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The first version of ''Realm of Chaos'' is a two-volume publication by Games Workshop concerning the forces of Chaos. The hardback books contain background material and rules for ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' (1st edition), ''Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader'' and ''Warhammer Fantasy Battle'' (3rd edition). It consists of the 1988 book ''Slaves to Darkness'' and the 1990 follow-up ''The Lost and the Damned''. Each of the two volumes describe the background and associated rules for a pair of antagonistic Chaos gods but each also had material that was germane to Chaos in general in the game settings. Both were written by Rick Priestley, Bryan Ansell, Mike Brunton and Simon Forrest although many more people contributed material, both writings and illustrations. The cover art of ''Slaves to Darkness'' was painted by John Sibbick and ''The Lost and the Damned'' by Les Edwards. The process in sketching and designing the cover for ''The Lost and the Damned'' was investigated within the volume. This was not the case for ''Slaves to Darkness''. The second version of ''Realm of Chaos'' was a boxed set released in 1995 covering all of the rules for the Chaos armies (Beastmen, Warriors, and Daemons) in ''Warhammer Fantasy''. The box also contains the magic spell cards and items for the army. ==''Slaves to Darkness''== ''Slaves to Darkness'' features extensive descriptions of the gods Khorne and Slaanesh, complete with a pantheon of their Daemons and rules for including these in tabletop battles as demonic armies. It also features rules on the creation of Chaos Champions and their warbands, Daemon weapons, demonic possession and the Horus Heresy of ''WH40K''. To give flavour for the background and attributes of followers of Chaos it contained material such as a list of over 120 "Chaos Attributes" - mutations that the followers of Chaos were often afflicted by. This included some mutations that were advantageous, such as those that made the mutant extra strong or taller, and those that confer a disadvantage, such as ones that made the mutant small, weak or stupid. Other mutations were purely cosmetic, such as giving the mutant brightly coloured skin or eyes on stalks, whilst some mutations were clearly comical, such as one that gave the mutant a silly walk (possibly inspired by the Monty Python sketch The Ministry of Silly Walks) and even a mutation that bestowed the "gift" of uncontrollable flatulence. It introduced the Imperium's Daemonhunters of the Ordo Malleus and their associated Space Marine chapter - the Grey Knights. The volume is also notable for having provided the first complete and coherent narrative of the Horus Heresy, an event which, albeit mentioned as the background justification of the internecine battles featured in the 1/300 scale boxed wargames Adeptus Titanicus and Space Marine, lacked a proper explanation in the ''WH40K'' milieu at large. The Horus Heresy firmly locked the concept of chaos and demon influence in the SF universe of ''WH40K'' for good, establishing, as a consequence, that the "Realm of Chaos" was actually the Warpspace that intergalactic farers had to traverse in order to defeat the relativistic distances involved in space voyage. The link between the ''Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000'' worlds is explicitly stated in the first pages of the book. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Realm of Chaos (Warhammer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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