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The [[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]] (published 1998) included the original image of a Hrud - depicted as a crouched, diminutive creature swathed in rags, and possessing a rat-like tail.{{Fn|4}} [[Xenology (Background Book)]] (published 2006) then included images and descriptions of a Hrud with a very different appearance - as an upright swamp-monster style creature with long, flexible limbs said to hide its true form under a ragged cloak of decomposing filth.{{Fn|1}} However, this doesn't appear to have been a simple retcon. The [[Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook]] (published 2012) included an image of a creature which reverted back to the Hrud's image depicted in the 3rd Edition Rulebook.{{Fn|20}} Then, [[Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia (Novel)]] (published 2017) described the Hrud as matching the same description included in Xenology.{{Fn|28c}} The closest the Hrud have come to a model being released is in the Necromunda Zone Mortalis Underhive Market set [[Liber Xenologis]] (released published 2021) which included a gun rack with a musket very closely resembling incorporated this idea of conflicting sources into the Hrud Fusil depicted in -universe lore, stating from an in-universe perspective that there are wildly varying Imperial reports on the 6th and 3rd Edition RulebooksHrud's physical appearance.{{Fn|2931}}

[[Liber Xenologis]] The closest the Hrud have come to a model being released is in the Necromunda Zone Mortalis Underhive Market set (published released 2021) incorporated which included a gun rack with a musket very closely resembling the idea of conflicting sources into the in-universe lore, stating from an Hrud Fusil depicted in-universe perspective that there are wildly varying Imperial reports on the Hrud's physical appearance, 6th and even that Imperial reports first recorded them as 'nocturnal warriors of Hrud' (as originally published in the 3rd Edition Rulebook) and that Hrud may be the name of their homeworld rather than their species but this was never clarified in the recordsRulebooks.{{Fn|3129}}

Because of the publication dates of sources, it can be concluded that the appearance of the Hrud may not have been retconned since their original appearance but that there is instead a confusing situation where there are conflicting sources, both in-universe and in real-life, on the physical appearance of the Hrud.