2015 年，Games Workshop 干了一件几乎没人敢干的事：把自己养了三十年的奇幻世界真的玩死了——星球裂成两半，神死的死逃的逃。这是旧世界怎么塌的，也是废墟里长出了什么。

In 2015, Games Workshop did something almost no franchise dares to do: it ended its 30-year-old fantasy world for real — cracked the planet in half and let it die. Here is how the Old World fell, and what rose from its ashes.

战锤奇幻的旧世界，南北极是两个永远堵不上的伤口，每座城市的地板下都住着鼠人。它打的不是一场仗，是六场。这篇讲清楚它为什么注定输——以及为什么这反而是它最动人的地方。

The Old World was never going to win. From daemon-haunted poles to a rat empire under every floor, here is why Warhammer Fantasy is a story about civilizations fighting entropy with one hand tied behind their back.

矮人把每一笔旧仇都记进一本永远翻不到底的书，鼠人多到能淹没整个地表却忙着自相残杀，精灵因为一个没坐上的王座分裂成两族打了几千年。带你认全这个垂死世界里的所有玩家——以及让他们到死都不肯联手的那些仇。

Dwarfs who write their grudges in a book that never ends. Rats who deny their own existence. Elves split by a single denied throne. A tour of the powers fighting over a dying fantasy world — and the hatreds that keep them from ever uniting against the thing that will kill them all.

一个从来没存在过的中世纪欧洲，八股看不见的魔法之风，世界尽头天上的一个洞。这是旧世界——Games Workshop 造了三十多年的奇幻设定，2015 年自己把它毁掉了。

A dark-medieval Europe that never was, eight invisible winds of magic, and a hole in the sky at the top of the world. This is the Old World — the fantasy setting Games Workshop built over thirty years, then deliberately blew up in 2015.