I found this rather interesting and it took me down a short rabbit hole. We share same interests and like to explore the same rabbit worlds, I presume :) I'm glad to read your researches. Just two points that might complete them: There's no mention of the word in The New Shorter Oxford English Dict...

The correct plural of dwarf (the regular continuation of Old English dweorg) is dwarrows (from dweorgas), later levelled down to "dwarfs" (probably under the influence of the French and Latin accusative plurals, which are commonly in -s ). The latter, "dwarfs", is the plural used...

Common playable characters' species in WFRP (and their available cultures in WFRP4) are: -Men ( Reiklander : WFRP4; Middenheimer : MCWW4; Middenlander : MCWW4; Nordlander : MCWW4; others : nothing yet); -Halflings ( Reiklander : WFRP4, AEI; Mootlander : AEI; others : nothing yet); -Dwarrows ( Reikla...

sx dwarf wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:43 am

• A book for a race for which previous edition left vastly unexploited

Previous edition (the third one) or previous editions (all of them)?

listen, the claims of "mass sacrifices" are based on the exaggerated claims of the spanish priests and are largely considered wildly inaccurate at best or falsified for justifying conquest at worst. which is my point, your arguing is revolving around something that hasn't actually conside...

i believe he's claiming that an aztec-like belief system would be presumed to be a chaos cult by the existing peoples of the empire and we have to admit they're not exactly the most reasonable and thoughtful country around. i also believe this entire mental exercise about the aztec is kinda silly. ...

That seems to just displace the source of thinking, but can we say that all those who've played with you would confuse the Aztec culture with Warhammer Chaos, provided you just avoid to use names normally used to describe the Aztec culture? However, if I understand you correctly, as it seems you nee...

Thank you for your unironic answer. So are you thinking that Aztec gods are Chaotic Gods or are aspects of the gods of Chaos? Do you believe that such Gods really exist in our real world or do you think that Chaos would in fact be unrelated to Chaos gods? If so, is being "Chaotic" not a fa...

Not sure I buy Hashut being a god of law even within homebrew stuff. Kad'ai fire demons, Bull centaurs, fangs and mass human sacrifice all seem pretty Chaotic to me. Seems like you'd have to write out so much official material there's not much point keeping the name. fractulis is probably not using...

So the petrification is still related to the resistance against magic, hence against chaos in official publications... Perhaps that it could be said that, in the Immaterium , soul’s desires tend to create chaos gods -desires to get what seem forbid to them, which lead to worship a god whose cult fav...

Hashut is the Chaotic God of Chaos Dwarves, designed by Rick Priestley for Warhammer Fantasy Battle and, in WFB, its cultists tend to be petrified.
Its understanding as a chaotic god of Law is, however, homebrew.

On Imperial cults, three kind of cults might be distinguished: - public cults: cults organized by the public powers, to honour gods and to ensure their benevolence, to appease their grievance, and to seek their help in favour of the community. All Old World gods are publicly worshipped, including go...

mine, but it is unfinished.
map: http://maitre.du.monde.free.fr/Jdr/Warh ... ikland.png
gazetteer: http://maitre.du.monde.free.fr/Jdr/Warh ... rtoire.htm

His mutation might make him looks like gargoyles, such as a "stone skin".
(that would allow him to hide in the cathedral)

The earliest men worshiped the Old Ones and were thus polytheistic. Even after the collapse of the warp gates, the winds of change mostly diffuse by the time they reach Nehekhara, so the Nehekharans wouldn't be under the same pressures towards monotheism. The early barbarian tribes would have retai...

Sorry for that :) There are two reasons for that. The main one is that my English skills are wretched. It is quite easy for me to sympathise in English speakers, to give some instructions in English, to ask for information and to receive them... However arguing on comparative theology and religions ...

But once you get past that then I think questions like 'would the Empire still have a polythiestic religion?' are a bit strange if they don't directly and squarely address the gods factually existing. This question is directly related to that point: The problem is that polytheism, with it's vaguene...

It is always up to the game master to master the game, not specifically in Warhammer Fantasy but in every roleplaying game, just like it is up to the filmmaker or the author to set up how things function in their works. Nevertheless, that GM decides to set up unrealistic set up wouldn't make it real...

( 1. Greek polytheists didn't called their own religion polytheistic neither, nor even did they called other polytheistic religions being polytheistic. 2. Multiple monotheisms tolerant up to the point to recognize others gods as gods is, obviously, inherently impossible. Monotheists believe in the e...

I may be wrong, but I feel there are two distinct debates in our exchanges: - is Warhammer Fantasy 's Imperial polytheism realistically described as a polytheism? My answer is: no it isn't, because the Imperial society description do not fit for polytheistic societies, but to monolatric's (while cha...