[Warhammer 40K] - Daemon World
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Daemon World let me cut loose with all manner of bizarre, intense action sequences which would only be possible on a world where mundane rules like gravity and logic didn’t count. This is my strongest memory of writing Daemon World—letting the completely insane stuff in my imagination take control and forge some of the strangest scenes I have ever written. A sea battle on an ocean of blood, a titan-sized daemon prince, a city suspended over a pit dedicated to the creation of obscene pleasures. The awakening of Torvendis itself, a planet-wide version of all this madness, was an inevitable conclusion. It’s a good job it was a part of Veq’s plan, otherwise I would have had to find some other excuse to have Torvendis turn cosmic predator at the end. It was a very liberating experience to pencil in sections of the book that I would fill with as much craziness as possible, and to dive into moments of grandeur and horror that wouldn’t fit into most other plotlines.
I am very proud of Daemon World, and echoes of its Chaotic strangeness turn up in almost everything I write. I loved writing it, too, especially the moments towards the end when the various threads of Veq’s plot started to become apparent and the conclusion started racing towards me faster than I could write it. Sadly a sequel is unlikely since everyone in the entire plot is dead, including the daemon world itself, so Torvendis’s story has conclusively finished. But Daemon World lives on every time I have a daemon turn into something unfathomably horrible, every time the warp wreaks madness in realspace or the rules or reality break down. Veq lives on, too, as a lesson about what Chaos truly is and what it can do to the most stalwart souls.
Ben Counter 2008
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