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The Chaos Gods represent the most consistent characters across Warhammer properties, acting as dark manifestations of the latent desires and fears of humanity as a species. While some of what are considered the cardinal sins of theologies worldwide can be mapped with relative ease onto these deities, greed, or avarice, presents a trickier conundrum. Arguments …
Warhammer 40,000 was not built in a cultural vacuum. Games Workshop emerged in late-1970s Britain, a milieu shaped by occult revival, chaos magick aesthetics, and the Law/Chaos cosmology of Michael Moorcock’s fiction, and the fingerprints are everywhere: the Warp as a metaphysical plane mapping onto esoteric conceptions of the astral or the collective unconscious, the …
One of the more striking factions in the Age of Sigmar are the Flesh-Eater Courts, an army of ghouls and cannibals that surge forward in a naked mass of flesh, claws and teeth, lorded over by their vampiric rulers. Beneath this simplistic appearance is a deeper system of viral mass delusion, where the ghouls see …