Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - turn-based Warhammer 40k RPG from Owlcat Games - Void Shadows DLC coming August 8th

[ga♥]

Gods of W40K, at least judging from the little I know, don't seem to be neither omnipotent, omniscient and neither immortal. So very powerful entities but not gods in a classic way. Worshipping them as such is more than a political stance than faith.

 

[Peachcurl]

Some of them are immortal for all intents and purposes. Either way, that's not a definition of "gods in a classic way" that's the definition of God in terms of monotheistic religions like Christianity.

Osiris, Zeus, Odin, Shiva ... none of those are/were generally believed to be omnipotent, omniscient, and immortal.

 

[ga♥]

Some of them are immortal for all intents and purposes. Either way, that's not a definition of "gods in a classic way" that's the definition of God in terms of monotheistic religions like Christianity.

Osiris, Zeus, Odin, Shiva ... none of those are/were generally believed to be omnipotent, omniscient, and immortal.

Zeus was immortal as all greek gods.
Odin was omniscient if not immortal, so not sure what your point is.

Anything can be a god? I think it is fitting that W40K doesn't have some entity really godly btw.

 

[TheKing01]

Zeus and Odin weren't considered to be immortal?

 

[Peachcurl]

Some of them are immortal for all intents and purposes. Either way, that's not a definition of "gods in a classic way" that's the definition of God in terms of monotheistic religions like Christianity.

Osiris, Zeus, Odin, Shiva ... none of those are/were generally believed to be omnipotent, omniscient, and immortal.

Zeus was immortal as all greek gods.
Odin was omniscient if not immortal, so not sure what your point is.

If immortality alone is sufficient, there's plenty of gods in W40k.

Is Odin the only norse god?

 

[Yosharian]

Gods of W40K, at least judging from the little I know, don't seem to be neither omnipotent, omniscient and neither immortal. So very powerful entities but not gods in a classic way. Worshipping them as such is more than a political stance than faith.

Ehhh not really

Chaos seems to be kind of like a primordial force that's created from all the evil in the universe

Like for example the degeneracy of the Eldar, pre-fall, birthed Slaanesh

Other gods I'm not sure

But worshipping them is definitely still a matter of faith in most cases

 

[ArchAngel]

Gods of W40K, at least judging from the little I know, don't seem to be neither omnipotent, omniscient and neither immortal. So very powerful entities but not gods in a classic way. Worshipping them as such is more than a political stance than faith.

Ehhh not really

Chaos seems to be kind of like a primordial force that's created from all the evil in the universe

Like for example the degeneracy of the Eldar, pre-fall, birthed Slaanesh

Other gods I'm not sure

But worshipping them is definitely still a matter of faith in most cases

It is called Warp and it is not evil but emotions or someshit. Just that evil emotions are stronger and there is more so they created powerful warp entities which are called Chaos gods.

Eldar have other Warp "gods" that are not based on negative emotions, they are just too weak to beat Slanesh.

Emperor also almost became another Chaos god during the rebellion.

WK40k does not have real God like in Christianity.

 

[Stoned Ape]

The Chaos Gods rely on the collective human psyche for their sustenance. If Horus had won and the Emperor died in 30k, Chaos would have gorged on humanity until the race died out, then they themselves would have starved to death.

The gods in 40k have become embodiments of their portfolios to such an extent that they are driven to act in accordance with them. They have pretty much no ability to act outside of the furtherance of their aspect. It's speculated that's one of the reasons the Emperor did not want to become a god (outside of his desire for rationality to overcome superstition), he had plans to fight against chaos and if he received the faith and worship of people his actions would be influenced according to their perception of his role until he was unable to freely act as he wished.

 

[Yosharian]

Bloody hell now it's getting metaphysical

 

[ArchAngel]

What I find the strangest about WK40k is that the whole story happens in One galaxy (out of millions or more) and this one galaxy is powering these entities in Warp that does not work like realspace.
Where are "gods" powered by living beings from other galaxies?

 

[skaraher]

So is it playable or not worth it for the moment ?

 

[ArchAngel]

So is it playable or not worth it for the moment ?

Playable? Sure. Finished? Not even close.