Games Workshop just threw a grenade at the Warhammer 40,000 community with a stunning cinematic that shows the Emperor of the Imperium sitting on the Golden Throne — the first official look at the Master of Mankind in the current setting for years. The Warhammer 40,000 setting is built upon a galaxy-shaking civil war that took place 10,000 years earlier, called the Horus Heresy. It ended with the Emperor finally defeating his Chaos-fueled Primarch son, Horus Lupercal, and save the Imperium of Man from destruction, but at a terrible cost: the near-death Master of Mankind was interred upon the Golden Throne as a carrion Emperor sustained by the daily sacrifice of thousands of psykers. The iconic art of the God-Emperor by John Blanche, below, is seared into every Warhammer 40,000 lore fan’s mind. This is how the Emperor looks in the 41st millennium: grim, dark, and barely there at all. But is this actually how the Emperor looks? We rarely see official art of the Emperor in the current setting from Games Workshop, and he’s never been depicted in an official cinematic before. Well, over the weekend, in a new trailer confirming a June 20, 2026 release date for the 11th Edition of Warhamm
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John Blanche, the legendary illustrator whose art helped define the grimdark Warhammer 40,000 setting, has died. A Facebook post from Trish Carden Miniatures and Design brought news that Blanche passed away earlier this week. “John was an…
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John Blanche, the legendary illustrator whose art helped define the grimdark Warhammer 40,000 setting, has died. A Facebook post from Trish Carden Miniatures and Design brought news that Blanche passed away earlier this…
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John Blanche, the legendary illustrator whose art helped define the grimdark Warhammer 40,000 setting, has died. A Facebook post from Trish Carden Miniatures and Design brought news that Blanche passed away earlier this week. “John was an…
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