Chaos Marines Elites

Laila is head of the Brides and takes her position in Faruq's household seriously. She is adept at keeping the schemes of her 'sisters' from threatening her position. She has cultivated her relationship with Maisa, offering her a maternal affection she has never known. Maisa has responded by developing a fierce loyalty to Laila second only to her attachment to Faruq. Her own position as matriarch of the legion and the protection of Maisa's minions has rendered her position reasonably secure.

Never abandoning the vindictive nature of the Dark Eldar entirely, she is a dangerous woman to cross. In addition to being a fearsome warrior in her own right, Maisa Muna is the head of Faruq's much feared personal security forces, the Someri Abidi (Black Guards). An apprentice Hierarch among the Dark Eldar, she is skilled at uncovering plots against her husband and infiltrating opposition groups opposed to his rule.

Rana al’Faruq (Delight of Faruq): Psykers have little to say in whether the wyrd touches them or not. Even those who have devoted their life to the Emperor are subject to the bane that is chaos. When one who has trained within the Abbey upon the Rock for many years discovers that she possesses the very skills they are trained to stamp out, some offer themselves up as heretics and are purged. Other, more desperate, women flee into the hell worlds that border the Imperium, hoping to live their cursed lives out as a Fallen Sister. Rana was once a Sister of Battle - one of the Daughters of the Emperor. She saw in Is'Malal the fulfillment of the Imperial dream and embraced the Faith.

It was her influence that lead the Jieshi to tightly bind its martial and religious doctrines into a cohesive whole making the legion fearsome on the battlefield. Rana is also something of a religious philosopher, divining the will of Malal and making religious rulings for the people. She tends to defer to Laila, who was a Canoness in the Sisters whereas Rana was only a sister of battle.

(Optional Special Rule: Ashamed and Afraid - Rana has risked much in her attempts to escape the Abbey and the notice of her former sisters. She must make a leadership test in order to charge any member of a Sisters of Battle squad, or any unit containing an Imperial Priest, Inquisitor or Preacher model)

Nafisa Ghanima al’Faruq (Exquisite Booty of Faruq): Nafisa was a teenager when she met Faruq. She was a slave girl on a world that had fallen to the Emperor's Children. She was in the harem of a Slaaneshi champion when his stronghold was raided by the Jieshi. She was taken as a prize of war (a ghanima) by the legion. Faruq was taken by her beauty, her honest hatred of the Chaos gods and her fiery spirit. She became his fourth wife and is responsible for interrogating high value prisoners. She rarely fails to learn what she needs to from her 'guests'.

Nafisa rarely uses the traditional tools of the torturer's trade. She is skilled at using drugs, psychic probing, forbidden magics and humiliation to break her subjects. She is particularly adept at breaking Slaaneshi cultists and her skill at manipulating the nervous systems of humans and xenos alike would make her the envy even of a Dark Angels inquisitor chaplain. She eschews the dark dungeons of most torturers, preferring the clinical environment of a simple interrogation room or the rather opulence of her own boudoir as the setting for her interrogations.

Ahlam has been studying under the tutelage of  Farasaat to develop what he believes can be formidable psychic powers, though currently her abilities are not strong enough to make a difference on the battlefield her skills as a seer are unquestioned.

She serves as the driver of the Rhino Seraglio and generally oversees the armory, thralls and other servants of the Brides between battles. She is also an accomplished dancer, administrator and entertainer - the star of Faruq's court.

Unlike most of Faruq's other wives, she is not a convert to Is'Malal - she was born to it. Amani is the model Malala. She is a devoted student of Laila who has developed a maternal interest in Amani. As such she rarely appears on the battlefield out side the cabin of Seraglio.

Impressed with the relative civility of the Is'Malalim and the fact that they were willing to argue their case rather than behave in a homicidal  frenzy when challenged, she embraced the True Faith and has since become an able preacher of the Faith. She typically serves as Faruq's envoy to the Ecclesiarchy when Faruq requires a parley with the Imperial cult.

Faruq felt it would be unfortunate to kill such a determined and able commander, so he sent Dua (then his newest wife) to parley with the commander of Municiberg's defenses. Upon meeting with the determined guard captain, the former preacher convinced her that loyalty to mankind and to the True Vision of the Emperor required her to join forces with the Jieshi as the only means to drive the forces of Chaos from the universe, the same mission given her by the Emperor.

Capt. VanderHuet accepted Dua's invitation. She so impressed Faruq, that he married her immediately as his 8th wife.

Fortunately for all concerned, her potions worked and Faruq recovered. In gratitude, he decreed the crew of the Prospero were not to be considered a prize of war but his honored guests - if only Faraja would become his Bride. She accepted and currently oversees the creation of new marines as the chief apothecary of the Jieshi.

Ghufran is adept at organizing Is'Malal cults on Imperial and Chaos held worlds, she typically will take over an existing anti-establishment group and rework it towards the needs of the Faithful. Often found overseeing the activities of a fifth column or subverting the court of a world targeted by Faruq, she is a master of manipulation. Maisa accepts her presence but doesn't entirely trust her, there are several covert operatives of the Someri Abidi in Ghufran's retinue (unknown to Ghufran, of course).

Rarely seen planetside, Jumana typically serves as the admiral of Faruq's fleets leading raids against Imperial and infidel Chaos shipping alike.