expedition and bled three Legions for six months.
Apex Predator · Fenris · AsaheimThunderwolfWolves the size of warhorses from the frozen heights of Asaheim, ridden into battle only by Space Wolves mad or brave enough to break them.Artwork coming soonSea Leviathan · Fenris · The World OceanFenrisian KrakenThe many-armed horrors of Fenris's storm-wracked seas, which the sagas say can drag a longship and all its crew into the black water in a single heave.Artwork coming soonGreat Crusade · Urisarach · "One-Forty Twenty"MegarachnidBlade-limbed giant spiders of the world called Murder, the xenos that slaughtered an entire Blood Angels expedition and bled three Legions for six months.Warp & psychic horrors
Artwork coming soonWarp Entity · Xenos Horribilis · The EmpyreanEnslaverFloating, tentacled parasites of the warp that seize minds by the dozen and tear open living gateways through the bodies of psykers.Artwork coming soonXenos Parasite · Prospero · The WebwayPsychneueinGiant warp-sensitive wasps that plant their eggs in the brains of psykers, so their larvae can eat their way out by morning.Artwork coming soonWarp Predator · Commorragh · Beastmasters' HuntKhymeraNightmares given fangs, warp-beasts dragged out of a daemon world by Drukhari Beastmasters to tear prey apart in the arenas of Commorragh.
Strange xenos
Artwork coming soonXenos Horribilis · Tunnel Dwellers · Galaxy-wideHrudCloaked, stinking, time-devouring scavengers whose very presence ages steel to rust and men to dust.Artwork coming soonXenos Horribilis · Hive Fleet Colossus · RareZoatSix-limbed centauroid giants bred by the Hive Mind as envoys and spies, whose few free survivors still carry the slave-hormone in their blood.Artwork coming soonXenos Horribilis · Calixis Sector · Hazeroth AbyssSlaugthTowering things made of writhing maggots in human shape, who eat the brains of the dead to taste their memories and rule criminal empires from the dark.Artwork coming soonXenos Technosavants · Inquisitorial Service · Galaxy-wideJokaeroOrange-furred, ape-like geniuses who build weapons beyond human understanding from scrap, and might rebuild your bolter into a death ray while you sleep.