Darth Bob wrote:
Samus_aran115 wrote:
Perhaps you're right. I don't know though. There's always little moments that surprise me with chaos. Someone taking pity just for the sake of it. Someone conceding defeat to remain honorable. Someone making a decision based on what the men think... although Space Marines in general do that. It's not uncommon for a captain to ask the opinion a sergeant or a lower Marine and follow through with it.
The mortal followers of Chaos are subject to the same conflict of interest as any normal mortal man or woman would be. Therefore, it's completely plausible for the mortal followers of the Dark Gods to display acts of humanity or "good". They still have reason and mortal logic and are therefore capable of acting out of reason and morality. This is something that the actual Daemons do not possess. Daemons impulsively act on emotion, and are incapable of doing otherwise. Bloodletters impulsively kill things. Daemonettes impulsively do the nasty with mortals. Pink Horrors impulsively change and mutate their surroundings. Plaguebearers impulsively infect and despoil. It is this complete and utter lack of self control that makes them so evil. A human is capable of reason and is able to choose to commit an act of evil, but, if they so choose, they're also able to choose to be a source of good. Daemons don't have a choice. They just do evil things because they are evil by nature. This is why we see that, as people become more corrupted and mutated by the warp, their capability for reason and moral action is diminished. They start to lose the control that they once had. They become slaves to their emotions and to the Dark Gods that they represent. In other words, mortal followers of Chaos are not inherently evil. The force they worship is. Continued worship and association with the Ruinous Powers can cause the powers of the warp to corrupt them, body and soul: making them as evil as the force they worship.
Chaos Gods: Evil
Daemons: Evil
Mortal Worshipers of Chaos: On the track to becoming evil, but not completely evil just yet.
To expand on what Darth Bob said, deamons, and their gods are made of pure emotions, and when say, you are really really angry, its only your self restraint and morals that stop you from beating everything in to pulp. therefore deamons, as they are made up of speficic emotions and concepts and are not human or like 'normal' people, they act on the emotions they feel, which happen to be anger, lust etc. they are essentially, pure emotion given form, so they are pure anger, pure ambition etc. so they commit evil acts, but they themselves are not truly evil, as they are just pure unrestrained emotion.
i wouldnt say that chaos are losing their chaos (although i dont remeber realm of chaos) i would say that maybe they have lost some of their 'edge' in the drive to become more serious.
chaos takes the role of the 'malevolant, evil guys that everyone are affraid of and pose a threat to all' on the surface but underneath they are all driven by their own reasons for doing what they do, and they all believe that they are in the right.
