The Dark Coil
The setting (if such a term applies) to the stories written by Black Library writer Peter Faheravi.
Wait... What?
The Dark Coil is a rather unusual setting/concept/something created in novels and short storys of Peter Faheravi. Although they take place on a few common settings or involve a few overarching general organisations, there are no direct links between characters or the main plotlines of each story. And given the horror / pyshcological elements of most of Faheravi's stories, attempting to figure it out can be tricky. Or skub. Or both.
Linking Threads
Attempting to unpick the Coil is tricky because most characters are either unreliable, mad, delusional, or deliberately hiding things from the reader. This said, there are a few linking factors that overlap over most of the stories.
- The Angel's Resplendent / Angels Penitent - Originally two seperate chapters that GW gave Faheravi permission to turn into different incarnations of the same chapter. One were inspiring, humanistic craftsmen. The other were Judge Dredd calibre fun police.
- Phaedra - Space Vietnam. More specifically Space - Apocalypse Now. Both the Imperium and T'au use it as a dumping ground for their broken and problematic troops, keeping them fighting in a contrived proxy war to avoid having to contest a wider area of space.
- Vytarn - A shrine world. Originally an endless ocean, bad things happened there and it turned into an ocean of fire. Unknown to everyone who lives there, the planet is effectively a sewer grate for the Webway. It ends up being a magnet for cults of all stripes and creeds.
- Providence - a recent inductee into the Imperium from before the DAOT. Unambiguously based on pre-20th century United States.