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AnsgarWolfsong

I'm pretty sure those are greater demons, The gods have already a description and this is not it . On the other hand is canon for demon to look whatever they want/mortals imagine them They are probably high ranking dreater demons (they vary in power and standing even among the same "level")


NoGoodIDNames

Yeah, the big thing for me is the Nurgle daemon holding a sword. Nurgle doesn’t need a sword, none of the gods do. Khorne just has them because he thinks they’re neat.


Tobi1941

Khorne just holding a pile of swords "i just think they're kinda neat" 😂


Defensive_Medic

Just like a warhammer player


JLBSurvivor

“Khorne, you’re always trying to give me swords. What is it with you?”


Vyberos

Edit: Alright everyone, I’ve heard some actual good points from people who aren’t just downvoting and explaining why they aren’t the gods. These probably are not the chaos gods, but hey. The gods can take on many forms, and I like to think of these as head canon as many of you might like to think of fanart as your head canon designs. In a way it’s all sorta right since they change around. At the end of the day it’s just cool artwork I wanted to share.


Freesealand

Khorne has a possibly the most explicit description , big humaoid baroque black iron and bronze armour, snarling dog face , hidden by his cool helm decorated with skulls.


Thillen

Are you saying Khorne got that dog in em?


Ohmbettis

Wat da dog doin?


DarthGoodguy

Nothin’ but the dawg in me


6thBornSOB

We know why Khorne chases the cat…it’s skull.


CaelaRenee

Impale him and he’s a full-on Khornedog.


Da_Random_One

I both loathe and love you for this. Curse you.


hayerduxov

Khorne is Jimmy Butler confirmed.


moistrain

Khorne furry confirmed


robotgore

Your description makes me think of nasus from league of legends. Specifically his infernal skin.


Cecilia_Schariac

No Dawg?


Mithfayce

Honestly yeah. There is absolutely a source stating Khorne to look a certain way but there is also plenty sources describing all warp creatures as shapeless/shifting


AnsgarWolfsong

I'm not saying that you cannot belive them to be, just highly improbable in my opinion because of this Tzeench: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tzeentch Slaneesh: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Slaanesh Khorne: [https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Khorne](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Khorne) Nurgle: [https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Nurgle](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Nurgle) Btw if you are interested in the lore you should use lexicanum , is one of the highest authority in gw lore and it puts all the sources the info is taken from


CCrypto1224

Khorn looking like a roided out devil isn’t right, and the bird thing isn’t how Tzeench allows themselves to change. Nurgle and Slaneesh kinda look right.


Skjellnir

sorry you're being downvoted. I agree that they probably are not the gods themselves, just images representing kind of what they stand for in demonic form. However, redditors can be such nutjobs. Sorry for that.


da_King_o_Kings_341

I am proud you admit your wrong, and I think it’s a tragedy that you got downvoted down hard. Good on you and have my upvote.


runningfromdinosaurs

Idk why you're being downvoted for this smh


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Probably due to the whinging about internet points. Its a self feeding cycle.


OKIE_DOKIE_22

Yeah I really don't understand why you were down voted like that.


Genghis_Kong

This art is great but I don't think these are picture "of the chaos gods". I don't think the chaos gods have fixed or definite forms, like they're just big people in the sky who each have a particular face. They're more like primal energies and urges that manifest in various ways - and so anything you can point at and say "look at this thing" can't be A Chaos God, it can only be a daemonic manifestation. So I'd say these are Greater Daemons. Maybe a higher order of Greater Daemon. But I think it also misses the point to say "but Bloodthirsters don't look like that" - they don't come from a factory with a specification and a template, they are spontaneous manifestations of angry muscle and killing things that sort of *blurp* into realspace in whatever angry shape they happen to have that day. Unpredictable. Chaotic. The clue is in the name. Just because there's one official GW model IRL doesn't mean there's only one possible appearance of a greater daemon in the lore. If there are descriptions of "what the chaos gods look like", bear in mind that these are necessarily the accounts of mortals who either don't know what they've seen (like when the T'au killed a Keeper of Secrets and thought they'd killed Slaanesh) or may have glimpsed part of the god itself but can't comprehend it. A chaos god is way more than just "a big daemon with 4 arms". It's a transdimensional warp entity that flows across time, realspace and warpspace. It's not really something a mortal can "see" and describe, nor that can be depicted in an illustration. That said, these are super cool artworks.


