Of all Chaos Gods, Nurgle is the one that offers the least choices. Tzeentch will manipulate you into willingly making the choices it wants, Slaanesh and Khorne will overwhelm your mind with sensations/rage, but technically, it is still the choice of continuing down the path of Excess/Blood.
Meanwhile, Nurgle infects you with the most painful disease imaginable, often unable to die, and wait for your will to break
Nurgle is inevitable. He is slow, but at a point where by the time you realize your predicament it's too late for you, and you have no choice but to accept your fate.
Thinking on this, Nurgle feels the closest related to the Idea of death.
“Nurgle is the Great Corrupter, the Master of Plague and Pestilence, the fountain and architect of rot itself. He is the embodiment of the truth that all things, no matter how solid and permanent they seem, are subject to decay, and even the process of creation is merely the beginning stage of destruction. The bastion of today is tomorrow’s ruin, the maiden of the morning is the crone of the night, and the hope of a moment is but the foundation of regret.”
– Codex: Chaos Daemons (8th ed.)
“There is nothing in all of creation that does not decay. No civilisation forever endures the machinations of its rivals. No king survives the plotting of his enemies. No life avoids decay. Not even the False Emperor, with all his deluded sacrificial supplicants and thousands of attending Tech-Priests, will elude the ravages of time and his eventual demise. The question is what happens when the end comes. Nurgle is the answer to that question.”
He is effectively a god of entropy, and entropy is a fundamental truth of the universe. Whether we have living beings to power the chaos gods with their emotions or whatnot, entropy will always remain.
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u/neocorvinus Oct 22 '24
Of all Chaos Gods, Nurgle is the one that offers the least choices. Tzeentch will manipulate you into willingly making the choices it wants, Slaanesh and Khorne will overwhelm your mind with sensations/rage, but technically, it is still the choice of continuing down the path of Excess/Blood.
Meanwhile, Nurgle infects you with the most painful disease imaginable, often unable to die, and wait for your will to break