Hi Folks,

It has been a while that I have been thinking about it and the recent announcement of release for Yriel resumed this idea under the form of a small self-standing project: gathering the key Dramatis Personnae from the Ynnari narrative arc as a homogeneous collection of models.

My Ynnari force is led by the Yvraine (IR$ tax) and I field the Yncarne as often as possible. But I’ve stopped myself there for a while. Now that Yriel has been released, I guess I might gather the 3 other key characters of the story line: Eldrad Ulthran, the Visarch and Yriel.

The two firsts are just bellow in all their Ynnarian glory. And Yriel has just arrived in its box.

My idea was to keep a link with Ynnari through colour scheme, while avoiding, if possible, over loading with red. And keeping a link with each character original background, i.e. Eldrad should remain identified to Ulthwee colour scheme.

So, starting with Eldrad, some red robes (or part of his robes) were estimated to be enough. Rest of the model would stay linked to the Ulthwee traditional colors, black and bone. The model has been built with the holstered blade and spell casting hand gripping the streams of fate…

For the Visarch, there are more options opened as I do not feel bound to any standard colour scheme (personal feeling). I have decided to move toward dark armor, like for an Incubi he used to be; with engravings stressed out with red. The cape is also going to be red or partly red. The helmet has been for a while a point of hesitation: Gold? Dark? Red? Whitish? Once again, I have decided to keep it linked with the Incubi, his previous affiliation, and go for a clear whitish helmet.

This is the resulting pair of new models:

Eldrad sticked to the plan. Even if it has since fallen from the table and the staff is broken. So glueing repairs needed tonight. I still hesitate adding some decals on the robes though.

The Yncarne has also been kept close to the plan. even if I have been a little bit lazy with engraving and embossments taht do not sort out that clear in red. I have tried forcing the contrats on the pic by post processing but it is not that better in fact. Yet, on the table, the Visarch looks better than on the pic. 

Next step will be Yriel, the Pirate prince, who will follow a similar painting color design as for Eldrad: keep it deeply linked with his raiding party colors while adding only a spark of red to underline the association with the Ynnari. How? Future will tell.

Further developments will be then possible, may be adding Lelith Esperax as a secondary character (even if she gets her own agenda) and Jain Zarr (but she will need a banshee bodyguard, so more money seen the current cost of boxed sets) … You will note that I stay deliberately One sided in this story: no antagonist, only characters joining (even if temporarily) the new born god side are considered… So no Drazhar planned. Yet none of these secondary characters is currently on my purchase wish list.

See you soon with Yriel.