When you realize the Warhammer map is Earth...

[Reconfrog]

I looked up a map of the warhammer world and nearly ♥♥♥♥ my pants. Its pretty much exactly like the earth map just squished. The map for this game is only the europe part of the map, or "old world". Most of the factions are starting to make sense now. My mind is literally blown to pieces. Oh and anyone now a good place to look into warhammer lore?

[GodsMantle]

Although I am not sure it is entirely that clear, because as I am sure you know the language of the nobility in England post Norman invasion was French, and Latin was sometimes used as well, especially in scholarly situations, of which if you were reading it would most likely be in latin. English as a language did not emerge until the 1400s.

[Pullo]

Yes, it is that clear, when I say French authors I mean born in France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Vulgate_Cycle
This is what inspired le Morte d'Arthur. 100% French

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot-Grail
The earlier works that introduced most of the myths, especially the christian ones. 100% French

I find it sad that noone outside of France knows that the legend of Arthur (as we know it) is a common heritage between France and England (and that's putting it mildly).

Reminds me of watching the latest Robin hood film were the king Richard Lionheart (Coeur de Lion in french) hated the French and made fun of them. When in fact he was french with 0% of english blood (his mother was from southern France and he even spoke her dialect and wrote poems in it) and his father was a Norman, a mix of viking and French. He spoke Old French, and didn't speak english. He used the money of his Kingdom to fight in Crusades and to protect his demesnes in France. He asked to be buried in France. But no, ♥♥♥♥ history and ♥♥♥♥ the French !

[TheGrungiOne]

Originally posted by Naughty Mouse:

Yep, pretty much.

Empire = HRE
Brittonia = England/French
Chaos Tribes = Norway, scandinavia, Sweden, kinda viking like
Orcs = Arficans
Dwarfs, hard to pin point, but would say Romans as hey closest to the Alps and prefer to fight defensive.
Elfs, again hard, they on a island that does not really exist, but would say North American Native as they are aligned to nature allot.

Orcs are actually the british. A bit of humor at themselves I believe.

[La bestia]

Empire: hre

Bretonia: MIx of arturian legends and feudal 100 years war France

Norsca: mix primitive tribes and vikings

Dwarfs: viking style byzantine empire

savage orcs: tarzan films african tribes

other greenskins: steppe tribes (they used the typical mongol and scythian hats) mix with football hooligans

chaos warriors: steppe tribes in culture and names (kurgan khazar) but with heavy metal esthetic

beastmen: mix of primitive tribes and bronce age tribes (monoliths)

ogres: mix of mongols and neanderthal

chaos dwarfs: the ancient mesopotamian and persian empires with steampunk esthetic

cathay/nippon/ind: china/japan/india and their mithology

kislev: eastern/slavic europe

vampire counts: wallachia mix with romantic decimononic terror literature

southern realms: renaissence italy and spain

araby: 1001 nights

tomb kings: ancient egypt and his mithology

wood elves: celts/sidhe

high elves: the atlanteans, with ancient greek carachteristics and some aspects of the british empire (the same regions of their colonial empire are colonies of the naval empire of the
elves, also they are an island in front of the old world)

dark elves: for the reasons explained above, the united states (also posible reference to the confederate states with the sclavism)

lizardmen: mayans/aztecs with dinosaurs

skaven: the jews of the antisemitic book "the protocols of the elders of zion" and "the cemetery of prague" of goedsche. In this book the zarist russia justified the progroms against them arguing that they have a secret council with 13 chairs, one for each of the 12 lost tribes of israel and another, empty, for the devil, call "the great horned one" . They argue how to dominate the world from the shadows and, between another alleged crimes, they were the hand in back of the black plague and the mongol invasion (chaos in warhammer world) and, of course, the russian communist revolutionaries, that were the real enemy that zarist russia wants to attack with this letter. Also the symbol of the christian trinity is a triangle, famous by the use of them for the masonery. Skaven have also a lot of characteristics of the nazis, because they made reallity the fantastic crimes that they think jews were guilty because the read of this book and something similar literary works.

[Fishing4Trains]

Originally posted by hughw:

Ye Orcs are based on English football hooligans, this is obvious to anyone who lives in the UK.

Yeah there's nothing like a good waaagh at a world cup...

[Lord Haart]

I gathered it was based on Europe the minute I saw German province names.

'Reikland' is one that springs to mind.

[Stevcorp]

Arise necrothread! Nagash compels you!

[Lord Haart]

Bow down, necrothread, and sleep for a 1,000 years.

[Fishing4Trains]

So what the Poles are the Vampire Counts?

[Doomier Guy]

Originally posted by hotspur59:

So what the Poles are the Vampire Counts?

>Transylvania
>Sylvania

Make the connection.

[SpaceGoatMage]

Originally posted by hotspur59:

So what the Poles are the Vampire Counts?

Poland is Kislev combined with Russia.

[The Last Monke]

Makes sense, because it's just easier to apply what you know when creating a universe than coming up with something entirely new.

[Fishing4Trains]

Originally posted by AutomaticRifleReborn:

Originally posted by hotspur59:

So what the Poles are the Vampire Counts?

>Transylvania
>Sylvania

Make the connection.

In Warhammer Sylvania borders the Empire or HRE to the east. In our world Poland borders Germany (HRE) to the east whilst Rumania (Transylvania) is nowhere near, so that doesn't add up. Using Warhammer Geography overlaid with a map of Europe makes Poland the basis of the Vampire Counts and Sylvania, regardless of the simularity between the 2 names. Obviously vampires are related to Transylvania in legend, but Warhammer appears to have chosen to relocate them from their original geographical home but keep a similar name, that's all.