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 Lynata wrote:

Pilau Rice wrote:I still don't know, I am not sure whether or not it's the actual action or the worship that would grant you a gift. The action would clearly get you noticed, but unless you are actually praising your lord, your not going to get anything other than Spawndom.

Possibly, but this then is just a conscious decision by that entity - in other words, the Chaos Gods probably like being worshipped and thus may reward faithful followers that do very specific things for them - but in the end, they'd get their power either way, because the emotions do not change regardless of whether you're having fun killing someone for Khorne, or you're simply having fun killing someone.

I would say that it's not just about getting the power from the servant though, it's about them getting noticed by you. Perturabo didn't ascend to Daemonprince just because he killed a load of Imperial Fists, it's because he offered the Geneseed up to the Gods.

 Lynata wrote:

Pilau Rice wrote:How about ... none. Miriael was shown the life she leads and what she could be should she be unbound, she chose the Dark Prince and a life of achieving what ever she desired. Miriael might be the only one ever, but even one is a testament to the Dark Prince and his unholy glory.

Eh, don't buy it. If it would be that easy, there'd be whole armies of Chaos Sisters by now.
Ignorance is one of their virtues.

And I would expect nothing less.

I don't think it was a question of being easy, maybe Miriael was more susceptible or a special case. Why single her out.

The reasoning behind my thinking is that it's easy to torture someone into submission, it's less meaningful though. To bring someone willingly across to your side means so much more, this is why the Canoness in The Invitation finds it so hard to reason it, that any Sister could fall and that there must be something behind it that made her change.

I think we need more on Miriael, what we have is rather scarce.

I'd say that to become a divine being in the warp you either need:
A.) to be an IMMENSE presence in the warp. For example the emperor is maybe the greatest psionical presence beside the Chaos Gods themselves.
OR
B.) YOu are a manifestation of raw energy and emotion. Like the chaos gods.
As Lorgar said in "The First Heretic": "But father you are a god in everything but name. I won't defy truth just because the sound of a word is misfalling to you."
One could say that the emperors mortality is preventing him to become a god, because he needs his followers to manifest. SO do almost all chaos gods. The only chaos god who is eternal is Tzeentch as he is a lie by himself. He only needed lies to get born but doesn't need anything to survive.
Only my 2 cent