The Madministratum

TLDR: This is a long one (because there is so much source material to survey), covering tonnes of quotes from the lore which showcase that the notion of a multiverse is present in each of the 40k and Age of Sigmar lores, but that both settings are stated to be part of the same multiverse connected to the same Warp, and with some of the same Chaos gods and daemons appearing in and/or affecting each setting. I have in recent months been charting the links in the lore between the Warhammer settings, and how they have evolved over time. These posts have been mostly (though not wholly) focused on the period before Age of Sigmar was launched, and have looked at various topics such as the legacy of the Old Ones/Slann, specific crossovers related to Chaos, and back when the Warhammer World was a planet within the 40k galaxy. This is the first of three posts focusing specifically on the notion of a Warhammer multiverse with the Warp as the central connecting element, and it will start by lookin...

Hopefully you are aware the dreaded Ambull: the strange, hulking Xenos creature, thought to originate from the Deathworld Luther McIntyre IX.* They have been in 40k since 1st edition, having appeared in the original Rogue Trader rulebook, where it was noted right from the beginning that they can be found across the galaxy on many different worlds: Ambulls originate from the dangerously hot polar rock-deserts of Luther McIntyre IX. They can survive extremely hot temperatures for long periods, a factor which has led to attempts at domestication on several desert planets. As a consequence, Ambulls can be found on many planets throughout human space. Ambulls have huge barrel-chested bodies and an ape-like stance. Two arms reach almost to the ground whilst two legs are crooked and short. Both arms and legs end in iron-hard claws used for tunnelling through the soft stone that covers their native land. Ambulls will excavate tunnels in which to live, spending much of their time underground, ...

 In the latest of a series of posts about the links between Game Workshop games, we now turn our attention to the ‘Dark Shadows’ campaign. This was a Warhammer Fantasy campaign book released in 2001 which then received on-going updates in White Dwarf, as part of a summer event where fans could get involved by sending in the results of their battles. So, why post about this on a 40k blog? Because the backstory for the campaign was centred on one of the key elements which linked 40k to Warhammer Fantasy (and which still links 40k to Age of Sigmar): the legacy of the Old Ones. This also includes their creation and use of Warpgates/the Webway, which the lore has consistently stated since the late 1980s. Some interesting developments were going on with that part of the lore at the time. As I have covered previously, it was originally the (Old) Slann who acted as the shared mythic progenitor race for both Warhammer settings, and whose remnants still existed in a diminished form – but the...