Games Workshop Reveals First Ever Official Artwork of 'Post-Ascension' Perturabo in the 'Modern' Warhammer 40,000 Universe — and He's Absolutely Massive

Games Workshop has acceptable Warhammer 40,000 fans connected precocious alert aft it published the archetypal ever authoritative artwork of daemon Perturabo, primarch of the Iron Warriors traitor legion.

In Warhammer 40,000 lore, Perturabo is 1 of the demigod sons of the Emperor who turned traitor during the foundational Horus Heresy saga, acceptable 10,000 years earlier existent events. The Lord of Iron ended up abandoning the Siege of Terra and retreating to the Eye of Terror, wherever helium ascended to go a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided. He’s been there, gathering up his location satellite of Medrengard arsenic a monolithic daemon world, for the past 10,000 years, plotting the Imperium’s demise. Now, it seems, he’s acceptable to instrumentality connected Terra itself.

In a station connected Warhammer Community, Games Workshop revealed the artwork, below, which it described arsenic possibly the “first ever due depiction of post-ascension Perturabo ever published successful a Warhammer book.” It’s lifted from the upcoming Eye of Terror: Reign of Iron book, which is acceptable to uncover Perturabo’s maestro program for the Imperium.

Perturabo is simply a big, atrocious boy. Image credit: Games Workshop.

“He’s a spot of a monster, isn’t he?” Games Workshop said, and yes, helium is. Perhaps the astir striking portion of this representation is conscionable however large Perturabo is successful daemon form. There won't beryllium overmuch stopping him and each that robust sprouting from his back. That's for sure.

“Despite his fearsome appearance, Perturabo’s deadliest limb is his mind, and he’s been engaging it wrong the towers of Medrengard for thousands of years,” Games Workshop continued. “Every dispatched warband and recalled fleet has been portion of his intricate manoeuvres, and present the masterstroke is astatine hand. The clip of the Infinite Citadel has come.”

This Infinite Citadel is described arsenic “an expanding ringing of horrifically brutalist fortifications designed by Perturabo himself.” It “forges up – full worlds turned into keeps, their resources plundered to the past chromatic truthful the Iron Warriors tin rise walls that transverse full systems.”

It’s each heading towards Terra, destroying thing that gets successful his way. All the while, the veil betwixt realspace and the Warp volition thin, allowing the Daemon Primarch to “finally locomotion upon Imperial ungraded again astatine will, and driblet the sidesplitting stroke successful person.”

So, the artwork we spot supra is daemon Perturabo yet doing conscionable that, though it sounds similar it'll instrumentality immoderate clip for the Warhammer 40,000 communicative to get there.

What does this mean for the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game? Most fans presume it means daemon Perturabo is acceptable for his ain miniature and authoritative rules. If that does happen, we’ll person 4 daemon primarchs (Angron, Magnus the Red, Mortarion, and maybe Perturabo), and 2 loyalist primarchs (Roboute Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson) connected the field. The Space Marines are intelligibly outmatched here, truthful possibly Perturabo’s arrival, assuming it does happen, volition beryllium followed by the instrumentality of Rogal Dorn, brag of the Imperial Fists, oregon Space Wolves main Leman Russ. Whatever the case, if Perturabo does get a model, it’s going to beryllium beauteous big, right?

The Perturabo quality comes blistery connected the heels of Games Workshop’s announcement of Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition, owed retired June 2026. It revolves astir Commissar Yarrick versus the Orks connected the war-torn satellite of Armageddon. There is nary large representation lore improvement with either that announcement oregon this announcement. In January, Games Workshop acceptable up the long-awaited gathering of loyalist primarchs Roboute Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson via the 500 Worlds: Titus run book, but we haven’t heard thing much connected that since. Perhaps they’ll request to articulation forces to combat backmost Perturabo and the Iron Warriors?

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