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Quite a couple of people out there have struck big on a nifty idea- zombies, cultists of Nurgle, and Space marines of Nurgle. So, in response to this, and also just because I really like the idea of it, I'm going to (or at least try to) make some cultists for Slaanesh. For starters, no, this is not all going to be sex, drugs, and rock and roll (though that will be part of it). It's going to be based on some of the core principles of Slaanesh: pleasure and experience in all forms, not just the big catchall involved a lot of the time.

There will be fashionable, high quality clothing with some off the wall colours (following the latest trends is mandatory for a sense conscious cultist), no fear in the face of battle (experience comes in many, many shades of lavender, and it comes before all), bare right chests (I heard it on the internet and it sounded pretty cool. So, I figure, why not?), highly expensive, venomous, powerful weaponry (either you come prepared or you don't come), enough drugs to bring Elvis back from retirement, and a whole lot of other cool stuff. There will be cultists modifying their bodies, cultists using some potent drugs, cultists exercising extreme restraint (includes bondage and self control- imagine deliberate anorexic look), cultists blasting their boom boxes to 11, cultists erotically pleasuring each other/ themselves (it's fact, even if it is highly overdone- it feels good [I know that it should]), cultists engaging in beautiful acts of fully sensual murder, and cultists doing other things that come to mind as this gets rolling.

As for size or rules, I don't know, besides that the growth will be slow, affected purely by my slowness to do anything (but there will be many, many sketches, you can rest assured of that). I wouldn't have the slightest idea of rules to apply to this, besides that all units will be Fearless (nothing to stop them from experiencing the sensory explosion of... explosions as much as they can), and there will be zombie-like units, who have Feel No Pain, little if any armour, and probably have rather large vials of drug X, perhaps mixed with speed (for added agility). Beyond this? The sky's the limit. And the models themselves will be from across different ranges, and will likely necessitate very much conversion, if nothing else at least to get some smiling faces out on the field. There's never enough of that out there, and I want to bring it.

Some sketches to start this off:


I will also be involving my other Slaanesh based units here, because what's the fun of a pleasure cult if everyone isn't allowed to join in?I will shortly enough be posting some of the more interesting daemonettes/ sketches I have done so far, just to give an idea of some of my ideas going into this. There will be nightmares on this hallowed thread if I do my job right. That's my hope, at least. Chaos isn't all about rainbows, ponies, a weekend retreat. It's about the darkness and corruption at the edges of every man's mind, and how no sentient being is free from the clawings of insane beasts in our own minds. It's about how we are the ones who give birth to and nurse the gods of Chaos, how we make them what they are. There are monsters out there, but the worst are those within our own minds.

Enough words! Here are my daemonettes for now, and a sketch of some fiends I'll soon enough be making.


Final note: if anyone has or knows of any similar projects involving cults and all that (not just centred around the Prince of Pleasure), like Skalk's cultists, put a url here, and if anybody wants to contribute ideas, go right ahead and tell me (and for those of you who don't want your ideas public, feel free to PM ). I am always open to ideas about how I can make some better or just more representative pleasure seekers.

Lord Kaesar II, corrupting impressionable gamers' minds since 1666.

Sounds interesting, but if you are going to start a blog and want responses, you need to have some pics up duder.

I'm looking forward to this because of all the people I've seen on Dakka so far, I feel you'll do it right. Slaanesh isn't just about sexual deviance (an aspect yes, but I've seen too many people stop there), Slaanesh is about experience for the sake of experience. Turning everything up to 11 and ripping the knob off. Gluttony to the point of rupture. Visual displays of garish style color and that assault your senses. A Slaaneshi Cultist would be just as likely to vacation in Antarctica simply to experience the extreme of cold and silence as they would attend the opening day of Mardi Gras with a bottle full of Spook. You get all that. I'm psyched to see how this turns out.

Subbed and looking forward to updates.

Yet another Cultist thread. I suggest you look at the links I posted in Skalk's thread, as they give an idea of the range of models available to you with the slightest amount of conversion work.

For a Slaanesh army, I think you should look into some of the Warhammer Fantasy models for conversions. You described everyone wearing fashionable clothes, and I think that with some mediocre Gsing skills, you could take a box of Empire militia and make a sort of gothic/techno unit.

For the zombies, I suggest using Zombie models, but have tanks of liquid drugs on their backs, with gasmasks moulded into the shape of a grinning/glaring face (think FW Emperor's Children Dreadnought face). Hope to see some of that army soon.

Quick burst of inspiration, you should look into the Van Saar Necromunda gang for Gimp units.

--MajorTom11: You are completely right. I have sketches that I'm starting off with, just didn't add them last night as that was just an impulse sort of decision.

--Skalk: Precisely. And though I will likely fail at least a little bit in getting the message across, I feel I at least can make a good stab at it and influence people in the process to start thinking. After all, what more is required than to open possibilities and start the thoughts?

--Brotheralexos: The idea for the 'zombies' with drug tanks attached is actually an idea on my plate right now, so I will be looking at that over the course of this. And I reckon on going back through Skalk;s thread to find those links- everything helps.

So! An update not just of words for once. The pictures here, though, will be going up on the first post of the thread, for now, just to get some eye candy up there, and to show where I am in this menagerie of ideas and 'progress.' So, first I have some of the ladies helping out our little carnival of experienced existence. There will be no thread separately involving them (unless I get around to an all encompassing thread of all of my projects), so they'll just be making appearances once in a while here. Also included are some sketches of fiends- again not quite the human part of the Cult, but related enough, I think.


And, to the human part of this thread. First are some sketches of some of the first, directed individuals in the cult. Fringe people like the scholar will be a bit more rare than the general fops involved on a larger scale, but still fun to create. SO, for your viewing pleasure, the rough sketched cultists...


And, on a final note, a character who will also be one of my entries into the recent wizard conversion competition, with a bit of wordage and all.

It wasn’t as though he had prayed for it, but now that he had it he was going to use it. Just imagine! A talented amtridextrous writer! So much more he could chronicle, so much more material to document...

And if anyone has the know how on making images smaller in a post, that would be greatly appreciated...

Kaesar II, polluting the airwaves since the tide came in.

Impressive concept.

PM sent w/ links from my Cultist blog. Enjoy.