1. Which of these Warhammer Chaos gods did you encounter first?

A. Tzeentch.

B. Malal.

C. Suth.

D. Arioch.

2. How many types of elemental are there?

A. None.

B. Four.

C. Seven.

D. Eight.

3. Which of the following demons did you come across first?

A. Bloodthirster.

B. Baalrûkh.

C. Golgoth.

D. Demogorgon.

4. Who is the Emperor?

A. Karl Franz.

B. Heinrich.

C. Enkalon Garusa.

D. Caligula.

5. Which of the following are valid characteristic scores in the Warhammer battle game?

A. Rend -1.

B. Cool 10+3.

C. Toughness C.

D. Armour Class 0.

6. Which creature would you most like to see return in Warhammer?

A. Tomb King.

B. Zoat.

C. Manfish.

D. Gelatinous cube.

7. Which of these are spells?

A. Arcane Blast.

B. Steal Mind.

C.Turn Someone to Frog.

D. Magic Missile.

8. Who are witch hunters most likely to worship?

A. Sigmar.

B. Solkan.

C. Lumis.

D. Donblas.

RESULTS

Mainly A. Newhammer. Go paint your Sigmarines!

Mainly B. Oldhammer. Keep telling yourself that those grey hairs make you look distinguished.

Mainly C. Prehistorichammer. Relic of the Letraset Age, we salute you.

Mainly D. Nohammer. You know nothing, Jon Snow!

ANSWERS

1. Tzeentch was first mentioned in Forces of Fantasy in 1984, though he was not described until The Enemy Within in 1986 and even then only briefly. The first full account of Tzeentch came in Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned in 1990. Tzeentch is the only one of these gods that is part of the current Warhammer canon.

Malal was a renegade Chaos god who featured in ‘The Quest of Kaleb Daark’, a comic strip that ran in the Citadel Journal and Citadel Compendium between 1985 and 1987. Malal was also described in the WFRP1 rulebook in 1986, but disappeared from canon apparently because of a copyright dispute.

Suth was an early Chaos god from 1983 mentioned in ‘The Duelling Circles of Khorne’ and ‘The Warrior Knights of Chaos’. Suth disappeared from Warhammer very early.

Arioch is a Chaos god in Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion stories.

2. Elementals are not part of the current Warhammer background, but they were present in earlier versions.

WFB2 introduced fire, water, air and earth elementals, to which were added life, death and plague elementals in the third Citadel Compendium (1985).

In 1986 WFRP1 reclassified the life, death and plague elementals as the demons Viydagg, Mardagg and Mabrothrax.

The first edition of AD&D had four elementals and four para-elementals.

3. The Bloodthirster first appeared in Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness in 1988.

Baalrûkh was the name given in WFRP1 (1986) to balrogs to distance them from their ancestor in The Lord of the Rings.

Golgoth was a “mighty lord of balrogs”, sculpted by Tony Ackland in 1984.

Demogorgon is a demon in ancient literature that was adopted by D&D.

4. Karl Franz was introduced as Emperor in the WFRP1 rulebook in 1986, and remains Emperor in the current WFRP4 background.

In the WFRP1 adventure Empire in Flames (1989) Karl Franz is succeeded by Heinrich Todbringer. This is no longer considered canonical.

Enkalon Garusa was described as Emperor of the Four Nations in the ‘Chaos Marauders’ and ‘Heroic Adventurers’ inserts in 1983. This figure did not reappear.

Caligula was a nickname of the Roman Emperor Gaius, who reigned from 37 to 41 CE.

5. Rend is a characteristic in Age of Sigmar.

In WFB3 personal characteristics include modifiers such as +3.

In WFB1 Toughness is on an alphabetic scale.

Armour Class is used in D&D, of course.

6. Tomb Kings first appeared in 1994 in the Warhammer Armies: Undead book for WFB4.

Zoats were introduced in WFRP1 in 1986. They disappeared after WFB3.

Menfish were included in WFB1‘s bestiary in 1983, but did not reappear.

Gelatinous cubes are classic D&D monsters.

7. Arcane Blast is from Age of Sigmar.

Steal Mind first appeared in WFB2.

Turn Someone into Frog is a spell that appears only in WFB1.

Again, Magic Missile is from D&D.

8. Sigmar was introduced as the patron deity if the Empire in 1986 in the WFRP1 rulebook. He subsequently became associated with witch hunters.

Solkan was a Lawful god of vengeance introduced in the WFRP1 rulebook in 1986. Solkan was still canonical in 1989 when he appeared in Advanced Heroquest, but has since disappeared.

Lumis was a god of justice and purity in ‘Heroic Adventurers’ in 1983.

Donblas is a god of justice in Michael Moorcock’s fiction.

All those who need to resit, should see ‘How WFRP are You?’