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The Khorne tech tree consists of technologies that unlock new advantages throughout the game.

Khorne's tech tree is divided into the Armaments tree, which affects units in battle, and the Pillars tree, which affects the faction on a campaign level. Some technologies have a cost of Skulls.

Technologies[]

Armaments[]

The Armaments tree is laid out as a web with technologies expanding out from the center. There are sections for infantry, cavalry, chariots, and monsters.

Tech Prerequisite Cost Effects
Slaughterer's Pride

The intoxicating thrill of savage victory shall become headier than ever, and our thirst for the kill will know no bounds. Praise the Skull Throne!

Army ability: "Relentless Rage" (all armies)
War-Born Slaughterer's Pride
  • Recruitment cost: -15% for Infantry units
  • Recruit rank: +1 for Infantry units
Honour in Blood

Fight with courage, slay only worthy foes, and the Lord of Murder shall be your shield in glorious battles to come

War-Born
  • Charge bonus: +20% for Bloodletters, Exalted Bloodletters, and Khorngors
  • Armour-piercing weapon damage: +4 for Bloodletters, Exalted Bloodletters, and Khorngors
Giant Slayer War-Born
  • Armour: +10 for Chaos Warriors
  • Bonus vs Large: +8 for halberd infantry units
Rage Within

Those who give themselves, body and soul, to the fury within shall never again require sustenance or reward. Hunger, thirst, desire, avarice - they will be liberated from such petty concerns. Only hatred shall remain.

War-Born
  • Leadership: +6 for Melee Infantry
  • Melee attack: +6 for Melee Infantry
Blood Whirlwind War-Born
  • Melee defence: +5 for dual weapon infantry units
  • Bonus vs Infantry: +8 for dual weapon infantry units
Killer's Trophy

The slaughter has been glorious, our skill has been unmatched, and the pride we take in each fresh kill has never been greater. We are deserving of tribute.

Honour in Blood

Giant Slayer Rage Within Blood Whirlwind

400 Skulls
Red in Hoof & Blade Slaughterer's Pride
  • Recruitment cost: -15% for cavalry units
  • Recruit rank: +1 for cavalry units
Unburning Might

The Feet of Khorne will not succumb to the agony of fire. They will thrive upon it! Our Soulcrushers will be forged anew in the scorching flames, battle-frenzied and unstoppable!

Red in Hoof & Blade
  • Armour: +10 for cavalry units
  • Speed: +15% for cavalry units
Juggernaut Anger

As their blood boils with eternal murder-lust, our Juggers will become living engines of destruction, their incandescent rage rendering them immune to fear or exhaustion.

Red in Hoof & Blade
  • Melee defence: +8 for Bloodcrushers
  • Bonus vs Infantry: +8 for Bloodcrushers and Chaos Knights of Khorne
Hail Skullcrusher

The Blood God approves of the great and glorious battles we fight in His name. He shall grant unto us His mightiest warrriors, borne atop His most fearsome beasts.

Red in Hoof & Blade
  • Weapon strength: +10% for Skullcrushers
  • Melee attack: +8 for Skullcrushers
Let Fury Fly Red in Hoof & Blade
  • Charge bonus: +20% for cavalry units
  • Ammunition: +30% for Marauder Horsemen of Khorne
Deny Them Life

Life, in all its meekness and indulgence, is an affront to the God of Murder! Life must be refused! Life must be destroyed!

Unburning Might

Juggernaut Anger Hail Skullcrusher Let Fury Fly

400 Skulls
Bone & Brass As One Slaughterer's Pride
  • Recruitment cost: -15% for chariots, artillery, and war machine units
  • Recruit rank: +1 for chariots, artillery, and war machine units
Siege Rectitude

Let them come. Let them try. We will not be bowed! We will not be broken! We will remain steadfast, always!

Bone & Brass As One
  • Missile strength: +10% for Skullcannons
  • Bonus vs Infantry: +8 for Blood Shrine and Skullcannon units
Break the Mountain's Back Bone & Brass As One
  • Charge bonus: +15% for chariots, artillery, and war machine units
  • Speed: +10% for chariots, artillery, and war machine units
Daemonic-Melding

It is spirit and skill, not the physical limitations of brass and bone, that govern the murderous wrath of our Hellforged Bellowers. Let them be fused with our Bloodletter's unholy purpose, and they will maim and slay like never before.

Bone & Brass As One
  • Range: +15% for Skullcannon and Soul Grinder of Khorne units
  • Ammunition: +10% for Skullcannon and Soul Grinder of Khorne units
Better Breeding

Slice the throats of the runts, and let their superior brethren feast upon the corpses. Only the largest, strongest and most quick-tempered of breeding stock may be permitted to join Khorne's blood legion.

