Demon Princes

'''Demon Princes are Human champions elevated to Demonhood as a reward for his or her actions on the behalf of the Chaos Gods. Demon Princes have chosen to trade their humanity for the god-like power and immortality of a Demonic being, a servant to the Chaos Gods. A Demon Prince is practically a living extension of the energies these Chaos Gods possess. To ascend to the rank of Demon Prince is the ultimate goal of the most powerful Champions of Chaos, as it gives them immortality and power beyond the reckoning of mortals. Those few who climb the path of the Champion to its apex are granted the prize of eternal life. Though thousands of lesser aspirants will fall by the wayside, a supremely talented devotee will clamber over mountains of the slain until he reaches the pinnacle of his bloody craft. However, that is not enough to satisfy these Gods. Only those who further the causes of their masters are given the precious gift of daemonhood. They are raised up to become demigods, roaring their triumph into the night as their new bodies swell and bulge with the energies Demons possess.’'''

Demon Princes combine the brute strength of daemons with the combat skill and tactical expertise of normal mortals. However, if the Champion fails in the eyes of their god, their lives and ambitions end as they are cast aside and instead descend into the mutant state of what is known as a ‘Chaos Spawn’. Since Demon Princes have been transformed into semi-autonomous extensions of the Chaos God they serve, they are now entities existing in more than the physical world and can never truly be killed in the material universe, only banished into the demon world for a specific or arbitrary amount of time, usually 1,000 standard years. One who ascends to Demonhood can look forward to an eternity of servitude at his patron's behest. Even death is no respite. Essentially, Demon Princes will exist for as long as Chaos is a force in the universe.’'''