If Nurgle can give you physical diseases, can he give you mental disorders as well? Or is having a mental disorder a more Tzeentch-ish thing?
Let's talk about madness and mental disorders in the Warhammer universe.
Can Nurgle give you mental disorders?
Kevin Hall
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William Hill
No Chaos god has the lock on mental disorders. The entire setting is designed to fuck up people's heads. Most factions can be seen through the lens of what kind of mental disorder the group experiences to cope with how fucked up their world is.
Nicholas Fisher
No that is slannesh. Homosexuality is a choice.
Brandon Allen
Dude, Nurglite diseases are not physical. They are spiritual and mental. Their infectivity depends on the state of mind of the victim. In other words, it can only infect people with mental abnormalities already.
For example, the Plague of Unbelief aka zombie plague can only infect those with no faith (atheists) or are hopeless.
Well adjusted individuals have nothing to fear from Nurgle.
Jordan Wood
But at least Tzeentch could technically destroy your mind with a single thought, no? Even Slaanesh can turn you into a deranged sex addict very easily, Slaanesh can get access to your mind too. Maybe the only one who wouldn't do it would be Khorne, not really his style (he's not exactly subtle), but I'm pretty sure both Slaanesh and Tzeentch love playing mind games with their victims. Maybe not Nurgle, but Tzeentch can perfectly fuck the head of an important politician to gain control over an entire planet, for example. I say Tzeentch is pretty much, unoficially, the Lord of Mental Disorders as well, not just change. "Just as planned" means he always outsmarts you.
Cegorach doesn't really count as Chaos God, but even the Eldar Harlequins somehow adore a divinity who loves manipulating minds too. I think discusing mental health in the Warhammer universe is interesting because this has been rarely discused before, unlike demonic possession, although both thigs can be related at times.
Brandon Perez
No
It is implied when you say you like chaos
Asher Ortiz
>(he's not exactly subtle)
Mental disorders have nothing to do with subtlety and you are approaching the idea of mental disorders from a really silly angle.
Stress is what breaks someone's mind. All of the chaos gods induce stress. All of the chaos gods induce mental disorders. The only difference is how they do it.
Cameron Morales
Huum...
Well, yes. However, I imagine Nurgle giving you cancer or AIDS rather than schizophrenia, perhaps I didn't explain myself well. Of course Nurgle can make you feel sad or mad too, but he's more like "physical" and Tzeentch more like "mental". Can Tzeentch directly hurt your body? Of course yes, but Tzeentch would probably use a less direct approach, like fucking your mind with weird visions from his own crystal word, I don't really imagine him giving you leukemia like Nurgle, and as you said, the only difference is "how they do it".
Khorne would simply kill you pretty quick, which is still preferable to be tortured both physically and mentally by Slaanesh. I can perfectly imagine Slaanesh mentally torturing people for fun, but not really Khorne, Khorne would focus on physical pain and carnage mostly, which doesn't mean he cannot make you feel negative emotions like fear or panic as lateral effect, but Khorne is "physical" too in my opinion.
Physical = Khorne and Nurgle
Mental = Tzeentch
Both physical and mental = Slaanesh
Sure they all can make you feel stress, or anger, or sadness to a certain extent, but the two of them more prone to use psychological tricks are both Slaanesh and Tzeentch in my opinion. Although maybe even Nurgle can manipulate people by making you think he's a fun nice dude so you let your guard down, who knows.
Hope this post is clearer than the previous one.
Nathaniel Ramirez
Being okay with hosting maggots, belly-inflating cancer and other "gifts" of Nurgle is something I have ever seen in people with psychoses like schizophrenia.
By our lens, the whole 40K setting is insane.
One learns in philosophy and history of psychology that "normal" is defined by the average of a given society, so orks, most humans and eldar are quite sane.
Want to know something crazy? One can have phobia of flesh (also bacteria and diseases), so Adeptus Mechanicus could actually become saner as they augment themselves.
Cooper Thomas
Well it is pretty obvious he has given OP autism so i would say the answer is yes