Bone & Brass As One
  • Armour: +10 for Gorebeast Chariots and Chaos Chariots
  • Melee defence: +8 for Gorebeast Chariots and Chaos Chariots
Gift of Martial Skill

Let the bodies pile up, let the land run red with blood, let the scars accumulate upon our hides, and then, will the Lord of Murder show His approval.

Siege Rectitude

Break the Mountain's Back Daemonic Melding Better Breeding

400 Skulls
  • Grants the Khorne's Gift banner to your faction
  • Upkeep: -10% for chariots, artillery, and war machine units
Lord of Monstrosities Slaughterer's Pride
  • Recruitment cost: -15% for monsters and beast units
  • Recruit rank: +1 for monsters and beast units
Beast Fighting

As magic, the tool of weaklings and deceivers, is anathema to the will of Khorne, so too do our war-beasts despise all sorcery. As the accursed Winds blow, their ferocity shall only grow.

Lord of Monstrosities
  • Melee attack: +8 for Chaos Furies, Flesh Hounds, and Chaos Warhounds
  • Attribute: Strider for Flesh Hounds
Snorting Blood

The merest scent of carnage shall rouse our Doombulls into a frenzied rage - perfect killing machines without mercy or restraint, a sight to awe even the most battle-weary of Daemons.

Lord of Monstrosities
  • Armour: +10 for Minotaurs
  • Passive ability: Goregreed for Minotaurs (replaces Bloodgreed)
Hungrier Spawn

Even the mindless cannot resist the drums of war. And even the most wretched and broken of beings can call upon the might of Kharneth, if it serves slaughter's cause.

Lord of Monstrosities
  • Speed: +20% for Spawn of Khorne, Bloodbeasts, and Slaughterbrutes
  • Weapon strength: +10% for Spawn of Khorne, Bloodbeasts, and Slaughterbrutes
Deathbringers Defiant

No weapon nor any spell of destruction can slow the Blood God's greatest warriors, for they simply refuse pain. Wounds are for the weak! The strong fight on, always.

Lord of Monstrosities
  • Melee attack: +6 for Soul Grinder, Slaughterbrute, and Chaos Warshrine units
  • Ward save: +5% for Bloodthirster and Bloodbeast units
Blood Feasting

Some believe we simply rejoice in destruction, and do not understand that it is undiluted hatred that drives us on. As we sup upon their lifeblood by the gallon, howling to the skies, all will know the truth.

Beast Fighting

Snorting Blood Hungrier Spawn Deathbringers Defiant

400 Skulls
  • Grants the Blood Feasters' Banner banner to your faction
  • Upkeep: -10% for monsters and beast units
Wrathful Slaughter

Let our murderous legion reach a rapturous crescendo of slaughter - an unprecedented symphony of destruction, a brand new zenith of murderous fury.

War Boons

Red in Hoof & Blade Bone & Brass As One Lord of Monstrosities

800 Skulls Army ability: "Blade of Khorne" (all armies)

Pillars[]

The Pillars tree is laid out in six pillars which are related to various aspects of the campaign. You can start from any pillar, but advancing in the pillar requires completing the lower technologies on the pillar and winning more battles.

Tech Prerequisite Cost Effects
The Pillar of Pride
Gift of Defiance

No gods! No kings! Only Khorne! It is in His name that we wage our eternal war upon order, and it is by His grace that we shall be granted the tools of triumph.

Income from post-battle loot: +10%
Bitter Raiding

Destruction alone will not suffice. We are not animals! We are crusaders, driven by fury and fervour in equal measure, and we will exact the tribute that great Kharneth is due.

Gift of Defiance

Win 5 battles

Income from raiding: +40%
Spoils of Battle

We will dig trophies from the ashes, seize wealth from the ruins, tear trinkets from the corpses, and then we will know the Skull Throne's approval for these blood-soaked tributes.

Bitter Raiding

Win 10 battles

400 Skulls Income from sacking settlements: +25%
War Tributes

Let the bone bounty pour forth, for every harvested skull is a paean to the glory of war, and to the immortal might of the Murder God.

Spoils of Battle

Win 15 battles

Income from all buildings: +15%
Defiant Muster

Wherever there is hatred, wherever there is fury, a red door is opened. Through it strides Kharneth's baying legions of butchers, summoned into being by unchecked resenment, conflict and disorder.

War Tributes

Win 20 battles

Recruitment cost: -33%
Exist Always

Refuse all need! Refuse all want! These are the worthless concerns of mortals. The honour of proving ourselves before Khorne is only sustenance we require.

