YMMV / Thousand Sons

• Magnificent Bastard: Ahriman is considered one of the premier Magnificent Bastards of Warhammer 40,000, and certainly shows his credentials in Sorcerer: Ahriman expertly manipulates Sanakhat into locating the non-Thousand Sons warbands whose loyalty could be bought into becoming unwitting Human Sacrifices to power a Warp storm that would allow the Prodigal Sons to escape Apollonia, then uses Sanakhat into becoming a conduit for the Athenaeum of Kalimakus. At the same time, Ahriman also used Astraeos's capture by the Inquisition to lure the Inquisitors of the Ordo Cyclopes to Apollonia, even giving Astraeos a fighting chance to kill as many of the Grey Knights as he could in Revenge for destroying his Chapter. Finally, Ahriman managed to manipulate the Space Wolves Great Company hunting him (which the narrative had indicated was completely unknown to the Thousand Sons) and trick them into attacking the Imperial Fleet that the Inquisition brought to attack the Prodigal Sons, allowing the Chaos Space Marines to escape while their enemies fight each other. As much as Ahriman refuses to actively worship Tzeentch, he certainly is Tzeentchian in mindset.