Dark Places

The Dathedi Concord

2018-02-07T06:24:00.000-08:00

"They are puppets all. We need only pull their strings."

The Dathedi Concord is a shadowy criminal organisation which operates in the darkest parts of Hammerhal. Ruled by a dozen ancient aelven families, the Concord has had a hand in illegal activity within the vast city, almost since its foundation.

Taking advantage of their skill at arms, their extremely long lifespans and their innate link to the winds of magic, the aelves of the Concord have risen to the top of a vast criminal enterprise which reaches into every aspect of city life. Operating through proxies and content to allow lesser races to carry out their dirty work the Concord have grown extremely wealthy through smuggling and extortion and other, darker ventures.

With the resurgence of Chaos and the opening of the Realm Gates, business is booming. Individuals who wish to travel between the realms in secret, or seek to purchase arms and armour at knockdown prices need look no further than the agents of the Concord.

Despite this, there are rumours of a power struggle within the organisation. the Concord has traditionally remained neutral in matters which extend beyond the city, as long as the gold and treasure continues to flow, but recently more conscientious (or perhaps wiser) families have expressed concern at the growing threat from Archaon and the Legions of Nagash and are urging their fellows to be more particular in their dealings. Invariably this will affect profits and it remains to be seen how such an attempt to change time honoured business practices will impact on the stability of the Concord.

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Hello! No pics today but I'm still quite excited because I've finally decided to dip my toes into some AoS28, exactly a year after the movement was started I believe!

I've wanted to put together some kind of AoS warband since the game was launched and I really enjoy the freedom the fairly sparse background offers along with the vastness of the setting itself. I knew right from the start that if I was going to put something together for AoS28, I wanted to make my own faction with its own aesthetic. Some of my early ideas were ambitious to say the least and they've sat idle as I tried to figure out a way to actually implement them. Then, the other night I cracked it!

I was discussing potentially running a Shadows over Hammerhal Warhammer Quest campaign with my friends but I didn't really want them to be fighting Bloodreavers and Blightkings the whole time. I wanted their opponents to be more mundane but still be able to tell an interesting story. Then it struck me - organised crime! Maybe it's my affinity for Inquisitor and Dark Heresy but I wanted to explore the underworld of the free cities, something as far as I'm aware, hasn't really been expanded upon in the background much.

I had a nebulous idea about a kind of Illuminati-meets-Mafia type organisation who run various criminal enterprises in Hammerhal from the shadows. As of today I've named the organisation The Dathedi Concord and written up a bit of fluff for them. Dathedi is Eldar for "Between Colours" and I think it's perfect for a morally ambiguous organisation of aelves concerned only with making profit! In terms of miniatures I've ordered a box of Blood Bowl Elfheim Eagles and a box of Eldar Harlequins to make the aelves themselves and I have tons of bits to make enforcers and henchmen for them, as they prefer to use what they consider lesser species to do their dirty work, meaning I'll have a variety of different races in the warband.

Anyway, I'm off to gather some reference materials - I should have pics of my test model up in a few days!

The Broken Line

2018-02-01T07:55:00.000-08:00

"We will not go quietly."

The Rykards were once the envy of the noble houses of the Antilles Sector. With trade interests on scores of worlds and a vast private fleet of merchantmen and sprint traders, their wealth and power was all but limitless and their influence could be felt across the greater sector and beyond, with even the Sector Governor answering their missives.

For nearly six hundred years, the Rykard Trading Dynasty held a stranglehold over much of the mercantile activity in their home sector but it was not to last. When freak warp storms erupted on the rimward edge of Antilles, swallowing up whole systems and cutting trade routes, the Rykards were ruined. As they turned inwards to protect their remaining interests, the Rykard's rivals chose their time to strike. A dozen noble houses, many of them sworn vassals and trusted trading partners, turned on them, pooling their resources to buy up Rykard assets. Spies and assassins revealed themselves, slaughtering family members and shipmasters. The rulers of House Rykard, Elbeth and Abiel, became the victims of a strange genetic curse which through malign science or some darker artifice spread through their bloodline, killing many and leaving the others barren and unable produce children. Within the space of a few short weeks the once thriving family had been all but destroyed, their wealth exhausted and their children dead or dying.