Defiant Muster

Win 25 battles

800 Skulls Upkeep: -8%
The Pillar of Wrath
Spread Rage

An ocean of hatred! A flood of fury! A spreading sea of purest rage and unbound wrath! All must hear the call to slaughter!

+5% chance to automatically colonise ruins in your provinces at turn start
Harvester's Pride

Steadfast belief in our skills and tools of war guarantees greater tribute. The more we value our own prowess in battle, the more fresh skulls there shall be.

Spread Rage

Win 5 battles

  • Skulls collected from skull piles: +50%
  • Global cooldown: -1 for Skull Throne rituals
Skull Flensing

Raw hunks of gore bring the Skull Throne only meagre satisfaction. Our Daemons must become artisans of butchery, harvesting pristine and undamage skulls from their foes' mutilated' corpses.

Harvester's Pride

Win 10 battles

400 Skulls Skulls gained from kills: +40%
Skull Harvesting

Though carnage is its own reward, if offered sufficient tribute the Skull Throne may on ocassion grant unto us great tools of destruction. Our fury shall be augmented by legendary steel.

Skull Flensing

Win 15 battles

  • Cooldown: -2 turns for individual Skull Throne rituals
  • Army ability number of uses: +1 for "Summoned from Beyond"
Skulls to Bring

Believe in victory, and victory shall come to pass. Believe that we will be showered in the skulls of the fallen, and we will be showered in the skulls of the fallen. Believe in Lord Khorne, for He believes in us.

Skull Harvesting

Win 20 battles

Skulls from buildings: +30%
Skull of the Enemy

Wrath brings war. War brings death. Death brings skulls. Skulls bring glory. Thus: skulls for the Skull Throne! Skulls for the Skull Throne! Skulls for the Skull Throne!

Skulls to Bring

Win 25 battles

800 Skulls
The Pillar of Rage
Too Hateful to Die

Death is no obstacle to bloodlust, for Khornate fury is immortal. Those Daemons slain in glorious battle shall swiftly be reborn, hungry for savage vengeance.

  • Attrition: -30% casualties suffered
  • Daemons Reforged: +5% chance for destroyed Daemons of Khorne units to be restored after battle
  • Recruit rank: +1
War Leaders

If we are to triumph upon every battlefield, if we are to bathe in blood of our every enemy, we must lure legendary warriors beyond compare to our murderous cause. Put out the call!

Too Hateful to Die

Win 5 battles

  • Lord recruit rank: +2
  • Hero capacity: +1 for Cultists
  • Hero recruit rank: +2 for Cultists
Reaper of Ages

Courage, honour and unchecked ferocity: these are the virtues to which we all must aspire. Let us summon forth great champions of carnage to show our lesser forces the way.

War Leaders

Win 10 battles

400 Skulls
  • Hero capacity: +1 for Bloodreapers
  • Hero recruit rank: +2 for Bloodreapers
Return for Honour

Every wound a triumph! Every scar a trophy! Every fresh gouge a mark of honour! Shrug off the blade's bite, and know the heal of battle once more!

Reaper of Ages

Win 15 battles

  • Ward save: +5% (all characters)
  • Wound recovery time: -2 (all characters)
Favoured One

Wherever there is fear, there can be no honour. The solution is simple: remove all fear, and only courage remains.

Return for Honour

Win 20 battles

  • Character experience gain: +10% (all characters)
  • Hero capacity: +1 for Exalted Heroes
  • Hero recruit rank: +2 for Exalted Heroes
Denying the Warp

Should one of our bloodthirsty kin fall in battle, simply step across their corpse and slay their killer, knowing that ever more of Khorne's Daemons stand behind us. The Blood Lord provides, always!

Favoured One

Win 25 battles

800 Skulls
  • Daemons Reforged: +20% chance for destroyed Daemons of Khorne units to be restored after battle
  • Daemons Reforged: +10% hit points for Daemons of Khorne units restored after battle
  • Casualty replenishment rate: +5%
The Pillar of Honour
Nothing Upon Nothing

An ocean of hatred! A flood of fury! A spreading sea of purest rage and unbound wrath! All must hear the call to slaughter!

Khorne corruption: +2 (all provinces)
Skulls for the Skull Throne

As the Blood God's brass throne room fills to the ceiling with freshly-harvested skulls, we will unleash rage to shake this world to its very core! As awe-struck as they are terrified, all will quail before our everlasting fury!

