#chaos gods

[nazrigar]

Dinovember 2023 - The Dinosaurs of Chaos

So, I had an idea for the past few days, and thought about how to interpret dinosaurs influenced by the chaos gods, but with the big twist in that.. well. Chaos is merely a part of everyday life, including nature. Some blessings are more beneficial than others though...

Tyrannosaurus of Khorne: Violence for violence sake, it takes skulls and sheds blood for a god that its animal brain cannot comprehend. It prefers prey that can fight back, for the worthier the foe, the better its skull pile that marks its territory is... AND it helps with attracting mates.

Carnotaurus of Slaanesh: Gifted with even MORE speed than the regular, already speedy kind, this Carnotaurus can catch anything with both speed and tentacled maw... because it has too. It will starve in less than a day if it cannot, and a fight can quickly become a death sentence.

Therizinosaurus of Tzeentch: Born with two heads, one with eyes, and one with a mouth, and only got more and more mutations as it grew. In spite of this, it's very much a normal Therizinosaurus in behavior, and simply uses its additional limbs for its own benefit. So long as its "main" head, the one with the eye, remains intact, everything should be fine.

Ankylosaurus of Nurgle: A lumbering, slothful thing, one that relies less on armor and more the fact that it's a fungus infested, disease carrying, toxic fume spewing thing that's absolutely hazardous to anything near it... unless you're angry enough Khornate rex!

#dinovember 2023 #warhammer 40k #chaos gods #tyrannosaurus rex #ankylosaurus #therizinosaurus #carnotaurus #paleoart #chaos #khorne #tzeentch #slaanesh #nurgle #my art #nazrigart

[kyuss6161]

Art by Tempura Person on X.

#chaos #chaos gods #khorne #nurgle #slaanesh #tzeentch #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #warhammer #wh40k #wh40000 #40k

[skxrbrand]

Khorne is the God of War, the Savage Hound, and the Fire That Destroys

The long awaited Khorne commission, drawn by the talented Bellator-Tenebrae~

#warhammer fantasy #warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #khorne #commissions #chaos gods #BLOOD FATHER (KHORNE); #morning ya'll <3

[tagedeszorns]

A very mixed messages-christian guy just started following me on Mastodon. Since his profile has the most slaaneshi vibes ever, I just had to switch a few words.

#warhammer #Slaanesh #Chaos Gods #Warhammer 40k

[alternativeminiatures]

Source @Mick19988

#get yeeted idiot #warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #slaanesh #khorne #nurgle #tzeench #chaos 40k #chaos gods

[obscure-ref]

Humans: Man eldar are so stupid, how do you murderbone each other so hard you create a whole new chaos god.

Tumblr right now:

#40k #warhammer 40k #eldar #humans #chaos gods #chaos #tumblr is making a new chaos god with these polls #vanilla extract

[dese-o]

The Prince of Pain and Pleasure :3

#slaanesh #chaos gods #Chaos god #Chaos #wh 40k

[the-first-heretic]

Fallen Sister of Battle to The Blood God, Khorne.

Blood For The Blood God, Skulls For The Skull Throne

Artist: Ted Arfken

#warhammer art #warhammer 40000 #chaos gods #khorne #fantasy #scifi art #warhammer 40k art #warhammer 40k #fantasy art #sci fi horror #scifi

[alex-leweird]

Twitter doodles I forgot to post here 2

#warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #wh40k #t'au #t'au empire #slaanesh #Slannesh #nurgle #Chaos #chaos gods

[sculptorofcrimson]

When a guardsman dies, they die loyally, marching ever onwards for the Emperor. 

When an Astartes dies, they die valiantly, fighting for His dream.

When a Custodies dies, they die in glory, painfully roaring defiance with every last breath in the name of their lord.

When a Primarch dies, they die in legend, their stories turned to heroism and glamourized beyond a thousand thousand legends and a thousand thousand retellings. They will become less of man and more myth, so closer to fiction it will be as if they never were at all.

And when an Emperor dies, they die in silence. 

It is how legends die. Not in the fires of war, but in the shadows of oblivion, and the wastes of indifference. In the abyss between stars, where even daylight curdles and the silence reigns unbroken. For it is not enough to simply destroy a god, it is to annihilate him, it is to crush him beyond recognition, to to annihilate him so utterly, so completely, his name has been wiped from living memory itself. Even when his last priests roam the earth and scream out their preachings to the vapid earth, he will be forgotten, wasting away in silent oblivion. It will be as if he never were at all. 

It is to erase every remnant of his grand conquests, to topple the greatest of his creations, to crush his accomplishments so utterly that all records he once reigned are forgotten at all. For that is the death from which no soul can recover, the wrath of the cosmos so absolute, so unbreakable, even divine existence itself has fallen from the fabric of reality. For that is the death where gods die, where even star-killers decay and before which thirsting gods laugh. 

For that is the meaning of death, true, utter and absolute.

#sculptor of crimson #warhammer 40k #wh40k #emperor of mankind #drabble #Chaos gods #adeptus custodes #space marines #primarchs #astra militarum

[mayoonrices]

The Unholy Union Blessed by the Lord of Change. Kunrad and Val, Art Trade for @fenlirias

#rogue trader #rogue trader crpg #warhammer 40k #tzeentch #wh 40k #chaos #chaos gods #von valancius #warhammer rogue trader #warhammer art #kunrad voigtvir #Valento Von Valancius

[nazrigar]

Dinovember 2023 - Tzeentchian Therizinosaurus

Despite its many blessings from the God of Change, this Therizinosaurus remains quite normal in behavior, using the gifts Tzeentch gave simply to have a leg up over its normal counterparts.

