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Model Review: High Marshal Helbrecht. White Dwarf Flashpoints Review. Rip and Tear! Welcome to the New Goonhammer. Have you ever thought that fantasy elves were too dry? Did you feel that they were strongly lacking in Octopuses? Have you ever wanted to wave your eel in your opponents face? If so, then the Idoneth Deepkin may be the army for you! However, they are now quite an old book and have been overtaken in power quite a bit. For a while, Idoneth were one of the best armies in the game at the tourney scene.
The release of 2nd edition and their gradual falling behind due to an outdated tome has hampered their success somewhat but they can still show up on the scoreboard. Your units can only be targeted by missile weapons if they are the closest model to the unit shooting. El resto de la historia son otro tema. Tipo Dune. A veces. Porque algunas gestas son dignas de lectura, pese a todo. De nuevo, Guymer ha sabido cumplir mis expectativas, y he quedado realmente prendado de su estilo y su forma de narrar personajes de dentro hacia afuera.
Se lleva las cinco. Jul 06, Liz Quirky Cat rated it really liked it. I received a copy of The Court of the Blind King in exchange for a fair and honest review. Written by David Guymer, this novel takes a deep dive pun intended into the lives and battles of the Deepkin. In a tale that is full of politics and battles, one can find Prince Lurien. He's willing to fight the world — Nurgle included — in order to gain what he considers his rightful inheritance.
His right to rul I received a copy of The Court of the Blind King in exchange for a fair and honest review. His right to rule, as it were. The Deepkin and the knights of Nurgle are about to collide as the Everqueen's Warsong has woken them all.
The two cannot exist side by side, so instead a war is about to break out on this land and water. It's thrilling and dangerous, full of politics, alliances, and battles.
It is everything that fans could have hoped for, with a few surprises along the way. The Idoneth Deepkin are relatively new to the world of Warhammer and Age of Sigmar, so it's been fascinating to get a chance to see more of how they work. This is the insight that fans will surely appreciate. That being said, the worldbuilding is strong enough that even new readers could dive into this book and have a solid understanding of what is going on.
Yes, they'll miss out on some of the larger bits of context involving the greater universe, but that also isn't really a requirement for this read. It's fully contained, and that is actually quite brilliant. What I really loved about this novel is how we were really able to explore the lore of the world.
It was complex, divisive, and strange. In short, it was actually perfect in terms of fitting into the world of Warhammer, and I adore that. The leading character, Lurien, is one of those characters that one simply loves to hate. There's no mistaking him for a good person, yet it is still fascinating to read about his plans and exploits.
More than that, it was interesting to see how he would plan his way around scenarios — and how his actions would come back to him or not in the end. The inclusion of Chaos Nurgle was a solid choice as well. Though obviously it resulted in a ton of carnage of bloodshed. But once again, that sort of fit with the theme of the day, so it worked really well. The Court of the Blind King was an all-around interesting read, one that is going to stick with me for some time. It made for a great first introduction to the Deepkin for me, and I hope it isn't the last novel we'll see about them.
Check out more reviews over at Quirky Cat's Fat Stacks After the seed sowed by models and battletome, here comes the flower and fruit of what Idoneth truly is. As a completely new conception for the AOS, so many gaps have been left in the Idoneth Deepkin, aka the sinister sea elves soul raiders.
The basic setting has provided how these strange elves look like and in a grand view how they and their societies are created.
But we never detailedly know how daily life in the deep sea should be like and how the internal societal relationship between their After the seed sowed by models and battletome, here comes the flower and fruit of what Idoneth truly is. But we never detailedly know how daily life in the deep sea should be like and how the internal societal relationship between their different castes is composed. I opened it with a hunger of curiosity and finished with a satisfying stuffed belly of lore.
What a joyful time. Jun 26, Zandt McCue rated it liked it. I'd never read a Warhammer novel so I was keen to see what all the fuss was about. I've also never played the game itself or any of the tabletop variety for that matter. I wouldn't say that this book was inaccessible but it was so filled with lore that I kept feeling that this wasn't written for me.
And it wasn't. If you took the story and separated it from Warhammer, this would very well be a four-star book. I don't read Magic the Gathering novels or Forgotten Realms books for the same reason. I can only read about Oggs Hammer or Ingrim's Staff or the Amethyst of Amorath for so long before I decide that it's all pointless and I don't care what anything is called or who owned it. Lore isn't a bad thing. It's the reason people read books like this. As an outsider, I saw it as stereotypical similar to how we imagine "nerds" playing Dungeons and Dragons in their basement would sound like.