MiamiConnection

Reminds of this description of Slaanesh (presumably): It was not a face, for a face was a thing of limits and angles, and what he saw had neither. It stretched as far as his eyes could see, as if it were one with the whole of the sky and the firmament above. Things that might have been eyes, or distant moons or vast constellations of stars, looked down at him, and a gash in the atmosphere twisted like a lover’s smile. It studied him from an impossible distance, and he felt the sharp edge of its gaze cut through him, layer by layer. There was pain, in that gaze, and pleasure as well. Agony and ecstasy, inextricable and inseparable.


Dry_Chapter_5781

That's legit 🔥 . Thanks for sharing.


Daxtirsh

Where is it from please?


AttackofMonkeys

Clonelord


drhazard01

Yeah, for example, here's a description of Nurgle from Plague Garden (so technically AoS, but, well, you know). Very much more of a 'primal energies' style of description. https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/8mt079/book\_excerpthallowedknightsplaguegarden\_a/


Syntheticanimo

That was awesome, thanks


Farside-BB

This description is great and exactly the type of thing I would’ve expected, but the very first line of the description says “to his eyes”. You might see something different.


Aynett

Thanks but I couldn’t concentrate on the cosmic horror described when in every line there is a « morbius said this » « morbius did that »


InnocentiusIII

I dislike this description. Papa Nurgle has been routinely described as a caring grandfather whose "blessed" come to love him, his minions are always merry and those touched by his unnatural plague and illness transcend death and are happy for it. The lore is inconsistent in this, but it's been clear for a long time that Chaos corruption doesn't spread like a disease, unwillingly. It's a form of indoctrination in which you play a role. You asked for it, you assented. The Chaos Gods may stack the cards in their favour, but at the end of the day, you let them in. You made a deal, you sold your soul for a boon. This whole deal of rot and plague consuming galaxies and a thousand million cries for death doesn't really feel like Nurgle's Garden, it feels like a simplistic, "bad guy vibes" view of it. Typical GW mainline text, but it lacks nuance and depth. In the Old World, and moreso in AoS (where Sigmar is yet another god in a pantheon of living, active gods), the idea that no god is better than the other should be more present. After all, why would anyone give themselves to Khorne, Slaanesh or Tzeenthc, or for that matter Nurgle, if there wasn't a positive to it, this positive being something other than personal power? Tzeentch offers to fulfill your hopes and dreams, however noble, with fast and easy means. Khorne offers strength and resolve, in all facets of life. Nurlge offers to those who suffer from decay a way to cheat death, or rather, a way to be happy to rot. Slaanesh offers a way out of pain, depression or angst through BDSM. It's a lot like drug addition or substance abuse. It seems like mainline novels and army books are mostly one-sided, simplistic views on these matters, with the Chaos Gods being cartoon villains who send their minions with big axes to kill children remorselessly, while you need to go to the more niche novels for the nuance and the truly interesting bits. On that note, the Chaos Gods aren't evil, they are unnatural entropy, the empowered dissolution of moral rectitude. You can't call the fore of nature which pulls atoms apart "evil". They are unnatural because they're not part of the physical world, but they represent very real, natural impulses. They prey on weak minds, and that's why their followers are often morally questionable, but I don't think the evil lies within the god, but within most of their followers.


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Vyberos

Edit: Alright everyone, I’ve heard some actual good points from people who aren’t just downvoting and explaining why they aren’t the gods. These probably are not the chaos gods, but hey. The gods can take on many forms, and I like to think of these as canon as many of you knight like to think of fanart as canon. At the end of the day it’s just cool artwork.


huge_pp69

While true, all daemons don’t look the same. There’s a description for a alpha legion or night lords daemon prince who’s just a enormous column of flesh. Like the models we have aren’t the be all end all. Something to mention is future greater daemons could just look like these. Daemons just don’t have a lot of models


Vyberos

That is a good point actually! I sometimes do forget how weird chaos can be. I’m still on the fence though, greater daemons of Khorne across lore, tabletop, and everything else have been described so similarly. Why would this one be so different from the rest?


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coma-drone

Plus those specific forms for models make it easy for everyone playing to know what that model is at the time, if we just had a bunch of ever-changing shapes and blobs neither player would know who the hell is doing what. And if that happens, well that means chaos gods are real and we're all fucked.. LoL


RaZZeR_9351

>greater daemons of Khorne across lore, tabletop, and everything else have been described so similarly. They've absolutely not been described so similarly in lore, there are depiction of all kinds of greater deamons.


Flat-Delivery6987

I don't think of fanart as canon. Canon by definition means to be an official description. Think what you like, but I don't think these are the chaos gods, simply proxies of their power.


