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I'm looking to identify the source and artist of the below artwork linked to the Games Workshop Horus Heresy series.

death Guard

The image is commonly used to represent the release of a life eater virus by Space Marine Death Guard serfs, and is specifically quoted to be:

The Death Guard Legion's Captain Ignatius Grulgor's traitorous subordinates suffer a grisly fate after being accidentally exposed to the Life-Eater Virus aboard the frigate Eisenstein during the Istvaan III Atrocity at the start of the Horus Heresy.

A reverse Google image search identifies the image in three locations:

While not returned in a Google Image search the image is also used on the Eisenstein fandom wiki page.

As far as I have been able to tell none of these sources directly identify the artist or the source of the work.

The novel Flight of the Eisenstein is a paperback and does not contain such artwork, and I am not aware of a special edition of this book.

I also feel that the artwork is actually representative of a later story in the novel series, but I cannot at this time remember which one it reminds me of.

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  • You can actually find it all over the web. It seems more associated with "Nurgle's Rot" than "virus bomb" or "Eisenstein" though. Nowhere is it attributed.
    – DavidW
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 21:01
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    Searched every source I know, apparently, the image was in Visions of Heresy. Maybe somebody owning the book can give you more infos.
    – Shade
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 21:45
  • It must be in either the 2013 or the 2018 versions of the Artbooks as I've checked my 2007 version of Horus Heresy: Collected Visions and it's not in there as far as I can tell
    – A.Steer
    Commented Sep 30, 2022 at 8:25

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Karl Richardson

The Warhammer 40K Lexicanum's artist page identifies Karl Richardson as the interior artist of The Flight of the Eisenstein novel.

Richardson's art on his Facebook page shows a variety of styles, but the image below - another Warhammer 40K illustration - has the exact same color scheme as the Life-Eater Virus image, another reason to believe he is the artist.

I have contacted him to confirm this, but haven't got an answer yet; so until then,consider this a partial answer.

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  • Niel Roberts is record as the cover artist of the paperback version. I know the covers are replicated on the internal pages of the paperback covers, but I don't know what was down for the hardbacks
    – A.Steer
    Commented Sep 30, 2022 at 18:28
  • No response from Karl Richardson.
    – Klaus Æ. Mogensen
    Commented Nov 5, 2022 at 11:15

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