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TangoTwoBravo wrote:
Without endorsing such heresy I get why someone would worship Khorne, Tzeentch or Slaneesh. The path to damnation starts with a single step of reckless violence, forbidden knowledge or forbidden fruit, but what is the first step to worshipping Nurgle? What's the payoff? The Warhammer Chaos gods seem to be a confused and contradictory blend of Deadly Sins and Four Horsemen. At least the spikey bits and funny headgear are consistent.

Nurgle offers relief from suffering and disease. Or rather relief within it, rather than curing it or altering the situation. Stop hoping for change, accept your miserable state, accept the meaningless nature of existence, accept that everything will fall apart and you'll feel happier for it because if you stop hoping you can't be disappointed. It borrows a bit from Absurdism, and that's also why in the old ROC you had Nurgle followers dressing up in macabre carnivals and masks.

It’s easy to see a situation where you have a disease that’s far more virulent than Covid abd kills more people , if a company or even lone individual turned up with a cure .... warp born organisms confirm to no laws , they’d be able to pass any trial , then 6 months later ......

An old sci fi show , Babylon 5, had an episode where a survivor of an old alien race created an elixir for immortality without any disease , catch was that it required ingredients only obtainable from living beings, suffice to say that didn’t put anyone off. Though in this story outside intervention killed her before it was too late.

Realistically , I’d say Slaanesh. Desire drives most people and historically brings out the worst in them.

TangoTwoBravo wrote:
Without endorsing such heresy I get why someone would worship Khorne, Tzeentch or Slaneesh. The path to damnation starts with a single step of reckless violence, forbidden knowledge or forbidden fruit, but what is the first step to worshipping Nurgle? What's the payoff? The Warhammer Chaos gods seem to be a confused and contradictory blend of Deadly Sins and Four Horsemen. At least the spikey bits and funny headgear are consistent.

Look around, at all the suffering in the world. Even in the first world most people are stuck burning most of their time and energy on a full time job, working to a point where MAYBE they get to retire but looking at the way things are going probably not. The world is literally eroding because we've fethed the climate into a death spiral and despite knowing that we continue to do it. Countries lucky enough to have democracy are running by incompetent selfish fools because they mirror those same traits in the societies that elected them. People buy into the most absurd self destructive ideology without a second thought and violently oppose any other viewpoint. And worst of all, humanity could apply the amount of logic available in Wikipedia articles to make nearly all the problems of the world evaporate but simply chose not to, because bs.

The concept of "this is gakky, has always been gakky, and will remain gakky for the foreseeable future" has quite a lot of backing. Nurgle says to stop stressing and struggling to change that, and simply accept it as it is. Better yet, Nurgle empowers you for doing so. And finally, Nurgle cares. The world doesn't care about you. But Nurgle does.

Thanks for the illuminating perspectives!

I suppose Nurgle could be tempting to people looking for escape from their woe/find happiness? Maybe he is the god of certain relaxing drugs?

It's all heresy of course! Know your enemy and all that.

When all you know is misery, any escape is a boon. So there is a parallel to drugs in that. It is an example of how drugs do not automatically = Slaanesh, because when the point is just to escape from a certain feeling rather than chase ever more extreme highs the 'excess' aspect doesn't come into play.

godking wrote:
Slaanesh would easily be the most powerful Chaos god in current 21 century

In other eras Khorne would be the most powerful

Eh, even in ye olde times killing was more of a occupation than a enjoyable activity. Khorne would never be high up on the totem pole. It only is because GW thinks red demons sell. And they may be right.

Danny76 wrote:
Slaanesh.
Not just in the sexual desires way.
But society is very set up in a want/need way, the list for things. Power, possessions so on and so on.

I'd split that up in Tzeentch and Slaanesh tbh. The people who strive for power and wealth by creating an endless cycle of overconsumption would be under the influence of Tzeentch (although I suppose one could say that it also depends on the motivation one has... is it ambition or a desire for power? Tzeentch. Is it the desire to hoard money and spend said money on extravagant nonsense? Slaanesh.), the masses who fall for their tricks would be under the spell of Slaanesh.

Which Chaos God made TikTok? Much more effective than Anathame at turning folks.