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« on: October 02, 2016, 02:08:00 pm »
Truth be told you're right, nenjin, there isn't really a fear-based entity in 40k that would work effectively.
There is in Fantasy though: Nagash.
This is the dude that was so afraid of dying that he broke literally everything his people held sacred, murdered his brother, twisted magic into its practical antithesis by inventing necromancy, and eventually tried to kill everyone on the planet, including the Chaos Gods, all because he was afraid of dying.
Hell, the base mindset behind necromancy is one of fear - a budding necromancer is afraid of dying for whatever reason and will do anything to stave that off, whether that be shack up with vampires, eat crystallized dark magic, or try to ressurect Nagash himself like some twisted nega-GEOM as he sits on his black throne all skeletal-like in the mile-high evil fortress he built named after himself.
There would be a good way of making fear a chaosy emotion, I think - make it be the root of everyone who follows that god's actions, that they fear dying, fear becoming something other than themselves, hence why they don't follow other chaos gods. They want to stay themselves and will do anything to accomplish that, and the more powerful they become the more smug they may act but the more focused on self-preservation they become, since power comes with enemies. It'd be like a chaos god of ... well yeah fear, but selfishness? Almost feels like a cross between Tzneetch and Slaanesh. The god's actions would probably be centered around killing the other gods to prevent anything from ever being able to end it.
