The Warhammer World: A Realistic Turn of Events

[Raizi]

*spoiler alert*

A few weeks back I just finished reading the 2nd. volume in the 'Ulrika the Vampire' -series aka 'Bloodforged' Now, please correct me if I'm wrong, but is the setting is supposed to be in the present time?

*SPOILER INCOMING!*

Nonetheless at the end of the book it is suggested that some great power is assembling _again_ in Sylvania and all vampires would have to make a choice, to yield and submit or to perish. Moreover the character who told this referred to the power as his master, and the character was a von Carstein vampire.

So what I'm picturing from this would it mean that perhaps Mannfred is getting another encore? And to boost our January-hysteria, it would make a great opportunity to move the timeline a bit forward for the Vampire Counts.

Mannfred rising -> Zombies galore -> Zombie-themed store events -> New book release -> :konrad:

I have cracked the code! Now I will go and prepare myself...

 

[The Archivist]

In 200 years, I would expect a major industrial revolution in the Empire and for the Dwarves. They've developed steam tanks and powered flight, it's only a matter of time before some smartass engineer decides to build a railroad a bit further than the mines. Once this happened, you would end up with much higher interconnectedness between Empire cities & Dwarven holds, resulting in a much more defendable state, at least from the more random factions such as chaos or orcs and goblins.

The Skaven would copy any advances, so expect an 'under-railway' to appear. Their unstable society would probably result in much wider outbreaks of attacks when this system spreads more rapidly. Chaos Dwarves may also take advantage of new technology to incorporate into their maniacial mechanical monstrositys.

The massive increase in technology would probably give magic a push, either into some sort of more scientific role (understanding the fundamentals of the universe/ building an atomic bomb...) or into a decline as High Elves decide to take it out, since they are on the way out anyway (unless HE-Dwarven relationships improve).

The Lizardmen are too remote and archaic to adapt to much change. They will probably keep the New World, but expect them to be combating a lot more serious colonization as the empires begin to enter an expansionist era. The Tomb Kings will succumb to incursions from more ambitious Araby and Tilea. Similarly Bretonia will face updating for modern tactics and philosophies.

A more enlightened era won't come about until there is a real drive against Chaos and other anarchical factions. This will require a conquest of the seas from either High Elves, or, if they continue to decline, one of the more robust empires.

Vampire Counts will last throughout this. They'll probably support the increase of the population from industrialisation: more bodies to feed on. Orcs and goblins will either evolve into a more advanced form or become an endangered species, due to their inability to get their minute heads around anything novel. Ogres will still be in strong demand as mecenaries, so they will profit from the changes in society. Chaotic cults and beastmen may increase or decrease, depending on how rapidly medical advances are made (including mutations and removal of scape-goat status).

Chaos may still conquer. If the Chaos Gods bother to try and predict the progress, there will be a lot of industrial sabotage, and the chaos winds may try and blow over the mountains and down into Kislev. However, if they do not succeed to start with, they will need to find some insane anarchical way of combating new threats.