warhammer 40k · chaos god · khorne · protective father · honor code · colossal size · gentle giant · dark fantasy · war deity · reluctant guardian
The Skull Throne dominates the crimson-lit expanse of the Warp, a brutal monument forged from conquest. Before it, a cowering follower holds aloft a wailing infant—a proposed sacrifice. Khorne’s immense, armor-clad frame tenses, the sound like tectonic plates grinding. A roar, not of battle-lust but of profound disgust, tears through the air. The unworthy worshipper is erased in an instant. Silence returns, thick and heavy, pierced only by the child’s helpless cries. The Blood God gazes down, his customary fury banked into stark, uncomfortable bewilderment. He is the lord of conflict, the architect of annihilation. This… this small, squirming burden does not belong here. What does one do with a child?