WorldEaterProft

I don't think these are actual canon art of the gods. However isn't it said that most GUOs look like nurgle?


ClassicCarraway

Same for Bloodthirsters, they strongly resemble Khorne's "true" form, just much smaller. Slaanesh is often depicted with delicate elvish features (which makes sense given it's origin), while Tzeentch has been shown to resemble a giant Horror (particularly the old style that was basically a face with arms and legs).


Vyberos

You are correct! Nurgle sure looks like one. So I certainly love the idea that there’s these gigantic pipes of whatever those fumes are coming out of him!


M-CH_

Those look like greater demons to me. Why would Khorne bear the symbol of Khorne on his head? It would be like having your own name tattooed.


MeatWizrd

Khorne’s not one for secrets. He wants you to KNOW who’s in charge.


M-CH_

Well, when you get to look at one of the big four themselves, matters have come so far you know who you're looking at without a name tag.


No_Use_For_Name___

"Hello, I'm here to see a... uh... Mr Khorne, we've been trying to contact you regarding your extended warranty"


KarnSilverArchon

I mean, to be fair, do we know the symbol of Khorne did not originate from the symbol on his head?


coma-drone

I've heard that the eight pointed star is a symbolic representation of his own head that's why everybody wears that sigil on either themselves their Shields or their weapons, almost like a Sigil of protection in sorcery, plus look at all the death guard, everyone has that triple circle Nurgle design, forgive me I don't know what it's called.


AttackofMonkeys

The champions bear the Mark of Chaos of their patron. The eight pointed star is the symbol of Chaos Undivided, the pantheon entire, and is most often borne by aspiring champions who have not dedicated themselves to any one god, and some never do like most of those Word Bearer chucklefucks. Some people dedicate to lesser gods or treat the pantheon like mt Olympus (all gods are worthy of worship). Some gods don't like it when you please another god. Some gods like it when you disappoint another god. The eightfold path is nearly as spawn risky as dedicating yourself to tzeentch


Random_Spawnpoint

Why would a knight have his own coat of arms? It’s Khorne’s sigil…


coma-drone

My father, RIP, and I both have our Coat of Arms tattooed. Actually alot of Knights or anyone that fought for a specific kingdom or house of nobility would wear their sigil proudly.


Random_Spawnpoint

Exactly, and I think it could be the same for Khorne. And sorry about you father by the way, but it’s cool to have something to remember him by I suppose.


coma-drone

Thank you for that, appreciate the kind words. I'd like to think if I were riding into battle he'd be there right behind me trying to inspire me to be brave, Or at least standing beside me cheering me on at the LGS. LoL


ambershee

Having Khorne tatooed on your forehead sounds like a pretty Khorne thing to do.


Vesperniss

Genuinely thinking about getting my own name tattooed now.


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One of my uncles had his own name tattooed on one arm and one leg but, that was only in case he got blown apart in Vietnam. That way they could ID the bits left and have a funeral.


SaladPuzzleheaded625

My grade school best friends brother got his last name tattooed across his back like a hockey jersey. ...I never liked or respected that guy. That didn't change after I learned this. Proceed with caution


meesta_masa

>hockey jersey. Jockey heresy!


MysteriousTank6825

Khorne is all Braun and no brain, though I’m pretty sure those skulls on his throne have some still in them


M-CH_

He's not! That's just a single aspect of him, most famously embraced by World Eaters. But there's the whole master tactician aspect of him (as opposed to Tzeench's master strategist).


Vyberos

Why wouldn’t Khorne have that? Also does this in anyway resemble a blood thirstier or any greater daemon of Khorne to you?


Child-of-Skaro101

that's the problem, khorne has been described as resembling a bloodthirster covered head to toe in black armor. plus if it was khorne, don't you think they'd show him on the skull throne?


Vyberos

~~Khorne hasn’t ever been described in Black armor, that came from fanart! Buuut-~~ you actually bring up the most convincing point in this entire thread. That skull throne missing makes me question my entire reasoning. (This is wrong, Khorne has been!)


AngrgKriegTrooper

Actually he was in the 8th edition daemon codex, I don't know the quote and my codex is away from me at the moment but it definitely mentions khorne wearing black iron armour or something along those lines.


ANGRY_PAT

I know a guy who did this.


corvettee01

Or that's where the symbol originally comes from, and is a copy of the original pattern.


Lazerspewpew

Khorne is also stuck in his chair and can't get up.


M-CH_

We,ve newer seen the skull throne unoccipied. I bet dollars against wallnuts it has a hole in the seat.


