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It seems like Nurgle is the only Chaos God who actually gives a damn about his followers.

If you follow Khorne, you will feel rage and anger forever.
If you follow Slaanesh, you feel less and less pleasure as time goes on + eternal agony after death.
Tzeentch followers are usually Psykers and those who seek knowledge etc., but they are all Tzeentch's pawns in the end.

Nurgle followers are disgusting, bloated and yucky in general, but they are esentially immortal, completely immune to pain and just feel great.

I am actually not sure what happens to Nurgle's followers after their death, but since Nurgle is probably the only Chaos God that isn't a complete douche, how bad can it be?

Papa Nurgle loves all his chillun.

Um, you suffer of terrible disease for all eternity. How bad can it be? Very bad. All Chaos gods are asses and they all do harsh things to you when you die. Which of the four do you prefer? Pick your poison.

 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Um, you suffer of terrible disease for all eternity. How is that fine?

But... But you don't!

Broly wrote:

 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Um, you suffer of terrible disease for all eternity. How is that fine?

But... But you don't!

Yes, yes you do.

With Slaanesh you get never ending pleasure.
With Khorne you get glorius slaughter forever.
With Tzeentch you can achieve your dreams.

Why WOULDN'T you choose one of them when Nurgle is making you slow, bloated and infected forever.

You have to remember that most worshipers of chaos are either think they are either
A. Think that they are above the consequences of chaos
B. Willingly take on the consequences because they believe that they are justify for end goals
or C. Are flying rodent gak crazy.

Also i wouldn't say being love by nurgle is better than the other gods, you are still just a plaything.

In the old chaos books, and the ones that came out about 10 years back that were each dedicated to 1 god, often you did not pick which god you worshipped, rather the Chaos Gods picked you.

It was rare that someone would openly start worshiping a specific god, often if it were a cult or something there would be a member who was possessed or aware of what was going on, and would pretty much lie to the rest of the cult or make up something they were worshiping when they were really following x,y,z,? god.

Many of the followers of chaos do not realize they have been chosen by one of the Chaos gods who is watching them, at some point they get the idea or turn to spawn.

 Lord Tarkin wrote:

Broly wrote:

 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Um, you suffer of terrible disease for all eternity. How is that fine?

But... But you don't!

Yes, yes you do.

Nooo, you don't. Your body is infested with terrible diseases, yes. But you don't suffer at all, Nurgle makes his followers immune to feeling pain and discomfort from the diseases.

Worship Nurgle and yes you'll be happy... and have every STD going and then some.


Tzeentch's pawns get all the girls. Girls dig wizards.

 Otto Weston wrote:

 Lord Tarkin wrote:

Broly wrote:

 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Um, you suffer of terrible disease for all eternity. How is that fine?

But... But you don't!

Yes, yes you do.

Nooo, you don't. Your body is infested with terrible diseases, yes. But you don't suffer at all, Nurgle makes his followers immune to feeling pain and discomfort from the diseases.

yeah still not ideal. I mean you're still bloated with disease and covered in rotten pestules. even if you don't feel it that's not exactly too great.

 Otto Weston wrote:

 Lord Tarkin wrote:

Broly wrote:

 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Um, you suffer of terrible disease for all eternity. How is that fine?

But... But you don't!

Yes, yes you do.

Nooo, you don't. Your body is infested with terrible diseases, yes. But you don't suffer at all, Nurgle makes his followers immune to feeling pain and discomfort from the diseases.

Um, I thought we were talking about after death? Because after death, you will indeed suffer of terrible diseases for the rest of eternity.

So YES...you do.

 Wulfmar wrote:
Worship Slaanesh and yes you'll be happy... and have every STD going and then some.


Tzeentch's pawns get all the girls. Girls dig wizards.

Fixed that.

Why worship Nurgle? You'll just become some fat diseased thing constantly in pain because you're rotting from within, Nurgle misinterpreting your moans and screams of pain and agony as that of pleasure and joy. You will die suffering. At least Khorne has the mercy to kill you quickly.

