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Seriously, it's something I was thinking about. 99% of the Chaos Legions and Warbands seem to be devoted to Khorne with only the direct descendants from the Death Guard, Emperor's Children and Thousand Sons being anything else.

Is there anything in lore to support it or is it just GW being a bunch of tools?

Erm...what? Khorne just happens to be one of the more publicized Chaos factions due to their iconic battle cries and ease of introduction to the Chaos Gods for newcomers. I think you forgot about big guys like the Black Legion who have devotees of every god, Tzzentch warbands not affiliated with the Thousand Sons like the Scourged, the Purge is another non-Khornate band that doesn't descend from the Death Guard. There's also the Sons of Malice, all the different Alpha Legion cells, Word Bearers,...the list goes on.

I just think you're not looking hard enough mate. There's plenty of other warbands that aren't Khornate.

Of the aligned warbands, that most would be Khornate is a no brainer:
Slaanesh is the god of drug addicts.
Nurgle is the god of lepers.
Tzeentch is the god wizards.
Khorne is the god *of* warriors.

 Grimskul wrote:
Erm...what? Khorne just happens to be one of the more publicized Chaos factions due to their iconic battle cries and ease of introduction to the Chaos Gods for newcomers. I think you forgot about big guys like the Black Legion who have devotees of every god, Tzzentch warbands not affiliated with the Thousand Sons like the Scourged, the Purge is another non-Khornate band that doesn't descend from the Death Guard. There's also the Sons of Malice, all the different Alpha Legion cells, Word Bearers,...the list goes on.

I just think you're not looking hard enough mate. There's plenty of other warbands that aren't Khornate.

I should really have said "not including Chaos Undivided". There're maybe two non-direct Legion linked Nurgle, Slaanesh and Tzeentch warbands whereas there's lots and lots of Khorne ones.

 Gashrog wrote:
Of the aligned warbands, that most would be Khornate is a no brainer:
Slaanesh is the god of drug addicts.
Nurgle is the god of lepers.
Tzeentch is the god wizards.
Khorne is the god *of* warriors.

If we're going by how you describe the others, Khorne isn't the god of warriors, he's the god of butcherers and bloodspillers.

GW writes tuff about their product line and Khorn offers a easily recognisable iconography and style that looks good as Chaos poster child. The other choice would have been Nurgle to go all Zombie in design. The hardest one is Tzeentch since the Ancient Egypt design is also the one used by Necron and Slaanesh doesn't really look good on over sized beefy super soldiers. It makes them look like giant drag queen (which I think is great), but doesn't sell very well since male super soldiers need to be at least a little bit macho in appearence to be taken seriously by your casual late teenager/young adult.

Khorne is the Ultramarines of Chaos. In two seperate universes, no less.

And I even play Ultramarines!

There's plenty of them out there, just like there's plenty of Guard regiments that probably aren't publicized as much. GW just puts more effort into expanding Khornate lore than the rest.

Two reasons; one "in universe" and one business-related.

In universe, the major source of cult marines are the four cult legions; Thousand Sons, Emperor's Children, Death Guard and World Eaters.

There are named 'splinter factions' of each (Ahriman's lot, for example, are the Brotherhood Of Dust) but the World Eaters are broken up into a LOT of splinters - so much so that there isn't really an 'original' legion left, even if one of them kept the name.

Business-wise, a lot of the factions were either introduced or were expanded from more than a one-line reference in the Khorne Daemonkin codex. There hasn't yet been an equivalent book for the other powers - because that release was largely driven by the new Bloodthirster models released for WHFB End Times.

I thought the World Eaters didn't exist anymore cause of Kharn?

They're a shattered legion rather than an extinct one.

Several warbands who "used to be part of the world eaters", and several who may claim to be "the world eaters" but don't acknowledge, co-operate with or communicate with any of the other warbands who claim the same.

By comparison, the black legion may have several warbands, but all of them can trace a chain of command back up to Abbadon.