Aside from Gameplay and Hobbying, the third reason that people love the Warhammer 40k universe is the lore, or the story of the setting, but getting started in Warhammer 40k lore can be daunting because there's just so much of it. If you think worlds like Middle Earth are expansive, they've got nothing on Warhammer…
The Warhammer 40k universe doesn't start with the Space Marines, or the Horus Heresy, or even with the rise of the the Emperor. It starts, in many ways (though much is still unknown) by the Old Ones and the C'Tan. They clashed more than once, and the final fight was called The War in Heaven.…