Embrace the Power of a Dragon!

In the frozen northern wastes, a sinister blight has

awoken and now stands ready to consume everything
in its path. An army prepares for war, its leader the
cunning and malevolent dragon Everblight, whose very

essence resides in each of his twisted generals. Filled with
horrendously blighted ogrun, cruel and tainted Nyss, and
terrifying dragonspawn, the Legion of Everblight is poised
to spread its corruption to the farthest reaches of western
Immoren and beyond.
Serve the mighty Everblight with Forces of HORDES:
Legion of Everblight, featuring:
Complete faction rules and profiles for using all
current Legion of Everblight models in HORDES Mk II.
New troops to bring to the fight, plus the all-new
warlock Bethayne, Voice of Everblight and her light
warbeast Belphagor.
An in-depth look at the history and structure of the
Legion of Everblight.
A painting and modeling guide to help ready your
forces for battle.
Legion of Everblight Theme Force
lists and rules, which allow you
to create armies based on
specialized forces from the
Legion of Everblight.
Consume the Iron
Kingdoms for the
Glory of Everblight!
Play HORDES against

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 Whatever my blight touches,

I control.

There are no limits to what I can do

and no end to the growth

of my legions power.

SPINE
I hunger first to feast on god flesh,

on the essence of my father,

and then to swallow the world.

Everblight


 Credits
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 Embrace the Power of a Dragon!
Faction Background Playing Legion
The Legion of Everblight has become a dire threat to all The primary strength of the Legion of Everblight can be
of western Immoren in just a handful of years. This lethal summarized in one word: dragonspawn. The terrifying
army is the ultimate weapon of the dragon Everblight, an warbeasts that writhe into being from the dragons blood
ancient creature born from the heartstone of Lord Toruk, are some of the most feared warbeasts in HORDES for
the Dragonfather. Everblight long remained apart from his good reason. They are exceptionally agile, brutal in combat,
siblings, plotting in secret and spurning their millennia-old gifted with unique senses to hunt their prey, capable
alliance against Toruk. of traversing the most difficult terrain, and deceptively
Centuries ago Everblights physical body was destroyed, but survivable. Dragonspawn range from swarms of Shredders
his indestructible heartstone, or athanc, survived. After luring and Stingers to implacable Carniveans and Scytheans.
the ogrun Thagrosh to free him from an icy tomb, Everblight
If the spawn are not enough to put the fear of Everblight
turned his attention to the corruption and domination of the
into an opponent, the Legions warbeast support tips the
Nyss, the winter elves inhabiting the northern lands. These
scale. Shepherds and Forsaken grant the faction plentiful
skilled bladesmen and hunters are ideal foot soldiers for
fury management tools, allowing players to run far more
Everblights legion. Ogrun from the nearby mountains were
beasts than other armies. Nyss Sorceresses guide the charge
also horrendously blighted and added to the fighting force,
bringing their brawn and ferocity to Everblights cause. of the winged dragonspawn to increase fury efficiency even
further, and Spawning Vessels can create new dragonspawn
Everblight has implanted shards of his athanc into his to meet the needs of the battle at hand. Alongside the sleek
chosen generals, creating warlocks who lead the Legion in Blighted Nyss and hulking Blighted Ogrun, Everblights
the dragons name. Their army includes an ever-growing hungry children will...
assortment of warbeasts spawned from the blighted blood
of Everblights warlocks. Each warlock shares thoughts Consume the Iron Kingdoms for the
directly with Everblight, giving the army a terrifying Glory of Everblight!
singularity of purpose.

Table of Contents
Nature of the Beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Legion Warbeasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
The Legion of Everblight. . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Legion Troops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Legion Theme Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Painting Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Legion Warlocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Model Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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 Nature of the Beast
608 AR, Near the Black River, Somewhere South of Corvis
Submerging her consciousness deep into her connection numerous the enemies were. She knew she faced the army
with Belphagor had become second nature to Bethayne, of the Dragonfather, Everblights most dangerous adversary.
Voice of Everblight. It was not necessary to surrender
Near Belphagor, a hulking nephilim protector wrenched
her mind when they joined, but there was always the
the heavy blade of its halberd free from the chassis of a
temptation to flow entirely into the beasts simpler mind
compact blackened metal construct on insect-like legs that
and become a creature of pure instinct. In this animalistic
was covered in plates of curved black steel. The nephilim
state all sensations became pure, divorced from reflection.
bled from a serious gash from the machines initial strike,
It was an empowering bliss.
which had delivered one of its tusks deep up under the
She preferred to indulge in this addictive freedom from dragonspawns sternum.
thought only briefly, as there were dangers in abandoning
Additional mechanithralls poured through the gaps
control. On every previous occasion, it had been easy for
between the trees. At her mental urging, her carnivean
her to gather her scattered thoughts, but at this moment
opened its fanged jaws to unleash a sizzling spray of ash,
she felt intense resistance. Memories were fragmented,
annihilating half a dozen. There were many more, and they
making it difficult to recall when she had surrendered her
closed on the draconic beast to hammer at its scaled hide.
consciousness. It had clearly been too long. At her mental
urging Belphagor immediately pulled back the umbilical Dark green-black helljacks came into view behind them, one
cords connecting its organs to hers. Its muscular tail came resembling an enormous crustacean with a cannon in place
down to support its weight as the amplified strength in of its front left arm. It fired several long, brass spikes into
her legs faded, and the interlocking appendages along its Bethaynes dragonspawn before advancing to crush the life
central torso opened to let her pull free. Disengaging in the from one of her hex hunters with its left pincer. Leviathan.
middle of battle was dangerous, but it was necessary to clear The knowledge bubbled up from deep within her mind
her mind. She crouched for a moment as Belphagor towered with the familiar sensation of lore reaching her through her
protectively over her, ready to lash out at any enemy that athanc shard from Everblight or one of her warlock peers.
came too near.
The dragonspawn she had with her were fearless, strong,
Around her the whirlwind of battle created a familiar and eager to spill blood. Her hex hunters entered the fray
commotion: the rumbling of powerful engines, the defiant with similar enthusiasm, wielding their runic swords and
shriek of a nephilim followed by the clash of metal alternating with invoked sorcerous magic in streaks of
biting metal, the heavy footfalls of charging soldiers. Her blighted lightning delivered through the blades. Still, they
warbeasts fought around her, extensions of herself, all were badly outnumbered. Helljacks and bonejacks surged
engaged in a struggle for survival. Several were injured to forward with a hungry swiftness that made them seem
various degrees, although their draconic state allowed them alive. The enemy spread out in a widening circle, clearly
to ignore discomfort; to dragonspawn, pain existed only to seeking to surround Bethayne and those with her.
provide awareness of injury.
A more delicate but stately arachnid creature stood at the
The enemy was close around her, making it difficult to center of the Cryxian host. Its steel upper torso resembled a
prioritize targets, but Bethayne sent Belphagor to add its female humans, with a strange, green glow oozing through
strength to the battle. Her mind raced with the thrill of the her ribcage and an iron mask covering her upper face. Soul
lethal fray. Some part of her exulted in the tumult and the cages hung from her waist, and she was clearly directing the
way the chaos stripped away the complexity of decisions. She machines with her will. Iron lich, among the ruling tier of the
sent her will into Belphagor and urged it to scythe through Cryxian hierarchy. Bethayne needed no further information
two of the smaller creatures rushing toward her, which she to understand the threat posed by such a being. She was
recognized as mechanithralls from their oversized, steam- preoccupied directing her forces, shouting orders to the hex
powered gauntlets. Belphagor cut through their masses blades and maneuvering all her dragonspawn to intercept
of piping and dead flesh, then clawed through two more the threats facing them while trying not to allow any of
while Bethayne summoned blighted power from her arcane them to be overwhelmed.
reserves. Even as Belphagor completed its attacks she hurled
Myriad other machines surged forward to attack. A
a sphere of violently transformative energies to explode into
Deathripper latched onto the carniveans forward
another mechanithrall in the midst of several others. Razor-
supporting leg and chewed through with razor-sharp
sharp spines of bone shot forth to impale all those nearby.
teeth. Before the dragonspawn could deal with this, a
The effort of invoking this magic helped clear the lingering
Slayer leapt against it, slashing tremendous metal claws.
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Despite nimble attempts to evade,
her shredders quickly fell under an
onslaught of heavy mechanithrall
fists. A helljack she knew to be
called a Corruptor latched another
pincer-like appendage onto one of
her raeks, and she saw greenish
fluid from glass vials pour into its
flesh to melt it from the inside. The
raek lashed back with its razored
tail, slicing through connecting
tubing but doing too little damage
to prevent its expiration.

