Michael Deguisa writes about Warhammer 40,000 from outside its temples and its cults.
He is neither a follower of the Emperor nor a servant of Chaos, and he treats both with equal suspicion. Rather than choosing sides in a universe obsessed with absolutes, he writes as an iconoclast for the people caught beneath them. His work is concerned with human motivation in impossible systems: why people obey, what they tell themselves to survive, and how meaning breaks under stress when there is no clean moral ground to stand on.
Deguisa’s focus isn’t on the exterior lives of the heroes, gods, villains and civilians that permeate Warhammer. He’s focused on their interior lives and the choices they make shaped by fear, loyalty, ambition and hope. In a setting that thrives on certainty, he’s interested in contradictions and shades of grey.
Outside of 40k Pulp, Deguisa is a gamer, fantasy writer, and lover of good bourbon and mezcal. He believes the best worlds fictional or otherwise are the ones that distrust easy answers and find the mind, heart and soul of the peoples within them.
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