Warhammer Fantasy (setting)

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''Warhammer Fantasy'' (later renamed ''Warhammer: The Old World'') is a fictional fantasy universe created by Games Workshop and used in many of its games, including the table top wargame ''Warhammer'', the ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' (WFRP) pen-and-paper role-playing game, and a number of video games: the 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 many others.

Warhammer is notable for its “dark and gritty” background world, which references a range of historical cultures such as the Holy Roman Empire, Mesoamerica, ancient Egypt, and medieval France, and is populated with a variety of races such as humans, high elves, dark elves, wood elves, dwarfs, undead, orcs, lizardmen, and other creatures familiar to many fantasy/role-playing settings.

The development of the setting began with the release of a game simply called “Warhammer” in 1983. The setting is followed by a soft reboot known as ''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'', created in 2015.

A fifth edition of the game is set for release in 2026 to coincide with the game's 40th birthday year. Provided by Wikipedia