<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. "]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. CSM or such through gifts of chaos. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901181.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901181.page GMT Re:chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. Flesh and Iron by Henry Zhou. It deals with a Chaos insurgency and looks closely at how Chaos cultists are formed from disenfranchised Imperial subjects as well as how "promotions" work within the Chaos ranks.

]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901316.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901316.page GMT chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. CSM becoming an Aspiring Champion or Chosen, but more like what they are going to do is more important than what other cultists may be tasked to do (like feeding a Bloodthirster, lets say).

Sometimes this means being the vessel of possession or sacrifice to a rift and sometimes this means being the catalyst to setting off a planetary uprising. Sometimes they are tasked with diabolical deeds, as was the case when an Alpha Legion "agent" was made to look like an Inquisitor they were hunting.

The Warp is Fickle. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901370.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901370.page GMT chaos cultist and climbing the ranks.
The best I can think of is maybe them getting elevated as rank if they're in a militia like the Blood Pact if they're good enough. Like from what's equal to a guardsmen to a special weapons team or a commando team. But beyond that, your cultist is just a footnote.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901546.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901546.page GMT chaos cultist and climbing the ranks.

Thats how it works for mortals, they get more powerful sure, but they dont because space marines. It's better human, better human, much better human, daemonhood. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901616.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901616.page GMT chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901645.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901645.page GMT Re:chaos cultist and climbing the ranks.
I mean rising amongst tzeentchians would mean a hell of alot of manouvering and manipulating, while under khornes gaze... well, its all KILL MAIM BURN! KILL MAIM BURN! KILL MAIM BURN!

... and Slaanesh.... well... ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901670.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6901670.page GMT chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. HQs, so it is possible for cultists to rise in rank for whatever reason. Of course, the ultimate rank is the same as Chaos Space Marines (Daemon Prince), which is possible, if a bit rare, for a cultist to achieve (such as Mammon, the instigator of the Siege of Vraks).]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6905409.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6905409.page GMT Re:chaos cultist and climbing the ranks.
In Shadow point a mortal Nurgle worshiper commands a battleship and reaks havoc on the Imperials.

In one of the Cain books a Mortal Chaos lord leads a fleet and commands traitor guard, sisters of battle and nearly gets an artifact that would end the Imperium and possibly the milky way galaxy.

In another Cain book a slaaneshi cultist leader becomes a demon princess.

Their was Cherabdia ruling over a demon world.

Cyrene during the Horus Heresy.

Moriana who is abbadons chief advisor.

Yea quite a bit of reference to mortals who have risen through the ranks, their mostly portrayed as villians so we have an incomplete picture of them.\

Almost forgot about the BloodPact and the Vraksian Militia.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6905612.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6905612.page GMT chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. 40k, we don't have many rags-to-riches stories. The status quo is deeply entrenched on every side of the conflict.

There are some people who manage to claw their way to the top, but not many.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6906084.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6906084.page GMT chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6906368.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6906368.page GMT Re:chaos cultist and climbing the ranks. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6982315.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6982315.page GMT Re:chaos cultist and climbing the ranks.

Within the Eye the Traitor Legions fight constant wars amongst themselves for gene-seed, slaves, resources, or martial honour. New Chaos Space Marines are recruited from the most dangerous heretics that are drawn into the Eye by the lure of Chaos, or else selected from the masses of slave-warriors who fight eternal battles for the amusement of the Dark Gods. The implantation of recruits is a brutal affair, quite unlike the carefully measured program of development used by Imperial Space Marines. Whether the candidate lives or dies is left to the will of the Chaos Gods. Initiation rites are similarly debased and savage, ensuring that only the toughest initiates ever survive.

p. 19, 2nd edition Chaos Codex.


If you are skilled enough, they can be chosen to be made into CSM. But there is nothing stating Champions must be CSM so a sufficiently skilled and powerful enough cultist could be chosen as a Champion themselves directly if their god wishes.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6982540.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/598853/6982540.page GMT