This section of Champions of Chaos is devoted to the mightiest servants of Chaos: foul fiends who stem from the darkest eras of history through to those who plague the Warhammer world at the present time. These characters are wholly individual. They do not all have standard characteristics, many have magic items or abilities that are unique to them. In some cases they may carry combinations of items they would not normally be allowed, or more or fewer items than a standard character of their type.

This section serves two purposes. Firstly, it provides the Chaos player with a selection of special characters whose very presence in the army will make a significant difference to his battle plans, tactical options and chances of victory. Secondly, the special characters serve as an example of the variety that is possible within the Warhammer game, and will hopefully inspire others to invent characters for themselves.

It has become a commonly accepted convention amongst Warhammer players that special characters are used only with the prior agreement of other players. In tournament games, where players gather from all over the world to compete against a wide variety of armies, special characters are mostly disallowed in the interests of providing a level playing field. If you intend to include special characters in your army you must agree to do so with your opponent beforehand.

Rules for magic items carried by special characters have been included in the text. Some of these are items unique to the character, others are more commonly available. In both cases the rules have been included for the sake of convenience. New magic items are always unique to specific special characters, they cannot be carried by other characters, but otherwise they are subject to the usual rules for their type.

The points value of each character is given as a total, which includes equipment, mount, magic items, skills etc, as appropriate. The points value includes the value of the character's magic items, but a points value for each item is also given as some rules use the item's value as a basis.