Liber Chaotica Complete: Volumes one to five (Warhammer S.)

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But they surely aren't the only godly entities floating around in the warp. There are other gods that have appeared in Warhammer that could definitely be reconsidered, adapted, and expanded upon in the Grim Darkness of the future: Renegade Chaos Gods. The other chaos gods who hate the main ones. And so this is to give them their time in the limelight for a change, and come up with some new lore for them. all of which were written way before Vashtorr turned up but in the spirit of this thread, I totally dig the idea of various minor patrons and all of the above can easily devote some souls and shrines to the Arkifane or the Dark Master)

On additional Chaos Gods in general, if we picture the Great Powers as waxing and waning storms in the warp, other Chaos Gods could emerge in the still gaps between and around the powers – just as (say) the Eldar God Khaine would once have sat at an intersection between Khorne and Slaanesh; and metaphorically been torn apart and partially integrated into each of those storms as they swelled to 'close the gap'.The Liber Chaotica, like the Liber Malefic, is an ancient book that describes the daemonic and mortal armies of Chaos in great detail. It was written by the former Priest of Sigmar Richter Kless, who was now deemed insane. The book, despite its heretical text, would be printed by Joannes Innsbrook and Albertus Mansoul and bound by Christoph Hassel of Wolfenburg sometime later. [1a] Slaanesh is often referred to as a "he," with the masculine gender, though in fact, like all the entities composed of magical energy called the Chaos Gods, it in fact has no true gender, and Slaanesh prefers a far more androgynous appearance than his fellow Ruinous Powers. [6a] Chaos Marauders of Slaanesh are vain creatures that take as much pride in their physical appearance as in their abilities. Those who choose war as their obsession endeavour to exceed perfection by honing their bodies until they are as deadly as any blade. Some are mountains of rippling muscle, while others are creatures of whipcord sinew. As many are hulking brutes as are lithe and agile sylphs, yet their standards of outward perfection are entirely at odds with those of the civilised peoples of the south. [4g] Great idea for a topic, and nicely laid out. One of the nice things about these three is how their lore partially reflects the real-world events of GW not having the rights to the Malal IP. I think Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay had Zuvassin and Nehoco as aspects of an greater unnamed deity – implied to be Malal.

But then again, Be'lakor is know as a daemon of subterfuge, and having a warband name that don't say Be'lakor would be a fitting subterfuge The Liber Chaotica is a volume of five books produced by a Sigmarite Priest who, through the use of interrogations, interviews and dream quests writes an in-depth study on each of the Chaos Gods while slowly drifting in to insanity. During one vision he witnesses the Emperor's Children Astartes Legion in the forty-first millennium.

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In the guise of welcoming guests to his lands, Slaanesh entraps both friend and foe. Once enslaved to the Dark Prince's will, death is a merciful release of which the damned can only dream. Those few who somehow pass through the six circles of the Dark Prince's domain find themselves before Slaanesh himself. Mortals perceive Slaanesh as a lithesome youth, clean of limb and of indeterminate gender, though most perceive him as more male than female. His features are beguiling and young, and to look upon them is to lose one's soul utterly. An eternity of damnation awaits the souls enslaved to the blasphemous desires of the Dark Prince of Chaos. [4b] Dark Maiden Tz'arkan - Tz'arkan, called the "Drinker of Worlds," is a powerful Greater Daemon of Slaanesh who is imprisoned within the body of the Dark Elf Malus Darkblade. The Daemon can take control of its host's body whenever Darkblade falls asleep, forcing him to drink magical elixirs to remain always awake. Zuvassin is the god of errors, mistakes, misfortune, failures, deformations and undoings. Zuvassin was an artificial creation, an attempt by Tzeentch to expand the powers of Chaos by generating a new Chaos god from the depths of the warp. But the experiment went wrong on a cosmic level, and inevitably so. Zuvassin is a mistake on every level, and one that suffers constantly as a result of his basic nature. And he wants revenge for that suffering. He works constantly to spread his corrupting influence wherever he can and to unravel everything the gods have planned. More than mortals, though not of his realm, these dark beings I call Slaanesh's Praetorian's are the most disturbing I have seen to date. Huge they are, standing nearly a metre taller than I. Their arms are larger than an athletes legs, and their chests are massive and proportionate. Their armour is strange and bulky, made of no material that I know of, and decorated with the runes and colours of the Pleasure God. Of greater stature than any weight lifter from the Tilean carnivals, these warriors are not lumbering or slow, moving with startling grace and speed. Those who serve the Serpent for long abandon the sense of restriction imposed by social norms. What was once pleasurable becomes mundane, and his followers must look to stranger and more depraved acts to fulfil their cravings. Soon, even the most carnal of experiences lose their sheen, and so his followers look to the sensations of sweet agony to make them feel anything at all. Decadence blooms into perversion, perversion becomes abomination, until all that’s left is the all-consuming and throbbing urge to feel anything...anything at all. [2e] Price of Excess