It helps that he can use his main head as a periscope, safely feeding with his mouth head while looking with its many eyes so as to not draw attention from the local Khornate Tarbosaurus.

#dinovember #dinovember 2023 #therizinosaurus #tzeentch #chaos gods #warhammer #warhammer 40k #my art #nazrigart #paleoart #paleontology

[kyuss6161]

Art by Tempura Person on X.

#chaos #chaos gods #vashtorr #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #warhammer #wh40k #wh40000 #40k

[skxrbrand]

Khorne, the Fire that Destroys || Nurgle, the Hungry Earth

Tzeentch, the Inconstant Air || Slaanesh, the Beguiling Waters

One thing the community definitely doesn't talk about enough is the Four Powers and their relation to the four primary elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This makes senses I suppose-- the Lore itself only occasionally remembers these associations itself.

The World of Warhammer, Realm of Chaos (1998)

#warhammer fantasy #khorne #nurgle #tzeentch #slaanesh #chaos gods

[ultraminis40k]

I am new to Tumblr and thought I would share my Be'lakor, the first Daemon Prince and Champion of Chaos. Please let me know your thoughts.

#warhammer 40k #chaos gods #miniatures #paintingminiatures #warhammer #warhammer 40000 #warhammer age of sigmar #belakor #daemons #daemon prince #warhammercommunity #warhammer chaos #art #artists on tumblr #artistsoninstagram #citadelpaints #gamesworkshop #artoftheday #adeptus astartes #fypシ #heretic astartes

[anhilliator1]

I feel like something needs to be stated about the four Chaos Gods -

THEY'RE NOT INHERENTLY EVIL.

They're unbalanced. Let me explain:

Khorne: Chaos God of War, Death, Violence, Rage, Murder, etc... Long story short, Khorne likes to kill things and/or see things die - "Khorne cares not from where the blood flows." As a result, it would be very easy to assume that he's pure evil - but no. Khorne also represents Justice, honor, courage, strength - Without Khorne, there would be no such thing as "Righteous Fury." Fighting for what is right technically falls under his domain as well. In a sense, he could be considered the Chaos God of Morality. In fact, he strongly dislikes underhanded tactics, hence why he often finds himself at odds with Tzeentch.

Nurgle: Chaos God of disease, decay, rot, stagnation, and so on. Nurgle is commonly associated with the color green, for good reason. As said, disease, death, rot, stagnation - but also resilience, rebirth, and consistency in everything. Technically speaking, he's the Chaos God of life and nature. No Nurgle, absolutely everything would be inconsistent. There would be no such thing as safety, because there would be no consistent definition of what "safe" is.

Tzeentch: CG of instability, inconsistency, trickery, manipulation, cunning, lies, deciet, and change. He plays you like a fiddle, and what you may think is reality may not be true. He's like Mysterio, but a gajillion times more powerful. However, he also represents hope, evolution, the ability to problem solve, and more. Tzeentch is the reason why Guile Heroes exist in 40K, and can be said to at least partially be empowered by the actions of people like Creed and Ciaphas Cain. As TTS puts it, "Without him, there would be no evil schemes, but also no one clever enough to save people from those schemes." Also, change isn't inherently evil - change is constantly happening, all the time, something that puts him at odds with Nurgle due to him being Stagnation. Funny thing, Happy Chaos from GGST can sort of be considered Tzeentch if he was more balanced rather than inclined evil.

Now, Slaanesh - Hedonism, sex, lust, pleasure, indulgence, suffering, etc... Hell, they were literally murder-fucked into existence by the Eldar. But, they also represent Passion, Joy, hell, maybe even the concept of emotion itself. Passion, it must be mentioned, is not restricted to the sexual kind - it's the creative kind, the "for-a-cause" kind - same with Pleasure. You gain pleasure from doing things you love, not inherently sexual - and technically, without Slaanesh, there would be no meaning to doing, well, anything - no happiness, no sadness so that happiness means anything, no enjoyment and no disgust, no love or hate... I think you get the idea.

The Chaos Gods represent important mental concepts inherent to all life, and all thoughts of said life - good or bad.

So why are they villains? As said, they're unbalanced, courtesy of the Necrontyr royally screwing things up by messing with the Great Old Ones and the C'Tan. As a result, the Warp, once peaceful, became a violent place roiling with negative energy, some of which became Daemons. This caused each of the four and their followers to become heavily inclined towards the worst parts of what they represent, why Khorne and his followers kill and destroy anything and everything in their path, why Tzeentch and his followers will endlessly lie, cheat, manipulate, and more to make you do what they want (prisoner's dilemma is the very tippy-top of the iceberg), why Nurgle and his followers spread filth, rot, and disease everywhere they go, and why Slaanesh and their followers endlessly rape and torture.

They're unbalanced.

In fact, everything I just said can sort of be summarized by this video:

It's why in the episode of TTS this is from, I noticed the Emperor's wording when he said he would DEFEAT Chaos, not Kill, DEFEAT. I always took it to mean that he would essentially force them to "get back to work" in a sense - go back to being balanced representations of their concepts and stop interfering so much with the Material.

#chaos gods #slaanesh #khorne #tzeentch #nurgle #wh40k #warhammer 40k #40k #if the emperor had a text to speech device #Youtube #longpost #long post