Warhammer lore

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Not sure how 'accurate' they are but I like the youtube Book of Choyer videos.

 

[Beleriphon]

As an aside, Sigmar may or may not be a Space Marine Primarch, depending on how you read things.

 

[Mercador]

edit Nevermind the link to the Wiki, I see someone did that already. edit

One thing to watch out for as you dig into the Warhammer lore pile.....the current version of Warhammer Fantasy, from a tabletop game perspective, has a completely different setting than the "Old World" that is the setting of Total War. Just keep an eye out for the term "Age of Sigmar" as that indicates is the new lore and throws out ALL of the old stuff.

Why they make a division like that? They wanted to reboot the franchise?

 

[Blackrat]

Why they make a division like that? They wanted to reboot the franchise?

Pretty much that, yeah. Sales had been declining in the miniatures department, and reboot was an attempt to revitalise it.

 

[reelo]

Pretty much that, yeah. Sales had been declining in the miniatures department, and reboot was an attempt to revitalise it.

Also, terms like "Orcs", "Vampire Counts", Empire", "High Elves", etc, can't be trademarked.
The "new" factions in AoS have all been completely re-imagined, and renamed to something that is completely their IP.

 

[Mercador]

So when I play TWW1, it's the old worlds and TWW2, the new worlds?

 

[Blackrat]

So when I play TWW1, it's the old worlds and TWW2, the new worlds?

No, Total War are both in the old setting, and I also think whfrpg never swapped to the new one either.

The miniatures game rebooted the setting, and that lore is now completely different from that of Total War and the rpg...

 

[macd21]

Yeah, to give some idea of the differences: the new setting is set after the gods of chaos got bored of messing around with the Warhammer world - so they destroyed it. And I don’t mean ‘everyone lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland’ destroyed, I mean they broke it into chunks. Sigmar managed to save some parts of the world, along with some survivors. Some stuff happened, and now the game is set in the ‘mortal realms,’ chunks of reality in the warp.

 

[Mercador]

Warp sounds much like W40K though...

 

[Ruin Explorer]

More recently they’ve also been depicted with accents from northern England (possibly GoT influence?).

Edit: and weirdly, despite the Norse names and runes, they’re never depicted as sounding Norse.

SIGH.

This is not "recent". Dwarfs have been commonly depicted with Northern accents since the 1980s in Warhammer. They have never commonly, in actual GW-written Warhammer been depicted with Scots accents. So unless GRRM has a time-travel machine, no, it is neither new nor GoT influence. Part of this is probably because GW itself is from the North.

They're Norse Only In Aesthetic. Their culture isn't Norse, and they don't speak like Scandinavians of any era. Their names (and their names of their runes, as you mention), as part of the aesthetic, are a mixture of Norse and trad-Tolkien-dwarf which leans more Hebrew-inspired in the naming - and Warhammer reflects Tolkein more strongly in the Dwarf language, with stuff like "Khazukan kazakit ha!". Place names tend to lean more trad-Tolkien-dwarf.

I guarantee though, you go into a GW store in the UK in the 1990s and someone is doing voices for their Dwarfs, there is a 90% chance that they are doing a Northern accent (not a Scots one, which is entirely different), just like they're doing the shrieking voices of goblins, or the East End wideboy with a mouth full of rocks which is Orc. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen is that the people who did the Total War: Warhammer games pretty much precisely nailed exactly how all the voices were done by people back in say, 1991 (many but not all other Warhammer video games with voices have done a good job here - Fantasy tends to do better than 40K).