Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - ancient daemonic blades that have enslaved disembodied cursed, rag shrouded souls to wield them.
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| Izn-Rvn - a curse of undeath inscribed in ancient runes. |
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| Wyr'nlek - the serpentine blade, untarnished by time and slaughter. |
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| Tyrne-Garth - a lesser daemonic spite manifest in swordform. |
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| Knath-Nÿrn - torn from the jaws of a still living Elder God. |
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| Dranaken - forged in dragons flame, quenched in dragons blood. |
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| Drathnu-Maru - a blade of eldritch fire created by a long forgotten cult of techno-sorcerers. |
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| Vor Th’uul - the shadow of a transdimensional entity projected into the prime material plane. |
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| Lvn-Narr - unearthly silver sings of blood and souls. |
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| Arak-Hvrn - an eternally shattering blade frozen in time by the will of an ancient god. |
'Truth to materials' is an important design touchpoint for the figures. As with all the other releases in the Vlätkrig range, each figure is hand drawn, front and back, using Staedtler HB pencils and Berol Handwriting pens and drawing on 5mm grided paper, to evoke an authentic old school aesthetic - drawing on a personal narrative of play and materiality.
Inspired by sleep paralysis demons, ghosts and cursed swords from myth and legend. Game culture resonances come through school British fantasy gaming, especially Gary Chalk's Wraith illustration from Talisman, Ian Miller's illustrations for Warhammer: Realm of Chaos Slaves to Darkness and the guardians from Superior Software's Citadel. Literary inspiration includes the vorpal sword of Carroll's Jabberwocky, Tolkien's Nazgûl, from The Lord of the Rings especially in their Ringwraith guise as depicted by Ralph Bakshi in his animated movie adaptation, along with Micheal Moorcocks Stormbringer and Mourneblade from the Eternal Champion multiverse.
The Khaös Deth Swordwraiths have been designed to be used as khaötic sword player characters - well every RPG campaign has a player wanting to play a sentient daemonic weapon or eventually has a pc turn into an undead champion of khaös at some point. Alternatively the figures also provide an encounter group of wraiths, spectres or other undead in most popular fantasy tabletop games.
All figures photographed have been laser printed on 80gsm A4 paper, cut by hand and mounted on pre-1992 UK Two Pence coins with Bostik Blu Tack®.
Also included is a single piece of terrain, the veiled Shroudstone, a monolthic ritual waymarker bound with rags and rotting cloth.
All figures photographed have been laser printed on 80gsm A4 paper, cut by hand and mounted on pre-1992 UK Two Pence coins with Bostik Blu Tack®.
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| The Veiled Shroudstone |
The nine Khaös Deth Swordwraiths, launched on the full moon of Winterfellyth 2024 and are available now, alongside the complete Vlätkrig range of print-and-play paper miniatures, from:
Priced £1.99 for the set.
These are excellent! Also like John Blanche's Riders of the Storm advert pix for the Nazgul from Citadel's 80s' LOTR range, except they have maces.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Yes, no doubt the 80s ME Citadel range and John Blanches depiction of the Nazgûl are inspirations also, with their floating, invisibly held weapons. The Black Rider / Ringwraith model has a morgul knife cunninly attached to his cuff.. The "Riders on the Storm" artwork was also used on the box for the model - which I owned but is now lost to the mists of time, as well the ad which appeared in Warlock Magazine and White Dwarf and as well, so I have multiple copies of that picture. Great piece.
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