 Wulfmar wrote:
Worship Nurgle and yes you'll be happy... and have every STD going and then some.


Tzeentch's pawns get all the girls. Girls dig wizards.

Many of Tzeentch's followers are scientists politicians artists and other important people.

I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger...

Also, sex magic. Think about it.

Yeah, I take the other side as well. With the other gods you get immortality and some combination of permanent orgasm and perpetual triumph. You're always winning or on the cusp of getting what you want. You're you, except extreme, and with godlike power.

Why would you ever follow nurgle, though? You're suffering from continual entropy, which is another word for worse. Now yes, they also have some gains as tradeoffs, but FNP at the sake of perpetual degeneration is like saying that you'll never get toenail fungus if you cut your own feet off. Sure, but now you don't have feet.

Okay everybody, you do not feel pain or suffering from disease if you praise Nurgle. The whole reason you do worship him is for the immunity to disease. Like, a man dying of cancer would give his life to Nurgle to live a long and disease free life. However after death, you will live in agony and experience the worst of disease for the rest of eternity....only because it amuses him

Sure you do. You just interpret it as something up because your mind's so messed up by the pain that it loses its understanding of what pain is.

Nurgle is the only God to give the majority of his followers immortality by turning them into Plaguebearers instead of just making new Demons.

He's a pretty cool guy.

None of the ruinous powers give one fig for their followers. Only the Emperor loves his people, enough to die for them and bestowing upon them the gift of the light and warmth of the Astronomican.

Also, I would say that Gork and Mork love their followers, blessing them with eternal warfare that they so love to engage in.

Broly wrote:
It seems like Nurgle is the only Chaos God who actually gives a damn about his followers.

If you follow Khorne, you will feel rage and anger forever.
If you follow Slaanesh, you feel less and less pleasure as time goes on + eternal agony after death.
Tzeentch followers are usually Psykers and those who seek knowledge etc., but they are all Tzeentch's pawns in the end.

Nurgle followers are disgusting, bloated and yucky in general, but they are esentially immortal, completely immune to pain and just feel great.

I am actually not sure what happens to Nurgle's followers after their death, but since Nurgle is probably the only Chaos God that isn't a complete douche, how bad can it be?

Uh, for Slaanesh cultists, eternal agony of death is actually the happiest result one can have in 40K, as Slaaneshi cultists and champions are pretty much rewired so they enjoy pain. It's why you can't use torture to extract information from them. Only sensory deprivation.


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 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Okay everybody, you do not feel pain or suffering from disease if you praise Nurgle. The whole reason you do worship him is for the immunity to disease. Like, a man dying of cancer would give his life to Nurgle to live a long and disease free life. However after death, you will live in agony and experience the worst of disease for the rest of eternity....only because it amuses him

I do not recall this ever being canon.

 Wyzilla wrote:

Broly wrote:
It seems like Nurgle is the only Chaos God who actually gives a damn about his followers.

If you follow Khorne, you will feel rage and anger forever.
If you follow Slaanesh, you feel less and less pleasure as time goes on + eternal agony after death.
Tzeentch followers are usually Psykers and those who seek knowledge etc., but they are all Tzeentch's pawns in the end.

Nurgle followers are disgusting, bloated and yucky in general, but they are esentially immortal, completely immune to pain and just feel great.

I am actually not sure what happens to Nurgle's followers after their death, but since Nurgle is probably the only Chaos God that isn't a complete douche, how bad can it be?

Uh, for a Slaanesh cultists, eternal agony of death is actually the happiest result one can have in 40K, as Slaaneshi cultists and champions are pretty much rewired so they enjoy pain. It's why you can't use torture to extract information from them. Only sensory deprivation.


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 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Okay everybody, you do not feel pain or suffering from disease if you praise Nurgle. The whole reason you do worship him is for the immunity to disease. Like, a man dying of cancer would give his life to Nurgle to live a long and disease free life. However after death, you will live in agony and experience the worst of disease for the rest of eternity....only because it amuses him

I do not recall this ever being canon.

