Big Summer Warhammer Preview Adds Black Library Logo and Now Warhammer 40,000 Lore Fans Are Hoping Games Workshop Is Finally Ready to Move the Narrative Forward

Games Workshop has added a Black Library logo to its authoritative Big Summer Warhammer Preview showcase, sparking speculation the institution whitethorn denote caller novels that yet determination the overarching Warhammer 40,000 communicative forward.

Big Summer Warhammer Preview, acceptable for this Friday, July 18, volition incorporate reveals for Games Workshop’s main tabletop games, including Age of Sigmar, The Horus Heresy, and of people Warhammer 40,000. Its initially released integer poster for the lawsuit did not diagnostic the logo for Black Library, Games Workshop’s in-house publication publishing division. However, connected July 16, it released a caller mentation of this poster with the Black Library logo added, sparking speculation that fans volition get caller caller announcements arsenic well.

The Black Library logo suggests caller caller reveals. Image credit: Games Workshop.

Why is this breathtaking for fans of the setting? There is simply a large woody of speculation that Games Workshop whitethorn yet beryllium acceptable to determination the Warhammer 40,000 communicative guardant with either a marque caller bid of books, the teased meet-up betwixt 2 returned primarchs, oregon the long-awaited 3rd publication successful Dan Abnett's Bequin trilogy.

IGN has reported connected the present mythical Pandemonium before, erstwhile fans speculated its hold mightiness person thing to bash with Games Workshop and Amazon getting their communicative ducks successful a enactment up of the Henry Cavill-fronted Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe. It is possibly the most-anticipated publication successful each Warhammer fandom. The archetypal caller successful the Bequin series, Pariah, came retired successful 2012. Its sequel, the Warhammer 40,000 lore treasure trove that is Penitent, followed astir a decennary later, successful March 2021. Pandemonium does not person a merchandise date, and the hold for an announcement is accelerated becoming Warhammer 40,000’s mentation of George R. R. Martin’s M.I.A. Game of Thrones book, The Winds of Winter. Some fans are speculating — possibly much with anticipation than anticipation — that present is yet the clip for a Pandemonium reveal.

There's heightened involvement successful Pandemonium due to the fact that it promises to really determination the overarching Warhammer 40,000 crippled forward. Penitent ended with a important lore revelation (it has to bash with the individuality of the mysterious King successful Yellow, which we won’t spoil here), and truthful the ramifications of Pandemonium for the wider Warhammer 40,000 beingness could beryllium huge.

Perhaps much realistic is simply a caller caller bid acceptable during the play known arsenic The Scouring. This is the mostly unexplored clip successful Warhammer 40,000 past erstwhile the Imperium ran down the traitor legions pursuing the decision of Horus 10,000 years earlier the existent setting. With the Horus Heresy seemingly wrapped up pursuing the merchandise of Era of Ruin, The Scouring seems similar a earthy adjacent measurement for Games Workshop if it wants to proceed filling successful the gaps successful the Warhammer 40,000 narrative.

Or this whitethorn each beryllium overmuch ado astir nothing, and Black Library’s beingness astatine the amusement yet goes down arsenic a disappointment. You’d similar to deliberation that Games Workshop knew what it would bash to instrumentality expectations by slapping the Black Library logo connected its preview poster, though.

Which leads maine neatly into wherefore Warhammer 40,000 lore fans get excited by teases similar this successful the archetypal place. As I’ve reported before, the Warhammer 40,000 story, specified arsenic it is, is simply a dilatory moving beast. The scribes astatine Games Workshop sometimes instrumentality years to inch the overarching crippled forward. Take, for example, the instrumentality of beloved primarch, Lion El'Jonson, which was announced successful March 2023. Now, implicit 2 years later, the quality is yet to bash overmuch of thing successful the setting, his hotly anticipated reunion with his brother, Roboute Guilliman, seemingly further distant than ever. Could a caller caller yet item this definite to beryllium spicy conscionable up?

Maybe, connected Friday, we’ll yet get immoderate answers. The Big Summer Warhammer Preview is acceptable for 7pm BST / 11am PDT connected Friday, July 18.

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