Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-58.178.177.10-20140403083608/@comment-4264245-20140408104620

It's the first time I hear there are eight Chaos Gods...either you're mistaking the 8-pointed star symbol with the Four Great Ruinous Powers, or you don't know that initially (Realms of Chaos stuff) you could even make up your own Chaos God and choose the power it gave to its Daemons xD

This is all I know so far on this subject:


 * The four official big ones are Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh.


 * Malal was the fifth one but due to copyright troubles it's out of canon, so now we talk about Malice.


 * Ans'l, Mo'rcck and Phraz-Etar are exemplar minor Chaos Gods, and they're supposed to be worshipped through adding spikes on the CSM armours. Their names are puns on the names of three Studio designers (Bryan Ansell, Michael Moorcock and Frank Frazetta) xD


 * It's possible that Chaos Raptors cults worship another unknown minor deity.


 * In Warhammer Fantasy Battles (which has many parallels in common with 40k) there's a Chaos Dwarf god of darkness called Hashut.


 * Some say that if Humanity suffered a Fall like that of the Eldar, another Chaos God would be born, probably from greed.


 * The Chaos Gods are always fighting amongst themselves, but they hate Order forces as much as they hate each other so they make temporary truces xD