Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification

[Kronos]

Good Yields Kin

 

I’m making the Jump into Votann after being a big fan of the Lore (best 40k lore and concept, surely the most original and creative). I acquired a number of Ironkin Helmets from Taro Miniatures many Moons ago, as well and a Grimnyr but then left the project on Hiatus for a while. My main love in the hobby is kitbashing with a thematic drive behind it. The New models inspired me to take the project back on and was hoping for some community advice and ideas. 

 

My main idea is around Buri Aegnirssen, as the sole Survivor of the Emberg- Aegnir Bloc. So far my main idea is around a conglomerate of Votann who have been devastated by Tyranids and other Xenos factions. Lost Kindreds banding together into a new league partially Led by Buri and other Characters who have lost most of their League to Tyranids, Necrons, Hrud, Ghastly Moons and Fouler entities of the Galactic Core.

 

So far I’ve come up with some of the Following, apart from Buri Himself -

 

Name of the League - Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification   

 

Ancestor Core-  The Voidborn, Votann of the Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification, where the Emberd Aegnir Bloc was devoided of all it’s biomass and driven insane, the Voidborn has has no Memory or recollection of it’s prior League, awoken by Buri on his travels through the Galactic Core inside a Barren Void Hulk, the Voidborn Votann remembers nothing of it’s Prior life, what its League was called, how long it had travelled the Galaxy, but it pruporse and functionality remaind the same   - to Provide the Kin, and to Watch over the Clonskyns and Ironkin of the Ancestors. 

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- Grûm’Bryn Dhul, Living Ancestor of the Lost Leagues. 

 

- Memnyr (Just a cool but traumatised vetran of a hundred Wars, with Knowledge and scars having faced devastation untold and now using those experiences)

 

-Ironkin Einhyr (Ironkin Survivors of Various leagues in the best armour )

 

- Ironkin Jotnar (Steeljacks, or sorts, but having survived millennia inside mining asteroids from Biomass devouring Xenos, they are now both Machine AI and Partly bonded to the Minerals and Ores they onces harvested. So Iron Kin with partly Golem like bodies.   

 

-Cthonian Berserk Slayerkyn (A Lodge within the Cthonian Guild, where other Berserks seek riches deep within Moons and Death Plants, violent star clusters and the pulsing Nuclear Mines on Frozen Suns; the Slayerkyn dedicate themselves to extracting invaluable minerals and rare resources from the Xenos species. From Squiggoth Offal Rocks to the rich Matter altering Oil found in Void Kraken. Slayerkyn seek the most exotic, and often dangerous, xenos life within the Galactic core, and it this creed that sees this most violent of Votann Guilds Oathbound themselves to Buri Aegnirssen and the Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification. 

Buri Aegnirssen  - Oathbound Kâhl of the Ghyn-Uhngagap Alliance (wip)

Possibly the least Amount of conversion I’ve done a model, because Buri is a  gorgeous kit. So far the only changes I’ve made are a Couple of Tyranid scales as a Codpiece as I’m not overly crazy on the Smooth armour one that Buti and simialr Kin have. And probably kost noticeably the base. Had a lovely resin base kickibg around waitibg to be used. I’ll be sculpting some more rock work and then adding some more Tyranid Capillarly Spines and dead Sbán. The currwnt 54mm skull will be either sculptednover or changed into slain Nids.

Edited September 1 by Kronos

[Kronos]

Memnyrr (wip)

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Iron Kin Jotnar (wip)
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A homebrew kitbash I had in the works for some time befoee the steeljacks came out, too far in noe to pick up steel jacks . Conceptually they are the Ironkin sent to collect resources from the most inhospitable planetoids. Able to remain and work on asteroid belts, crushing gravity of Icy Death Worlds, and even reality bending horizons of black Holes. The Jotnar are self sufficient. Able to remain working and harvesting their payloads for decades at a time. When they step forth from their intensive collections they are covered from dome to foot in dust, soot and debris - ermerging from their mining exits like elemental giants of myth. Jotnar have a fierce rivalry with Cthonian Beserks, such competitvness goes beyond the acquisition of resources but also on the field of battle over which Guild can Slay the toughest of foes. The Jotnar’s heavy and endurable frames are ideal for mining, but equally ideal in battle pushed against armoured assaults and the behemoth monstrosities that lurk in the Cold Void.

