History Characters / TotalWarWarhammerTheDaemonsOfChaos

* BigRedDevil: Khornate Daemons generally look classical depictions of red-skinned, horned and cloven-hoofed demons, with the towering and bat-winged Bloodthirsters most closely embodying this trope.

* TheLegionsOfHell: As armies of daemons subservient to the Dark Gods, they fit the bill quite nicely.

* BigRedDevil: Khornate Daemons generally look classical depictions of red-skinned, horned and cloven-hoofed demons, with the towering and bat-winged Bloodthirsters embodying this trope.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Juggernauts are essentially biomechanical demonic rhinos used as mounts by the forces of Khorne. In the announcement trailer, a group of Skullcrushers (mortal Khornate warriors riding Juggernaughts) are seen charging Kislevite Lancers.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In the first two games, where the armies of Chaos are represented almost exclusively by their mortal servants (the warriors of Chaos, beastmen and Norscans), while the daemons themselves are only ever [[TheGhost mentioned]] or shown as individual characters. This is because the Great Vortex of Ulthuan siphons enough magic from the world to prevent daemons from simply manifesting their armies at will -- a factor that forms the stakes of the second game's ''Eye of the Vortex'' campaign, where the Vortex is at risk of failing.

** The Daemons of Khorne look the most like classical demons of any of the Chaos Daemons, with red skin, ScaryTeeth, horns, and plenty of fire motifs to go around.
** The Daemons of Nurgle draw heavily from plague and swamp imagery, resembling rotting corpses, mutant flies, gigantic slugs, bloated toads, and other nasty creatures of rot and decay.
** The Daemons of Tzeentch are largely birdlike, though they do go for some very bizarre shapes like amalgamations of fire-breathing mouths or fanged stingrays with dozens of eyes.
** The Daemons of Slaanesh (the humanoid ones anyway) usually take the form of scantily clad women, though given Slaanesh's OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous nature they freely mix and match male and female aspects to better suit their targets.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Juggernauts are essentially biomechanical demonic rhinos used as mounts by the forces of Khorne. In the announcement trailer, a group of Skullcrushers (mortal Khornate warriors riding Juggernaughts) are seen charging Kislev Lancers.

** The Gifts of Khorne will make you among the most powerful warriors in the galaxy, but you'll be in constant pain the longer you go between slaughters, eventually driving you to madness.

* BrightIsNotGood: Daemons of Slaanesh and Tzeetch tend to have brightly colored attire, but by no means does that make them any more sympathetic. Sarthorael, in particular, has extremely shiny armor (made of either gold or brass), but is the GreaterScopeVillain of the first game and the BigBad of the Warriors of Chaos campaign.
* HornsOfVillainy: While it's most pronounced with Khorne, as all of his daemons have either horns or horn-like growths on their heads, with the exception of the Lord of Change, all of the Greater Daemons shown in the announcement trailer have pronouced horns on their heads. As for the evil part, they lead TheLegionsOfHell.

* SerratedBladeOfPain: Bloodletters wield large serrated swords, all the better for spilling blood with.

* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: Slaaneshi demons usually have hermaphroditic appearances, just like their patron, with many appearing to have one half that is masculine and another that is feminine. The one shown in the announcement trailer isn't given enough focus to determine what gender they might be, but the EvilLaugh heard as the scene transition from the Keeper of Secrets to the Lord of Change implies its male.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Juggernauts are essentially biomechanical demonic rhinos used as mounts by the forces of Khorne.%%Those ridden by Bloodletters are known as Bloodcrushers, while those ridden by mortal warriors are instead known as Skullcrushers.

* EnemyCivilWar: Most daemons are caught up in the Great Game, the constant jockeying for power between the Four within the Realm of Chaos. It's said that whoever is winning the Game at one point or another has greater influence on the mortal world- if [[PlagueMaster Nurgle]] is winning, for instance, there would be greater outbreaks of plague and rot among mortals.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: [[{{AvertedTrope}} Averted]] - all daemons belong to separate factions depending upon which god they serve, and they all hate each other just as much as they hate the mortals they prey upon.
* ToHellAndBack: It ''is'' possible to enter and leave the Chaos Wastes, but most who do enter and exit the wastes do so either as Followers of Chaos, Chaos Spawn, or Daemon Princes. This time, though, a very pissed off Cathay and Kislev [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu are about to ring the doorbell...]]

