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What are some quotes that you like how they describe the Warp or using Magic? Writing some fanfic and I'm looking for inspiration. Taking some inspiration from Ahriman: EXile and the Thousand Sons book but I'm looking for more. Thanks!

" Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse."

-Dr Weir, Event Horizon [1997]

One called it the the great ocean, but its full of sharks and every other dangerous preadater, some the size of battleships km,s in lengh and power.

"De wun plaze wit de spiky boyz"
- Some Ork somewhere.

Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Let me introduce you to a fellow named HP Lovecraft...

Seriously, the Warp is so bizarre and horrifying, that even LOOKING at it without having a super special mutant third eye will drive you insane. You'll be smelling colors and seeing in the 7th dimension in no time.

Describing the Warp is very simple. Explain the color red to me without using other colors for example or things that are red. Once you do that, you can describe the Warp.

You are literally describing something beyond comprehension and if you try to describe it as an Ocean or as a physical thing, you're missing the point of it. It's emotion made physical. Daemons shifting like faded memories, coming together and breaking apart into unique moments of 'self'. Wisps of cloud that can be the psychic echo of a billion deaths or the echo of the birth of a single insect. Colors that nothing alive has ever seen and can't be described and such dark that there is no question that something looks back at you from inside it. Literally everything and nothing at once. There is no sense of it as humans can understand, which is what makes it so interesting.

The exception is of course the Webway where realspace laws are forced into the warp, like a bubble of reality in the churning Chaos.

I'm going to go with the Event Horizon warpstyle, like the first responder to this thread.

"I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive!"
- Dr. Weir, Event Horizon [1997]

 SharkoutofWata wrote:
Describing the Warp is very simple. Explain the color red to me without using other colors for example or things that are red. Once you do that, you can describe the Warp.

"The visible red light has a wavelength of about 650 nm."
- http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html

"The Bad Place"

 Engine of War wrote:
"The Bad Place"

"The Bad Man touched me in The Bad Place!!"

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 Selym wrote:

 Engine of War wrote:
"The Bad Place"

"The Bad Man touched me in The Bad Place!!"

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actually. Its a reference to the game "Fur Fighters". At one point you go through a portal to "The Bad Place" which is essentially Hell and.... well... besides tons of fire, blood, skulls, bones and such, there is a part of the level that is really really trippy in a horror movie kind of way.

Hmmm...those event horizon quotes sound very interesting! I will have to look into those more!

 changerofways wrote:
Hmmm...those event horizon quotes sound very interesting! I will have to look into those more!

It is and has been one of my favourite movies since it traumatized me as a child . Plus in my mind-canon I've inserted it into the 40k timeline as the first time a ship entered the warp, after which they developed the Gellar fields

I always imagined it as a purple plane. Likely, this can depend on the viewer or viewers.

I bet there are isolated planes within the warp that represent the "positive" emotions. A plane of order;
, love, kindness ect. Each harboring a minor chaos god.

walkertreat wrote:
I always imagined it as a purple plane. Likely, this can depend on the viewer or viewers.

I bet there are isolated planes within the warp that represent the "positive" emotions. A plane of order;
, love, kindness ect. Each harboring a minor chaos god.

It's where Empy, Creed and the other heroes of the IOM all go to hang out, have a few beers, and play "count the daemons".

Pretty gakked up.

A technique that can be useful for writing about the Warp is syneasthesia, or deliberately mixing up sensory description. For example:

"The horror of the immaterial and the visceral reality merged as the very fabric of creation was rent apart with a terrible cold shrieking. Stabbing lights suffused the suddenly hot-cold-loud-quiet battlefield, and the red smell of burning blood assailed his nostrils. He groped past the screaming glare for thenhilt of his sword."

Not the best example, but hopefully you get the idea.

 Paradigm wrote:
A technique that can be useful for writing about the Warp is syneasthesia, or deliberately mixing up sensory description. For example:

"The horror of the immaterial and the visceral reality merged as the very fabric of creation was rent apart with a terrible cold shrieking. Stabbing lights suffused the suddenly hot-cold-loud-quiet battlefield, and the red smell of burning blood assailed his nostrils. He groped past the screaming glare for thenhilt of his sword."

Not the best example, but hopefully you get the idea.

I like it. It gets the confusion across, with a side of choking confusion.

Amorphous space hell is how i describe it to people.