The Horns of Hashut - Emissaries of the God of Tyranny

[@onionhat745]

One thing I like is that they're leaning into Hashut as a god of industry. He delights in land that has been trampled, polluted and strip mined to the point of sterility, because he sees that as evidence of hard work and progress. It kind of goes with the idea that Chaos Gods embody seemingly noble truths warped and taken to deranged extremes.

[@philurbaniak1811]

I love this interpretation! 👍👍

[@placeholdername3818]

Oh man he must love Greywater Fastness

[@TheOneHoddToward]

@Luke Terpstra I also like to think on parallels to Belphegor as the demon of invention

[@TheOneHoddToward]

@Luke Terpstra Belphegor is the devil of invention. He works with Mammon by crafting devices and ways to make mortals' lives easier - inventions that end up easing the toil of "living properly" so that they are more prone to sinning i.e. becoming lazy. If you figure that sort of inactivity suits Nurgle's stagnation, sure. But I like to think that Hashut is his own thing, his own power and all that

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

@The Wacko We live longer, healthier lives in a more peaceful world than at any time in human history. We're about to allow capitalism to make it go out of control as we are destroying the planet for profit, but progress in and of itself isn't bad. It's the rapacious, unrestrained, always needing to grow and expand kind of progress our civilization embodies that is bad and unsustainable.

[@johnevans5706]

The chaos dwarves used to be slavers using a whole load of different races in their army, so using humans as the front line scouts makes perfect sense for them, why waste dwarf lives when they can send in expendable humans.

[@AndrewMcColl]

They're doing something similar with the Hobgrots, and possibly the Kruleboy Orruks, as well. GW have implied that the Chaos Dwarves are coming, so it'll be interesting to see how they tie all these forces together.

[@elias1579]

In Warhammer Fantasy the Dawizhar subjugated other races to fill the ranks, the Dawi themselves are elite in black armor.

[@fyraltari1889]

The part where they put the white-hot helmets on their faces and can't take them off afterward reminds me of the Infernals, the Chaos Dwarfs equivalent to Slayers, who did the same thing but with armor. I love that they're bringing Hashut back, I feel like the minor Chaos gods are really underutilized. I think it'd be neat if Hashut is jealous of the Great Horned Rat for becoming a "major" god.

[@wyrdhunter]

Old World fact: Hashut is also the god of Big Hats. I would love to see him and Teclis fight it out for Hat Supremacy. :p

[@lefu87williford55]

Calling them the "horns" reminds me of young Zulu warriors also called the "horns" who's job was to flank the other army like calvary, but on foot.

[@fumarc4501]

When we got the Hobgrotz, they mentioned an unseen benefactor or trade partner.

[@corey8248]

So the human filled warbands are supposed to be sort of the forward skirmish force for the main body of primarily chaos dwarves ...could be cool

[@jonathanwatson4484]

I think it akin to a fish that follows a shark, imagine the sieges, the first siege could start with a small unit of basic soldiers and scouts who are very easily to deal with but there purpose is to test the defenses of the enemy before the the main bulk of war machines and elite soldiers arrive, and when they arrive the defences crumble as they had oversee the how they work in there first attack.

[@corey8248]

@@jonathanwatson4484 brings to mind the iron warriors in storm of iron

[@veermudambi5795]

While I wanted to see chaos duardin, it makes sense the vanguard would be humans - they’re expendable. I feel like the chaos duardin would be more cautious with the lives of their own race when they have legions of slaves and vassals to throw at a mission instead, before the “real” army comes.

[@fungoidshaman3120]

Chaos dwarfs in AoS and Total War Warhammer 3 Inmortal Empiers at the same time could be amaizing!!!

[@placeholdername3818]

GW is probably waiting until they release in Total War before in AoS to ride the hype and make easy sales.

[@Pemmont107]

That's exactly what I was thinking too! It should also mean they're not far off..

[@spnked9516]

As someone who was introduced to Fantasy via the Chaos Dwarfs, they will always have a special place in my heart despite never really having a chance to collect them properly myself. But it's because they occupy that special place that something like the Horns of Hashut make me angry. Humans being in the warband isnt the problem. Afterall, the original roster for the chorfs was comprised heavily of ork and hob-goblin units, so it's fine for the chorfs to have slaves or minor followers from other races. The problem is that there isn't a single chorf to be seen - despite the fact that two other totally unrelated warbands have them (iron golems and spire tyrants, I believe). The warband that has the literal name of the god of chaos dwarfs in it, doesn't have a singular dwarf in sight. GW had the chance here to make an extremely unique warband here. They could had a group of slaves and fanatics from different races bound under the command and oversight of a single Chaos Dwarf master. Instead they opted for human cultists that wouldn't look that out of place as Khorne followers with a few modifications and slightly more red. I know GW hates the Chaos Dwarfs, and I know they've been trying to erase or ignore them since 6ed, but this feels particularly disrespectful.

