Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-89.146.33.68-20160107151543/@comment-5832352-20160108152014

Probably safe to say that the daemons are treated as the pure villains. While their personalities can run the entire gambit of affable and friendly to just civil to outright rude (or screaming at you that they are going to do 1 of a million different horrible things to you before you die), in the end, their main goal is to corrupt your soul and then torment that soul until the end of eternity.

So far, the closest any daemon probably came to being "nice" was when 1 offered to give Kaldor Draigo a w way home, but that was more to get rid of him form the Warp rather than out of any sense of benevolence.

Our anonymous friend above probably put it pretty well. And you could also consider it a bit of perspective. Daemons are psychic constructs within the Warp, created either from the dreams/thoughts/emotions of living creatures, or spun off from the power of the Gods of Chaos. Why wouldn't a person's soul or even a powerful enough psyker be any less of a "daemon"? Couldn't you also interpret it as the creatures of the Warp are no different than us in real-space? It's their home, they live there. Here comes something from another dimension. Who's the Daemon? From that perspective, the Eldar Gods, the Ork Gods, the Emperor, the Legion of the Damned, and more would be "daemons".

Of course, "nice" is very very subjective in a universe where everyone is trying to kill each other.