' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

* Symbol of the Imperium ( Warhammer 40, 000 ) in the fictional Warhammer 40, 000 universe

* In the table-top strategy game Warhammer 40, 000, hyperstructures, called " hives ," are extremely common and are the main method of housing large populations in the billions.

Necromunda, an off-shoot game set in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, involves conflict between rival gangs on the hive world of Necromunda.

* Fenris, homeworld of the Space Wolves Space Marine chapter in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe

An example of a diorama hobby is Warhammer 40, 000, from Games Workshop.

The Black Templars in Warhammer 40, 000 have an item called the Holy Orb of Antioch, which is a very powerful hand grenade carried by Black Templar commanders.

* Legion ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a Horus Heresy novel by Dan Abnett

* In the video game Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War the main character sometimes on the move order say " Nobody expects the imperial Inquisition ".

* In the video game Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, the character Inquisitor Andrastia has " my chief weapons are surprise and fear " as one of her lines.

* In the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40, 000 ( set 38, 000 years in the future ), Mars is a vast, heavily colonized ' Forge World ,' home to the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Tech-Priests of Mars.

* Magnus the Red, a character in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe

In the tabletop game Warhammer 40, 000, the forces use mecha of a variety of sizes and shapes.

* In the 2009 Warhammer 40, 000 novel Mechanicum by Graham McNeill, the noosphere is an experimental communication infrastructure that empowers the user by harnessing the power of the collective mind.

* Nemesis, a Warhammer 40, 000 novel, book 13 in The Horus Heresy Novel Series

* Phalanx, a Warhammer 40, 000 novel currently being published in serialized form in the monthly publication Hammer and Bolter

* Sigismund, a character from the Warhammer 40, 000 game series, First Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion and later founder and first High Marshall of the Black Templars Chapter

* The Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40, 000, administered by the High Lords of Terra in the God-Emperor's name.

* Titan Legions, units of giant bipedal war machines in the Warhammer 40, 000 game universe

* Terminator ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a type of Space Marine in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting

* Norsca ( Warhammer ), a fictional land in the Warhammer Fantasy game setting

The Warhammer 40, 000 setting is used for several tabletop games, video games, and works of fiction, including licensed works published by Black Library, a subsidiary of Games Workshop.

The Third Edition and some of the Expansion Sets are loosely connected to Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting.

The characters and situations were loosely based on the Warhammer 40, 000 science fiction setting.

Blood Bowl is set in an alternate version of the Warhammer Fantasy setting, populated by traditional fantasy elements such as human warriors, goblins, dwarves, elves, orcs and trolls.

The two species most commonly found are the Ogryns ( the counterpart of the Warhammer Fantasy setting ogres ) whose superhuman strength makes them excellent close combat fighters and the Ratlings ( resembling halflings / hobbits ) who function as expert snipers.

The new card game uses Fantasy Flight Games ' Living Card Game release format ( as used in their Warhammer: Invasion, A Game of Thrones, Call of Cthulhu, and Lord of the Rings games ), and shares the cyberpunk setting of their Android board game.

* Cathay is a region with Chinese inspirations in the Warhammer Fantasy setting.

With the publication of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in 1987, the setting had moved from background of the game to a full-fledged fantasy setting.

Alongside the Dungeons & Dragons Greyhawk setting, Warhammer is among the oldest of commercial fantasy worlds, a direct descendant of both that game and Tolkien's Middle-earth, though the 1st edition cited Robert E Howard ( Conan the Barbarian ) alongside Michael Moorcock and Tolkien as influencing fantasy table-top games.

What is recognizable as the Warhammer World began with the first edition of the game, but it evolved as its own setting with the release of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in 1986 and the 3rd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle in 1987.

Skaven are a race of man-sized anthropomorphic rat-creatures in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting.

The background and character of the Skaven race in the Warhammer setting has been developed by various authors since their introduction in 1986.

* The Tharsis plateau is the setting of the Warhammer 40, 000 novel Mechanicum by Graham McNeill.

* The Warhammer Fantasy setting has a halfling race, as well.

* Grey Mountains in the fictional Warhammer Fantasy setting by Games Workshop

* Troll ( Warhammer ), a monster in the Warhammer Fantasy setting

Its various factions and races include the Imperium of Man, a decentralized yet totalitarian interstellar empire that has ruled the vast majority of humanity for millennia, the Orks ( similar to Warhammer Fantasy Orcs ), the Eldar ( similar to Elves in Warhammer Fantasy Battle ), and Daemons ( very similar in both universes, although the precise natures of their creation and existence vary slightly ), among others.

Dark Omen is based on the Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniature tabletop wargame rules and situated in the Old World in the Warhammer Fantasy world and makes use of the vast background, creating a storyline that develops over the course of the game through illustrations and voice-acted conversations.

In ogre mythology it appears as a vast creature that was released from a comet that destroyed the original Ogre Kingdoms in what is now Cathay, the Warhammer Fantasy equivalent of Imperial China.

* Marienburg ( Warhammer ), a fictional city in the Warhammer Fantasy world

In contrast to many other fictional FTL technologies, such as a " jump drive " or the Infinite Improbability Drive, the warp drive does not permit instantaneous travel between two points ; instead, warp drive technology creates an artificial " bubble " of normal space-time that surrounds the spacecraft ( as opposed to entering a separate realm or dimension like hyperspace, as is used in the Star Wars, Stargate franchise, Warhammer 40, 000, Babylon 5 and Andromeda universes ).

The Eldar are a race of elf like beings who inhabit the fictional universe of the game Warhammer 40, 000, a 1987 tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science-fantasy universe.

* Eldar ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), ancient race of elf-like aliens in the Warhammer 40, 000 fictional universe

The Tyranids are a fictional race from the Warhammer 40, 000 tabletop game and its spin-off media.

* Stormtroopers, elite soldiers in the fictional Imperial Guard of Warhammer 40, 000

* Ork ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a fictional species in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe

In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000 created by Games Workshop, Space Marines are genetically modified superhuman soldiers, the elite warriors of the Imperium of Man.

* Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000

* Cypher ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a character from the fictional Warhammer 40, 000 universe

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 fictional universe, the Eldar race live and travel aboard interstellar arks, Craftworlds

The fictional Warhammer races and events are described, below, using in-universe tone.

* Space Marines ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a fictional army in Warhammer 40, 000

* Eisenstein ( spacecraft ), a fictional spacecraft, featured in Flight of the Eisenstein, a 2007 novel by James Swallow for the Horus Heresy series of Warhammer 40, 000.

In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000, the Dark Eldar are a Kindred of the Eldar, an ancient and advanced race of elf-like humanoids.