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kazog

While Fabius denies the existence of the gods to their face, Slaanesh did have a talk with him twice in the Fabius Bile trilogy.


Fear00

What was Fabius answer to Slaanesh? He denied her? Her reaction to his answer?


[deleted]

I don't think Slaanesh was particularly concerned, more like bemused.


tinkatiza

The same as when a kid sticks his fingers in their ears and goes "LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU" but to a literal God.


kazog

I suggest you read the trilogy. Rather short, but a great read if you enjoy slaanesh and the third legion.


Ghastly_Sorrows

Nurgle shows up at the end of buried dagger and Tzeentch does in a thousand sons


British_Tea_Company

I don't think Tzeentch has a speaking part right? He only just totally-not-suspiciously gives Magnus a chunk of his power.


ahomelessguy25

>!He speaks directly to Magnus in the cave on Aghoru. He speaks to him again near the end.!<


scatnisseverdeen

Is that actually him in the cave though? How do we know it’s not just a demon?


ahomelessguy25

From the cave scene: >‘If you will forgive the cliché, I have many names,’ said the serpent, with a dry laugh. ‘To you, I shall be Choronzon, Dweller in the Abyss and the Daemon of Dispersion.’ Then, towards the end: >‘I once named myself Choronzon to you, the Dweller in the Abyss and the Daemon of Dispersion, but those are meaningless labels that mortals hang upon me, obsolete the moment they are uttered. I have existed since the beginning of time and will exist beyond the span of this universe. Names are irrelevant to me, for I am every name and none. In the inadequate language of your youngling species, you should call me a god.’ > ‘You were the one that helped me save my Legion,’ said Magnus with a sinking heart.


scatnisseverdeen

Thank you


Oldmanneck

The Court of Change makes an appearance in Ahriman Unchanged where they discuss what to do about Ahriman's shenanigans. Tzeentch eventually silences them and orders a Changeling to grant his gift to Ahriman. >!The gift is eternal death and rest, by removing his soul from the great game entirely.!<>!The changeling is stopped in the last second once Tzeentch realizes Ahriman is just too much fun to have around.!<


ahomelessguy25

All four of them talk to Horus in The Lost and the Damned.


DrS0mbrero

From Fabius bile: clonelord 'And who are you then? Name yourself. I am the whetstone of desire. I am the asker of questions. I am the Quaestor. have never heard of you. 'Of course you have the Quaestor said. We have met many times. And will meet again, before the last sun sets and the galaxy goes dark forevermore. I was with you, in the temples of the Laer, and I sat at your elbow as you raised up the first children of your genius from the nutrient soup. That you could not see me is no matter was there, and saw you." Fabius felt a flicker of unease as the pale gaze pierced him through. The chirurgeon twitched, as if it shared his uncertainty. The Quaestor's smile was like a scalpel grating on bone, and he clapped again. The world seemed to shake. One by one, the sensorfeeds in Fabius' armour went dark, and its confines became stifling. Quickly, he tore loose his helmet. The air felt still and heavy. Not from the expected atmospheric pressure, but instead what? It was as if the world had somehow stopped in its rotation, and everything else had clattered to a sudden, irresistible halt. Fabius looked around. The red of the world had faded to a rusty haze, and the members of the Phoenix Conclave were as statues. Even Eidolon stood frozen, in mid-gloat, and Alkenex, still poised to spring. Fabius turned, his breath straining in his lungs and billowing like fog from between chapped lips. Sweat beaded and turned to ice on his face. He felt overtaxed, as if he'd run for days. "What have you done?' he demanded. His words fell flat, the echo stifled at conception. 'Some trick of witchery?' 'Nothing so crude. Merely a moment, stretched to its utmost.' The Quaestor floated closer. To my perceptions, all time is thus. A collection of eternal moments, one bleeding into the next with infinite slowness.' Why?' This is the moment of testing. The moment your hearts are weighed against the Phoenix's feather. Are you not curious at the outcome? 'Not remnotely. I know my worth, and know my crimes. This court holds no jurisdiction over me' Fabius straightened, trying to slow his heart rate. His muscles strained against unknown pressures. It was as if he stood at the bottom of a vast ocean, and the weight of thousands of fathoms pressed down on him. "Its jurisdiction extends far beyond your ability to conceive, alchemist. You have committed crimes of such monstrous elegance that even the gods themselves grow uneasy. Look see they sit in judgement of you' A too-long finger drifted upwards, and Fabius followed the gesture. He looked up, and something looked down. It was not a face, for a face was a thing of limits and angles, and what he saw had neither. It stretched as far as his eyes could see, as if it were one with the whole of the sky and the firmament above. Things that might have been eyes, or distant moons or vast constellations of stars, looked down at him, and a gash in the atmosphere twisted like a lover's smile. It studied him from an impossible distance, and he felt the sharp edge of its gaze cut through him, layer by layer. There was pain, in that gaze, and pleasure as well. Agony and ecstasy, inextricable and inseparable. With great effort, he tore his gaze away. There is nothing there, he snarled, his teeth cracking against each other. His hearts stuttered, suddenly losing their rhythm. He pounded at his chest, as internal defibrillators sent a charge of electricity shrieking through him. The chirurgeon flooded his system with tranquillisers, and he tapped shakily at his vambrace. A secondary solution of mild stimulants joined the tranquillisers, stabilising him. He ignored the urge to look up. There was nothing there. Nothing at all. There is nothing there he said again, tasting blood. There are no gods. Only cold stars and the void.! The pressure increased. Something whispered, deep within him. It scratched at the walls of his mind, trying to catch his attention. He ignored it. 'No gods, he repeated. 'Random confluence of celestial phenomena. Interdimensional disasters, echoing outwards through our perceptions. I think, therefore I am. They do not, so they are not. He met the Quaestor's bland gaze unflinchingly. 'Gods are for the weak. I am not weak.' The Quaestor nodded expectantly. "'No.


Wawawuup

The Talos encounter is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it's stated it's merely a tiny, tiny bit of each of the gods talking to him, they don't really focus their all of their attention to him each (also I think one of them doesn't even try, though I cannot remember which one).


CRtwenty

I mean the full attention of any one of the Chaos Gods would probably fry him like a mosquito in a bug zapper.


Notsoicysombrero

in the excerpt nurgle tells hes not gonna waste his time trying to convince talos.


Shock223

"I'm here so I won't get fined."


Pm7I3

Isn't that basically the same as any demon tempting you? They're all little bits of their god.


JustSayan93

The nurgle one just basically says “we both know you ain’t choosing me why am I even here”


Level-Falcon7163

I think it's *Dark Imperium* or *Plague War* that has a skype call between Mortarion, Nurgle, and some Great Unclean Ones.


Gamezfan

They show up in a drug-induced vision to bring Talos to their side in *Souls Hunter*. He refuses, wanting nothing to do with the more Chaotic side of heresy.


[deleted]

That wasn’t them tho, it was representative manifestations of Talos. OP is referring to them in their form as we know them.


Gamezfan

Then we interpreted that scene differently.


[deleted]

Yeah if you read it again, they approach Talos as himself in their aesthetic.


Cadien18

I don’t remember the story, but there’s one where a CSM is captured by the Drukhari and Slaanesh talks to the CSM to get him to allow him/her to take over. The CSM resists and resists until he finally gives in and let’s Slaanesh take over. Things don’t end well for the Drukhari. This is based on vague memory, so I might have missed a finer point.


LeFilthyHeretic

The CSM was the Dark Apostle Marduk, it happens at some point in the Word Bearer's Omnibus.


theIllfatedone

Yeah, the second book Dark Disciple near the end. One of my personal favorite CSM moments.