Editing Blood Gorgons (section)

==The Blood Gorgons as a Chapter==
While most Chaos Space Marines lose their minds and become deranged sex pests, axe murderers, plague carriers, or hand wringing wicked wizards with no greater goal in life than to wear the skin of their enemies, bathe in the blood of virgins, tote around scary books and write odes to their own phlegm or engage in all sorts of other crazed theatrics, the Blood Gorgons, after telling the Imperium where to shove it became instead rather boring, as they kept, more or less, their sanity, using the Warp but not going full retard. Consequently, they depart from their brethren by doing silly things like maintaining a functional (and fairly successful) renegade Space Marine chapter that gets shit done for fun and profit, mostly on the piratical side of things with occasional incursions of small numbers of Marines onto Imperial worlds to stir the pot a bit in favor of [[Chaos Undivided]]. Still, though, as a whole, they don't really go into Chaos worship, but seem to (having long ago discarded any moral compunctions) just use the "gifts" of Chaos as a tool.

That being said, the Gorgons are definitely corrupted: mutations are almost omniprescent and seen as gifts; their ships and power armour are possessed by daemonic spirits (presumably nonaligned ones like Yetsugei), but nonetheless, they are neither fanatically loyal to Chaos as a theology, like the Word Bearers, nor are they interested in staging mass war against the Imperium, like the Black Legion; and what's more, they've no particular allegiance to any of the Big Four. They seem to have a bit of a beef with [[Nurgle]] and the [[Death Guard]] (this is a big part of the plot of one of their books, but even before the Blood Gorgons they raided a Death Guard ship. Maybe that started the beef. Why one would want to raid a plague-ridden Nurgley ship is anyone's guess.)

As for the other three, the Gorgons probably make a good enough impression but are either wise enough or insignificant enough not to get trapped into a relationship with such a patron. Their affinity for the main Chaos Gods is obvious, though: they are mentioned as having Slaaneshi <s>sex slaves</s> concubines among their retinue. "accepted according to the nine Slaaneshi principles of beauty, they set those principles themselves" they are said to be, of course they were [[looted]] from other chaos cults, (giving new meaning to the term [[/d/|War]] [[Hot Chicks|Booty]]). Khorne <s>probably</s> definetly digs their style in terms of warfare (one dude has "''forty metre stacks'' of plundered weaponry" sitting around in his closet.) Meanwhile in ''Flesh and Iron'' they have a really heavy Tzeentchian flavour, not only doing sneaky plots and stuff but repeated references to "change" and loads of mutations.

So really they could be considered to be all over the place. Three quarters of it anyway, which is pretty interesting given how almost every other chapter of ''Astartes traitoris'' either hate Chaos despite their corruption, embrace Chaos Undivided, or give themselves entirely over to the Big Four.

What their (loyalist, presumably?) genestock is is anyone's guess. Ultras? Salamanders? [[Iron Hands|Another Gorgon]]? Maybe even the White Scars? (''fanwanking intensifies...'') If traitor stock, then maybe the [[Iron Warriors]] or even [[Alpha Legion|XX]]th? This is probably not a question we'll see answered, so feel free to make up your own headcanon if you wanna make some of the Gorgons [[your dudes]].