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Of course they would never be accepted back into the Imperium, as they would still kill them, but could devotees of Chaos renounce the ruinous powers and fight against them or even decide to follow the Emperor once again (they would still be renegades to the Imperium).

Yes - there have been several examples of this in the history of the game, and (more specifically) a lot of the Fallen Angels are supposed to be so - having turned against the Lion rather than the Emperor and not really understood what was going on until it was too late.

Chaos is powerful and all consuming. Once you go under its grasp, you can never leave it.

Yes, yes you can. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly rare and, it would take insane amounts of discipline and strength to leave it. - much like quitting crack or heroin.

You are forgiven but then quickly executed.

Who would even want to go with the stinky Emperor? The moment I found myself even unconsciously wanting to go Loyal, I would ceremoniously offer myself for sacrifice just to atone for my foul thoughts. Maybe this way I could avoid spawnhood bestowed upon me by the displeased Gods.

you forget once you "sign" a deal with Chaos gods, back out the consequences are very bad and Chaos does not forget its oaths.

Displeased gods get very nasty, and there power is basically infinite vs a space marine.

being captured by the dark angels and tortured by the Chaplains would be a nice way out compared to what the chaos gods could come up with,

Kind of hard to get your soul back from the Gods.

 dusara217 wrote:
Yes, yes you can. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly rare and, it would take insane amounts of discipline and strength to leave it. - much like quitting crack or heroin.

I would say quitting crack or heroin would be a tad easier In all seriousness though with those drugs, if you apply yourself, are motivated enough and are willing to have flu like symptoms for a month or so you'll be fine (alcohol is a bit more dangerous but you get the general idea). The main difference with chaos is that it can be a number of years before the individual can even know they where corrupted, by the time they notice they themselves and their personality has changed too much for them to even wish to leave chaos. With the fallen angels many who turned away from chaos was before they became too corrupted.

Basically the more you are corrupted by chaos the harder it is to resist them and leave. Most chaos space marines you see will be far too corrupted, the only ones who have the possibility of being saved are those who's chapters have more recently gone over to chaos, which still happens in the games current time frame.

It depends if they went full-on Chaos or only renegade - have a look at Deathwatch Black Shields: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Deathwatch_Black_Shield

topaxygouroun i wrote:
Who would even want to go with the stinky Emperor? The moment I found myself even unconsciously wanting to go Loyal, I would ceremoniously offer myself for sacrifice just to atone for my foul thoughts. Maybe this way I could avoid spawnhood bestowed upon me by the displeased Gods.

The Ruinous Powers don't actually see much of a difference between Daemon Princedom and Spawnhood. They're both Gifts of Chaos and the gods are capricious.

"Only in death can you be forgiven."

Sure you'll be forgiven...with a bolt to the face.

Yes. Exceedingly rare, but it's even rumoured Horus repented in the end.

Yes, heretics can confess their sins and repent, after which they may still share in the Emperor's mercy and join him in the afterlife.

beast_gts wrote:
It depends if they went full-on Chaos or only renegade - have a look at Deathwatch Black Shields: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Deathwatch_Black_Shield

I'm not an expert of Deathwatch's fluff, but imo Black Shields are not renegades that wish to repent, but rather loyalist elements of renegade chapters.

I think the main question here is "redeemed in who's view?"

Given that: "Of course they would never be accepted back into the Imperium"

Who is doing the redeeming?

Nomeny wrote:
Kind of hard to get your soul back from the Gods.

Well, considering the fact that mortals only promise their souls to the Dark Gods when worshiping them (the Lost and the Damned), this wouldn't be an issue.

You would be surprised how tight those arcane bindings on the soul can be.

 welshhoppo wrote:
Chaos is powerful and all consuming. Once you go under its grasp, you can never leave it.

Even the Daemon Primarchs can be redeemed.
They just need to worship a different Chaos god.
Like the Emperor.
I'm pretty sure that's what Lorgar is doing right now in his secluded citadel.

Horus, Luther, and Fulgrim have all had moments where they regret their actions but true "redemption" is impossible once corrupted. They will eventually revert back to their corrupt selves. That is why the only mercy is killing them during their sympathetic moments.

 dusara217 wrote:
Yes, yes you can. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly rare and, it would take insane amounts of discipline and strength to leave it. - much like quitting crack or heroin.

No they don't. Once they've been corrupted by Chaos they're gone for good. Even if they help with the war effort they will be summarily executed by a bolt to the head.

 Mantorok wrote:

 welshhoppo wrote:
Chaos is powerful and all consuming. Once you go under its grasp, you can never leave it.

Even the Daemon Primarchs can be redeemed.
They just need to worship a different Chaos god.
Like the Emperor.
I'm pretty sure that's what Lorgar is doing right now in his secluded citadel.

The Emperor is a warp god, not a Chaos god.

The soul drinkers , in the soul drinkers omnibus, were physically corrupted by chaos, but managed to shake off total chaos enslavement.

I can't imagine the same being said for most chaos marines.

yeah by being killed, they are chaos marines not darth vadar

yes, however they are shortly thereafter executed, unless they manage to get to join up with the death watch before mutations start to get to rampant.

I'm pretty sure that the Black Shields (DW) were founded specifically for repentant Chaos Marines.

 dusara217 wrote:
I'm pretty sure that the Black Shields (DW) were founded specifically for repentant Chaos Marines.

Actually, they are for Space Marines whose brothers turned away from the Emperor's Grace. They are the guys who decided not to go renegade and are ashamed of their brother's treason.

 Orblivion wrote:

 Mantorok wrote:

 welshhoppo wrote:
Chaos is powerful and all consuming. Once you go under its grasp, you can never leave it.

Even the Daemon Primarchs can be redeemed.
They just need to worship a different Chaos god.
Like the Emperor.
I'm pretty sure that's what Lorgar is doing right now in his secluded citadel.

The Emperor is a warp god, not a Chaos god.

You are aware that once you are dedicated to a single chaos God, you cannot leave it.

The reason that the Black Legion was decimated after the Horus heresy was not because the loyalists killed the,, but because they let themselves get possessed by a single God, changed allegiance and then the previous God went. "Well feth you." And killed them.

 welshhoppo wrote:

 Orblivion wrote:

 Mantorok wrote:

 welshhoppo wrote:
Chaos is powerful and all consuming. Once you go under its grasp, you can never leave it.

Even the Daemon Primarchs can be redeemed.
They just need to worship a different Chaos god.
Like the Emperor.
I'm pretty sure that's what Lorgar is doing right now in his secluded citadel.

The Emperor is a warp god, not a Chaos god.

You are aware that once you are dedicated to a single chaos God, you cannot leave it.

The reason that the Black Legion was decimated after the Horus heresy was not because the loyalists killed the,, but because they let themselves get possessed by a single God, changed allegiance and then the previous God went. "Well feth you." And killed them.

Possessed were possessed by deamons, not just worshippers of chaos gods.