For colors I’ll be focusing on blue, red, purple, and green. I may briefly bring up the others though. Colors have positive, and negative associations. Blue is popular with corporations because it’s a calm, and welcoming color. Blue is often associated with security, and trust. Green is associated with growth, and fertility. Red is associated with courage, and passion. Purple is associated with power & luxury.
Purple has probably the most chaotic neutral alignment of the colors. It’s positive associations are also negative associations. It’s not as black & white as the others.
We’ll start with the four chaos gods. I would include Malal but he’s not as active in the series. The rest are a very active presence in the Warhammer universe.
Khorne is the blood god, and Lord of skulls. His color is red. War, and murder are his domain. Khorne devotees are expected to strive to be stronger, and dominate all opponents. But if you get too strong eventually that leads you to Khorne. Skarbrand made the mistake of challenging Khorne. Only to get struck down. Khorne obviously embodies anger, and passion.
Next up is Nurgle the Plague Lord, Grandfather Nurgle, and Lord of Pestilence. Green is his color. His followers embrace excess, and illness. Although it can be said that all devotees of Chaos are embracing excess. What makes him unique is that he truly cares about his followers. His plagues are perceived as a blessing.
Slaanesh represents pleasure, excess, and decadence. The negative associations of the color purple. Slaanesh is the baby of the chaos family. Technically an Eldar God but also a Chaos God.
Tzeentch represents change, sorcery, and intrigue. He is objectively the strongest of the four. Making everyone think it’s Khorne is just a part of the plan. He represents the positive associations with blue funnily enough. Unless we’re counting cold unfriendliness.
“Perception is reality” – Vincent Kennedy McMahon
Manifestation is the occult concept that you can will things into existence. This is a very common belief. That’s even embraced by followers of the Abrahamic faiths. They’ve got their own terms for their witchcraft though.
The belief system of orks is heavily influenced by manifestation, and perception. There’s a popular story about a battle between Imperial soldiers, and Orks. The imperial soliders ran out of ammo. So, they started making gun noises. The Orks were dropping dead. Because they believed that they were actually getting shot. There’s another bit where Orks were saying “I’m a tank”, and suddenly they weren’t effected by attacks.
The Tau are uniquely unaffected by the warp. The warp or immaterium is a psychic sweet spot. It’s also the home turf of chaos. All sorts of things can be made real in there. The humans that voluntarily joined their empire accidentally created a Tau god. Because of how strongly they believed in the “Greater Good” .
The entire self-help industry is built upon the occult concept of manifestation. Whether it acknowledges it or not. The entire modus operandi is occult in origin.
The prosperity theology that’s very popular with Americans is an interesting phenomena. It is heretical, and blasphemous from a traditional Christian perspective. Prosperity gospel is a very obvious form of witchcraft that’s palatable for the bible belt. That heavily relies on manifestation, and prayers that are effectively fortune spells.
It’s basically if you believe hard enough that Lamborghini you’ve dreamed of will be yours. That’s prosperity theology in a nutshell. Whether it’s intentional or not the Megachurch Mafia is reintroducing magic to Christians.
You also see a bit of this unconscious occultism in stock, and cryptocurrency investors. Libertarians, and motivational speakers too. Occult, and pagan belief is very potent. It doesn’t require institutions or force. It comes very naturally to us.
So much so that it even subverts the institutions that tried to suppress it for centuries.
Baron thoughts 