What Do The Chaos Gods Actually Look Like? | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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We get an actual description of Nurgle's appearance in the Age of Sigmar novel, Hallowed Knights Plague Garden: "Through the ragged shroud of smoke, Gardus saw what lay below the Inevitable Citadel, at the heart of Nurgle’s garden. Almost immediately, he closed his eyes and turned away, unable to bear it. It was impossible to describe. Impossible to comprehend. To his eyes, it was a wallowing swamp of black stars and dying worlds, of rotting galaxies alive with immense, writhing shapes as large as nebulas. Cosmic maggots, gnawing at the roots of infinity. Galactic plagues, eating away at the very flesh of existence, reducing all that was to leprous ruin in their unending hunger. It was a dark mirror of Azyr, corrupted, reduced, strangled. All glory vanished, all hope quashed. A thunder of screams echoed upwards, driving him back. A million million voices, raised up in anguish and despair. Forever crying out for that which would never come. Down below, something began to crawl out of the black heart of that cancerous infinity. It was no shape, and all shapes. Fat and thin, a plume of smoke, a puddle of oil, spreading ever upwards. There were eyes in the smoke, as round as cold, dead suns, and teeth that stretched in a grin as wide as the horizon. Fingers like comets clutched at the void, as the Lord of All Things stirred from his manse, and began the long, arduous climb to his garden. Moons crumbled beneath that impossible bulk, and stars were snuffed out."

Often Slaaneshi daemons are described as having hideous and repulsive true forms but put on a 'facade'. So, it makes sense Slaanesh himself / herself would have a true from that is equally disgusting

Tzeentch is referenced as the Raven God. So it's possible his true form is in fact avian. But at the same time he's always changing.

Non chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be a cool video ngl.

Khorne having a very straight foward form makes sense, it goes with his personality, what You see is what You get with him.

I sort of figured the Chaos Gods "looked" like the Endless, where their appearance depends entirely on who is looking at them. So everyone sees something different.

Okay, a Changeling putting a Nurgling on Khorne's Skull Throne for a supernatural whoopee-cushion prank is absolutely amazing.

A good source of info on what they look like are the very old chaos lorebooks "Slaves to darkness" and "The Lost and the Damned", seriously worth tracking down if you can find a copy of either. Tzeench was said to have his head sunken into his shoulders, with multiple faces appearing and vanishing all over his body, each one talking over the other, whispering secrets. And I think they said Khorne had the face of a great bestial hound?

Only VERY (I can't stress this enough) few humans have seen Slaanesh directly, those that passed through the many circles of her realm and then got turned into stone by him simply smiling at them. However, there is one exception, the Silver Knight who she favored instead for some reason.

I love how you interchange it, him and her with Slaanesh. Reminds me of the days of tts.

I remember in one of the Fabius Bile novels he once looked at the sky and there was a vast face in the sky, painted with stars and constellations, this was implied to be Slaanesh's face watching down on him.

Four Chaos Gods - the manifestations of the sins of the War In Heaven that turned the Realm of Souls into the Warp and made the Horus Heresy barely a blip on the radar.

