Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-92.97.77.182-20130321145115/@comment-18016240-20141008061327

Hakster wrote: Orks don't feel the emotions towards their fighting and looting the way humans do. Orks do it because it's what they are, but it doesn't give them a presence in the warp. In the rare events that one of Da Boyz ever does get possessed, the other Orks will immediately turn on them and kill them, knowing instinctually that something is "wrong".

So no, Orks don't "feed" the Chaos gods - they don't feel "sentient emotion" at that level, and since their system works based on their own belief system (everyone knows red goes faster, therefore with Orks, it actually DOES go faster), the Chaos powers aren't involved.

'Nids aren't sentient as such, so again have no warp presence or emotional input. The Eldar "path" means that they're controlled enough to avoid feeling strong emotions, and those who stick to a single path are generally seen as outcasts in their society (then there's the Harlequins, who have their own rules). Necron are blank automatons who, again, have no emotion. Basically the only race in 40k which can "fuel" the Chaos Gods to any real level are humans.

Even if Orks, Necrons, and tyranids don't feed chaos directly, their victims among humans and Eldar do.

What do you think a human would feel when his friends are killed, either by being cut down by an ork's choppa, eaten alive by tyranids, or vaporized by necron particle beams or any other way in which they can die? Fear, sorrow, rage, hatred, despair... at least half of the stuff used to furl the warp and the chaos gods come from when bad things happen to humans, can you really say that they don't feed Chaos in that sense?

In that sense, every race strengthens Chaos either directly or indirectly, in the end it doesn't really matter. Even if you killed all of humanity Chaos wouldn't truly die. The Eldar feel emotions more powerfully than any human (regardless of the Path they choose) and as long as any sentient creature has emotions there will be a fuel source for Chaos to tap into. Putting all the blame on humans is kinda like saying one dude on a football team is responsible for everybody's screw ups.

I digress though, and feel that we're getting too far off topic and if we're going to continue this chain of discussion we should probably make another thread.