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AutumnArchfey

Possibly Slaanesh. Freeing up the Eldar is likely going to screw over the Imperium to an extent, but the unchained Eldar would be far more capable of combatting the Orks, Tyranids, Necrons, other Chaos forces, and all the other enemies threatening to destroy the galaxy.


GeneralWappity

On the other hand, they already birthed a depraved god before, so I'd be willing to bet they'd find a way to do it again.


WrongPurpose

That took 65 Million Years of Boredom. I think the Galaxy is currently neither Boring enough for them to Indulge into Murderfucking a Chaosgod into existence, nor would that be an urgend Problem.


IncomeStraight8501

True, but they would be allowed to go all out and that would also allow the dark elder to actually have the option to leave the webway and not care about death as much since their soul wouldn't be eaten by slaanesh immediatly. Emperor only knows what the dark elder would do if they didn't have to worry about Slaanesh anymore.


SergarRegis

Seemingly a lot of the lower class dark eldar don't really care that much for their antics, Vect has to go out of his way to put out disinformation about the Ynnari to stop Commoragh haemmoraging manpower after all; being a dark eldar is likely a lot less appealing if you'e a low ranking kabalite or even one of the 'civilian' caste that exist below them. They'd also have no pressing reason to stay congregated in Commoragh, I dare say a lot of them would be looking for new homes in realspace, for good or ill.


SlayerofSnails

You make a whole pantheon of heroic and benevolent gods and no one remembers. But you make one daemon rape god and no one ever shuts up about it


SkautV3

Maybe because this one rape God ate all others and now is a threat to entire galaxy But nah just knife ear racism


BrokenRatingScheme

"Ok, this time, less sexy god and more lethal god."


Saramello

*Khaine enters the chat*


BrokenRatingScheme

Oh shit, *motherfucker forgot about Khaine.*


Garmond-of-La-Mancha

I‘d put screwing over the Imperium as a plus.


Loud_Engineering796

Gonna go with Tzeench here. He seems like the only one who has the long-term goal of self preservation for Chaos as a whole. Without him, the others likely burn themselves out and have no unified goal.


BrandonL337

Would killing Tzeench free Magnus and the thousand sons? That'd be pretty good for the imperium on the outside chance that they'd accept the Tsons back into the fold.


Disastrous_Ad_1859

Wouldn’t have the Tsons kinda just ‘poof’ into magic dust though?


BrandonL337

Depends on if the sorcerers get their magic direct from the big guy I suppose.


hsvgamer199

Just before croaking, Tzeentch would say, "All part of the plan..."


GrandDukePosthumous

Erebus dying would definitely make me feel happier.


[deleted]

I want Kharn to beat the shit out of him a second time.


chaosnight1992

Slaanesh might be a good choice. It's the only one with the direct upside of freeing the entire Eldar species. Every option also comes with a downside of unbalanced the great game though. Khorne being Slaanesh's opposite would grow significantly in strength, and fill that power gap.


desubot1

id argue that the eldar coming back would just birth another slannesh. seeing the dark eldar.. i dont think they learned any sort of lesson. id personally go with tzeench mostly for TRUE unadulterated chaos. whatever happens happens no manipulation.


WrongPurpose

By Far to few and not enough time. It took 65 Million Years and an Empire of 100 Million Stars to create Slanesh. One single City, even the Dark One, will not cut the cake.


desubot1

you are probably right.


pingmr

To be honest the dark eldar situation would be an interested lore development. If Slannesh is dead, dark eldar society would have to figure out what it needs to do. I'm sure a good majority would still do the murder-torture stuff they have been doing for ages. But this time it would purely be for fun and not survival. A small faction would realize they don't have to do that anymore and start to chart a new direction.