[Kronos]

The Ghyn-Uhngagap Alliance prepares to make planetfall against the Sbân.

Had a blast building Buri and The Memnyr Strategists. I’ve decided to keep Buri In three segments - back pack, body and Head. I’ve no painted minis for a while so going to practice up a little before any of these get the brush.

[Kronos]

Grûm’Bryn Dhul, Living Ancestor of the Lost Leagues, The White Raven (wip)
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This idea has been sitting in my head for the longest time. I told myself if Leagues got a decent enough model update I’d come back to the project I started a couple years back. Buri really was the kick I needed, but so too was groeing concept of the Leagues fighting back. Before Buri and the new Codex I had an idea of a Nomadic League, comprised of Dispossessed, Shattered Leagues, Refugees and Lost Souls: the Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification. The Idea was to have a Lord Grimnyr gathering and Guiding these Kin. Not Only to Exact Vengeance upon the Xeno’s, Humans, and Daemons, but also to Reclaim the Ancestral Home of the Kŷn. It’s a bit of an odd concept, and probably one disliked by the Wider Votann community. More soon as the the Homebrew Lore Develops.

Edited August 31 by Kronos

[Kronos]

Votann Bounty Hunter 

 The  Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification draws in not only Kŷn of the Lost Leagues but those seeking Forge new Bonds. Outcasts, Nomaric Mercenaries and the dishonoured Exiled. The Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification Welcomes all Kŷn providing they Fight to their Last for the Unification.

[Kronos]

Cthonion Berserk Ironkin 
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Started to Build my Cthonion Berserks which I’ll be making into Slayerkŷn with Mohawks and Beards. I didn’t want to waste a precious Berserk with a Mole Grenade Launcher as I want as many axes and Hammers as I can on the shelf, but I did want a Mole Grenade Launcher. So Needs must - I may still add another Ironkin to this.

[Kronos]

Buri Aegnirssen, The Thrice Devoured, Drake Slayer, Last of the Lost (wip)

Some very slow Work on Buri, Or Rather, His Base. I want something more dioramic. Him in the thickest of the Tyranid infestation, but not quite standing on a dead Norn Emissary. I’ve been trying to have his pre existing base as the focal point and the working from there. I’ll be adding a few more capillary spikes and then get n With the sculpting. I want to add more Dead Tyranids and some left over mechanical Kŷn limbs, But Just a mountain of dead Nids, Kyn arms or another head might be overkill. Decisions.

[Kronos]

Jotnar Iron Kin - “Troll Busters” 

Wip Kitbash for my Ghyn-Uhngagap Unification. Most of it was planned. Some bits changed as the kitbash developed. Particularly like the Seismic Dampners around the CU Dome.

[Dr. Clock]

Please tell me that's not 600 dollars worth of actual Perturabos for a 100 pt unit lol

 

It's a strong vibe at any rate.

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

[Kronos]

3 hours ago, Dr. Clock said:

Please tell me that's not 600 dollars worth of actual Perturabos for a 100 pt unit lol

 

It's a strong vibe at any rate.

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

 

…maybe, no I kid, but they are real Perturabo bodies but I bought them on a bits Site, Think in total I probably spent between 60-80 GBP. Originally I had plans to do a Truescale Thunder Warrior Army using Primarch Bodies as my conversion bases but It was getting difficult to source arms and other bits so the project took a nose dive, held onto the Perturabos for quite some time wondering where they couod fit in my projects (they were close to becoming some Stupidly big World Eaters but Heresy WE just got no attwntion and my attention craves at least a bit pf a release. Then I realised A little while back I could work them as some sort of Large Ironkin  (before steeljacks came out) and slowly started doing some work.

