Chaos Marines Elites

She was 40 when she met and married Faruq, a man some 15 years her junior. Committing herself entirely to the cause, she became instrumental in Faruq's campaign to convert the masses on Hira and across the Satyressia Expanse. She was made into a Chaos Marine with the aid of the infamous Fabius Bile, though she rarely wears her armor off the battlefield, and has remained at Faruq's side ever since. It was her idea to form a body guard for Faruq among his wives. She is an astute strategist and has lead smaller raids on her own. She is an able tactician and respected matriarch among the faithful.

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 and Amani, offering them a maternal affection they had never known. Maisa has responded by developing a fierce loyalty to Laila second only to her attachment to Faruq. Amani views Laila as a mother figure and will not brook any threat to her. Amani's great physical strength and Maisa's mastery of intrigue and her intelligence network have made Laila very secure, indeed. In return, Laila is fiercely protective of her 'daughter-wives'.

Her own position as matriarch of the legion is beyond challenge owing both to her own charisma and beauty and the muscle provided by her alliances with Maisa and Amani

When she learned of Laila (Faruq's first wife) her initial reaction was one of hostility towards her rival, but Laila refused to become Maisa's enemy, offering the Dark Eldar affection and maternal advice. These emotions are utterly alien to Dark Eldar society. Maisa found her own reaction towards these overtures confusing at first, but they developed into a genuine love and loyalty towards her new family. She turned her budding intelligence network toward rooting out threats to Faruq and Laila. Laila, for her part, would not tolerate any disrespect towards her exotic sister-wife. The relationship between these women grew from rivalry, to respect to genuine love.

When Faruq married Nafisa, Maisa followed Laila's example and cultivated an alliance with the former slave-girl. Being a Dark Eldar, she had some experience with slaves and her ability to empathize with Nafisa helped forge a deep bond of sisterhood between the two.

Despite her newfound ability to love another, she never abandoned 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. Her ecclesiastical training makes her especially able to refute apologists for the Imperial Creed as well as the votaries of the other Chaos gods. She has not formed a bond with any of her sister-wives - but instead takes quiet joy from the fact that she has found a place where she fits in.

She tends to defer to Laila in most matters, since Laila was a Canoness in the Sisters whereas Rana was only a sister of battle. Her tactical advice, however, has proven invaluable to her husband and sons on the battlefied.

(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 named Rose 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. Expecting more of the same depravity from Faruq as she experienced at the hands of the Slaneeshi, her fears were confirmed when she was ushered into the presence of Maisa during her first night in the Seraglio. Instead of being tortured, the Dark Eldar spent her time treating her wounds and told her of the tenor of life in Faruq's house.

The slave-girl was shocked, not only by the kindness shown here by the Is'Malal but also by the empathy displayed by this Dark Eldar woman. In time, she came out of her shell and became Maisa's protégé  and friend (and occasional lover). She embraced Is'Malal and accepted Maisa's name for her, Nafisa or Exquisite Beauty.

Maisa was not alone in noticing Nafisa, Faruq was also taken by her beauty, her honest hatred of the Chaos gods and her fiery spirit. She became his fourth wife at Maisa's suggestion 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 occasionally the opulence of her own boudoir as the setting for her interrogations.

The Sahari who lead the raid spared her and brought her to Hira. During Farasat's interview with her he asked her to interpret a dream, she was able to explain the meaning of the dream as a message from Malal. Revealed in the dream was key to sacking a fortress world of Khorne. After the Jieshi successfully sacked the planets, Farasat brought her to Faruq's house as his ward for six years, She married Faruq when she turned 12.

Ahlam has been studying under the tutelage of  Farasaat to develop what he believes can be formidable psychic powers and her skills as a seer are unquestioned. It is a rare thing indeed for the Jieshi to go to war without consulting the young Prophetess. She is a common site using her formidable psychic powers in support of her sisters.

Note: Ahlam is really a psycher rather than a Chosen Chaos Marine - if she is deployed, she should be represented as a Sorcerer model attached to the brides. I use a Dark Elf Sorceress to represent her.

She is very strong and her marine enhancements make her more so. The has an aptitude for all things mechanical and mathematical, she serves as the mechanic 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. Her great strength has often been of value to her foster-mother as she defends her side on and off the battlefield.

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.