Editing Chaos Spawn (section)

==[[Warhammer 40,000|Warhammer 40k]]==
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The '''Chaos Spawn ''dammit don't you ever learn'' AIEEEEBLAAAAAAAAAAAHGGHGH-'''{{BLAM}}

The UNITS in question were, in 4th and 5th Editions, considered by many to be the worst unit in any [[Chaos]] army book and, quite possibly, the entire game of Warhammer 40k (the Pre-[[Jeremy Vetock|Vetock]] Space Pope coming in a close second, [[Pyrovore|until the Tyranid "champion" of Cruddace arrived]]). They were so bad, absolutely nobody took them. Not even for flavor or joke games. Even today they're still rare; the stigma is that deep. It became a meme that to even utter their name causes a horrid mutation turning you into a Chaos Spawn yourself. Wait! No! I didn't mean it-'''OHSWEETEMPERORMOTHEROFGLARBLBLBLBLBL'''{{BLAM}} {{BLAM|We're going to run out of writers at this rate.}}

Ahem... Continuing where my predecessor left off, you-know-whats should only be referred to as you-know-whats. That or [[Harry Potter|they-who-shall-not-be-named]]. Even though you-know-whats have received a nice crunch buff since then, the meme still remains since [[Tzeentch|it fits the fluff pretty well]].

In fluff, aspiring champions of Chaos normally devolve into said units for any of the following reasons: if they use Chaos solely for their own gain, their patron god thinks they're not worthy of their favor or have fallen out of their favor, they can't handle the sheer amounts of mutations they go through during their ascension into a full-fledged [[Daemon Prince]], or, you know, it's [[Tuesday]] and [[Tzeentch]] is feeling bored since there's not a lot of "Just as Planned" going around. When this does happen, Chaos Spawns ((Wait for it.)) devolve into no more than mindless heaps of mutated flesh who attack anyone near them and ((Wait, did he actually get away with it? Inform the Inquisition!)) eventually die after a short period due to their unstable form, and... did I just-- '''No... NOOOOOOO! GLARBLRAWRGLARBL'''{{BLAM}}((Never mind.))

The only known canon exception to this rule is the beast called [[Foulspawn]], who somehow managed to become a Daemon Prince of Nurgle after being transformed into one of the abominations (and only because Nurgle found the result funny!) Only [[Abaddon|Failbaddon]] can comprehend how truly goddamn useless these things are. Generally by looking in a mirror. Khorne only knows why he hasn't been turned into one yet. Though it turns out ADB knows - it's because he's refused to commit to any one Chaos God, [[Derp|so it's not possible for one of them to inflict this on him because the others won't allow it]].

Though not likely as canon, there's also Angra Mainyu, a [[Word Bearers|Word Bearer]] who turned into a Daemon Prince just in time to join the latest Black Crusade. Then he just had to go batshit insane and utterly fuck it all up so hard that the Gods had no choice but to demote him to gribblyhood. His forces, meanwhile, were immediately usurped by the former prince's number 2. The reason we say it's not canon? Because it was fluff to a showcase of some bloke's Chaos army on an ancient version of the GW's Australia website, not some strange bit of lore from a Codex.

According to [[Black Crusade (RPG)|Black Crusade]] and ''The Tome of Fate'', the [[Heretek]]s of The Hollows (specifically Magos Onuris of Forge Polix) have taken an interest in improving them to be useful. These "Death-Masques" have cybernetic implants forcibly installed into what's left of their brains and nervous systems. This combination of auger arrays, arcanocogitators, and drug-delivery systems not only allow Hereteks to control Death-Masques like giant, fleshy [[Servitor]]s, but actually selectively mutate their bodies, enabling the Heretek to reshape a Death-Masque into a more useful form or give it whatever bio-weapons would be best for the present situation. This is [[awesome]] but alas, GW would never let us actually use something like this in-game when we could be having the "fun" with a pathetically random failure of a gribbly beast.

In very rare cases, the will of Tzeentch and the influence of the Warp can cause a group of Unnameable Beasts to fuse together into a [[Mutalith Vortex Beast]], an even more vile abomination that is difficult to even look at without hurting oneself.