June Preview: Dæmons Hetaera

You know those posts you get where afterwards, you're just like, "oh, look at that, yet another Solwyte tank"? - this is not one of those posts.

The Legions of Khurybah are not what you are used to. They're not manifestations of psychic will, or fallen angels, or the agents of a divine antagonist. They are those unfortunate enough to have their souls snared by Khurybah, His reach grasping hold of the dead as they part this world, dragged to the Otherside, formless, sightless, aware only of great pain and loneliness and the presence of an utter evil that visits and tortures them with distortions of their memories. Years pass, some tens, some hundreds, some thousands, before they are truly broken, little left but the desire to feel again, the need to see and touch a world outside of the utterly alone blackness that consumes them. Thus they push upwards, trying to find the bones they used to know as their own, taking back their long-ruined bodies, assembling what they can, but with so many lifetimes gone, few remember what they used to look like, and when eventually they can stand, what stands in the place of what was once human is instead a horror, warped out of its shape and size, and, even through its torn, shattered memories, it knows that it is wrong. Surely there should be something holding it together - blood, skin, organs? It used to know this.

And so when settlements hear the unearthly screams of tortured anguish from afar, they know to be afraid, for a Dæmon has awoken, and soon it will search for the things to make itself whole again. To put back what it lost.

So, I told you this year was going to get weird. As originally announced, more than a year ago, I would be exploring dæmonic things in the future, I've finally brought an answer to that promise, the first answer being these, the Dæmons Hetaera, the Maidens of Khurybah. More on that later, but for now, here we have them in their grotesque, shrivelled and atrophied detail. Note that these are even creepier in their full form, pictures really do not capture how horrific they are. Oh, and this is just the first entry into the new Legions faction. This is only the beginning.

Oh yeah and the presupports for April and March are now available to download from each product page, and May's are on their way. Keep your eyes peeled in future days for more of June's upcoming rewards, from Secutor Constructs to more tanks!