[@cursling9]

I've been waiting for chaos Dwarves since Wrath of the Everchosen when the death army went through a whole section of the eightpoints that was hellforges manned by dwarden and defended by the other Warcry warbands 👌

[@GlennGriffin]

Hashut had a great looking Blood Bowl team back in the day. Hopefully they too will get an update with all these Chaos Dwarf hints.

[@Pemmont107]

I'm so hyped for Hashut Duardin!

[@drpretzel2086]

Love chaos dwarves they have been my favorite minor faction in warhammer fantasy and blood bowl and when they were announced for warcry I damn near lost my mind with excitement.

[@Vandelberger]

Oh, PLEASEEEEEE get the Chaos Dwarves into Sigmar. They were the Dwarves who possesses canons, giant mechs, and even slaves with demonic souls. They can be seen carrying the Hell Canon in WH2-3 Total War. They have a weird Persian, Slavic look to their armor and clothing. They have cannibalistic-mutated, half Dwarf-Bull men as elite Cavalry. They are the only dwarves who can cast magic, though it consumes their body and soul, feet first, with each spell. The Mages are seen as heroes and their "statues" align the stairs to their great fortress. They genetically created the Black Orcs to be better slaves, before they escaped into the wild.

[@philurbaniak1811]

Sounds like a great beginning for these new stories! 👍👍 Man I kind of want to see a burrowing troop transport/tank for these guys, straight out of exploiting nature in the mines to bring the heat right to the heart of the enemy!

[@rustedbranch]

One thing that was cool about hashut in the world that was is that he enabled the dwarves who served him to use magic, Which was something normal dwarves could not do. In the old world dwarves were not meant to use magic (runes are their own thing) and so with the chaos dwarves there was a price to using magic. The more they grew in power, the more of their bodies would turn to stone eventually turning them into statues.

[@gudboah4688]

Maybe when 4th edition AOS eventually comes out, the big bad villain will be Hashut as he ascends to become a major, rather than minor chaos god.

[@dinofacedindividual9462]

I really hope this is a harbinger of Chaos Duardin moving from FW to GW proper

[@AndrewMcColl]

GW implied as much back when the Hobgrots were revealed for AoS3.

[@sakuraoni6919]

Ahh Hashut the father of darkness. In warhammer fantasy he had 2 origins, one was he was a demon prince of Khorne who was sealed away in the Dark lands. he reached out to a lost party of dwarves who faced annihilation. He offered them a Faustian deal. The other is similar, but it’s as if he’s a god that kinda existed, and the party was desperate so they prayed to him, and thus Hashut answered

[@elias1579]

Oh fucckk Hashut is coming, there is going to be some massive releases by next year

[@ruleofkoolwargaming4926]

Basically, I hope that the Chaos Duardin do come down the road, and that they’re the image of Kharadron Overlords if they were religious and dark chaos worshipping. They’d be a great counterpoint to KO. High tech, but daemon fueled.

[@wyvernnemecek595]

Zuvassin, Necoho, Phraz-Etar, Ans’l, Nuffle and Mo’rcck. If they’re gonna bring back *Hashut* , I want them to bring these 6 into the fray as well! We’ve got *so* many minor Chaos Gods that were in Fantasy yet never got used outside of little blurbs when they could’ve really played with the nature of the world and remind us how multi-faceted Chaos really is.

[@lonelystrategos]

As far as I know, Nuffle was only ever in Blood Bowl, which is an alternate universe to Warhammer Fantasy.

[@wyvernnemecek595]

@@lonelystrategos This is true, yet there are ways to integrate him in without breaking anythiny

[@polstierna4251]

Maybe the human part of the Horns of Hashut are warriors and scouts while the dwarden part constructs demonengines and weapons in the forges?

[@jonathanwatson4484]

Hushut, is the chaos god of fire and metal, those that serve him are biengs that build dark artificial, the land turns barren and molten lava flows like the blood of that land, in the world that was, the drawaves didn't dig deep enough when chaos first came to the world, thus they where desperate for survival praying to the ancestor gods for salvation but they did not answer instead hashut answer it was said that hashut was a deamon of khrone that serve as the blacksmith to the blood god braze armies, but what ever he was he corrupted the dawi to serve him and he saved them from there doom. Hashut follows tend to have the mutations of horns or even bullish features but there are some cool facts about them, one there high sorceress are the ruling fraction but there is a curse where the older they get the small banish of there curse manifest which turns them to stone, the second cool fact is that if one dishonour there clan or leader they are force to wear a sering hot molten helmet that magical keeps on burning and is stuck until that bieng repents to there masters. In age of sigmar I am genuinely curious as the the chaos drawaves tend to subjective outhers as slaves but there is the possibility that they are something akin to the cities of sigmar expect the serve as dark forges, but thing for sure is that if they want to add a new chaos god then hasut is the right one.

