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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lam and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff to Blow

Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

In this episode, I'm beginning a four-part monster-facts series on the four main demonic

factions in games, workshops, Warhammer 40,000 universe, so first, a little background.

The fictional far-future 40K setting depicts an interstellar human

Imperium with various dark fantasy and medieval elements. This aggressive Imperium is challenged

on all sides by equally warlike alien societies, but they also face the threat of chaos.

In the 40K setting, the demons of chaos exist in a psychic dimension called the warp,

but they can spill over into what is called real space through various methods and exploits.

So in this setting, demons are not the mere creation of religion or occultism,

but an actual spiritual and physical threat to humanity.

Heretical drift on a far-flung planet can mean far more than just mere rebellion.

It can lead to a demonic incursion that consumes billions of souls.

There are various ways to divide up demonic factions in a created world like this,

but 40K largely swiss the forces of chaos into four distinct flavors.

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