Commonly, cultists are highly placed members of their communities -- the alderman, the magistrate, the lord, or the trader. Each cult is different, but most feature a highly compartmentalised, pyramid-shaped power structure, with each level ignorant of most of what goes on in the level above. Members hide their true identities from the bulk of the cult, though it can be guaranteed that someone will know their name and thereby hold power over them. Many cults are sprawling networks that employ their own staff s and agents, own properties, and conduct themselves more like a business or criminal enterprise than a body of worshippers. Yet, whatever form the cult takes and whatever masks it wears to disguise its true face, it is above all else a sect of men and women dedicated to the worship of a forbidden god. [4c] The Book has five volumes, the first four coinciding with one of the major Dark Gods of Chaos, and the fifth concerning Chaos Undivided. [1a] Trivia [ ] Such dark scholars inevitably stretch the limits of the knowledge a Human mind can contain, especially where it pertains to the secret histories of the mortal world and its creation, and of the forces that underpin reality. The sanatoriums are said to be full of fallen scholars who gibber and rant of nameless deities and impossible places, their souls and minds blasted by the knowledge revealed to them by their dark patron. [4c] I'm sure there are homophobes and homophobic cultures WITHIN the Imperium, but that's because the Imperium is damn big.Vashtorr is a demigod spawned of the horrors of innovation. He was at his height during the Dark Age of Technology. His realm is known as the His servants call themselves 'Cult of the Arikfane' after him, many of them are former Admech, who simply wanted to create more, invent new things that should not have been. His portfolio is to create, rather than destroy, for creation only leads to greater misery in the end. His daemons are modified, altered, crafted with dark technology, daemon engines, cyborgs. And indeed, this is the gift he too gives to his mortal followers. Potent weapons and armor. Many of his Chaos Space Marines would draw their ranks from Tech Marines, perhaps individually fallen Mentors might also be drawn to him. But perhaps he would not be wholly satisfied with just space marines; rather, he might devise a new, terrible threat to act as his hand in the materium: Chaos Men of Iron. After all, his true goal is to become a truly potent god of chaos, and thrust the galaxy into a new Dark Age of Technology in which he might reign chief amongst chaos. With the Renegade Chaos Gods, Vashtorr rarely turns to them, finding them far too destructive or antithetical to his purposes, unless he must bring low another god. Vashtorr despises Zuvassin the most of all, for Zuvassin's presence will inevitably cause his machines and machinations to fail. Nehoco on the other hand is a potential ally. Technology often does usher out an age of spiritualism and superstition after all... The series is composed of four separate volumes, each dedicated to one of the four Gods of Chaos: the Liber Chaotica: Khorne, the Liber Chaotica: Slaanesh, the Liber Chaotica: Nurgle and the Liber Chaotica: Tzeentch. In 2006, the Liber Chaotica: Complete edition was released. It contains all previous books as well as a fifth volume called Liber Undivided. A lot of the book in question is written in-character from the perspective of a imperial scholar, maybe that's part of the problem. I'm sure that the Slaanesh part contains lots of passages that mention ''unnatural acts'' and so on, that could be understood as homophobic if you are very sensitive and also ignore the fact that it is obviously not the opinion of the author or the company, but the opinion of a fictional character inside a fictional society that is, in fact, actually homophobic as well as a lot of other bad things.Is the Imperium homophobic? Locephax - Locephax was a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh who took a keen interest in the Norscan Schwarzvolf tribe and their leader, Queen Valkia, the future Khornate Daemon Princess known as Valkia the Bloody. Initially drawn by the Schwarzvolf's fervent and open worship of Khorne, the Daemon was smitten by the feral beauty of the woman already called the "Gorequeen." After making his intentions to enslave Valkia to his will known to the Norscan warrior-queen, she defeated him in battle and pledged to present his skull personally to the Blood God. This quest into the Chaos Wastes ultimately led to Valkia's death and resurrection as a Daemon Princess of Khorne. In return for this gift and show of devotion, the Blood God embedded the essence of the Slaaneshi Daemon Prince within Valkia's shield, permanently imprisoning Locephax. Locephax has since resolved to be a nuisance to the Blood God's consort even if it has to serve her.

Some clues seems to indicate that Nahmud the Dark Maiden, long believed to be a servant of Myrmidia, the goddess of strategy, and a minor figure in the mythology surrounding that goddess, could actually be related to Slaanesh, if not actually one of his own aspects. In the Dark Prince's Realm there is also a location named the Grove of the Dark Maiden. [5a] Notable Servants of Slaanesh Daemons To mortal eyes, the Northmen marauders of Slaanesh are disturbingly alluring, bearing proudly the symbols of their blasphemy. Swirling tattoos trace the contours of flesh, while the runes of the Dark Prince are brazenly born on armour and shield. Perhaps worst of all are the scented oils many apply to their skin before battle, cloying musk tha Saying nothing would have been a legitimate option, I doubt "because values" solves any contractual issues that wouldn't be solved by saying nothing. As with each of the Chaos Gods, there are entire tribes dedicated to the Dark Prince in the far north of the Known World. In a land where no law applies other than the will of the strong, the servants of Slaanesh openly venerate their fell god, practising every extreme of emotion and experience possible. Slaanesh is worshipped throughout the north and the Chaos Wastes in all manner of aspects and known by a staggering range of names. The Tribe of the Serpent, for example, calls him "Loeth," and holds that he lives in the seas about Norsca. [4f] [4g]

WFRP - Tome of Corruption - Secrets from the Realm of Chaos

Nobles have access to resources few others can imagine, including libraries of ancient texts and treasuries full of priceless artefacts. What forbidden knowledge and arcane relics lurk within such places, just waiting to entrap the soul of the dilettante? There are also stories of noble-owned hunting lodges deep in the Reikwald Forest, where the sons and daughters of the Empire's highest-born families retire to practise dalliances they could never risk pursuing in the cities. Some even claim that by night, they cavort about roaring fires with the Beastmen of the forests, sealing some unholy pact in the name of the Ruinous Powers. [4b] Few mortals are capable of perceiving the Realm of Chaos in its true splendour, for the living mind recoils from such otherworldly and impossible landscapes. For this reason, no two visions of the Realm of Chaos are alike, as the mortal mind attempts to hide the impossible with fragments stolen from memory. The Realm of Chaos is a place of dreams and nightmares, where cause need not follow effect and within its bounds anything is possible. [6a] Games Workshop - the owner of the rights to the Warhammer brands - has pointed out that Liber Chaotica, originally released in 2006, contains content that is inconsistent with the company's values ​​now, almost 20 years later.