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I was thinking, and you know how Slaanesh was made, as there was a sort of critical mass of Excess reached in the universe.
Couldn't this mean that there could actually be more chaos gods waiting in the warp?

I had an idea for 1:
The Imperium has loads of poverty and misery, right?
So couldn't there eventually, if things stay the way they are, be a Chaos god of Misery forming?

Just an idea

Quite the opposite. All of the worship and sacrifice to the emperor is creating something in the warp as well. Search Star Child on the lexicanum.

But, yes, it is technically true that if there was an over abundance of one kind of feeling/emotion/act, especially by a populous and powerfully psychic race like the Eldar were at the time, that there would eventually be a fifth chaos power born.

As far as misery goes, i think that falls a little close to the realm of Papa Nurgle to ever be it's own force in the warp.

Son 0f Dorn wrote:Quite the opposite. All of the worship and sacrifice to the emperor is creating something in the warp as well. Search Star Child on the lexicanum.

Lexicanum?


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What about a lord of Fire and Death, bit close to Khorne, but possible

Urien_Rakarth wrote:

Son 0f Dorn wrote:Quite the opposite. All of the worship and sacrifice to the emperor is creating something in the warp as well. Search Star Child on the lexicanum.

Lexicanum?

Now you can lose hours of your life to the interwebs...

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page


The specific article he refers to is

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Star_Child

Have fun

Plus, there was also a fifth chaos god who was exiled by the others (written out about same time as squats) who fed on other chaos gods. The cults of this god would attack other chaos cults and even themselves.

I discussed the 'remaking' of the Emperor in another thread. Originallly, in certain fluff the Emperor came about when several thousand Shaman/psykers voluntarily sacrificed themselves in order to bring about the protector of mankind. Now, billions of 'souls' are force fed to the Golden throne and the Astronomicon. What consequence this will have on the Emperors rebirth and what form it will take is open for some lively debate.

Maybe, the Emperor will return as a god... or at least admit it this time around.

Ho ho! It is an interesting prospect for the advancement of story in the next rulebook, but the star child has been declared non-canon. :(
We also read that when all the edlar die, their essences will come together in the warp to destroy Slaneesh. What will that do, I wonder.

@Sons of Dorn

Did they declare the Star Child Non-canon at the same time they declared the Sensei defunct as well? I assumed they kept everything afloat using 'rumor' and false dogma as a pretense toward keeping fluff options open.

In other words you never really know whats true or false.

Actually, the article has been modified since I last read it so I believe you are correct

Go great, the Emo God of Chaos... just what we need.

Yeah, quite the ham-handed way of doing things, oh well.

But how does one tie a million fluff threads together without making really egregious boo-boos?

Midichlorians. Duh!

Andilus Greatsword wrote:Go great, the Emo God of Chaos... just what we need.

Slaanesh has that one covered, as does Khorne.

The one god that I felt had a niche nobody else covers would be a God of conformity and uniformity... It seems as if all of the Chaos Gods reward individuals that seek to do well for themselves. Perhaps Nurgle has the whole family love and comradeship thing, but even he has his champions.

What about a god that capitalised on all of the conformity in the Imperium? His followers are told to make do with their lot, to not try to differentiate themselves, hell they all change their names to Steve (yes this god is Marik Ishtar)...

In short, a god who doesn't accept the offerings of one but rather the joint offering of many, a god whose followers content themselves with simply coasting through life and not attempting to be remarkable.

It's very possible one previously existed. There were several 'friendly' Eldar gods before the fall. Most of them were destroyed or captured by the 4.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Malal yet.

*Inquisition bursts through the door*

ZacktheChaosChild wrote:I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Malal yet.

*Inquisition bursts through the door*

I did earlier. Just couldn't remember the name

Henners91 wrote:The one god that I felt had a niche nobody else covers would be a God of conformity and uniformity... It seems as if all of the Chaos Gods reward individuals that seek to do well for themselves. Perhaps Nurgle has the whole family love and comradeship thing, but even he has his champions.

What about a god that capitalised on all of the conformity in the Imperium? His followers are told to make do with their lot, to not try to differentiate themselves, hell they all change their names to Steve (yes this god is Marik Ishtar)...

In short, a god who doesn't accept the offerings of one but rather the joint offering of many, a god whose followers content themselves with simply coasting through life and not attempting to be remarkable.

Conformity is a lack of emotion, there's nothing for a warp entity to feed off of.

@OP: misery leads to either despair and apathy, so Nurgle; or leads to desperation and a the struggle for power, so Tzeentch.

I imagine a God of greed, not like apetite like Slaanesh, but hoarding of wealth and power for the sake of ownership.

