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warhammer40k - Link between Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k


Is the 40k just Fantasy in the future? They exists in parallel worlds or Fantasy is an enclosed space quadrant of universe in 40k?



Answer




Short answer : Games Workshop officially stated that the 2 universes are not linked in any way. (edit if you find a link to that statement, but i'm sure of it)


Long answer : the two worlds were previously kind of related but Games Workshop broke the link in the third edition of 40k


The context (and timeline) of this affirmation is important


This is a link I found with a quick search. (Maybe not canon, be careful with this info)



In earlier editions of both Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000, there were many indications that the Warhammer World, the planet that is the primary setting for Warhammer Fantasy, was located in the same universe as Warhammer 40,000. In later editions of both games, Games Workshop moved to create more of a separation between the two fictional universes, although they have also never completely denied the earlier connections between the two settings. It is likely that the Warhammer World does exist in the same universe as Warhammer 40,000 as the Warhammer World is known to have been terraformed and reshaped by beings known as the Old Ones, the same alien entities as the Old Ones of the Warhammer 40,000 universe



Emphasis mine


IIRC, back when I played, I indeed heard that Warhammer Fantasy was a single planet in 40k's world.


Deeper search :



Fantasy came first, and when GW decided to make a sci'fi game, they threw warhammer's world in the future saying the two worlds might be related. So in the earlier editions, GW hinted that Warhammer Fantasy takes place in the Eye of Terror.


Later (40K 3rd edition), they broke the link they previously suggested. Officially denying it.


Now once in a while they make a quick easter-egg or whatever, but this is just teasing and fun.


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