- Ascended Fanon: The 5th Edition halfling army wasn't written by Games Workshop, but was submitted by fans to Citadel Journal #36.
- Creator's Favorite: Of all the Chaos special characters created for the Champions of Chaos sourcebook, Scyla Anfingrimm is the only one other than Archaon to seemingly make a big impact with the game's designers. He has had the most appearances as a playable unit of any of the Chaos characters from that book, including appearing in Warhammer Armies: Chaos for 4th edition, Citadel Journal #50 for 6th edition, and Warhammer Armies: Warriors of Chaos in both its 7th edition and 8th edition iterations. The best the other characters from that book achieved was to make it into Citadel Journal #50, and three of themnote didn't even do that!
- Defictionalization:
- The Liber Chaotica has been published as a Sourcebook on the Chaos Gods, their mortal, bestial and daemonic legions, and the Realm of Chaos where they dwell. How canon it is in this day and age may be disputed.
- When Games Workshop opened their own bar-restaurant at their HQ in Nottingham, they got a local brewery to create some of Master Dwarf Brewer Josef Bugman's famous ales such as Bugman's XXXXXX and Trollbrew to sell on tap and in bottles.
- Exiled from Continuity: Malal, the Renegade God — so called for being the antagonist to all other factions of Chaos, the embodiment of Chaos' self-defeating tendencies — was dropped from continuity because no one could figure out who held the rights for him.
- Referenced by…: The Palaververse: Skaven are mentioned as one of the (fictional) possible dangers of underground exploration in Treasures.
- What Could Have Been:
- Storm of Chaos was supposed to take the setting forward depending on the results of the community. Unfortunately, GW seemed pretty confident the forces of Chaos would win and allow them to semi-destroy much of the setting so they could try to update it, which backfired when they saw Chaos was losing horribly compared to the Empire and Greenskins. Due to this, "Storm of Chaos" ended up being treated as a What If? and made non-canon, leading to the End Times, which instead of using results to determine the future, involved GW essentially controlling the story and stating what would happen.
- We almost had
a Warhammer novel written by Terry Pratchett. - Tamurkhan: The Throne of Chaos was meant to be the first in a series of four campaign books from Forge World, each detailing a Chaos invasion (one per god and cardinal direction), fleshing out Chaos and other armies out in the process. The book even had a section noting how excited the team were to write future ones. None of them ever made their way past the drawing board due to the End Times being announced without informing the author.
- In 2012, Forge World announced The Battle of Black Fire Pass, a campaign book that would focus on the 3rd Battle of Black Fire Pass, featuring the Empire, Dwarfs and Greenskins. The only thing that was revealed to the public was its cover before the project got canned.
- The numeral I was emblazoned on the spine of Monstrous Arcanum, which, along with it only having rules for elementals of three out of the eight Winds of Magic, suggests that it was meant to be the first in a series, but since it undersold, the subsequent volumes never saw the light of day. The only surviving elements from the second volume were some monsters that had their models finished and received experimental rules.
- Concept art◊ for the Lizardmen shows a number of units and designs that never went past the design stage, including Saurus leaders wearing Skaven-pelt cloaks; Old One devices of unclear purpose, ridden by Skinks standing over sacrificed Grey Seers and carried by giant crocodiles or armored sauropod-like beasts; and giant fire-breathing snakes, one version of which serves as a steed for a Lizardman hero and is armored with decorative golden wings while the second is a true flying serpent.
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