Facts about Warhammer Fantasy
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Vlad the Vampire, the first vampire count of Sylvania, was introduced in the 1995 Undead army book as the oldest and most powerful bloodline ancestor in Warhammer Fantasy lore.
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Skaven assassins called Gutter Runners served as the rat-men's primary melee scouts and infiltrators, trained to strike targets with poisoned blades before vanishing into the darkness.
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Approximately 2,000 Warhammer Fantasy novels were published across Black Library's forty-year run, spanning from 1989 to 2019 and establishing an extensive expanded universe beyond tabletop rules.
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Eight different flavors of Skaven exist in Warhammer Fantasy lore, each representing distinct clans with specialized roles from assassins to plague monks to rat ogre breeders.
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Bretonnia, the feudal kingdom in Warhammer Fantasy, fielded the Lady's Blessed Knights as their elite cavalry unit, drawing inspiration from Arthurian legend and medieval French aesthetics.
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Karl Franz, the Emperor of the Empire in Warhammer Fantasy, wielded Ghal Maraz, a magical warhammer forged by the dwarfs and capable of shattering enchantments.
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Nagash, the supreme necromancer of Warhammer Fantasy, first appeared in the 1992 Undead army book as an 8,000-point character model standing nearly 200mm tall.
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In 1992, Games Workshop released the first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battles with a 128-page rulebook and six initial army books covering Humans, Orcs and Goblins, Dwarfs, High Elves, Dark Elves, and Undead.
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The Old World's End Times storyline in Warhammer Fantasy concluded in 2015 with the release of The Rise of the Horned Rat, permanently destroying the setting after 23 years of publication.