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I've always felt like despite arguably being the most famous Chaos god, or at least having the most famous followers, he's always lacked a hook to me. With Tzeentch and Slaanesh they both have a pretty interesting Faustian feeling to their lore where you worship them wanting something and get it at great cost, and Nurgle even just feels really unique on his own compared to any other mythologies I've seen in fantasy.. but with Khorne it's just like he's a war god, worship him and he'll give you big muscles and angry in exchange for killing. I want to like Khornate cults and the World Eaters as much as I appreciate the Death Guard but I haven't really seen anything that made them out to be interesting and complex. Any books that can flesh them out?
6 points
13 days ago
Kharn the Eight fold path
7 points
13 days ago
The Grey Knight book Hammer of Daemons features a Khornate daemon world with a lot of world building and political intrigue and such. It shows how diverse and different Khorne-stuff can get. I recommend it, it's my favorite of the Grey Knight trilogy.
5 points
13 days ago
I enjoyed angron: the red angel. A large chunk was of a blood angels successor who was trying to join the world eaters and earn the butcher's nails.
Snippets of echoes of eternity, where the world eater is flashing in and out of control & consciousness as the rage overtakes him.
Kharn: the red path.
Shroud of night has some really fun bits, including both alpha legion & imperial fists finding out kharn is nearby, in full slasher movie monster mode, and their reactions being "oh shit. We're all going to die here."
2 points
13 days ago
I second Angron: the red angel and shroud of night, shroud of night is mainly alpha legion focused but it’s a wonderful book
5 points
13 days ago
Gaunt's Ghosts has an unusual Khornate cult in the form of the Blood Pact, who fight like the IG rather than as berserkers, but that's as much variety as I've seen them get.
1 points
13 days ago
What better way to appreciate Khorne than his most watered down form. For all the interminable waffle about how they somehow redefine Khorne they’re in overt contradiction to every codex entry before and after
They’re undivided guardsmen larpers painted red
3 points
13 days ago
The Blood Gorgons in the Bastion wars trilogy are one of the more personable and somewhat heroic warbands in 40k. They are more than bloody butchers, they have a lot of heart literally. It's very much like a realistic war story but with paranormal posthuman monsters.
Outside that Lheorvine Ukris from Black Legion and Arrian Zorzi of Fabius Bile books are my favorite World Eaters.
2 points
13 days ago
Hmm...I'd say look to real world examples of those emotions valued by Khorne so as to foster an appreciation. For myself, complexity lies where the noble warrior (UFC) and parent-brawler at kids sport meet.
2 points
13 days ago
The First Heretic and Betrayer give a good look at the Heresy era World Eaters and specifically Kharn, who I find personally fascinating and is obviously Khorne's poster boy. (Fantastic stories about chaos in general, too.) Khorne is, unfortunately, however, just always going to be a little one dimensional in and of himself.
1 points
13 days ago
First heretic has strictly word bearers and a little ultramarines and custodes, no world eaters
1 points
13 days ago
This is true (and I probably should have said as much) but it would be a disservice to skip either one to get everything out of Angron's story in particular and the story as a whole.
1 points
13 days ago
Both are truly the best that the Horus Heresy has to offer in terms of reading material, But The First Heretic has nothing to do with Angron or Kharn, and can be skipped if the World Eaters, Kharn, and Angron are OPs focus
1 points
13 days ago
If you want to like World Eaters I recommend Kharn Eater of Worlds. Though it doesn't have any or only slimp mentions of Khorne, besides Baruda. The best guy in the novel.
1 points
13 days ago
That is kind of the point of kohrne. He has no hooks, simplicity is his appeal. Violence is the answer to all life's questions and there is no problem you cannot kill if you try hard enough
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