by torilen » June 15th, 2011, 2:40 pm
I would say that it is just similarities from having Games Workshop involved in the creation of the game. Warhammer was
produced six years before HQ, so we certainly cannot say that they just stole from the HQ world.
Here is an opinion I have...though I have not really played warhammer much, so this is more a guess than a researched
answer: It is possible that the warhammer world is a continent on the world, and the HQ world is a different continent
of the world. Kind of like how TSR used the same "world" for forgotten realms, al-qadim (zakhara is a southern continent),
the horde (an asian setting in the east of the world), and Maztica (a western, middle american setting continent).
There is no problem with this...at least, there wouldn't have been if they had made sure to make it clear how it all
worked.
Honestly, I don't think they expected HQ to have the cult following that it does...that people would be pouring over the
so very few pieces of information given by the writers, seeking some small fact that everyone might have missed...perhaps
an inflection in the writing that would indicate some new theory on the existence of the witch king or something like that.
I think they just threw some background together to give the board game a history, and that's it.