Tyran wrote:I have come to believe we just need "good" Chaos viewpoints. .
We actually see some Chaos point of views or similar in a few of the Gaunts Ghost books that are outside of the Traitor Astartes' kill-maim-burn types or cultists who have gone off the deep end.
They're...not portrayed as particularly more or less malevolent than their imperial counterparts. Sure, in battle, they're ruthless, but so are the Imperials.
They just have a set of objectives and go about it in the best way they can. For the most part, the Chaos gods aren't even their main driving force--they tend to be more concerned with pleasing their bosses than, say, slaughtering a bunch of people for skulls.
Which makes a lot of sense, since most worshipers treat Chaos as a pantheon instead of dedicating to one particular god.
I'll always remember the part in one of the Gaunts' Ghosts books where, upon invading a shop in a recently occupied world, the Ghosts find the equivalent of a register still filled with Imperial currency. The coinage had been defaced but was simply put back in the till. That means that a Chaos follower took the time to individually deface each coin and instead of taking it or pillaging it...just put it back.