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Blood on the Reik: A Journey Through the Old World
An artbook packed with David Gallagher's concept sketches of the many denizens of the Warhammer Online RPG, demonstrating how they were used in the realization of the game. Warhammer Online is a new massively multiplayer online game set against the backdrop of Games Workshop's grim and gritty Warhammer fantasy world. Within the game, players take on the roles of desperate outlaws and mercenary adventurers, struggling to survive in a perilous world and against the ever-present corruption of Chaos. Alongside thousands of other players, immerse yourself in a massive world and explore, fight, trade and die, as you drag yourself from the gutter and build your reputation as a deadly warrior, dark magician or cunning and treacherous rogue. The web address
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144 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2005
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October 6, 2021
A beautiful artbook of original artwork and what appear to be design sketches for various Warhammer Fantasy Battle Miniatures, tied together with an in-universe narrative of dark humour.
October 8, 2011
Blood on the Reik is another great piece of art from the Black Library artists. Every painting is either in black and white coal or a faboulous crafted plates with interesting stories. The only artists that contribuited were John Blanche & David Gallagher. There are some stories that I would like to seem them devolped. Thaliaro (plate no.2) is one of them. An assassin who also is a player on theatres. It's quite good. Hanel (plate no.3) is another great story... A Story about and adventurer that came from Middenheim and went all around the world exploring and adventurer. It would be nice to see where he went. One thing that I wanted after seeing some coal drawings it would be zealots and flagelants stories.
There are other pages dedicated to the wizards. Each order with some coal drawings. Some of them are quite interesting and otheres are rather absurd. The story of Herman Gottz (plate no.6) would be another good story. The street lamps and furniture are quite odd. I wonder what would be like to see in each corner decapitated or human remains on some poles. The punishment devices. The posts with notifications and some rather interesting Crow Posts. It would be awful... The gothic archicture on the other end only makes the world even more grimm that it seems to be. Living in this world would be a terrifying existence. There are other great plates of Motherskin, The Foul Abductor or The Butcher's Son). The some more coal drawings of some friendly races and other humans civilizations and in the end the enemies of mankind like night goblins (good drawings), beastman, animals (dangerous and enemy as well as friendly and of course Mythical creatures). One awesome plate and possibly good story would be Albrechette Wolffpergen (plate 11). An interesting persona follower of Ulric and the old gods. He is a stoic heroe. I think that his tale would be very good to understand the old gods instead of focus all tales in Sigmar. The last plate is about a tree and how it shows in allegory the empire life. Excelent book that makes me understand better the warhammer world and as I read the novels I can make pictures in my mind.
There are other pages dedicated to the wizards. Each order with some coal drawings. Some of them are quite interesting and otheres are rather absurd. The story of Herman Gottz (plate no.6) would be another good story. The street lamps and furniture are quite odd. I wonder what would be like to see in each corner decapitated or human remains on some poles. The punishment devices. The posts with notifications and some rather interesting Crow Posts. It would be awful... The gothic archicture on the other end only makes the world even more grimm that it seems to be. Living in this world would be a terrifying existence. There are other great plates of Motherskin, The Foul Abductor or The Butcher's Son). The some more coal drawings of some friendly races and other humans civilizations and in the end the enemies of mankind like night goblins (good drawings), beastman, animals (dangerous and enemy as well as friendly and of course Mythical creatures). One awesome plate and possibly good story would be Albrechette Wolffpergen (plate 11). An interesting persona follower of Ulric and the old gods. He is a stoic heroe. I think that his tale would be very good to understand the old gods instead of focus all tales in Sigmar. The last plate is about a tree and how it shows in allegory the empire life. Excelent book that makes me understand better the warhammer world and as I read the novels I can make pictures in my mind.
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