Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,963
edits
Warhammer 40,000/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Jade Shauni (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 1:
{{work}}{{Darth Wiki}}
[[File:fabius_bile_854.jpg|link=Warhammer
Line 58:
* Let's not forget the outcast chaos god, '''Malal''', God of Destruction. [[Beyond the Impossible|Yes, there's a Chaos God so bad that even the other Chaos Gods won't associate with him.]] Mentioned in early ''Warhammer'' fluff (including a series of comic books) and then stricken from the setting for copyright reasons, Malal favors single, powerful worshipers rather than armies, and has a special place in the Pantheon -- [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|he hunts down the other chaos forces.]] Yes, Malal is the chaos god of all destruction, including ''self destruction'' -- his modus operandi is to pick one particularly powerful chaos champion, [[Spanner in the Works|insert him in the exact right spot to cause as much trouble as he can for the other four]], and then empower him with as much of his own energy as he can get away with -- something that he steals back, [[Cast from Hit Points|with interest]], from the worshiper. The resulting carnage is one of the only things keeping the other four chaos gods at bay.
** Worse still, whereas the other chaos gods can be taken as corrupted versions of otherwise positive emotions -- Slaanesh, for example, could be considered a corrupt version of "Love," Tzeentch a corruption of "Hope" -- Malal is a corruption of '''Justice.''' It's specifically stated that anyone who hunts Chaos too effectively, anyone who lets the hunt consume them... has a chance of being approached by Malal. In other words, ''even if you win against Chaos, you still lose.''
** While Malal has been stricken from the fluff, the most recent Chaos army books have added The Sons of '''Mal'''ice<ref>Malal is an Eastern Indian word for Malice</ref>, a special Chaos Space Marine army with Malal's color scheme. The story behind the SOM is Nightmare Fuel-worthy in and of itself -- they were particularly loyal Space Marines from a somewhat feral world, except that they had a specific knack for [[Nothing Is Scarier|fighting in complete and utter silence]], and their home planet had a thing for [[Gorn|especially]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|gory]] victory celebrations. A particularly puritanical Inquisitor happened to watch one of these celebrations, and while completely ignoring the similar rituals of other, more established (and thus, protected against a single inquisitor going against them) chapters, had them personally declared traitors and their homeworld [[Depopulation Bomb|destroyed]] -- something that is heavily insinuated could happen to any other loyalist chapter who happens to get the wrong Inquisitor visiting them -- in fact, it's implied that the only thing that caused the Sons of Malice to fall was the fact that ''they didn't kill the Inquisitor fast enough.'' In other words, the Sons of Malice and the millions of people living on their homeworld were screwed over by the ''Warhammer
**** Oh, it more violent than most cannibalistic chapter rituals. In the short story The Labyrinth from Heroes of the Space Marines, they are depicted eating slaves alive. The rest of The Labyrinth is quite scary, what with the [[Body Horror]] of the transformed marines and {{spoiler|it ends with the protagonist, having run the titular Space Hulk's gauntlet, being sacrificed with the ten other victors to summon Malice (renamed due to copyright) himself.}}
**** That was only AFTER they had turned to Chaos.
| |||