The surviving Rykards, lead by Elbeth, were forced to flee their ancestral homeworld aboard the cruiser Zornitsa. Elbeth vowed that they would have revenge on those who betrayed them and that the curse would be lifted from her family. The remaining members of the family live aboard the ship today, plying the shipping lanes of Antilles as traders, working for anyone with the thrones to hire their vessel and plotting to regain their rightful place amongst the noble houses.

It has been nearly a century since the fall of House Rykard and Elbeth has grown old and quite mad. As such, the day to day running of the Zornitsa has fallen to her last and youngest daughter, Oona. Something of a miracle, Oona was born in mysterious circumstances in the days following the family's flight. Although genetically perfect, there is a certain otherness about her that even those who have only spent a short time in her presence have commented on. It is as though she is far, far older than her years would suggest.

Oona is intelligent, capable and utterly ruthless in her quest to rebuild her family, and to destroy those who brought the Rykards low. Oona has struck a bargain with Inquisitor Vilam Ganzorig, agreeing to transport him throughout the Antilles Sector in secret, while the inquisitor has pledged to help her find a cure for the curse plaguing her family.

Oona at the head of a boarding team

Shipmaster Oona Myranda Rykard

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Hello! Following on from my previous post I'd like to present some photos of another older warband, the survivors of the noble house Rykard. They're on a quest to regain former glories and to destroy their enemies. I started these guys with Shipmaster Oona, only surviving daughter of Elbeth and Abiel Rykard and heir to the Rykard family throne. I built her from Inquisitor Greyfax with arms from the Sisters of Avelorn kit and the head and fan from Yvraine (I think I actually started building her the day Yvraine was released!). Oona is definitely one of my favourite minis, she looks noble but also focused and no-nonsense.

She's accompanied by her chief bosun and a pair of armsmen from her ship, the Zornitsa. I imagine these guys have grown up in the holds of the Zornitsa and are wearing the "house colours" of the Rykards. I'm really pleased with how the weathering turned out on them.

Unlike the last group I posted, this warband is far from finished. House Matriarch Elbeth has been built since last year and I'm hoping to finally get her painted this month. I'm also working on some non-family members such as the roguish Procurator Aemon and his ogryn bodyguard as well as various non-combatants and hangers on.

Anyway, as always, thanks for reading!

The Old Man

2018-01-26T08:31:00.000-08:00

"I implore you. Lay down your arms and submit to The Emperor's judgement. Your bodies are forfeit but your souls may yet be saved." - Vilam Ganzorig at the Razing of Dar Proxima

Vilam Ganzorig is an Inquisitor of considerable age and experience. As a follower of the Transmechanist school of thought, a fringe offshoot of Thorianism, Vilam is concerned primarily with finding and studying mechanisms and devices which might allow the transfer of consciousness between sentient beings and ultimately seeks to resurrect the Emperor by mechanical and scientific means. The Transmechanists view themselves as being more practical than other incarnationist factions and believe that it is only through direct action that the God Incarnate can be created. This attitude has lead to cross words between Ganzorig and a number of mainstream Thorians on more than a few occasions. Ganzorig holds the Ardentites in particularly low esteem.

Somewhat unusually for a Thorian, Vilam is a member of the Ordo Xenos and has a particular interest in the consciousness transfer technologies of the ancient Necrontyr and the infinity circuits and ghost warriors of the Eldar.

Ganzorig maintains close ties with several high ranking members of the Adeptus Mechanicus and has agents embedded in several explorator fleets operating on the edges of Ultima Segmentum and beyond, in the hopes that in their quest for arcane technologies they may find something of use to him. He is also not averse to dealing with - at least indirectly - what many of his peers would view as unsavoury types or organisations, as long as they can assist in furthering his goals. It is rumoured that he has consorted with radical members of the Ordos and even xenos species in the past, although such allegations have never been proven.

Now well into the second century of his life, Ganzorig has become quite frail, despite regular rejuvenat treatments and restorative surgeries. As such, he prefers to oversee his operations from a distance, trusting his agents and acolytes to carry out his orders to the letter. On the rare occasions that Inquisitor Ganzorig does take to the field he is anything but subtle. Encased in a suit of ancient power armour, the symbols of the Inquisition displayed prominently on its every surface, he strides through enemy fire bellowing threats and orders, his words made all the more potent by his significant telepathic abilities.

