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Some interesting quotes about Chaos.
"The powers of Chaos hold sway over so many not because they represent some esoteric concept with rare appeal; no, they are so insidious because they are precisely the opposite. With Khorne, it is the inherent nature of conflict and struggle. For Nurgle, it is the inevitability of death and decay, and to these certainties unto the end. For Tzeentch, it is the ever-changing nature of the universe and the need to feel some measure of control. These are all base instincts, primal parts of the lives of every living thing. Slaanesh is no different. His appeal is grounded in such seemingly innocent ideals—every being's pursuit of happiness and the desire to improve. Very little, if anything, holds more sway over the heart of any mortal, no matter the race, than desire in all its forms. It is universal. All beings want more than they have. They are never content. Where an Imperial Guardsman seeks glory, he finds Slaanesh. Where a Rogue Trader seeks wealth, he finds Slaanesh. Wherever there are desires, at the end of the quest to sate those desires lies Slaanesh, and utter damnation." -Black Crusade:The Tome of Excess, Pg. 7
"As we have seen all too often (and to our cost), Tzeentch is not content to merely guess at future events any more than He is content to merely the drama of history as it unfolds. The subtle skeins of probability and chance are His manipulate. Tzeentch is the Great Conspirator, the master and personification of plot and intrigue, and He has purposes and ires of His own. Why should Tzeentch stay His meddling hand? He is capable of manipulating the immeasurably complex strands of probability that hold the secrets of chance and Fate. Indeed, there are those who believe that Tzeentch's plans and schemes are so impossibly vast and complex, and so tightly woven across time and space that they touch the lives of almost every being in existence, whether they know it or not."-Liber Chaotica
"If Chaos is change itself, then Tzeentch, more than any other Dark Power, embodies Chaos in its purest, most primal form. Therefore, no other God of Chaos warrants more of our fearful respect, our tireless resistance, and our unflagging loyalty to the Emperor." -Black Crusade: The Tome of Fate, Pg.6
"Tzeentch's only purpose may be nothing more than change itself—constant development, progress, alteration, mutation, metamorphosis, diversification, transformation, and revolution. Still others suggest that ascribing something as mortal, temporal, and worldly as a simple goal to an enigmatic Dark Power like Tzeentch results from limited reasoning that erroneously attempts to anthropomorphise a Chaos God and incorrectly characterise him as having mortal, temporal, and worldly desires. It may be more accurate to state that Tzeentch is an entity that, by his very nature, is an agent for change. As such, Tzeentch no more desires change than a catalyst desires a chemical reaction" '-Black Crusade: The Tome of Fate, Pg.8
"So I say now, you who have chosen to question the received wisdoms of others more ignorant than yourselves, to truly emancipate yourselves, you must accept that it is impossible to know where your self-control ends and the control of the gods begins, and similarly, where your own emotions and ideas end and the projected emotions and ideas of the Gods Chaos begin. For indeed, can there really be any difference between the two?" -Liber Chaotica
"'Chaos.' Lorgar tasted the word, weighing it on his tongue. 'That is not the correct word, is it? The immaterial realm may be one of pure Chaos, but it is changed when bonded with the ma-terial universe. Diluted. Even in this Great Eye, where the gods stare into the galaxy, physical laws are broken but it is not a place of pure Chaos. It is no random ocean of seething psychic energy. It is not the warp itself, but a meshing of here and there, the fir-mament and the aether.'"
