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Check out the e/book here! : www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer…Illustration © Games Workshop
Art director/producer: Karen Miksza
Special thanks to Michael Haugen Wieske, German Language Production Editor for his reference help
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This piece was done in April this year before I flew to attend the amazing Middle East Film and Comiccon, and I suppose at the time, was the most complex and stressful image that I had been commissioned by the Black Library to illustrate. 
Here's a interesting side story of mine to go with this image and why Azrael in particular was pretty 'stressful' for me to illustrate: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbi…
Getting Azrael feeling right had me looking through so many artists' interpretations of him, one of my favourite being a Paul Dainton?s and a cool detail on a Raymond Swanland image that had an imperial eagle tattooed on the side of his head - in a long winding creative converging of ideas which resulted in the claw marks you see now
Hope the Grey Knight fans out there like Lord Draigo shiny!
Also... dual feed bolter gauntlet for Abbadon. FCK YEA CHAOS
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In all that epicness, there are best daemonettes ever drawn!
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Only thing with this story is reading Damnation of Pythos helps understand some of it. Awesome art though. Grey Knights need more love from Black Library.
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Beautiful piece, I picked myself up a print of this work at WHfest in Birmingham in early October.
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You quite literally do some of the most amazing 40k ever. Thank you so much.
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Grey Knights, most badass space marines out there, but not as famous as the Blood Angels or Ultramarines. They do the dirty jobs other Space marine chapters cant do. And they do it fine!! Since they are the best anti-demon weapon the imperium has ( all of the grey knights being psykers and whatnot ).Sweet piece ukitakumuki but i have to ask: whats with the chaos hounds? those are dark eldar summons, not chaos space marine. As in, Abbadon and them dont fit well toghether in any picture ( not that your drawing is not good or anything, its awesome ) 
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Those hounds are from Khorne. Originally a Chaos mini, and army choice.
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I know nothing about the subject matter, just love your artworks.
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I missed this year ME comicon , i was back in my home in egypt , hope to see u next time .
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Abaddon is my hero and he looks especially bad ass in this picture.
Well done on the whole piece.
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If these are Matt Ward Gay-Knights then I hope they die, if their are Pre-Wardian Heresy, then Failbadon is gonna get his ass kicked. AGAIN.
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Get over it Draigo was great in the book
Also talk like that resulted in 6th edition tyranids
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You probably play Ultramarines I assume...
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How did you guess
also Necrons
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You defended Matt Ward. That's how.
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well if you're a Chaos, Black Templar, Tyranid, Oldcron fan/player then yes everyone else the fluff is great
Cato is now a bro who bitch slaps Inquisitors for fucking with the Ultramarines, and kills C'tan
Calgar picks up a Necron pylon and fire it at Tomb Complexs
Dante getting too old for this bullshit
Grey Knights all cry when Geronitan died (yes you heard that right) all the long Mortarion just laughs his ass off
Darlek Grey Knights
Dragio trolls the Dark Angels
Eldar getting shit down
Khan being a super smart dude (and stoic) with a Prussian accent
Legion of the Damned might really be time travelers (or Daemons of the Emperor)
the Legion burning Nurgle's garden
A Necron overlord chasing a Chapter Master around his throne room before throwing his dishonorable ass out an air lock
Farsight is an hotblood anime hero with a vampire sword
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The Ultrasmurfs are now just friggen' conceited crybabies with a hard-on for their primarch. Fucking Ward is an Ultramarine fanboy who dicked over all the other chapters. They used to be cool badasses that took their beatings, and learned from them. Not anymore.
Quote: "...recent editions the blatant favouritism displayed by certain Games Workshop writers towards the Chapter have earned them considerable ire, especially from fans of other Space Marine chapters that get slagged off in the process. This is mainly the fault of Matthew Ward , responsible for the latest Ultramarines codex, which is full of ridiculous fanboyism and claims that every chapter strives to be like the Ultramarines and that the ones who don't are clearly aberrants who are dying out (this certainly comes as news to chapters like the Black Templars , Raven Guard , Iron Hands , and Space Wolves , who were doing perfectly fine the last time they checked)."
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Using 1d4chan?
ok now I know you're full of shit.
First of all Ultramarines were ALWAYS the face of Space Marines and Ward only brought back there older lore img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image…
second we know Ward is in fact a Necron fanboy as shown by the fact most of his old WD battle reports are him playing Necrons,
Third ultramarines WERE NEVER COOL it wasn't until his codex that people started to like them thanks to bring back there Roman Theme
FOURTH that's dead wrong, Raven Guard follow the Codex so do the Iron Hands they merely change there things up. Also while Black Templars and Space Wolves do outnumber the Ultrmarines, they can just call their 2nd founding all 24 of them which btw 25,000 marines are more than BT's 7,000 and Space Yiffs 3,000
5th GW oks anything a codex writer does
6th It was going to be Codex Ultramarines until a last second change
7th they're the Chapter of Bruce Lee (no really the "be like water" and "I don't fear the man who knows 10,000 kicks, I fear the man who practice one kick 10,000 times")
Stop being butthurt and get over it, no one is going to change them, Phil Kelly has them lost ONE battle and the Imperuim AS A WHOLE has a panic attack
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Not butthurt so much as disappointed with the stuff that M.W did to them making them look like a conglomeration of assholes.