Belphagor served again as a channel

for the blighted power of one of her
explosive spells before slithering
forward on its tail to finish off the
Corruptor with its claws. No longer
blocked by her beast, the Leviathan
turned toward her and fired its
cannon. She used the last shredders
tenacity to strengthen her flesh and
leapt to the side, but the Leviathan
tracked her movement with
uncanny precision.

She felt the tremendous impact as

its metal projectiles pierced clear
through her shoulder and left a
gaping, bleeding hole. She instantly
drew upon her blood connection
to the nephilim protector and sent
the wound to tear through its flesh
instead. Engineered to accept the
injuries of the warlock who spawned
it, the beast took the transference with an eager hiss. Even tissue, through which she saw the world using Belphagors
as her wound vanished, the nephilim was crippled as the superior senses.
same gory hole opened in its chest.
She perceived even the slightest motion effortlessly with
The pain of this was fresh on her mind as Bethayne recalled blighted sight able to pierce through smoke, fog, and
Belphagor to her side. She was too vulnerable and knew she underbrush. A surge of powerful energies swept through
had to return to its protective embrace. They moved with her as her strength and stamina were tremendously
perfect coordination as Belphagor swept in behind her on augmented. She felt invincible but held strong within the
its tail and its lower appendages clicked open to reveal the heady rush, knowing her situation remained precarious.
awaiting cavity in the center of its torso.
Just as she completed the melding, she heard a deep thump
It enfolded her so swiftly and completely that an onlooker and something large arced toward her and exploded,
might believe she had been swallowed whole. She felt splashing vile acidic fluids across Belphagor, three hex
comforted and protected while surrounded by the thick hunters, and another nephilim. Belphagors scaled hide
armor and draconic bones of its body. She welcomed the was impervious to the caustic fluid, which dripped with
brief pain as bone-like needles extending from a variety a hiss into the undergrowth below. The nephilims thick
of umbilical cords pierced her neck and abdomen and skin partially protected it from the blast as well, but the hex
integrated their circulatory systems. Her head rested within hunters screamed as their flesh melted apart in bleeding
the beasts sternum, surrounded by a webbing of nerve chunks to reveal quickly unraveling organs beneath.

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Bethayne gritted her teeth against this grim toll but had no information through her athanc that must originate from
time to absorb the weight of the casualties. the warlock Lylyth suggested the waterway was one of
the Black Rivers eastern tributaries. She guessed she was
She looked for the source and saw an enormously fat undead
immediately adjacent to the sprawling desolation of the
creature, its skin stretched and stitched together, beyond the
Bloodstone Marches. It was far south of her last remembered
helljacks. It carried a wide-mouthed, underslung cannon
location among Rhuls southern mountains.
that dripped greenish fluid from the barrel. Bloat thrall.
With a surge of retaliatory anger she sent one of her raeks It had been in Rhul, some indeterminate number of days
to destroy it, and the sleek leonine dragonspawn blended ago, that Thagrosh had looked up to the clear skies above
with the shadows to slip directly past two of the intervening the southern mountains to see two dragons passing high
helljacks. It pounced on the bloat thrall, tearing it apart overhead. Immediately a command blazed across all their
with a toothy maw and lashing it with its tail. The creature athancs like liquid fire. Their master sent most of his chosen
ruptured in a blast of torn organs and disgusting fluids that hastening away in various directions, accompanied by
melted the raeks scaled flesh, leaving the spawn maimed as small numbers of spawn and Legion soldiers. Vayl and
helljacks closed upon it. Absylonia stayed behind with Thagrosh as the army braced
for possible attack, but the others left to ensure the survival
of as many of his athanc shards as possible.
Those touched by the mental Those touched by the mental inferno of Everblights will
inferno of Everblight's will had never felt him make such a powerful and immediate
had never felt him make such command. Bethayne had instinctively retreated into
a powerful command. Belphagor and entered an almost mindless trance as her
limbs obeyed Everblight. Her beasts and her most loyal
hex blades had unhesitatingly followed her through the
They could not sustain the rate her beasts were suffering wilderness, accepting her silence. She had traveled in a haze
crippling injuries. Realizing this, she hesitated only a moment. until set upon by Cryx.
She could stand and destroy a good many Cryxians, but it
Bethayne found it difficult to communicate with her peers
would avail Everblight nothing. She knew her role and the
while merged with Belphagor. She struggled to reach
place of those who fought with her. She was a chosen of the
Thagrosh, hoping to learn what had transpired. She felt him
dragon, keeper of a sliver of his immortal essence. Ultimately
there, but his mind was closed to her, and she sensed he
no one else mattered, whatever her own feelings.
was in deep communion with Everblight. She next directed
She turned the leader of her hex hunters, a skilled and her will toward Vayl, who often served as intermediary for
devoted sorcerer named Aervass. Her voice rasped through the dragon; reaching her, she shared images of the ambush.
Belphagors throat as a harsh growl. Delay them as long
She received in return a welcome confirmation that the
as possible.
dragons had not attacked Thagrosh as Everblight had
He whistled to the others without hesitation and directed dreaded. Those formidable entities had flown past without
their efforts with a few sharp gestures. Bethayne guided her showing any sign of having witnessed the gathered Legion
warbeasts to where they could best intercept and delay the foe. below them. Despite this apparent false alarm, Everblight
would not yet give his leave for his warlocks to return. As a
This accomplished, she fled into the thorny underbrush and
chosen of Everblight, Bethayne would have to cope as best
through slender, twisted trees. She leapt and ran swiftly down
she could.
a narrow ravine toward a stream, moving their melded body
with tireless swiftness on her own legs. Conjoined, she and
Belphagor became an entirely different entity. Their internal
organs shared function, giving her not only the armored
protection within its scaled torso but also augmented An instinct from Belphagor prompted her to halt momentarily
physical abilities. Their blending was so complete that her within a sparse cluster of trees. She felt eyes upon her. At the
life was linked to the beasts; the toxins flooding her body to splashing of large creatures or machines crossing the river,
bolster her strength and stamina required his organs to filter she listened closer and heard grunted breaths and bestial
her blood or she would quickly succumb to the poisons. snorts rather than the rumble of Cryxian machines.
After she splashed through the deep and wide river and She kept still, hoping the creature or creatures would
continued up the opposite bank, Bethayne realized she have no interest in her. Shortly she heard a human voice
had only a vague notion of her general location. Filtered speaking the Cygnaran tongue in a low but commanding

