the fantasy genre can all basically be tracked back to shakespeare as a matter of fact :) at least, shakespeare's midsummer night's dream is the earliest example we have of a story that fits the description of what is nowadays called the fantasy genre, featuring creatures like trolls, orcs, elves and all of the above. but…
I meant modern fantasy but yes, it's a broad generalization, but it's still pretty accurate in most cases and definitely accurate in the case of Warhammer.
This reminds me of when Apple sued Microsoft saying that they ripped off their GUI. Only to get sued by Xerox who claimed Apple ripped THEM off. The fantasy genre in its entirety basically all gets traced back to Tolkein, you can't claim people are stealing your ideas when you stole them from someone else to begin with.
I'll stay with the topic a bit more concretely and pausit that maybe a more...aesthetically normal yet still fantasy connected race will be good for the game. Granted, I think they should put some Eucalyptus chomping cousins somewhere... then they could come down from the trees and say "Silly earthling, you think we just…