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Reply To: WHtOW – fluff and does it make sense ?

February 8, 2023 at 10:31 pm #1801331

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I am fairly sure that introducing Cathay into Warhammer on tabletop will sell like hot cakes. When they were announced for total war it caused quite a stir so I reckon people will absolutely be down for it.

As much as I absolutely love medieval Europe based fantasy like Lord of the Rings, that’s not all fantasy is nor is it all fantasy ever was. Long before LotR Robert E Howard was publishing Conan which explores psuedo historical versions of pretty much all medieval cultures. Back in the ’90s, the Forgotten Realms setting for D&D had Kara Tur, an Asian themed setting in the East and it had Zakhara, an Arabian themed world to the south.

So fantasy as a genre has always been more than just European in heritage to me at least. Bringing in Cathay (and who knows, perhaps even Araby later) doesn’t really seem that strange a move, neither in the context of Warhammer specifically or fantasy in general