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tone. Through Everblight she had perfect apprehension of on her back. When she tore the head off the next farrow,
the otherwise unfamiliar language. Move to the left and the injury closed completely, and she saw fear in the eyes
spread out! Flush the quarry into the open! There was the of the remaining creatures. Several others pulled out clubs
sound of more movement to her right, immediately eclipsed and attempted to batter at her, but she ignored their feeble
by the deeper boom of a cannon firing. blows and retaliated with killing swipes before rushing
past, leaving a sea of farrow blood behind her.
She leapt backward even as a shell whistled down and
exploded not far from her, detonating one of the nearest The cannon-toting pig-beasts closed upon her and fired
trees. Through the cloud of debris she saw a dozen or yet again, their blasts striking with increasing accuracy
more armed farrow approaching up the bank, crude rifles despite the ash swirling around her. She sensed their
in hand. She had seen such creatures before, employed as efforts being guided by a will and realized the human
fodder in other battles. Several larger, unfamiliar pig-like advancing with them must be a warlock; these creatures
beasts stood closer to the river in front of a bald, slender were somehow tied to him.
human wearing goggles and equipped with an unfamiliar
Two more shells struck, tearing out additional hunks of her
weapon. Upon his back and at his side were several peculiar
flesh. Slicing through another pair of farrow with her blight-
contraptions filled with glowing green fluid.
augmented claws let her partially mend these injuries, but
Her eyes were drawn to the beasts in front of him. These additional farrow approached with loaded rifles. She had to
bipedal boars carried odd, boxy cannons strapped to their close with the cannon-decked beastsand she doubted she
backs by heavy harnesses. A thin line of smoke streamed could kill them quickly enoughor find another escape.
from the mouth of the nearest one. Even as she watched, She looked down the sloping path to her left, a steep descent
another adjusted its stance, snorted, and braced itself before along a brush-covered hillside. It was too steep for the pig
yanking on a heavy lanyard attached to the weapon. It creatures to negotiate easily.
bucked as it fired.
The choice was made for her. She felt a slight itch at her
She turned and leapt away, her reaction time and movements back warning her of approach even as heavy footsteps
augmented by Belphagor. The blast exploded just behind thudded across the ground. She turned in time to see an
her. Her beasts armored torso protected her, but the farrow enormous, oversized abomination of metal and pig flesh
had seen her and fired in a crackling chorus that sent deadly before it smashed into her with enough force to send even
metal projectiles whizzing past. One hit the back of her left Belphagors mass flying. She soared down the sloped
leg and another grazed Belphagors back, but they were incline to crash into the stout and wide trunk of a massive
only glancing wounds. Gritting her teeth in frustration, tree. The wood cracked and groaned but remained intact,
Bethayne surrounded herself with a cloud of ash as she bringing her to an abrupt, bone-shattering halt.
ran, making it difficult for her pursuers to see her precisely.
She fell heavily to the ground with spots before her eyes. She
She had, she presumed, blundered into the territory of the
felt dazed despite the augmented adrenal fluids pumping
farrow and their human master, and she was keenly aware
through her body from Belphagor. She staggered back to her
of her peril without warbeasts at her side to feed her power
feet in time to see the enormous pig-beast rushing headlong
or accept her injuries.
down the slope, wielding a tremendous axe in each of its
They came up behind her quickly, and the cannons fired. Two metal hands. Smoke poured from stacks in its back, and she
shots exploded nearby to rain rocks and debris down upon could hear the sound of a steam engine. She managed to duck
her, but the third hit her squarely in the upper back. The under the first wild swing, but the second sank into her side,
shell pierced Belphagors armor to rip through its muscles. penetrating armored scales and almost reaching her own
She had endured worse, but it did not bode well. She ran flesh. It lowered its head and followed with a brutal upward
forward down a narrow trail and between several large jerk of its chin that drove its tusks into Belphagors chest.
rocks. Additional rifle-wielding farrow came at her from the
Her dual hearts were pounding, her own twice as rapidly
opposite direction; they had driven her this way deliberately.
as Belphagors, and both sets of lungs labored to draw
Her growl of frustration became an enraged roar through breath. Though her link to her dragonspawn numbed her
Belphagors fanged mouth. She drew upon additional to physical agony, she could tell she was near death. The
energies from her athanc to empower her claws with a attacker pulled back its left arm to deliver what would
potent blighted enchantment that heightened her predatory surely be a lethal blow. She heard the voice of the human
instincts and empowered her claws to siphon living shouting angrily, Stop! I need it alive! Alive!
energies. She charged forward to the nearest farrow, and
The human stepped into view. In his hand was a strange
as her swipes opened gashes across the creatures chest she
pistol-like weapon with a long, sharp needle in place of
felt its vitality flow to her and partially close the wound

