Oh, don’t worry… It’s actually quite easy to understand! You see, it all started before written history, when there was this one dude who was created by a bunch of super-powerful shamans…
Nono you can’t start from there, you need to know who the dude is and why he did that to truly grasp the scope of the setting.
It all started several million years ago, when a race of soulless machines commanded by living clouds attacked…
Oh, don’t worry… It’s actually quite easy to understand! You see, it all started before written history, when there was this one dude who was created by a bunch of super-powerful shamans…
Nono you can’t start from there, you need to know who the dude is and why he did that to truly grasp the scope of the setting. It all started several million years ago, when a race of soulless machines commanded by living clouds attacked…
Earliest we can start is the necrons right? Before they were machines tho
The order i always heard people explaining 40k was:
So you start at the beginning, with Horus Rising. And the first four books are chronological, so that’s easy! But things get interesting when you get to book 5!