Editing Slaves to Darkness (section)

==Origins==
Generally speaking, the STD ([[FAIL|OOPS!]]) fall into two groups in regards to how they were formed.

The first group is much in line with Fantasy‘s Norsca; primitive societies who willingly or unknowingly worship the Dark Gods. During the Age of Myth, there were many tribal cultures lay scattered about the Mortal Realms. They weren’t under the authoritarian thumb of Sigmar and thus allowed to spread out and create their own religions and beliefs. Usually these cultures had simple traditions and gods that inadvertently fell in line with Chaos (I.e. a warrior culture revering a god of war for his honor and martial prowess fuels [[Khorne]]). When the Age of Chaos rolled around, these tribes were either press ganged into servitude by the hordes of daemons, willingly followed them as loyal servants, or were slowly corrupted and fell to Chaos.

The second group is a bit more tragic. When [[Sigmar]] closed off the gates to Azyr, he left entire continents and civilizations to fend for themselves against the swathes of Chaos. Some human worshippers of other gods were also left in a vulnerable position as their gods left them to fend for themselves. These people turned to Chaos either to spite their former gods or save their own skins. Still more turned to Chaos because they genuinely thought the Chaos Gods offered a better deal (such as several nations of Shyish preferring them to Nagash - which is almost understandable given [[That Guy|Nagash's character]]). Of course, some of these people would still remain opposed to Chaos and fight on, their descendants becoming known as the Reclaimed and having a tense rivalry with the [[Cities of Sigmar]], seeing them as privileged goody two-shoes.