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2024OnlinePanel 20Saturday 28th SeptemberWarhammer 40k

The incomplete reformations of Warhammer 40,000 – influences from the sixteenth-century on the theology and iconography of the Imperial Cult

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Warhammer 40,000 draws its influences from across history; notably the in-universe history, theology, and iconography of the Imperial Cult and the Adeptus Ministorum are inspired by the medieval and early modern Roman Catholic Church. One instance of the history of the Adeptus Ministorum paralleling the history of Catholicism can be seen in origin of one …

2024Panel 19Saturday 28th SeptemberWarhammer 40k

Absolute Daybreak: Comparing the architecture of religious dimension in Baldur’s Gate III and Warhammer: Rogue Trader

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My presentation is a comparative study of the representation of religion in two digital games: Baldur’s Gate III and Warhammer: Rogue Trader. Both are successful titles representing their respective franchises, both were created under at least some level of creative control from the franchise owners (Randall 2023; Templar9999 2024), so their approach to representation of …

2024Friday 27th SeptemberOnlinePanel 9Warhammer 40k

The Emperor’s Great Crusade, ‘instrumental reason’ and the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’: The Horus Heresy series from the perspective of philosophy of history

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One would expect the Horus Heresy series to only expand on background information already available in Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks and codices to create fully-fledged novels. With the first novel ‘Horus Rising’ (written by Dan Abnett and published in 2006), however, the authors began already to add new aspects to the background story. For example, they …