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?
There's actually three seperate ones
Warhammer Fantasy - The original Lotr races with crazy science rat people, lizards and the like. Eventually removed from production because of low sales and stifling creativity. Soon to be relaunched as Warhamer The Old World.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar - Replaced Fantasy More heroic wow style fantasy. Super magical armies clashing in different planes of existence. Hated at first but has quite a bit of lore built up.
Warhammer 40k - Originally fantasy in space. The poster child and biggest wargame played currently in the world. Horus Heresy is a spinoff wargame/book series set 10,000 years before.
Death to AoS!