Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-6078851-20130402231504

there's some good ideas here, kudos to all :)

what i meant to say though was maybe faith itself is the root cause of the chaos gods. i don't mean faith in the chaos gods but simply faith that there are gods at all. belief is a feeling, an emotion, and maybe the first emotion required in the creation of gods.

when it comes to fighting chaos entities faith in the emperor and personal faith in psychic abilities obviously are needed, and this faith does work, but maybe this faith also fuels the chaos gods in some way. if the 'imperial truth' was successful across the entire empire then this would remove the belief in any supernatural entities, who would then wither away and faith wouldn't be needed to combat them.