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a barrel. He plunged the needle deep into Belphagors above into the bowels of the facility. The farrow had a
chest and injected a thick fluid into the spawns body with tendency to be lazy unless prodded. He addressed them
a hissing sound. It took effect with remarkable rapidity, sharply, You lads here to attend the dissection? The
numbing her to all sensation. brigands were awed and fearful of Arkadius and did not
seek out his company as a general rule. As expected, this
group offered the equivalent of a polite negation and huffed
something about Lord Carver, then began to climb the
stairs. He shouted after, Find something useful to do, like
Doctor Arkadius called ahead to the hunchbacked farrow patrolling the perimeter!
who assisted him in the laboratory. We have quite the
find here. You wont want to miss this. Open the doors! He shook his head sadly. Farrow lacked initiative and
Hurry! He pointed emphatically at the wide doors into curiosity. Attempting to lift them from their primitive
the main chamber. It was not clear how much the crippled state was a constant ordeal. His tests had revealed their
farrow comprehended of his words, but he responded to intelligence to be not at all dissimilar to humanitys. Despite
the gesture and did as bid, pushing the heavy doors open their potential, though, he had found they were usually best
on creaking hinges. The enormous war hog with Arkadius employed for fighting or lifting heavy objects.
passed through carrying the specimen. Doctor Arkadius turned back to his specimen, and he
Arkadius followed, keeping a tight mental leash on the took a few deep breaths to center himself. Dealing with an
steam-powered half-pig, half-machine beast to be sure it unfamiliar organism was inherently dangerous; his various
did not wreck the fragile apparatus scattered around the drugs might not have the expected effects, and he could not
perimeter of the laboratory. He cleared several beakers from know what he might find within the creature. Allowing it
the large dissection table at the center of the chamber and to perish before he could pluck its marvelous secrets was
directed the war hog, There! Put it down, gently. unacceptable. He pierced the thick flesh of the creature at
several key areas with long, hollow needles, each attached
The war hog dropped the limp body heavily onto the to a length of flexible piping extending to beakers and flasks
metal surface, and Arkadius winced. Inspecting his prize of gleaming greenish fluids. Some hung freely, while others
showed it had suffered no additional harm from this rough were set over low flames. He adjusted these apparatus and
treatment. He directed the steam-powered hog to move to watched the creature with a brooding frown.
a wall alcove deliberately built large enough to contain it.
It remained unconscious, which was good, and it did not
Arkadius could barely repress his excitement over the enter into immediate seizures, which was also good. Biting
prospect of discovering the internal mechanisms of the his lip, he placed a listening cone on its chest and listened
captured beast. Even as he began to prepare for the for its heart. He was surprised to discover an erratic sound.
procedure he cautioned himself not to be too exuberant. It was almost like two hearts rather than one, with one set
The creature was clearly close to death, and given it was an of beats slow and loud, the other more muffled and rapid.
entirely unfamiliar and exotic species, he should not have
high expectations regarding its physical condition. He had already mastered human and porcine physiology
the farrow anatomy had kept few mysteries from his piercing
Look here, Targ, he said to his assistant as if addressing mindbut this creature was something foreign. It had been
a student. You can see this creature is massively blighted. a singular stroke of luck that events had transpired as they
Note the pattern of the scales, the general unnatural skin had. The matter had entirely derailed his other plans, but
tone. Still, it has very few blemishes or irregularities and a man of science had to seize opportunities for discovery.
remarkable symmetry. Note the armor adorning the upper
torso. Expertly crafted, very beautiful patterns in the metal, He had been journeying north for a clandestine meeting
graceful curves. This creature was valued. with an unreliable colleague from Corvis, accompanied by
an armed escort in case of trouble. The sounds of battle near
Targ eyed him dubiously and blinked but showed no other the river had confirmed the wisdom of his precautions. His
reaction. Arkadius considered his assistant an excellent apprehension had grown on discovering Cryxians, who
listener as well as an additional pair of hands in the laboratory. rarely came into this region. The sight of dragonspawn
The farrow was trained in the use of the various surgical tools alongside lean soldiers armed with peculiar blades fighting
and sutures. The offsetting malformation of the creatures leg against them had piqued his interest. He had heard the
and twisted spine limited mobility, but those disabilities were rumors of a blighted army that had struck the Castle of the
trivial weighed against his unusual manual dexterity. Keys some months earlier, as had everyone who dwelled
Looking outside the room, he saw several farrow brigands near the Bloodstone Marches, but this was the first time he
lounging at the bottom of the wide staircase that led from had witnessed dragonspawn firsthand.

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He had immediately noticed something unusual about to work his way through the limbs and separate them. The
a creature that fled the fight while the others remained. thick blood released in the process was polluted with black
Something in its posture suggested intelligence. Capturing streaks and had an acrid smell that stung his nose.
it had not been easy, but he had used his knowledge of the
He was almost too busy with the messy mechanics of this
terrain to his advantage.
operation to realize what was beneath the dislocated limbs.
Now that he had the specimen, he was almost overwhelmed He stepped back a moment and tilted his head, puzzled.
with the possibilities of the tests and experiments he could Beneath the spilled blood was a female humanoid torso,
run. Would it be possible to develop the means to detect and inside the monstrous one. It was partially covered by an
quantify blight as a tangible substance or energy? Could he armored cuirass, with a girdle of woven black leather
sustain living skin samples removed from the body? below. Numerous semi-translucent fleshy tubes connected
to the arms, hips, and sides, blood pumping between them
Arkadius took a more complete survey of the creature,
with the rhythm of two hearts.
paying particular attention to its legs and its two pairs
of entirely different arms. Note, Targ, its lower arms A sudden movement made him startle. An autonomic
are almost of human proportions. But whats this? He process pushed the shapely female torso down and partially
squinted at the blade-like claws and realized the lower out of the creatures chest cavity. This revealed a head, which
set were made of metal, set within what might have been had previously been lodged below its sternum. The inner
armored gauntlets that extended up past the elbow. With creature was elven, with long, pointed ears poking through
a bit of struggle he pulled the armor and gloved weapon a tight-fitting skullcap that covered most of her upper head.
loose, almost cutting himself even through the thick gloves Her features were extremely angular, particularly her chin
he always wore. This revealed a slender forearm and a fine- and nose, but had a certain exotic appeal.
boned and long-fingered hand with sharp, hardened barbs
Marvelous! he crowed. Not one blighted creature,
along the knuckles. The delicacy of the hand unsettled him
but two, perhaps living in perfect symbiosis? The find of
more than its monstrous elements.
a lifetime! For a time he was utterly captivated with the
The creatures legs were humanoid and oddly slender for sight of her within the cavity that fit her like a glove, as if
the size of its body. What he had taken for scaled plates were grown to accept her. We must get a sample of this fluid
actually armored greaves and boots. Decorative flourishes exchange, he noted. He took hold of one of the umbilical
on the leg armor and the clawed weapons matched the cords and directed Targ to hand him a scalpel. It was at this
thicker armor affixed to the creatures torso. Could such moment she opened her eyes.
a creature have been natural once? Can dragon blight have
such a dramatic impact on an entire organism? Targ had no
answers, but Arkadius did not seem to notice. His rapturous
smile was enough to make the farrow eye him nervously.
Bethayne emerged to consciousness with rising panic. She
He could tell no scalpel would suffice on what looked to realized this sensation came from Belphagor, which could
be tough scaly skin. Targ, the heavy saw, if you please. only mean an immediate threat to her. She felt air upon her
His assistant obediently found a freshly sharpened, hefty skin and realized she was partially detached from Belphagor,
instrument among those dangling against the nearby something that should happen only by her command.
wall. He was curious to see where the smoother flesh She sent a mental impulse for the spawn to withdraw the
ended and the more draconic flesh began. There were connecting tubes that intersected her flesh, but there was no
aspects of the abdomen that were intriguing. A number reaction. Their minds and senses were no longer blended,
of smaller appendages were folded over themselves in an but she was physically connected, which was extremely
interlocking pattern just above the creatures slender hips. dangerous. If Belphagor perished in this state, so would she.
This is peculiar. Reminds me of a prawn, macrobrachium
acherontium, but not quite. What use are these appendages? Realizing her head was no longer comfortably secured
within Belphagors upper womb, she opened her eyes.
He decided it would be best to remove at least one of Adrenaline surged in her veins as she recognized the face
these smaller appendages but realized he might need to of the human in front of her: the same one who had directed
cut through several to get to the skin beneath. It seemed the pig creatures.
likely there would be softer flesh there, perhaps an easier
place to begin his exploratory surgery. As soon as he began Her arms and legs were immobile, and one of her clawed
sawing the largest set of these overlapping appendages the gauntlets was removed. Her mind was relatively clear, but
creature twitched and jerked. He increased the anesthetic whatever had forced Belphagor into unconsciousness had
drips feeding into its body and began again. He was able paralyzed her limbs. Her eyes went to the humans right

