Vashtorr
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Vashtorr the Arkifane is a daemon unaligned to any of the Chaos Gods who holds dominion over the Forge of Souls; though he has no loyalty to any of the four major Chaos Gods, he has established himself as a demigod by acting as their shared arms dealer, thus making him important enough to deter any of them from trying to attack him. A being born from humanity's drive to create and invent, his technological skills have made him not only a figure of adoration among the Dark Mechanicus and Warpsmiths among the dark powers, but also the mastermind behind the newfangled Arks of Omen, weaponized Space Hulks molded by his own flesh that are part of Abaddon's renewed offensive on the Nachmund Gauntlet.
Curiously enough, Vashtorr might actually be more along the lines of Lawful Evil rather than whatever spectrum the big 4 decide to be on any given day. While the contracts he brokers with daemons willing to become Soul Grinders are never exactly fair, he's a stickler to the exact terms of each contract and will always uphold them. Often, it's the contracted daemons who grow too greedy and thus break the terms of their own accord.
Notably, there's been no word about his presence in the Mortal Realms. On one hand, his presence is so recent that there was likely no chance for him to even appear in the most recent Chaos Battletomes, meaning that GW has plenty of time to write up some sort of plot hook to add him in and preserve the pan-universal theming of daemons. However, it's also likely that he just won't show up there as the forces of Chaos in that setting don't really have much on the tech angle - but c'mon, there's no way you wouldn't want Warp-corrupted steampunk dwarf zepplins. Hashut is the one filling his niche of "evil god of industry" for fantasy/AoS.
While holding considerable power in the Warp, his efforts to become a fifth Chaos God have so far been stymied by a lack of influence over the Materium, and so he sees his alliance with Abaddon as an opportunity to establish himself in realspace. Thus far, the only real opposition he faces is from Be'lakor, who undoubtedly does not like the competition for his own attempts in ascending to godhood. However, like his parents, even he hesitates at making a direct offensive lest he find himself thrown into a pit of thousands of daemon engines.
