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Hi so this purely so i can probe your knowledge of weirdstone. I'm looking to make a scenario involving weirdstone in the 40k universe. Plus it would be fun to have some crossover between the 2 realms.

I'm making terrain that will fit my scenario idea perfectly however for fluffy bits i need alot more information regarding the weirdstone and what you think it would cause in the 41st millenium. Would it be powerful at all? Would the imperium seek to destroy it immediately or what political and militiary movement would the presence of PURE weirdstone cause?

There's a lot of people that play with me and many of them swap between fantasy and 40k on a regular basis, I dont want to ask them about anything because i don't want to ruin the surprise!!!

Sooo, any help/info/ guidance to info, would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Do you mean Warpstone? Ive never heard of weird stone in warhammer but havent played since 7th.

 Ratius wrote:
Do you mean Warpstone? Ive never heard of weird stone in warhammer but havent played since 7th.

It's from Mordheim.


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(And thus, I assume, must also be mentioned in warhammer, particularly with skaven, although I haven't played since the Albion campaign so my memory may be hazy on that)

Weirdstone is unprocessed Warpstone... or possibly just the human name for it, where Warpstone is the Skaven name for it.

40k has never to my knowledge used crystallised chunks of warpstuff as a prop, but it's a big galaxy, and the Warp is very unpredictable, so it could happen.

You could write a wacky scenario where a small Imperial explorator fleet find a backwater planet in a far off system with weirdstone. They find out it provides a good power source for equipment but as they begin extracting small samples of it they're attacked by mutant rat men i.e. Skaven.
Would allow your gaming grp the ultimate crossover battle.

Consider context and scale. The WHFB universe seems to be largely in the dark about the Warp and its effects, while in 40k it's a well known reality that all races use and some (Eldar, Necrons and, to some extent, Tyranids) master. Warp-related phenomena may be world-changing events in WHFB, while in 40k they are simply uncommon but not unheard-of occurences.

Weirdstone may be immensely valuable for the denizens of the Old World, but for a Galaxy that uses shards of warp-tainted glass as a recreational drug, it might be little more than a curiosity. If you want to write a story or campaign in which weirdstone plays a large role, you'll have to find a way around this!

Check out the the thrid book in the Bastion wars. The Blood Gorgons use warp-iron to power their fortress ship the Cauldron Born (think chaos Phalanx). Warp-Iron is compressed geologically compressed warpstone and acts like a uranium compound.

The Blood Gorgons main mining location for it is Haust Bassiq do its proximity to the Occularis Terribus (Eye of Terror). I would not be surprised if most of the worlds around the Eye had warp-iron deposits.