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Lupinotum of House Altum Tenebris

May 2026·p. 38

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Duncan’s Knight belongs to a household whose pilots surrender their former identities and assume the recorded personality of an ancestral warrior. Lupinotum’s inherited obsession is astrology, reflected in markings etched across pale and green armour. The recipe uses simple base colours and a luminous blue blade, then seals the model before brown oil washes and brown-orange streaks supply a heavily weathered finish.

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LoreWD 524 · pp. 20–31

Armageddon: A Planet at War

A conversational guide introduces Armageddon as an industrial hive world whose huge population, manufacturing capacity and strategic position make its survival important to the Imperium. It separates the planet’s actual wars from the versions preserved in Imperial records, where Angron’s invasion was suppressed, and follows the conflict through Ghazghkull’s assaults and the long rivalry between the Ork warlord and Commissar Yarrick.

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LoreWD 524 · p. 23

The Warriors of Armageddon

Armageddon’s Steel Legion favour mechanised infantry, with Chimeras and protective clothing suited to a poisoned industrial world. Invasion has reversed the normal outward flow of regiments, as the planet increasingly consumes both its own recruits and soldiers sent from elsewhere. The illustrated survey distinguishes the indigenous legion and jungle-fighting Ork Hunters from supporting Krieg, Cadian, Mordian, Elysian, Savlar and Catachan formations.

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LoreWD 524 · p. 25

Best Enemies

Yarrick and Ghazghkull are presented as enemies whose mutual hatred has become inseparable from a grudging respect. The Commissar frustrated the Ork assault on Hades and pursued his opponent beyond Armageddon, while Ghazghkull repeatedly sought his death yet came to value Ol’ Bale Eye as his best enemy. The sidebar traces that recurring pursuit rather than treating either invasion as a self-contained encounter.

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