The comparison doesn't hold. The Unfleshed were transformed humans who retained memories of their previous lives, and weren't soul-bound to a warp entity beyond passive corruption for being on a daemon-world. Trying to redeem a Skaven would be much, much more difficult due to said soulbond and their alien psychology predisposing them to a laundry list of bad shit.
Agreed. At that point you are basically creating a new species out of the Nazi-rats.
What about that one Beastlord in Bretonnia who is establishing a framework to basically farm humans (in the RPG at least)?
That...why? Obviously they wouldn't care about the moral reasons to not do that, but that's just...dumb. Humans take forever to grow up, and are smart enough to be good at escaping. Does he have nothing better to do with his time?
Vote's closed so no.
Gods have independent agency too, they're more than just a worshiper poll.
My understanding is that the Skaven were crated bc of a cloaked figure tricking a Tilean city into building a belltower for him; on the thirteenth toll, every human in the city became a Skaven, and the city has since become Skavenblight. I always thought that the mysterious figure was the Horned Rat either acting through a mortal minion or that he ascended when the transformation happened.
Not always, they can also shape their worshippers (see Hashut and the Dawi Zharr).
This video should help refresh your memory
Here's an alternative. The reason Ranald made the gamble wasn't because he's a slave to his nature, it's because he just really likes gambling - likes it so much he became a god of gambling. Like a warrior who likes war so much he becomes a war god. You really gonna say for sure that new war god does war because he has to rather than just because he likes it as much as he always has?
Assuming that the reflection idea is true, by all accounts the Horned Rat created the Skaven in their own image, so his worshippers would just reinforce his own personality.
IIRC, its because he makes deals with human villages to graciously donate some of their babies in exchange for not getting attacked and pillaged by his Warherd. As they grow up, they either get eaten when they get extra succulent, become slave labor and/or caretakers for the human larders, or brainwashed missionaries to spread the word of Only Kinda Being Eaten By Beastmen to other villages. Which, considering that Beastmen have difficulty talking human...so yeah, dubious, if imo interesting, canon.
The whole premise of Chaos is that they're the embodiments of all the thoughts and emotions of every living being with a soul. The gods of Chaos are the most influenced out of all the gods by mortals.
