Editing Chaos Cults (section)

===Slaaneshi Cults===
Cults of Slaanesh are sick fucks. While not as large as the other cults, and usually not as common, a Slaaneshi Cult can really fuck up any society at the core. The common stereotype of them is a bunch of jaded nobles looking for new ways to get off, but in theory anyone who wants a little pleasure in life can fall under the sway of a Slaanesh cult. The exact brand of sick fuckery that it fosters can vary widely, but regardless of what it is they fixate on it'll be as excessive and hedonistic as they can manage. Contrary to popular belief, this doesn't always equate to sex (that's so dark-goddamn vanilla); it can be anything from finding the most aesthetically pleasing pitch a person can scream at to mindlessly staring at a wall painted in a highly specific shade of purple, but still also can include more obvious things (like sex, drugs and ROCK) but turned up to "my dial's lowest setting is 11". It does, however, amount to obsession- a pleasure as seemingly harmless as listening to the crackling of wood burning in a fire can be warped to the point of monomania when someone starts tearing down houses to burn the wood that they're made of in order to gain that pleasure.

A good example of a non-sexualized Slaanesh-esque cult could be the first Bioshock game, in which you aid a drugged up artist with creating his ''magnum opus''... Which is [[Grimdark|four pictures of his dead students held up by corpses of dancers and performers encapsulated in white plaster]].

Many Slaaneshi cultists exhibit a very specific tactile disorder that would be quite familiar to old hands at 40k lore: they register pain as (or react to it as) pleasure. Many Slaaneshi cults often see their members deliberately and enthusiastically throwing away their lives as they seek to get injured, maimed, or killed in the most gruesome manner possible in order to get off on the most excruciating death and injuries they can have inflicted on them. A scene from ''The Traitor's Hand'' had cultists basically queuing up to get cut down by [[Ciaphas Cain|Commissar Cain]] and his chainsword.