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Dante’s Inferno The Trials Of St. Lucia
The epic DLC for Dante’s Inferno known as The Trials Of St. Lucia will be released on April 29th. This DLC will quench your hellish thirst as it offers 40 different trials, on top of a challenge creator so you can make up your own. You will also get to play online with a friend to fight through these trials, and St. Lucia herself will be at your disposal.
You can also download, rate, and favorite other peoples trials. So the possibilities for playing are endless. Oh and St. Lucia can fly and shoot beams of holiness from her eyes. Not bad.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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