Ganzorig is currently hunting for a mysterious artefact known as the Aetheric Tympanum, a device which he believes has the power to locate souls amongst the roiling tides of the empyrean and to drag them back to the material plane. He has also dispatched agents to investigate the Heidrun Incident - a series of events concerning the former High Protector of his home sector, Godryk Aventine.

Inquisitor Vilam Ganzorig

The Servitor Calix

Havel Erdenne, Interrogator

Garma Thess, Former Harakoni Warhawk

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Hello! I threatened to do this a while ago and I finally have! Fresh photos of some of my older minis, to show them off in a better light - literally! I've also included a small piece of fluff to give a bit of background on the warband.

I really like these guys, I started them in 2016 as my second proper INQ28 warband and it was the first time I had built Inquisitor models from anything other than spare parts I had laying around. I actually got to use them in a game hosted by Jordan Lee in Cork at the beginning of 2017, which was great!

I'm particularly pleased with the colour scheme for these guys and it took me a ridiculously long time to pick it! I knew early on that I wanted Ganzorig to be a Thorian so I chose green as the main spot colour as I had associated it with this particular faction ever since the fantastic Thorian Inquisitor was released for Inquisitor in 54mm. I used the green as kind of a mark of status, with Ganzorig and Erdenne wearing quite a lot of it, Garma less and the servitor Calix wearing none. I offset the green with warm leathers and gold.

Anywho, thanks for looking!

The Black Hand

2018-01-21T09:43:00.000-08:00

"Your innocence is irrelevant. I care only for the truth of the matter - and ensuring it never leaves this room." - Inquisitor Udo Motya

Udo Motya is a follower of the Redactionist school of thought, a radical offshoot of the Amalathians so obsessed with maintaining stability in the Imperium that they ruthlessly attempt to suppress any information they believe might jeopardise that, all the while collecting and collating the same data for their own use.

Inquisitor Motya is notoriously secretive, hiding his identity behind an ancient golden mask and heavy black robes, ensuring that even his closest acolytes have never seen his face or heard his true voice. He wears the symbol of his order sparingly, instead adorning himself with all manner of strange and arcane markings and runes, lending himself the air of a cult magister as much as that of an Inquisitor - a quirk that has not gone unnoticed by his peers in the Ordo Hereticus.

Indeed, Udo has come into conflict with a number of his colleagues in recent years, his extreme methods and insular nature leading them to declare him radical, if not outright traitoris. As such his influence in the Ares Sector is increasingly limited and in recent years he has turned to a number of less righteous allies to complete his goals.

For the most part Motya remains in the shadows, content to operate through a small group of trusted agents such as his highly capable Interrogator Amon Vuk and the dread pariah-assassin Null. Motya is currently directing his resources into learning all he can about the strange events unfolding on the mining world Aphra Sela.

The Azari Petitioners

2017-11-01T14:33:00.000-07:00

"Bring us death or bring us glory, we petition thee."

Raised from the clans which inhabit the hellish rad wastes of Azar Prime, the Azari guard forces fight not for the glory of the Imperium but for the opportunity to escape short and painful lives in the irradiated deserts of their homeworld.

Azari guardsmen are known as Petitioners, for they are promised that if they serve well they may be granted entry to the golden-walled city of Miratio, Azar Prime’s principal hive, a technological wonder where, as the stories go, the people have all they could ever wish for.

Though sickly and often misshapen in appearance, the Petitioners fight with a determination few but the most storied regiments can match, seeking to distinguish themselves in the eyes of their overlords and The Emperor. It is the dream of every Petitioner to one day live among the people of Miratio, a dream only a handful in the regiment’s history have ever realised.

The Petitioners make excellent hostile environment troops, inured to discomfort by their upbringing and made resistant to radiation and chemical attack by the cocktail of drugs used to sustain them.

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Hello! I'd like to present some photos of my contribution to the Ironsleet Invitational, the Azari Petitioners. I took the title of the Inviational, "Regiments of the Thorn Moons" quite literally and decided to make some bog standard Imperial Guard. These guys would be deployed in their thousands, slogging through the forests and jungles of the Crataegus Fragmentum with little more than their lasguns and a sturdy pair of boots.

