YMMV / Warhammer Adventures

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• Broken Base: Fan reception of the book series has been polarizing. Warhammer 40,000 (and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar to a lesser degree) are rather famous for being full of dark and/or horrific elements — it is where we get the word "grimdark" after all. So making kids books in the setting is seen by some as either (or both) a disservice to the franchise or a good way to traumatize children.
• Fanon Discontinuity: To many fans of the settings, these books don't exist.
• Nightmare Fuel: Because, lest we forget, this is Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
  • This passage◊ from Claws of the Genestealer contains some Parasitic Horror befitting the Tyranids:
  Karras saw that the women's lower bodies were fully encased, though their grossly distended bellies were exposed to the hot, humid air. He had no doubt there were similar organic catheters beneath the chitin, responsible for Throne-knows-what. Those bellies were so stretched by xenos organisms growing within that the skin bad become translucent as the looping coils of straing umbilici. In some, the Death Spectre could see josting clusters of embryonic aliens bying with each other for the most comfortable positions. The women playing host to these slithering forms wept and whimpered in an agony that pierced their mindless stupor.

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