Warhammer
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This page is about the Warhammer fantasy universe, for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning the game, visit Warhammer Online. For the World Warhammer is set in, see Warhammer World.
Warhammer, sometimes known as WH or in reference to the Fantasy Battles game, WHFB is a dark fantasy universe created over 25 years prior to 2008 by Games Workshop, a British company in the tabletop wargaming industry. Warhammer is one of the most influential fantasy universes, having influenced settings like Blizzard's Warcraft universe, and has itself been influenced by sources such as J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the works of H.P. Lovecraft, the works of Michael Moorcock, the works of Edgar Alan Poe and the Dungeons and Dragons setting by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
Since its creation, Warhammer has spawned tabletop war-games, miniatures, book/novels, video/computer games such as WAR, Warhammer: Dark Omen and Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, and even a pen-and-paper RPG game.
The license for creating a MMORPG in the Warhammer universe is currently held by EA Mythic; they are using it to create Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
The license for creating other types of video/computer games set in the Warhammer universe is currently held by Namco.
Warhammer has a sister universe set in a dystopian far-future; the science-fiction based Warhammer 40,000.
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