Yeah agreed on the non-canon. People worship Nurgle because they appreciate the cycle of life and death in the world. After death, you will live on as a Plaguebearer who does not experience pain and will live forever.... Only because Nurgle likes his followers.

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

Broly wrote:
It seems like Nurgle is the only Chaos God who actually gives a damn about his followers.

If you follow Khorne, you will feel rage and anger forever.
If you follow Slaanesh, you feel less and less pleasure as time goes on + eternal agony after death.
Tzeentch followers are usually Psykers and those who seek knowledge etc., but they are all Tzeentch's pawns in the end.

Nurgle followers are disgusting, bloated and yucky in general, but they are esentially immortal, completely immune to pain and just feel great.

I am actually not sure what happens to Nurgle's followers after their death, but since Nurgle is probably the only Chaos God that isn't a complete douche, how bad can it be?

Uh, for a Slaanesh cultists, eternal agony of death is actually the happiest result one can have in 40K, as Slaaneshi cultists and champions are pretty much rewired so they enjoy pain. It's why you can't use torture to extract information from them. Only sensory deprivation.


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 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Okay everybody, you do not feel pain or suffering from disease if you praise Nurgle. The whole reason you do worship him is for the immunity to disease. Like, a man dying of cancer would give his life to Nurgle to live a long and disease free life. However after death, you will live in agony and experience the worst of disease for the rest of eternity....only because it amuses him

I do not recall this ever being canon.

Yeah agreed on the non-canon. People worship Nurgle because they appreciate the cycle of life and death in the world. After death, you will live on as a Plaguebearer who does not experience pain and will live forever.... Only because Nurgle likes his followers.

Yup. While alive as a human you're immune to pain, and Nurgle actually is the easiest Chaos God to gain immortality from if he gifts you Nurgle's Rot, which turns you into a plaguebearer. And once you're a Plaguebearer, you can only perma die if either Nurgle consumes you or IIRC the Ordo Malleus is capable of perma killing daemons.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

Broly wrote:
It seems like Nurgle is the only Chaos God who actually gives a damn about his followers.

If you follow Khorne, you will feel rage and anger forever.
If you follow Slaanesh, you feel less and less pleasure as time goes on + eternal agony after death.
Tzeentch followers are usually Psykers and those who seek knowledge etc., but they are all Tzeentch's pawns in the end.

Nurgle followers are disgusting, bloated and yucky in general, but they are esentially immortal, completely immune to pain and just feel great.

I am actually not sure what happens to Nurgle's followers after their death, but since Nurgle is probably the only Chaos God that isn't a complete douche, how bad can it be?

Uh, for a Slaanesh cultists, eternal agony of death is actually the happiest result one can have in 40K, as Slaaneshi cultists and champions are pretty much rewired so they enjoy pain. It's why you can't use torture to extract information from them. Only sensory deprivation.


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 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Okay everybody, you do not feel pain or suffering from disease if you praise Nurgle. The whole reason you do worship him is for the immunity to disease. Like, a man dying of cancer would give his life to Nurgle to live a long and disease free life. However after death, you will live in agony and experience the worst of disease for the rest of eternity....only because it amuses him

I do not recall this ever being canon.

Yeah agreed on the non-canon. People worship Nurgle because they appreciate the cycle of life and death in the world. After death, you will live on as a Plaguebearer who does not experience pain and will live forever.... Only because Nurgle likes his followers.

Yup. While alive as a human you're immune to pain, and Nurgle actually is the easiest Chaos God to gain immortality from if he gifts you Nurgle's Rot, which turns you into a plaguebearer. And once you're a Plaguebearer, you can only perma die if either Nurgle consumes you or IIRC the Ordo Malleus is capable of perma killing daemons.

"Most Nurgleites rarely end up in the service of the Plague Lord willingly; for those who contract a deadly disease or are forced to face the reality of their own mortality, Nurgle offers a potential escape from the painful ravages of illness or an untimely death--in return for an individual's soul and his eternal damnation." - warhammer 40k wikia

I can't find it but somewhere on lexicanum it said those followers who don't win immortality are subjected to terrible disease for the rest of time.