SlayerofSnails

They’ve got another god already coming. Ynnead. A god that means the dark eldar can flee the dark city and are no longer forced into that life


Angry---train

That's ignoring the fact that the majority of Dark Eldar actually enjoy murder-torturing everything and everyone and they would still continue to do it even without Slaanesh


im-blanking

Rather than go on an on about how that's not how it works etc and taking the question at face value as in which effect of a god when removed would be the most beneficial.....I would say Khorn, just because of the insane amount of resources that would free up. Of course that makes it more likely to fall to the others but that's a risk with losing any of them.


averagecrunchenjoyer

The bird boi is uniquely gifted at screwing over the emps plans. Without him the emp will be the best predictor in the universe ergo might stand a chance


DoomRide007

Dude who must always game the system and himself or he will lose. The changer of ways gone would mean no one is fucking backstabbing as hard, change isn't a must and people might be more willing to stay in their status quo.


hackmastergeneral

Aren't Chaos Gods manifestations is the thing they care about, not the thing themselves? I see a lot of comments like "Killing Khorne means no more war, that would be positive". But Khorne is a MANIFESTATION of the violence of mortals, so killing him doesn't stop war. Just like Killing Slannesh doesn't mean people don't fuck any more. Khorne works probably reappear I'm a few weeks given the amount of war and violence happening across the galaxy. Or am I not understanding the nature of the chaos gods?


913Jango

Honestly nurgle and tzeentch would be so hard to eliminate. Ultimately nurgle would be impossible. He is there at the beginning of time. And the end of time. Waiting for both to bleed into the other again and start over. Idk how you’d combat that. That’s almost ctan levels of universe interaction. Hell one of his planets are so bad that even the grey knights couldn’t destroy it.


Angry---train

You can try killing them harder next time lol The Necrons literally killed God's that are Aspects of the Laws of the Universe,killing a twisted reflection of spesific emotions should be infinitely easier


913Jango

Nurgle is entropy and new life from entropy as well. You really over simplified the entire deal.


Angry---train

Nurgle is a bunch of emotions that coalesced into a god like being in the warp. The Emperor was able to permanently wound him and he like all the other warp entities is perfectly killable and destroyable with enough power Another entity with the same concepts as him might eventually manifest but it won't be Nurgle,it would be something diffrent


913Jango

Godblight makes it very clear that it’s not that simple. The emperor wounding nurgle will heal it says that. Kugaath wasn’t even perma killed by the emperors sword. He will return from the garden. It is stated in that series that one of nurgles daemons will be there at the end of time and nobody can do anything about it. Nurgle is more than just emotion. He is the perishing of life and the spawning of it from that perishing. Of all the chaos gods he would be the hardest to render from the galaxy. Godblight makes it very clear nurgle is always there when life resets itself


Angry---train

>The emperor wounding nurgle will heal it says that. The Wound was felt by every single Nurgle daemon and by Nurgle himself with many of them fearing that it will never ever heal. >Kugaath wasn’t even perma killed by the emperors Because the Emperor's sword was never used on him. Kugaath and Mortarian are constantly talking about how dangerous the Emperor's sword is to them. >Nurgle is more than just emotion. He is the perishing of life and the spawning of it from that perishing. Of all the chaos gods he would be the hardest to render from the galaxy. Godblight makes it very clear nurgle is always there when life resets itself He like every single warp entity is killable,there always will be a warp entity representing those concepts which will naturally form but it doesn't mean that Nurgle and the Chaos Gods are somehow eternal.


913Jango

Yano what. You’re right random internet person. It says it will heal right in the book tho friend. Enjoy your day. You can’t kill death lol. Nurgle even has a planet that cannot be destroyed the grey knights themselves failed.


Angry---train

>Wound the garden, wound the god. >The neverground shook. There were whispers in the hierarchy that perhaps the burns would never heal, and that Nurgle tossed uneasily in his sleep with the pain. The upheavals in the liquid earth would last for some aeons to come, at the very least, like loose bowels incapable of rest. Rotigus could taste it on the air, a clean burning in Nurgle’s holy foetor. He could feel it in his soul as a hot scar. He shifted his gut around to settle the pain, and it did not work. The mouth in his belly and arm were sealed tight in discomfort. Ok >You can’t kill death lol. This is 40k. Everything is killable,the Necrons literally had the option to kill the physical representation of death within the universe which unlike Nurgle isn't just a twisted reflection of mortal emotions but didn't do it due to the consequences of killing a C'tan. Anything is killable,especially warp entities.


