Old Ones: star-travelling gods responsible for the creation of most of the setting's sentient races. Many factions, such as the Elves, the Lizardmen, the Ogres and the Halflings, have been created by the Further east of them is another powerful human civilisation known as Grand Cathay (corresponding to Most of the featured human nations are based in the Old World (analogous to real world Mankind, the most prominent, often proves to be the most susceptible to the corrupting influence of Chaos. ![]() There are numerous nations and races in the Warhammer World. Middle-earth, Warhammer's Dwarfs are declining in population, the Elves have mostly departed for homelands in the West, and a Great Necromancer is reborn after the defeats in his Southern stronghold. Moorish invasion of Spain, and others from original fantasy sources. Many events are lifted and modified directly from history, including the Holy Roman Empire - medieval France, Roman Italy andĬeltic Britain. The Old World is recognisablyĮurope approximating to various historical periods including the Renaissance - the Empire being set over what was the The Warhammer World borrowed considerably from historical events and other fantasy fiction settings. What is recognizable as the Warhammer World began with the expansion material to the first edition of the game Warhammer, but was formulated as a distinct setting with a world map in the second edition. Michael Moorcock, as well as real-world history, particularlyĮuropean history. The Warhammer world drew inspiration from The development of the setting began with the release of a game simply called 'Warhammer' in 1983. Orcs, lizardmen, and other creatures familiar to many fantasy/role-playing settings. ![]() Humans, high elves, dark elves, wood elves, dwarfs, ![]() The world itself was populated with a variety of races such as "Chaos" as a force unceasingly attempting to tear the mortal world asunder. Michael Moorcock, its creators took the theme of Warhammer is notable for its "dark and gritty" background world, which reference a range of historical cultures, along with other fantasy settings, in particular MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the strategy games Total War: Warhammer, Total War: Warhammer II and Total War: Warhammer III and the two first-person shooter games in the Warhammer Vermintide series, Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide and Warhammer: Vermintide 2, among Role-playing game, and a number of video games: the Table top wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) pen-and-paper Games Workshop and used in many of its games, including the A crowd gathered around a Warhammer set-up
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