Editing Chaos Gods (section)

===Warhammer 40,000===
====Anathema Ultima/Alpha Pariah====
The Maguffin Girl of the [[Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr]] game, and though she's not a Chaos God, the game makes it ''very'' clear that she has the potential to become one. Prophecised millions of years ago as the ultimate expression of the Pariah gene and the key to saving the galaxy from Chaos by the ancient Xenos race, the Fabricatus ([[Awesome|a race that evolved on a derelict Necron Tombworld that allowed them to reverse-engineer, modify, and repurpose Necron bits to create their own unique tech that "defy explanation"]]), who would research the Pariah gene in order to aid the Alpha Pariah when they were born. A joint creation of rouge Inquisitor Uther Tiberius and [[Fabius Bile]] after being inspired by said prophecy and research, the Alpha Pariah was an artificially created [[Blank|Pariah]] that had the unique ability to not just be a powerful anti-psyker, but to also be able to absorb [[Daemon]]s and permanently kill them while increasing her own power and gaining extremely powerful psyker abilities in addition to her Blank powers.

Using a special artifact known as "The Crown of Emptiness" left by the Fabricatus to help the Alpha Pariah both boost and control their powers, the goal of Uther Tiberius and the Fabricatus' prophecy was to have her enter the Warp and straight-up '''eat the Chaos Gods and their minions''' using her ability, and using their power to ascend as the Fifth and final God of Chaos before cleansing it and ruling the now-purified, Chaos-free Warp as a "God-Empress of Mankind" and saving the galaxy, while the Emperor rules in the Materium.

Many factions in ''Inquisitor'', naturally, either want to use her or get rid of her entirely. Inquistorial forces(including yourself) either really want to kill her for being a dangerous product of a heretical Inquisitor, or don't trust her being in the same room as them, even considering her an "it" rather than a person. Various Chaos factions either want to kill her to prevent harm to their Gods, or ascend her as an evil Chaos God that will either become part of the Great Game or destroy the galaxy entirely. Fabius Bile wants to retrieve her in order to grant his New Men the ability to enslave the Chaos Gods. Some Asuryani Eldar want to use her to cure their Craftworld of a Chaos-originated disease. And the [[Ynnari]] and [[Harlequin]]s, although seemingly helping the Protagonist and the Alpha Pariah in leading them to the Crown of Emptiness and helping to control her powers to fight Chaos, eventually reveal to be using you in their desire to feed the Alpha Pariah to their god [[Ynnead]] in order to wake him up.

In the end, the Alpha Pariah would sacrifice herself to travel into and close a Warp Storm known as the Dark Nexus which threatened to become the Eye of Terror 2.0, trapping her in the Warp and left to seek the Chaos Gods while letting her chose how to fulfil the final part of the prophecy: either become the final Chaos God and cleanse the Warp of Chaos and save the galaxy from their horrors, decide that the bigoted Humans that kept insulting her and trying to kill her are too far gone and become an evil Chaos God to destroy them, or decide to be nothing at all and let the galaxy sort out its own shit.

====Balphomael====
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A minor Chaos God skirting on the edge of independent Greater Daemon, ruler of the Daemon World of Woe. Has a Christian Devil, "Let's Make a Deal" sort of vibe about him, complete with looking like classical illustrations of Demons and his name being a portmanteau of Baal, Baphomet and Samael. The art above is from a Dark Heresy book. Also of note is his cult, "The Brotherhood of Horned Darkness", which has a considerable amount of influence in the Calixis Sector and once even became the dominant economic force in the sector via a front organization. Despite multiple attempts from agents of the Ordo Malleus to destroy the cult, they have so far only been able to force them to go underground where they make preparations to return to power once more.

====[[Eye of the Abyss]]====
Well, to be specific, the daemon that the Eye of the Abyss was ''previously''. Maybe. The Daemon is described in the ''Creatures Anathema'' supplement book for the ''Dark Heresy'' game. Long ago there was some great daemonic power in Hazeroth that got shattered somehow, its death creating great-warp storms that ravaged entire planets. However, a single fragment of the entity, having lost pretty much all its power and everything that it previously was, ended up attaching itself to a lost derelict ship in the warp, and after assimilating the dead crew's and the machine spirit's memories along with the ship's technology, became a new daemon lord in the shape of a warship that attacks ships travelling through the Warp near Hazeroth.