 

Now I don’t play So the Point costs and base sizes don’t phase me, I just like making cool kitbahes. I don’t really make massive armies so I do go quite out for some of the Kitbashes getting big exciting bases and bits.

[Kronos]

Some Time ago I shared a little snippet of my Army Lore. However I wanted to add some context to that devloping Lore by expanding the Lore of the Leagues of Votann. My only bugbear with the Leagues of Votann current Lore has been that it’s Origins are aluded to be Terra. But I wanted to give the Votann an Older Creationist Story to the Leagues, something more comparable to the Aeldari and Old Ones. Or at least to the Votann Ancestor Cores.  It’s still in it early drafting but keen to hear any devlopment ideas from other fans of the League Lore.

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The Lament of Votann

Born at the Roots of the Void, The Kŷn are older than the ancient fractured data logs and inscrutable Node flashes wouod ever suggest, if even such data could ever be retrievable. The Leagues, as we know them now may indeed have set off from the Terran Solar System many Thousands of Years ago, but this is not where the Votann and it’s Children were created. The Serpens Edda Slates tells of a Celestial Race of sentient beings albeit with molecular compostiins not dissimilar from Minerals and stones.

Beyond the Stars, and past the Fields of Hollow Giants and many lives over the Galactic arm - the Origins of the Votann lie in Galaxy further than the reach of any of the civilised Races. In an unknown cluster of Star Systems, the Intelligible life that created the Votann had awoken. The Primal Ancestors, or the Stone Minds as they are often referred to had created Cogitators to expand their Powerful albeit waning Civilisation. The Primal Ancestors sought to expand their works with the aid of the Votann. The mighty Civilisations of the Stone Minds flourished even further. Held back only by their few numbers and  . The First Ancestral Core, who Stone Minds called Votann. The venerable Cogitator Mind had resolved that the most efficient method  to expand their interstellar Workforce would be with a legion of carbon based life, coded, created and produced under exacting gestation inside the Cruibles. The First successful Clone Kŷn were created. With them came the Ironkyŷn to aid their Exploration and harvesting of resources for the Stone Minds Sector spanning Nations. Expanding out from the deep Galactic Heart from Where the Stone Mind Homeworlds Lay, the First Leagues expanded out. In a few short Centuries the stoneminds and their Kyn Hosts had explored the majority of planetoids in their sector. Acquired ever growing resources that fuelled even more Technological Advances. With each exploration more data and knwledge would be given to the growing Votann mind. In the Stone Mind Capital World, the Nodes, processors, and Data of Votann had grown to the size of small City, the jewell of the Stone Mind Civilisation, and the pride of their technological marvels. 

But the tale of Pride and Hubris is a constant  doomed to repeat itself. empire after empire, Galaxy after Galaxy. For the stone minds and their Cognitive guide Votann had created the first and only life in the entirety of their Galactic Sector. In their Greed and Hubris the Primal Ancestors pushed for more yields, for more resources. Until they encountered the last planet in their Galactic Rim. The acquisition of the last World wasn’t only a celebration for the magnitude of such an accomplishment, but the World Was Unlike any Planet the Clone Kŷn had discovered. This was not another barren World of Rich Ore, gasses and fuel rich deosits, this World was  with Life. 

Stonemind Leaders and scientific Councils had gathered to the verdant World before it was dismantled and delved. Millions of Clones from a Hundred Fleets had all come. To Aid in the great Mining and to bear Witness the Great Living Orb. At first many Stonemind Analysts and Archivists took samples. Many to study further, and the rest to present to Votann. 

The naivity and hubtis of their actions were soon laid bare. In the greatness of their growing empire the Stone Minds never considered why their Worlds were Devoid of life. Theories had passed the Votann’s Logs than the Stone Minds were simply the first. That other Life had not evolved and that the conditions of the Planets in their Galaxy, thus far were inhospitable to all but beings such as theirs. The jubilant celebrations of finding a Verdant World of Flora was a short Lived scientific Miracle, soon, the Horror and Anguish would be bourne once more into the Their Galaxy and beyond. 

