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Games Workshop Unveils First Official Artwork of Daemon Perturabo, Warhammer 40K's Towering New Threat

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Games Workshop Unveils First Official Artwork of Daemon Perturabo, Warhammer 40K's Towering New Threat

Games Workshop has released the first canonical depiction of Perturabo in his daemonic form, giving fans a glimpse of one of Warhammer 40,000's most consequential villains as he prepares to march on the Imperium itself.

The artwork, pulled from the upcoming book Eye of Terror: Reign of Iron, shows the Daemon Prince looming at an almost incomprehensible scale. Perturabo, primarch of the Iron Warriors and a founding son of the Emperor who fell to Chaos during the Horus Heresy 10,000 years ago, has spent millennia in the Eye of Terror building his fortress world of Medrengard. Now, it appears, his patience is ending.

According to Games Workshop's own commentary, Perturabo's true strength lies not in his monstrous physicality but in his intellect. Every military action undertaken by the Iron Warriors over the past thousand years has reportedly been a calculated move in an elaborate scheme—one that is finally reaching its culmination.

The Infinite Citadel Approaches

The centerpiece of Perturabo's plan is the Infinite Citadel, a sprawling ring of fortress-keeps designed by the Daemon Prince himself. These aren't mere strongholds; they're entire worlds converted into weapons of conquest. Planets are systematically stripped of resources and reconstructed as brutal bulwarks, their matter repurposed to build walls that span entire star systems.

The fortress ring moves relentlessly toward Terra, the Imperium's capital world. As it advances, the barrier between realspace and the Warp weakens, creating a corridor through which Perturabo can finally manifest in the material galaxy unrestricted. For the first time in ten millennia, he will walk on Imperial soil in his true form and deliver what Games Workshop describes as

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