I’m still very much a normie with 40k but I want to get into the lore before the show comes out. Unfortunately it’s not like LOTR, Wheel of Time, Ice and Fire, etc where I can buy a series of books and start on book one. I’ll see what books are a good starting point and I’m sure there are some YouTubers that can give lore insight that I can listen to on my walks. I have like 40 books to read in my immediate stack so I’ll hold off on any of the books until I can knock those out.
With the show coming I’m wondering if the usual suspects have tried to latch onto the IP or have the fans gate kept it pretty well?
Its been kind of strange. Games Workshop has been extremely resilient about making sure anything important has been changed, because they are greedy motherfuckers and dont like anyone touching their money (even when helping them). So most of the wokeness has been in side stories and out of the main plot. Additionally, there is a bit of an issue for the SJW's where if they make a White Male the bad guy.....that is literally just basic ass Warhammer already. So people would be like "Oh thank god, I thought you were going to change it too much."
So it has been harder for them to get in than they thought it would.
Great to hear
If you want an idea of a place to start getting into it though, I would recommend a podcast called Adeptus Ridiculous. The host are kind of on the liberal side, but they care more about the lore than trying to change it, and usually keep their politics out of episodes. And I recommend it because while one guy is a lore nerd, the other host is a newb to the lore. So I like to recommend them because it makes sure that things are actually understandable for a newb since one of them is one themselves.
Cool! Thanks!