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"We're sailors of the Runes! We carry our harpoons!"

28 Jan 2025


A book is a window to another world, or so they say. The trouble is, when it comes to Warhammer, other worlds are real and they inevitably contain a multitude of inconceivable evil, which is why you gotta wear gloves and keep them firmly closed. Whose first novel is this?

The fingers are probably too thin to be Marines, and they are human, but otherwise that could be literally anything.

First thought; fingers are too long to be human... But maybe it's a cousin of that Bretonnia Lord.

Humanoid wearing gloves with a book covers a lot of ground in GW’s worlds.

Probably fantasy based, but that’s only a vague leaning. Plenty in 40k fit that bill.

I’m thinking Elf, due to glove and length of fingers.

Very crude for an elf-made book though. Not saying it can’t be a human book they picked up somewhere, just not really in theme.

Can’t even tell if it’s 40k or fantasy either. Could be a new inquisitor or a sigmarite witch hunter.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
"We're sailors of the Runes! We carry our harpoons!"

Didn't spot that before

New rumour engine is a little tricksy. Unlikely to be something elvish. Is it upsidedown?

Maybe this is for that alleged Cathay release upcoming for TOW.

Grey Knight and Inquisition books all feature similarly styled corner protectors - but it could really be anything.

I've painted enough Cadians with 10" long trigger fingers to not read much into that detail.

Obviously the Witch Hunter leader for Mordheim 2025

my first thought is either CoS or some kind of elf... so clearly that means that GW is finally getting around to the delf CoS refresh! (that's very unlikely)

Cities are meant to be getting a hefty second wave if rumours are to be belived. Could be an engineer like on the great cannon for some other weapon.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Obviously the Witch Hunter leader for Mordheim 2025

Inshallah

Overdue Library Book of Sigmar

Book isn't ornate enough for 40K, so I'm thinking either TOW or AoS. I know that doesn't narrow it down much, but that's the vibe I'm getting.

Maybe another Witchunter Underworlds team?

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Book isn't ornate enough for 40K

I have books from Grey Knight sprues that look exactly like that.

 Olthannon wrote:

New rumour engine is a little tricksy. Unlikely to be something elvish. Is it upsidedown?

Looks like. Or it's Trump holding a bible.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Olthannon wrote:

New rumour engine is a little tricksy. Unlikely to be something elvish. Is it upsidedown?

Looks like. Or it's Trump holding a bible.

Hands are too big

 Theophony wrote:

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Olthannon wrote:

New rumour engine is a little tricksy. Unlikely to be something elvish. Is it upsidedown?

Looks like. Or it's Trump holding a bible.

Hands are too big

And he is touching it.

Cities of sigmar sounds like the obvious guess, but to spice it up, I will go with CoS Ogor battle preacher.

I'm going to guess that it's NOT the Leagues if Votann... or Tyranids or Skaven or Necrons or Tomb Kings or Dark Eldar or Catachans or Grey Knights or Sisters of Silence or Ogre Kingdoms or Vampire Counts or Death Guard or Alpha Legion or Emperor's Children or Eldar or Imperial Knights or the Adeptus Titanicus or the Adeptus Mechanicus or Orks or High Elves or Tau Empire or Battlefleet Gothic or Blood Bowl or Death Korps of Krieg or Ultramarines or Blood Angels or Iron Hands or Deathwatch or World Eaters.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Cities are meant to be getting a hefty second wave if rumours are to be belived. Could be an engineer like on the great cannon for some other weapon.

Maybe some sort of shrine/pulpit thing with a bookshelf on it? Maybe some sort of acolyte pulling it down for a preacher of some sort.

guess i'll be the one to post it this week


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my guess is something mechanicus/admech. or maybe a servitor of some kind, or possibly those kson robots that are rumoured

My first guess would be something shock staff for herding cattle (one kind or the other...)

Hard to tell from the LI figures, and I've not seen the Stalker Construct box art up close in real life, but I could easily believe that the Harpax Swarmer constructs have a electro-prod at the end of one of their tentacles.

Probably something Necromunda.

 Shadox wrote:
My first guess would be something shock staff for herding cattle (one kind or the other...)

Yep, definitely a grox prodder. We already have the Fronteris enclosure, now we get livestock and farmers to go with it.

Given the hazard stripes on the cable, I assume this is hazardous.

Earlier rumour, from November 2024. They aren't identical, but pretty darned similar.... Joytoy Alpharius' weapon, so maybe a mini coming...?

Sorry, but my image didn't seem to want to link properly.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/yykxdoln/is-the-newest-joytoy-primarch-alpharius-or-omegon/

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/9qhnsqqg/the-rumour-engine-19th-of-november/

It was a possibility posited when that Rumour Engine first cropped up - I think the conclusion at the time was that it was different enough from the FW Alpharius model to be something different, but it is still up in the air.