* {{Mordor}}: The Chaos Wastes are located at the Northern and Southern Magnetic Poles of the World That Was (though only the North gets any attention due to its proximity to civilization), and are the settlings equivalent of {{Hell}}. While the Realm of Khorne fits the classical depiction of Mordor (what with being a FireAndBrimstoneHell where daemons battle each other for all eternity, the entirety of the Wastes fits this to some degree, with the specific theme of each sub-realm depending on the god in charge. Trying to WalkIntoMordor is inadvisable (though given that using magic to get there would probably be a worse idea, since the Daemons of Chaos are made of magic), but this time, Kislev and Cathay [[ToHellAndBack are about to do just that]].

* AbstractApotheosis: Inverted. The Chaos gods were formed from emotion, both ''positive'' and negative, being the embodiments of despair and companionship (Nurgle); rage and martial honour (Khorne); hope and scheming (Tzeentch); and desire and lust (Slaanesh).
* ArchEnemy: Collectively they act as this to the mortal realm, but in the EnemyCivilWar that is The Great Game each god has one whom they hate more than the others.
** Khorne and Slaanesh; Khorne is a WarGod who supports martial camaraderie and almost selfless desire for battle, while Slaanesh is a sadist whose followers kill out of selfish pleasure instead of duty. Slaaneshi daemons and followers also devote themselves to other past times such as music, poetry, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]], while Khornates care only for battle and see everything else as frivolous nonsense.
** Nurgle and Tzeentch; Nurgle's domain is rot, stagnation, and despair, while Tzeentch is the god of change, mutation, and [[HopeIsScary hope]]. Nurgle is also (in his own twisted way) the god of familial love and his followers are rather chummy with one another, while Tzeentch supports ambition and many of his followers are [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] schemers with a bad case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
* AnimalMotifs: SavageWolves for Khorne, CreepyCrows for Tzeentch, and FliesEqualsEvil for Nurgle (even his symbol is a stylized fly). These are just the most easily recognized motifs; background materials, especially the older ones, note that many Chaos cults can be disguised as mere animal totemists because there are many possible animals that can be revered as befitting one or more of the Chaos Gods. For example, snakes can be seen as symbols of both Slaanesh and of Tzeentch, bulls as symbols of Slaanesh or Khorne, toads and slugs of Nurgle, the Norscans are show in-game as viewing each Chaos God as a different animal-form as a representation of their power, making corrupted totems of said animals to worship them in destoryed settlements.

* BigBad: Of ''Warhammer III'', serving as the main opponents to the forces of Order.
* BiggerBad: For the rest of the trilogy, being the entities behind the Warriors of Chaos.
* 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. The four main Chaos factions are suitably divided and willing to fight each other, as much as the mortals invading their hellscape.
* BlessedWithSuck: The so called "Gifts" of Chaos are ''very'' much this, giving you power but at a horrible price (it is commonly said Chaos will mark ones soul no matter how much you benefit from the power they grant), and these side-effects are ''only'' applicable if you don't mutate into a Chaos Spawn first:

** {{Averted}} for Wulfrik the Wanderer, who after a drunken BlasphemousBoast, was cursed with [[{{Omniglot}} the Gift of Tongues]] as well as a minor form of immortality, with the caveat that he will spend the rest of his life ''having'' to kill whoever the Chaos Gods tell him to, and that if he ever fails to live up to his own hype, the gods will personally torture his soul for the rest of eternity. Considering Wulfrik is a [[BloodKnight norscan]], he's actually pretty happy about it.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: All of them, being the embodiment of abstract concepts, are prone to this. The Dark Gods are based on emotions and exist to perpetuate those emotions, so applying mortal standards of good and evil is perhaps unfair. It's also noted the Gods exemplify ''positive'' traits; Khorne represents valor and honor, Nurgle's sphere also brings companionship, Slaanesh is the boundless creativity found in artists, and Tzeentch is the blossom of ''hope''.
* CosmicPlaything: They view ''everything that has ever existed'' as this. "All are pawns to the Great Deceiver" indeed.

