a publication history question

[dusk1983]

I believe wood elves haven't been around since warhammer's inception.

I was wondering when Wood Elves were introduced as a playable race?

I was also wondering if Wood Elves have always been part of the Athel Loren Mythos, or were they just Averlorn Elves?

The only reason I ask is the fact that the 'wood elf' bloodbowl team are called the Avelorn Avengers. Which is weird, because Averlorn is on Ulthuan.

And YES I employed my mighty google-fu but it availed me not.

[Dragon halitosis]

Well they have been around since at least third edition... there was a WD article back in the early 90s (or earlier??) in which Mike McVey did a WE army. It's the article that first got me interested in them (although it took another 15 years to actually buy any, what with all the HE, Bretonians and Dwarves I collected in the mean time). I never saw 2nd edition WHFB, so not sure when they first came into being. That said, wood elves go back to Tolkien and the mythos he leveraged, D&D (which featured in early WD magazines) and other peer worlds, so could assume they have always been there in some form.

[dusk1983]

So in that 3rd ed article were they in Athel Loren or in averlorn.

[frogboy]

I fear this may be a question only the wisened old oak can answer and his spirt still sleeps, perhaps we could ask Billsurly as he is just as old hahaha

[dusk1983]

I fear this may be a question only the wisened old oak can answer and his spirt still sleeps, perhaps we could ask Billsurly as he is just as old hahaha

Yes, where is Shandrakor? Maybe he doesn't know this one and he's hiding?

[Billthesurly]

Wood Elves were present in Warhammer when I was first introduced to the game in '88 or '89. All the literature I have seen on the subject indicates that they were one of the original races. Can't put my hand on a Bible and swear to it though. Time to do some net digging.