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CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoWhat I also appreciate about Chaos is that their writers know they’re evil. I swear the people writing loyalist books forget that the Imperium is basically as bad as the rest in its own way.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Very much, yes! Chaos is the clearest, most stable faction in the entire lore in terms of characterisation and intent!
Honestly, I think the ambiguity behind the Imperium’s portrayal stems from a sort of pandering to the popularity of the faction itself, maybe even to blunt the sharpness a bit, make it more accessible to new inductees. Easier to sell a “slightly Theo-Fascistic” galactic empire than “we need to sacrifice literally thousands of people marked as Other to a corpse and, yes, corpse starch is exactly what it says on the tin. Oh, and we’ll need to lobotomise about 10000 of you because our biotoxin planet-wiping nukes need polishing.”
It’s a pity, because that’s exactly what drew me into 40k to begin with, that feeling of “wow, this stuff’s beyond horrific, my morbid curiosity is tickled seventy shades of pink!”