The weapon resembles a fanged, gargoyle-mouthed Plasma Cannon that channels raw daemonic energy from the Warp into searing, cometary blasts that make a noise like the howls of the damned. The baleful energies released are a hybrid of plasma and burning ectoplasm channelled straight from the Daemon Engine's tainted Warp-fuelled heart. Harnessing such energies can sometimes prove as dangerous to the wielder as to the target. Anything hit by an Ectoplasma Cannon is enveloped by screaming, tortured souls that dance in the flames.