Is Games Workshop Using Real Life Villians in Black Library?
In their 2020 book Necromunda: Road to Redemption, Games Workshop and author Mike Brooks allegedly villainized political pundit Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad. Did they use real life villains in Black Library books”
Fandom Pulse user Chainsword40k brought this revelation to public attention, and pointed out Brooks is a woke activist and “one of the most woke [Black Library] authors.”
Chainsword40k posted, “Just a friendly reminder that Mike Brooks’ new novel Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives will be released later this year. I won’t tell you what to do but I am not buying it. Mike Brooks is obsessed with gender identity and is one of the most woke BL authors.”
In response, Chainsword40k shared several screenshots to prove his assertions. First, he shared a screenshot of Brooks claiming that the Freebooterz “support Pride, Trans Rights, and Black Lives Matter.”
Is Games Workshop Using Real Life Villians in Black Library?
In addition, he shared a list of Brooks’ activism that has been incorporated into Warhammer 40k lore.“Black Library author who just needs to insert real life politics and a woke agenda into every piece of fiction he makes. Here are some of the finest examples in his novels.”
- Wanted: Dead – LGBTQ characters, gangers that believe in the God Empress instead of Emperor
- Da Big Dakka – Transgender Drukhari
- Brutal Kunnin – Non binary characters and gender neutral pronouns
- Renegades: Harrowmaster – Paraphrasing what Umberto Eco writes in Ur-Fascism
- Road to Redemption: Writing villain known as Sarkon Aggad which is an obvious jab at Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin.), lots of try hard allegories of real life politics.
- Lion: Sons of the Forest – Nu-pronouns and gender identity. Implying that space marines could have some kind of romantic feelings for each other.
- Rites of Passage – Yep, you guessed it. Nu-pronouns. Pushing his own ideology into the characters’ mouths.
In addition, the user then shared several excerpts from the book Necromunda: Road to Redemption.
One excerpt reads, “Sarkon Aggad bellowed with rage, his voxcaster amplifying it until his war cry was nearly a weapon in its own right, and lumbered into a charge, both chainaxes revving up until the whirl of their blades became a banshee scream. Alin Choll raised their silenced stub gun and trained it on the behemoth bearing down on them, an action which looked to Zeke to be the equivalent of menacing sumpkroc with a toothpick.”
