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Made in no
Liche Priest Hierophant





Bergen

 Formosa wrote:
The Irony of 40k is that there are no Gods, all are just very powerful beings from there respective realms.

Every single Warp "god" is just the most powerful Vortex of there respective aspect, they can be absorbed by greater Vortex's in the warp, this last part is pure conjecture, what happens to the older aspects that are absorbed by the greater ones (chaos gods for example), do they take on some of that aspect, are the "old Gods" still sentient within the greater whole? makes me wonder.

C'Tan are just mega powerful real world entities and not actual gods either, they just seem like it from the very limited understanding of the 40k races.

Gork and Mork are the same as the chaos gods, same with eldar gods.

Hive Mind isnt a god either

The Umbra are a race of Xenos, possibly fragments of a chaos god or C'Tan, but mega cool, not gods or god like.

Another one that could be considered a "warp God" was Ghul, the only Deamon KING in the fluff, it fought Tzeench and nearly won, or was it Khorne?


And what is your defenition of a god? Many of the above fitt well within most defenitions of a god from many world religions, mythical or fictional examples. (Well they are all fictional, but you get my jist.)

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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain





Earth

 Niiai wrote:
 Formosa wrote:
The Irony of 40k is that there are no Gods, all are just very powerful beings from there respective realms.

Every single Warp "god" is just the most powerful Vortex of there respective aspect, they can be absorbed by greater Vortex's in the warp, this last part is pure conjecture, what happens to the older aspects that are absorbed by the greater ones (chaos gods for example), do they take on some of that aspect, are the "old Gods" still sentient within the greater whole? makes me wonder.

C'Tan are just mega powerful real world entities and not actual gods either, they just seem like it from the very limited understanding of the 40k races.

Gork and Mork are the same as the chaos gods, same with eldar gods.

Hive Mind isnt a god either

The Umbra are a race of Xenos, possibly fragments of a chaos god or C'Tan, but mega cool, not gods or god like.

Another one that could be considered a "warp God" was Ghul, the only Deamon KING in the fluff, it fought Tzeench and nearly won, or was it Khorne?


And what is your defenition of a god? Many of the above fitt well within most defenitions of a god from many world religions, mythical or fictional examples. (Well they are all fictional, but you get my jist.)


Already posted it earlier in the thread old chap, go have a read of the previous posts
   
Made in us
Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

I tend to think of the 40k gods with kind of a Star Trek mindset. They aren't literally gods, but just really strange noncorporeal creatures, many of which have the ability to manifest themselves in some physical form (like Daemons). They are very powerful, energy based beings. The energy, in this case, is derived from the emotions of other beings, just as the Warp itself is.

It's how I prefer to look at this aspect of the fluff. Just noncorporeal alien beings with a range of different powers and manifestations.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
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