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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MethDozer · M

The "lore" and media is the best part of the setting IMHO. The in game universe history and ways is by far the most interesting and exciting part. The books and media are awesome and surpass the game itself.
For the game it is what makes it immersive and gels everything together.

Anyway, that's the thing about 40k. Some are I to the table top, some are more into the model building, some are just into the setting and "lore" the media and stories.