Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130825021657/@comment-74.104.211.150-20130826032529

Nothing is certain about how many chaos gods are there but there is defiantly more than four. When Horus turned chaos it is said along the lines that he began honoring some hundreds of gods. I believe I came across this somewhere in this Wiki not in any HH book. =/

My theory is that the big four are like the ends of a compass. (Humor me) They are the strongest by far because they embody that which they are to the fullest, simultaneously complementing/opposing each other vehemently. One is north, one south, and so forth, but there are minor gods in between to fill in the transition. Let’s say Khorne is South, Nurgle East, there is then some minor god South East, and one East South East. So as we are going this way the minor gods are getting more Nurgle like until you get to Nurgle himself. While the other way you get more Khornate. There would not be any minor gods Khorne/Slaanesh because there is no South/North, you would meet Tzeench or Nurgle which are distinct directions. However no almost Khorne minor god comes close to being a match for Slaanesh, no matter how violent, because they are not a Ruinous Power. Slaanesh is, thus being a total direction (true north) and having total utilization of traits, which no minor god has. A minor god of sorrow perhaps could be somewhere in the Nurgle/ Slaanesh spectrum, one of fear in the Tzeench/ Khorne. I’m just guessing at this point. Malal perhaps is at the center of the compass, denying all direction, the axis of the graph. The unacknowledged god, for indeed he is no direction but indirection! I’m starting to scare myself….

This is my take. I hope I gave you some food for thought.

Khorne for me.