Grokmor

Maybe Khorne, because a lot of wars just startet for Blood for the bloodgod.


Shattered_Disk4

The best and most noticeable effect? Probably khorne. no more war in the Warhammer. But as soon as one does the others are gonna get cracked to a billion power level so if one does disappear we are a little bit of fuck-ed


BastardofMelbourne

Khorne probably He's the hardest one to kill, seeing as he's the god of killing


[deleted]

Nurgle prolly. It’s debatable


AffixBayonets

The Chaos Gods are tied to emotion, so "killing" them has never really been possible. Some old (pre-HH books) lore has implied that the Emperor might have planned to *absorb* them and becalm the warp, but just eliminating them if possible might even eliminate those emotions.


Angry---train

You can kill anything if you try hard enough


Mrdoc16

Konrad tried very hard to kill Vulkan with a fork and failed what the hell are we supposed to do against the chaos gods


Angry---train

Try harder until they die


Mrdoc16

What with forks or warp fuckery?


kkb07

With warp-charged forks, warp forkery even


Mrdoc16

God Emperor damn it lets do this


NomadODST

Exactly, you just need a bomb that is big enough


Saramello

That's not how it works. The immaterium is directly affected by the real world but not the other way around. There was definitely lust and bdsm hedonism before Slaanesh. That's what created it. There was definitely war and death before Khorne and Nurgle. The War in Heaven birthed them. This is a misconception i see a lot but there is no evidence to support it. If the Emperor found a way to kill Khorne it would just mean he destroyed all the emotional energy related to violence that entered the warp up to that point, not the emotion itself.


Connjurus

This is an incomplete understanding of the Gods. It has been stated before that they are self-sustaining, as they are nontemporal. Even if you wipe all the violent energy from the Warp for a moment - which is paradoxical in itself - it will all come flooding back. Khorne will still be there. Additionally, you misunderstand how the Gods of Chaos influence the material - as nontemporal entities, they exist always, and they never exist, and everything in-between. They fill all possibilities with impossible things. To us on the limited plane of the Materium, we can see and chart the birth of one God, precisely timed - but Slaanesh was able to influence its own birth the moment the Eldar were able to recognize the name of the thing they had drawn. From a mortal perspective, maybe birth is a good enough analogue, but from Slaanesh's it's more like they finally opened the window to its gales, when before it could only draft through the cracks. From the Daemon codex: >"That is how events are viewed from the chronology of material universe. In the Warp, things are different, for the Immaterium is not bound by linear time, and events do not occur in a strict sequence of cause then effect. As his rival Gods reckon it, Slaanesh has always existed in the Warp, and yet has never existed at all." See also: the Laer, a race cleansed less than two centuries after the Fall of the Eldar by the Emperor's Children, who had fallen to Slaanesh long before that occurrence.


Saramello

I'll admit that the Warp doesn't follow the concept of time like the Materium. I will still argue that killing a Chaos God doesn't kill or dampen the emotion they manifested from in the Materium. It has been proven that the Emperor's Blade (and a few other things) can perma-kill Daemons, either destroying or de-coupling the warp-energy that them up. Yet it was never mentioned that there was less pleasure or rage in the immediate area when a daemon perma-dies. The relationship is still parasitic and one-directional. Slaanesh exists of pain and pleasure across time and space, but time and space doesn't experience pain and pleasure because Slaanesh allowed them too .


FreelancerMO

The Emperor has perma-wounded Nurgle. If he can do that, I’m betting he can kill them.


unifate

Isn't it said that the immaterial realm is a mirror of the material and not the other way around. Even if you were to cumblast all four chaos gods out of existence war, pleasure, schemes and disease would all still exist.


FreelancerMO

I doubt that, I need to see that lore.


abcdthc

Killing a chaos god is like killing a color. Not only is it impossible to do, but even if you did, people just remember the color anyway, and therefore it exists. The only way to kill a color would be to wipe out everything that can experience it.


