Imperial worlds fallen to chaos help

[Lord Kallozar]

Can a planet once loyal to the imperium that has fallen to the influence of chaos be considered a daemon world or turned into a daemon world? Could it be possible that the once loyal planet has been caught up in or devoured by a warp storm/warp rift that has turned the planet into a daemon world?

 

Thanks.

Edited June 17, 2017 by Lord Kallozar

[Quixus]

Yes and yes.

[Sception]

Daemon World, at least as I understand it, is a pretty nebulous concept, covering anything from worlds sufficiantly warp-tainted that daemons can manifest permanently there to worlds physically drawn entirely into the warp to worlds within the warp that are specifically controlled & shaped, even created, by the will of a singular daemonic entity such that they may not follow any rational rules of physics, to worlds that are literally just one huge daemonic creature with myriads of daemonic parasites living on and within its surface.

[Lord Kallozar]

Thanks for the replies.

So is it possible for a world overran with chaos space marines or cultists to be warp tainted/daemonic even if it isn't within the eye of terror or a warp storm but just in normal space.

[Shinespider]

I think at least a small, localized warp storm would be necessary, or otherwise it would happen as a result of the planet's transformation. 

Edited June 17, 2017 by Shinespider

[Khornestar]

Given the galaxy-spanning warp storm shenanigans going on right now, I think you could justify whatever version of daemon world you choose.

[Kol Saresk]

Actually warp storms are not necessary. The Word Bearers series shows that Gehemenehts(giant altar-towers) can be used to create daemon worlds. The Gaunt's Ghost series also shows that worlds occupied by Chaos forces where shrines are built and the taint becomes heavy will eventually also become corrupted and start to become something akin to daemon worlds, with the logical outcome being that they become full-fledged daemon worlds. Also, the Grey Knights novel Dark Adeptus tells the tale of a forge-world being sucked into the warp and then spat out as a daemon-forge.

 

Basically, there are many methods of corrupting a planet into a daemon world. The more invasive, the faster it happens. Planets getting stuck in warp storms just happens to be the most invasive, and therefore the quickest, way of it happening.

[Shinespider]

I think that if a planet were so corrupted and so infused with the energies of the warp that it could legitimately be called a Daemon World, it would probably generate its own warp storm anyway. 

[Sception]

I think that if a planet were so corrupted and so infused with the energies of the warp that it could legitimately be called a Daemon World, it would probably generate its own warp storm anyway. 

 

This.  There are ways for a world to be so corrupted without first being caught in a warp storm, but that corruption would probably bleed out and create one anyway.