Let's talk about Chaos, Veeky Forums
Specifically. lets make some new gods. There's a lot of "What if 40k was different?" type threads around here but most of them leave the Big 4 as is.
I say we come up with our own set of Ruinous Powers, their servants, how the Heresy would play out with these guys corrupting the traitor legions.
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So some questions that need answers
>How many (major) powers are there?
>What's their MO (Khorne is violence, Slaanesh is pleasure) and what's their emotion/thing they feed off of (Khorne is...also violence/anger, Tzeentch is hope)
>What are their aesthetics (Khorne has red and brass and skulls and spikes, Nurgle has green and disease and corpulence, Tzeentch has birds and rainbows and magical shit)
>What are their Daemons like?
>How do they feel about each other/react to each other?
>Who did they corrupt, and what are they like now?
>What does an X cult look like?
What is the end goal of Chaos, what is their victory condition?
They want to destroy mortal life yet feed from it.
That seems like a contradiction.
I feel like the end goal of these gods is to "reset" the universe and then remake it in their image.
Let's not.
Polite Sage
If I may ask, why not? I mean there's not been a lot of playing around with Chaos in general, and I think it has a lot of potential. I also don't personally think the current chaos gods are very interesting manifestations of what Chaos is and could be, which considering that they're the underpinning of a major part of the setting kind of sucks
They're parasites. It's simply their nature.
Anyhow, I just thought of this dude.
Engal the grand undead.
Engal is empowered by the end of things be it the death of a man or the end of a mans faith.
Engal also encompasses the acceptance of new ideas. When a noble decides to stop hating those below him and trys to help out those in the hive Engal chuckles and huddles in his cloak, ready to watch what happens.
His followers wear Orange and black robes and the animal they focus on is a Vulture.
Engals demons are short lived beasts that rely on swarming the enemy.
His deamons are the:
>The Perplexed
The greater deamons of Engal are called The perplexed. They look like anthropomorphic dogs with the heads of a Vulture. They commonly use weapons that have multiple uses such as a spear that breaks into two swords or a Hammer that can morph into a shovel.
The perplexed constantly change their minds and when in battle flail wildly with no skill.
>Mad things
The lesser daemons of Engal are known as Mad things and are slimes that can change their form however they want.
>Sightseers
The steeds of Engal are called Sightseers, and look like huge vulture.
They are like wyverns in that they can use their wings and legs to walk around.
Did I do goodish?
Honestly all of that seems to be a point of contention even in Canon. Some of it indicates that the chaos gods are ultimately self destructive, parasites that will eventually destroy their hosts and then fade into oblivion as they're starved of believers
Other versions say that there's more to them, and/or that a chaos victory will end with the materium fundamentally changed so that the cycle of worship and predation can continue forever
It's fitting that chaos is so unknown and conflicting
They don't require life to exist. And furthermore, they live in a multiverse which they are connected to all of it. One universe destroyed matters not, there are many more.
It's simply your nature to be stupid? They are predators. Universes are their prey.