>>143081>Khorne is wrath. Slaanesh is lust. Tzeentch is pride or intellectual vanity. Nurgle the duplicity of the world.Again, it's not so simple, especially when Slaan's homebase is a near 1-1 of the general 9-circles-of-Hell concept, and all-encompassing-sin in general. Slaan might predominantly be known for lust; but at the same time is the "desire" for rest / sloth, the "desire" for good food / glutton, the "desire" for wealth / greed etc. He scares the fuck out of the other Chaos Gods, because he's the most capable of leeching from them
after Malal - the desire for glory in war, the desire for both stability and rebellion, the desire for respite from pestilence or peace in the afterlife.
Khorne couldn't care less about petty personal matters - he is just "conflict". He's as much a vice for survivalists trying to stay alive or magnets of opposite charges or a rose growing thorns as not to be eaten, as he is warriors trying to kill. He feels no happiness or satisfaction after killing what he hates (everything), only the obsession to conflict more.
Slaan isn't just sticking xir barbed femdogdick into things to coom harder than anyone has ever coomed before. He's any concept of desire or want, as previously mentioned.
Tzeen isn't pride or vanity - it's pure flux & change. As long as any planet has waves that crash at the shores and shape the coast, and a conscious mind to observe it, Tzeen will exist.
Nurgle isn't simple duplicitiousness - he is the cycle of life and death itself. He's the only happy one, because he adores every gnat, mosquito and nemotode just as much as he does every complex organism or carcass filled with fungi, and rotting flesh. Life within death, death within life, life within life, death within death - all of it pleases him.
Malal isn't shadow the hedgehog and renegadeness that has any motives or wit or will back the underdog to
*smug chuckle* see the big guy fall - he is the simple concept of chaos & anarchy itself (which is why he is the only one actively eradicating himself,
and the only way he still exists-but-doesn't-exist after the irl copyright dispute).
The entire setting has multiple areas that it gleams / borrows from other sources as a foundation (because it's been worked on by hundreds, if not thousands of different contributors over a nigh half-century) - as mentioned, the Metalmen uprising is a rip of Terminator, but also not!Rambo is a very real character in the setting (Sly Mambo), Orkz are football hooligans + mad max, while the Dark Angels are Classical British / Arthurian Fantasy, Space Wolves are Werewolf-Vikings / Ulfhedinn, Night Lords are loosely Orwell + Batman and the White Scars are Biker-Mongols etc etc. And it's not just limited to one faction either - Horus himself is named after the Egyptian God of the same name (and his dynamic with Big E being close to the relation to Ra), while the Thousand Sons and Necrons each also borrow Egyptian themes.
While Warhammer40k does have it's own identity; it still takes a lot from other sources. The nu-lore isn't shit simply because it takes from pozzed sources and forces modern >american politics into it; it's shit because it's badly written, in part to force some of that crap in.
What you gleam from the setting is ultimately up to you. If you're after themes of ultranazis praying to ultraGod to spread ultraChristianity; you'll probably find it somewhere… but it's not going to change that you're ultimately chasing windmills.
40k is 40k (it's own thing), and GW are soulless corporate chameleons that sell plastic and other peoples work at a marked up price, simple as. My only advice is that public libraries and the internet lets you read things for free.
> My fear is that if GW didn't tactically cuck they would be considered "nazis" and then you'd have another online color revolution. Could they stay uncucked and fight it off? Well, they're based in the UK…Tactical cuckholdry isn't any part of it; they really are just an OG soulless megacorp. Less cuck, more pimp - anyone can fuck it's girl, as long as make them money. If the pendulum swung tomorrow, they'd be the first to do a full line of Death Korps of Krieg figs and books. But today is clown world, so that means disabled pakistani trannys teaching you how to paint your overpriced figs with overpriced paint.
>The Dark Angels have a guy literally named Luther.Yeah, and equally as much from Uther Pendragon (the script being flipped /
EPIC SUBVERSIONED?! where not!Arthur's father betrays him, rather than his son). Caliban is a borrow of Caliban (Shakespeare) and Caliburn (the original name of Excalibur, while Arthur wields it). Dark Angels in general are (out of context) the #1 Legion because Brettonia is the most popular non-Empire faction in Warhammer Fantasy. If anyone is an analogy of Protestantism / a rift in the faith caused by seeking the word of God, it would be the Word Bearers more than the Dark Angels (all he ever wanted was the Truth).
On the other hand, if you want another example; the C'Tan have a literal guy called Mephet'ran the Deciever / not!Mephistopheles, that kicked off the War in Heaven (aka when the lizardpeople / Old Ones got into a fight with talking stars, which resulted in the Orkz as a leftover self-replicating bioweapon and the Crons becoming soulless machines for following the deception of Meph). C'Tan, nothing to do with the Chaos Gods / Demons (even though they're the closest thing to Plural Gods) - it's just the setting borrows from anything and everything for various rules of cool and easier thematic signalling.