History Characters / WarhammerChaosGodsAndDaemons

* SenseFreak: Taken UpToEleven. Long time, hyper-desensitized followers will ''immolate themselves'', just to feel ''something'' new.

* TheGenericGuy: Amon'Chakai's greatest flaw as a character is that he's not really that unique. He mostly comes off as a standard Lord of Change, but UpToEleven. This may have caused him to be replaced with Kairos Fateweaver.

* CastingAShadow: On the tabletop he's a level 4 wizard of the lore of Shadows.

* FantasyPantheon: A very dark example. In Fantasy Battle, they're roughly correspondent to the Norse Gods. Khorne being Odin and Tyr, Tzeentch being Mimir and Loki, Slaanesh being Frey and Nurgle may correspond to Hel. And that's only for the Norscans, they all correspond to various Turkic or Slavic gods for the Kurgan and Hung, Tzeentch is Tengri or Sventovid (it's also notable the Kurgan name for Tzeentch -- ''Tchar'' -- appears to be derived from Tsar), Khorne is Kyzaghan or Perun, etc, etc.

* SatanicArchetype: Four of them. All of them rule over legions of daemons, tempt people to their cause, and want to raise hell. Each of them has a certain Satan-like trait - Khorne is all about violence and bloodshed whose daemons [[BigRedDevil look the part]], Nurgle is the {{Plaguemaster}} (a trait often attributed to the devil in medieval Christendom), Slaanesh encourages [[TheHedonist total following of pleasures of the flesh]], and Tzeentch is the ultimate ManipulativeBastard.

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* UltimateEvil: The very first edition of the game had pictures of them, but later additions only describe them rather than portraying them in artwork. That said, the Great Unclean Ones are said to physically resemble Nurgle himself, which could imply that the Chaos Gods' "main" forms simply look like their Greater Daemons. Depictions from related (but distinct) universes like ''Total War'''s Great Horned Rat being a [[https://i.redd.it/i45winnro1e01.jpg giant Verminlord]] and ''Age of Sigmar'''s Slaanesh being [[https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/7/7f/Slaanesh_Imprisioned_01.jpg a giant Keeper of Secrets]] with a CelestialBody, would also point towards that being the case.

* UltimateEvil: The very first edition of the game had pictures of them, but later additions only describe them rather than portraying them in artwork.

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* RedBaron: He's known as the Foetid Brewmaster Plagueweaver, and Rotting Poxmaker.

* GradualGrinder: Nurgle's daemons tend to use this tactic. They can't overpower their foes like Khorne's daemons, outmaneuver them like Slaanesh's, or out-anticipate them like Tzeentch's, but Nurgle's creatures are tough enough to outlast just about any combatant. Even if they can't land a hit on their foe, simply being close to a Plaguebearer and the like is eventually fatal.

[[folder:The Masque of Slaanesh]]
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Once one of Slaanesh's most favored dancer-concubines, cursed to dance forever more when Slaanesh perceived her efforts at cheering them after a then-recent defeat to Khorne as mockery and then banished from Slaanesh's sight. Wherever she treads, she sweeps mortals and daemons alike into dancing with her until she leaves or they die. Usually the latter.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Slannesh loves Elven souls more then any other type of soul, and ever since Chaos entered the world, it has constantly stolen elven souls on their way to the Underworld. However, occasionally, Loec, the elven [[GreatGazoo trickster god]] will try to rescue a stolen elven soul by challenging Slannesh to a game of chance... and win by cheating. One wonders why Slannesh even agrees to these games if he never wins them, but the novel experience of Slaanesh losing at something might be a factor.
* DrugsAreBad: {{Inverted|Trope}}, as Slannesh considers anything which heightens sensory experiences to be ''good''. Many of its followers will experiment with a wide variety of substances to better experience all the pleasures they can offer. Such followers are also one of the Chaos factions most likely to use combat drugs when going into battle.

* PragmaticVillainy: Unlike the other Chaos Gods, Slannesh does not want the world to be destroyed. Because then there would be no one to corrupt and sway, and things would get boring.

* MultipurposeTongue: Steeds of Slannesh have a long whip-like tongue several meters long that is coated by a paralyzing poison. The Steeds use these tongues to attack their enemies, immobilizing the opponent so that they are helpless against their rider's tender mercies.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Slannesh loves Elven souls more then any other type of soul, and ever since Chaos entered the world, it has constantly stolen elven souls on their way to the Underworld. However, occasionally, Leoc, the elven [[GreatGazoo trickster god]] will try to rescue a stolen elven soul by challenging Slannesh to a game of chance... and win by cheating. One wonders why Slannesh even agrees to these games if he never wins them, but the novel experience of Slaanesh losing at something might be a factor.

* OffWithHisHead: What else would "SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!" mean?
* OminousFloatingCastle: The Halls of Khorne, where the Blood God resides upon the Skull Throne.

* TheWildHunt: Khorne is associated with this in the cultures of those who venerate him.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: This is a deeply held Khornate tenant.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: [[NothingButSkulls SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Can a being of such power truly be judged by mortal ethics? Khorne is the embodiment of rage, to judge him harshly for killing and destroying is like judging a forest fire evil for burning.
** In particular, it would be a fatal mistake to think that he has something against slaughtering civilians ''en masse'' because of some ethic: It's simply that he prizes more fights against a WorthyOpponent.

* BigRedDevil: All humanoid Daemons of Khorne are bright red, have hooves and sport HornsOfVillainy. Bloodthirsters complete the look with a pair of catlike wings.

