Western Esotericism and the Construction of the Thousand Sons Legion in Warhammer 40,000
The representation of the Thousand Sons Legion in the Warhammer 40,000 universe incorporates elements that contemporary scholarship on Western esotericism (Antoine Faivre, Wouter J. Hanegraaff) identifies as characteristic of the esoteric tradition. Rather than borrowing isolated occult motifs, novels reproduce fundamental cosmological, narrative, and cultural structures underlying Western esotericism. The study examines Graham McNeill’s “A …