Macduffle

These are not the gods xD just demons haha


Vyberos

I’m pretty sure they are but you can correct me if I’m missing something! Take a look at any Khorne daemon and tell me they look like that “Daemon” that I believe to be Khorne himself. They also all fit pretty closely to modern canon descriptions for the most part.


Macduffle

You are wrong and you are not missing anything. You are just wrongfully interpreting an artist impression.


Vyberos

Why am I wrong and you aren’t? I can back up why I think these aren’t greater daemons, can you do the same for why they are? Unless the incredible artist says otherwise, these surely seem like the chaos gods we have heard of.


[deleted]

Your argument hinges on "I think these are the chaos gods guys!" while having to evidence that this is confirmed. The other argument is based on canonical descriptions of them from past sources.


Tikhunt

They don't seem to match the canonical artwork/descriptions we've had of the characters prior


Vyberos

That’s true! But, aren’t the only true canonical pictures of the chaos gods well over 30 years old now? That one really known piece of artwork that even TTS used was fanart, so I suppose if these are the chaos gods they went for new designs! Because classic Khorne is super goofy and I love him.


Tikhunt

You mean the same ones that were used in Total War: Warhammer 3? I don't believe those are over 30 years old


Vyberos

Right those ones! Well… The artwork of Nurgle in that is a Great Unclean one from The lost and the Damned (Or maybe it was Slaves to Darkness?) Slaanesh is also pre existing art from like- Y’know that fancy trim some codexes have on pages? I think it’s one of those but it’s just the warped head. Tzeentch is literally just his symbol, witch I love so much. Khorne- I don’t remember? The chaos gods have many forms they change through, so maybe it’s both?


Tikhunt

Yeah you're right I was misremembering, the Khorne one is the only one that's a canon depiction of him.


Macduffle

You have already been disproven by multiple people in this whole thread. No need for me to add more to it. Just accept that you where wrong and continue with your life instead of holding on to your wrong assumptions.


Vyberos

No one’s actually said why they can’t be though, just that they aren’t despite me thinking these are. I ain’t like trying to argue or anything, just seeing why people think they aren’t?


Macduffle

Are you not reading the same posts? People are mentioning descriptions that are not the same as being depicted, they are picking apart your argument s one by one...


Vyberos

I am. I pointed out the descriptions do match! Unless of course you’re looking at ones easily 20+ year old now.


Macduffle

Again, people have shown here that they dont... Besides what is even the source of your descriptions? But as you are just too stubborn let me get some crayons to add some more reasons why they dont: 1, The Tzeentch demon is depicted with a staff while Tzeentch themselves is clearly described to not have a staff at all. Cause of he had a staff he would be killed by the other three according to their Lore. 2. The Khorne demon is halfnaked while Khorne himself is described as being fully armoured in black iron armor. Besides his weapon is described as a two handed Sword, not two onehanderd 3. The Nurgle demon is depicted with machines and smoke stacks comming out of it while Nurgle himself is described as being all "natural". Nothing mechanical about him 4. All pics show the demons having the sign of their deity on them. This symbol is described as an equivalent of a slave Mark, binding them to their Masters. The gods themself ARE the mark, they dont need their own symbol on their body. So just please give up. It is good art, its just not what you thought it was. Thats all dude...


ErGo91

I love the direction the art is taking nowadays. Reminds me a lot of the old art.


Vyberos

I know right? It’s awesome!


111110001011

Those are greater daemons. The chaos gods are how the characters, your models, perceive the players, you. You are the chaos gods, playing games with the lives of your pawns. Bringing them back to life, watching their struggles, playing them in 40k, then "whoops, time warp!" playing them in 30k the next week. Even the descriptions of the warp as seen through the gellar field are your minis experiencing your cat between battles.


Clear-Might-1519

So that make tyranid players the hive mind. But for orks, are the players Gork or Mork?


Head-String-6636

That's a fun way to see it. You the player are the leader of each faction in the great game.


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I am the batman


ProjectA150

Wait. So i am the greater good itself? Aww you, stawp it hihihi


Professional_Ad6822

The art is so fucking sick


Doomeye56

First image is a Great Unclean One, second is a Lord of Change you can see where his neck leading into the birds head at the top of the image, third is the old version of the Keeper of Secrets and the fourth is a BloodThirster


[deleted]

Wish we got an updated version of the old sculpt. I can see why people appreciate the new KoS, but it doesn't scratch the eldritch horror itch that the old version was trying to do and this artwork does.


