Hashut

Evil-doer
Full Name	Hashut
Alias	Dark Father Father of Darkness Bull-Father Great Bull Blazing Bull God of Darkness Forge-God Burning God Tzeentch (Possibly)
Origin	Warhammer Fantasy
Occupation	Deity of the Dawi'Zharr
Powers / Skills	Granting Magic Immortality Chaos Corruption Mutation
Hobby	Enjoying Sacrifices Blessing the Dawi'Zharr
Goals	Blood Sacrifices
Crimes	Mass Enslaving by Proxy Mass Murder by Proxy Corruption
Type of Villain	Evil Deity

“	The Dark Lands were brutal and inhospitable, presenting terrible dangers. Lacking support from their kin, these renegades fully embraced Chaos, worshipping a terrible and blasphemous God known as Hashut, the Father of Darkness.	„
	~ Tome of Corruption

Hashut (pronounced "ha-SHOOT" or "ha-shut"), also known as the Father of Darkness, is a minor Chaos Power in Warhammer Fantasy and Age of Sigmar. He is the patron deity of the Chaos Dwarfs as well as the god of Dark Industry, Hatred, Greed, and Tyranny.

According to some sources, Hashut is yet another manifestation of the god Tzeentch.

Warhammer Fantasy

Origins

“	Hashut demands that he is honoured with fire, blood and spires that scrape the sky, the larger the fortress, the greater the monument to his greatness.	„
	~ Industry of Dawi-Zharr

Hashut is posited by arcane scholars to have been loosed upon the world during the Time of Chaos.

It is implied that Hashut preceeds the race of Chaos Dwarfs, who are descended from those Dawi who lost contact with the primary colonizing host as they ventured to far east of the World's Edge Mountains too the Great Skull Land, a place obviously blighted by an ancient evil. Sometime afterwards, the Time of Chaos occured and those more adventurous Dawi were thought lost to the corruptions and evil of the Chaos Gods and their creatures.

It was the Tong, the most vile of all Chaos Marauders, who fell upon the Skull Land and trapped the Dwarfs in their hold. Facing oblivion, the Runesmiths used magic to call out to the void for aid...and it was Hashut, Father of Darkness, who responded. In return for their worship, he would offer them his patronage, power, and save them from their enemies. The pact struck, the Father of Darkness whisked his new children away, ripping away the stronghold and leaving not a trace of it behind.

Hashut would demand a great empire be built in his name, forcing the newly created Dawi'Zharr to enslave the Greenskins around them, as they were too few in number to build it themselves.

The Father of Darkness

Hashut himself is said to dwell legions beneath the earth, his realm preceeded by glowing red seams of a daemonic alchemical substance called the Blood of Hashut which is rarer than gold or even warpstone. With this substance, and the right devices, a mortal could breach the border between reality and unreality and enter the domain of the Father of Darkness. The Blood of Hashut is also present in Hashut's realm proper.

It is possible Hashut has some accord with Khorne. The Machina Daemonium, a location within the Blood God's domain that forges weapons, is said to be powered by the fiery breath of the Chaos Dwarf God.

Hashut is a god of darkness and thusly favours the blackness. Because of this, the Chaos Dwarves seek to blot out the light of the sun with their infernal industry and plunge the world into eternal night.

Age of Sigmar

Hashut is present in Age of Sigmar, with designs on Thondia within the Realm of Beasts. An evil duardin god, Hashut's ideal is overwhelming force and conquest through arcane firepower. He isn't a subtle god and his followers turn whatever they conquer into a desolate volcanic wasteland.

Characteristics

The Bale Taurus is said to resemble the God of Darkness.

The Father of Darkness is often portrayed as a great raging bull by his followers. Grim and malignant, he is said to be wreathed in smoke and in shadow. Though a Chaos God, albeit a minor one, many theorize he is instead an Arch-Daemon or some other malign creature of chaos. He is closely associated with greed, fire, hatred, and tyranny and his gifts come at a terrible price. In return for his patronage and power, Hashut thirsts for blood, sacrifices, and slaves. Along with physical mutation, Hashut has imparted upon his followers secrets and sorcery that, when fused with the industry of the Chaos Dwarves, allows them to bring machine-daemon hybrid monstrosities to life among other deadly devices.

The Bale Taurus, huge winged bulls with burning flesh, are also said to resemble the Father of Darkness, making them much sought after by the Chaos Dwarfs. The Bull Centaurs are taur-like half-bull, half Dawi-Zharr that the Chaos God Hashut finds pleasing.

Followers

“	One day Hashut shall rise from his slumber and trample the world beneath his brazen hoves. The dead shall outnumber the living and those that remain shall be dragged in chains to the pits of Zharr to toil for the great glory of Hashut. And all will be blessed darkness.	„
	~ Astrogoth Ironhand, High Priest of Hashut

The followers of Hashut are known as the Hashuti or Hashutites.

