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ratmen refernces in warhammer world book; thanks amazon
Topic Started: 24th August 2005 - 10:37 PM (376 Views)
s'nkeep
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Not sure if its worth getting or not but it includes skaven... its probally just rehashed stuff but i found these skaven "quotes" rather charming.

judge by the fact ratmen come up 4 times within a range of pages makes me think we get at least a few pages just to ourselfs... but all that fluff for 15 bucks on amazon isnt too bad or 21 bucks retail... still unsure tho HAHA

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...791123?v=glance

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5 references in The World of Warhammer: The Official Encyclopedia of the Best-Selling Fighting Fantasy Game by Richard Wolfrik Galland
 
1.  on Page 29:
"... promised that after a long season of horror he would return in person to deliver his people from the loathsome rat men. In the year -1399 (Imperial Calendar) the ratlike mutants called Skaven invaded Lustria, tunnelling up from their underworld and bringing ..."

2.  on Page 105:
"... THE HORNED RAT Beneath the ordered surface of the Warhammer World is the labyrinthine Under-Empire of the Skaven. These warped rat-men prepare for the Time of Anarchy, when they can take their chaos to the world above and bring civilization crashing ..."

3.  on Page 106:
"... venturing out to raid supplies and prey on the weak. The terming, chaos-twisted, archetecture of Skavenblight, capital city of the rat-men. However, their numbers have risen rapidly throughout the centuries, and the population of this foul race threatens to exceed those ..."

4.  on Page 107:
"... currency is minted from refined Warpstone. Any Warpstone meteorite hitting the surface of the earth is hunted down by the rat men. This habit occasionally brings them into conflict with other servants of Dark Magic, in particular the Undead, who would like ..."

5.  on Page 109:
"... the underground tunnels of this ruined citadel, and reluctantly share them with Night Goblins of the Crooked Moon tribe. The rat men favour large population centres as sites for their own underground settlements. Many of the Old World cities' sewerage systems are ..."
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I actually have a previous copy of this... one of the earlier editions. I personally thought it was worth it, it is very fun to read, it has good pictures, but I already knew almost everything in there. So, if you are low on cash, don't get it. It also does contain some historical inaccuracies.

(It does have a cool timeline... at least in my version).
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I have a copy too. It's interesting, but if you own any of the books you already know WAYYY more. It's just a really really basic synopsis of all of the races and their fluff. I guarentee you will prally learn next to nothing about the Skaven if you have read our army book at all.

The timeline is pretty sweet though.
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Have this book too. As Morskittar said it was fun to read but there wasn't so much anything new...
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Yeah for s'nkeep... Topic nr. 10,000!!!

As for the book, I don't think it's truely worth the money. Lots of the true WHF fluff has come from fantasy roleplay and has been revised over and over again to fit in the thoughts that GW has. As such, it doesn't really hold the exact data of the beginning of times anymore.

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