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hand, where he held a keen bladed instrument against one and interest when his eyes traced across Belphagor, and his
of the primary tubes connecting her circulatory system to reaction surprised her. Most humans would have reacted
Belphagors. with horror. She saw him begin to view her as a thinking
being rather than an inert experiment. She smiled slightly.
Stop! She instinctively used the language she had heard
I am Bethayne, also called the Voice of Everblight. Give me
him speak during their chase. Fluency came effortlessly
your name that I might address you properly.
through her athanc. Do not cut those cords. She utilized
the same commanding tone she ordinarily employed on He regarded her with the same look of fascination. She had
Nyss and ogrun soldiers. He froze, looking at her with never been so close to a human without killing him. It was
surprise and curiosity. interesting to observe how easily his expressions conveyed
his thoughts, with none of the disciplined self-control
Her mind raced. The desperate reality of her situation
her own people had possessed even before they joined
was clear. Her eyes softened and her tone became richer,
Everblight. They stared at one another, then he spoke to her
warmer. Please. I will die if you sever those.
directly for the first time. Why are you not frightened or
He withdrew the sharp knife from the cords, eyeing them terrified? You awake in a strange place, helpless, yet you
with a frown. When he next spoke he did not address her greet me politely?
but rather the misshapen farrow next to him. Note that
Her answer was forestalled by harsh pounding on the
while the external creature seems torpid and properly
closed door to the laboratory. He cursed, Kerwins beard!
anesthetized, the inner creature is alert enough to speak
Damn it all! He was clearly agitated at this untimely
and seems fluent in Cygnaran. Most curious. His eyes
interruption. In truth, Bethayne also found it inconvenient.
darted to the beakers of fluids connected to hoses and
First conversations between strangers established an
needles piercing Belphagor. Should I increase the
important foundation, and turning this circumstance
dosage? He frowned, weighing the option, then stood
around would require delicacy. He yanked the door open.
and put the cutting implement down, to Bethaynes
What is it? The farrow outside the door said something
initial relief. Then panic returned as he fiddled with the
either in a language Everblight did not know or using an
valves regulating the mysterious fluids. Belphagor s
incomprehensible dialect. It was the first time she could
heart slowed alarmingly.
remember Everblight being ignorant of a tongue.
I suggest you leave that be. She said the words carefully,
Arkadius turned to the hunchbacked farrow and ordered,
calmly, as if speaking to a child. He frowned, vexed.
Maintain the drips, and get me if there are any problems.
As Bethayne absorbed details of her surroundings, she He faced the war hog in its alcove. If she tries to move from
made a number of rapid assessments. Within Everblights that table, render her unconscious. But only unconscious.
mind came identification, even empathy. This was a Given his ability to control the beast with his mind, the
laboratory, superficially dissimilar to the research abattoir words were for her benefit. This amused her.
Everblight had employed beneath the Fane of Ayisla, but
She felt grateful that his departure gave her a chance to test
its purpose seemed similar.
the limits of her circumstances. Belphagors body remained
More than the scientific apparatus or the peculiar liquids, crippled, and the humans drugs were not helping.
the key was in the diagrams upon the walls. She saw Ordinarily she would have tried to rile the warbeast so
numerous anatomical charts of dissected farrow and other she could use that energy to knit its wounds, but that was
pig-like creatures, all extremely detailed and drawn with a impossible. Nor could she muster much of her own blighted
skilled hand. On the far wall was a shelved case containing sorcery. Even were she able to manifest her power, killing
sealed glass containers of organs preserved in yellowish the human warlock with the war hog nearby was unlikely.
fluid. She realized the axe-wielding and cannon-mounted
She summoned her will and reached for Everblights mind
boars must be the creation of this man: he was a shaper of
to convey the urgency of her situation. I am in grave peril.
flesh and machines. His efforts were crude compared to
The confession was difficult.
Everblights mastery yet impressive for an ordinary mortal.
The athanc in her chest lit afire as his presence came upon
She knew at once he had brought her here to dissect and
her with such swiftness that she gasped and trembled. He
study her, much as Everblight had done to Iosans below
roared into her mind, and she could feel his irritation. This
Issyrah. In her most persuasive tone she said, You will learn
was not the fluid, almost ecstatic blending she felt when
far more from me as an awake and willing participant.
Everblight occupied her body for his own use. His voice
His eyes widened, and he looked at her with his full boomed painfully inside her skull. I HAVE NO TIME TO
attention. She could easily read his expression of amazement SPARE FOR YOUR PLIGHT. I LEAVE IT TO YOU TO BEND

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THE MORTAL TO YOUR WILL. He was gone again, Though sometimes blunt, flattery could be an effective tool
sweeping from her mind like a tornado. if applied properly. His posture relaxed, and his shoulders
straightened a bit. Organic forms have many advantages
A far gentler presence followed. Bethayne felt as if a cold,
over machines, he answered, his face becoming more
soothing hand were touching her cheek. Where are you?
animated as he spoke. But flesh has limits. A proper
Vayl asked. The barrier caused by her joining with Belphagor
integration of the two allows the whole to exceed the sum
made Vayls mental voice sound distant and muffled.
of the parts. There are of course many technical difficulties.
Bethayne admitted, Somewhere south; beyond that I do He suddenly frowned as if remembering to whom he was
not know. speaking. I wouldnt expect you to understand.

We will try to find you, but for now you are on your own. She smiled slightly. You might be surprised.
Endure. With that simple command, the sense of Vayl
You were clearly Nyss, once. When and where did you
evaporated, leaving only a lingering coolness.
learn Cygnaran? Before or after you were exposed to blight?
What are you? His hunger for knowledge was clear. He
reminded her of a freshly spawned carnivean seeking after
meat with single-minded determination.
The powerful chemicals injected into Belphagor overcame I am one of the chosen generals of the dragon Everblight.
its ability to filter them for her, and Bethayne lost She saw his mouth drop slightly open at this. Fascination
consciousness for some time. She struggled up through the more than fear defined his expression. She continued, What
blackness like a swimmer trapped in a frozen river seeking if I told you I created this creature? I shaped it into being,
a hole for air. She knew many hours had passed, as she felt spawned it of my blood, my dreams, and my nightmares. It
very thirsty and hungry, but such physical sensations were is as unique as I am.
insignificant.

The human, assisted as always by Targ, was at work again.

He had removed Belphagors upper armor and was slowly She struggled up through
cutting through a section of its upper left chest. She sensed the blackness like a swimmer
numerous exploratory incisions along the beast's flesh that trapped in a frozen river
compounded the weakness caused by the drugs. She saw
no sign his dissection tools had been applied to her own
seeking a hole for air.
flesh, a sign her words had reached him.

She said, Inflicting further injury will not serve your He placed a hand on Belphagor. You created this? His
purposes. voice conveyed his amazement. How? I cannot even begin
to fathom a method for such a thing.
He met her eyes almost sheepishly, then drew himself up. My
studies require samples. I will not remove anything vital. My blood is protean, ever-malleable, potent with the seeds
of genesis. She saw him respond to the hypnotic rhythm
Bethayne elaborated, When this creature dies, not only of her words. I can create more than this, a dizzying
will I perish, but its body will quickly decompose. You will assortment of living forms. I can show you many things,
learn nothing of its internal structure before it becomes a wondrous things. She poured into her voice the compelling
useless pool of fluids. timbres she had learned as a priestess of Nyssor, her tone
He was silent as he considered this, and when he spoke it rich and latent with subtle power. Seeing his gloved hand
was on another matter. To answer your previous question, twitch, she wondered if any of Belphagors blood had
my name is Doctor Arkadius. Giving his name to her touched him. Blight would open his mind to her.
had been a type of submission. For the moment she was He shook his head and stepped back. You have no reason
in charge of the conversation; she could see he desired to to share such knowledge with me. A slight quaver in his
speak with her further. voice betrayed a longing to hear more.
Her eyes went to the war hog with its machined arms, She lowered her eyes. Despite his resistance she could tell
the pipes that went through its flesh, the extensive scars she was reaching him. Reduce the dosage of whatever you
showing where it had been sliced apart and reassembled. are applying. Allow me to extract from Belphagor. Yes, that
Your work is impressive, Arkadius. I have never seen a is its name. Once our connection severs, you can experiment
steam engine integrated into a living organism. at will. A fair exchange for my freedom.