The Clone Kŷn had not met resistance before, though conditions were inevitably treacherous. From Seismic activity to radiation spitting Suns. The Clone Kŷn were created to be tough and their tools could eadily be turned onto attackers. But they had not been created to counter the threat of a Hive Mind, and all their durability and craft were not enough. 

The Celebration Fleets were the First to fall. In days the landing parties hd been consumed, almost silently by ravenous Flora. The Strange vegetation soon had become airborne. In the Widespread havoc Millions of Clone Kŷn were devoured. The Great Bane became stronger, different, better suited, and terribly sharper of mind. In their Slow escape the Exploration Fleets were eaten to a Kŷn. Thr IronKŷn and Stoneminds that fought back were soon destroyed, but their bodies left as scars  drifting in the void. Mining World after mining world was stripped of their Clone Kŷn Workers, eateb and their biomass consimed by the Bane. In months Billions had been consumed by what was Now a Living Fleet,  with a single purpose, to Devour. 

In the Stone Mind Capital World Masses had gathered around the Votann for answers and solutions. The great Golden Mind pulsed and rocked with strain, it’s guidance would either save the Stone Mind Nations or doom them. Votann answered 42, the Remaining 42 Kŷn fleets must Leave. To save the Kŷn Clones and starve the Bane of it’s Bio Matter. The Great Votann divided its consciousness amongst the fleets. In effort to save the learnings of the Stone Minds and it’s Votann the great Cogitator divided it’s teachings as equally and considered as it could. 

Equipping the surviving Exploration vessels,  The Kŷn began their Long March to refuge, to leave their Stone Homes behind and escape the Galactic spanning Devouring from the Emerged Threat. Faring the Void the Kŷn Vessels set out on different Paths in the Cold Void. Escaping their doomed Galaxy, and the Teeth of the Great Devourer, but it’s Shadow would forever haunt them. For Millennia the fleets travelled the Darkness of the Void. Many in stasis, some taking Long Watches with their Ironkŷn brethren. Where the other 41 fleets found themselves is lost now to the Stars and the Darkness. But one Fleet managed to find harbour in the Known Galaxy, by time that this generation of the Clone Kŷn arrived to the new Galaxy the memories of their ancestors were now fables, corrupted code and although they could not describe it clearly, the Kŷn knew to equally hate and fear the Sbân. Some ships of the fleet could bear the travel no longer. Desperate to claim Worlds in the Galaxy perimeters. But most ventured forth, seeking the comforts of the Core. It would be Chance, or the Weavings of Scheming Beings that would lead these dispossessed Fleets to the Solar System. The fledgling Human Race and the Kŷn shared in trade and technology for many years. The Kŷn safley harbouring on the Red planet of Mars, rebuilding their ships, repairing, and of course, harvesting resources required before they continued their journey. In Exchange for the vital resources and r.are earths the Kŷn Shared STC’s with the Terrans, and equally the Terrans shared their crude but efficient technologies in exchange for guidance on mining and resource acquisition. The Fleet had repopulated it’s Fane Mind, the Votann onto more ships, hoping the Guidance that was provided to the Prime ship would be of aid. Some of these Fanes were built on Mars as part of the remaining Kŷn Colony of Olympia and  even shared with the allied humans of Terra. Human progress grew with the guidance of the new Votann cores and with the aid of the Terran Born IronKŷn. 

With the Fleets now ready to continue their Long March into the Galactic Core, The Leagues of Votann set forth the claim its Wealth and riches. Through time, Over the Millennia, The  Votann lost all memory of it’s origins. Stories feel into Myth, Myth into little kore than disparate data, memory recalled a time a on Terra, but scant else remained over the millennia. But the Scorn and Hatred the Leagues had for the Bane remained in their very being. For the Shadow of the Great Devourer and Stalked across the Abyss to find its quarry.