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The many forms of the chaos gods (In age of sigamar gods can have sorta multiple different form they can change into depending on worship) Khorne ("Kharneth" "Akhar" "Kjorn" "Khorgar," the "Axefather," the "Bloodfather," the "Wolf-Father,") -The Blood God: A Warrior so vast that he blots out the stars, with the snarling visage of a monstrous war-hound. His massive form is heavy with corded muscle clad in interlocking plates of baroque brass armour, and his eyes are fiery orbs filled with boundless hatred. (This was the first image of khorne in warhammer from the Lost and dammed book) -The Bloodwolf: as giant flayed hound with all the -The lord of battle: Giagantic brass armor bloodthister sitting in the skull throne with his elite guard of bloodthirster -The Brass Bull: worship by the skullfrey beastmen gigantic flaming armor brass bull Nurgle ("Plague Lord," "Grandfather Nurgle," the "Lord of Pestilence," the "Fly Lord," the "Urfather," and as "Neiglen") -The Plague Father: the gigantic great great unclean one abomination crowed by pair of antlers that burn through reality when he moves them, maggots bursting and burrowing into his flesh as he feeding off the depaire of reality. The lost and the dammed first image of the god -The King of all flies: A miamma of swarm of flies that seemingly buzzing, repopulating and dying a symbol of his power over the cycle of life & death -Mother Mort: Worship by the inhabitants of Ghyran the realm of life as a fuck up version of Isha while he was starting his invasion into the realm -The crow father: Giagantic black crow worship by the norscans picking at the corpse of battle Slaanesh ("Prince of Pleasure," the "Lord of Excess," the "God of Obsession," the "Master of Excess in All Things," the "Perfect Prince" and even the "Prince of Chaos,") -The Dark prince: A hermaphrodite or asexual humanoid (one half male the other female) clean limbed and fresh with the vigour of youth with horns ssurting form her beautiful mane. This from the image from The slave to darkness -She who thirst: 40k Eldar describing her a gaping storm of pride and hedonism that vaguely take the form of a greater demon or and eldar sucking all the souls fo the aeldari who died without a spirit stone -The Decadent fiend: a giant Baphomet god that rapes and breed the world worship by the skalefrey beastmen -The Serpent: Norscan worship her a gigantic snake (AOS some worship her as a gigantic golden two headed snake) -Slaa-Nulhthe: also know as she who devoure as a vortex of maws and tounges Tzeentch (the Changer of Ways, the Lord of Change, the Architect of Fate, Tchar, The great conspirator, the great schemer) -Lord of change: A giant with his skin crawls with constantly changing faces that leer and mock any who dare to gaze upon two tendrales horns breathing a stream of multicolor flames . His first image from the lost and dammed book -Great Egale: A gigantic biblical accurate angel bird mosnter with a crystal eye center to his bird skull -The Beast of many forms: Woship by the twistfrey beastmen as ever shifting monster that devouring magic flesh and fate only to regugitate them into more beastmen -King of raven: Norcan worship a raven who would sometimes whister secret to those who wish to learn -Chi'an Chi: Cathay version of tzeentch -Lord of shifting breeze: a multi-coloured smoke, crackling energy of an unknown type that burns or mutates the objects it touches, faces in mist, a writhing mass of fleshy protoplasm

In my mind, khorne was always a muscular daemonic angel of combat, but ever since he obtained his space marine legions, his form added heavy obsidian armor due to the powerful minds of the space marines interpreting him as such.

0:40 I think even the Watchers would avoid the Warhammer 40k universe and make sure that the Four Parasites don't notice them at all like Ultron-Vision did when Uatu made that mistake.

Slaanesh probably duelled Khaine with his skyscraper long throbbing gobbling glizzler

Khorne - the Paraplegic Sociopath Nurgle - the Supernatural Garbage Tzeentch - the Indecisive Mollusk Slaanesh - the one that never went to Rehab

This reminds me of khajit lore in Elder Scrolls world where each god has his khajit form because of their religion (everything is a félin) it made me laugh when Sheogorath took his khajit form when je tried to drive mad an entire temple

Id imagine Tzeentch would look very similar to Azathoth or Yog Sothoth from the Lovecraft mythos

Slaanesh: how many holes/plugs. Khorne: how many spikes/skulls. Tzeentch: how many tentacles/eyes. Nurgle: how many boils/pustules.

Tzeentch was actually described very rough in one of the Ahriman books. It Was said that he looks like giant pillar of eyes and mouths that are constantly twiching and wobbeling around

Speaking of instantly becoming a Slaanesh-simp upon seeing their true form, have you covered the Silver Knight yet? An interesting story, with some... implications for a certain plot armor-bearing Grey Knight.

Khorne: I wonder if beneath all that darkness there isn't some bull features on him. bloodthirsters and Valkia have hooves so I would assume they do. Nurgle: I am not sure but I think that PNG in the background is taken from an older artwork of him. Could just be really similar. Slaanesh: I swear I read somewhere that slaanesh likes to change his form to whatever she pleases at the moment just so that he can be "perfect". I like the drawing of her true form though, It looks sickly and degenerate, creepy, like a crack addict and/or sex pest. Very fitting considering what kinda god he is. Tzeentch: I wish I could give you my opinion on tzeentch but I cant fucking comprehend it.

Can't remember where it was said, but Khorne was once described as having the head of a hound. Which I go with because, y'know, canines are awesome. He's also been referred to as the Great Hound in the past I think? Both of these may well have been in random bits of colour text, but were in official publications, so are good enough for me.

Not sure if this has already been done but maybe a video on what the average imperial citizen knows about the galaxy ie. The comatose emperor, chaos, Xenos, etc.

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Always extremely informative and enjoyable videos. Good on ya.

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I like that time Fabius was having his I sides turned to jello but refused to acknowledge the horny god

I suggest Majorkill to include Nurgle into sexy hentai calendar. Just for lol and see how it turns out.

To be fair I am sure if Tzeentch could break the fourth wall and knew about the misconceptions of his appearance he would change his appearance to the most common depiction to screw with loremasters

Makes sense nurgle would just make more demons he is glued to his cooking pot

Top marks MK. A really interesting an original video.

