Editing Lizardmen (section)

== Meta History ==
Lizardmen are one of the factions of WFB that had [[Retcon|major changes in their lore]], like [[Orcs & Goblins]], for example. Back when [[Games Workshop]] was selling overstocked [[Dungeons & Dragons]] minis, the British overlords decided to <s>rip off</s> "borrow" [[Slaad]] into their slowly developing setting. Due to that, pre-4th Edition Slanns were not fat lazy toads, and instead were bipedal frogmen dressed as Maya-Aztec hybrids with names lifted from the menu of cocktail bars. Slanns and Lizardmen were not the same species - former were degenerate incestuous [[Old Ones (Warhammer)|Old Ones]], and the latter were just [[Lizardfolk]].

Aside from Lizardmen and Cold Ones, old Slanns also employed other races as their warrior-slaves and administrator-slaves. Those included [[Troglodyte|Troglodytes]] (dumb giant crocs), [[Amazons]] and [[Pygmies (Warhammer Fantasy)|Pygmies]]. Most of them, however, didn't survive for long. Around the 4th Edition, major changes to the lore made Slanns just another of Old Ones' tools and made them smartest and the most magical Lizardmen. Pygmies were replaced with Skinks, Troglodytes with Kroxigors, and Amazons... still aren't retconned, like [[Zoat|Zoats]] and [[Fimir]]. It is unknown what was the catalysis of these changes , but probably GW were just trying to avoid copyright issues (and accusations of racism in Pygmies' case).