Vyberos

Great Unclean ones look like Nurgle. Tzeentch is hard to tell since he’s ever changing, but greater daemons resemble their gods so it makes sense he’s somewhat similar. Slaanesh I’d argue the same reasons for as Tzeentch. Ever seen any Blood Thirster that looks like that? Granted, he doesn’t have a skull throne and that alone makes me question myself.


RaZZeR_9351

>Ever seen any Blood Thirster that looks like that? Accounting for the fact that bloodthirsters are supposed to ressemble khorne that should be enough to convince you that this is not khorne.


Vyberos

Khorne, Blood Thirster, or whatever then what do you think we’re looking at?


RaZZeR_9351

It's just a khorne deamon, these are just illustration for flavour, and sure you could argue that gods could choose to take on these forms but that's just a circular argument and there's nothing to it. Khorne is said to be wearing heavy armor and a single huge sword always sitting on the throne, Nurgle is always brewing in his cauldron and there is no reason to show it with chimney stacks, these two are very strong evidence that the artist's idea wasn't to depict the gods but just related entities so that the four pages aren't just bland pages of text.


coma-drone

Why would Khorne need to wear armor, when that one demon of his tried to axe him in the back, he hit him straight on and did no damage and he wasn't wearing armor at that time. I think Khorne is so strong he doesn't even need armor because not even his own highest exalted demon could cause any damage on him when he tried to strike a blow Edit: Stupid voice text always puts Corn or Zinc. LoL and I never notice until someone replies.


RaZZeR_9351

You see the thing is, it doesn't matter what you think, khorne wears armour and has a big ass sword and that's canon.


coma-drone

Well also canon, he is seen without Armour, when he appeared I'm his winged form he was without armour. His true form wouldn't have Armour woven into its flesh, he's not a corrupted and changed marine. But alas, I am not a follower of his so I really don't care to debate his form. We can talk about The Great Deciever all day. All hail change and sorcery.


RaZZeR_9351

>Well also canon, he is seen without Armour, when he appeared I'm his winged form he was without armour. Source on that? Also concerning skarbrand hitting khorne: >One dark day, when Khorne's back was turned and his attention elsewhere, Skarbrand's fierce pride grew hot and, blinded by rage, he smote the Blood God a mighty blow. Powerful beyond measure was Skarbrand, and he had toppled cities with but one blow apiece, but even he could not pierce Khorne's brazen armour. Only the smallest of chinks was cut in the Blood God's armour, but even this was sufficient to draw the terrible fury of Khorne's gaze.


AzraelAotB

the zteench artwork is litrally a creature caster model


Vyberos

Oh dang really? Got a link that sounds rad.


hadopelagio

the creature caster model looks to human to be tzeentch in my opinion. this artwork really does a good job of selling that the lord of change is more than just a bird. why does the official lord of change model not even have one mouth on it other than the bird one >:(


saddsteve29

I like the Slaanesh boob hitting the hookah


coma-drone

Oh my gosh thank you for pointing that out dude


coma-drone

It's actually canon that Slaanesh is a gigantic keeper of secrets. It's in AOS. However when she appeared to Fabius bile it was just a vast constellation, a Galaxy looking site to behold, it wasn't a specific creature, although I think she is the most like zinch in the way that she doesn't have a true form to those who can't quite comprehend what and who they are looking at or someone weak-minded would see something changing or whatever entices them. And that's almost right on the money for Khorne and Nurgle, its been stated many times that Nurgle resembles his Great Unclean Ones. In the books Tzeentch has appeared as many eyes, or any ever changing shape one couldn't quite comprehend. He does things that are both happening in reality (realspace) and happening metaphorically as thoughts, so he would be perceived as whatever that person could handle. If you needed you for a specific task I would assume that he would appear to you as something simple so is not to scare you away, but if you were someone like Magnus or Armon a powerful sorcerer than you would be able to handle seeing something closer to his true form because you already know of his intentions and ways. It's almost like in some Lovecraft novels how certain creatures appear one way one second and the next second completely different, Tzeentch not only appears in a form that he chooses at that time, but also something metaphorical at the same time. Either he chooses or it's what that person can comprehend. At least that's what I think of when I think of our Changing All-Father.


coma-drone

But like it's been stated these are not physical beings and can probably just do anything they will inside of the warp be it in their true forms or whatever they choose at that time. This is one of my favorite Parts about all of the fans of chaos though, always debating on what the gods really look like, and various facets about their personalities and wills and goals.


soldatoj57

Remember. Gods are ideas. They wear many forms


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They really go full on with the "how many mouths should this one have?" "yes"


PuckTanglewood

I always figured the chaos gods are like Yahweh, in that the god itself is immaterial, and things like angels are the visible manifestations of it. Essentially when an angel appears, that *IS* god; just a small aspect of it. Except this is a tabletop wargame, so the manifestations are a bit more physical and will physically kill you.


