"Who is most powerful Daemon God?" is one of those
questions that forces sides largely on personal tastes. Pepsi or Coke. Apple or
PC. Change, Blood, Party, or Pestilence. They're all equal options that seem to
exist and aren't going away anytime soon.
But clearly this is the internet and I must have an opinion. My answer
to "Who's the most Powerful of them all" is a part of a larger
mystery I’ve become fixated on and the below sections contain possible proof
I've found to convince you too of my madness.
1. What is a Daemon God?
The four Daemon Gods (+ whatever emo Metal Elf God is), are all
immeasurable creatures of divine will. Based on faith, blood, entropy, and
space herpes. They're manifested emotion and ideologies. If they are known and
believed in, they will exist.
It’s a lot like clapping for Tinkerbell or dreaming of Freddy
Krueger. Believing in them allows them to either dream murder you or whisk you
away to a magical land of happiness..... and pirates trying to feed you to
crocodiles......
Looking into those examples, actually gives us ideas on how to
fight/defeat them. In Nightmare on Elm street the primary motif of how to deal
with Freddy was to stop thinking about him and sequestering anyone aware of him
on massive amounts of drugs. Because even if you murdered him, or sucked him
into the real world to fight a disfigured summer camp hockey enthusiast, he
will always come back.
Sometimes when you don't want him to
At one point Tinkerbell was dying because magic wasn't believed in
enough. And if Pan hadn't gotten Wendy to clap Tinkerbell would have vanished,
and no new lost boys would be taken from their homes under false pretenses to
escape reality and eat paint food..... Are we sure Pan and Tinkerbell are
protagonist?
Unfortunately, there is an ample supply of believers for-and-against
daemon kind. The Gods aren’t actively trying whip out everything, just their
enemies. And since the Daemon Gods like the idea of existing, they are all
vying for more followers. In-fact the only true way of ending Chaos Daemons is
wiping out all sentient creatures in the galaxy.
Life finds a way
Main take away from this is that abstract concepts in 40k have a
consciousness and a will, believing in them as nouns gives them power. Hold on
to that.
2. What's Up with them Grey Knights and their Secret Moon Base?
While reading the new fluff in the new Grey Knight codex, I found
out Titan has begun to shake from within. Reading that one thing is what started
my current fixation.
Fun fact, Titan was given to the Grey Knight Founders complete
with a spooky basement at the bottom of a place called Mount Anarch. Their whole facility was built on top of a huge seal
and the Grey Knights, primarily Purifiers,
are guarding "it". I say "it" because fluff is heavily pointing to
nobody, including them, knowing the full extent what's in there. Except for
maybe the one guy who built it, the Emperor himself.
That’s not to say they haven’t been adding to it over the years. There
are numerous vaults beyond the gates that the purifiers guard. There have been mentions of Necron tesseract
vaults in use in previous editions. Even part of a paladins’ rite of passage involves going into the vaults and having
a tea party in something called the “Dread Tomb” then battle wills with a sleepless
Daemon named Abbiallach. Which is odd
because the big bad that the Purifiers
are keeping watch on is “Slumbering”. So not that guy.
Not knowing... may be Victory
I believe the real reason we don't know the full extent of what's
in there, is that the Emperor knew the only way to contain what’s inside was by
making sure as few people as possible knew. Additionally, stationing an army of
well trained and well-armed Daemon Hunters as security is pretty telling of
what that something may be. And I'm not talking about Freddy Kruger here.
No..... Focus people
Side note there is only supposed to be 44 purifiers, no one has
said why. Put a pin in that.
Also, there is magic box there that has the same symbol as the one
that's on the Emperor's Throne. This is the "Terminus Decree". Only the Grey Knight have been entrusted with its use. Not even the Custodes canclaim that. ONLY the Grey Knights. http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Terminus_Decree
3. Cypher?
Cypher is a pretty cool dude. He's mission is unknown, but his
actions aren't. He has been cutting a path through that galaxy in some very
convoluted plan to get to the Emperor.
No one is sure if he’s trying to help or hurt the Imperium. Wants
to kill or save the Emperor.
If I wanted there's a lot we can talk about this guy, but instead
I want to focus on a few things of note.
First, he often goes by the pseudonym "The Voice of the
Emperor". First one is brief.