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He said nothing but stared at her and chewed on his lower lip. interesting creatures, I am sure. He frowned but stalked
over to the beakers of dripping fluids and started to open
She spoke again, softly. We are alike you and I. Both of us
the valves with sharp, decisive twists. It was as if he did
shape flesh. You by tool and blade, I by ... other means. I
not trust himself to carry through unless he acted quickly.
do not object to your learning about me. My master seeks
all to understand his beauty, his supremacy. By revealing Bethayne felt her heartbeat accelerate even as Belphagors
myself fully to you, I accomplish his aims. Her voice was slowed down. What will this buy you? Cryx does not care
seductive. By his flushed skin, the way his breath quickened, about the details of your involvement. They will destroy
he was responding even if against his inner judgment. you regardless. Arkadius, I know you are not stupid. Listen
to me. Her tone was sharp, and she saw she had struck a
Targ made what might have been an alarmed snort, but
chord by insulting his intelligence.
Arkadius ignored it. He glanced to his nearby war hog,
clearly weighing the risks. He was reaching for one of the There is a chance they will be satisfied with you. If not,
valves to the drug drips when the laboratory door swung he shrugged, we will fight them. We have a formidable
open and a farrow pushed through. Even Bethayne could arsenal and are prepared for war, should it come. He might
tell the farrow who entered was no simple brigand. Older have believed what he said, but she could tell he was not as
and graying, he wore more elaborate attire, with bits of bone confident as he wanted to appear.
dangling from tasseled cords and clinking as he moved. He
Free me. She put all of her emphasis into the words.
leaned on a gnarled staff and walked with a slight limp.
Stop the drugs. I will fight at your side. We will fight them
He offered the doctor a respectful bow. Arkadius, Cryx
together. You have yet to see my full power.
comes. His voice was gruff, but the Cygnaran words were
comprehensible. Must have followed her here. He jerked So you can turn on me when you get the chance? I think
his tusks toward the dissection table. not. You will want vengeance for your capture. I would,
were I you. Agony strained his voice. He looked between
Arkadius folded his arms. What happened? Watching
her and Belphagor, his eyes filled with a mix of emotions, as
them closely, Bethayne decided the human was in charge,
if he were convincing himself.
though clearly this farrow occupied some position of
authority, likely that of an advisor. I do not hold my capture against you, now that we know
one another. I have seen your capabilities. Think to the future!
Bonejack rooting around. Destroyed now. Sentries saw
There is much to be gained by working together. He shook
more. They will find this place, maybe soon. He sniffed
his head but frowned as though deliberating. She continued,
meaningfully toward Bethayne.
Allies of mine converge on this place. If you have given me
From the nearest bench Arkadius picked up his needle- over, they will seek your destruction even should you survive
barreled weapon. Very well. Please gather the grunts and Cryx. I do not want that.
make ready for an armed engagement. He turned to the
You lie. How could allies find you?
hunchbacked assistant, Targ, see to the gun boars and fire
up another war hog. We are connected. All of us. By the dragon we serve.
She could see his interest and persisted, Trust me this
Arkadius looked about to march from the room, but
once. I vow there will be no treachery. On my life, on
the older farrow stopped him with a long-nailed and
Belphagors. Even as she made this promise she could feel
furred hand on his arm. Wait, the farrow spoke in
her consciousness begin to fade. Her body went numb, and
conspiratorial tones, they come for her. His eyes as he
her eyes began to roll back.
met Bethaynes contained a spark of cunning. Offer her.
They may leave. Do not believe her, Doctor, the elder farrow warned.

Arkadius hesitated and looked at her. Bethayne could see Despite this his hands were suddenly on the valves,
fear in his eyes, conflicting with his scientific curiosity. cranking them entirely the other way to seal them. He then
The desire for survival slowly prevailed, and his eyes pulled loose the needled hoses piercing Belphagor.
went cold. Perhaps you are correct. This may have been a
It did not take long. No ordinary living thing, Belphagor had
foolish endeavor.
already begun to develop a resistance to the soporific drug. In
You dont want to turn me over to them, Arkadius. Her time it would have become able to neutralize it completely, as
use of his name made his eyes widen. it had with fire, acid, and lightning.

No, I do not, he begrudgingly admitted. But between After waiting until it filtered the toxins from her blood, she
your survival and mine, there is no choice. He shook sent the mental impulse for it to withdraw the hollow bone
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gracefully from the table, several
inches taller than Arkadius. His
needled weapon was in hand,
and he eyed her nervously. She
smiled sweetly as she recovered
her clawed gauntlet and slipped
her hand back into place.

She rested this hand on

Belphagors chest and closed
her eyes as she reached across
their bond to pass her blighted
power through its tissues. She
drew upon its inner vitality and
cycled it through the wellspring
of the athanc shard in her heart,
then let it flow back into its
tissues, closing its wounds,
correcting broken bones, and
repairing internal organs.
Speaking over her shoulder,
she said, See to your people.
We will join you soon.

Arkadius stared at her a moment

but then moved toward the door,
gathering the farrow and massive
war hog as he went. They left
Bethayne and Belphagor alone in
the laboratory. Her lips curled in
a small smile.

Bethayne sent to Vayl as she

climbed the stairs. The Vassal
of Everblight snapped, What
happened? I could not reach you. She did not wait for an of Legion encampments, with the exception of the solid,
answer. I think I have found where you are. We dispatched squat building atop the entrance to Arkadius laboratory. Its
our swiftest hunters. Look for Annyssa Ryvaal. Hand- reeking outer wings were clearly home to his stock of beasts
picked by Lylyth, Annyssa was the leader of the Legions and a large number of enormous, unaltered pigs and boars.
raptors, as ruthless as she was capable. Bethayne felt a surge
The farrow troops had gathered and looked ready to move, with
of appreciation.
an impressive array of brigands alongside others armed with
Belphagor moved sinuously ahead of Bethayne. They hefty cleavers. Targ had brought a pair of powerfully built war
entered a dusty compound outside the squat edifice atop the hogs and a trio of gun boars. Her arrival into their midst caused
entrance to the underground laboratory. The air was hot and a considerable stir, but she ignored their noises and looks. She
uncomfortably dry. The compound occupied a low plateau sidled near Dr. Arkadius as he pulled a pair of hefty goggles
surrounded by rocky crags in what she guessed was one of over his eyes. She asked, What do your scouts report?
the western hill ranges of the Bloodstone Marches, given
He hesitated only slightly before answering, Several
the reddish hue of the earth. The sparse, thorny vegetation
groups of Cryx have been seen around the perimeter and
was cleared for several farrow-built structures. These
outer paths. I believe the main body is north of here. We are
seemed reasonably sound, but the arrangement had a hastily
well fortified; we should dig in and wait.
constructed, impermanent look that reminded Bethayne