"This is where the realm of flesh and spirit meet. Physical laws mean nothing here. There is no limit on what might be. That is Chaos. Endless possibility" -Aurelia
"Blood can mean different things; for most it is merely a biological fluid, part of organic life. Those who see beyond the mundane know it is much, much more. Blood is energy, and rage, and endless fury, but above all blood is a source of power. To hear blood pumping as a foe is cut in two is to know life and death. To feel blood churning with the fury of combat is to touch upon something that was impossibly ancient before humanity walked upright. To see blood spilling from the bite of an axe is to offer sacrament to perhaps the first god to form in the impossible maelstroms of the Warp, for wherever there is conflict and violence, there is Khorne." -Black Crusade: The Tome of Blood, Pg.4
"The powers of Chaos hold sway over so many not because they represent some esoteric concept with rare appeal; no, they are so insidious because they are precisely the opposite. With Khorne, it is the inherent nature of conflict and struggle. For Nurgle, it is the inevitability of death and decay, and to these certainties unto the end. For Tzeentch, it is the ever-changing nature of the universe and the need to feel some measure of control. These are all base instincts, primal parts of the lives of every living thing. Slaanesh is no different. His appeal is grounded in such seemingly innocent ideals—every being's pursuit of happiness and the desire to improve. Very little, if anything, holds more sway over the heart of any mortal, no matter the race, than desire in all its forms. It is universal. All beings want more than they have. They are never content. Where an Imperial Guardsman seeks glory, he finds Slaanesh. Where a Rogue Trader seeks wealth, he finds Slaanesh. Wherever there are desires, at the end of the quest to sate those desires lies Slaanesh, and utter damnation." -Black Crusade:The Tome of Excess, Pg. 7
"As we have seen all too often (and to our cost), Tzeentch is not content to merely guess at future events any more than He is content to merely the drama of history as it unfolds. The subtle skeins of probability and chance are His manipulate. Tzeentch is the Great Conspirator, the master and personification of plot and intrigue, and He has purposes and ires of His own. Why should Tzeentch stay His meddling hand? He is capable of manipulating the immeasurably complex strands of probability that hold the secrets of chance and Fate. Indeed, there are those who believe that Tzeentch's plans and schemes are so impossibly vast and complex, and so tightly woven across time and space that they touch the lives of almost every being in existence, whether they know it or not."-Liber Chaotica
"If Chaos is change itself, then Tzeentch, more than any other Dark Power, embodies Chaos in its purest, most primal form. Therefore, no other God of Chaos warrants more of our fearful respect, our tireless resistance, and our unflagging loyalty to the Emperor." -Black Crusade: The Tome of Fate, Pg.6
"Tzeentch's only purpose may be nothing more than change itself—constant development, progress, alteration, mutation, metamorphosis, diversification, transformation, and revolution. Still others suggest that ascribing something as mortal, temporal, and worldly as a simple goal to an enigmatic Dark Power like Tzeentch results from limited reasoning that erroneously attempts to anthropomorphise a Chaos God and incorrectly characterise him as having mortal, temporal, and worldly desires. It may be more accurate to state that Tzeentch is an entity that, by his very nature, is an agent for change. As such, Tzeentch no more desires change than a catalyst desires a chemical reaction" '-Black Crusade: The Tome of Fate, Pg.8
"So I say now, you who have chosen to question the received wisdoms of others more ignorant than yourselves, to truly emancipate yourselves, you must accept that it is impossible to know where your self-control ends and the control of the gods begins, and similarly, where your own emotions and ideas end and the projected emotions and ideas of the Gods Chaos begin. For indeed, can there really be any difference between the two?" -Liber Chaotica
"'Chaos.' Lorgar tasted the word, weighing it on his tongue. 'That is not the correct word, is it? The immaterial realm may be one of pure Chaos, but it is changed when bonded with the ma-terial universe. Diluted. Even in this Great Eye, where the gods stare into the galaxy, physical laws are broken but it is not a place of pure Chaos. It is no random ocean of seething psychic energy. It is not the warp itself, but a meshing of here and there, the fir-mament and the aether.'"
"This is where the realm of flesh and spirit meet. Physical laws mean nothing here. There is no limit on what might be. That is Chaos. Endless possibility" -Aurelia
"Blood can mean different things; for most it is merely a biological fluid, part of organic life. Those who see beyond the mundane know it is much, much more. Blood is energy, and rage, and endless fury, but above all blood is a source of power. To hear blood pumping as a foe is cut in two is to know life and death. To feel blood churning with the fury of combat is to touch upon something that was impossibly ancient before humanity walked upright. To see blood spilling from the bite of an axe is to offer sacrament to perhaps the first god to form in the impossible maelstroms of the Warp, for wherever there is conflict and violence, there is Khorne." -Black Crusade: The Tome of Blood, Pg.4