I only had about 3 weeks to get the models assembled so these guys were basically built from spare parts! As they're Imperial Guard I thought it was only right to use cadian parts somewhere on them and I had a few old ones lying around so I chopped them up. I replaced their feet with boots from the Genestealer Cultist kit because I feel that the cadian ones are a bit dated at this stage. I used the collars from the same kit but cut them off and spliced them with the cadian torsos. The arms and weapons are all from that kit too. It would have been perfectly acceptable to have them equipped with autoguns but I felt they should be carrying lasguns, I just chopped the barrels and magazines off and replaced them with the equivalent parts from the cadian kit. I might still chop off the leader's autopistol and replace it with a laspistol.

The heads are probably the most distinctive part of these models, they're a combination of poxwalker and skitarii vanguard heads and I think they do a pretty good job of conveying their origins on the rad choked wastes of Azar Prime.

I still have some cleaning up to do and I'd like to add a few more details (maybe shoulder pads?) but they're pretty much ready for painting now. To reinforce the idea that these guys are pretty ordinary imperial guard I'm tempted to paint them in the same colour scheme as the GW studio cadians.

Death Walks Barefoot

2017-09-10T09:02:00.001-07:00

NAUSEA. DREAD. OBLIVION.

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Hi folks, long time no post! I've just finished the latest member of Udo Motya's warband. This is Null, a pariah-assassin on loan from a mysterious death cult and used by Motya to hunt down particularly dangerous psykers. I call her a pariah but she's not quite on the same level as say, a Culexus Assassin. She has no presence in the warp, is immune to the effects of psychic powers and can hide people near to her from mindscans and psy trackers. I think that makes her a blank actually, but pariah sounds better!

In terms of the mini I'm really happy with how she turned out. The conversion is based on Yvraine with parts from the Dark Eldar Wracks, Admech Electropriests, Vampire Counts Coven Throne and Empire Greatswords. I was a bit apprehensive about painting the model entirely black and I was convinced that I'd made a huge mistake right up until I added the white symbols on the advice of my friends (literally the last thing I did!) and I think they really finish her off nicely. After painting Null I've decided to go back and do a bit more work on Amon, repainting his face and adding some white to him too.

I changed up my photo setup for this model because the black backdrop just doesn't seem to work for models like this! I also didn't bother with my lightbox and the photos turned out fine with very little correction needed in photoshop afterwards.

I'm going to stick with this simple setup in future - I think I got a bit too carried with making the photos look "INQ28" rather than actually showing off the miniatures in the best light (pun intended) and it kind of ruined the reveal of Amon Vuk a few weeks ago.

Anywho, if you've read this, thank you for your time! Next up I'll be painting a horrible fish guy!

The Wolf at the Door

2017-07-19T17:35:00.000-07:00

"I am the wolf at the door." - Amon Vuk, Ordo Hereticus

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Hello! It's been ages since I posted anything here - my productivity has definitely taken a dip in the last few weeks! This is Amon Vuk, Chief Interrogator to the shadowy Inquisitor Motya. Inquisitor Motya is notoriously secretive in his work, even by the standards of his fellow Inquisitors and I want to reflect that in the miniatures I'm making for this warband. Amon is quite subdued as throne agents go, he's only got his knife drawn and I like to imagine that he's been caught sneaking around and is reaching for his laspistol as a last resort. I'll have some background on Motya and his crew posted up in the coming days.

My intention with this model was actually to have quite a light colour palette (his coat was originally a lovely mint green!) but I made a bit of a dogs dinner of it and decided to start again. The resultant paintjob is very much inspired by the terrific miniatures of Picta Mortis and I'll be carrying this super dark colour scheme through onto the rest of the warband.

There are still a few things I'd like to fix up, most notably his eyes which are a bit too intense for my liking. I think I'll also spend a bit more time working on his servo skull companion.

Anyway, thanks for looking and remember: Innocence proves nothing!

Do Not Avert Your Gaze

2017-06-14T16:58:00.001-07:00

Ewald Diethelm 'The Corpsefriend'

"Witness eternity."

