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Are there any entities that would be considered a "death god"? If so, are there any organizations that worship such an entity? I was prompted to create this thread because I was recently reading a Warcraft encyclopedia page on Cult of the Damned, where the members are still living with their reward being that they would be raised from the dead. Anything remotely similar? Nurgle? The Nightbringer?

Not to my knowledge.

Khorne derives power from the act of murder.
Nurgle from the decay and loss of hope leading up to death.
Slaanesh would derive power if the death was particularly kinky.
Tzeentch if the death served his plans.

 Psionara wrote:
Are there any entities that would be considered a "death god"? If so, are there any organizations that worship such an entity? I was prompted to create this thread because I was recently reading a Warcraft encyclopedia page on Cult of the Damned, where the members are still living with their reward being that they would be raised from the dead. Anything remotely similar? Nurgle? The Nightbringer?

Nurgle probably one of the closer to your suggestion.
He prays upon the fear of pain and death, making you virtually imune to them but at the cost off your soul, well and your good looks.

That said, deathcults and varainces of them can be pretty clearly chaos cults (ritual combat murder cults aka khorne, prediction of ones death and prolonging shortening Tzeentch.)

Slaanesh is probably the only one that has a hard standing in deathcults.


Then there is malice /malal, which is the god of chaos inherent anarchic selfdestruction, his followers have canibalistic tendencies. Don't know if these qualify.

The entire Craftworld Eldar race perhaps?
Especially Dark Reapers, but I recall a fluff blurb where the Eldar intend to survive as a species and grow their Infinity Circuits for long enough for Ynnead, their god of Death, to become strong enough to challenge and defeat Slaanesh.

 Psionara wrote:
Are there any entities that would be considered a "death god"? If so, are there any organizations that worship such an entity? I was prompted to create this thread because I was recently reading a Warcraft encyclopedia page on Cult of the Damned, where the members are still living with their reward being that they would be raised from the dead. Anything remotely similar? Nurgle? The Nightbringer?

The entire Imperium. The Ecclesiarchy and Imperial Cult are a single massive death cult.

Bran Dawri wrote:
The entire Craftworld Eldar race perhaps?
Especially Dark Reapers, but I recall a fluff blurb where the Eldar intend to survive as a species and grow their Infinity Circuits for long enough for Ynnead, their god of Death, to become strong enough to challenge and defeat Slaanesh.

Thats the Ynarri. Craftworlders explicitly reject this and try to hold to the old ways of the Eldar Path.

As you already said, the Ctan Nightbringer is the closest to a god of death in 40K.

There are death cult assassins in the imperium.

There's Nurgle, the god of life and death.
The Death Guard could be seen as a Cult of Death, as their leader is practically the Grim Reaper himself

There's Ynnead.

There's the night bringer.

 Kroem wrote:
As you already said, the Ctan Nightbringer is the closest to a god of death in 40K.

Not Ynnead the Eldar god of death?

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Kroem wrote:
As you already said, the Ctan Nightbringer is the closest to a god of death in 40K.

Not Ynnead the Eldar god of death?

I had forgot about Ynnead... but Nightbringer is a bit more of an equal opportunity god of death and he looks like the Grim Reaper!

 Kroem wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Kroem wrote:
As you already said, the Ctan Nightbringer is the closest to a god of death in 40K.

Not Ynnead the Eldar god of death?

I had forgot about Ynnead... but Nightbringer is a bit more of an equal opportunity god of death and he looks like the Grim Reaper!

From my understanding, according to the lore the Nightbringer is so much the personification of death that he inspired fear of it from all races during his birth, excluding Orks who were too stupid to be affected.

 An Actual Englishman wrote:

 Kroem wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Kroem wrote:
As you already said, the Ctan Nightbringer is the closest to a god of death in 40K.

Not Ynnead the Eldar god of death?

I had forgot about Ynnead... but Nightbringer is a bit more of an equal opportunity god of death and he looks like the Grim Reaper!

From my understanding, according to the lore the Nightbringer is so much the personification of death that he inspired fear of it from all races during his birth, excluding Orks who were too stupid to be affected.

It's more that the Orks aren't afraid of death. It can't be intelligence because he inspired the monkeys that became humans and apparently the goop that was Tau. Much as I like it, oldcron lore is not without bad sections.

I think others have already hit my main points.

* Nurgle sometimes promises escape from death at the cost of becoming a grotesque living corpse thing.

* Death cult assassins are literally a fieldable unit for the imperium.

* Ynnead is a god of death (and rebirth) and even has a playable avatar model.

If your emphasis is more on the ressurection angle, drukhari life insurance policies cover ressurrection.

I think Nurgle can be one, in fact if I understand it correctly that is why the Purge worship him, and why they are at times at odds with the DG.

Sterling191 wrote:


Thats the Ynarri. Craftworlders explicitly reject this and try to hold to the old ways of the Eldar Path.

Huh? The Eldar Paths were always explicitly a way for the Eldar to survive without giving in to their darker impulses. And by Eldar reckoning are fairly new - dating back only to the Fall or just before.
They're how, not why, the Eldar are hanging on so tenaciously.