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I appreciate Slaanesh being referred to it, him, and her in the vid. Even for demon's, it's especially useful to for it in particularl.

I could imagine they are kind of liquid in their form when in the realms of chaos constantly changing but keeping to their theme. But then they solidify while in the physical realm

With tzeentch being constantly changing, I imagine a blob like ditto that is changing like the T1000 when he is in the molten metal at the end of Judgement day.

Thanks for the Video MajorKool

CA depicted Tzeentch like Yog-Sothoth, the god of time and sorcery from the Lovecraftian mythos. Very good choice.

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I'm reading all of the Ahriman books right now, I cannot wait till I get to the meeting with the Lords of change and Tzeentch, I'm very excited to be reading that part very soon. For anyone who is familiar with the work of HP Lovecraft I always think of Tzeentch looking like Yog-Sothoth

There's a description of the gods's appearance in codex chaos daemons. Khorne is a dog faced warrior, Slaanesh is dependent on the beholder but seems so innocent that they immediately lose their soul. Nurgle is essentially a giant Great unclean one and Tzeentch is a massive collection of mouths that speak in so many different inflections it quickly drives people insane.

You know what would be super cool? Having the positive aspects of the Chaos Gods as characters occupying non fucked side of the warp and opposing their fucked aspects. I would LOVE to see an adorable Ent-Driad version of Papa Nurgle especially. It would be really interesting I think what do you guys think?

I'd picture Tzeentch as a red giant sized shoggoth.

Can you do a video on every faction vs the combined might of the imperium? How good or bad each faction would do.

you should do a video about the Siege of Terra, covering all the best moments and show us your take on the event.

Here's an interesting video idea MajorKill, Top 10 most horrific Warhammer surgical procedures performed. With people like Cawl and Fabius Bile having an absolute flesh field day, you could probably dig up some very choice nuggets of sick 40k lore.

Good video bro

Got my callendar today, and I gotta say, it is amazeballs! Thank you Majorkill. It is not often I find art I like, and that callendar is full-boar fantastic. Also thank you to the models. Without those gals, I would not have this art in my sweaty hands. Cheers!

Yeah, I always got Tzeentch vibes from interactions with Hermeus Mora, of Elder Scrolls fame, and could easily imagine the Changer of Ways just appearing as a mass of eyes, tentacles, and efflivia. As for the bird reference, I always imagined it started off as an Odin homage, since ravens are special to him, and symbols of wisdom, to some cultures. Then, because the Chaos God's are mostly evil, and often seek to cause destruction simply for the lols, it got switched over to the vulture/buzzard, because they scavenge, and pick out premium morsels, from the refuse left in the wake of inexorable time, and violence. If you ever play Legend of Zelda: Windwaker, they also follow a similar meme, since thar game's rendition of Wizzrobes take on a particularly vulture-like avian form, as the telrport around the room, hurling magic at our Hero. No other LoZ game does that; they usually just look "wizardy", but once they did. Khorne looking like a big, armored Hulk never really broke my immersion; it was the color of that armor that kind of did. If you look at his servants, they seem to often have a bronze/brass theme to them, and so it always surprises me that Khorne doesn't look more like a huge, monstrous, winged Talus, from Greek mythology. Obsidian armor is awesome, and if Khorne can make burs shatter off, and perforated hus foes, foe the audacity of striking him, all the better, but I thought part of why Abaddon chose black as his faction's color was because none of the God's had it, and so he could claim his stance between, but not beneath any of them. As fir Slaanesh, yeah, I'll always prefer murder-demon-waifu Slaanesh, but I accept that that's just my preference, and other people will have other ideas about "beauty", "seductive", or "excess", that would greatly alter hiw Slaanesh might appear. I like to think that, at least in some ways, they have a true form, butblittle say in how it appears; the souls that empower them are more deciding of this. It's sort of like Ares, in Wonder Woman. The God of War maybe should look like a beefcake Roman soldier, but in the time kf the World Wars, war was different. He is a general, and generals then looked like older men in suits, sending off faceless troops to for for their goals. As the Avatar of War, i believe how war had evolved caused that entity to change with it. Again, that's me, and maybe I am just trying to justify their choice in a way I like, but it works fir me, and the same could be true of our Chaos God's. Maybe how the universe perceives them becomes an aspect of their true form, even if they still have to layer illusion over their Lovecraftian reality to keep lesser souls from just losing it. Even the Emperor does something similar; we know that the glorious golden man of legend was, at least in part , a mental disguise, and at least some of his Sisters of Silence could see "just a regular man", instead of what we see in art. I imagine that that avatar of the Emperor appeared Primarch-size, but the skeleton on the Golden Throne doesn't seem nearly so massive.

