About warp

[DoltLumb]

What is this warp ?

[JinxTheWorld]

Short answer? The fun stuff that makes W40k tick.

Long answer: https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Immaterium

[Tiralstrom]

Warp is basically the realm of daemons and chaos gods in space, also called the Immaterium. Psykers can tap into the warp to do some nifty magic, but it's really dangerous to do so. Because warp can corrupt pretty much anything, or accident could happen and release daemons everywhere.

Warp can also be traversed to reach distant systems using ships. But as always it's also dangerous to do so. Ships can be lost, invaded or some other nasty stuff while traveling the warp.
So to protect ships, they use gellar field (some sort of shield that protect ships from the effect of the warp)

[Grim@FU_BARRACUDA]

Maybe this helps aswell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxZMOAmtWPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbgB6Zns9lg

[Will]

its hell

[Ghuldarkar]

Originally posted by Tiralstrom:

Warp is basically the realm of daemons and chaos gods in space, also called the Immaterium. Psykers can tap into the warp to do some nifty magic, but it's really dangerous to do so. Because warp can corrupt pretty much anything, or accident could happen and release daemons everywhere.

Warp can also be traversed to reach distant systems using ships. But as always it's also dangerous to do so. Ships can be lost, invaded or some other nasty stuff while traveling the warp.
So to protect ships, they use gellar field (some sort of shield that protect ships from the effect of the warp)

Ships sometimes travel forward in time a lot, and iirc there was one backwards time travel event.

[Nihil]

It's basically the same as Doom's hell.

[Psychedelic Adventurer]

It's not hell, as much as people want it to be. It's essentially a mirrior dimension created out of psychic manifestations and feelings. The creatures of the warp are reflections of these emotions and deeds.

[Ghuldarkar]

Originally posted by Psychedelic Adventurer:

It's not hell, as much as people want it to be. It's essentially a mirrior dimension created out of psychic manifestations and feelings. The creatures of the warp are reflections of these emotions and deeds.

Well, it is basically mirroring a real life hell, though

[Piderman]

Warp? Caldor Draigo snorts it in its dust form.

[Psychedelic Adventurer]

Originally posted by Ghuldarkar:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Adventurer:

It's not hell, as much as people want it to be. It's essentially a mirrior dimension created out of psychic manifestations and feelings. The creatures of the warp are reflections of these emotions and deeds.

Well, it is basically mirroring a real life hell, though

I mean, yes. The 40k universe isn't a pleasant place to be in most cases - touche. But from the current definition, it's not. Everyone, except in certain random circumstance, goes to "hell", whether they're a cultist or an imperium citizen. The only way to not end up there is:

Get your soul jammed into an infinity circuit, which is only for pure Eldar.

Get your soul snatched up by the Emporer, possibly. It sometimes happens, but in highly subjective events. There is never an explicit statement that Emps does this often.

Become a Deamon prince. And this one barely counts because you've essentially warped your soul so much that, whatever is left of the person you were, doesn't even mind being in the warp anymore.

[Clay]

Also, if you want it as an inoffical movie, you can watch Event Horizon

[Ghuldarkar]

Originally posted by Psychedelic Adventurer:

Originally posted by Ghuldarkar:

Well, it is basically mirroring a real life hell, though

I mean, yes. The 40k universe isn't a pleasant place to be in most cases - touche. But from the current definition, it's not. Everyone, except in certain random circumstance, goes to "hell", whether they're a cultist or an imperium citizen. The only way to not end up there is:

Get your soul jammed into an infinity circuit, which is only for pure Eldar.

Get your soul snatched up by the Emporer, possibly. It sometimes happens, but in highly subjective events. There is never an explicit statement that Emps does this often.

Become a Deamon prince. And this one barely counts because you've essentially warped your soul so much that, whatever is left of the person you were, doesn't even mind being in the warp anymore.

True, but you forgot one small method, Cegorach also gambles for aeldar souls

[Ghuldarkar]

Originally posted by Clay:

Also, if you want it as an inoffical movie, you can watch Event Horizon

Great movie, very inspired in spirit, a bit less in general looks at least compared to modern wh40k

[Valok]

Originally posted by DoltLumb:

What is this warp ?

The warp, at it's core, is just the "realm of souls". The place that holds and shapes itself according to the souls/emotions/beliefs of all soul-possessing(?) sentient beings.
As to why and how it came to become literal hell and the domain of chaos, you can find detailed info on youtube.

[♔ Affable 7th Wave Teaboo ♔]

It's a realm shaped by sentient psyche of most living beings, long-long ago used as a weapon of forgotten ancient beings... Technically benign, but problem is that by the time where the game happens the realm was turned into literal hell by the thoughts and emotions of (mostly) humans and Eldar. Existential threat to all conscious life now, as well as source of great power (most widely used one of which is interstellar travel, as shown in the cutscene).

Ironically, the moment Chaos consumes all things, it will immediately extinguish itself back into its original benign nothingness, as it cannot exist without thinking and feeling resonance of physical beings. Also, Chaos born of the Warp is fundamentally self defeating, at constant war with itself and everything else.