Dabble in the great game7/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Once again the Realm of Chaos will thunder to the march of the daemonic legions, and their age-old feuds will spill over into the domains of realspace. ![]() Sometimes treaties will be broken even before their mutual goals are met, with one god or another, or all four, overstepping the bounds of their agreement and attempting to usurp their rivals. Such interest in mortal affairs is fleeting, and as soon as their objective is achieved, the gods resume their Great Game. In the early 31st Millennium the Horus Heresy presented one such period, when the Chaos Gods acted in concert to bring about Horus and the Traitor Legions' betrayal of the Emperor so that they might forever put an end to the threat that Human unity and the institution of the Imperial Truth and the Imperial Webway Project presented to the continued existence of Chaos. However, on rare occasions, the Chaos Gods will act in temporary unison so as to thwart a common threat - such as the attempt by the Emperor of Mankind to diminish the hold of Chaos over the galaxy during the Great Crusade - or to take advantage of a specific set of circumstances that will benefit them as a whole. The Great Game is the primary concern of the Chaos Gods they are far more interested in pursuing those stratagems and tactics that will win victory over their fellows than with what occurs in the material realm. No Chaos God can ever truly win the conflict, for if the other Ruinous Powers were obliterated, the Warp would be returned to its primordial state of placid serenity and Chaos as a primal force of the universe would cease to exist. The Empyrean is not only the home of the Dark Gods but it also serves as their battlefield and playground. The Great Game is the name given by the denizens of the Immaterium to the constant, unending struggle between the major Chaos Gods for dominance within the Realm of Chaos and ultimate control of realspace. ![]()
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