Nothing Upon Nothing

Win 5 battles

  • Diplomatic relations: +20 with Warriors of Chaos, Daemons of Chaos, Chaos Dwarfs, Beastmen, and Norsca
  • Control: +2
Sow Death, Reap Blood Skulls for the Skull Throne

Win 10 battles

400 Skulls Growth per region: +10 after winning a battle (all provinces)
Staunch Defender

Not one inch of Kharneth's ground can be lost. The harder our foe strikes against us, the more unwavering our courage shall be.

Sow Death, Reap Blood

Win 15 battles

  • Defensive supplies: +500
  • Defensive supplies: +500 per turn when under siege
Abjuration-Reaper

Peace is indeed the greatest insult to the servants of blood. Indeed, a true champion of Khorne can refuse no battle, and will willingly move mountaints to join the gore-soaked fray.

Staunch Defender

Win 20 battles

  • Monuments of Rage commandment: additional +10 Growth
  • Spill Blood commandment: additional +2 Khorne corruption
The Way of Wrath

So many bodies rended. So many skulls harvested. Our furious deeds shall give birth a great storm of wrath, to rain down upon every soul in every land. All shall heed the Blood God's call!

Abjuration-Reaper

Win 25 battles

800 Skulls Construction time: -1 for all buildings (minimum of 1 turn)
The Pillar of War
Serial Killing

Hearts pound like war drums, veins burn with primal fire, sinews tighten into iron, and the rage, oh the rage, is transcedent in its intensity. Such endless, glorious slaughter there shall be!

Campaign movement range: +10% for Blood Hosts (all characters)
Hounds of War

Our beasts of battle shall fear no foe, no matter how great or unnatural. A kill is a kill, and flesh is flesh. The more of it there is, the more there is to rip and tear.

Serial Killing

Win 5 battles

Blood Hosts: Adds 2 more Flesh Hounds of Khorne units on creation
Admiring the Corrupt

As we gaze upon lands riven by bloodshed and hatred , our hearts swell with pride, knowing that we have served the Hunter of Souls well.

Hounds of War

Win 10 battles

400 Skulls Blood Hosts: Adds 1 more Bloodletters of Khorne unit on creation
Raging Denial

Hate is our armour. Fury is our shield. Rage is our bulwark. Magic? Pah! It is worthless trickery that shall never, ever dim our Daemons' limitless and eternal wrath.

Admiring the Corrupt

Win 15 battles

Blood Hosts: Bloodletters are replaced by Exalted Bloodletters
Renegotiate Bargains

The slain Daemon imprisoned within every Soul Grinder rages to return to their physical form, but only through copious slaughter can this come to pass. Let us aid our Clinkerspawns' cause by granting them furious new might.

Raging Denial

Win 20 battles

Blood Hosts: Adds 1 more Soul Grinder of Khorne unit on creation
Gates of Wrath

So consumed by ferocity shall our horde be that all rest will forever be denied to them. For every moment of their furious existence, they will think only of the next kill.

Renegotiate Bargains

Win 25 battles

800 Skulls Blood Hosts: Adds 1 more Bloodthirster unit on creation
The Pillar of Prowess
Unrelenting Conflict

No matter how many foes' bones we blunt our blade upon, there can be no complacency, no final moment of triumph. We must forever prove that our skill, and our fury, is unmatched.

Speed: +30% for all units in Blood Hosts
Skull-Reaper

Our great deeds attract the attention of a great warrior - a scar-cloaked and blood-soaked champion of Kharneth. With this legend of warfare at our side, unprecedented new heights of glory awaits us.

Unrelenting Conflict

Win 5 battles

Melee attack: +10% for all units in Blood Hosts
Pride to Continue

It is our unshakeable self-belief, not mere flesh, which sustains the hordes of Kharneth. Shrug off all wounds! Do not flinch at lost limbs or gored organs!

Skull Reaper

Win 10 battles

400 Skulls
  • Blood Hosts: +1 turns to initial Bloodthirst attrition immunity
The Living Fire Pride to Continue

Win 15 battles

  • Weapon strength: +10% for all units in Blood Hosts
  • Charge bonus: +30% for all units in Blood Hosts
Repel the Honourless

Fear not the subterfuge of cowards. Their shameful blades shall break against our hides, for our righteous rage is all the armour we require.

The Living Fire

Win 20 battles

  • Armour: +10% for all units in Blood Hosts
  • Melee defense: +30% for all units in Blood Hosts
Glorious Deaths

Defeat is impossible! Victory is inevitable! The Skull Throne expects, and we shall not disappoint! When the killing is done, we shall bathe in glory. But, of course, the killing is never done...

