Hey there!

I'm here to bring the universe of Warhammer 40,000 to life through my fanfiction, Waking Nightmare, a self-insert that follows my journey at surviving in that grimdark universe, all the while staying true to the lore and myself.

Waking Nightmare has been a side project of mine I began while in lockdown in March 2020, and has snowballed into something quite extensive. The main idea behind it is to show just how bleak, cruel, inhumane and terrible life in 40k would be, whether its under the omnipresent eyes of the Imperium, or on one of the many, many, battlefields across the galaxy. This will be combined with the struggles of a person with 21st century sensibilities trying to manage in the Dark Millennium, alongside the lives and hardships of the people who call such a place home.

The story will be long, and the build up to major actions slow. I can promise you that big things are in the works, but I really want to take my time and explore how ordinary people from the Imperium think and act, and how the Guard trains people to be soldiers. There is a lot of time spent exploring how the Imperial Guard operates from within, at the smallest, most basic element of its common soldiers. There is also a lot of time spent on developing the ordinary, simple folk that make up the Guard, reminding you that behind every lasgun, there's a person with a story to tell.

Waking Nightmare will be dark and bleak, but it is not without levity. Just as there is darkness, there is also light, to remind people that even in a universe as hellish as this, simple things like friendships and families still exist. Even in a time as harsh as the 41st Millennium, people still find ways to have fun. Human societies can still thrive even under the hellish oppression they find themselves.

Ultimately, Waking Nightmare strives to go into the gritty details of what life is really like in such a time, looking at everything from the cultures and societies that exist in the galaxy, to the struggles they face, the labyrinthine politics of the Imperium of Man, the individual struggles of finding a moral path, the horrors of war and the power of Mankind's enemies, to the simple, age old human tales of finding love and friendship and comfort in dark times.

As hellish as life is, Mankind finds a way, and so to must I. Follow me on this journey.

Follow me in my waking nightmare.

Follow me into the Dark Millennium.