Under the rare display of genuine emotion from the Changer of Ways, the four Chaos Gods, locked in eternal conflict, actually forged a highly cooperative alliance at this moment.
Cooperation and alliance were concepts fundamentally at odds with the Chaos they embodied, utterly incompatible by nature.
Yet under the influence of Tzeentch's theory of "transcending the thrones," the four Chaos Gods had changed as well.
Even when they had joined hands to corrupt Horus, they had never been this united. At most, they had shared the same objective and temporarily refrained from sabotaging one another.
Tzeentch was exceedingly pleased by this scene. He had achieved a degree of unity among the gods, undoubtedly taking a qualitative step forward.
As the master of the Throne of Infernal Storms, Tzeentch's core authority was the concept of change.
He had to consider a brutal question: if the principle of change in which he took such pride was actually granted by the Throne of Change, then was it truly change, or a deeper form of permanence?
This contradictory paradox had plagued Tzeentch for countless ages. His casting Kairos into the Well of Eternity had, in fact, partly been an attempt to uncover its answer.
Among the Chaos Gods, Tzeentch had once been the strongest.
Though, to avoid being targeted to death by his other three siblings, he had destroyed the Staff of Fate, which possessed power approaching omniscience and omnipotence, and thus fallen from the top position.
But that did not mean he had lost his ambition. Tzeentch was the Chaos God least able to accept stagnation. From beginning to end, what he had plotted was change in its truest sense.
And in his heart, had gathering the gods and forging this alliance truly only been for the sake of shattering humanity's backbone and