Repel the Honourless

Win 25 battles

800 Skulls Blood Hosts: +1 turns to Bloodthirst attrition immunity from battles

Previous Version[]

This is the previous tech tree prior to Omens of Destruction

Tech Cost Effects
The Pillar of Rage
Serial Killing

Hearts pound like war drums, veins burn with primal fire, sinews tighten into iron, and the rage, oh the rage, is transcedent in its intensity. Such endless, glorious slaughter there shall be!

  • 300 Skulls
  • Campaign movement range: +10% for Blood Hosts (all characters)
Skull Harvesting

Though carnage is its own reward, if offered sufficient tribute the Skull Throne may on ocassion grant unto us great tools of destruction. Our fury shall be augmented by legendary steel.

  • 300 Skulls
  • Income from post-battle loot: +10%
Bitter Raiding

Destruction alone will not suffice. We are not animals! We are crusaders, driven by fury and fervour in equal measure, and we will exact the tribute that great Kharneth is due.

  • 300 Skulls
  • Income from raiding: +50%
Spread Rage

An ocean of hatred! A flood of fury! A spreading sea of purest rage and unbound wrath! All must hear the call to slaughter!

  • 300 Skulls
  • Khorne corruption: +2 (all provinces)
  • +5% chance to automatically colonise ruined regions in province at turn start (factionwide)
Blood Feasting

Some believe we simply rejoice in destruction, and do not understand that it is undiluted hatred that drives us on. As we sup upon their lifeblood by the gallon, howling to the skies, all will know the truth.

  • 300 Skulls
  • Grants the Blood Feasters' Banner banner to your faction
  • Upkeep: -5% for Blood Hosts
Raging Denial

Hate is our armour. Fury is our shield. Rage is our bulwark. Magic? Pah! It is worthless trickery that shall never, ever dim our Daemons' limitless and eternal wrath.

  • 300 Skulls
  • Spell resistance: 8% for Bloodletters of Khorne and Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne units
Rage Within

Those who give themselves, body and soul, to the fury within shall never again require sustenance or reward. Hunger, thirst, desire, avarice - they will be liberated from such petty concerns. Only hatred shall remain.

  • 300 Skulls
  • Upkeep: -5% for Chaos Warriors, Chosen, and Chaos Knights of Khorne units
  • Armour: +10 Marauders of Khorne and Marauder Horsemen of Khorne units
Skulls for the Skull Throne

As the Blood God's brass throne room fills to the ceiling with freshly-harvested skulls, we will unleash rage to shake this world to its very core! As awe-struck as they are terrified, all will quail before our everlasting fury!

  • 300 Skulls
  • Skulls: 50 per turn
  • Diplomatic relations: -10 with all factions
The Pillar of War

Research 3 technologies from The Pillar of Rage to unlock this Pillar

Sounds of War

None may refuse the call of slaughter, for it is the call of glory, honour, destiny and destruction.

  • 400 Skulls
  • The Skull Throne cost: -10%
  • Army ability number of uses: +1 for "Summoned from Beyond" (all armies)
War Tribute

Let the bone bounty pour forth, for every harvested skull is a paean to the glory of war, and to the immortal might of the Murder God.

  • 400 Skulls
  • Income from all buildings: +50%
Spoils of Battle

We will dig trophies from the ashes, seize wealth from the ruins, tear trinkets from the corpses, and then we will know the Skull Throne's approval for these blood-soaked tributes.

  • 400 Skulls
  • Income from sacking settlements: +25%
War Leaders

If we are to triumph upon every battlefield, if we are to bathe in blood of our every enemy, we must lure legendary warriors beyond compare to our murderous cause. Put out the call!

  • 400 Skulls
  • Lord recruit rank: +2
Little Brother's War

Only once this world is scrubbed clean of the decadent Slaaneshi can it know honor. It is out great privilege to slaughter the Perfect Prince's venal fools, and a responsibility we shall never shirk.

  • 400 Skulls
  • Weapon strength: +5% when fighting against Slaaneshi factions
  • Leadership: +12 when fighting against Slaaneshi factions
Failure in Battle

Do not loose heart, for failure is a but an opportunity to grow stronger, and thus another stepping stone to glory. There will, after all, always be more blood to spill.

  • 400 Skulls
  • Attrition: -25% casualties suffered from Bloodthirst attrition
Hungrier Spawn

Even the mindless cannot resist the drums of war. And even the most wretched and broken of beings can call upon the might of Kharneth, if it serves slaughter's cause.

