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Howdy folks,

Seeing as I'm pretty late to the hobby as a whole and not entirely steeped in the fluff as more seasoned practitioners, I was wondering if there was a hard and fast rule regarding the four traditional cult legions owing fealty to their respective gods.
ie: Emperors Children worshipping Slaanesh, Death Guard with Nurgle, so on...

From what I've read about the Horus Heresy, the 'shattering' of the Legions seems to be just that, with little uniformity as to how specific shards act and to where their loyalties lie.

Basically, I'm hoping to explore the idea of Thousand Sons who were off-world when Prospero was all but destroyed; and through a series of circumstances of necessity and opportunity, fall into the worship of Slaanesh having finally given into the emotions they had been trained to ignore.

I also have a little idea about incorporating a force of Alpha Legionnaires who are 'supposedly' out for their own objectives as I'm intrigued by the distrust Magnus had of his fellow Primarch Alpharius and I like the synergy between the Alpha Legion and the Hidden Ones/Ammitara.

Also, I want a reason to use references to the Egyptian god Apophis while leaving myself to paint/model pretty much whatever I like in both AL and TS colours. Plus, I really couldn't decide upon the two Legions and there is a future idea to lighten the grimdark with Alestorm style space piracy.

So, viable or lazy unoriginal trash that is an anathema to the setting?

OG legion members could certainly have gone off and done basically anything. You got loyalists and traitors everywhere, after all. "Contemporary" Thousands Sons etc are very firmly in the grip of a power each but doing a little what-if kind of thing is great.

In the black legion novel there's a death guard lord who is favoured by both Tzeench and Nurgle.

It's certainly "possible", however unlikely. This is due to the scattering of the initial Primarchs by chaos.
The Chaos powers intended to corrupt the Primarch and may have pre-selected the worlds they originally landed on to help make this corruption possible.

Magnus, being innately psychic, seems to have been of particular interest to Tzeentch. I cannot think it is coincidence that he landed on a planet of psykers. Nor Mortarion landing on a diseased fuming planet, etc.
The fact that their corresponding legions draw their very DNA from the Primarchs paints a picture that these legions are somewhat pre-destined to serve the same god as their Primarch.

While I can certainly see a splinter group from before the Heresy being corrupted by a different god, and nothing should stop you from exploring this in your army, all of the above is just evidence that this should be EXEEDINGLY rare.

The main issues you'll have is not being able to access T-sons rules (as T-sons have to pick Tzeentch). You'll likely have to run generic Slaanesh Marines painted to look like Heresy era Tsons (so red instead of blue).

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Champion of Slaanesh wrote:
In the black legion novel there's a death guard lord who is favoured by both Tzeench and Nurgle.

You wouldn't happen to remember that Lords name would you?

The Nurgle Lord was Thagus Daravek but I don't recall him being linked to either Tzeentch or Nurgle.

I'd not suprise me at all if other chaos lords had tried the "appease all gods" thing and had failed, likely pretty spectacularly.

An Alpha Legion warband almost got convinced that the Deciever was Omegon.

DontEatRawHagis wrote:
An Alpha Legion warband almost got convinced that the Deciever was Omegon.

Source?

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

DontEatRawHagis wrote:
An Alpha Legion warband almost got convinced that the Deciever was Omegon.

Source?

Should've had a spoiler there, but

 ChazSexington wrote:

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

DontEatRawHagis wrote:
An Alpha Legion warband almost got convinced that the Deciever was Omegon.

Source?

Should've had a spoiler there, but

Spoiler:

Sons of the Hydra

It’s hard to tell what needs spoilers for me. Most of the time I come across information through Lexicanum and I don’t know what’s a sidebar in a codex or what is a new book. I just ignore spoilers because most of the time it’s just a blurb in a codex that’s one sentence long.

The question is whether a warband of such would have survived into the 40k era.

Sure, I can see a Khorne-worshipping Emperor's Children captain having started a warband post-Heresy. I could see it having won a few battles and earned some renown. I'm equally sure the Slannesh-worshiping ECs would have treated him like a traitor and hunted him down.

Perhaps he survived under these conditions for a millennia or two, but it's not like his warband is going to grow to incorporate a lot of other Khornate ECs. He's either going to find some non-EC CSMs to team up with, get incorporated into another warband, or be hunted down.

It's improbable such a warband would flourish. Not impossible, but not likely.

 Nithaniel wrote:
The Nurgle Lord was Thagus Daravek but I don't recall him being linked to either Tzeentch or Nurgle.

Not listened to the black legion audio book in a while but considering he was trying to steal Abbadons destiny. Plus if i remember correctly he had plague marines with him let me relisten to the audio book again