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I've been running a khorne lord on a jugg with the AoBF for quite some time as my warlord. The other day I had an idea that I haven't tested yet and thought I'd get some opinions from from my fellow dakkalites, would an unmarked sorcerer backing up the khorne lord be good competativley?

Khorne doth not approve of sorcery

Fluff wise, it's unheard of. Game wise , you could make a very nice support for your chaos lord

 Bi'ios wrote:
Khorne doth not approve of sorcery

Khorne cares only the the blood flows, he cares not from where it come.

See, I find the whole 'Khorne hates magic" thing pretty dumb. 'Magic' in 40k is essentially just the warp interacting with reality. Khorne daemons, being warp entities, are inherently 'magical', as is any influence they may have on the real world.
They obviously make use of effects like breathing fire, throwing exploding flaming skulls, striking fear, hate, or rage into the minds of mortals, they use enchanted blood-drinking weapons, they still make pacts with sorcerers and psykers to get summoned into realspace. It's not sparkly firework tzeench magic, but it certainly falls into the same catagory as nurgle's plague magic, or slaanesh's narcotics magics.
I really don't understand why khorne doesnt get blood magic or something, other than this obscure nonsensical belief that khorne hates magic, when its pretty clear that he's no different than the other three in terms of weird effects.

Personally, I find unmarked sorcerers with biomancy, pyromanc, or telepathy to make pretty good additions to khorneate units. Thematically, mine is a warcaller with a big war-horn to inspire his fellows, and strike fear into the enemy.

Khorne hates it when people hide behind sorcery. His greatest rival (not most hated, but closest in power), specializes in using sorcery to further schemes and accumulate power. If you're a biomancer with a huge axe, youy have his support as long as your spilling blood, but he won't grant you powers as he A) Doesn't care about you and B) Doesn't want to encourage you to hide if your magics fail. Plus, as I see it, he really doesn't take a peronal enough interest in you to grant you powers on any regular basis.

The thing I always take away from Khorne is that unlike other gods who have a vested interest in you, Khorne gains as much from your sucess in battle or your failure. Khorne might offer your rewards for spilling blood in his name, but your death at any point will be acceptable as well. Khorne cares only the the blood flows, he cares not from where it comes.

Wow. Dakka surprised me in a good way! Not everyone griping about your choice of an HQ but instead griping about the fluff behind it? Well played. That said, my only question is how is your sorceror keeping up with your lord? Either you're not moving him like cavalry or you have a jump pack on the sorceror or something. Psykers are fun, and even a ML 1 with familiar (but why not make him way bigger ) can pour out some crazy stuff. There's a lot of luck involved, but you could do a lot worse.

Level 3 Sorcerer w/ a Spell Familiar & Bike + Juggerlord + Spawn is a scary unit. Fish for Invisibility or Endurance and proceed to make your opponents cry.

Invis is the (figurative) force multiplier for the Lord, so fitting that in would be good. Puppet master helps against Knights and C'tan and such. Summoning is a literal force multiplier. If you have the points available, for comp consider Belakor. Its expensive as gak, but he garauntees invisibility for your Lord, draws fire away from your lord, and can move just as quickly, which creates priority problems.

Aint no more puppetmaster, yo.