Editing Honsou (section)

==Honsou The Nice Chaos Lord==
Despite the fact he's a ruthless and merciless warlord, responsible for the deaths of billions of innocent people, Honsou is a decent and just leader to his men. You would never see him sending his men to certain death without a very good reason, and most times he actually jumps in and joins them, [[Rip and tear|getting his gauntlets dirty]] digging trenches alongside everybody else. You would never see him killing his subordinates for anything lesser than outright treachery. He made the Daemonculaba for the entirely reasonable purpose of pumping out more Space Marines, rather than for the sake of torturing innocent people like some [[Haemonculus]] would. Honsou shows respect to both his allies and his foes which is something rarely seen amongst [[Heresy|corpse-worshipers]] or even [[Tau]]. Of course, being a Chaos Lord he still needs to meet his work quotas but he never descends into [[Stupid Evil|cartoonish villainy for the sake of villainy]]. It is stated in-universe, that if not for the fact that he was born (made?) in an already Chaos-corrupted legion, Honsou would have been great material for a noble Imperial hero.

It should furthermore be noted that he maintains this demeanor in a society (in the loosest sense of the word) that is almost to a man made up of sociopaths devoid of all but the most basic forms of empathy (and the vast majority of the successful lose even that over time).

His general decency contrasts very heavily with his villainous moments, which is probably the reason why those moments look much more monstrous and terrible than pretty much the same things performed by Fabius Bile or Abaddon. In fact, [[Drowtales|his humanity and civility is what makes his evil so much more disturbing.]]

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