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	Such a state may be perplexing at first but you have to understand the BL often releases books in cooperation with GW army releases. There is a new Eldar update? Better bring out a novel about the Eldar then! GW often have a few army updates planned in advance, plently of time get a new novel rolling in time for the army release. Other books are sometimes bought out to satisfy the needs of fans of one of the more popular factions (space marines for example) for a story about their favourite warriors.		Such a state may be perplexing at first but you have to understand the BL often releases books in cooperation with GW army releases. There is a new Eldar update? Better bring out a novel about the Eldar then! GW often have a few army updates planned in advance, plently of time get a new novel rolling in time for the army release. Other books are sometimes bought out to satisfy the needs of fans of one of the more popular factions (space marines for example) for a story about their favourite warriors.

	BL understands though that there are fans of just the fluff (such as the people that read this wiki) and so demand a little more than just the normal bloods and guts sort of writing. So they bring in competent writers to draft some stories with actual weight and dignity.		BL understands though that there are fans of just the fluff (such as the people that read this wiki) and so demand a little more than just the normal bloods and guts sort of writing. So they bring in competent writers to draft some stories with actual weight and dignity.

	A good way to judge the quality of a read is by the author. Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and Sandy Mitchell occupy the leading pantheon of great 40k writers and you'd be hard pressed to find anything by them to be half baked. Well, your mileage may vary on McNeill's more recent work. John French, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Guy Haley and Christ Wraight have ascended to the pantheon in recent years, though AD-B can be very polarising around these parts.		A good way to judge the quality of a read is by the author. Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and Sandy Mitchell occupy the leading pantheon of great 40k writers and you'd be hard pressed to find anything by them to be half baked. Well, your mileage may vary on McNeill's more recent work. John French, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Guy Haley and Christ Wraight have ascended to the pantheon in recent years, though AD-B can be very polarising around these parts.

	At the other end of the scale you've got C.S.Goto, who writes very compelling toilet paper.		At the other end of the scale you've got C.S.Goto, who writes very compelling toilet paper.
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	*[[Paul Kearney]]		*[[Paul Kearney]]

	== The Good Stuff ==		==The Good Stuff==
	*[[Ciaphas Cain]]		*[[Ciaphas Cain]]
	*[[Gotrek & Felix]]		*[[Gotrek & Felix]]

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	[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]		[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]
	{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}		{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|[[TTS\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently]]}}
	The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).		The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).

1d4chan>Gilten at 09:01, 19 December 2022

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			[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]
	{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}		{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}
	~~[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]~~
	The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).		The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).

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	==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==		==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==

	In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]]. Created by [[Cegorach]], it is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application. According to Eldar, it is a dark [[Craftworld]].		In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]] such as the [[Book of Magnus]]. Created by [[Cegorach]], it is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application. According to Eldar, it is a dark [[Craftworld]].

	<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it. Due to the [[Great Rift]], part of it is lost to [[Slaanesh]]. Echoes of the Black Library persist within the materium. The last of these traces were located at the western fringes of the [[Ghoul Stars]], within a triangle formed by the Grand Shrine of [[Asuryan]] and the [[Exodite]] worlds of Syph and Quilan after the Great Rift.		<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it. Due to the [[Great Rift]], part of it is lost to [[Slaanesh]]. Echoes of the Black Library persist within the materium. The last of these traces were located at the western fringes of the [[Ghoul Stars]], within a triangle formed by the Grand Shrine of [[Asuryan]] and the [[Exodite]] worlds of Syph and Quilan after the Great Rift.

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	In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]]. Created by [[Cegorach]], it is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application. According to Eldar, it is a dark [[Craftworld]].		In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]]. Created by [[Cegorach]], it is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application. According to Eldar, it is a dark [[Craftworld]].

	<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it. Due to the [[Great Rift]], part of it is lost to [[Slaanesh]]. Echoes of the Black Library persist within the materium. The last of these traces ~~in realspace~~ were located at the western fringes of the [[Ghoul Stars]], within a triangle formed by the Grand Shrine of [[Asuryan]] and the [[Exodite]] worlds of Syph and Quilan after the Great Rift.		<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it. Due to the [[Great Rift]], part of it is lost to [[Slaanesh]]. Echoes of the Black Library persist within the materium. The last of these traces were located at the western fringes of the [[Ghoul Stars]], within a triangle formed by the Grand Shrine of [[Asuryan]] and the [[Exodite]] worlds of Syph and Quilan after the Great Rift.