Admittedly, it is '''very''' ambiguous if this thing was a potential Chaos God, but what is certain is that it was far stronger than any normal Greater Demon. It is made clear in the entry about this daemon that this single fragment is '''no where''' near the same level of strength as its previous incarnation(which makes one wonder how the hell it died, but whatever), and that this new ship form is a "stranger, lesser power". While the Eye of the Abyss is consistently described as a daemon lord(which is basically just another way of saying a particularly notable Greater Daemon(get it, because generally, barring Daemon Primarchs, Greater Demons are above Daemon Princes in both power and rank)), the daemon it was before is only described as "a mighty daemonic power" or just a "daemon".

As already mentioned, the death of the previous entity created entire huge warp storms that ruined entire worlds, which is not something you hear happens when a Greater Daemon dies. Furthermore, this single fragment, without most of its original power, is still capable enough to leave the warp: yes, if a ship it's preying on leaves the warp, the Eye of the Abyss can manifest itself and ''follow it'' into the Materium. Admittedly, it can only stay in the Materium for a few hours, but other Greater Daemons require huge sacrificial rituals or the aid of their patron God to enter real-space, and the Eye of the Abyss can do it all by itself with only a tiny fragment of its original power.

The ship is also mentioned of having its own "court" of lesser warp-entities that hang around on its hull, similar to Chaos Gods and their own daemons, with the greater entities being giant cannon-daemons and thick-limbed hurlers several hundred meters high that launch or vomit warp matter as ammo, and thousands of lesser entities in hundreds of different forms that act as the crew when they aren't killing or fucking eachother. Oh, and that warp matter ammo the ship and cannon daemons use? Once that hits a targeted ship, that stuff become "munition daemons", short-lived manifested daemons that gleefully destroy all they can before they disappear from existence.

Neither it nor its crew is stated or even hinted to belong to any of the known Chaos Gods. And though it is definitely ambiguous if that original daemonic power could have been considered something close to a potential Ruinous Power(especially without any worship), what is almost certain is that it definitely wasn't any normal Greater Daemon.

====King in Rags and Tatters====
Quite possibly a Chaos God version of Hastur from the Cthulhu Mythos, may or may not be a guise of Tzeentch. Leader of the "Menagerie" a Chaos Cult that seeks to unravel reality itself. Has unique daemonic minions in the form of Warp Spectres, roiling, constantly changing masses of hideous-energy-being Daemons (like a Chaos Spawn made of gas and energy instead of fluid flesh?).

====Lord of Misrule====
Another minor Chaos God skirting on the edge of being an independent Greater Daemon from Dark Heresy. Also seeks to undo the veil between reality and the Warp.

====Melkirth====
Mentioned in older background material for Warhammer 40,000. Melkirth was a minor chaos god described as "The god of evil, malice, and wanton cruelty and suffering." While Melkirth remains a minor god, it is said that the actions of the mortal races, particularly the Dark Eldar, are causing Melkirth to grow in power until he ultimately becomes the fifth major Chaos God. The daemons of Melkirth are described as being the colour of shadow and able to take on the appearance of any daemon, be it a daemon of Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, or Tzeentch. These shadow daemons could be inspiration for the shadow daemons Morathi encounters in Ulgu in Age of Sigmar, as they are also having to do with Dark Aelfs.

====Mo'rcck, Phraz-Etar, and Ans'l====
Puns on the last names of sci-fi and fantasy author Michael Moorcock (from whom the idea of [[Chaos]] as a fundamental force in the world was blatantly stolen/took inspiration from, and don't anyone ever say "borrow for a while" since even the author and Games Workshop have admitted it), artist Frank Frazetta (who drew a lot of movie and comic book posters, especially in sci-fi and fantasy), and Citadel Miniatures founder Bryan Ansell (who wrote several of the [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|First Edition]] rulebooks). These guys helped set the tone of the early [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe (purposefully or not), including the propensity of putting spikes on [[Chaos]] things. Games Workshop decided to pay homage in the (initial) Third Edition [[Codex]]: [[Chaos Space Marines]], which mentioned that Chaos Space Marines often put "spiky bits" on their armour in praise of these three gods. They were never mentioned anywhere else, and probably shouldn't be considered "canonical"... not that canonicity counts for much in 40k anyway.