[@hangebza6625]

I wouldn't say he is the chaos god of fire and metal, but rather of greed and tyranny, which expresses itself in slave driven industry. More like how Nurgle is the chaos god of despair, which expresses itself in plagues and disease. If we go by the angle of chaos gods being based on mortal emotion. Which I never really liked if I am honest. Because even heavily simplified it doesn't fit anymore

[@jonathanwatson4484]

@@hangebza6625 good point as the bull is aslo a creature that is used in labour, so yeah it makes sense in greed and tyranny as Hashut more appropriate in fitting in that category.

[@davidjankraayveld7784]

@@hangebza6625 Hashut is not the God of Greed and tyranny. Unlike Nurgle, Hashut has no regards for the living. Metal, stone and fire are superior. The slavery is necessary. Nothing more nothing less. Unlike Tzeentch, Hashut only seeks a unidirectional change; progress. Unlike Khore, Hashut does not seek violence as a purpose. Hashut's followers must seek recourses and violences is justified if it brings more progress. Unlike Slaanesh, Hashut does not care about pleasure or perfection. He is fixated on the goal of production and any distraction must be avoided. Hashut is the God of industry and fire. All he cares for is to develop and build, with no regards for anything else.

[@xavier84623]

im excited to see the rest of the hashut forces

[@956device9]

OMG THIS IS THE BEST THI G TO HAPPEN TO AOS! CHAOS DRAWFS FINALLY GET SOME REAL LORE IN AOS

[@bulwyf2572]

I want Chaos Dwarfs in Sigmar as a new army so badly.

[@andreag.4609]

I can’t wait to see these new “Chaos Dwarves” and how they will manage at putting hobgoblins and slaves in various roles. Dunno if they consider them Chaos or Destruction after all 🤷🏼‍♂️ curious to see

[@l8ter270]

He is Sauron

[@Redrung]

Chaos god of Industrial Polution??? Seem possible I guess

[@dustiespring6591]

Not actual canon but head canon is that Hashut represents the inevitable “order” that comes when one embraces pure chaos. Historically whenever true anarchy and chaos has enveloped a peoples or nation, it eventually reforms some kind of order. I would say Hashut is very much in this vain. His strongest and most faithful warriors enjoy the benefits of heavy industry and booming economies, but just like all the chaos gods it’s tainted by the darkness that is slavery, and brutal tyrannical rule… still my guess is that it’s more “stable” of life then living with some of the other chaos gods.

[@Kragnorak]

Probably way more stable than living under an "Order god" like Morathi-Kaine. I just know she's embraced the elven aspect of Khorne, but I'm not sure if the GW world-builders realize this or not

[@I-am-Ranb0]

@@Kragnorak She hasn’t embraced the any aspect of Khorne… She has tricked her followers into thinking that Khaine is still “alive” and she siphoned their worship into herself making her more powerful and ultimately leading to her apotheosis, along with the other soul stealing scheme she pulled. Khaine and Khorne are NOT the same

[@Scarecr0w_ofWaaagh_strawpies]

Chaos dwarves!!!!

[@Redrung]

Really want the jungle terrain ,but already spend all my money on kruleboyz and re watch your lore about them

[@adambielen8996]

The jungle terrain does look amazing.

[@elias1579]

Let’s GO!!!

[@pcuimac]

Where do all these chaos people get their food, if they burn down everything and convert it into ashen wasteland?

[@placeholdername3818]

Industrial Farms I guess. This isn't exactly a god of forward thinking. Hashut sounds more like a god of short-term profits.

[@theone-tg4ey]

😍

[@MasterShake9000]

IIRC, the old WHFB lore used to imply that Hashut was a Bloodthirster trapped inside a volcano.

[@adambielen8996]

That was a theory based entirely on him having a bull head. The more prominent theory was that he was a disgraced Ancestor God.

[@Playaplaya18]

I'm down for some Mad Max style Chaos Dwarden, revving the engines and playing the flamethrower guitars while taking the fight to the realm of Life. Road Warrior vibes.

[@Haydin1117]

WHEN CHAOS DORF GW.

[@jamesnave1249]

Still can't believe that the first followers of Hashut weren't even chaos dwarves!

[@jamesnave1249]

They better be slaves!

[@BlizzardofKnives]

It'd be neat to have a allusion to Hashut in something 40K Dark Mech related.

[@pitmatix1457]

The new Votann law has one Votann being driven mad by the death of the Kin around it (at the hands of the Tyranids). If a Votann can go mad then why not one turned to Chaos or got possessed by a chaos entity?

[@Spartan135]

I saw the thumbnail and i thought:"lol,that's a Deldar Wrack rip off.

[@spacasiildo]

Hey Dough is there a website where you get all these pictures? Id love to use them as wallpapper

[@theone-tg4ey]

the industrial revolution and its consequences....smh

[@greenskinzgaming5188]

Im not sure why there is a like a gatekeeping of lore. AoS is WFB. WFB became AoS. Its a timeline. The Hashut lore "back then" is the lore it is now. You wouldnt say the same talking about Morathi, Nagash, Sigmar, etc etc etc.

[@joemamajoastar8708]

He said that mainly because he didn't know the lore for Hashut in fantasy so he was just going by his knowledge of aos info given to us from this warband