Is it possible for a religion like Chaos from Warhammer Fantasy to exist in Earth from 500 BC-1500 AD, if so, what would be its fate?
But reducing Tzeentch (For example) to a mere trickster God is completely not Tzeentch.
Or Khorne into "all aspects of war".
That's like saying you want a ham sandwhich, except for the ham. And the bread.
That's like saying you want a ham sandwhich, except for the ham. And the bread.
I prefer to think of it as "I want the vodka, but not so much that I pass out and drown in my own vomit".
While the Warhammer setting requires a certain level of nihilistic grimdark from the Chaos gods, at some point this gets boring and stupid and needs to be toned down. You could never make a religion out of worshipping such capricious and destructive deities-violent deities from the religions in OTL did some constructive things for their followers if no-one else. Mars defended the Trojans and later the Romans, and the god of the Bible lead his people out of bondage to a land of milk and honey.
Compare that to "I like you, so I'm going to fill you with a blind rage so you kill everything in your sight and oh! Now your a quivering mass of mutant flesh were once you were a person!" And that's what you get for pleasing this god. What the hell's the point?
IIRC Nurgle is at least in part inspired by Nergal, a Babylonian deity.Nurgle is a pretty tough sell and I can't think off-hand of any OTL gods who were presented similarly. Baal-zebub, the Canaanite 'Lord of the Flies', was not actually a god of disease but of healing; he was supposed to be able to expel the flies that caused sickness, and was not depicted as grotesque or rotting (depiction). Grotesque gods are not totally implausible - Egypt's Bes is a good example and Nurgle is presented as having a similar jolly personality, albeit one that capraciously inflicts plague and mutation. However, his association with disease is even likely to lose him the demon-cult status afforded to, say, Kali.
I never played WH games, but from what I picked up through conversations on the internet, the Chaos Gods were more "realist" in earlier versions of the games (i.e.: Khorn also honor & courage, Nurgle was the god of healing & caring as well as plagues, etc.)But reducing Tzeentch (For example) to a mere trickster God is completely not Tzeentch.
Or Khorne into "all aspects of war".
That's like saying you want a ham sandwhich, except for the ham. And the bread.
I never played WH games, but from what I picked up through conversations on the internet, the Chaos Gods were more "realist" in earlier versions of the games (i.e.: Khorn also honor & courage, Nurgle was the god of healing & caring as well as plagues, etc.)
But definately the headcheese.
I tend to agree, Tzeentch is a schemer, but the kind of schemer who has literaly every aspect planned out to the last minutiae. The Guy isn't a trickster deity in the sense of Loki, he is a full fledged master plotter who is probably responsible for arranging the entirety of human history. And really Khorne is basically a more brutal Ares so its not hard for someone like him to appear. Although I think his Nurgle is worst, because that really isn't Nurgle at all. Although I think if you include Nurgles kidnap victim/lover as the goddess of healing he could exist as he is but not be popular.