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Contents

Introduction

What’s in this Book? ..............................................................4

Chapter I: Slaanesh

The Birth of Sublime Torment ..............................................6

Sensation Without Limitations ..............................................7

The Path of Temptation .........................................................8

Servants of Sensation ........................................................... 12

Daemons ............................................................................. 13

Mortals ................................................................................ 16

Myriad Excesses ................................................................... 19

Slaanesh and the Long War ................................................ 22

Chapter II: Slaves to Sensation

For the Glory of Chaos ....................................................... 25

Noise Marine ........................................................................ 28

Dark Apostle ......................................................................... 30

Pirate Prince of the Ragged Helix ..................................... 32

Flesh Shaper of Melancholia .............................................. 34

Excessive Armoury ............................................................... 36

Ranged Weapons ............................................................... 36

Melee Weapons .................................................................. 37

Wargear and Equipment ................................................... 39

Drugs and Consumables ................................................... 41

Minions of Slaanesh: The Saboteurs of Alcia ................ 42

Living Mounts .................................................................... 44

Expanded Minions ............................................................... 47

Expanded Rites and Rituals ................................................ 53

Chapter III: Princes of Pain

Social Encounters ................................................................. 60

Social Conlict Rules ......................................................... 62

Talents and Traits ............................................................... 63

Expanding the Scope ........................................................ 68

Expanded Infamy Rules ...................................................... 70

Glorifying Acts ................................................................... 70

The Art of Seduction ......................................................... 73

Infamous Acquisitions ....................................................... 75

Realms Beyond Sensation .................................................. 77

Contrition ........................................................................... 78

Ghibelline ........................................................................... 84

Malignia .............................................................................. 90

Mammon ............................................................................. 97

Melancholia ......................................................................101

The Gates of Moment .....................................................105

The Forbidden Portal ......................................................110

The Islands of the Ragged Helix ...................................115

Chapter IV: At the Edge

The GM’s Brief ...................................................................122

Adventure Plot .................................................................122

Part I: Kneel Before Pseudanor .......................................125

The Fief of the Liberator ................................................126

The Liberator’s Court ......................................................127

Locations ...........................................................................129

Part II: The Six Delights of Slaanesh ..............................132

Mastering the Six Delights of Slaanesh ......................132

Part III: Confrontation! .....................................................138

NPC Appendix ...................................................................141

Map ......................................................................................143

Introduction

“You believe there are limits to existence. My god shows me otherwise,

and in his service I have known realms where indescribable pleasure

and pain become as one. Come, let me show you...”

limitless. In the pages that follow, Heretics can discover new

methods to seduce foes into their service and sway masses

into ecstatic slavery, along with new devices and implements

to aid them in their journeys beyond sensation.

CHAPTER I: SLAANESH

This chapter covers the Prince of Pleasure and Pain, youngest of the

Chaos Gods who came into existence as the Eldar fell to their own

excesses. Slaanesh now acts as that dying race’s eternal nemesis,

ready to devour their souls with endless torment. From his layered

realm within the Warp, each domain a trap for travellers without

the will and strength to withstand the unique temptations it offers,

he entices mortals across the stars with pleasure unendurable and

pain unquenchable. Few can resist his call.

–Lascivoux the Devourer,

Sensati Extremis of the Barbed League

A ll beings require sensation to know their surroundings,

but the truly aware realise that life without sensation is

worse than death. For those who exist for sensation, the

normal limits of life become meaningless in the pursuit of greater

and greater stimuli. The caress of silk becomes an obsession

with touch, such that the slightest whisper of dust motes is a

ganglionic symphony. Appreciation of ine amasec leads from

one savoury morsel to another, and on to quests for unspeakable

gastronomic appetites requiring entire populations to provide the

rendered ingredients. Slowly an ear for a well-tuned violone is no

longer enough, and as devotion to auditory experiences grows

then only harmonics that shatter reality can sufice. As excesses

are breached, nothing can sate these heavier appetites for long,

however, and soon nothing exists except the quest for further

sensation. Lives such as these are bound, either knowingly or

unknowingly, in the service of the Chaos God Slaanesh.

Slaanesh is the personiication of excess. In

his name, hosts degrade entire worlds with

unspeakable rites and warlords seduce systems

with honeyed promises of unimaginable

essences. His own appearance is beyond limits,

existing as both male and female, always the

epitome of impossible beauty and desire

no matter who gazes upon his form. His

followers exist only to seek out new perfections

of sensation, and to make themselves perfect

to better achieve such sensations. The more

perfect the artist, the better he can fully admire unnatural

colours that cause eyes to boil and shrivel. Only the inest of

assassins can appreciate the tortured gasps of a betrayed noble as

the knife slowly twists. None but a devoted master of the blade

knows the bliss as lesh slices apart under his exquisite riposte.

All these and more are mere steps along a path that requires more

and more with each sensory attainment. To know ultimates is to

realise there are no ultimates, only increasing tiers of perception

and the search of perfection to fully appreciate them. Their

frantic journeys can have no end except for that which lays

waiting them within the Warp: Slaanesh.

CHAPTER II:

SLAVES TO SENSATION

Heretics are offered four new Player Archetypes in this

chapter: Noise Marine, Dark Apostle, Pirate Prince of the

Ragged Helix, and Flesh Shaper of

Melancholia. It also includes new

armoury items to offer delights

and depravations for both the

Heretic and his foes, expanded

rules for seducing and controlling

even more powerful minions, and new

Rites and Rituals for beseeching the

Dark Prince for succour, including extended

modiiers to aid in such endeavours.

CHAPTER III:

PRINCES OF PAIN

Here players gain new rules for social encounters

and expanded Interaction guidelines, so that they can

achieve their aims before their enemies know open war has

begun. It also includes new rules for utilising, earning, and

losing Infamy in their ascent to Daemonhood. This chapter

features new destinations within the Screaming Vortex related

to Slaanesh and his followers, such as blasphemous Mammon,

the Daemon World of Contrition, Malignia’s death-jungles,

and the Forbidden Portal and its deadly guardians.

CHAPTER IV: AT THE EDGE

As the Heretics gain in power and infamy, they turn their

attentions to gaining the support of the pirate clans of the

Ragged Helix to further their quest of escape from the

Vortex. This adventure takes them to the pleasure palaces

and depraved lords of this asteroid chain, where the players

seek out necessary aid to prepare their own Black Crusade

against the hated Imperium. Such aid cannot be won with

sword and blood, however, and requires enticement and

persuasion of a more subtle but no less dangerous approach.

Should the players attain the aid of the pirate lord, their

goals become one step closer; should they fail, they might

remain as slaves in his sensory-dens forever.

WHAT’S IN THIS BOOK?

T he T ome of e xcess is the third of four books delving into the

darkest secrets of the four Chaos powers and their role in the

B lack c rusade roleplaying game. It is devoted to Slaanesh,

the Dark Prince. Brought into life through the fall of the

decadent and prideful xenos race known as the Eldar, he is

the Lord of Excess, and the pursuit of perfection and sensory

gratiications in all things. For his debauched followers across

the Screaming Vortex there are no boundaries in experience,

and their eagerness to draw others into his worship is equally

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