Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-24944355-20141221065931

Yes the chaos gods are made from the collective dark emotions of living species, but where does their sentience come from? It's likely a conglomeration millions of dark souls that match the godheads nature. In any such grouping the strongest minds & spirits would dominate & share the lions portion of the conjoined mind & can you think of anyone devoted to fear with a stronger mind & spirit (even if insane) than Curze? I'm not saying that a newborn chaos god of fear would be Curze reborn just that a fair portion of it's mind & personality would likely be derived from him.

Also the Emperor is not "good" per say as he did some pretty nasty things in his time & had some character flaws eg: belief in his own infallibility, arrogance, extreme ruthlessness, hypocrisy etc. If we were to look at the Emperor in old dungeons & dragons form he would be lawful neutral rather than good he just looks good when compared to the alternatives.

As for GW making sweeping changes well that's just what they are doing to Warhammer original & granted 40k is far more popular it still is sliding into stagnation & they can't distract people with the Horus Heresy series forever. Though 40k probably won't go through quite as catastrophic upheaval as original it will be shaken up a lot & the fact of what is going on with original should remove any doubt about how much GW will shake up if it's thought it needs it.