Well, if I understand Necron right, he even has miniatures of female Fimir (perhaps these "Meargh", but we could still use them as ... err ... caring mothers and housewifes?cynthialee wrote:There shall be lady Fimirs
How do you like the bed, by the way?
@Goblin King
In principle, you are right - there are some rare books out there which don't follow the Howard-Tolkien-Moorcock cliche, and those are the true gems of the fantasy genre. But HQ (or Warhammer) is all-in-all very cliched fantasy. A race that is just strange for strangenes' sake doesn't help it.
OK, I always found the Fimir somewhat - well, strange - but OK. On the other hand, the mushroom space orcs of Warhammer 40K just annoy me. We're talking about orcs here, for god's sake. The one contribution to the genre that Tolkien really made up from the scratch all by himself (the orc race, not the genre). The very core of "high fantasy". The most cliched race of them all. They are not in there for originality, innovation or diversity. They are the basic stuff to which new ideas can be added.
But I would hardly have noticed that the orcs were used against their role in WH 40K, would it not have been mushrooms. Mushrooms!It's funny, but that's it. Who can rejoice in having defeated a mighty army of mushrooms? Who would be so indignified to play them himself? Personally, I believe all 40K players just obliterate this silly concept.