Warhammer 40k Fluff Bible

The Warhammer 40K Fluff Bible is a really really long document written by fanboys that compiles all the information about the Warhammer 40,000 setting that isn't directly related to playing the tabletop wargame.

It was written by James Moffitt, Sean Patten, David Donachie, and Jacques Chester, and later edited by Simon Regan. It collects information distilled from the various WarHammer codices and issues of White Dwarf.

This is like those "series bibles" that screenwriters get when they are hired to write an episode for a teevee show. It has all the info you need (and all the stuff you shouldn't contradict) if you're going to write a story in that genre. Any writefag that earnestly wants to make a WH40K novel should have a copy of this.

It's 336 pages long. Pages 1-8 is a timeline. Commissar Yarrick is on page 206. A lot of it can be considered incomplete or otherwise out of date, since it was written some years ago. There are also some typos, since this wasn't a professional work, and we're not certain if word processors with word filters were available at that time (or if they would have been useful since 40k uses unconventional names and terms liberally). The scope of the document has been superseded by events, and anyone looking for info or learning is better off starting with an overall page like this or like that yeah.

That's it, really.

You can find it here. Link is broken, yo. Hey dog, for real. Link also broken.

The document has been unearthed via the Internet Archive