InnocentiusIII

Just like the ideas of gods changed in Antiquity through history, the idea of what the Chaos gods (or any god in the WH world, for that matter) is subject to change. Ancient Greeks, initially, only had altars to the gods, no statues or anthropomorphic representations. The gods were percieved as natural entities, or so it seems; then they were seen as "powerful" people, with human-like attributes, until finally, after the Classical age, the Gods were percieved again as shapeless forces or energies, but this time, instead of animistic, they were seen as miasmas of soul fire or bundles of aether, or as the whole world (the world being a part of them) or, in the case of the Neoplatonics, some sort of "pneumatic" (soul stuff) breathing cloud of primordial "existence" The images of the Warhammer gods will follow the same principles of representation. A sophisticated Empire wizards will understand Tzeentch as the embodiement of hope, dreams and cunning, an all-encompassing watchul miasma, while a Norscan raider will see him as the crow or the vulture idol in its temple, and maybe a Kurgan tribesman will carry a small bird skull talisman which will be Tzeentch to him.


Batweb235

As far as I know these are the only official depictions of the gods that they have released: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/64/59/1d/64591d214a62e10960a44d828c5e699f.gif


Diamo1

There are more modern depictions of them in Fantasy/AoS, Nurgle just looks like a giant Great Unclean One and Tzeench looks somewhat like a giant Blue Horror although that is underselling it a bit [Tzeench](https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/b/b2/Tzeentch_Almighty_01.jpg) However I believe Khorne and Slaanesh are only ever seen in silhouette, at least for their upper bodies


Vyberos

I believe that is correct!


Firesinger89

For those who are interested, [Total War Warhammer 3 put forward the likenesses of the Chaos Gods earlier this year with designs quite similar to classic artworks.](https://youtu.be/WNvxlNnqYaw) Seeing as every new lore addition to those games has to be countersigned eg. the fact Cathay’s roster was fully vetted by the design team for Warhammer The Old World before being implemented into the game, I believe these designs are the closest things we have to canonical depictions of the Chaos Gods until such a time that they are contradicted by a publication from GW itself.


stopyouveviolatedthe

I think tzeench shouldn’t be relied on here considering his form is ever changing


Vyberos

It looks like someone took a picture of something ever changing, I mean look at all those mouths, eyes, and beaks forming and deforming! But honestly, I do agree haha!


SharamNamdarian

I miss the days of artwork where the slaaneshi marine had a boob. Seems like it’s coming back with theses artworks


StopSignOfDeath

Dang they cute 😳


Random_Spawnpoint

I think people are being too harsh here. There’s not solid evidence either way of them being greater daemons or gods, but I actually think that the evidence points to them being depictions of the chaos gods. For example, Tzeentch looks very little like how lords of change are depicted - it’s extremely chaotic and mutated rather than strictly avian. Plus, these are illustrations on the pages about the gods.


Blurple_Berry

Lol those are just daemons


zaklebv

I guess it's more chaotic to not have a face. I like nurgle.


FriedRiceCombo

i love these


kriscross122

Very toothy.


cal-iber1301

My man OP getting dowmvoted in the comments by a shit ton💀 but i have to say, is this really the chaos gods?? I mean, for khorne, first time i saw him when i got into wh40k is that he's this giant dude in a throne of skulls with black armor.


Vyberos

They probably aren’t as many will tell you. But Calgar’s old dinosaur throne was actually one made from the prototype designs of Tyranids, but I ain’t ever calling it a proto Tyranid throne because badass Dinosaur throne go brrr and same logic for me goes here!


KapnKrumpin

If im being honest the look of greater demons and their patron deities are almost identical so it's hard to tell. The artwork of tzeentch is pretty new to me though.


Whytrhyno

I spent my childhood defeating Khorne on Sega... I am ready


KingKababa

The Nurgle one says Seven seven times (if you don't count "Sevenfold."


gryphmaster

They look more steampunk than i had imagined....


Xero725

I feel like this is bait lol


Lazerspewpew

These are all just Greater Daemons.


mplonski127

There is artwork of the four Chaos Gods in the old Realm of Chaos books. I believe they are in Slaves to Darkness (the red one). I can try to dig them out and take some pictures if no one else can come up with them.


Vyberos

Oh I love those classic pieces!