	==List of Black Library writers==		==List of Black Library writers==

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	==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==		==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==

	In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]]. Created by [[Cegorach]], it is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application.		In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]]. Created by [[Cegorach]], it is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application. According to Eldar, it is a dark [[Craftworld]].

	<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it.		<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it. Due to the [[Great Rift]], part of it is lost to [[Slaanesh]]. Echoes of the Black Library persist within the materium. The last of these traces in realspace were located at the western fringes of the [[Ghoul Stars]], within a triangle formed by the Grand Shrine of [[Asuryan]] and the [[Exodite]] worlds of Syph and Quilan after the Great Rift.

	==List of Black Library writers==		==List of Black Library writers==

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	==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==		==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==

	In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]]. It is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application.		In-universe, the Black Library is the repository of the [[Eldar]] Empire's collected knowledge of [[Chaos]]. Created by [[Cegorach]], it is guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s and White Seers and is hidden in the [[Webway]], because that knowledge could be used for great [[heresy]], although now and then, the Harlequins let [[Bronislaw Czevak\|someone]] check out a book if it is [[Just as planned\|important that they know something]]. The only people the Harlequins will allow to enter the Black Library are those who have "conquered the Chaos within them" and have the requisite membership and card, so the list of non-Harlequin members is predictably minuscule. [[Ahriman]] has attempted to enter the Library for some time now; unfortunately, he has yet to succeed and stir some shit up. [[Eldrad]] keeps denying his library membership application.

	<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it.		<s>Doesn't seem to be guarded that closely, since Inquisitor [[Jaq Draco]] could just walk in, steal the Eldar's book of Prophecies and walk away with it </s>The Harlequins let him in. He just didn't know it then boasted everywhere about it.

1d4chan>McNash: /* The Quality Issue */

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The Quality Issue

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	At the other end of the scale you've got C.S.Goto, who writes very compelling toilet paper.		At the other end of the scale you've got C.S.Goto, who writes very compelling toilet paper.

			Adding further to the debate is how by all intents and purposes the writers at GeeDubs commit virtually every single lazy mistake seen in [[Science Fantasy]], from having no fucking idea about laws of physics and astronomy even after using the excuse of the Warp or sufficiently advanced aliens, to hamfisting [[Cretacia\|how ecology]] [[Hiveworld\|or demographics work]] while making [[Vraks\|supposedly critical campaigns something smaller than a contemporary World War]], while this could be excused in some works in order to drive an important plot point or bring for brilliant writting, Black Library has a tendency to be terrible for the sheer sake of making things [[Grimdark]], with the end result being a "Too Bleak, Stopped Caring"; some fans may argue this is in order to give a sense of horror much needed to the setting but after a couple of books it becomes obvious for most readers too often Black Library writers even fall short of achieving this, to the point [[Delta Green\|other gaming]] [[World of Darkness\|companies]] actually advice how you need to work to always keep a sense of the unknown and novelty unless you get another "oh right, another planet eaten by Tyranids".

	==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==		==In [[Warhammer 40,000]]==

1d4chan>McNash at 21:58, 31 July 2022

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	{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}		{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}
	[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only ~~derpitude~~.]]		[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]
	The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).		The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).

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	[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]		[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]
	{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}		{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|[[TTS\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently]]}}
	The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).		The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).

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			[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]
	{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}		{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}
	~~[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]~~
	The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).		The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).

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	{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}		{{Topquote\|Stories may meander, but they all end the same. I have seen the authors. They are terrible.\|Magnus the Red, having just read Nemesis evidently}}
	[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only ~~derpitude~~.]]		[[Image:Black_Library_logo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|In the grim derpiness of GW writing there is only derp.]]
	The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).		The '''Black Library''' is the book publishing arm of [[Games Workshop]], responsible for releasing fiction set in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|Warhammer Fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] universes (and, until [[Fantasy Flight Games\|FFG]] took over, the corresponding [[RPG]]s). It shares its name with the Black Library within the 40K setting, which has more to do with forbidden [[Eldar]] lore than dodgy novels. The quality of BL output tends to be quite variable; they've put out many books worth reading (such as those that give us a glimpse into backstories-HH books, for example) but also many that are quite terrible (eg something that is supposed to be a major event for the characters but is otherwise ignored).