Editing Chaos (section)

===The Great Game===

The reason the Long War is taking so long. See, Chaos doesn't play well with each other. Khorne hates Slaanesh, Nurgle hates Tzeentch, and every other possible pairing of the four-or-fivesome at the very least don't like each other much. So, they endeavor to be the last man(?) standing, defeating the other gods by conquest, trickery, or just not showing up whenever they need backup against the Emprah. In fact, it could be said that the Long War is just a minor distraction to the Chaos Gods and their real priority is their endless battle for dominance over one another in the Warp. And yet none of them can ever truly win, for if any of the Chaos Gods were to wipe out their rivals the Warp would grow calm and Chaos would cease to be Chaos.

If you'd like a good perspective of how the gods view this Great Game, try [[Chaos in the Old World]], which turns this Great Game into a literal board game where the players take the role of a specific god in the WHFB pantheon. Special mention goes to how the game incentivizes crabs-in-a-bucket mentality: You don't really win as much as you avoid the rest of the pantheon's attention long enough that they let you win.