Can you show me where it says Nurgle is the easiest to win immortality?

 Lord Tarkin wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

Broly wrote:
It seems like Nurgle is the only Chaos God who actually gives a damn about his followers.

If you follow Khorne, you will feel rage and anger forever.
If you follow Slaanesh, you feel less and less pleasure as time goes on + eternal agony after death.
Tzeentch followers are usually Psykers and those who seek knowledge etc., but they are all Tzeentch's pawns in the end.

Nurgle followers are disgusting, bloated and yucky in general, but they are esentially immortal, completely immune to pain and just feel great.

I am actually not sure what happens to Nurgle's followers after their death, but since Nurgle is probably the only Chaos God that isn't a complete douche, how bad can it be?

Uh, for a Slaanesh cultists, eternal agony of death is actually the happiest result one can have in 40K, as Slaaneshi cultists and champions are pretty much rewired so they enjoy pain. It's why you can't use torture to extract information from them. Only sensory deprivation.


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 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Okay everybody, you do not feel pain or suffering from disease if you praise Nurgle. The whole reason you do worship him is for the immunity to disease. Like, a man dying of cancer would give his life to Nurgle to live a long and disease free life. However after death, you will live in agony and experience the worst of disease for the rest of eternity....only because it amuses him

I do not recall this ever being canon.

Yeah agreed on the non-canon. People worship Nurgle because they appreciate the cycle of life and death in the world. After death, you will live on as a Plaguebearer who does not experience pain and will live forever.... Only because Nurgle likes his followers.

Yup. While alive as a human you're immune to pain, and Nurgle actually is the easiest Chaos God to gain immortality from if he gifts you Nurgle's Rot, which turns you into a plaguebearer. And once you're a Plaguebearer, you can only perma die if either Nurgle consumes you or IIRC the Ordo Malleus is capable of perma killing daemons.

"Most Nurgleites rarely end up in the service of the Plague Lord willingly; for those who contract a deadly disease or are forced to face the reality of their own mortality, Nurgle offers a potential escape from the painful ravages of illness or an untimely death--in return for an individual's soul and his eternal damnation." - warhammer 40k wikia

I can't find it but somewhere on lexicanum it said those followers who don't win immortality are subjected to terrible disease for the rest of time.

Can you show me where it says Nurgle is the easiest to win immortality?

For one, the Warhammer 40k wiki isn't a source for anything and is just a bunch of laughable uncited fan fiction. I'm talking Codex Pages, books, and stat. And going by the Lexicanum Plaugebearers are created when a mortal succumbs to Nurgle's Rot and are born from his soul, although I remember either FFG or something mentioning they're formed from when a mortal slowly decays until, when they finally die from the disease, they're born in the garden the Nurgle. Implying on some level it actually is the mortal.

It's called the "Original Position Fallacy."

Also, most people are tricked into serving a Chaos god, and by the time they realize what poor choices they've made it's too late and they're damned.

You've also got those who think they can beat the system, and will continue to think so no matter how many times you tell them that, no, really, they don't.

And then there's those who are just plain nuts.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Lord Tarkin wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

Broly wrote:
It seems like Nurgle is the only Chaos God who actually gives a damn about his followers.

If you follow Khorne, you will feel rage and anger forever.
If you follow Slaanesh, you feel less and less pleasure as time goes on + eternal agony after death.
Tzeentch followers are usually Psykers and those who seek knowledge etc., but they are all Tzeentch's pawns in the end.

Nurgle followers are disgusting, bloated and yucky in general, but they are esentially immortal, completely immune to pain and just feel great.

I am actually not sure what happens to Nurgle's followers after their death, but since Nurgle is probably the only Chaos God that isn't a complete douche, how bad can it be?

Uh, for a Slaanesh cultists, eternal agony of death is actually the happiest result one can have in 40K, as Slaaneshi cultists and champions are pretty much rewired so they enjoy pain. It's why you can't use torture to extract information from them. Only sensory deprivation.


