Someone tried to convince me of this the other day and did a horrible job of it. But I'm curious, is there any truth to their viewpoint? I'm not talking about the crazy ones, but are there any Chaos followers that could be argued to be "good" or have a rational reason for their beliefs? ITT: Convince me to join the forces of Chaos. EDIT: The title was a bad choice. Is there any truth to their viewpoint and do the Chaos gods ever do things for their followers beyond just using them as pawns and then discarding them after death?
There are no good guys in 40k... But without chaos gods, there wouldn't be anything existant... no emotions or emotionally able creatures... Khorne might be the god of slaughter and murder and blood for example, but he's also the god of honor and decency (No lies or trickery basically!) Or Tzeentch, god who mindfucks you BUT also the god of knowledge and intelligence... Gods are basically the large amounts of emotions in the 40k universe, put together... If you wanna go deeper go watch one of the latest TTS episodes that speaks about this! But no, apart from Chaos worshipping gods of literal existance pretty much, they're not exactly the good guys.
Well, they can make you a daemon prince - you essentially transcend and become an immortal being of the warp. Sort of. Or you can be a champion for ages and battlepiss on people with plague, or grow a Space Marine vagina, or just be a pretty fun guy to be around, like Kharn. You can even be a cosmic snek, like Fulgrim!
Yes and no Chaos isnt evil or good but Chaos marines just accept the disorder of the galaxy and heavily favor personal improvement compared to loyalists who they view has holding themselves back for little to no gain.
Are the guys who go around slaughtering defenceless civilians, using their skeletons as home decor and blood to summon even more monstrous beings the good guys? What do you think?
To be fair the Imperium isn't thaaaaaaaat much better when it comes to slaughtering defenseless people/xenos. But this isn't about Chaos as a whole, but rather if there are any specific instances that break the norm.