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**Son_Of _Deddog**

How do these come about??. I mean, are they possessed chaos cultists bound by powerful wards? Are they volunteers who allow themselves to be possessed by the Deamon for the good of the Inquisition?

Just curious really..

**purplefood**

I think it's just 'volunteers' who are 'asked' by an inquisitor and end up being a Daemonhost.
Though i think they may have to be psychic i don't know about that though.

**BluntmanDC**

It would make sence that they be psychic as it would allow for easier deamon entry. the 'operation' is performed in a massive sealed room so if it goes tits up the whole room can be filled with holy acid.

**Grey Templar**

Deamon Hosts, in a general sense, are any creature that has been posessed by a deamonic entity.

in a more generic sense, Deamon hosts are created by radical inquisitors who belive that Chaos can be bent to serve mankind. they are generally a human, willing or unwilling, that is given to a deamon entity to posess and consume it's soul in exchange for service.

they have to be monitered carefully though, deamons tend to tire of service to mortals.

the Deamon is usually a realitivly weak deamon. somewhere between a greater deamon and the lesser deamons. a Deamon that owes no fealty to any Chaos god and has some significant power of it's own, but not enough to prevent it's self from being bound.

in general there are 2 types of deamons. those that are an extension of a greater entities will and those that are their own force. the deamons of Khorne, Slannesh, Nurgle, and Tzeench are of the former type. little self awarness as they are just a portion of their god. the latter form are independent.

**BluntmanDC**

A pretty good explanation (although general and generic mean the same thing, it should have been particular instead of generic, nut isn't important).

**nosferatu1001**

Have a read of Eisenhorn to have an idea what an unbound Daemonhost is like.

Daemonhosts can be tightly bound, so they are more easily controlled but less powerful. Or, they can be like Cherubael - totally unbound, fairly uncontrolled, but able to kill a warhound in one shot....

**Pilau Rice**

Yeah, Eisenhorn is a great example of Daemonhosting ... poor Godwyn

There was also a short story that might have been on the old site or in an WD article where an Inquisitor attempts to summon a daemonhost in his base of operations. He manages to summon and trap one but it shakes off the bonding shackles and the Inquisitor and Daemonhost get burnt to death to ensure that the Daemon doesn't escape, i've searching for it but couldn't find it.

The Exorcists chapter of Space Marines had Daemons bound to them for 12 hours before being removed by Daemonhunters.

Found what I was looking for, it's from the article Infernal Threat

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Image displayed sways as pict-skull avoids male figure dressed in red surgical smock [Genetor-Major Lauram Clelland] Clelland approaches a male figure strapped securely to a reclined medicae table. The restrained figure is in a high state of agitation and appears to be undergoing some form of possession. The nature of the possession is unclear but is estimated to be a higher order of warp entity. Continual chanting of the Verses of Repugnance are intoned from a source outside the pict-skull's field of vision.

[Voice - off-pict. Identified as Inquisitor Olarius]

Olarius - Quickly, man. be done with it! The entity will overcome the wards soon.

Clelland - I am proceeding as fast as is safe, Inquisitor. You of all people should know the risks inherent in creating a Daemonhost under these conditions.

Olarius - Do not presume to lecture me, Mechanicus. Just do it faster. This one is stronger than we imagined. These bindings may not be strong enough.

Clelland nods and hurries forward to administer hypo-syringe to the restrained subject. As he approaches the medicae table, the subject tears loose an arm that is darkening in coloration and grips Clelland's neck. The grip tightens, and 1.45 seconds later, the subject has broken Genetor Clelland's neck and torn his head from his shoulders. Clelland collapses, and the subject begins spasming.

Olarius - Emperor's blood! Seal the chamber! Now, damn it, now!

The subject [now positively identified as a Daemonhost] breaks free from the medicae table, and image sways as pict-skull avoids a blow from its hand, which elongates and sprouts long talons. Inquisitor Olarius and three Ecclesiarchy priests carrying books of exorcism enter shot as pict-skull is spun around. The Daemonhost's skin darkens: the musculature swells: and its face becomes bestial. The priests scream and run for chamber's exit, but find it scaled. The Daemonhost disembowels the representatives of the Ecclesiarchy in two blows before Inquisitor Olarius shoots it with a weapon classified as a psycannon.

