http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net The other school of thought I've heard is that while they value bloodshed above all, they also value honor to some degree, they'd kick a fallen marine's weapon back to them, so when they won the duel, it would be a fair victory, just as an example?
Can anyone shed some more light on this for me?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880626.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880626.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880707.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880707.page GMT
Bloodshed is great, but bloodshed resulting from titanic effort? Magnificent.

Alternatively, it could be argued that Khornate "honor" is but a further means of provoking bloodshed. Your blood is also desirable to Khorne, so why not kick the enemy's weapon back at him? It will make it easy for him to let your blood, while you are letting his.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880765.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880765.page GMT
So that could mean returning an unarmed opponents weapon to make the duel more close and impressive, or it could mean not bothering to waste time slaughtering 50 unarmed civilians (who are not challenge and who's blood is worth little) if there is a Space Marine Captain to fight around the next corner. Thats not to say Khorne doesnt want the civilians killed. Just maybe later, when theres more time ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880780.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5880780.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5882047.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5882047.page GMT spare a foe, but certainly kick his weapon back if he was a worthy foe, or had been disarmed dishonorably. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5882107.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5882107.page GMT GW publications (the past 10 years or so), I see it merely as a matter of God =/= Follower. From the 4E Chaos Codex:

""Khorne is the Blood God, an angry and murderous God of Chaos whose bellows of insatiable rage echo throughout time and space. His great brass throne sits upon a mountain of skulls in the midst of a plain of splintered bones and lakes of blood, the remains of his followers slain in battle and those killed in his name. Khorne embodies mindless and absolute violence, destroying everyone and everything within reach, slaying both friend and foe alike.
The followers of Khorne are always ferocious warriors, for the Blood God abhors the trickery of magic and cowardly sorcerers. Men turn to Khorne for the power to conquer, to defeat their enemies in battle, to wreak bloody vengeance and to attain unaimaginable martial prowess. The most fanatical and dedicated to his followers, those trapped fully within his clawed grasp, know that he desires only wild slaughter. Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows, only that it does."

"Under Khorne's urgings, his endless tide of soldiers are whipped into a blood frenzy, and will fall upon each other in their desire to spill blood if no other foe can be found. For it is war - constant, mindless bloodletting and destruction - that is all Khorne cares for. He cares not who is victorious and who is slain, just that they fight until they can fight no more. All that Khorne exists for, all that his entire being is bent towards, is the flow of blood from fresh wounds and the taking of skulls."

The above is contrasted by the simple fact that a Khornate cultist may not necessarily embrace his deity's aspect entirely, or may even be completely unaware of certain facets of it. There is no single "How to be a good Khornate" rulebook, after all - only with time and more and more bloodshed, the individual cultists seems to become ever more trapped by his or her Chaos God's urgings, letting go of any last vestiges of honour they may still have had during their first years as a follower.

As has already been mentioned, earlier material, specifically the stuff from Warhammer Fantasy, has painted Khorne in a less single-minded way, though.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5882131.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5882131.page GMT
Essentially, martial honor is a very distant and diluted form of rage. Its understandable that some Khornite champions would value you it, but really its only a small portion of the Blood God's teachings. He would probably be fine with a dishonorable Champion if they were angry enough. It doesn't matter what you're angry at, so long as you're angry.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5883334.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542006/5883334.page GMT