hh1节译：混沌诸神和恶魔

The Warp is the mirror of reality, a churning sea of raw psychic energy fed by the emotions of every creature who hopes, hates and dreams. It is a place of metaphor and madness, that can never be perceived or understood except through symbols and subjective interpretation. The strange powers of psykers of all kinds flow from the power of the Warp, the psyker's mind acting as a channel for the unreality of the Warp to affect reality. It is also the Warp that allows Mankind, and many other races, to travel the vast distances of space. Ships pass through the Warp, their courses guided by Navigators bred to perceive and read the tides of psychic energy. All this was known in the time of the Great Crusade, but it was only half the Truth.

亚空间是现实的镜像，是一片由现实中每一个怀有希望，憎恨与梦想的生物们的情感所饲喂的强烈的灵能能量构成的翻涌海洋。它是由隐喻和疯狂组成的地方，人们只有通过符号和主观解释才能感知理解亚空间。灵能者的各种奇怪能力也是来自于亚空间力量，灵能者的意识充当着亚空间的非现实影响现实（宇宙）的通道。但也正是亚空间允许人类和其他很多种族穿越广阔的太空距离。舰船穿行于亚空间时，被培养出来感知和阅读灵能能量潮汐的导航者会为它们进行路线导航。这是在大远征时期为人们所知的一切，但这仅仅是真相的一半。

The gods denied by the Imperial Truth are real. Vast formations of psychic energy, storms of dark emotion, persistent notes in the symphony of existence, all descriptions fall short of the true nature of the Powers of the Warp. Powerful beyond mortal comprehension, parasitic and malign they are the ruinous powers, the pantheon of lies, the primordial annihilator. They have countless names in countless tongues, but to those who have glimpsed even a fraction of their existence, they are known as the Chaos gods.

帝国真理否认神明，但神是真实存在的。灵能能量的巨大构成物、黑暗情感的风暴、“存在”这首交响曲中的持久音符，所有的描述均未体现出亚空间力量的真实本质。它们是毁灭大能，强大到超出凡人的理解，寄生且恶意，他们是谎言的万神，原初的灭绝者。无数的舌头念诵着他们无数的名讳，但对于那些是瞥见过哪怕是它们的存在的一部分的人而言，他们是作为混沌诸神为人们所知。

These utterly alien entities hunger for the mortal realm, even though it is as fundamentally poisonous to their nature as air is to a creature of the deep ocean. They can extend their power into reality, can expend power to influence mortals, corrupt physical existence, even send portions of themselves to walk amongst men as Daemons, but only for a time. To truly affect reality, they must use mortal creatures of flesh and blood. To such servants they can gift powers beyond imagining, offering the coin of the impossible in exchange for eternal slavery. To many humans such an exchange may seem the only way to escape from the pain of life, or to achieve their heart's desire, and in the superstitions and beliefs of the past, the Chaos gods wait for the vain, the suffering, the wrathful and the desperate. The Imperial Truth strangled the beliefs and practises in which the Chaos gods lurked. It hid the Truth because ignorance was the only way to protect Mankind.

这些彻头彻尾的界外实体渴求着凡人的疆域，即便对于它们而言，凡人疆域在根本上是有毒的，就像空气对于深海中的生物一样（机仆：？这比喻…反正我是看不懂）。他们能把自己的力量延伸到现实中，能拓展自己的力量来影响凡人，腐化物理存在，甚至将部分自身作为恶魔送出，使其行走于凡人之间，但只能进行一次。为了真正影响现实，他们必须利用凡俗生物的血肉。这些仆人将会被赐予超越想象的力量，诸神用一枚不可能的硬币换取了对于这些仆人的永恒奴役。对很多凡人，这样的交换可能看似是逃离人生的痛苦或实现心中欲望的唯一道路，而且在过去的迷信和信仰中，混沌诸神也在等待着自负者、苦难者、愤怒者和绝望者。帝国真理扼杀的便是混沌诸神隐藏其中信仰和行为，它掩盖了事实，因为无知是保护人类的唯一途径。

机仆：其实关于混沌诸神、亚空间、恶魔等…混沌实体的本质，gw说法很多。本文在本质上也是“作者”AK个人的理解。关于混沌的本质个人还是建议去看熊大（吾乃熊也）的专栏。