From their garrison at Ancestor's Fyrd, The Celestial Legion of Stormcast Eternals maintained a vigilant watch over the Azyrite holdings within the Drakespine Mountains.
Punitive raids were conducted regularly to keep the local beastmen tribes in check, patrols over the ancient Battlefield of The False Prophet kept looters and other more vile things away.
Over all of this the lords of the Legion reigned, none for longer without reforging then Lord-Castellant Garviel. For over 70 years he maintained watch with the legion without being brought low once.
During a rising of the Black-Axe tribe of beastmen, several contingents of Plate-Clad Slaves to Darkness aided the vile half-human foes.
One in particular, a Sorceror riding a floating disk seemed to mark Garviel out for personal attention. Firing spell after spell at him, eventually one found a weak point in Garviel's formidable defences, both physical and magical and he was blasted from his feet, blacking out.
When he came to, Garviel found himself not within the reforging palaces of Sigmaron, instead brightly lit, a path wound it's way towards a giant gateway, leading to the fabled Silver Tower of Tzeentch, fate seeming that he should head inside to fight the profane and perverse followers of the Chaos God.
From the brightness, a distant chuckle of laughter, no louder then a whisper but audible from a distance away echoed through the void.
This model has been sitting part painted for a LONG time...we're talking over a year I think, and I don't know why it took me so long to get him finished really...
The Lord-Castellant is one of my favourite Stormcast Eternal models, all hefted Halberd and brandished Warding Lantern, minions of Chaos beware!
As before with my other Stormcast models, I gave him a head swap with a Space Wolf marine head to give a sense of their humanity, and also their "going native" after being in the wild lands of Ghur for so long.
Where the Knights Excelsior (I think it's those) are quite Inquisition-esque, in the sense that they murder anyone, man, woman or child, whom they think may have even come into contact with someone who is tainted by Chaos. My own Celestial Legion are meant to be more Classic Barbarian in the style, living off the wilds, fighting the wild tribes and protecting those weaker then themselves through a sense of honour.
I enjoyed writing his little background piece, especially about not being able to go back to Azyr to be reforged...
Until next time...
- Lewis
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