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Bethayne shook her head. It would be a mistake to let them blood mingled she felt her bond to them strengthen until
box us in here. Better to stay on the move and crush what they could clearly hear her thoughts and obey her will.
pockets we can find before they gather. She had her own
Arkadius and his farrow had caught up with her, but she
motivation for this suggestion, given Annyssa was searching
ignored their stares and murmuring. The Cryxians were
for her. We can retreat here if the fight goes poorly.
almost upon them. One of the nephilim soldiers hissed and
Arkadius nodded at the suggestion as if it had been his plan all raised its sword, moving toward the forward war hog, but
along. He spoke orders to get his farrow underway, dispatching Bethayne directed it toward the Cryxians instead. The others
them in large groups. Bethayne felt a vague urgency, perhaps followed suit, the soldiers advancing toward the unliving
rooted in having been incapacitated too long. foe as the bolt throwers reloaded their powerful weapons.
Arkadius shouted orders to his farrow, who turned their pig
They quickly found a small band of Cryxians. The gun boars
iron rifles to fire on the advancing horde of mechanithralls
fired shells into ranks of mechanithralls while Bethayne
and bile thralls ahead of the helljacks.
sent Belphagor forward to intercept their accompanying
bile thralls. She hurled her magic into the enemy with With the striders occupying the enemy, the raptors raced
savage enthusiasm, delivering blighted power through her toward Bethayne. A tall, proud woman led them from atop
dragonspawn. Showing their lack of discipline, a number an ulk decked in elaborate barding, including an enclosed
of brigands were led astray by a flanking bonejack until helmet with thin slits for its eyes. Sharpened steel blades shone
their leaders bullied them back into position. To the north, on its sweeping horns, and the bow the woman wielded was
Bethayne saw something past the next hill, possibly kicked particularly elaborate. She had an arrow nocked and pointed
up sand and dust. She pointed it out to Arkadius and then at Arkadius, prompting several of the nearest farrow and one
rushed in that direction, forcing the human and his beasts of the gun boars to squeal and aim their weapons toward her
to hasten after. in return. Bethayne addressed her. Annyssa Ryvaal, I greet
you. These are our allies this day. She indicated Arkadius,
Cresting the hill were the swift-moving forms of what had
his beasts, and the farrow with a sweep of her claw.
to be blighted raptors racing forward alongside fleet archers,
all firing at targets behind them as they rushed south. The As you command, Voice of Everblight. The Talon of
advancing Cryxian force was extremely familiar to Bethayne, Everblight pointed her bow the other direction and sent its
the same as she had encountered just days before. arrow instead into a Deathripper that was closing on them.
Her raptors sent other arrows toward the swiftly running
The raptors and striders sent punishing volleys of arrows
machine, and two wedged into the piston mechanisms driving
into the mechanithralls at the fore, buying time for the
its legs. Bethayne raised a clawed hand as Belphagor moved
heavier elements of their force to keep on the move. Those
protectively in front of her and sent her power through him
included four thick-bodied nephilimtwo soldiers and two
once more, creating a tendril of raw force she used to seize
bolt throwers. The nephilim soldiers had their short wings
the Deathripper and yank it violently, shattering its fragile
extended to glide over short distances, evading boulders
arc node and nearly ripping off its head.
and clusters of thorny shrub that would otherwise have
impeded them. The bolt throwers occasionally turned to fire The raptors wheeled their nimble ulks around and charged
their ballistae back toward the enemy. while drawing their swords. Arkadius war hogs rushed
forward as well, bellowing as they raised jack-like hands
The nephilim were first to see her. She rushed forward,
with readied axes. Arkadius summoned his will to create a
gaining on Belphagor, who slithered across the dry sands
chaotic array of orange runes around him. The light lit his
just ahead of her. The nephilim raised their heads and gave
lean features ominously from below. His power felt alien
a shrieking cry of greeting in one voice. Belphagor answered
to Bethayne, but she could sense the unleashing of violent
them with a roar that seemed an echo of Everblight as it
mystical impulses that goaded the war hogs and gun boars
resounded off the nearest hills. The sound would have
into a rage. Their eyes gleamed with aggression, and they
put terror into the living but had no impact on the dead.
ignored the Leviathan bolts and the arcing fire of another
Helljacks and bonejacks were driving toward them now,
bloat thrall that landed among them as they closed the
ignoring the arrows sent their way.
gap with their Cryxian adversaries. Another set of runes
Bethayne stopped as the four nephilim reached her. They flickered into existence around the forward war hog as it
gathered around her reverently and kneeled, their eyeless crashed into the approaching Slayer.
heads bowed. With a razored claw she made a small cut
Another surge of huge-fisted mechanithralls closed on
along her thigh, just above her armored greaves, letting her
Belphagor. Bethayne reached into its essence and summoned
blood coat the blade. She quickly nicked the skin of each
an explosion of choking blighted ash that flickered with
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orange and black flames. As they entered this noxious bonejacks as well as powerful spells to discourage pursuit.
cloud, the thralls crumbled before landing a single blow. Bethaynes raptors and striders chased the retreating army
as far as the grove of trees nearer the river, but she felt no
Her will also directed the nephilim soldiers at the forward
desire to go beyond that. Bethayne knew the iron lich had
edge of the fray. They set upon the black-shelled Corruptor
divided her forces while searching for them; those enemies
with enormous swords, delivering crushing blows that
could now be consolidating. Nonetheless, whatever the
shattered the mechanisms of both its necrojector and its
Cryxian had left would be a fraction of what she had
sludge cannon.
commanded when she began. Not enough to challenge
The chaos increased as the gun boars and bolt throwers them or hinder their return north.
continued to fire on the enemy while the helljacks closed to
Once they were certain Cryx was gone, Arkadius and his
melee. The iron lich commanding the machines controlled
farrow herded together, weapons in hand, and warily eyed
them like a master puppeteer, using her mobile bonejacks
the blighted Nyss and Bethayne. One of the war hogs was
to extend the reach of her sickly green runic magic with
down, and two of the gun boars were badly injured. Arkadius
devastating impact. Farrow fell before her jacks in droves,
was already drawing on his power and using his tools to heal
while bile thralls exploded to annihilate striders who could
and repair them. He moved with a haste certainly driven by
not destroy them fast enough. Crab-legged necrotechs
concerns regarding their safety. Bethaynes nephilim had
lurked behind the main line to repair injured machines.
weathered the fight intact, aside from superficial wounds,
The Leviathan endured several axe blows but managed to and her force looked the stronger of the two. Arkadius
seize the first of the war hogs in its pincer. It hurled the stopped fiddling with the nearest gun boar as Bethayne
heavy pig through the air toward Arkadius, who narrowly stepped closer. His eyes were inscrutable behind his goggles.
escaped being crushed. Several scrap thralls lumbered
She offered a small nod and said, My promise to you holds.
toward him, dead bodies transformed into walking bombs.
By my accounting, you owe me at least two favors: one for
Bethayne saw panic on Arkadius face. By the time he got forgiving you for capturing me, and another for saving your
to his feet the shambling automatons would be upon him. life. Her eyes were mischievous, but he had no doubt of
Even as he stood he looked back to her with an expression her sincerity.
of dread, clearly expecting she would betray him. The
Arkadius made a slight bow. Fulfilling the terms of that
draconic joy of battle had seized her, filling her with
debt will be my pleasure. I look forward to our next meeting
bloodthirsty delight. She could not help but laugh, and the
and hope for a lengthy exchange of information.
blood left Arkadius face.
She laughed and turned away to rejoin the other Nyss. I
Belphagor slithered swiftly toward him. She raised a
will come for you. Belphagor moved behind her and turned
clawed hand and sent a surge of blighted power through
back once at Arkadius as they departed, uttering a warning
her dragonspawn to burst the nearest scrap thrall in an
hiss. With that they marched away, the Nyss eager to return
eruption of spiny bone growths that shredded through
from these arid and hot lands to their more comfortable ice-
the others staggering toward him. They exploded even in
covered mountains.
death, leaving craters in the ground where they had been.
Arkadius had hunkered and covered his head, and his thick
leather coat had protected him from the worst of the blasts.

