Warhammer or even Warhammer Fantasy occurs as fantasy setting created by Games Workshop, in which several games of that company come placed, a better known ones existence a Warhammer Fantasy Battles wargame, and a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay role-playing game. There exists likewise the related science fiction setting called Warhammer 40,000.

These are notable for its "dark and gritty" aspect, & its background globe, which features the culture super prefer Renaissance Germany crossed with Tolkien's Middle-earth---with very Moorcockian Chaos forces just backstage or even away from sight. These are populated by having index fantasy races like humans, dark elves, high elves, dwarfs, undead, orcs, lizardmen, ogres, etc.

A setting has undergone a few retcons in the recent editions of the wargame, including changing the Old Slann into the Old Ones, & omission of the Chaos God Malal. It used to be that, virtually all players of the role-playing game chose to ignore a setting changes, but a todays 2nd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay has been updated to fit a todays version of the Warhammer Fantasy Battles world.

For nowadays there are Xvi different armies: Beasts of Chaos, Bretonnia, Chaos Dwarfs, Dark Elves, Dogs of War, Dwarfs, High Elves, Hordes of Chaos, Lizardmen, Ogre Kingdoms, Orcs and Goblins, Skaven, The Empire, Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts, Wood Elves. So there are a bit of little such as Kislev.

Geography

The world of Warhammer is similar within climate to Earth. As a matter of fact, virtually all of its landmasses, (man) cultures & ethnicities in the area come about correspondent to the geographics of Globe. These similarities were originally implicitly explained by information to a race world health organization went in the area of the universe creating similar worlds. Correspondence between site in the Warhammer globe & in the really 1, by owning variable degrees of subtlety includes:

The Empire and Germany or the Holy Roman Empire Bretonnia and France Albion and Britain Kislev and Poland/Russia The empire of the Hobgoblin Khans and Siberia, Mongolia and Central Asia Ulthuan and Atlantis Tilea and Italy Estalia and Spain Lustria and Central and South America Araby and Northern Africa and The Middle East Nippon and Japan Cathay and China Khemri and Egypt Sylvania and Romania (namely a Transylvania region) The Southlands and Southern Africa Naggaroth and North America

Warhammer games
Wargames
Warhammer Fantasy Battles Warmaster Mordheim Manowar

Role-playing games
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Board games
HeroQuest and Advanced HeroQuest Warhammer Quest Battlemasters Talisman Blood Bowl and Kerrunch, a simplified version of the game Mighty Empires Mighty Warriors

Collectible card games
WarCry

Computer games
Warhammer: Dark Omen Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat Warhammer Online

Warhammer books

Outside of games, there keep close at h& too been many novels and short stories by various authors placed in the Warhammer globe, a best known of which are then a Gotrek Gurnisson novels by William King.

Early within his career, Kim Newman wrote several Warhammer novels under a title 'Jack Yeovil'. A bit of elements from either these books (particularly his heroine Genevieve Dieudonne) down the road reappeared in the award-winning Anno-Dracula series.