This is something I've never really thought about or looked into, so I figured I'd try to start a discussion about it.
In Warhammer fantasy there are dwarves and beastmen, which aren't present in Warhammer 40k's universe. The explanation for dwarves not appearing in WH40k are that the creators thought dwarves in space would be a bit silly and that dwarves were only present on the planet that Warhammer fantasy takes place on. However, this doesn't explain anything to do with the beastmen, who showed up in some early versions of the tabletop in Lost and the Damned and Imperial Guard armies, and then kind of suddenly just disappeared. Assumedly, there are probably hundreds of millions of them in the Warp after living on a planet with direct access to it for centuries, as well, since when something wanders into the Warp it tends to get stuck there forever unless released by chance.
Were beastmen just phased out? Is there some explanation for their sudden disappearance? I feel like they should still be somewhat prominent in Chaos factions considering they were a large part of them in Warhammer fantasy, but all we have are very cut-and-dry subdivisions of Chaos Space Marine and Chaos Eldar factions. There aren't even any Chaos Orks, which we could assume would probably worship the shit out of Khorne, given their love for war and combat. Although, I think the lack of Chaos Orks has something to do with their general lack of intelligence and distrust of anything "magic". What happened to the beastmen?
In Warhammer fantasy there are dwarves and beastmen, which aren't present in Warhammer 40k's universe. The explanation for dwarves not appearing in WH40k are that the creators thought dwarves in space would be a bit silly and that dwarves were only present on the planet that Warhammer fantasy takes place on. However, this doesn't explain anything to do with the beastmen, who showed up in some early versions of the tabletop in Lost and the Damned and Imperial Guard armies, and then kind of suddenly just disappeared. Assumedly, there are probably hundreds of millions of them in the Warp after living on a planet with direct access to it for centuries, as well, since when something wanders into the Warp it tends to get stuck there forever unless released by chance.
Were beastmen just phased out? Is there some explanation for their sudden disappearance? I feel like they should still be somewhat prominent in Chaos factions considering they were a large part of them in Warhammer fantasy, but all we have are very cut-and-dry subdivisions of Chaos Space Marine and Chaos Eldar factions. There aren't even any Chaos Orks, which we could assume would probably worship the shit out of Khorne, given their love for war and combat. Although, I think the lack of Chaos Orks has something to do with their general lack of intelligence and distrust of anything "magic". What happened to the beastmen?