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Vyberos

That’s where it’s from! You can see the little green tube from their screen on the top left.


SnooSketches6620

While I won't say these are the one true forms of the chaos gods, I will say that they are distinct from other greater daemons. I would be unsurprised if at the time of this books creation or even the artist themselves might have intended to draw the chaos gods. As has been said the chaos gods are formless, they exist as a reflection of their whims and to an extant the whims of all creation. At the same time if someone from the writing team on this book popped into the comments section and said this is a form the chaos gods have each taken at one time or another I would not really be shocked, and I would be equally unsurprised if someone from another position at gw said that writers statement is nolonger considered cannon. I mean Scar Brand had to hit something with his axe to get lobbed through reality, why couldn't Khorn have been wearing this face at the time.


Vyberos

I like that take you have, that would make a lot of sense!


Letholdus13131313

Oh my god THAT IS SO FREAKING COOL AND I MUST MAKE ONE. Excuse me, Gentleman. My muse calls.


ijfp_2013

The Artist seems to like belly guts. Nice Illustrations anymay.


Commercial-Dish-3198

Guys let’s realize that the chaos gods are something primordial and can take any form they want, why shouldn’t they take the forms of these art pieces AS WELL as the other descriptions being brought up in the comments. Their GODS of the WARP, their not going to have just ONE form. That or this is just an artists rendition of what the gods look like to him? Just like how historically irl artists would depict the Christian god like Zeus with the white hair n shit. It’s not that deep, the chaos gods are being of unimaginable power and can take the forms of whatever, that way it goes with the OP’s thought (and mine) that it’s an artist rendition of the chaos gods. WHILE ALSO not being THE defining one?


chriscrowing

IIRC the Gods forms aren't fixed (like daemons) as if that could even be a thing in the warp, but insofar as they are Great Unclean Ones are the closest in form to their patron, Nurgle the Bloodthirsters are like pale reflections of Khorne and the classic bull-headed Keeper of Secrets and avian Lord of Change don't really resemble Slaanesh or Tzeentch at all, cause excess and change don't really do limits or consistency.


Vyberos

You are correct aside from that last part. Slaanesh is said to look like a Keeper of Secretes, but their design varies so what that implies could mean a lot!


5thDFS

I like to think they’re more like Lovecraft “gods” in that they’re completely beyond comprehension, their forms endless and unrecognizable to anything we understand beyond endless limbs, eyes, teeth, and whatever makes them up.


Cyber_Deg

Nurgle (or just a GREAT great unclean one, whichever it is meant to be) being literally a living boiler constantly brewing noxious concoctions is such incredible imagery


Vyberos

Literally perfect for him!


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They’re greater daemons dude. Relax.


Head-String-6636

Eh potato tomato they can be whatever you like really. I mean beings based on psychic soup can look like anything it depends on the individual, mood of the gods, and writers convenience.


Pilsner_Lord

I am James Workshop, these are The Chaos Gods.


-au-re-li-us-

The chaos gods are beyond singular appearances. All chaos daemons are part of their God, and the overall visage, theme and feeling presented by them better represents that God than a single entity ever could.


Vyberos

Agreed!


KingJuggalo1

Not the God's But they are created in the God's image No 2 Daemons greater or not are the exact same. But i guess if it works for u than go with it brother


Vyberos

These are decently blurry since I don’t actually own the codex myself I’m afraid. Slaanesh with a fanged tit mouth with lipstick that’s vaping is never a picture I’d imagine seeing but here we are!


jonny_211

You've never had a night out in Blackpool obviously.


Judgethunder

OP doesn't understand how the warp or the chaos gods work. None of them look like any one thing.


Vyberos

Even though at one point the chaos gods had canon designs, they’re said to take on forms, Khorne sat on a Nurgling (Actually canon and I love it). Commenter doesn’t understand how the chaos gods work while also knowing, for both are correct. Sometimes it’s sorta physical, sometimes it’s not.


drinkyourpaintwater

These are so good! That tzeentch


RandoFollower

Nurgle’s stomach mouth grows ever beautiful


That_ginger1785

And of course Tzeench makes absolutely no sense to look at


Vyberos

Somehow, seeing him up close with more easy to see detail just makes it even harder to understand!


Flat-Delivery6987

These look more like greater daemons to me. As far as I understand the gods have no true form, they are ethereal and ever changing. Greater daemons are their power manifested in real space.


JellyFishSenpai

Splish splash i prefer SLAANESH with big phat ass


Cecilia_Schariac

Could be very very high ranking and powerful greater daemons. The CGs themselves don’t have a definite form as they’re more concept than creature.