  • 400 Skulls
  • Speed: +20% for Spawn of Khorne and Forsaken of Khorne units
  • Armour-piercing weapon damage: +5 for Spawn of Khorne and Forsaken of Khorne units
Hounds of War

Our beasts of battle shall fear no foe, no matter how great or unnatural. A kill is a kill, and flesh is flesh. The more of it there is, the more there is to rip and tear.

  • 400 Skulls
  • Bonus vs Large: +7 for Flesh Hounds of Khorne and Chaos Warhounds units
The Pillar of Pride

Research 3 technologies from The Pillar of War to unlock this Pillar

Slaughterer's Pride

The intoxicating thrill of savage victory shall become headier than ever, and our thirst for the kill will know no bounds. Praise the Skull Throne!

  • 500 Skulls
Admiring the Corrupt

As we gaze upon lands riven by bloodshed and hatred , our hearts swell with pride, knowing that we have served the Hunter of Souls well.

  • 500 Skulls
  • Blood Hosts: +1 units on creation
Skull-Reaper

Our great deeds attract the attention of a great warrior - a scar-cloaked and blood-soaked champion of Kharneth. With this legend of warfare at our side, unprecedented new heights of glory awaits us.

  • 500 Skulls
  • Speed: +10% for all units in Blood Hosts
  • Melee attack: +10 for all units in Blood Hosts
Harvester's Pride

Steadfast belief in our skills and tools of war guarantees greater tribute. The more we value our own prowess in battle, the more fresh skulls there shall be.

  • 500 Skulls
  • Skulls collected from skull piles: +50%
Killer's Trophy

The slaughter has been glorious, our skill has been unmatched, and the pride we take in each fresh kill has never been greater. We are deserving of tribute.

  • 500 Skulls
Better Breeding

Slice the throats of the runts, and let their superior brethren feast upon the corpses. Only the largest, strongest and most quick-tempered of breeding stock may be permitted to join Khorne's blood legion.

  • 500 Skulls
  • Recruit rank: +3 for Gorebeast Chariot and Chaos Chariot of Khorne units
  • Melee defence: +4 for Gorebeast Chariot and Chaos Chariot of Khorne units
Pride to Continue

It is our unshakeable self-belief, not mere flesh, which sustains the hordes of Kharneth. Shrug off all wounds! Do not flinch at lost limbs or gored organs!

  • 500 Skulls
  • Blood Hosts: +1 turns to initial Bloodthirst attrition immunity
Skulls to Bring

Believe in victory, and victory shall come to pass. Believe that we will be showered in the skulls of the fallen, and we will be showered in the skulls of the fallen. Believe in Lord Khorne, for He believes in us.

  • 500 Skulls
  • Skulls: 40 per turn
  • The Skull Throne cost: -20%
The Pillar of Prowess

Research 3 technologies from The Pillar of Pride to unlock this Pillar

Dog Fighting

As magic, the tool of weaklings and deceivers, is anathema to the will of Khorne, so too do our war-beasts despise all sorcery. As the accursed Winds blow, their ferocity shall only grow.

  • 600 Skulls
  • Charge bonus: +8 for Flesh Hounds of Khorne
  • Attribute: Strider for Flesh Hounds of Khorne units
Unrelenting Conflict

No matter how many foes' bones we blunt our blade upon, there can be no complacency, no final moment of triumph. We must forever prove that our skill, and our fury, is unmatched.

  • 600 Skulls
  • The Skull Throne cost: -10%
  • Army ability number of uses: +1 for "Summoned from Beyond" (all armies)
Denying the Warp

Should one of our bloodthirsty kin fall in battle, simply step across their corpse and slay their killer, knowing that ever more of Khorne's Daemons stand behind us. The Blood Lord provides, always!

  • 600 Skulls
  • Casualty replenishment rate: +12% for Bloodletters of Khorne and Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne units
Gift of Martial Skill

Let the bodies pile up, let the land run red with blood, let the scars accumulate upon our hides, and then, will the Lord of Murder show His approval.

  • 600 Skulls
  • Grants the Khorne's Gift banner to your faction
  • Upkeep: -5% for Blood Hosts
Unburning Might

The Feet of Khorne will not succumb to the agony of fire. They will thrive upon it! Our Soulcrushers will be forged anew in the scorching flames, battle-frenzied and unstoppable!

  • 600 Skulls
  • Fire resistance: 50% for Bloodcrushers of Khorne units
Snorting Blood

The merest scent of carnage shall rouse our Doombulls into a frenzied rage - perfect killing machines without mercy or restraint, a sight to awe even the most battle-weary of Daemons.

  • 600 Skulls
Daemonic-Melding

It is spirit and skill, not the physical limitations of brass and bone, that govern the murderous wrath of our Hellforged Bellowers. Let them be fused with our Bloodletter's unholy purpose, and they will maim and slay like never before.

