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Based on what I've read, Warhammer had become a low performers so something had to be done. I wonder if GW had been reading Gord the Rogue novels and thought from them it would be a kick start to destroy the old world and create the new realms. I've never read the books, perhaps someone who has can shed light on any similarities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gord_the_Rogue

From the article:

"Dance of Demons is the finale, in which Gord and Gellor enter the Abyss on a mission from the world's most powerful forces of Balance, to retrieve the remaining Theoparts. The goal is nothing less than to free Tharizdun, the long-imprisoned god of ultimate evil and entropy, and to finally destroy him. The novel ends with the complete destruction of Oerth, and the unveiling of a new and better world."

I LOVED those books. The end of the universe was a cool finish to the Gord of Greyhawk / Gord the Rogue storyline.

But there are plenty of books that precede Gygax which end with the end of Earth and a building a of a new (presumably better) one -- from Narnia, to the Bible.

 Talys wrote:
I LOVED those books. The end of the universe was a cool finish to the Gord of Greyhawk / Gord the Rogue storyline.

But there are plenty of books that precede Gygax which end with the end of Earth and a building a of a new (presumably better) one -- from Narnia, to the Bible.

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True. I was drawing parallels in my mind because they were both established gaming worlds, but I see your point.

Relapse wrote:
True. I was drawing parallels in my mind because they were both established gaming worlds, but I see your point.

Ahh, that's a good point (that they're both gaming worlds). Greyhawk is probably the most similar game world to the Warhammer universe, too. They had much the same feel, like they were built from the same Tolkeinesque DNA.

Though after the first few books, Gygax and TSR parted ways, and Gygax continued the Gord books under a new publisher (Infinity, something? There was an infinity symbol on the book spines, I recall ) and wasn't involved in Greyhawk anymore. I think. It was long ago

The Elric series.... and given that GW used to publish the British edition of Chaosium's Stormbringer game... at about the same time that they started writing the first editions of Warhammer... and borrowed Moorcock's eight pointed star of Chaos!

I think Elric is a lot more likely than Gord....

The Auld Grump - you know, that image that they tried to sue Chapterhouse for stealing, that they themselves had stolen?