Necoho

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Necoho, often known as The Doubter or The Apostate God is one of the renegade Chaos Gods. Necoho's warp-spawned existence owes itself to a paradox which should, by mortal logic, make his very subsistence impossible. He is a deity who represents the struggle against the entire notion of gods and religion. Needless to say, this means that his following is extremely small, especially for an obscure renegade Chaos God, and his name is only found in the oldest and most obscure of forbidden tomes, or uttered by the most embittered agnostics. No doubt, this is the way Necoho likes it. As might be expected, Necoho almost never manifests himself in the physical world; however, if he does so it is in the form of a short, plump old human man, with a permanent expression of ironic amusement etched upon his face.

Necoho has no known icon, livery, or any other symbol denoting his scattered followers. His worship - if it can be called thus - is relegated to tiny scatterings on remote, often feral or black powder worlds; even then there is little outward sign to alert the presence of the cult. Certainly it seems, from what little is known, that Necoho and his followers are as opposed to the idea of temples as they are to the idea of deities.

Necoho is generally opposed to all other cults of all kinds, be they Imperial, Eldar, Chaos, or even Orkish, although it is suspected that from time to time he may help one cult or hinder another if doing so would undermine the credibility or status of its deity or leaders among the creed’s mortal followers.

Necoho thrives on agnosticism and atheism; and, in direct contrast with his brethren, grows in power as the number of his followers diminishes. His ultimate goal is to be the sole deity in existence, thus sating his burning hatred for all other gods and faiths. To achieve this, he knows he must eventually eliminate all sentient life within the universe - but until such extreme measures can be taken, he is satisfied to merely spread disbelief and scepticism of his fellow gods, weakening both their strength in the immaterium and the sway they hold in the material world.

Necoho was created by Games Workshop for use in their Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game, and was featured in the "Something Rotten In Kislev" book, published in 1988 as part of the "The Enemy Within" campaign, along with Zuvassin the Great Undoer.