The iconic symbol of Chaos is the eight-pointed star, representing the infinite possibilities of Chaos. The most powerful entities of Chaos are the four great Chaos Gods, also known as the Ruinous Powers, who each embody one aspect of the greater force of Chaos and can be worshipped individually or as an entire pantheon known as ' Chaos Undivided.' However, the malevolent power of Chaos can gradually corrupt a psyker, tainting his mind and body and turning him into the slave of the Ruinous Powers. The most evolutionarily-advanced mortals, psykers, can utilise this energy, thus making them capable of abilities which transcend the standard physical laws of the material universe as Humanity understands them.

However, more often than not, the Chaos Gods reward individual accomplishment in such a way that the ends justify the means, and the absence of hierarchy and emphasis on individual freedom leads to the pursuit of excess and personal aggrandisement that can only be characterised as damnation. While its adherents and servants act in ways that are often malevolent, some devotees of Chaos are more dedicated to the service of freedom and change than of the pure selfishness that Humanity and most other intelligent species define as nefarious. It gives shape to the nightmare domains of the individual Chaos Gods that are collectively called the Realm of Chaos by savants of the Inquisition.Ĭhaos is almost synonymous with the Warp - the two concepts are inseparable, for Chaos is the limitless ocean of spiritual, psychic and emotional energy that defines the Immaterium and underlies the 4-dimensional material universe of space-time.Ĭhaos is a great and raw force of change and power, and is both physically and spiritually corrupting, though it is not in itself necessarily 'evil.'

The entities who embody Chaos are mostly Daemons, but the term also encompasses those mortals who have thrown in their lot with Chaos, ranging from simple peasants and/or manufactorum labourers who serve as Chaos Cultists, to Traitor Imperial Guardsmen, planetary militia, Imperial nobles, planetary governors, and even the mighty Chaos Space Marines and Traitor Titan Legions of the Dark Mechanicum.Ĭhaos is also itself the turbulent psychic energy that comprises the alternate dimension known as the Immaterium. When its legions march, they march to return upon us a ruin that is of our own making.'Ĭhaos, also known to its servants as the Primordial Truth or the Primordial Annihilator, and to the Imperium of Man as the Archenemy, is the universal and usually malign metaphysical force embodied by the malevolent intelligent entities comprised of psychic energy that live in the Immaterium.

' Every moment of anger, hate, deceit, pain, suffering, pleasure, and desire is mirrored in the power of Chaos.

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