  • 600 Skulls
  • Range: +25% for Skullcannon units
Skull Flensing

Raw hunks of gore bring the Skull Throne only meagre satisfaction. Our Daemons must become artisans of butchery, harvesting pristine and undamage skulls from their foes' mutilated' corpses.

  • 600 Skulls
  • Skulls gained from kills: +10%
The Pillar of Wrath

Research 3 technologies from The Pillar of Prowess to unlock this Pillar

Wrathful Slaughter

Let our murderous legion reach a rapturous crescendo of slaughter - an unprecedented symphony of destruction, a brand new zenith of murderous fury.

  • 700 Skulls
The Way of Wrath

So many bodies rended. So many skulls harvested. Our furious deeds shall give birth a great storm of wrath, to rain down upon every soul in every land. All shall heed the Blood God's call!

  • 700 Skulls
  • Diplomatic relations: -40 with all factions
  • Weapon strength: +15% for melee infantry units
Too Hateful to Die

Death is no obstacle to bloodlust, for Khornate fury is immortal. Those Daemons slain in glorious battle shall swiftly be reborn, hungry for savage vengeance.

  • 700 Skulls
  • Casualty replenishment rate: +5%
Send Them Wrath

The Skull Throne's Greater Daemons are wrath incarnate, pure fury made corporeal. As our blood legion's lethal rage swells and swells, even more Deathbringers shall join their axes to ours.

  • 700 Skulls
  • Recruitment duration: -1 turn for Bloodthirster units
Gates of Wrath

So consumed by ferocity shall our horde be that all rest will forever be denied to them. For every moment of their furious existence, they will think only of the next kill.

  • 700 Skulls
  • Blood Hosts: Guaranteed chance of receiving +1 Bloodthirsters unit(s) on creation
Juggernaut Anger

As their blood boils with eternal murder-lust, our Juggers will become living engines of destruction, their incandescent rage rendering them immune to fear or exhaustion.

  • 700 Skulls
  • Charge bonus: +8 for Skullcrushers of Khorne units
Renegotiate Bargains

The slain Daemon imprisoned within every Soul Grinder rages to return to their physical form, but only through copious slaughter can this come to pass. Let us aid our Clinkerspawns' cause by granting them furious new might.

  • 700 Skulls
  • Armour-piercing missile damage: +3 for Soul Grinder of Khorne
  • Ammunition: +15% for Soul Grinder of Khorne units
Skull of the Enemy

Wrath brings war. War brings death. Death brings skulls. Skulls bring glory. Thus: skulls for the Skull Throne! Skulls for the Skull Throne! Skulls for the Skull Throne!

  • 700 Skulls
  • Skulls collected from skull piles: +25%
  • Skulls gained from kills: +50% (all armies)
The Pillar of Defiance

Research 3 technologies from The Pillar of Wrath to unlock this Pillar

Gift of Defiance

No gods! No kings! Only Khorne! It is in His name that we wage our eternal war upon order, and it is by His grace that we shall be granted the tools of triumph.

  • 800 Skulls
  • The Skull Throne cost: -10%
  • Army ability number of uses: +1 for "Summoned from Beyond" (all armies)
Deny Them Life

Life, in all its meekness and indulgence, is an affront to the God of Murder! Life must be refused! Life must be destroyed!

  • 800 Skulls
Deathbringers Defiant

No weapon nor any spell of destruction can slow the Blood God's greatest warriors, for they simply refuse pain. Wounds are for the weak! The strong fight on, always.

  • 800 Skulls
  • Ward save: 8% for Bloodthirster units
Defiant Muster

Wherever there is hatred, wherever there is fury, a red door is opened. Through it strides Kharneth's baying legions of butchers, summoned into being by unchecked resenment, conflict and disorder.

  • 800 Skulls
  • Blood Hosts: +1 units on creation
Glorious Deaths

Defeat is impossible! Victory is inevitable! The Skull Throne expects, and we shall not disappoint! When the killing is done, we shall bathe in glory. But, of course, the killing is never done...

  • 800 Skulls
  • Blood Hosts: +1 turns to Bloodthirst attrition immunity from battles
Abjuration-Reaper

Peace is indeed the greatest insult to the servants of blood. Indeed, a true champion of Khorne can refuse no battle, and will willingly move mountaints to join the gore-soaked fray.

  • 800 Skulls
  • Campaign movement range: +15% after razing a settlement
Exist Always

Refuse all need! Refuse all want! These are the worthless concerns of mortals. The honour of proving ourselves before Khorne is only sustenance we require.

