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I think its up to you to decide if your chaos dwarfs embrace chaos. Mine sure as heck do and sport the stars, but they aren't big hat curly bearders either.

Although Hashut could be a Daemon Prince of some sort, I doubt that the Dawi Zharr see themselves as followers of Chaos. If anything it's like the Corsairs of Umbar from LOTR- working on side with Mordor, but not techincally worshipping Sauron. Like the CD and the Big Four.

I think it's cool to go either way with Chaos Dwarfs.  The Assyrian Hashut-worshipping theme is very cool, but I'm into the Dwarfs-who-are-chaotic thing too.  My army theme is more of the latter, with bull and star imagery, and I'm going for a religio-industrial feel - kind of like dwarfish Word Bearers.  This is because a) I am a religious studies major so that's just how I roll (we need an irony emoticon) and b) my CD hero conversion looks like he has a chaosified crozius arcanum, and I am in love with him.

I think its fine to go either way. CD flufff has changed so much over the years, and besides its your game and your army. If some definative army book comes out saying Dawi'zharr have nothing to do with chaos then you can just point out that the eight pointed star is also the symbol of magic in the waarhammer world and that the chaos dwarfs are ruled by sorcerers. Indeed, ebracing magic is what sets them apart most from their Dawi cousins.

They don't point at any particular minor god.  And khaine isn't Khorne.

IMHO the "chaos" in chaos dwarfs refer to the fact that they are dwarfs mutated by chaos, who embrace chaotic magic and who consort with daemons. I think chaos dwarfs would be proud of these differences that set them apart from (and in their opinion above) their dwarf cousins. For this reason I think they would be more than happy to use chaos iconography - if just to piss off the Dawi

That's a good idea and it's also the way in which some think the Bug Four came into exsistance. They were simply manifestations of mortal emotions and fears.

If you consider CDs to be evil because of slavery, then you are considering just about every ancient civilisation to be evil also.  Good and evil are judged by the society they are in, and slavery was not only acceptable in ancient times but also highly regulated.  For example, you could only beat your slave for very good reasons, mistreating slaves was as bad as mistreating non-slaves.  Maybe in the future we will all be considered evil for eating meat or keeping birds in cages.

Since the game revolves around the Empire (or at least the Old World), whether slavery is okay/evil in Warhammer depends on what they think, and that is something we don't know.

Okay, this is going to have to be an "agree to disagree" thing.  Any more discussion on the topic of slavery being good/evil in this thread and it will be locked.

Malaal was awesome but the idea it was slightly confusing. A Chaos God that represented hatred towards Chaos? *brain cuts out*

Alright, so what caused the big bang?

Ah, so Tallhat is God - the Unbegotten Source of all creation.
I have to say i'm surprised, but I can't fault your logic.

You're a very odd man.

I think Khorne might have done better though...

Only other person I've heard use this explanation. At some point life evolved and you take it from there until the chicken results. Where did life come from? Nasty question from which to stay away...

Chaos Dwarfs are called Chaos Dwarfs by the stupid western races. They call themselves Dawi'zhaar, meaning Dwarfs of the Place of Fire. No mention of Chaos at all. I think Nurgle is more the fear of death rather than sloth

You can't hint like that and not quote Grim!

Yes, it should probably be added to our "CD references in other books" area.

lol, very true. I'm just waiting for Dwarfslayer to come out...

Nah, its not a WIP or anything, I'd just really like to see one where Gotrex goes F*** this, I've had enough and rampages through a whole load of dwarfs just to give em a taste of their own medicine

Um, I think its somehow unlikely...

You need Homer's six leged chair

At least their spam is... chaotic