Trivia / Warhammer

• Ascended Fanon: The 5th Edition halfling army wasn't written by Games Workshop, but was submitted by fans to Citadel Journal #36.
• Creator's Favorite: Of all the Chaos special characters created for the Champions of Chaos sourcebook, Scyla Anfingrimm is the only one other than Archaon to seemingly make a big impact with the game's designers. He has had the most appearances as a playable unit of any of the Chaos characters from that book, including appearing in Warhammer Armies: Chaos for 4th edition, Citadel Journal #50 for 6th edition, and Warhammer Armies: Warriors of Chaos in both its 7th edition and 8th edition iterations. The best the other characters from that book achieved was to make it into Citadel Journal #50, and three of them^note Count Mordrek the Damned, Valnir the Reaper, and Amon'Chakai didn't even do that!
• Defictionalization:
  • The Liber Chaotica has been published as a Sourcebook on the Chaos Gods, their mortal, bestial and daemonic legions, and the Realm of Chaos where they dwell. How canon it is in this day and age may be disputed, however, as it hearkens back to the days where 40K and Fantasy were in the same universe.
  • When Games Workshop opened their own bar-restaurant at their HQ in Nottingham, they got a local brewery to create some of Master Dwarf Brewer Josef Bugman's famous ales such as Bugman's XXXXXX and Trollbrew to sell on tap and in bottles.
• Exiled from Continuity: Malal, the Renegade God — so called for being the antagonist to all other factions of Chaos, the embodiment of Chaos' self-defeating tendencies — was dropped from continuity because no one could figure out who held the rights for him.
  • The Pygmies, which were a catastrophically racist depiction of Sub-Saharan Africans and the real-life Pygmy peoples. Complete with enormous lips, nose-bones and casual cannibalism. Games Workshop pulled the plug on the army after 2nd Edition and has never spoken about them since.
• Referenced by...: The Palaververse: Skaven are mentioned as one of the (fictional) possible dangers of underground exploration in Treasures.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Storm of Chaos was supposed to take the series setting forward depending on the results of the community. Unfortunately, GW either assumed or hoped that the forces of Chaos would win, which backfired when the results came in, and Chaos was losing horribly. Due to this, the ideas and lore presented in said campaign ended up basically being ignored, leading to the End Times event down the line.
  • We almost had a Warhammer novel written by Terry Pratchett.
  • Tamurkhan: The Throne of Chaos was meant to be the first in a series of four campaign books, each detailing a Chaos invasion (one per god and cardinal direction), fleshing Chaos and other armies out in the process. None of them ever made their way past the drawing board.
  • In 2012, Forge World announced The Battle of Black Fire Pass, a campaign book that would focus on the 3rd Battle of Black Fire Pass, featuring the Empire, Dwarfs and Greenskins. The only thing that was revealed to the public was its cover before the project got canned.
  • The numeral I was emblazoned on the spine of Monstrous Arcanum, suggesting that it was meant to be the first in a series, but since it undersold, the subsequent volumes never saw the light of day. The only surviving elements from the second volume were some monsters that had their models finished and received experimental rules.
  • Concept art◊ for the Lizardmen shows a number of units and designs that never went past the design stage, including Saurus leaders wearing Skaven-pelt cloaks; Old One devices of unclear purpose, ridden by Skinks standing over sacrificed Grey Seers and carried by giant crocodiles or armored sauropod-like beasts; and giant fire-breathing snakes, one version of which serves as a steed for a Lizardman hero and is armored with decorative golden wings while the second is a true flying serpent.

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