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The Empire being the poster boys isn’t laziness – it’s branding.  In most fantasy settings, humans are the way that we relate to the world, the lense through which we view the setting.  They’re what give the world its flavour – however the humans are depicted is generally what the setting is perceived as.  So the Empire are what gives Warhammer Fantasy Battle its flavour, what makes it unique. The story of Warhammer is the story of the Empire, all other factions are secondary and it’s pretty much always been that way.  If you lose the Empire, or change them to an older, less technologically advanced faction, it’s basically not Warhammer any more, simple as that.  This is from the Warhammer community blog;

“With the end of the world well documented, the design team wanted to explore the earlier history of the Old World in more depth, to examine events in the history of Warhammer in more detail than ever before. But which part of its long and storied history should they focus on? Go too far back in time – to the War of the Beard or the time of Sigmar for example – and the setting would have become unfamiliar.”

So GW have even said as much – they couldn’t go back too far in time without losing what makes Warhammer what it is.  There’s nothing stopping you from having “ancient” Warhammer armies, of pre-split Elves and Dwarfs, you might not be able to do it with GW miniatures and rules.