A Knight-Questor's Tale - part 1.

 

 I was ten summers old when death came to my home of Alryne.

We were working a farmstead on the outskirts of the town when a group of Freeguild soldiers came through, the sergeant bawling at the top of his voice.

"I want every man and strong lad, get to the temple and get armoured and arms. We have a large raiding party approaching, and I want numbers to intimidate them back to where they crawled from"

We'd never been called before, always being "too young" and "just children". 

That day we were going to become men and we excitedly chattered as we ran to the temple.

I was given a too large vest of old chainmail, a pitted sword and was pushed into the ranks of men gathering.

Already the fighting had begun, screams and the sounds of ringing weapons filled the air. 

I remember curses being snarled, oaths being called upon.

Most of all I remember the first time seeing men, real men whom I had looked up to, aspired to become, scythed down as if they were overripe corn.

Suddenly the men infront of me were cut down, men who had been veterans of the town watch, 

I was faced with a nightmare made manifest. 

A huge dark champion atop a black heavily armoured destrier. Blood encasing and dripping from the length of his sword.

A sword which made the old pitted thing in my hand seem like a child's toy.

*****

I've had these models finished for a couple of weeks but haven't been able to find the time to post them up.

As it is the last day of July, I figured I'd try to sneak a post in to claim at least one box of points this month!

So here we have a unit of Khornate Knights.

I converted them with some leftover parts from the Wrathmongers sprues I bought way back when Age of Sigmar was first released and I was building up the Bloodbound.

The Khorne flesh hound is actually the pet of Khorgos Khul, the original warlord from the starter set, but I dislike his model so mounted it on a 50mm base instead.

Being just three models strong they aren't usable for AoS at the moment, so I may add another Flesh hound to the unit to make it five strong.

However for Dragon Rampant they can count as Elite or Heavy Riders with the reduced model count rule having two wounds each!

They follow my usual scheme of heavy metalwork with touches of red and gold for their faction.

However I can run these as a unit of chaos Knights in a regular Slaves to Darkness army with the Khorne keyword should I choose to do so.

When I said about scraping some last points, these guys net me one of the kitbash boxes for ten points, increasing my total to 340 for the year so far.

I am close to finishing the first grid completely, so hoping to catch up to Chris over this next month.

Part two of the fiction will be the conclusion of our unnamed narrator in one of my next posts.

Until next time...