Some baseless fan speculation could be made that Phraz-Etar could be the Patron God of the Apemen of The Southlands, the regional Beastmen variant who are probably the equivalent of the common Gor births that plague Old World villages for the unlucky African equivalent villages in that jungle land. This is due to the existence of the popular "Frazetta Man" trope of degenerate Apemen started by Frank Frazetta himself in illustrations for Conan the Barbarian comic stories.

====Pater Mutatis/[[Fabius Bile]]====
Yes, turns out our little fabulously-dressed horror surgeon may or may not be a Minor Chaos God. When he was with the Haemonculi, they dissected him in an attempt to find the cause of the Blight, only to discover that it was incurable because it was actually a warp-based affliction. They speculated that because of how long he survived with it, the Blight itself was mutating into some kind of extradimensional being that will emerge out of his body like a butterfly leaving its chrysalis, and Fabius would become something like an incarnate God that takes and twists that which belongs to the other Gods. In addition, a Word Bearers diabolist working for him notes that due to all the mutants he created worshipping him as the god Pater Mutatis(and consider him the "kindest" of all the Gods they do know), Fabius Bile is beginning to leave a mark in the Warp.

And somehow, despite it being confirmed that he died for real at the Battle of Belial IV (with the kill-switches he implanted inside Saqarra going off), the "original Bile" as of the present day is now some kind of [[God-Emperor of Mankind|undead being spending most of his time in a life-support capsule]], implying that he somehow resurrected.

The whole deal is kinda ambiguous, especially when it is unsure if the Pater Mutatis will be a seperate being to Fabius that just used him to incarnate, or if he would be Pater Mutatis himself. Though comparisons could be made between this situation and the relationship between [[the God-Emperor of Mankind]] and the [[Star Child]].

====Raptor God====
The minor god worshipped by the [[Chaos Raptor]]s, responsible for turning them from standard [[Assault Squad|Assault Marines]] to the mercenaries they currently are, and maybe also the one that turns them into [[Warp Talons]].

====[[The Dark King]]====
The Dark King is / was a potential Chaos God that was almost incarnated during the latter days of the Siege of Terra. In much the same way Slaanesh was born from the civilisational death of the ancient Aeldari, the Dark King would have been created from the same symbolic death of Humanity during the Heresy.

Whilst Horus was presumed to be the being who would become the Dark King, the daemon Samus also hypothesized that both the Emperor and even Erebus were potentially in the running for it, which is interesting for the former and baffling for the latter. The treacherous dickblister isn't in the same league as the other two.

Exactly what it would have been a Chaos God of is yet unknown. Slaanesh was born from a whole race's excess, whilst the conditions leading to the prospective incarnation of the Dark King was a galaxy spanning civil war. Obviously, it didn't end up happening.

====[[Vashtorr]] the Arkifane====
A demigod born from the desire to create and invent, given power over the Forge of Souls. He acts as the Chaos Gods' arms dealer and chief weaponsmith, making him too valuable for any of the Big Four to attack. Currently working with [[Abaddon]] to create the [[Arks of Omen]] in the hopes of expanding his influence into the Materium so he can become a true Chaos God. Many Warpsmiths and members of the Dark Mechanicus revere him, but he wants more.

After assembling an entire slew of puzzle pieces from across the galaxy, he managed to create a "key" that not only allowed him to rebuild [[Caliban]] as a daemon world but also rip open his own portal to the [[Webway]] in order to hide it from any pursuers like the entirety of the [[Unforgiven]], who saw the unnatural recreation of their homeworld as a grave affront. Now he is in pursuit of the "lock", an ancient cache of Old Ones tech that can allow him and Abaddon to unmake all of reality while providing him the push he needs to ascend to godhood.

====Ysarille the Daemon-King====
According to an Eisenhorn book, Ysarille was a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch from a time before the Eldar first went to space, before Slaanesh was born, and who gained enough power that he became capable of creating his own Daemons/Daemon Princes, basically making him a lesser Chaos God. He went to battle with his former master, and after a billion-year battle, Tzeentch finally killed Ysarille. His surviving Daemons took his body and fled, setting up a Tomb world for him on the planet Ghúl, and their own Daemon Empire of 600 worlds surrounding planet Ghúl, in exile from the Warp. Cherubael, Gregor Eisenhorn's minion who takes the form of a Daemonhost by possessing the corpse of Gregor's former colleague Godwyn Fischig, was one of Ysarille's servants.