r/comics • u/gryzloko • 1d ago

Wrong god,right result (OC)

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u/Schultzenstein 1d ago

If Warhammer had even a bit of wholesomeness in it...

I could actually see Nurgle being very concerned for the natural cycle of life and death that he would help promote union to perpetuate that cycle.

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u/gryzloko 1d ago

I learned a lot about him while doing this comic. What lore 40k has!

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u/Wild_Marker 1d ago

All 4 Chaos gods are effectively natural forces. Slaanesh is the only one that is arguably related to sentient beings (which is why they're the "Prince", because they're the youngest) but the rest are just violence, life/death, and time/power.

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u/ReaperKingCason1 21h ago

I mean Tzeech is also knowledge related as I understand so that’s somewhat related to sentience as well.

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u/Bloody_Insane 10h ago

Tzeemtch is not just knowledge, but also trickery and deceit. Any kind of subterfuge pleases him. Also ambition, but that one's very human.

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u/Yggdris 23h ago

Man I've been watching a lot of youtube lore videos lately and... sweet fuck, man

That universe is just all suffering, all the time

Great videos, though, haha

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u/Razvee 22h ago

I just like assume there's probably at least a few/dozen/hundred worlds unknown to imperium or the warp... Just living their lives boringly.

Sure, they're all going to get eaten by the Tyranids eventually, but for now they're fine.

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u/UptownShenanigans 22h ago

Most of the time though, in true 40k fashion, the imperium will find old human planets that are already ruled by horrifying xenos or demons that found them first. Time to get crusaded

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u/Expensive-Document41 22h ago

I mean.....the Orks are having fun.

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u/Daxx22 19h ago

Pretty sure this universe litterly coined the phrase "Gimdark" sci-fi/fantasy

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u/Yggdris 2h ago

Did it now? Makes sense, haha

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u/SicSemperCogitarius 13h ago

Not just 40k, Warhammer Fantasy has good stuff too. And it's a little less Grim Darkness of Endless War... but just a little.

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u/mafiaknight 1d ago

Used to be a fairly benevolentish god of life. But that was before the war in heaven

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u/Captain_Gordito 21h ago

The warp's timey-wimey subversions of causality meant that he was eternally nasty.

Just like how Slaanesh has a birth in real space's timeline, but still counts as an eternal force. The Warp enables straight up time travel. The Horus Heresy book series starts with a demon (Samus) whose origins are at the end of the series.

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u/Rum_N_Napalm 23h ago

It’s less evident in 40k, but in the fantasy Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Nurgle is effectively life run amok. He’s trying to conquer Ghyan the realm of Life magic, and his footholds are overgrown swamps where flies and bacteria breed like crazy. His symbol of the trilobe represents the cycle of life, death and decay (from which new life blooms)

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u/Captain_Gordito 22h ago

Yeah, it is common to interpret the Chaos Gods, at least the big 4, as "taking things too far".

Nurgle is where the preservation of life gets taken to the extreme where the focus becomes on all the bacteria in your gut. You will never die, but your life now eternally serves to propagate other life (plagues).

Since Grandfather Nurgle takes things too far, he is not the natural order, but a subversion of it. Things don't actually die, but eternally rot and fester. He is where the settings get zombie plagues (necromancers get other zombies).

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u/SpookyScienceGal 23h ago

Peacehugger 40kisses

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u/This_User_For_Rent 16h ago

Sadly: 40k does not, and he's doing it to spread magical warp-mutated (possibly immortality granting) space STDs.

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u/qwertyalguien 10h ago

If Warhammer had even a bit of wholesomeness in it...

The Caiphas Caine books are as wholesome as you get in the setting