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They were always like that
Fuck their Primarch is a huge asshole but the key is their assholes with a heart of gold
like Gullieman's real beef with the Alpha Legion is how much of a mess there tactics had on civilians and rebuilding efforts
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They got FUCKED by the Alpha legion.
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We're talking about the ultramarines not the raven guard
Everyone knows the ultramarines fought a metal troll who was trying t steal vulkins body
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I'm not denying that, but you misunderstand me so I'll say it again, yes, the Ultramarines USED to be cool, fuck they were MY starting army, but then M.W came along and screwed with their fluff so badly that I switched to IG who are the REAL badasses of the imperium.
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No.
Ultramarines were NEVER cool, trust me I've been playing for 15 years, I've seen saw a GW redshirt make fun of them.
They've only gotten cool Post-5th.
And he didn't "screwed" there lore just made it more clear. Like how he "screwed" the Grey Knights despite Codex Deamonhunters HAS THEN MURDER PRIEST AND USE THERE BLOOD AS HOLY OIL
Meh IG are cool
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Up that noise, The Ultra's were damn cool 1-3rd edition, they were the every-man marine in a way, EVERYONE I met at 40k Tour's agreed that they were only cool in the first three and kinda fourth editions.
Ah, the Khornate Bloodknights. That shit was fucked up even by 40k standards, whyy Ward has a hard on for screwing over the SoB's so badly I'll never know, he's like a Dark-Eldar in that way.
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You clearly haven't read any of there rules books
god you are stupid
SOB main trait is fucking Martyrdom they would gladly die if it means the bloodtide was beaten, you retarded.
GET THE FUCK OVER IT
Also he wrote the SOB fluff in there army book as helped out with Hammer & Anvil. Go ask /tg/ and you get the same thing. Everyone else moved on.
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WHOA, nobody asked you to suddenly get ragefisted! Calm the fuck down man, I'm just having a civil argument, fucking Christ did you shoot PCP before you replied?!
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You're the one who's bitching about "fluff rape" despite clearly never read the fluff outside of 1d4chan (which btw makes shit up) you're not having acivil argument
Otherwise you would know Grey Knights FIRST mention is about how they kill anyone who sees them and how they kidnapped priest cut them open and wash bolter shells in there blood.
I beat you still think they're overpowered.
Go read Sentinels of Terra or Iyanden which btw is written by Ward to see his current writing (Iyanden being so good people want Ward to write BL Eldar books btw).
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I happen to own 1-6 SM codex's, so I do know what I'm talking about and have read SoT and even some of his White Dwarf stuff before he was employed by GW and if your' going to continue to berate me then this Conversation is over.
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Take a photo because I don't believe you
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You want me to upload a photo of this shit just so i can win an internet argument.
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Seeing your just nit picking yes
Because most agree it was Know No Fear that made Ultramarines awesome
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That was the recent battle they had against the Necrons? If so then they did shine during that fight.
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That's the danmos trilogy
Know no fear is horus heresy
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yeah that's right.
Can we just digress and be done with this?
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I must say that I quite like the space wolves. I mean they only tried to make a new chapter once... that did not work out so well, so they stay pure oh yeah! Plus, Vikings in space he he he, got to love that. I think Space wolves are those that are most laid back and the most fun, companionship and a good sense of taste for food and beverage. I mean come on, mead, ale, meat! Yay!
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Space yiffs? No
Also they liked the ideal of make more Sons of Russ it failed because of outside reasons
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Space yiffs? What do you mean?
Pardon, but I did not understand your sentence at all, no full stop or commas. Do you mean; they liked the ideal to make a lot of separate chapters, but it failed because of external reasons? Well, I do not really agree with you if I understand you correctly. It says in the codec: Space Wolves that;
"The Space Wolves were divided only once, creating the ill-fated Wolfbrothers Chapter. Perhaps the High Lords recognised the problems of genetic instability that would plague the legacy pf Leman Russ, giving rise in later times to the terrible curse of the Wulfen. Perhaps Leman Russ had no intention of breaking apart his mighty Legion so that they could be divided and conquered if necessary. What is known however is that the Space Wolves had and still have little regard for the dictates and military tradition of the Codex Astartes, instead holding sacred the teachings of Russ that are handed down from Wolf Priest to Blood Claw whelp even to this day." (Space Wolves Codex pp. 9)
So I do not agree with what you say. From what I understand and some other background reading, the Space Wolves (or at least Leman Russ) agreed to try dividing his/the Legion and to create a new Chapter as mentioned above. But they never tried to keep creating new Chapter's. And why make more "Sons of Russ" Chapters when you can just have a large Space Wolves army and kick ass in Russ and The Emperor's name?
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Its in Battle for the Fang I believe.
More or Less, Russ wanted the Space Wolves to branch out and form a defensive boarder around the Eye of Terror. So they would be about 12 or so Space Wolves chapters, all at there current size ect.
it failed
warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Wo…
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Hm, Touche dear sir, touche, ooooh but that would have been amazing though. 12 Space Wolves Chapters, damn... hmmmm, I do not feel any happy feelings towards the Thousand Sons at the moment, no can't say I do.
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