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Hello! Finally got some paint on this guy. He took a bit longer than expected but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I've photographed him on a white background because I just don't seem to be able to get good photos on a black background at the moment which is a bit irritating. The photos aren't quite as atmospheric as I'd like but they show off the model fairly well. Thanks for looking!

EDIT: Do over! I managed to rescue some of the pictures I took against the black backdrop - much more to my liking!

And Now for Something Completely Different...

2017-05-20T06:46:00.001-07:00

Mick Bastard

Drummer in the city's third most popular Irish-American punk band, Mick Bastard (Not his real name) was high on PCP and busy vandalising cars when the Zombie Apocalypse hit. Upon recovering his senses and realising that the civilised world had collapsed around him he said "Fuck it!" and turned his trusty baseball bat on the undead...

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Hello! Something a bit different today. I've been painting up a rendition of Hasslefree Miniatures Joe. It's a great mini that I've actually had lying around for years and I'm hoping to use him in a friend's Zombicide campaign.

He was fun to paint and "true 28" scale used by Hasslefree made working on him surprisingly challenging - he really is tiny when put next to a GW mini!

I used the super pale skin painting recipe I use for my INQ28 minis on this guy without thinking about it really and I'm not sure it works quite so well in this context. It does make his black eye and bloody nose stand out quite well though and overall I'm pleased with him.

Painting him provided a nice distraction from INQ28 stuff, which I feel I've been forcing a bit lately. In fact, I enjoyed painting him so much that I've ordered a few more zombie apocalypse-type minis from Hasslefree and they should hopefully arrive soon.

Thanks for having a look!

Zombie Attack!

2017-05-17T16:32:00.001-07:00

"They came out of the night; first two, then three, then four. They were propelled along on twisted, broken legs, their tortured bodies run through with stakes and iron spikes. There was no malice in their dead eyes, only hunger. Cornered, Klaus realised there was nowhere to run. He threw down his halberd and began to weep, his sanity shattered by the horrors he saw before him."

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Hi folks! Managed to get a few photos of the zombies I painted up for my Mordheim warband. Fairly quick and dirty paintjob, I chipped away at them here and there over the course of about a week. I used a new recipe for painting dead skin and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

Dramatis Personae I

2017-04-29T03:53:00.000-07:00

Godryk Aventine

"Oh Ilina. You were my greatest triumph." He released his grip and she tumbled into the darkness.

Official records pertaining to Godryk Aventine only begin after his elevation to full Inquisitor and even those documents are incomplete. Nothing is known of his place of birth or his early life and only very limited and often conflicting information regarding his training and tutelage have been found in the libraries of Nela Cephas. It has been suggested by some that he may even have been trained in secret, outside of the official structures of the Sector Conclave.

Aventine styled himself as a new breed of Inquisitor, ultimately dedicated to the service of the Imperium and above the childish bickering of his colleagues and in a manner this was true. Godryk Aventine was counted amongst the ranks of a new and extreme school of thought known as the Solarians. A dangerous offshoot of the radical Istvaanians, the Solarians not only encourage strife within the Imperium but outright war, believing that it not only strengthens the Emperor's armies but also creates a unique dynamism in His subjects that simply does not exist in peace time.

Aventine and his cohorts secretly sowed discord across the length and breadth of the Ares sector, establishing cults, stirring up anti-imperial sentiment and supporting seditious activity on dozens of planets with the intent of inciting full blown rebellion against the Imperium. On those occasions that his schemes were successful, Aventine would swoop in as the instrument of the Emperor's justice, ending the threat, often deposing senior planetary officials in the process and having more like-minded individuals installed in their place. In this manner he was able to further the Solarians' true mission – to place mankind on the front foot, bringing battle to its enemies; the alien and the forces of Chaos.

It is believed that the Solarians, perhaps lead by Aventine, were responsible for the wave of righteous fervour that lead to the Second March, a huge and bloody crusade into the Ork Empire of Vachrana, which is still very much active today, some eighty years later. They are even rumoured to have ventured to the dead worlds of the Perdita Zone in the east of Ares, in an attempt to awaken the ancient alien tombs which lie buried there.