Tzeentch's true form is that spider crab meme where the crab is saying "perhaps"

There is an artwork from AOS that depicts Tzeentch

Tzeentch looking like an HP Lovecraft fever dream sounds pretty on target

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A curious question out of idle interest. What if the Imperium of Man 'won', what then? Robert Goilyman was prepping his astartes for it, but what if they exterminated all orks and made peace with eldar/tau or wiped them out, too, what if there's no longer any outside conflict. What if Chaos got pushed out of the picture. What would that war driven society look like without war, or at least universal war, since I imagine some planets will inevitably get uppity for independence

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Would love to see a top 10 deadliest nurgle plagues

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Tzeentch: "Yeah. Keep guessing, puppets. lol"

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Kaldor draigo talked to Khorn himself in the infamous 5ed Grey knights book....

To me Tzeentch (as least from the description you gave) would be like a giant slime with eyes and mouths everywhere. Constantly writhing, twitching and changing form.

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Just imagine seeing Khorne, the sheer intensity of it. Fire and brass horns, the mad chorus of war. We can guess their physical appearance by looking at their daemons.

You know Majorkill if I wasn't 14 and had a credit card I would genuinely buy your calendar just to see you in it

I'm pretty sure that all mentions of physical contact between warp entities are just metaphors to help us understand what's going on without having to dedicate page after page to what it truly means to interact with something in the Warp. It IS called "The Immaterium", after all.

You should do a video of how it is living in every faction

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I always imagine khorne would look like cain from the Bible or vlad the impaler or genesis khan.

True forms of the chaos gods in a nutshel. Khorne: Ultimate Satan Nurgle: Yo mom Slaanesh: Girls without make up Tzeench: *FUCK YOU*

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I would actually argue that, for the most part, both slaanesh and Tzeentch would not have a cannon form per say because they are both agents of change, so tzeentch believes in ever shifting change directly and thus would change to fit the situation, where as slaanesh would change as a means to reach perfection which can be altered if the variables of perfection change as well.

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i recall reading a piece of lore in the beginning of the AoS rulebook which described the chaos gods. i don't remember exactly what they look like, i just remember reading about it.

Therapist: Fit Nurgle isn’t real, he can’t hurt you ! Tzeentch: I’m gonna do a pro gamer move !

My theory is nurgle is the first chaos god since he's the cycle of life and death. Then Tzeench was born from necron bio transfer. After that Khorne was born by the war in heaven. With the emperor born and secretly guiding the human i don't think any big chaos god was ever form from human as the emperor will deal with it before it went big.

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0:40 major we're literally the watchers of 40K. the watchers are an audience insert

I would argue that the Warp operates more on "Dream-logic" so saying that the Chaos gods have a physical presence in it is not quite accurate. I just think any warp gods are too "big" to be comprehended. It's like a 2-D person trying to imagine the shape of a 3-D object. They can perceive one side of them, but never the whole object simultaneously.

where did those warhammer 3 background images come from? i only saw khornes image in his trailer

The description of Tzeentch reminds me of times I was tripping nutz on lsd or shrooms and looking at some of the really trippy black light reactive posters from Spencers. As I stared at em parts of it would grow and stream into other parts of itself while other parts are melting and shrinking and melding into itself. Definitely eye opening and brain expanding. Have you ever used any psychedelics Major? If not I would highly recommend trying some good shrooms. I'm Sure it woukd definitely give deeper perspective on not just everything around you and life itself, but also your work and the works of 40k in general. Before 40k I am a huge Tolkien fan, and when I first took LSD and re read LOTR over the next week, it was fucking amazing how much new and extra I picked up. And that was that. Been using a few times a year ever since....and more and more of the Matrix becomes visible every time

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My favorite description of the chaos gods comes from, as you mentioned, Fabius Bile interacting with Slaanesh, more or less as close to its true form as one can. Given that he is an atheist and thinks the chaos gods are purely physical phenomena no more intelligent or conscious than gravity, it makes for a fun interaction. In third person but from Fabius’ perspective, Slaanesh is described as an infinite, cosmic “gaze” that has no real point of reference in reality. He looks up at the sky to see it, but it’s not really the sky, or space, because both have comprehensible forms. His highly genetically and technologically enhanced body starts going through total organ failure while he keeps saying you’re not real, like a child talking about the monster in their closet.

video of non chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be pretty cool ngl

Fucking creased at that classic world of Warcraft comment. Love you man, I laugh and learn lore at the same time

That description of Tzeench is literally just The Daemon Sultan

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Nurgle is a big, wholesome blob