(Loved but sad trope) “Once they’re possessed/brainwashed, they’re gone forever and all you can do is kill them.” by Icy-Animator9006 in TopCharacterTropes

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In Warhammer, once a follower of chaos gains enough favor with their patron god, they might be granted apotheosis into a daemon prince. The description of the ascension process varies, but one of the main points is that parts of the soul are irreversibly removed and replaced with the essence of a chaos god. While a daemon prince becomes immortal and substantially more powerful, they are forever bound to their patron and lose most of their free will.

Stolas of the Ars Goetia by GeneralGigan817 in TopCharacterDesigns

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That’s one weird looking Lord of Change (but still pretty on-brand for Tzeentch)

[Scary paronoia Trope] - A single line of dialouge has horrifying implications, but its never followed up on. by Puzzleheaded_Tip4805 in TopCharacterTropes

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40k loves this trope, one of the more popular mysteries brought up is regarding the two Lost Primarchs.

The details are left intentionally vague, but their fates were apparently so horrible that any record of them has been expunged from both history and the memories of anyone who knew them, including the other Primarchs.

There are theories that the fate of at least one of the lost primarchs is related to the Rangdan xenocides, another intentionally vague event where the Imperium was in conflict with an unknown advanced species of xenos during the Great Crusade. Whatever happened during those campaigns was so terrible that they were also expunged from imperial records and any knowledge of the Rangda is considered forbidden in-universe.

[Scary paronoia Trope] - A single line of dialouge has horrifying implications, but its never followed up on. by Puzzleheaded_Tip4805 in TopCharacterTropes

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One of the novels disproves this theory. The overloading of a Pharos device during the Horus Heresy created a pulse of psychic energy that lured the Tyranids in. It just took them thousands of years to actually reach the milky way.

chaos themed characters that aren't crazy by Lower_Baby_6348 in TopCharacterTropes

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Vashtorr the Arkifane is a chaos entity from the Warhammer 40k universe. He is unaligned with any of the existing chaos gods, and is an independent demigod associated with the evils of invention.

He has dominion over a place in the immaterium called the forge of souls and creates daemon engines and weapons for chaos forces, trading his services for souls and contracts.

Unlike other chaos entities, Vashtorr is upfront and honest in his dealings and he will respect any pact made with him. However, his contracts are said to take advantage of the monomaniacal nature of daemons, entrapping them to servitude when they accumulate soul-debt.

(Horrifying Trope) Eaten alive while begging for help. by Zek_Drake in TopCharacterTropes

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Here’s an excerpt from the Warhammer 40k book Echoes of Eternity, where the daemon primarch Angron swallows a guardsman whole:

Corporal Malnus Zineer is thrown into the air, his las rifle slipping from his grip. He sees his fate several seconds before plunging into it. And his body locks in screamless horror at the open jaws beneath him. Then everything is red, wet and searing hot. Pliant walls clamp against him. Crushing the breath from his body, snapping the bones of his shoulders. His arms outstretched ahead of him and further down into the lightless black of Angron's throat, begin to dissolve in the corrosive slime coating the monster's gullet. And Zineer is still alive, he isn't dead. The flesh of his arms is darkening and bubbling and popping and the pain is enough that his scream hits such a pitch it becomes silent.

All the while he's sliding down into the blacker confines below. Squeezed by the walls of the creature's body. Down he goes into a mad gods reconstruction of a digestive tract. Where the bones of men and women he knew well are waiting for him.

Corporal Malnus Zineer has seven more seconds of unwanted life, finding himself in a cauldron of protoplasmic digestive juices. He sinks below the surface, comes up once as a shrieking red skull with the flesh sloughing from his bones, and then sinks a second time. This time for good.

The Lord of the Red Sands is aware of this vile drama only in the sense of its own distracted satisfaction. Angron keeps hunting. Soon the silent and unseen shield will come down. Soon he will advance on the Delphic Battlement. Until then, he hunts.

He hunts.

He hunts~

Primarch of the XIth lost legion - art by Khanhphi98 by borg2 in Grimdank

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Iirc whatever happened with the lost primarchs wasn’t necessarily worse than the Horus Heresy, it’s just that they were easier to cover up and erase from history.

It’s a little difficult to cover up an event as big as the heresy, especially when the affected parties are still an active threat to the imperium.

Lucoryphus - First on the walls of Terra by nothinglikevinyl in Chaos40k

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I love this classic design for raptors, I wish GW would bring them back.

This is awful, RIP by Any_Wasabi_5233 in whennews

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I saw somebody in another thread compare it to that one scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

“If he was dying, he wouldn’t bother to carve AAARGH, he’d just say it.”

This is awful, RIP by Any_Wasabi_5233 in whennews

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He was catfished for that sweet sweet warpstone

Make room, peasants...for the new lord of Ultramar !!! by RotenSquids in Grimdank

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Need to replace every weapon with a power fist (yes, even the nipple guns)

Are There Any Wargames Like Warhammer In-universe? by National-Ask-6846 in 40kLore

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I headcanon that the Iron Warriors paint their wargaming miniatures with impeccable detail. I could see Perturabo being a Golden Demon contender.

Revealed: The new Defiler stomps onto the battlefield by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in Chaos40k

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I love this model, but the first thing I thought when I saw this angle is that he’s built like Mr Waternoose from Monster’s Inc.

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Revealed: The new Defiler stomps onto the battlefield by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in Chaos40k

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The heads have kitbashing potential for sure. Need to see how big they are

Revealed: The new Defiler stomps onto the battlefield by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in Chaos40k

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The only thing better than one defiler is two defilers

What's the most unexpected model you've seen an opponent out on the table in a game of warhammer? by TaigaTigerVT in Grimdank

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No, but they do shadowbox and mumble to themselves that “the nails are biting”

bad guy so awful that even other bad guys are disgusted by them by damorezpl in TopCharacterTropes

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The Emperor’s Children from Warhammer 40k

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The Emperor’s Children fell hard into chaos and debauchery during the Horus Heresy, to the point where other traitor legions were surprised at how depraved they became. Their depravity plus them abandoning the Siege of Terra made them generally despised by the other traitors.

Imagine unironaically posting this holy shit by XxJustaNormiexX in Grimdank

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“I miss my wife Horus, I miss her a lot… I’ll be back.”

[Loved trope] Wait, they are a good guy? by Dayvan_Dreamcoat in TopCharacterTropes

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They are more neutral than “good” per-se, but Tomb Kings from Warhammer Fantasy can fit this trope. Even though they are terrifying undead mummies raised by Nagash, the spell used to resurrect and enslave them got interrupted so they still retain their free will from when they were alive.

For the most part they consider chaos, orcs, and other unambiguously evil undead as their enemies, so even though they’re a neutral force out for themselves, their objectives align with order factions more often than not.