Warhammer Adventures - adventure stories for younger readers.

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**Galas**

I don't know guys. If one of the three Age of Sigmar protagonists (You know, the "light" universe of the two)...

Was born in a fething slave camp as a slave... I believe they will keep some of the undertones of the universe. And, by the way, the main baddies of the W40K one will be necrons. You know, its okay to destroy robots and make them explode. They don't bleed.

EDIT: Ninja'd by chikout.

**Galas**

Wait, is people really saying that "Warhammer40k" lore has adult themes?

The "fine" parody of warhammer died with 2nd edition. From that point forward it has just been explosions and bolter porn, even when they try to make it deeper like in Inquisition novels, etc... you can't dilute it with a light earthed graphic novel for young kids.

Warhammer 40k is the sci-fi universe equivalent of a Michael Bay movie.

And ey, thats exactly why I love it. But to make of it some sacrosant and untouchable thing, after years of GW doing whatever they want with their universes and Lore, retconning them as they please, is a little... unproductive.

**Galas**

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Mymearan wrote:
the "actual 40k universe" is not a grimdark garbage dump of misery and hatred all day, every day, everywhere, that's just the parts we're usually shown because of the usual demographic of the fiction (teens and up). There are plenty of normal people living normal lives, on normal planets, with democratic governments, safe and snug, not a torture chamber in sight.

It's true. You could even literally take 50 shades of gray, change a few words (add some “grox” here and there) and have it happen in the 40k universe without breaking the fluff. I just don't see how that would improve upon the 50 shades of gray version that happens on earth though.

It would obviously improve. Everything is better with a grox in it.

(The only extrange thing I have saw about this is people saying the girl with the slingshot in the Sigmar one has a hiyab... but then in her character draw in the information section she doesn't wear it... I'm the only one that saw her and first thought "ah, thats a hood"? I'm too inocent?)

**Galas**

Adeptus Doritos wrote:
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Sounds like the perpetual far-right outrage machine is running at full speed .
And no you aren't too innocent. You are normal.

I see Dakka is playing 'Nazis in my cereal' again over one or two idiots on the internet.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that it was something many people has said. I just read a bunch of random people talking about that, and it mentioned in a video of Arch-Warhammer. I pointed it out because it didn't even crossed my mind it could be a hiyab until that. My first impresion was "Shes the kind of sthealty girl, thats a hood".

(Now, I would say, being born in Aqshy, the realm of fire, I wouldn't had a problem with it being a hijab or other kind of similar dessert clothes. I have made my khorne barbarians of brown skin and bone armour for that same reason)

**Galas**

Yeah, my grandmother weared a headscarf for 30 years after my grandfather died and I can tell you she was not muslim

(But I still believe it is just a normal hood)

And to be honest we are arguing about this because theres not much else to talk about until we receive more information.

**Galas**

Glumy wrote:
So now its not a hood or hijab but a christian headscarf on the cover.

It is what you want to believe.

Thats the magic of Age of Sigmar!

**Galas**

"How this bunch of kids are gonna defeat the NECRONS WITHOUT WEAPONS?!"

*Sees a Primaris Intercessor firing at the Necron in the cover of the book*

Hmm... I think I have an idea on how...

**Galas**

I'm sure, as they will tone down some of the grimderp exagerations of the universe and hyperbolic writting of fanfic level like the Necron unit descriptions and how they weapons work, to make it more palatable for younger audiences, this kid's book will be the most realistic representation of Warhammer 40k, ever.

**Galas**

Yeah... I think people is really being too worked up with the "how are they gonna adapt genocide?!" Maybe they just don't need to do it.

**Galas**

farmersboy wrote:
Enigma of the Absolute wrote:
Looks awful and is the kind of thing that would have turned me away as an 8-10 year old. That might just be me though.

No, if all this had been around when I was that age I would have gone straight for the adult-oriented books. I hated the books I supposed to read at school when I was 8-9, they were so childish! I remember protesting this at school one day, and my teacher asked me what I was reading. I pulled out Asimov's Foundation Trilogy that I'd found at home; she saw my point.

With 8 years I was playing with Playmobil and reading Mortadelo y Filemón comics... so yeah, people shouldn't generalise what kids like or don't like

**Galas**

Thommy H wrote:
Given that the AoS book refers to Sigmar as just "the King Sigmar", I think there is a conscious effort to avoid mentioning the word god. I imagine it's just to avoid awkward questions - the idea of god as a character in a story (even if SIgmar and the Emperor aren't technically the God, whatever that means) might be a bit advanced.

They also replace 'Chaos' with 'Evil', though the reasons for that are less clear. Maybe to avoid the general grey/black morality in the settings? By just equating Chaos to Bad Guys, it makes the sides a bit less ambiguous.

Anyway, I read the AoS story and actually thought it was pretty good. It elided anything overtly graphic without losing any of the actual story, and the style and complexity seemed pretty well-pitched to me.

Warhammer has many grey areas. Chaos has never been one of those. They are the bad guys. Outright evil. No redeming qualities.

**Galas**

Thommy H wrote:
Chaos is a mere reflection of mortal desires and emotions.

Khorne is fury and bloodlust, but also martial prowess and honour.
Tzeentch is deception and ambition, but also hope and change.
Nurgle is disease and entropy, but also regrowth and nurturing.
Slaanesh is excess and depravity, but also beauty and artistry.

They're not good guys, but they're more like fundamental forces than villains. There's definitely some ambiguity in there.

No. Chaos is the corruption, the darkest extreme of those values you are saying are also part of chaos. The noble martial knight that ends up enjoying too much battle and ends as a bloodthirsty killer, for example.

Also... LOL about slings not being letal. A profesional slinger could kill or at least knock unconscious a soldier with an helmet. A girl that knows how to use one could absolutely kill a grown adult with a hit on the head.
Don't you know about Balear slingers? They where used as mercs by the romans.

**Galas**

Mr Morden wrote:
Lets face it these stories are pretty adult gritty compared to the current Space Wolf fluff.

The burn. But it is actually true.

"Here comes Roboute saving everyone in the GALAXY OH YEAH HUMANITY!" vs "Here you have a girl born in a slave camp that must kill his captors to survive and have a chance of being free"

**Galas**

So you assume that when the child scolds the other for calling the Jokaero "it "instead of "he" is a reference to misgendering and not the fact that he is treating the xeno as a object and not a equal humanlike being?

To be honest is not the most unbiased review I have seen but thanks for the effort.

**Galas**

Hes a filthy xeno he deserves that an worse

**Galas**

Of course theres different forms of coincidences and Deus Ex Machinas. Ones are more glaring than others.

But the quality I expect for a children book is much lower than I would expect for a adult book. And sadly Horus Heresy fiction is full of this kind of lazy writting.