I prefer to use mine in the style of Hashut ISN'T a Chaos god. that is what I first thought when I found out about the guys and so my army is like that. It is their opinion. Of course, I will not say that Hashut ISN'T a Chaos god because it is stated that he is, but people are ignorant and don't always know things. He he he.
Technically, according to (I think) one of the Liber Chaotica (possibly the Undead version actually) that the gods are all manifestations of emotions and the like. The Chaos gods are so powerful because of they are represented by raw emotions that people cannot control. E.G. Greed, anger, lust, hatred.
that would be the HoC which expressly states it on page 15...
but nearly all gamers i know perfer to ignore this thing in print...
you should see the tizzy elf players get in over it...
actually there was fluff on them... iron bulls they were called... or something...
i was thinking of using my lammansu model without rider as an exalted daemon...
should CDs wander down the HoC path...
Daemons in warmachines are one thing, but I dislike the idea of daemons of Hashut. Hashut may be called a chaos god, but,a ccording to Liber Chaotica, all gods are chaos gods. Why are there no daemons of Sigmar, Ulric, Dazh, Asuryan, etc? Probably because these gods just aren't powerful enough to have such things. The Big 4 feed off emotions which everyone on the planet feels, granting them lots of power. But Hashut is a racial god, and that race happens to be quite small. Daemons of Sigmar seem more likely, and we all agree that Sigmarite daemons would be stupid.
But, if we're just speculating on how daemons of hashut would look, then I think TheVoice would have the best answer to this.
im creating an asian babilonic style army, not really chaosy
TFB, you are confusing Gods with Patrons. Sigmar was not a God, he was a person. He was elevated to God status by people. Sigmar has no real power as a god.
I suppose Sigmar was a bad example. I did mention other gods though.
Also (though I don't have any sources or evidence on this), in my personal view I see Hashut as more of a Chaos God than, say, Khaine, or one of the Elven Gods. I know that all Gods hold links with Chaos, but is it possible that some proper "lesser Chaos Gods" are linked more with the Big Four, and that Hashut, The Horned Rat (possibly even the Great Maw etc, but that's just random speculation by me Tongue ) are part of this group, and so more likely to potentially have Daemons, whereas the Elven Gods don't really grant this.
According to Liber Chaotica, all gods are chaos gods. I don't think there's be gods who are "more linked" to Chaos. They're all made of the same stuff. 
Even Skaven had a Greater Daemon.
I think that it could be possible for Hashut to have some Daemons, but then perhaps he's not powerful enough.
This is what I've been trying to say. I think that gods would have to be really powerful to have daemons. Gods become really powerful by a large following. Next to the chaos gods, the Horned Rat would be very powerful with the billions of skaven worshipping him, vastly outnumbering the other races (with the exception of chaos daemons, which are infinite.). The Horned Rat would have enough power to creat a couple Vermin Lords here and there. Hashut has a very small following, so probably couldn't make daemons. This is why I oppose daemons of Hashut. Of course, if you do like the idea of daemons of hashut, don't mind me.
The only problem that I have with that (good) idea, is that he came to them and their knowledge whilst they were trapped in a warpstorm (maybe it was storm of chaos and I've changed it [I don't mean the Storm of Chaos], so it could be an invasion instead), where they began to resent their "normal" kin due to the fact that they had no reinforcements or supplies and no-one had come to find them (actually meaning no-one DID find them). So it would prehaps be a different thing that spawned him, just in the same manner. (P.S. Good to see you Liger!)
Has anyone been able to track down Official Fluff on Daemons of Hashut? We had that written article, do we know if the sources are official, or no?
I agree with what you have said Grimstonefire. It makes a lot more sense than their need for technology spawning Hashut. their need for survual is what led them to creating the things that they have. This is the sort of emotions that I couldn't hink of to spawn him instead of industry etc.
Yes, I definitely think Hashut's influence was gradual. The best way to lure someone to chaos, someone like a Dwarf, would be dependency. Just like Grim says.
What Zarkov said. Sigmar is worshipped as a god, used to be mortal. Same as the ancestor gods of the dwarfs.
thats interesting...
could it be that this very belief system was the thing that caused the warp gate to collapse?
All the gods in the Warhammer world are warp deities, formed from a 'condensation' of emotions in the aether into a coherant mass in the form of a warpstorm which eventually gains it's own sentience and become a god. The Big Four are simply the largest of these warpstorms as they cover the largest and basest emotions, and are therefore the most powerful as they have the largest region from which to draw their power. The range of these storms (or pools) is so vast that many minor deities often overlap with one or more of them (as well as each other) when the draw upon simmiler emmotions and concepts, as well as having their own region of warpspace. A good example is warpstorm Khaine that would overlap with both warpstorm Khorne and warpstorm Slaanesh as well as having a bit of his own region.
Sigmar is an oddity as before his 'ascencion' there would have been a minor pool of the emotions and concepts he stood for which had not yet grown strong enough to gain true sentience. Upon his death and when his soul entered the warp it would have been drawn towards this region as it shared the same characteristics as him. We are then led to believe that due to his unique willpower and 'spiritual/psychic' (for want of a better term) might he was not only able to hold his soul together upon entry to the warp, but also to then merge with this region that stood for the same as him and bring it to sentience with his beliefs. Although he wan't originally, Sigmar is now a god in the same way as any other; and having been empowered by his worship from the Empire, and the reverence of what he stood for by others, he is now a fairly powerful one (although nothing on the Gods of Chaos).
The impoirtant thing to remember though is that while all gods come from chaos (i.e. the aether), not all gods are Chaos ™ and associate with the Big Four, even if their region of warpspace overlaps.
Cool stuff. I am learning. 
Basically, Zarkov, you can be my mouth on this subject because everything ypu have said is what I have thought, just said better. And I think it is wholely realistic that more belief puts more strain on the Chaos Gate. Also, as to The Great Maw, it didn't exist until after that meteor hit. There are a lot of ogres and they have to believe something because they have no reason not to and aren't (generally) intelligent enough to think for themselves, not to mention it was convenient for their habits (their god representing a big mouth and they already liked to eat), then their is the issue of it being made of warpstone, probably making the emotions change into a chaos-god-form-thing much more easily.
Even if it WAS another being, their belief that it is a god is what FORMED a god in the chaos realm. If it IS made of warpstone, the sharp rocks around the crater may act as teeth. Or there are many mutant things that bit the ogres and they know if they start saying the Great Maw isn't real, they'll get killed etc... I'm not saying the Great Maw isn't physically manifested, I'm saying that the ACTUAL god of it was created from their beliefs about such a rock.
Zarkov, you're welcome, but what for?
The Ogre Kingdoms book says otherwise, though. And I take the word of the Army book over the word of Warseer.
Care to inform us? It would be nice to add to the conversation.
Revlid, I think you explain it incredibly well and in a fairly academical sense. If I needed to explain how Gods of Warhammer are formed, I would use your first paragraph (assuming htey do not yet know the Warhammer world).
turquois dwarf, I believe what you suggest is a simplified and edited version of Revlid's talk on the matter of belief, but nonetheless true because of it.
The were can even be normal mutants, not just Chaos spawn, from what I know, Revlid. It is perhaps possible that there are werewolves that do change form without worshipping Ulric, but these are most likely going to be hunted as worshippers of Chaos and abhorrences, whereas the Children of Ulric would be revered (and feared probably) as embodiments of their God.
I think he was talking specifically about wereWOLVES though. Although Bearmen are technically werecreatures (well, the fluff says thier unit champion is, the others are just marauders that worship bears). What are the Alter Kindred then?