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they could've been more inventive with the name instead of calling it just Malice. i mean, Khorne is called Khorne, not Rage.

They could've, but I'm fine with it, Afterall, he's been summoned into the Materium. <evil cackling goes here>

I never understood what Malal was the God of. Can someone enlighten me?

Malal is the Lost God, the Power of Chaos that represents Chaos' indiscriminate tendency toward destruction, even of itself.

Malal's powers come from the struggle of a single (relatively) powerless figure trying to fight a larger oppressor. Every slave that plots against his master, every worker that hates his boss, every peasant who looks with anger upon the places of the rich, every man who cries out to the uncaring gods about his placement in life feeds more power to Malal.

Malal is the god of hipsters, for whom the four Chaos Gods are too mainstream.

Then again, some of us are attracted to indiscriminate destruction.

King Pariah wrote:Malal is the Lost God, the Power of Chaos that represents Chaos' indiscriminate tendency toward destruction, even of itself.

Malal's powers come from the struggle of a single (relatively) powerless figure trying to fight a larger oppressor. Every slave that plots against his master, every worker that hates his boss, every peasant who looks with anger upon the places of the rich, every man who cries out to the uncaring gods about his placement in life feeds more power to Malal.

Wouldn't the want for more power be covered by Tzeentch? Or is Malal spite?

English Assassin wrote:Malal is the god of hipsters, for whom the four Chaos Gods are too mainstream.

Makes sense.

It's spite, hate, loathing, not necessarily desire for more power. Also, he's known as the hierarch of anarchy and terror

are pride, envy, sloth, or gluttony taken?

Envy I'm pretty sure is taken by Slaanesh and Pride, Khorne

Sloth Gluttony... I want to say Nurgle covers those... but that just might be because all his daemons seem to be a bunch of slow fatty mcfat fats

i don't think Slaanesh is envy, and Nurgle is just bloated because rotting causes corpses to swell. people seem to think the 4 powers cover a lot more than they do.

I have heard that the Emperor him self is to become a Chaos god upon his death

the emperor turning to Chaos? that'd be the ultimate slap in the face to the Imperium.

Eighteen Wheeler wrote:are pride, envy, sloth, or gluttony taken?

Gluttony is very much Slaanesh's area of expertise, since it is over indulgence of food, or with regards to the seven sins, anything. Slaanesh being the god of excess puts it firmly in charge of that one.

Envy could be either Slaanesh's or Tzeentch's.

Pride is Khorne's, Slaanesh's or Tzeentch's.

Sloth is one I don't think is taken, but if there was a god for it, they wouldn't really be very powerful, would they?

Durza wrote:

Eighteen Wheeler wrote:are pride, envy, sloth, or gluttony taken?

Gluttony is very much Slaanesh's area of expertise, since it is over indulgence of food, or with regards to the seven sins, anything. Slaanesh being the god of excess puts it firmly in charge of that one.

Envy could be either Slaanesh's or Tzeentch's.

Pride is Khorne's, Slaanesh's or Tzeentch's.

Sloth is one I don't think is taken, but if there was a god for it, they wouldn't really be very powerful, would they?

A God of Sloth would probably be the patron of slave owners, corrupt businessmen, leeches and that sorta thing.

LoneLictor wrote:A God of Sloth would probably be the patron of slave owners, corrupt businessmen, leeches and that sorta thing.

But being the embodiment of sloth, they'd be torn apart in the Game. The only way they could survive would be if they were so massively powerful that the others had no hope of killing it, and since it had no motivation it just played the Great Game to pass the time rather than as the life or death matter it is to the other gods. But since the entire galaxy lives off war and schemes, that's not very likely.

the sloth god could be symbiotic, bonding to the other powers to survive.

Well the eldar gods were very much real. So there are more then just the 4 gods of chaos. Its just that they are the really powerful ones right now. The warps isn't just chaos. Its just that chaos is overwhelming right now. So the god empra could very well be a god without being a chaos one.

All true white ninja.

I'm surprised Slaanesh hasn't consumed the Star Child yet

Eighteen Wheeler wrote:are pride, envy, sloth, or gluttony taken?

Pride and gluttony definitely fall to Slaanesh, sloth and envy might. Pride actually falls to several Gods, Khorne gets martial pride, Slaanesh is probably more like an unwarranted pride (like human supremacy or Eldar supremacy), and Tzneetch is probably pride from what one has achieved off the battlefield or the simple want of pride, similar to wanting power.

well we're talking about unique characteristics, not ones that all the powers have in common. i think that people are making stuff up just to make this harder.

Eighteen Wheeler wrote:i think that people are making stuff up just to make this harder.

Not really, it is just that the Gods have pretty much everything covered.

Slaanesh covers perfection, excess (too much of anything, so sloth and gluttony fall into this category), greed, lust, and pain.

Khorne covers war, rage, violence, martial pride, and hate psykers.

Tzeentch covers change, hope, plotting, ambition, and psychic powers.

Nurgle covers rot, decay, disease, aging, hopelessness, stagnation, and mortality.

Between the four of them they cover everything, and before you bring up fear, they all cover fear in some facet (except for maybe Khorne). Slaanesh covers fear of boredom, Tzeentch covers fear of stagnation, Nurgle covers fear of change, disease, and death, Khorne might cover fear in warfare, but that is pretty iffy.

They aren't like polytheistic pantheons, where there is a goddess of fertility and beauty, and a god of war, and a king of the gods, and a god of the sea, and a god of lightning, each of them covers vast overlapping areas. Also, if you are confused about what areas they can cover you can always look at their domains, for example Slaanesh's domain has several rings, one covers gluttony, one covers greed, one covers carnal pleasures, etc.

Buttons wrote:Not really, it is just that the Gods have pretty much everything covered.

Well then what's the point of this thread

Precicely EW. We're not creating this new god to perfectly comply, were doing it, like all threads should be, for a bit of fun. NOW POST SOME IDEAS!!!

got it

a Chaos god of treachery and betrayal

Sorry mate, but that is definately covered by Slaanesh/Malal. What about the original idea of Fear/Time, and maybe we could use the betrayal idea to?

Screw it, I'm out

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Sorry mate, but that is definately covered by Slaanesh/Malal. What about the original idea of Fear/Time, and maybe we could use the betrayal idea to?

Fear/time is Nurgle.

NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!! Fear definately not. Rotting/aging slight chance.