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I hate when people call Warhammer background "lore"

It makes it sound like it's more than just a setting for creating your own stories and armies through playing games and doing conversions and painting. People treat it like it's real history, unable to be changed in any way and some objective truth when it's not. And "lore YouTubers" definitely don't help, since they're the ones pretty much directly telling people that it's a fixed story.
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Longpatrol · 31-35, M
I mean generally the "lore" is the various novels that have been released to flesh out the universe etc

The way Star Wars treated it was that it was solidly trumped by anything George Lucas produced.

So my take on Warhammer "lore" is that the actual tabletop material and Codex trump whatever is in the Black Library novels
KiwiDan · 31-35, M
@Longpatrol I guess I'm just sick of people treating it as some unmovable monolith, unable to be changed, and the be-all-and-end-all for how it "should" be. It's a fantasy setting made up to sell plastic soldiers, and it's tiresome having everyone taking it so seriously and literally.
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KiwiDan · 31-35, M
@Longpatrol Exactly. That and the fact it's literally all propaganda
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
@KiwiDan

Hard facts
Emperor sits on the throne for 10,000 years
Space Marines are limited in number
Enemies are many
There are twenty primarchs-BLAM!
There are eighteen primarchs only two of which is alive and on the IoM side
KiwiDan · 31-35, M
@Longpatrol And even that's set dressing for toy soldiers
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
@KiwiDan yup. Forget the lore stuff. It's fun to deep dive and world build but if it's getting in the way of using your imagination and having fun what's the point?

Maybe they should treat it more like dnd rules
KiwiDan · 31-35, M
@Longpatrol I don't know how DnD rules work, but they should treat it like it is, not the faux-historicism they seem to believe it is.
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
@KiwiDan if our world does devolve into sci fi theological barbarism at least we know who will be the ecclesiarchy lol