The Daemonhost falls but rises to its feet, apparently unharmed by the close range blasts, and slashes open the Inquisitors stomach Olarius falls as the ceiling-mounted sprays engage and douse the chamber in blessed acids. Image blurs as acids cat into pict-skull then vanishes altogether as Daemonhost smashes it to the floor. Audio lasts a further 3.42 seconds, consisting of screams of Inquisitor Olarius and the Daemonhost as the acid performs its sacred duty.
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**Draglide12**

daemonhost--->It hosts a daemon

**JazzyJ**

A host of a daemon can be just about anyone except i would presume blanks.

**Son_Of _Deddog**

I know what they are, just not how they come about-althopugh I do now thanks to Grey Templars excellent explanation-thank you

**4M2A**

I don't think there are any rules about who it could be. Who ever it is probably isn't doing it through choice. Being posessed by a daemon is one of the worst ways to die. Either they are being physically forced or the circumstances have given them no other choice.

**Pilau Rice**

4M2A wrote:I don't think there are any rules about who it could be. Who ever it is probably isn't doing it through choice. Being posessed by a daemon is one of the worst ways to die. Either they are being physically forced or the circumstances have given them no other choice.

Yeah, I'm not sure if the posessee even dies, from the descriptions we get of possessions from like, Storm of Iron and Fulgrim, all the Daemon does is push whats left of you to a dark corner of your mind. So you're fully aware of all that the Daemon you does. I guess the best thing to happen then is for you to lose your mind or the Daemon gets banished back to the warp.

**4M2A**

I think it's possible to survive the act of possesion but once the daemon starts warping your body you will die once it leaves you. So you see what you've become and what your doing aswell as sensing the daemon in you then it kills you.

**Draglide12**

Fluff would suggest anyone is applicable to be a daemon host. Even primarchs, such as Fulgrim for example are susceptable.

**purplefood**

Draglide12 wrote:Fluff would suggest anyone is applicable to be a daemon host. Even primarchs, such as Fulgrim for example are susceptable.

All of the primarchs were psychic in some way... at least i think they were.

**Draglide12**

I think all of the primarchs were supernatural, but not necessarily phsycic. If they were most were passive psykers, there are few or no incidents of the Primarchs actively using phsycic power.

**Pilau Rice**

4M2A wrote:I think it's possible to survive the act of possesion but once the daemon starts warping your body you will die once it leaves you. So you see what you've become and what your doing aswell as sensing the daemon in you then it kills you.

Actually you would be right here!

The Exorcists like I said earlier are a decent example.

I guess it does depend on the strength of the Daemon though. If you were to be possessed by a Greater Daemon I don't think it would be easy to cast it out.

**ChrisWWII**

All of the Primarch's were psychic, as they were all derived from the EMperor's genetic code. And as for 'few or no' incidents....uhh, Mangus? The primarch dedicated to psychic power? Horus? The primarchs used psychic ability quite a bit.

**purplefood**

I remember reading they were at least powerful enough to act as navigators for ships.

**4M2A**

It's possible for a person to be posessed and still being in control. Strong willed people can keep the daemon dormant.

In the end off the ravenor trilogy:

Spoiler:

**Grey Templar**

4M2A wrote:It's possible for a person to be posessed and still being in control. Strong willed people can keep the daemon dormant.

In the end off the ravenor trilogy:

Spoiler:

Carl Thonius is possesed by a very powerful daemon. He manages to keep in control for a very long time. It makes him a very powerful psyker, he cures fatal illnesses in seconds and manages to keep it hidden from Ravenor who is in one of the most powerful classes of psyker. He only lost control because the daemon slowly persuaded him he could use its power so he let it go. Even then his conciousness appears a few times before he is killed.

This part also shows how powerful they are. They try to fight the daemon while it has possesed Thronius and it completely destroys the fortress they are in. Even Ravenor's pychic powers have very little effect on it.

ahhh, but that's what the Deamon wants you to think. it lets you have dominion over it for a while, and then it takes full control and you can't do anything about it.

it also takes time for the deamon to adjust to the real world. get used to the controls