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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) left the beta stage today and is now open to the public. Just before WAR’s official opening to the public, The Black Library, publishers of all fiction Warhammer and Warhammer 40k related, released a new novel titled Empire in Chaos.

While the game is supposed to be a condensed visual representation of the franchise’s rich lore and play style, Empire in Chaos looks to answer questions concerning events in the game.

The storyline follows a refugee of war as she flees from the forces of chaos that destroyed her village. She meets up with a High Elf that was injured in the never-ending war with chaos as well as an Imperial Witch Hunter and a Dwarven Ironbreaker on their mission to push back the legions of Dark Elves, Orks, Chaos and daemons that have besieged the alliance of order.

This is fairly accurate to the plot of WAR. You have the choice of three classes for the game in each of the factions. While the Alliance of Order and the Alliance of Destruction are obviously warring with each other, everyone still has the chance of fighting against the other factions of their alliance. This is fairly obvious because it’s Warhammer-based. Everyone fights everyone and sometimes not even for good reasons.

The game, when patched at a later time, will probably be incorporating more aspects of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay experience by adding in basic starting jobs rather than limiting you to the prestige classes most noted for each faction, going off of the information given by the WAR website, which is included down below.

The book is written by Anthony Reynolds. His past works in the Warhammer universe(s) are Dark Apostle, Knight Errant and Mark of Chaos. Having read his other work, Empire in Chaos should prove to be an interesting story. Look in the near future for a review of the book.

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