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 Lord Tarkin wrote:
Okay everybody, you do not feel pain or suffering from disease if you praise Nurgle. The whole reason you do worship him is for the immunity to disease. Like, a man dying of cancer would give his life to Nurgle to live a long and disease free life. However after death, you will live in agony and experience the worst of disease for the rest of eternity....only because it amuses him

I do not recall this ever being canon.

Yeah agreed on the non-canon. People worship Nurgle because they appreciate the cycle of life and death in the world. After death, you will live on as a Plaguebearer who does not experience pain and will live forever.... Only because Nurgle likes his followers.

Yup. While alive as a human you're immune to pain, and Nurgle actually is the easiest Chaos God to gain immortality from if he gifts you Nurgle's Rot, which turns you into a plaguebearer. And once you're a Plaguebearer, you can only perma die if either Nurgle consumes you or IIRC the Ordo Malleus is capable of perma killing daemons.

"Most Nurgleites rarely end up in the service of the Plague Lord willingly; for those who contract a deadly disease or are forced to face the reality of their own mortality, Nurgle offers a potential escape from the painful ravages of illness or an untimely death--in return for an individual's soul and his eternal damnation." - warhammer 40k wikia

I can't find it but somewhere on lexicanum it said those followers who don't win immortality are subjected to terrible disease for the rest of time.

Can you show me where it says Nurgle is the easiest to win immortality?

For one, the Warhammer 40k wiki isn't a source for anything and is just a bunch of laughable uncited fan fiction. I'm talking Codex Pages, books, and stat. And going by the Lexicanum Plaugebearers are created when a mortal succumbs to Nurgle's Rot and are born from his soul, although I remember either FFG or something mentioning they're formed from when a mortal slowly decays until, when they finally die from the disease, they're born in the garden the Nurgle. Implying on some level it actually is the mortal.

"The Warhammer 40k Wiki is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for all official, canon-only information related to Warhammer 40,000." - warhammer 40k wikia

It is not "laughable fan fiction"

An unreliable source is hardly going to say it's an unreliable source.

The wiki can say what it likes about itself but it's still not something I'd trust.

Here's why you would follow the different Chaos Gods:

Khorne - You've been wronged. Maybe you were just denied a promotion. Maybe someone raped and murdered your daughter. Maybe it wasn't just one event, but rage has been welling up inside you through your whole life, and you're tired of being powerless. No matter why you're pissed, Khorne is on your side. He sees your rage, and he empowers you to take revenge. Fundamentally, that's really what you want. Revenge. Its the way we're wired. Why do you think people attack stubborn vending machines or start race riots? Khorne makes you stronger and faster. He guides to other like-minded individuals, people who want to, for lack of a better term, feth gak up. He helps guide the rage within you, helping you to focus it in on one target. People don't worship Khorne because they want to be angry. They worship Khorne because they want to get even.

Slaanesh - Look at how many people are obese. Look at how many people are drinking themselves to death. Look at how many people OD on crack or heroin every day. Short-term pleasure is very appealing, whether or not we admit it. Bill Clinton probably knew that Monica was bad news, but a BJ is a BJ no matter how you put it.

Tzeentch - You have hope. Maybe what you're hoping for is revenge. Maybe its pleasure. Maybe the only thing you're hoping for is a happy, normal life. Nurgle is the God of Denial. He's what lets us live on a day-to-day basis, despite the fact that death is just around the corner. That's why his followers are all so happy, even though they're rotting from the inside out. Really, what kind of life is that? You have no long term aspirations. You can't stop to think, because there's only darkness up ahead. Tzeentch, on the otherhand, offers you real hope, even if its false. You think that the future is a bright place, and he's right by your side, pushing you on towards it.

pm713 wrote:
An unreliable source is hardly going to say it's an unreliable source.

The wiki can say what it likes about itself but it's still not something I'd trust.

Then....you don't have to trust it but I do. Nurgle is not a nice guy lol he's a Chaos god, he is pure evil. I will chuckle at anyone who says otherwise.