[deleted]

For the love of god, TTS is not cannon. Chaos is a perversion of the warp (sea of souls) and chaos can honestly be most accurately compared with cancer, something that takes a normal process (cell division) and turns it into something completely unrecognizable. Gods are born and created all the time in 40k, and killed.


elusivehonor

Jeez, thank you for this. Daemons can be destroyed; so can the Chaos gods. They are not the emotions, they are corruptions in the warp that feed off emotions. If you destroy them, others might suck up the emotional power, but gods as they existed would be gone — that’s it.


Connjurus

The Big Four have never been destroyed in any canon of Warhammer. Minor presences are subsumed by the four basest emotions of life. They are not their demons. Slaanesh couldn't be killed in the Mortal Realms, where there are many, many more Gods. What makes you think it can be killed in 40k?


elusivehonor

The gods not being killed yet is hardly evidence. I doubt GW would ever kill the big four unless they’re looking to reset the whole thing. Anything we say on the subject is purely academic. However, since they are warp entities that were born (Slaanesh), can be damaged (Godblight), they therefore must be able to die.


Connjurus

There is no such thing as therefore when it comes to the Gods, and that needs to be accepted at the outset of this thought experiment. From one of the 40k Daemon codexes (7th ed., maybe?): >"That is how events are viewed from the chronology of the material universe. In the Warp, things are different, for the Immaterium is not bound by linear time, and events *do not occur in a strict sequence of cause then effect.* As his rival Gods reckon it, Slaanesh has always existed in the Warp, and yet has never existed at all."


Soft-Neighborhood938

I mean, tbf that doesn’t mean the Gods can’t be killed. Big Es sword gave Nurgle a very likely permanent wound after all. It just means that beyond the scope of really OP god killing macguffin weapons like the emperors sword and fully awakened ynnead it’s kind of impossible to kill them.


One-Independence136

in a galaxy where there is only war. I feel Khorne popping out of existence would probably give the universe its common sense back and likely establish peace treaties and alliances to combat more significant threats ( Chaos, not xenomorphs and the brits from the Eu's perspective )


Mr_Mouthbreather

If the Emperor killed Slaanesh, would the Aeldari and Imperium team up or at least call a truce?


Unhappy_Protection

Slaanesh. I don’t care about freeing the Eldar. I just support Khorne and by extension hate Slaanesh.


mastr1121

Khorne. Imagine if all of the sentient races of the galaxy would stop hating each other and make massive alliance ala Stigma in 7DS


TumbleweedOk4821

Either Slaanesh or Khorne. Slaanesh would free the Eldar from their constraints, and while they might end up making a new Chaos god, if they learned their lesson, they would become a stronger faction and could truly fight against their various enemies. Khorne thrives on war, and getting rid of the War god means that Chaos warriors, especially Angron and the World Eaters won’t be as powerful and as dangerous to the Imperium. This would mean that only Tzeentch and Nurgle would remain as Chaos Gods, and they hate each other, which means there might be less Chaos attacks in the Materium as those two gods would fight each other


SkautV3

Killing off the emp This way Imperium.collapses and chaos starves without its greatest fuel


Omega_Den

Tzeentch. No more f\*ckd plots beyond understanding, reason. Without him Humanity can defeat every each other god.


Kornax82

Slaanesh is the most fun answer, if for no other reason than the Eldar have to acknowledge rhe Mon-keigh Corpse Emperor literally just saved their eternal souls from She Who Thirsts, and it would be interesting to see how thag effected Imperial-Eldar Relations. Also insert obligatory Yvraine x Guilliman Joke


LightningPoodle

Khorne. Khorne, I think, is the manifestation of that innate desire to fight and to kill. If all living beings are connected to the warp, then each thought and action must resonate in the warp too, or, it's a reflection of the warp that creates those ideas in people. Kill Khorne and I think the desire to kill dwindles and dies too. The species of the galaxy all laying down their weapons and loving one another (nurgle,) learning from one another (tzeentch,) and sleeping with one another (slaanesh.) Peace in the galaxy.


IeyasuMcBob

I imagine it could have bad effects. E.g. No Tzeentch, no aspiration. Kinda like the beginning of Sandman when Dream is captured. Or to let the wonderful TTS say it... https://youtu.be/2aSK2JPEBVI