This is Guilliman, the Primaris and the Indominous Crusade (well covered here () ). That being said, after \~20 years of the universe not really changing at a 'global scale', there has been an attempt to push the story forward in the last couple of years. If you try and read everything you'll probably go insane. Get a broad understanding, and then read/listen to what seems interesting to you. To reiterate: Don't try and follow everything in order, because there isn't an order.
The exception to this is the Horus Heresy series, set in M31, which does kind of have a reading order, although moves back and forth in time as well. It literally started as somewhere for you to set your battles, and the Black Library novels came afterwards, as a way to build on that.įor this reason, there isn't really an in universe chronological order, and creating one would be almost impossible, except in the broadest brushstrokes (Horus Heresy, War of the Beast, M41, Indomidus Crusade). It's a universe for stories to be set in, not a story itself. New bits of the lore are being written all the time, jumping back and forth over 10,000 years, and then trying to get them to fit in with everything that came before. The novels came afterwards to flesh out bits of the universe. Tolkien could set out with an idea of 'this happened, then this happened, then this happened'.įor 40K, it is an open universe for people to play the table top game in, and was created as a background for people to make their little models kill each other. But if you never read any of them, it wouldn't hurt your understanding of any other of the novel series.įor a Middle Earth comparison, they are fundamentally novels, the world was created through the novels.
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Once you have a rough overview of the 40K universe, you can dip in anywhere, as long as you follow any specific series in order.įor example, there are 6 books in the Space Wolf/Ragnar Blackmane series, and you would need to read those in order. like the Lord of the Rings), but to be a setting in which new stories could be told, none of which need to link to each other. It was not created to be the background to a certain story (e.g. One of the things to remember with 40K is that that it is a setting, not a story. Hell, the very first line of the very first book is exactly this. There are a large number of 'in jokes' that will fly over the head of a new reader. Īnother reason I don't suggest starting with the HH series, is that a huge amount, especially in the first few books, are foreshadowing of events in 40K - we already know how things play out because we've been playing in that world for 30 years. There are a lot of books, i like this suggested reading order. However, once you are comfortable with 40K, I highly recommend the HH books, especially the first 4-5. A lot has changed, and I see a lot of confused posts on here of people trying to apply 30K concepts to 40K. They take place in 30K, 10,000 years before the current 40K universe. Lots of people suggest starting with the Horus Heresy series, but I don't. You kind of have to just jump in and trust that eventually you'll figure out some of it, while some of it is meant to be left uncertain. While the Necrons were slaves to the C'tan, they broke free, shattered the C'tan into shards, and enslaved those shards as power sources. For example, the Necrons were once all soulless, mindless robotic constructs enslaved to the unknowable C'tan - star gods of immense power.
That's intentional, meant to allow people to make up their own stories, so we might never get anything definitive from Games Workshop/Black Library.Īnd finally, the lore evolves. There are now two conflicting stories about how the primarchs, still in their incubation pods, were taken from the Emperor's genetic laboratory far below the Himalazias (what we know as the Himalayan Mountains) and scattered onto all their different planets.Īlso, there's nothing definitive about the two unnamed primarchs (the second and eleventh). Just be aware that there are contradictions even in canon. For what it's worth, the universe of 40k is incredibly complex and constantly changing, especially for the lore set during the Horus Heresy.Ĥ0k Theories has an excellent series of videos that covers the general timeline of history.
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