Chaos Dwarfs

“	One of the most hotly contested parts of Dwarf history involves the Chaos Dwarfs. The Dwarfs still deny their existence, hiding a deeper fear behind the façade of bravado and indignation. But, despite their denials, the Chaos Dwarfs do exist, and are just one more cog in the war engine of Chaos that musters for each new incursion.	„
	~ Tome of Corruption, "Of Dwarfs and Chaos"

The Dawi-Zharr.

The Chaos Dwarfs, called the Dawi-Zharr, are the primary worshippers of the bovine God Hashut. They serve their nightmarish god through both war and commerce, buying slaves and capturing soldiers in which the use for mass blood sacrifices to their destruction-hungry god. Though Dwarves are resistant to mutation and typically shun casting magic as a reckless and dangerous tool (as well as being biology incapable of being wizards or sorcerors), the Dawi'Zharr make use of both. Over the centuries, small tusks and horns differentiate them physically from their Dawi-kin, but more than that, the mind of the Dawi'Zharr is a twisted perversion of the standard Dwarf. They are proud, calculating, merciless and malicious.

The Chaos Dwarfs are speculated to supply the Legions of Chaos with armor and weapons, in return for slaves. Some even theorize that the Juggernauts of Khorne, daemonic-machine hybrids of war, are themselves the product of Dawi'Zharr efforts. Only the Skaven rival their sheer technological prowess.

Some Dawi Zharr bear Hashut's blessing more cleary than others. His sorcerors, called Daemon-smiths, are the casters of Dawi-Zharr society. They can use the Lore of Hashut to overcome enemies, but their own lives are eventually forfeit for this power as the Dwarf constition was never meant to host magic. Therefore, each Daemon-smith begins a slow process of petrification where they turn to stone from their toes to their horns. It is the Sorcerors of Hashut,doubling as both lords and priests, who rule Zharr Naggrund and they do so with an iron fist.

Bull Centaurs are Dawi'Zharr that bear Hashut's bovine-esque mutations, having been overwhelmed with Chaos Corruption at the beginning of the Chaos Dwarf's history. They are twisted and mutated with a bullish aspect, making them physically the most similar to the evil patron god. They serve as sentinel and shock troops, being immensely powerful mutants. Only a few are born in a generation, usually at the cost of their mother's lives. However, some are the direct product of tampering by the Hashuti Sorcerors, who do not even spare their own offspring in the endeavor of trying to create more Bull Centaurs.

K'daai Daemons

“	The Chaos Dwarfs certainly have a daemonic side. Nowhere is it better illustrated than through the monstrous K’daai; Chaos Daemons that were enslaved and bound in iron war armour. They are the Scions of Fire, and they serve the Daemonsmiths of the Chaos Dwarfs.	„
	~ Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs

A K'daai Fireborn.

Like the other Chaos Gods, Hashut has daemons who serve and kill in his name. Called the K'daai Zharr, they are somewhat distinct from the typical Chaos Daemon, though roughly analogous to the Lesser and Greater Fiends seen from the primary Chaos Powers.

The K'daai are the result of the Dawi'Zharr ambition to make use of the infernal powers while bypassing the typical dangers associated with consorting with daemons. In order to do this, the stuff of daemons is combined with the fell machinery of the Chaos Dwarfs, enslaving the daemon to the Sorceror's will and giving it form and shape to enact that will. Drawn from the magma of the earth and birthed in the boiling blood of Hashut's sacrifices, the K'daai are near mindless elemental beings of utter destruction. They can only be created by the most talented of Hellsmiths and no few Sorceror-Prophets have met their end in this extremely long and arduous process.

A K'daai Destroyer.

The smaller creations are called K'daai Fireborn or K'daai Manburners. The larger creations are called K'daai Destroyers and they are often designed in the likeness of the Bullfather himself. Massive and powerful, such is the intensity burning within the daemon that they will destroy their own bindings as much as the enemy before them.

Quotes About Hashut

“	Hashut stifles your hedonistic needs. Let Slaanesh set you free!	„
	~ Keeper of Secrets to a Chaos Dwarf Lord

“	Hashut is a cockroach of a daemon to be crushed under my exalted heel!	„
	~ Keeper of Secrets to a Chaos Dwarf Lord, Poor Relations

“	Prince and Blazing Bull as one!	„
	~ N'Kari to Dwarf Lord, Alliance Created

“	Father of Darkness, watch closely as I butcher your thralls!	„
	~ Skarbrand

“	Hashut's hatred cannot defeat Khorne's rage!	„
	~ Skarbrand