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Is there any backstory to the different races in Warhammer 40K...?

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A basic introduction is available via Games Workshop, and a general overview can be found on the Warhammer_40,000 page on Wikipedia.

Beyond that, there is an enormous amount of information available in the Codexes. Games workshop produces a Codex for each race which contains a lot of backstory as well as units and rules specific to that race.

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    There's also a huge amount of backstory in issues of White Dwarf magazine, and the Black Library range of novels. Oct 27, 2010 at 5:06
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You can also hit up the Lexicanum for relatively detailed historical entries; just bear in mind that being a wiki, there is some information on there that is of disputed quality.

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On the official part, GW has also the Astronomican with some articles

On the unnoficial, apart from the already mentioned Lexicanum, warhammer40k.wikia.com has also a lot of background (generic, not as unit-level deep as Lexicanum).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000_species

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  • Could you please expand on this at all? A single link shouldn't really suffice as an answer Sep 1, 2012 at 23:24

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