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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/10/18 09:16:09
Subject: Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Does anyone know what the eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos actually represents?
Last time I checked there were only 4 Chaos gods...
It might just be because I don't know enough about Chaos, but I have read lots of BL novels and background fluff. The symbol is oft-mentioned, but I've never come across an explanation for it.
Just find it strange as the Imperial Aquila (with one head looking into the past and one into the future) is explained repeatedly, and I even know the entire story behind the Tears of Isha symbol of Craftworld Ulthwe. But the symbol of Chaos, such a huge part of the 40k universe, remains a mystery to me.
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For the Emperor and Sanguinius!
40K Blood Angels ; 1,500pts / Kill Team: Valhallan Veteran Guardsmen / Aeronautica Imperialis Adeptus Astartes; 176pts / AoS Soulblight Gravelords; 1,120pts |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/10/18 09:21:55
Subject: Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Eightpointeed star presents supposedly the infinite possibilities of chaos.
Because 8 is also the symbol of infinite and the spikes in various directions porbably the posibilities.
Supposedly.
Also you forgot Malice.
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https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766717.page
A Mostly Renegades and Heretics blog.
GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units."
Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?"
Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?"
GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!"
Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/10/18 09:22:29
Subject: Re:Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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Moustache-twirling Princeps
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It was 'borrowed' from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion ( Wikipedia).
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/10/18 12:41:55
Subject: Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/10/18 14:50:05
Subject: Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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Regular Dakkanaut
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I know about the Buddhist eightfold path, but it's not very Chaos...is it?! It just seems a bit of a random symbol. Given the strength of most iconography in the universe (from the Craftworld sigils to the blood drop iconography of the BA to the Gorka/Morka skull/jaw to the Tau greater good emblem) it just seems strange that Chaos' primary symbol is so vague and irrelevant.
I mean the actual emblems of the Chaos gods are a lot more specific and have better explanations behind them, but the eightpointed star just seems a bit random.
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For the Emperor and Sanguinius!
40K Blood Angels ; 1,500pts / Kill Team: Valhallan Veteran Guardsmen / Aeronautica Imperialis Adeptus Astartes; 176pts / AoS Soulblight Gravelords; 1,120pts |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/10/18 17:10:49
Subject: Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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Trazyn's Museum Curator
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Darian Aarush wrote: I know about the Buddhist eightfold path, but it's not very Chaos...is it?! It just seems a bit of a random symbol. Given the strength of most iconography in the universe (from the Craftworld sigils to the blood drop iconography of the BA to the Gorka/Morka skull/jaw to the Tau greater good emblem) it just seems strange that Chaos' primary symbol is so vague and irrelevant. I mean the actual emblems of the Chaos gods are a lot more specific and have better explanations behind them, but the eightpointed star just seems a bit random. Not that random, actually. GW lifted it directly from Moorcock's Eternal Champion series. The Symbol of Chaos originates from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories and its dichotomy of Law and Chaos. In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. In contrast, the symbol of Law is a single upright arrow. It is also called the Arms of Chaos, the Arrows of Chaos, the Chaos Star, the Chaos Cross, the Chaosphere (when depicted as a three-dimensional sphere), or the Symbol of Eight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_of_Chaos The origin of the Chaos Symbol was me doodling sitting at the kitchen table and wondering what to tell Jim Cawthorn the arms of Chaos looked like. I drew a straightforward geographical quadrant (which often has arrows, too!) – N, S, E, W – and then added another four directions and that was that – eight arrows representing all possibilities, one arrow representing the single, certain road of Law. I have since been told that it is an "ancient symbol of Chaos" and if it is then it confirms a lot of theories about the race mind. ... As far as I know the symbol, drawn by Jim Cawthorn, first appeared on an Elric cover of Science Fantasy in 1962, then later appeared in his first comic version of Stormbringer - Michael Moorcock on the Synbol of Chaos Aleister Crowley also used a symbol like it in his Thoth Tarot deck, and that predates Eternal Champion. Its also used in Chaos Magic, which is some magical practice originating from the 70s that's about obtaining results. So yeah, the symbol has a history of occultism and being used in fantasy books.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 0026/04/11 19:05:17
Subject: Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Cool. Thanks for the info.
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For the Emperor and Sanguinius!
40K Blood Angels ; 1,500pts / Kill Team: Valhallan Veteran Guardsmen / Aeronautica Imperialis Adeptus Astartes; 176pts / AoS Soulblight Gravelords; 1,120pts |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/10/18 22:12:43
Subject: Eightpointed star/eightfold path of Chaos
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Unhealthy Competition With Other Legions
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In war hammer fantasy each point of the chaos star represented one of the eight winds of magic as well.
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