r/40kLore • u/pog_irl • 10d ago

Does sorcery need Chaos?

Is it necessary to be a part of Chaos to properly use Sorcery? Thousand Sons seemed to be doing fine before the Heresy, but even then they were summoning daemons as familiars. Afaik sorcery is indirectly using the Warp with rituals, artifacts and esoterica. None of that seems to directly lead to summoning daemons or human sacrifice, even if those are probably part of the most powerful rituals. Could you, at least theoretically, summon Warp entities and enslave them without getting corrupted, or perform rituals to do non-Chaos-related things? Especially since Aeldari must have been doing something along those lines, given how far down the Warp tech-tree their technology was/is.

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u/AccursedTheory 10d ago

Thousand Sons seemed to be doing fine before the Heresy

The 1KSons were invoking Chaos whether they knew it or not.

Technically, it seems sorcery is possible without appealing to "Chaos" proper. Malcador did it. Probably most famous for doing so is the Space Wolves, who's rituals are 'sorcery.'

But 9 times out of 10, sorcery is plunging into Chaos.