* TheDogBitesBack: For once, they are on the ''receiving end'' of this trope - for the first time in history, [[ToHellAndBack the Forces of Order are attempting to invade the Chaos Wastes]].

* FantasyPantheon: A ''very'' dark example. In ''Warhammer'', 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. Countless cultures around the world worship them in different ways, with different names, different aspects payed homaged too.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The Four are so vast and powerful that they cannot be summoned directly to the material plane, instead acting through their daemon minions (which are smaller fragments that reflect their image) and their mortal followers.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Leaves his throne of skulls rarely.

* BigRedDevil: Khornate Daemons generally look classical depictions of demons, with the towering Bloodthirsters embodying this trope.

* FlamingSword: Crossing over with {{BFS}} is the Hellblade, the standard weapon of the Bloodletters that make up Khorne's foot soldiers; massive broadswords wreathed in flame, they are perfectly designed to cleave through armor and flesh with a single swing.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Juggernauts are essentially biomechanical demonic rhinos used as mounts by the forces of Khorne. Those ridden by Bloodletters are known as Bloodcrushers, while those ridden by mortal warriors are instead known as Skullcrushers.

* AffablyEvil: Much like Grandfather Nurgle himself, most daemons and followers of Nurgle are jovial and easygoing, despite wanting to drown the world in unending pestilence.

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" OrcusOnHisThrone: Leaves his throne of skulls rarely.

** {{Averted}} for Wulfrik the Wanderer, who was cursed with [[{{Omniglot}} the Gift of Tongues]] as well as a minor form of immortality, with the caveat that he will spend the rest of his life ''having'' to kill whoever the Chaos Gods tell him to, and that if he ever fails to live up to his own hype, the gods will torture him personally for the rest of eternity. Considering Wulfrik is a [[BloodKnight norscan]], he's actually pretty happy about it.

The Daemons of Chaos, known also as the Legions of Chaos, the Arch-Enemy, the Great Beast, or simply just Daemons are malevolent, otherwordly entities born from the deepest and darkest emotions of all mortal creatures. From their fortresses and palaces within this Realm of Chaos, these entities watch with envious eyes towards the mortal kingdoms, waiting with unblinking patience for their chance to wreak destruction and dismay upon the world and to feed upon the misery that they have wrought.

* AnimalMotifs: SavageWolves for Khorne, CreepyCrows for Tzeentch, and FliesEqualsEvil for Nurgle (even his symbol is a stylized fly). These are just the most easily recognized motifs; background materials, especially the older ones, note that many Chaos cults can be disguised as mere animal totemists because there are many possible animals that can be revered as befitting one or more of the Chaos Gods. For example, snakes can be seen as symbols of both Slaanesh and of Tzeentch, bulls as symbols of Slaanesh or Khorne, toads and slugs of Nurgle, the Norscans are show in-game as viewing each Chaos God as a different animal-form as a representation of their power, making corrupted totems of said animals to worship them in destoryed settlements.

* BigBad: Of ''Warhammer III'', serving as the main opponents to the forces of Order.

* {{Mordor}}: The Chaos Wastes are located at the Northern Magnetic Pole of the World That Was, and are the settlings equivalent of {{Hell}}. While the Realm of Khorne fits the classical depiction of Mordor (what with being a FireAndBrimstoneHell where daemons battle each other for all eternity, the entirety of the Wastes fits this to some degree, with the specific theme of each sub-realm depending on the god in charge. Trying to WalkIntoMordor is inadvisable (though given that using magic to get there would probably be a worse idea, since the Daemons of Chaos are made of magic), but this time, Kislev and Cathay [[ToHellAndBack are about to do just that]].

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The Four are so vast and powerful that they cannot be summoned directly to the material plane, instead acting through their daemons (which are smaller fragments that reflect their image) and their mortal followers.

* GreaterScopeVillain: To the series as a whole; the Four Gods of Chaos have been acting through their puppets (the Warriors of Chaos and the hordes of Norsca) since the first game, but only now are they sending out their personal armies to fight against the material realm. This might have something to do with the fact that [[ToHellAndBack some of the mortal they've been messing around with are knocking on their front door]].