jpub Wrote:Why are there no black people in WH?
Or Asians.
Dartz Wrote:I always figured that was just a consequence of the setting being a pastiche of Middle-Ages and Renaissance-era Europe, and generally being set in a cold, wet and nasty Northern setting. There are 'other races' in WH... IIRC there's a China expy to the East, and I know there've been Arab-like characters.
To the far South, there's the Tomb Kings (I think, it has been a while since I kept up with the background) doing the ancient Egyptian undead thing.
This is the closest there is to an Africa.
You got to remember that the setting is heavily based on the 'old world', with the New world being the mysterious place far west, and The Southlands being as mysterious as central Africa was to your average European in 1632 or so.
Basically this. Warhammer Ancients, the historical version of the game, has African armies as well tons of others. So GW doesn't completely ignore them, but I think it's just they would rather talk about orcs or lizardmen or rat people or whatever then continually file off the serial numbers on societies and put them in the WH universe. 40K has a chapter of space marines who are black, and supposedly they are one of the few chapters who give a shit about civilian collateral damage.
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