* UnwittingPawn: Skarbrand was so crazy that it was a simple thing for Tzeentch to manipulate the mighty Bloodthirster into attacking Khorne as part of the ongoing conflict between the Chaos Gods. To his credit he took off a chink of Khorne's armour but was branded, his wings ripped off and exiled for his treachery.

* BigBadDuumvirate: The Chaos Gods are the biggest threat to the world in Warhammer Fantasy, having nearly destroyed the world on a number of occasions through their demons and mortal servants.

* RedBaron: His name is U'zhul, though he's far more commonly known by the epithet 'Skulltaker'.

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: As stated above, one head is capable of tracking a target's scent anywhere in the material world, the second head can track through time itself, and the third head can track the target by their own thoughts. Its ''Prey of the Blood God'' rule allows it to reroll fails rolls to hit and wound against a single chosen model.

A two-headed Lord of Change created when Tzeentch hurled Kairos into the dread Well of Eternity at the heart of his Impossible Fortress, Kairos is the only being who can be said to know things even beyond Tzeentch's understanding. His right head sees all possible futures as clearly as day, while his left head sees the past without the petty filters of perspective and bias, his only weakness being that he cannot see the present. Tzeentch's right-hand minion, Kairos sits in the depths of the Impossible Fortress, whispering dread secrets revealed to him by the Well, even as nine times nine Lords of Change transcribe his babbling with quills plucked from their own plumage and Tzeentch's own blood as the ink.

* DisabilitySuperPower: Physically crippled and blind to the present, but can perfectly see in both past and future and is, without question, the most powerful spellcaster in the Warhammer World -- in the tabletop game, he is a Level 4 Wizard and can chose spells from ''ALL'' of the eight winds of common magic.
* TheDragon: To Archaon in the End Times, until he was executed through being sacrificed for treachery against the Everchosen.

* TheStarscream: Kairos serves as Archaon's advisor during the Chaos invasion of the Empire, though it was a given that the Fateweaver has been actively trying to undermine him.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After the fall of Middenheim, Kairos is beheaded by Archaon, who decided that he needed Khorne's might more than Tzeentch's guile, and his blood is used to summon the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha.

* AchievementInIgnorance: Xirat'p doesn't really know how to cast spell nor does it even know how magic works, he just reads the incantations aloud. Nevertheless, it still casts the spells effortlessly.

* SdrawkcabName: P'tarix and his companion Xirat'p are clear examples to each other. And there may not even be a real order.
* SpellBook: The Scribes have the ''Scrolls of Sorcery'' allowing them to cast any spell from a chosen lore although the spell is randomly chosen and won't work if no one is in range.

* AsteroidsMonster: His ''Locus of Transmogrification'' allows it to spawn more Blue Horrors of Tzeentch upon death.

* IKnowYourTrueName: Victim of this; Tzeentch is the only one who knows the Changeling's true name and form, so he alone can control the creature.
* PerpetuallyProtean: According to his fellow daemons, he's changed so many times that he's long since forgotten his original appearance: whenever he appears undisguised, he wears a hooded cloak to hide the fact that he's constantly cycling through different forms in a desperate attempt to rediscover his old self - or so the rumors claim.

[[folder:Ku'Gath Plaguefather]]

* AbnormalAmmo: Throws nurglings plucked from his own festering boils and open sores, soaked in brewed plagues, at people. His ''Necrotic Missiles'' are a 36" range Strength 5 shooting attack that ignores armour save and are ''Slow to Fire''.
* {{Archenemy}}: He has ''Hatred'' against Dwarfs because of their natural resistance to disease, but also because they defeated him once.

* MookMaker: Ku'Gath is infested with Nurglings who constantly come out of his body to refill the ranks of Nurgle. His ''Nurgling Infestation'' rule allows nearby Nurglings units to recover lost wounds.
* PlagueMaster: But of course. He is a Level 1 Wizard using the ''Lore of Nurgle''.
* TooImportantToWalk: Ku'Gath sits atop a Palanquin of Nurgle.

* RedBaron: The Eternal Dancer.
* SuperReflexes: Her ''Unnatural Reflexes'' grants her a 3+ Ward Save.

* FallenAngel: Can be seen as the Warhammer version of this.

* MiniMook: Nurglings are diminutive Daemons that are essentially short copies of Nurgle, swarming the battlefield with numbers. They count as a Swarm unit on the tabletop and can be dangerous with 4 attacks representing their numbers.

Be'lakor was one of the earliest Chaos warlords, leading vast hordes of Daemons to ravage the world long before the Elves rose up against them. He impressed the Chaos Gods so much they turned him into a Daemon Prince, the first time they ever did that to a mortal follower of Chaos Gods. He is still among the most powerful of all Daemon Princes and is able to grant his followers unique magic powers. But he eventually grew proud and considered himself better than the Chaos Gods themselves, so Tzeentch cursed him for his arrogance. Tzeentch made him be the one to crown new Everchosens of Chaos while never getting to become the Everchosen himself, which pisses him off to no end.

* BewareMyStingerTail: His twin-forked tail is able to grapple foes and impede their attacks in earlier editions of the game.

->''"They come to claim us for their dark masters, to choke the world in decadence, to drown it in disease and blood. What hope can there be for the mortal world? It is assailed by nightmares and its most dangerous dreams each one given murderous form by the power of ancient and terrible gods."''\\