Warp entity · traitors

Chaos Cults / the Lost and the Damned

The Chaos Cults are mortal adherents of the Ruinous Powers, collectively “the Lost and the Damned”: secret cultists, mutants, the possessed and turned Imperial regiments. The Word Bearers cultivated them across the galaxy as an instrument for turning worlds; at Calth and in the Ruinstorm cult rites tore through the fabric of reality, letting daemons in. Mass cannon fodder of the traitors’ cause.

Category: Warp entity
Side: Traitors
Key events: 5 events
Forces: Mortal adherents of the Ruinous Powers — “the Lost and the Damned”: cultists, mutants, the possessed and turned regiments, thrown into battle en masse by the traitors.

Fate

Cannon fodder of the traitors’ cause; on Terra the “Lost and the Damned” perished in waves against the walls of the Palace.

Key events

Battle of Davin’s Moon 004.M31 · Atrocity
Purging of Taral III 006.M31 · Loyalist victory
Battle of Calth 007.M31 · Pyrrhic loyalist victory
Birth of the Ruinstorm 007.M31 · Atrocity
Dagonet Incident 008.M31 · Loyalist victory

Sources

WH40k Fandom: Lost and the Damned
Lexicanum: Word Bearers
Atlas compilation · source check 2026

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