Three stars to this as a whole product. Four stars based on story and merit alone if this was a standalone unrelated to Warhammer. Jun 20, Paul Sparks rated it really liked it. Jun 26, Jenn rated it it was amazing. Lurien as a central character is fasci The Court of the Blind King is the first feature-length novel about the Idoneth Deepkin — one of the newer races in the Games Workshop Wargaming series, Age of Sigmar.
Lurien as a central character is fascinating. He is a conniving, treacherous, self-centred, terrible, liar. Yet, as a reader, you root for him anyway. Despite all his failings as a moral, upstanding citizen of the Idoneth Deepkin there is something actually likeable about him. The extended cast all have their own personalities which David Guymer handles wonderfully — especially considering how extraordinary the Idoneth Deepkin are.
Considering the Idoneth race is so new, David Guymer does a remarkable job of bringing them to life. They are equipped with long-handled lanmari blades or whisperbows. Being blind, the Namarti rely on changes in current and pressure to sense the location of their targets. Like all aelves, Namarti Thralls possess a physical grace that to other races appears supernatural. The Thralls march to war for the Idoneth as the main body of their infantry, and it is their task to engage and hold the enemy in place.
In battle the Namarti fight with an array of weapons known as lanmari — two-handed swords, great scythe-axes or pole-axes of intricate design. The weight and reach of such weapons are useful when driving off the enormous sea creatures that bedevil the Idoneth enclaves, while their broad blades are suited to scything through the teeming swarms of predatory fish that seek to prey upon the aelves.
This multi-part plastic kit contains the components necessary to assemble 10 Namarti Thralls. Clad in less-ornate armour than their commanders and superiors, as befits their withering souls and disposable nature, they still cut impressive figures — each is powerful and muscular.
There are 11 heads in the kit, which can be placed on whichever models you wish; each is hairless and blind, with blank, empty sockets where eyes should be. There is an option for an icon bearer — they have a specific head, and a large mathlann slave rune which forms part of their neck crest. As an added bit of detail the kit comes with 6 pieces of scenery and fish for the bases, which can be added to any model you like.. While the Stormcast Eternals and Fyreslayers may possess a deep connection with their draconic allies, the Idoneth Deepkin must magically enslave their bond-beasts using the Embailors, a specialised sect of the Isharann.
In order for these magics to take hold, the creatures must be blinded, for without this measure they risk slipping their bonds and escaping in a murderous rampage.
There are groups and even whole enclaves of Idoneth Deepkin who trawl the oceans for beasts to hunt and capture, with the Ghurish forces of Dhom-hain training particularly vicious specimens. There are some exceptions — a few Ochtar, such as the familiar that fights alongside Lotann, Warden of the Soul Ledgers, have proven loyal, as have the rare Deepmares ridden by Akhelian Kings.
When the Idoneth Deepkin go to war, they bring their supernatural sea with them. Ethereal creatures, fish and corals flicker into existence, while features of the seabed manifest themselves eerily on the battlefield.
Barnacle-encrusted shipwrecks become havens for aquatic creatures, and shoals of etherfish dart out to protect the Idoneth Deepkin or assail any foes who draw near. This multi-part plastic kit contains the components necessary to assemble a Gloomtide Shipwreck.
This is an Etheric Vortex scenery piece, which models with the Idoneth Deepkin allegiance have access to. The Shipwreck itself is a sea-dessicated hull, the skeleton of some long-forgotten vessel now home to barnacles, coral and creatures sympathetic to the Idoneth. Also included are 6 shoals of sea creatures — these can be added to the wreck as you please, though make excellent additions to the base of any Idoneth Deepkin miniature.
We now know that the Idoneth Deepkin are the tied to Mathlann, deceased aelven god of the sea. So what do we know about Mathlann? He was the ruler of the ocean and ocean-dwelling creatures. A fickle and destructive deity, as one often expects with sea gods. Cothique is perhaps most closely associated with Mathlann, great sea creatures have been known to defend its lands, and it has forces dedicated as the Scions of Mathlann to fight in defence of the coastal kingdom.
Many times when the Scions of Mathlann have fought in defence of their coastal kingdom, a vast sea creature has risen from the depths to destroy the fleet of their foes. These attacks were heralded by a strange calmness on the Sea of Claws, and in the pre-dawn gloom, an eerie mist would rise from the waters and swathe the village in a glittering, white blanket of cloud. Enjoy our artwork?
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