Anvil of War is a worldbuilding project about the Salamanders and their successor Chapters — invented Chapters, their worlds, their people and the stories attached to them. Bilingual, independent, and with no claim to being official.
What you will find here
- The library — more than seventy stories, from half an hour to a full novel. Every one is readable online in full; audio versions exist where they exist.
- Chapter dossiers — some fifty fully worked Chapters: founding, gene-seed, heraldry, paint recipe, campaigns, quirks. Plus regiments, machines, relics and worlds in the same form.
- The glossary and the character index — nearly a thousand terms and several hundred people, kept bilingually, with origins and cross-references.
- Atlas, story map and chronicle — where something lies, how the strands connect, in which order it happened.
- Tools — Chapter generator, forge and name generator: if you build your own, you can start here.
How it is made
The worldbuilding is created with the support of artificial intelligence and is then reviewed, edited and checked against our own body of work — names, dates, allegiances. Where a document was made this way, it says so. That is not an embarrassment but the method: the machine writes fast and errs reliably; the checking is the actual work.
The same goes for canon. What comes from Warhammer 40,000 is marked as canonical; everything else is this project’s invention. Where the two meet — an invented world in a real Segmentum — we say so.
What we hold to
Anvil of War is an unofficial fan project. It sells no rules, no models and no licensed goods; it does not claim to be part of official canon.
NOTE: The content on this website was created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This is a non-commercial fan work and is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or specifically approved by Games Workshop Limited.
Warhammer 40,000, the Warhammer 40,000 logo, Games Workshop, and all associated marks, names, races, race insignia, characters, vehicles, locations, weapons, units of measurement, illustrations and images from the Warhammer 40,000 universe are either ®, TM and/or © Games Workshop Limited, variably registered around the world, and used without permission. All Rights Reserved to their respective owners.
Taking part, and contact
Your own Chapters, corrections, canon findings, pointers to contradictions: all welcome at info@anvil-of-war.com. If you want to hear when something new appears, subscribe to the newsletter — rarely, but with substance.