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From the most up to date fluff about the Chaos Gods, it is stated that they do not want to wipe humanity out but rather leech power off them for as long as they can.

With this in mind, why do the chaos powers not do more to cultivate humanity as a livestock of sorts?
Sure they get what they need now, but if they were more ambitious then they could get so much more.

Whilst it is well known that chaos subverts imperial colonies to chaos, has it ever been stated that they do colonisation of their own?
Slaanesh would benefit from breeding, khorne could set up eternal wars in his name and nurgle would have an easy supply of bodies. The only God I can not think to gain from this would be Tzeentch, as it establishes routine and tradition, rather than change.

That sounds like some very ordered, and precise planning is needed there, something that would take a while to come into fruition.

Which is the exact opposite of Chaos.

The problem I see here is you're applying rational thoughts to irrational beings.

Yeah, like, the answer to your question is in their names man.

They are called Chaos gods but that doesn't mean they lock any kind of order or ambition.

They were called the Chaos gods by humans, who could not possibly see or understand the Gods, hence all they saw was chaos.

Tzeentch is perhaps the most competent entity at planning and scheming in all of existence. Creating their own human power battery worlds seems like it would be completely within their means and would further their own ends.

There are worlds within the Eye which are stocked with humans/aliens/daemons which the gods (and/or their champions) do with as they please.

"Eye of Terror" is a good book for this as it shows off a few Chaos worlds and the "people" living on them and what they are used for by the gods.

I don't think the gods would aim at being constructive themselves, but their followers would. A greater Daemon or Daemon Prince of any power would probably be quite eager to curry favor by creating new devotees.

The forces of chaos are very constructive. They have whole civilizations, societies, cultures, languages etc unto their own that have existed since before the Crusade.

Even post Heresy, there are flourishing societies that worship the ruinous powers. The enemy forces in the Gaunt's Ghost series across the Sabbat Worlds (though they are relatively recent invaders) are a good example of this.

The most dangerous facet of chaos is not that it destroys, but that it corrupts.

They are very constructive

Nurgle brings life across the universe

Tzeench embodies the need for.change and advancement

Khorne is honour and martial pride

Slaanesh is love and pride in your achievements

They are also the opposites of these things

Nurgle brings decay and the fear of death, depression and plague.

Tzeench strives to bring down the old and replace it constantly with the New, politicking to a maddeningly pointless degree.

Khorne brings anger and rage, murder and hatred.

Slaanesh brings obsession and over excess

The chaos gods and daemons also lack free will. They are entirely defined by their portfolios.

They, quite literally, can't make different choices than the ones they make.

If Khorne decided to not murder everything he ever came across, he would stop being Khorne. Tzeentch plots against himself, he has no long range plan, only scheming, because that's what he's made of. etc.

Yeah totally correct, but also totally wrong


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They defined by ALL the emotions that feed them, so it's entirely. Possible that khorne could treat you with honour and.respect...while trying to kill you.

They're called the Chaos Gods, so you'd expect them to just cause chaos, kind of the opposite of what you propose in the OP.

I prefer to think of the Chaos Gods as more unknowable eldritch beings of unfathomably alien and abstract intelligence, rather than essentially very powerful people. All of the descriptions of them are simply anthropomorphisms of things that can't be understood by a human mind, then.

As stated there not that simple, they also have what we would call positive aspects, the chaos gods are not purely chaotic despite the name, they can and more than likely do affect the universe in a positive way, that's part if being chaotic by nature.

It said in one of the Horus Heresy books. I think False Gods. The Chaos Gods have no interestin the physical realm. They just dont care. They are literally just trying to cause Chaos.

And that guy was lieing through his teeth, 40k history tells us that

Aren't the whole Gaunts Ghosts about this? The Sabbat Crusade was a respons to Chaos taking over a whole sub-sector more or less. (or sector, what ever)


(Spoiler below)

In Traitor General i believe the chaos followers try and take knowledge from the imperium on how to structure some aspects of society. They want to learn the imperiums ways in detail. (And ofcourse military secrets, goes without saying.)

As said earlier, the Eye is full of worlds built up in just this way, with millions of slaves doing just what you describe, let alone the various fallen worlds in realspace.

Because Chaos only builds in order to destroy.

 Formosa wrote:
As stated there not that simple, they also have what we would call positive aspects, the chaos gods are not purely chaotic despite the name, they can and more than likely do affect the universe in a positive way, that's part if being chaotic by nature.

Spoken like a true lacky of the false emperor. Pure Chaos is positive!

From the point of view of the followers of chaos they AREA being constructive!!
Khorne- war and destruction a darwinsism in its purest form those the survive are more resilient to the extreme and those that don't make way for the new strong.
Tzeentch- Stangnancy breeds inevitable self destruction and subverts once more the betterment of the self.. To not change is to die.
Nurgle- whilst everyone seems to depict him as the god of death.. He sees himself as the giver of immortality, you have but to follow him and he will protect you a any good father should.. That he's protecting you from his own plagues (that are his children too) is irrelevant
Slanesh- what's the point of living if you can't enjoy it? Life is so short he is improving humanities lot by promoting them to do whatever they want for it's flickering duration..

The fact they are sick twisted freaks who are insane doesn't enter their mind alas

 Formosa wrote:
Yeah totally correct, but also totally wrong


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They defined by ALL the emotions that feed them, so it's entirely. Possible that khorne could treat you with honour and.respect...while trying to kill you.

So only correct. He's still killing you. If there's only one intelligent psychic life left in the galaxy, and killing it will end Khorne forever (because it will, he doesn't exist without it) he still will kill it given the opportunity. They can't help what they are, they can only be it.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
As stated there not that simple, they also have what we would call positive aspects, the chaos gods are not purely chaotic despite the name, they can and more than likely do affect the universe in a positive way, that's part if being chaotic by nature.

Spoken like a true lacky of the false emperor. Pure Chaos is positive!

With those eyes I sometimes wonder if you've got Night Lord blood in you.

Also, I'll just leave this here in response to the OP's question.

 DarknessEternal wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
Yeah totally correct, but also totally wrong


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They defined by ALL the emotions that feed them, so it's entirely. Possible that khorne could treat you with honour and.respect...while trying to kill you.

So only correct. He's still killing you. If there's only one intelligent psychic life left in the galaxy, and killing it will end Khorne forever (because it will, he doesn't exist without it) he still will kill it given the opportunity. They can't help what they are, they can only be it.

Nah the last bit was supposed to be a joke, nurgle brings life, that's positive, tzeench influenced you to build a school, slaanesh made you write a literary masterpiece, khorne stopped you from killing those civilians as its dishonorable.

These are all things the chaos gods take power from and influence in turn.

I'm pretty sure the hope in citizens hearts when they do the above given much more power to the Emporer

Its fine Tzeench planed the whole thing.

 Formosa wrote:
khorne stopped you from killing those civilians as its dishonorable.

Not in this era of 40k. You must be living in 1989.

In 2014, Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows.

The reason the Chaos gods are not "constructive" is because Gork and Mork have all the rivets and won't share

 Sasori wrote:
That sounds like some very ordered, and precise planning is needed there, something that would take a while to come into fruition.

Sounds like Tzeentch.

 DarknessEternal wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
khorne stopped you from killing those civilians as its dishonorable.

Not in this era of 40k. You must be living in 1989.

In 2014, Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows.

1988 Khorne cared not from where the blood flowed, but he especially enjoyed people killing their friends and allies.