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So you find yourself freed from the slavery of the Thousand Sons Space Marines and you embark on your new life on the Planet of the Sorcerers as a "free" man or beastman. You'd probably seek the security of a warband ASAP. What would these roaming warbands look like? Would it be all mad max style, or perhaps modular armies with equipment looted from other planets? Do they get to warp into other worlds to plunder, or this only reserved for the Thousand Sons? Little is known about the geography ( I assume its a mix of Mordor, desert wastes, and some crazy rivers that would encourage some bizarre plant life), but I'd love some more info about daily life on this daemon world.

 Ochre_Wave wrote:
So you find yourself freed from the slavery of the Thousand Sons Space Marines and you embark on your new life on the Planet of the Sorcerers as a "free" man or beastman. You'd probably seek the security of a warband ASAP. What would these roaming warbands look like? Would it be all mad max style, or perhaps modular armies with equipment looted from other planets? Do they get to warp into other worlds to plunder, or this only reserved for the Thousand Sons? Little is known about the geography ( I assume its a mix of Mordor, desert wastes, and some crazy rivers that would encourage some bizarre plant life), but I'd love some more info about daily life on this daemon world.

I imagine the roaming warbands would be completely devout to the 1K Sons, because if they weren't they'd just be slaughtered with mind bullets, to put it simply. They'd probably wear basic armour of some form and be sorted into different cults or castes depending on their level of psychic ability, I imagine they'd have pretty simply weapons, too, though this is not exactly touched on in the fluff...

Like a Hogwart's Field Trip gone horribly, horribly awry.

 Psienesis wrote:
Like a Hogwart's Field Trip gone horribly, horribly awry.

The nature of Tzeentch is such that they could look like anything, but I imagine mutation would be a huge part of their lives. They do make things in the Eye, and most manufacturing there is a twisted parody of Imperium manufacturing, so you could probably expect to see some flak armour, lasguns, autoguns, pilfered bolters, etc., all covered with blasphemous warding runes of varying degrees of effectiveness. The old LATD army list also had a unique gun that was as strong as a bolter but suffered from the Gets Hot rule of a Plasma Gun. They'd probably have a fair share of Chaos Spawn who were former members that they keep around as large, viscous attack dogs. I don't know if they'd actually even HAVE psykers, since the 1k Sons tend to swoop down on any psykers on their planet and force them to be their thrall sorcerers. If there were any psykers with the warband, they'd have to keep a low profile, basically the same situation as a chaos cultist on an Imperial world.

Interestingly enough, Thousand Sons have no mutations at all due to the rubric of Ahriman, but if you want to build an army of Flesh-Changed then go ahead.

Actually, only the Rubric Marines themselves don't mutate. Anyone who's joined the Legion since then might mutate all over the place.

 Psienesis wrote:
Actually, only the Rubric Marines themselves don't mutate. Anyone who's joined the Legion since then might mutate all over the place.

Yes. There are several prominent post-heresy TS sorcerers who are not rubics that have minor to moderate mutations. I can offhand remember one with a tentacle for an arm.

They avoid any major mutations like turning into a spawn through mental and magical power I believe.

There's that BL novel... one of the IW books? I forget... that has a Daemon World divided between a Tzeentchian and a Slaaneshi Champion, and the Tzeentchian guy frequently cuts off parts of his body for various arcane uses, and regenerates them later.