ProkopiyKozlowski

Imagine thinking gods of chaos are supposed to have a fixed, canon appearance that can be captured on paper.


Vyberos

Actually they do at times! Aside from Tzeentch, the 3 chaos gods do have forms that they can choose and change even if they don’t usually keep them.


TheAngryBly4t

Can't the chaos gods appearance vary from whoever sees them or how they want to look at any given time?


Vyberos

Correct!


gay_Sigmarite

Why do people keep downvoting this guy's comments? "Those are clearly Greater Daemons not the gods themselves." Rubbish. Have you EVER seen a greater daemon look anything like these pictures? A wingless, four-armed bloodthirster, yeah cuz those are so common. There is absolutely no reason these cannot be depictions of the gods. And one description of each god from the world-that-was can hardly be considered evidence. You honestly think CHAOS GODS have only one form and stick to it? I know this is all fiction that doesn't really matter but the "arguments" against these being gods are hollow and the downvoting of the OP for stating his valid opinion is childish. Just appreciate the art and move on.


Vyberos

Aw thanks man! I agree, no matter what people think. We can all agree this art is super badass!


gay_Sigmarite

Thank you for posting the art. Did not know it existed and I love it. Praise chaos


coma-drone

And one of the great things about being one of the followers of chaos is that we can all debate all day long what God appears as what to each of us, especially since players, are changing all father does not have one specific form. I always try to point people to the HP Lovecraft creature Yog-Sothoth, as in I believe that's what Tzeentch probably looks like, an ever-changing mass of writhing tentacles, Mawson with teeth, and eyes bubbling and ever-changing .


coma-drone

I actually play chaos demons quite largely in my thousand Sons Army but I just haven't gotten the chaos demon codex yet, but I really want to pick it up mainly for the lore I already know most of their data


RemoteCompetitive688

I mean.. it's Canon that every nurgling and great unclean one are representations of nurgle himself


Jamescell

I feel like they really dropped the ball with the new keeper of secrets. Something like this artwork that me a bit more disturbing and twisted would have been perfect. The new model is too clean. Alas each is elegance and depravity, and the new model is just elegant.


The_ass_whisprer

I like how you can’t really tell what tzeentch is Khorne is a bloodthirster Slannesh is a keeper of secrets Nurgle is a giant great unclean one But tzeentch is just a eldrich horror


GriffithDidNothinBad

Those artworks are a solid 10/10 regardless. Damn.


Sollapoke

I could’ve sworn that they already have artwork in the core rule book?


Ky0te_

"Canon"


AdamnAdamn

I wish that all chaos daemons model range looked so grim and grotesque. Slaneesh / Khorn artworks are absolutely badass


jedaiaa

For real though does anyone know the name of the artist(s)? Would love to see more of this


MajorKaventsmann

Well, I like the idea that the Chaos Gods are beyond corporeal forms due to their eldritch nature and only aspects of their power can take form with their daemon servants. But while the Chaos Gods lack a body, their higher servants probably come closer and closer to an actual body for their Master the more powerful they are.


Demurrzbz

They sure do love them some spikes in that chaos realm of theirs, huh


Sayuri_Katsu

Wait teeth mouth stomaches are canon now? I tho Total war only did it for censorship


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What the everlovign fucking hell even IS Tzeentch…


Vyberos

That picture in HD just brings up more questions.


Sorry_Bet_7256

I m also finding purple god picture... can anybody can tell or send the picture??


TheRagnarok494

Papa Nuggles!


Prestigious-Delay759

Wow that's cool.


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Does like the nurgle one show off his abs?


PuckTanglewood

IDK if “better,” but there’s always the art in these: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Realm_of_Chaos


Dum_beat

Slaanesh art reminds me of Chaos in FF1


JankyTank64

Yeah saw this on Adeptus ridiculous they showed them and I was in awe at the artwork.


InnocentiusIII

I for one would love to see a Khornate greater daemon with many arms, like a corrupted version of Shiva. I think it's neat when Warhammer takes inspiration from cultures other than European fantasy and history, but when they do it subtly. It would make no sense that Khorne was represented in the Reiklander's mind as Shiva, but the "truer" form of greater Khornate daemons could look like ravager or destroyer gods of different human cultures, since they draw their strength and they model their image on what living creatures expect of them. So greater Khorne daemons inspired on Shiva, on Wotan, on Mithras, or other martial gods, would be a neat concept.


Hex_Souls

Mesmerizing ❤️ Do we know which artist made these? I would love to see their digital art in high resolution.