When the High Protector of the Ares Sector passed away, Godryk Aventine was elected in his place by almost unanimous decision, appearing as he did to be an exemplar of Imperial justice; wise and decisive and seemingly one step ahead of His enemies at all times. Aventine was granted almost limitless power, and access to many of the Imperium's most important secrets. It was at this point that his plans grew increasingly extreme. As with many radical Inquisitors he became obsessed with the power of Chaos and its potential applications, and through his mind bogglingly vast network of spies, agents and informants, began to reach out to those members of the Ordos who shared his views. He found succour in the writings of Xanthus and even in the teachings of the Horusians. After many years of study and research he delved into the twisting catacombs of Nela Cephas and a score of other ancient places across the sector to gather the relics of St. Sevastus. Once he had them in his possession he embarked on a mission that if successful, would see the entire sector militarised and propelled into a state of constant war and aggression.

Aventine was ultimately hunted down, with the assistance of his Chief Acolyte Ilina Soryn, and slain by a cell of puritan Inquisitors, his heretical leanings and erratic behaviour having become clear in the closing weeks of his life. Aventine's final project was left unfinished and the relics of St. Sevastus were scattered and lost amongst the sprawling mass of Heidrun's Primaris Hive. The events which unfolded deep in the bowels of the city along with Aventine's plans, were suppressed by the surviving members of the purge, the details being deemed too dangerous for the eyes of those outside of the upper echelons of the Conclave.

With the passing of the those involved information has slowly started to trickle from the archives of Nela Cephas. There are rumours that Aventine aimed to use the psychically resonant relics to attempt some kind of summoning, others claim that he had seen the error of his ways and stolen them in order to prevent his new allies from attempting such a thing themselves. Regardless of their potential danger, the relics of St. Sevastus are of great historical importance to the Imperium and possess astronomical value to the collector. They must be returned to the proper authorities.

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So there we have it! My first "Dramatis Personae" post. Godryk Aventine was one of the first proper Inq28 models I made, coming just after Ilina Soryn and her crew. He was due to be the main antagonist in the Heidrun Incident campaign and as such was very powerful (I might actually start posting stats for my characters in the future if anyone's interested) but had no warband to accompany him. I have noticed that he's quite shiny so I may have to bust out the airbrush and give him a matt varnish at some stage.

The Butcher of Bahlkurk

2017-04-27T15:22:00.001-07:00

"Fear. You reek of it."

"I was sent to this place, this City of the Damned, as punishment but I have found it quite to my liking. Can you feel it? The fear? The desperation? The madness? It is invigorating, is it not? Yes. I am home."

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Hi folks! I've finally gotten around to painting this guy. He is Piotr von Schwartzhafen, The Butcher of Bahlkurk and my first Mordheim model. I've had him built for ages but only got around to painting him this week. I tried out a new recipe for black and I feel it turned out a bit flat but overall I'm pleased. Looking at the photos I think there are a few things I could add to him so I might revisit him at a later date. Next up will be a few zombies I think. BRAAAINS!!

The Heidrun Incident

2017-04-23T05:39:00.000-07:00

The following message, sent from Nela Cephas was intercepted, decrypted and disseminated throughout the Antilles subsector by unknown means, causing an influx of interested parties to the planet Heidrun. This is something the Conclave would have preferred to avoid. The savant responsible for this inexcusable lapse in security protocol has since disappeared. The Conclave has despatched Inquisitor Jakob Ghast to Heidrun as the manifestation of its will.

+++ ACCESSING FILE +++

+++ ENCRYPTION LEVEL: UMBER+++

+++ OPENING FILE +++

Esteemed Colleague,

It is with no small amount of sadness that I send this communique. The burden has fallen upon myself to inform you that our mutual friend and former mentor, HB, has passed into the light of Him on Earth, after many decades of service to His most Holy Ordos. I am told there was no pain in his passing and that he slipped away in his sleep, a luxury afforded to few in our profession and one I feel our friend has certainly earned. Truly he was a stalwart and dedicated servant. May his service continue in the afterlife.