Second, he carries a large sword he's never drawn. Some say its
Luthers sword, they're wrong somebody found it. Some say it’s a new
Heavens-blade, Ala Dark Angel Sword of Silence or Sword
of Secrets. Some say that it’s the Lion Sword.
The last one makes the most sense, it is covered in Dark Angel
Icons and the new Cypher model has it being freaking huge. But here's the
thing, there is a point in the fluff where Guilliman breaks the original Lion
Sword because Jonson was going to use it on Cruz because he refused to admit
guilt. So, whatever Lion El'Jonson was using towards the end of the Horus
Heresy was either something else or a re-forged Lion Sword. There is someone
who knows what Cypher is packing though. In Rising Storm III, Guilliman is
stated to know what it is and that he would never let it, or Cypher, near the
Emperor. Past that nothing else has been revealed.
Conclusion: What "IT" is
It's a Daemon God.
Right about now you must be thinking "You're dumb. Titan
would be a shitty prison for any of them because all of them are running around
causing general mischief everywhere. What does that have to do with Cypher? And
why did you spend a lot of time on Tinkerbell?".
Are they all?.... running around... or did you, like the Emperor
intended, forget about someone......
You forgot about
Dre!
You might not recognize that picture,
mostly because it’s an artifact of something retconned out of existence. The
above is a greater daemon of the fifth Daemon God Malal. Yes, that was a
thing. http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Malice
In a galaxy of never-ending war, strife,
fear, and carnage; what Daemon God would be the strongest? When Malal existed,
he was the God of anarchy and terror. He was the embodiment of destruction, so
much so that it was self-destructive.
I'm using a lot of past tenses here
because Malal was removed from the fluff entirely. Trademarks rights wise,
there’s a reason he was retconned. But think about it fluff wise……
CATCHING ON???!
The Emperor could allow the other gods to
continue to squabble, because they all want to exist and they know they can’t
exist without other existences. But the Emperor knew that if left unchecked,
Malal would destroy everything. A true end of all things. So, he had to do the
one thing that has never been accomplished before nor since, caging a Daemon
God. By deleting him from active history, he depowered Malal enough to cage
him.
Additionally, he established the Grey Knights on top of Malal's prison, Mount Anarch “Y”, to serve as guards. Super
humans trained to resist the whispers of chaos. Chapter 666. Mark of the Beast. Who better to guard the beast than those marked by it? Then there are 44 purifiers. Divided by 4, the
division of the other chaos gods, is 11. Malal's favored number. Malal's colors are Black and White. What happens when the two are mixed? You get Grey.The unsleeping
Abblach may in fact be a greater daemon of Malal, and paladins are required to
experience it in preparation for the worst.
Also, Abblach and the other captured
daemons might not just be prisoners. What better cell is there for a God of anarchy
and destruction, than one whose wall is made up of chained unending life?
If this theory is true, there is one
problem with the Emperor’s plan and the reason for a prison. At the very end of
the day there would always be at least one person who truly knew Malal existed.
The Emperor.
This is where Cypher and his super pig
sticker comes in. "The voice of the Emperor" is what he wants, he
wants the Emperor to speak Malal's name to legitimize his existence. Cypher and
few supporters may think he exists but none of them have ever met him. And
the Emperor’s godly verbal validation, might be the tipping point for Malal’s resurfacing.
The sword Cypher carries is a re-forged
Lion Sword. One crafted to force truth, a Sword of Truth in matching the
naming convention of the other Dark Angel swords. A weapon Guilliman
doesn’t want anywhere near the Emperor, because it might be powerful enough to
be a threat to the Emperor.
And this also where the true reason for the
Terminus Decree comes in. Horus weakened the Corpse Emperor to such an extent,
his will is no longer a match for Malal. He knew being barely conscious (Freddy
Kruger be-gone drugs) would be the only way to keep Malal in check. The Decree
is his off switch, he just wanted to put it off for as long as possible. He's a
quasi-functioning light house of sorts for space navigation. The throne
failing is a planned attempt to ween mankind off of himself, hoping that Mankind will
learn to rise without him.
The Emperor can't wake, because he may very well be the last
person who truly knows Malice is lurking under the very surface of the Man.
The true Most Powerful Daemon God.
Also it is my firm belief that the Emperor
may have also conspired with the only force more powerful than himself to help
do this.