  • 800 Skulls
  • Upkeep: -8%
Deny Their Missiles

When our foes strike like cowards from afar, the Hunter of Souls expects that we simply rebuff their craven fusillades. Then, our wrath undimmed, we close for the kill.

  • 800 Skulls
  • Missile resistance: 8% when attacking (all armies)
The Pillar of Rivalry

Research 3 technologies from The Pillar of Defiance to unlock this Pillar

Bloodiest Rivals

When brothers in blood go to war against one another, it will be a fight like no other. There is no foe more pitiless, no foe more brutal, than our own kin.

  • 900 Skulls
  • Double experience gain for units when fighting against Khornate factions
Ogre Bane

There mortal brutes are powerful indeed, with might to rival our own, but in knowing they face this deadliest of challenges, the blood legion will excel.

  • 900 Skulls
  • Weapon strength: +15% when fighting against Ogre Kingdoms
Bester of Mortals

Those mortals who have sold their souls to Ruin believe themselves to be the equal of Daemons. When they lie writhing on the battlefield, blood pouring from their wounds, they will know the truth.

  • 900 Skulls
  • Melee attack: +4 when fighting against Warriors of Chaos, Daemons of Chaos and Norsca
Tzeen Killers

Cowards that they are, the meddling Raven's mutants will deploy sorcery and trickery against us. Fortunately, there is no magic that can drive the scent of blood from our nostrils.

  • 900 Skulls
  • Spell resistance: 10% when fighting against Tzeentchian factions
Nurgh Destroyers

No disease, no matter how foul, can survive the scorching flames of Kharneth's rage. As we rend these festering wretches limb from limb, we shall burn all taint from them.

  • 900 Skulls
  • Chance of a plague spreading: -30%
  • Enables flaming attacks when fighting against Nurgle factions
Tzar Enders

The stone-faced mortals of Kislev possess uncommon endurance, but even their steel will shatter beneath our pounding hooves and lacerating blades.

  • 900 Skulls
  • Charge bonus: +20% when fighting against Kislev
Dragon Slayers

No longer will the hated Dragon Emperor impede Kharneth's bloody crusade! We will march through his volleys and fusillades as if they were nothing!

  • 900 Skulls
  • Missile resistance: +10% when fighting against Cathay
Prince Breaker

It matters not what underserved gifts this fallen mortal has stolen from the Gods. We will simply carve a path through whatever horrors he dares array against us.

  • 900 Skulls
  • Leadership: +6 when fighting against Daemon Prince
  • Melee defence: +4 when fighting against Daemon Prince
  • Bonus vs Large: +10 when fighting against Daemon Prince
The Pillar of Honour

Research 3 technologies from The Pillar of Rivalry to unlock this Pillar

Honour in Blood

Fight with courage, slay only worthy foes, and the Lord of Murder shall be your shield in glorious battles to come

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Armour: +10 for Bloodletters of Khorne and Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne units
  • Melee attack: +5 Bloodletters of Khorne and Exalted Bloodletters of Khorne units
Siege Rectitude

Let them come. Let them try. We will not be bowed! We will not be broken! We will remain steadfast, always!

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Vigour loss reduction: -15% during siege battles
Reaper of Ages

Courage, honour and unchecked ferocity: these are the virtues to which we all must aspire. Let us summon forth great champions of carnage to show our lesser forces the way.

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Hero capacity: +1 for Bloodreapers
  • Hero recruit rank: +3 for Bloodreapers
Staunch Defender

Not one inch of Kharneth's ground can be lost. The harder our foe strikes against us, the more unwavering our courage shall be.

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Defensive supplies: +2000 (factionwide)
Favoured One

Wherever there is fear, there can be no honour. The solution is simple: remove all fear, and only courage remains.

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Armour: +10 for Lords and embedded Heroes
  • Charge bonus: +10 for Lords and embedded Heroes


Repel the Honourless

Fear not the subterfuge of cowards. Their shameful blades shall break against our hides, for our righteous rage is all the armour we require.

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Ambush defence chance: +20%
Hail Skullcrusher

The Blood God approves of the great and glorious battles we fight in His name. He shall grant unto us His mightiest warrriors, borne atop His most fearsome beasts.

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Recruitment duration: -1 turn for Skullcrushers and Chaos Knights of Khrone units
Return for Honour

Every wound a triumph! Every scar a trophy! Every fresh gouge a mark of honour! Shrug off the blade's bite, and know the heal of battle once more!

  • 1000 Skulls
  • Hit Points: +10% (all characters)
  • Wound recovery time: -2 (all characters)