The greenish glow of the Shyish sky was a comfort, even after all these centuries to Naeema Mert, with a sigh she gazed longingly at the stars beyond the soul clouds knowing full well that even with her vampiric powers, she couldn't visit them.
A clamour in the courtyard beneath her drew her attention away. Glancing over the architecture of New Lahmia, she soon found the source of the commotion, and a frown creased her ageless brow.
A small party of mortals had dared to enter the city, did they not know that this was the seat of power of Neferata, the Mortarch of Blood, one of the most powerful beings in all of Shyish?
Naeema smiled to herself and ran her tongue over her fangs, at leas it would add an interesting footnote to the days business, before she started poring over the forbidden necromantic lore her mistress wanted deciphering from Lord Nagash's mad scribes.
Stepping off the edge of her balcony, way up on the walls of the pyramid, she flexed her wings out to carry her to meet these people, she would find out why they were here, before they began bothering the Tomb Guards stationed at the Pyramid doors, or worse, caused Neferata to waken from her slumber early.
Naeema cast a bat like silhouette as she glided gracefully, silently downwards, however something was wrong. One of the mortals looks directly at her with a glow within it's eyes. A mouth full of fangs opened and words in an abominable language began to pour forth.
Chaos worshippers? Here? Why wasn't the alarm raised?
Thoughts swirled within her head as she drew her daggers, but the action was pointless as it was already too late.
The sorceror-thing uttered a final word and a bright light slammed into the vampire's chest, causing her to scream silently, mind filled with the pain of a vampire's final death.
It was not to be, for she opened her eyes, predatory instincts adjusting to her new surroundings immediately, from the brightness, the form of the Silver Tower of Tzeentch loomed, a distant chuckle of laughter, no louder then a whisper but audible from a distance away echoed through the void.
So another character model down, this is another Reaper Bones model, part of my friends RPG collection. I have however, slotted it into my own Silver Tower collection, until he collects his models from me in time.
This model is meant to be a Succubus I believe, but I am using her as a Vampire. To that end I went for a very monochromatic colour scheme, very Gothic with lots of greys and black and whites, the main contrast being her skin and armour in silver.
She matches the GW Neferata model quite well in terms of aesthetic actually, with her armour plates being somewhat similar, that's why I made her story into one of being a Loremaster to Neferata herself.
I know that the Loremaster is an Elf, but what better way to represent a vampiric warrior within the Silver Tower rules then with a true Warrior-Wizard, she has skills for both types of combat instead of being focused upon melee or magic too much.
I am looking forward to getting to use Naeema within a game of Silver Tower in the future, but time is not something I have in abundance at the moment. Here's hoping it'll be sooner, rather then later though.
Until next time...
- Lewis