Tragic though it is, it would seem that the untimely passing of our friend has brought with it an interesting development concerning an event known as the Heidrun Incident, which occurred some fifty years ago in the immediate locality of my present posting and the place of our training, the Inquisitorial Fortress Nela Cephas. Although I am sure you are familiar with the incident I shall recount what was previously known, and the surprising new information I have been made privy to, in full for the sake of completeness.

Godryk Aventine was counted amongst the greatest Inquisitors the Ares Sector had ever known, so great, in fact that in the one hundred and twenty eighth year of his service to the Ordos he was elected to the most honoured position of High Protector by the Sector Conclave. It was only then that his radical, nay, heretical leanings became clear. Using the services of all manner of vile mercenaries and pirates as a distraction, Aventine launched a raid on the sacred catacombs on Nela Cephas and absconded with a number of incalculably valuable artifacts linked to the Imperial Saint Sevastus, who banished the Daemon Prince Gorefiend many centuries ago. Aventine fled to the planet Heidrun, an important hive world, and most significantly, the supposed place of St. Sevastus' death. Aventine's intentions are uncertain, even with the newly declassified information made available to me, but there can be no doubt that he intended to enact some form of diabolical ritual on the planet. His plans were brought to an abrupt end, however, when he was hunted down and slain by a cell of Inquisitors lead by none other than our mutual friend. The heretic Aventine was stopped but the artifacts were unfortunately lost, hidden amongst the moldering ruins of Heidrun Primaris' underhive - until now, that is.

It was not the sprawling geographical immensity of Heidrun Primaris which made locating the relics of St. Sevastus so difficult but the simple fact that their exact names and descriptions were unknown - the heretic Aventine stole many items, destroying a great many vaults and reliquaries in the process, in order to misdirect his pursuers. It would seem though, that an inventory of items was compiled, and suppressed for unknown reasons, until those involved in the Heidrun incident had passed away. This list is now in my possession.

The Sector Conclave is currently moving to act on this new information, to recover the relics and perhaps to uncover Aventine's original plan. I must admit that the primary purpose of my contacting you, aggrieved though I am by our friend's death, is to inform you that I intend to travel to Heidrun to begin an investigation of my own. I am no field agent, however, and thought that perhaps we could rendezvous on the planet and work in concert to complete the Conclave's objectives ourselves. Success in this matter would surely make your name as an Inquisitor and perhaps even have me promoted to a more prestigious position than the one I currently occupy in the Librarium. I implore you to reply as quickly as is practically possible, as time is of the essence.

Your Friend,

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I suppose a bit of context is in order! The Heidrun Incident was an Inquisitor campaign I ran last year with my gaming group. Unfortunately I kind of let it fizzle out in the end but I've decided to use it as a narrative backdrop (I might even get some battle reports posted up at some point!) for the Inq28 minis I've made so far. Aventine and Soryn were actually made with the Heidrun Incident in mind and I'll be working my newer warbands into the narrative too.

With that in mind, as well as posts for WIPs and painted minis I'll be doing the odd 'Dramatis Personae' post, focusing on a specific character. This is a nice excuse to take some better photos of my older minis and also to provide some background for them. It's a bit poncey I suppose but it's something I've wanted to do for a while - I just tend to get a bit carried away when I've finished a new mini and want to get photos taken and posted up as soon as possible!

Anyway, if you've read this thank you and stay tuned for more updates!

Hello World

2017-04-19T16:08:00.000-07:00

Hello!

My name is Matt Byrne and I'm a hobbyist from sunny Ireland. I've been into Warhammer for many years but I've only relatively recently gotten into the idea of sharing my work online. With that in mind I've finally decided to set up a blog!

This will primarily (I think...) be a place where I'll post pictures of miniatures I've made for INQ28 but I hope to use it to go into a bit more detail on the background that accompanies each of my characters. I'll also be making posts to do with other games I'm interested in such as 40K, Age of Sigmar, Mordheim, Blood Bowl and Shadow War - we'll see where things go basically!

I'll be starting with a series of posts containing updated photos of some of my older miniatures and how they are involved in an Inquisitor campaign called 'The Heidrun Incident'.

In the meantime, here's a picture of everyone so far. I should have pictures of the individual warbands up over the next few days.

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++FURTHER TAMPERING WILL PRENAMENLYT EGAMAD THE NBDIJOF SPRIIT++

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