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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff to

Blow Your Mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

In this episode, we will finish our look at the four chaos gods of the fictional far-future universe

in games, workshops, or ever 40,000. In previous episodes, we looked at Bloodthirsty Corn,

the hyper-protein Zinch and the plague-Lord Nergal. Today, we enter the domain of Slanesh,

the Lord of Excess. In 40k lore, we are told that Slanesh is the youngest of the chaos gods,

having only truly accreted out of mortal souls and emotions with the fall of the decadent

Aldari civilization. An event that all but destroyed the Aldari, and poor open a massive

warp-rift known as the Eye of Terror. Slanesh's domain is that of hedonistic excess,

but also that of need, want, and obsession. The demons that manifest in Slanesh's service

are alluring contradictions that blur the line between pleasure and pain, desire, and revulsion.

The demonets of Slanesh make up most of the chaos gods' battle force, and they feature

some favored characteristics of Slanesh's servants. They are humanoid beings with pale flesh

and long purple hair, alluring yet equally ghoulish. Their feet and legs are reminiscent of

reptiles or birds. Bring to mind such real-world mythic traditions as that of harpies and succubi.

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