Cherubael is a Daemon Prince who was bound into a daemonhost and forced to serve Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn. He’s one of the most dangerous entities in Eisenhorn’s retinue, a living weapon that Eisenhorn can barely control and never fully trusts.
Who and what Cherubael is
Cherubael isn’t a common warp predator. He’s a Daemon Prince, a mortal soul elevated to daemonhood, and he has no known patron god. His atrocities are catalogued in the Liber Malum, an archive on Holy Terra, which tells you the Imperium considers him a threat worth remembering.
Before his binding, Cherubael was a terror across multiple sectors. He’s been called the Death of Worlds and the Scourge, titles earned through millennia of enslavement and slaughter.
He was first bound into a daemonhost by Inquisitor Quixos, who used the daemon sword Kharnagar to defeat him. After Quixos was executed by Eisenhorn, the daemon was rebound and pressed into Eisenhorn’s service.
How Eisenhorn came to control him
Cherubael didn’t wait passively for a new master. He manipulated events so that Eisenhorn would be in the right place with the right weapon to banish him back to the warp, freeing him from Quixos’s bonds. It was a calculated play for freedom.
That freedom didn’t last. Eisenhorn later trapped the daemon in a daemonhost of his own, using the forbidden lore of the Malus Codicium. The binding was a radical act, one that pushed Eisenhorn further down a path he’d once condemned.
When a Chaos Titan threatened everything, Eisenhorn called on Cherubael to destroy it. The daemon did, but the cost was another binding, this time into the body of a young inquisitor. Cherubael has remained with Eisenhorn for years, including during a tense meeting with Gideon Ravenor.
Why Cherubael matters
Cherubael is the clearest symbol of Eisenhorn’s fall from puritanism. Summoning and binding a daemon is heresy of the highest order, and Eisenhorn knows it. Every time he uses Cherubael, he trades a piece of his own soul for power.
The daemon is also a walking reminder that Chaos can be used, but never truly controlled. Cherubael obeys, but only because he’s bound. The moment those bonds weaken, he’ll be the Death of Worlds again.
- Daemon Prince with no known patron god
- Enslaved entire star systems and drove the Ronja to extinction
- Bound by Quixos, then by Eisenhorn
- Destroyed a Chaos Titan on Eisenhorn’s orders
- Still in Eisenhorn’s service years later
Key facts
- Cherubael is a Daemon Prince with no known patron god.
- He was first bound by Inquisitor Quixos and later by Inquisitor Eisenhorn.
- His atrocities include the extinction of the Ronja and the enslavement of entire star systems.
- Eisenhorn used him to destroy a Chaos Titan, binding him into a young inquisitor’s body.
- Cherubael represents Eisenhorn’s radical turn and the danger of using Chaos against itself.
FAQ
Is Cherubael a daemon or a daemonhost?
He’s a Daemon Prince who has been bound into a daemonhost. The daemonhost is the physical vessel; Cherubael is the entity inside it.
How did Eisenhorn get control of Cherubael?
After Cherubael manipulated his way out of Quixos’s binding, Eisenhorn trapped him again using the Malus Codicium, a forbidden text. It was a radical act that Eisenhorn struggled with.
What are Cherubael’s most infamous deeds?
He enslaved the Fenestra system for millennia, plunged the Gethme sector into a thousand-year war, drove the Ronja to extinction in one night, and was worshipped as a god on Clanar II.