As far as i know GW has never "officially" declared the Star Child/Sensei/Illuminati stuff dead and gone, there is just more recent stuff that contradicts parts of it. So the Interweb community now considers it non-canon.

If any one knows different and can link to GW declaring this stuff dead and gone than please do.

I know there are, at the very least, still factions of Inquisitors that believe in the Star Child/Sensei/Illuminati stuff.

Mr Nobody wrote:

Henners91 wrote:The one god that I felt had a niche nobody else covers would be a God of conformity and uniformity... It seems as if all of the Chaos Gods reward individuals that seek to do well for themselves. Perhaps Nurgle has the whole family love and comradeship thing, but even he has his champions.

What about a god that capitalised on all of the conformity in the Imperium? His followers are told to make do with their lot, to not try to differentiate themselves, hell they all change their names to Steve (yes this god is Marik Ishtar)...

In short, a god who doesn't accept the offerings of one but rather the joint offering of many, a god whose followers content themselves with simply coasting through life and not attempting to be remarkable.

Conformity is a lack of emotion, there's nothing for a warp entity to feed off of.

@OP: misery leads to either despair and apathy, so Nurgle; or leads to desperation and a the struggle for power, so Tzeentch.

I imagine a God of greed, not like apetite like Slaanesh, but hoarding of wealth and power for the sake of ownership.

Exactly.

Though I might add that Slaanesh would encompass greed as well. I think that's what sets Slaanesh apart is that he is more than just nibbling at the edge of the other gods domains. I don't think he's the 4th part of the whole at all, but something else entirely. Hoarding wealth the way its described above is denial in the face of need which causes desperation.

Emotion creates the ripples in the warp that many of the psychically tuned races fear and the Chaos Gods rely on. Humanity keeps feeding the tempest in the warp with its unrestrained psychic expansion. The Eldar have tried to limit their effect on the warp by instituting massive controls which have seriously changed their culture. This is viewed as the 'loss' of certain gods, etc...

Humanity, as of the 41st millenium is going the denial route and trying to impose strict controls. Deny yourself the warp and you'll be safe would be the mantra for the untold billions in the Imperium. This is proving virtually impossible as the human race is still undergoing a tremendous transformation to 'something' new. Humanity would either transform, or fall completely as it doesn't have the discipline of the Eldar to remake itself. This was the goal of the Emperor as he had forseen this. His legacy has become more and more distorted in the last 10k millenia, but there are a few lights twinkling in the darkness who know the truth of it all.

How about the god of overpowering codexes?
Yes, the one known as Ward...

Weren't the Exodite Eldar working on creating a new god from their world spirits?

Been trying to find something about it, but my google-fu is weak today.

Dark Apostle 666 wrote:How about the god of overpowering codexes?
Yes, the one known as Ward...

A Chaos God named 'Ward'... the irony.

vitki wrote:
Been trying to find something about it, but my google-fu is weak today.

Mine too... I blame Matt WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!!!!!

and AL Gore...

Mr Nobody wrote:

Henners91 wrote:The one god that I felt had a niche nobody else covers would be a God of conformity and uniformity... It seems as if all of the Chaos Gods reward individuals that seek to do well for themselves. Perhaps Nurgle has the whole family love and comradeship thing, but even he has his champions.

What about a god that capitalised on all of the conformity in the Imperium? His followers are told to make do with their lot, to not try to differentiate themselves, hell they all change their names to Steve (yes this god is Marik Ishtar)...

In short, a god who doesn't accept the offerings of one but rather the joint offering of many, a god whose followers content themselves with simply coasting through life and not attempting to be remarkable.

Conformity is a lack of emotion, there's nothing for a warp entity to feed off of.

@OP: misery leads to either despair and apathy, so Nurgle; or leads to desperation and a the struggle for power, so Tzeentch.

I imagine a God of greed, not like apetite like Slaanesh, but hoarding of wealth and power for the sake of ownership.

Anxiety, self-loathing (rather an opposite to Nurgle in that respect) and camaraderie?

Fear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'VE GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!
5th CHAOS GOD OF FEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember there was a piece in an old codex saying that there is many,many Chaos gods but they are small and short lived while others are just gods those worship really just ends up feeding one of the big 4.


I'm sure things like daemons made from the emotions of a local population is made the same way as gods just not enough worshipers.

I believe there is quite a few Chaos Gods, due to the fact that Games Workshop has created one or two warbands that worship said gods. However, they are not one of the four "Great Powers", and tend to be worshipped by only about a communion of about a hundred or so.

And I think Malal would have eventually have become the fifth Chaos God, had the legal hoo-hah not ensued.

I like to think they brought Malal back as the tyranids. Shadow in the warp makes them anti-psychers, and they destroy all of the food for the other gods. No people, no emotions or worshipers.