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Baron
I’ve been rereading the “Tale of Orfeo” from the original line of fiction (although my copies are all the Black Library editions). After finishing the final book, “Storm Warriors,” I love the idea of a non-standard Slaanesh unit like the Storm Host. For those that have not read the book, they are warriors who have become so obsessed with the pleasure of the hunt, that they have been “cursed” to forever hunt. I think it’s great that it shows a different aspect to the traditional sex, drugs, and rock n roll depictions of Slaaneshi worshipers.
Here comes the problem: how to represent the models?
The story takes place on the island of Morien, which appears to be off the cost of Albion. The people of the island are generally described in a manner similar to the early Britons and Welsh.
The Storm Host itself receives very little direct description. In the initial encounter, a member is described as “a pale-featured man wearing light armour and a plain helm, mounted on a mist-grey mare.”
Later in the story the host itself is portrayed as “a host of ghostly riders, eighty or a hundred strong, bearing spears and bows. Their helmets-all but a few-were decked with spreading antlers, and their surcoats were all black as night.”
This is where my first problem in imagining models for them arises. While everything in the story up to this point was very similar to the Historical Welsh, the helmets of that period were would not be in the least bit conducive to having antlers mounted upon them. Warriors of the period (or at least historical miniatures of the period) didn’t appear to be much for surcoats, either. In fact, this description of the riders implies to me, something much closer to the Teutonic knights.
However, Brian Craig throws a wrench into that interpretation as well because two pages later, the characters recognize a member of the Storm Host by his face, which would certainly not be possible with a Teutonic helm. He also describes how many of the members have “sunken eyes” and their bodies have “scars of battle, which showed up lividly white against their grey flesh.” In this manner, it does not even appear that they are fully armored; and in fact sound almost zombie-like! But other than the above quotes (and similar quotes) I could not find any other references to their armour.
So, here is where I seek help from the learned miniature historians present. What type of helms would be both open-faced while simultaneously being able to support antlers? And if there exists such a helm, was it ever word by mounted soldiers who would also be lightly armored but bearing surcoats?
Any ideas to help spark my creativity (or steal someone else’s!) would be much appreciated.
Here comes the problem: how to represent the models?
The story takes place on the island of Morien, which appears to be off the cost of Albion. The people of the island are generally described in a manner similar to the early Britons and Welsh.
The Storm Host itself receives very little direct description. In the initial encounter, a member is described as “a pale-featured man wearing light armour and a plain helm, mounted on a mist-grey mare.”
Later in the story the host itself is portrayed as “a host of ghostly riders, eighty or a hundred strong, bearing spears and bows. Their helmets-all but a few-were decked with spreading antlers, and their surcoats were all black as night.”
This is where my first problem in imagining models for them arises. While everything in the story up to this point was very similar to the Historical Welsh, the helmets of that period were would not be in the least bit conducive to having antlers mounted upon them. Warriors of the period (or at least historical miniatures of the period) didn’t appear to be much for surcoats, either. In fact, this description of the riders implies to me, something much closer to the Teutonic knights.
However, Brian Craig throws a wrench into that interpretation as well because two pages later, the characters recognize a member of the Storm Host by his face, which would certainly not be possible with a Teutonic helm. He also describes how many of the members have “sunken eyes” and their bodies have “scars of battle, which showed up lividly white against their grey flesh.” In this manner, it does not even appear that they are fully armored; and in fact sound almost zombie-like! But other than the above quotes (and similar quotes) I could not find any other references to their armour.
So, here is where I seek help from the learned miniature historians present. What type of helms would be both open-faced while simultaneously being able to support antlers? And if there exists such a helm, was it ever word by mounted soldiers who would also be lightly armored but bearing surcoats?
Any ideas to help spark my creativity (or steal someone else’s!) would be much appreciated.