She prompted Belphagor to lift him to his feet. The

dragonspawn was none too gentle, and its claw left a
puckered, bleeding hole in his chest that made him groan
in pain. Bethayne considered this a small and deserved
payment. He glared at her through his goggles, but she just
smiled and returned her attention to the battle. Arkadius
scowl became a look of utter fascination and interest as it
dawned on him that not only had she honored her vow, she
had saved his life.

The Cryxian warcaster was masterful, but she was

experienced enough to see when her force was at a
disadvantage. After her primary helljacks collapsed,
she began her withdrawal, making use of her remaining

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 The Legion of Everblight
Shape of the Dragon
The armies that fight in the name of Everblight are a the other dragons, whose spawn were random creatures
terrifying force without precedent. His warriors have been that could not be created in number. Despite the clear
blessed with his perfecting blight and are accompanied supremacy of his methods, Everblight remained unsatisfied.
by blood-spawned creations conceived in his alien and Although they were deadly, his spawn required proximity
nightmarish mind. The dragons legion serves him with a to their creator to carry out any but the simplest commands.
devotion any god would envy, his followers seeking only to The dragon realized there was a price for absolute loyalty,
live and die in his name. and he desired minions of greater self-will and autonomy.

Toruks other progeny have used their blighted essence to Before Everblight could move to the next stage of his
create loyal slaves, but only Everblight has perfected the experiments, Toruk, the Dragonfather, discovered his
application of blight into an art. With it he can enhance, location and descended upon him. Though Everblight
corrupt, and reshape life in his own image. Freed from the escaped by cunningly leading his father to the hiding
constraints of a physical form, he has in a handful of years place of one of his siblings, he realized he had to proceed
raised an army to challenge the empire of walking death his carefully or risk being discovered anew; the dragonspawn
father built over millennia. Everblights forces have been that were his glory also evidenced his proximity. After
consciously honed, each soldier and beast an instrument of centuries spent recovering from his wounds, Everblight hid
his will. He has studied their physical bodies as well as their himself within the Skybridge Mountains near Ios and from
spiritual essences and found them suitable vessels for his there watched the slow decline of its people. In the elves
ultimate purpose. Everblight saw great opportunity. Severed from their gods,
they were consumed by a spiritual void he knew could be
He and his army measure victory only in the advancement
filled with his undying blight. After witnessing the psychic
of one cause: the destruction and consumption of his
cataclysm known as the Rivening shatter the minds of their
siblings and, eventually, Toruk. Since being freed from his
priests, Everblight took advantage of the chaos to burrow
icy prison, Everblight has initiated a plan of conquest that
into forgotten tunnels deep beneath the city of Issyrah.
has unfolded at a desperate and preternatural pace. Though
the dragon has capitalized on his bodiless existence, this Everblight used his formidable powers of mental influence
state has left his legion vulnerable. Without the terrifying to send a subtle summons into the Iosan cities, beckoning to
form of a dragon to support them, his forces must rely on those bereft of hope and yearning for a spiritual connection.
speed and numbers to survive until his greater ambitions Those few Iosans who felt compelled to make pilgrimages
can be achieved. To compensate, his plans must move apace, to Ayislas cursed fane found Everblight waiting for them.
requiring actions bold and rash by the timeless standards of With these unwitting volunteers, the dragon began a process
other dragons. of slow experimentation, corrupting and shaping their
bodies and minds. In time he hoped to control them entirely
An Evolving Legion and forge them into a tool for his particular purposes.
Everblights present legion is not his first. Long ago, when For centuries Everblight chose individuals from among
he still walked the continent clad in nearly imperishable the Iosan people for his deliberate study. Their kinsmen
flesh, the dragon dwelled beneath the dread kingdom of never knew what became of them. By exposing them
Morrdh. He bound many of its people to his will and bred to carefully controlled degrees of blight, he was able to
the first of his deliberately crafted dragonspawn. The Lords maintain an insidious and terrible influence over his
of Morrdh did the dragons bidding but avoided submitting followers. Everblight gained near-total mastery over their
entirely to his commands, insisting on retaining their free flesh and learned to apply his blight to refine their bodies
will. Everblight employed his array of spawn to fulfill the into lethal weapons.
bargains he made with the short-lived tyrants of this empire.
Before he could fully capitalize on plans centuries in the
This era was a fertile period of experimentation and genesis making, the Iosans became aware of the threat in their
of the first generation of Everblights dragonspawn, all born midst and moved against him. Roused to terrible anger,
directly from his blood. The wars of Morrdh proved an Everblight unleashed his full strength on Issyrah and
exceptional testing ground to evaluate the creatures combat reduced the city to ruin. In his rage he misjudged the
effectiveness, and any that displeased him he modified to power of his adversaries, however, and he was eventually
serve better or simply destroyed. In time, Everblight created overwhelmed and taken down. His flesh was destroyed,
a host of spawn, each of them a distant echo of his own his athanc torn loose, and his mind sealed away and
glory. In these he accomplished something never done by imprisoned in a remote mountain. This defeat, prompted in

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 MILITARY OF THE
LEGION OF EVERBLIGHT

EVERBLIGHT
Thagrosh
The Messiah
Prophet of Everblight

Typhon
Vayl
Disciple of Everblight
(Arcane Research, While answerable to Vayl,
Warlock Seneschal) Saeryn and Ryas keep their own counsel

LYLYTH Absylonia Bethayne Saeryn

Herald and Shadow of Everblight Terror of Everblight Voice of Everbligh Omen of Everblight Rhyas
(Master of Scouts, (Spawning Master, (Strike Force Leader) (Strike Force Leader) Sigil of Everbligh
Strike Force Leader) Strike Force Leader) (Strike Force Leader, Assassin)

Thagrosh's Direct Dominion

Grotesques
Lylyth's Direct Dominion
Ogrun War Chiefs Farilor, Bladeguard
of the Prophet
Legionnaires
Annyssa Ryvaal Various Deathstalkers
Talon of Everblight Warspears &
Raptors Warmongers
Vayl's Direct Dominion

Striders

Sorcerers Shepherds Bayal, Hound

No Specific Dominion Led by various senior sorcerers No specific leadership hierarchy of Everblight
Hex Hunters
Archers Swordsmen
Spawning Vessel
Fabrication

Blighted Arcane Support

Includes spell martyrs, forsaken,
incubation of incubi

STRIKE FORCE HIERARCHY

Warlock
Chosen generals of Everblight, obeyed as
physical embodiments of the dragon's will
Some senior Nyss are given authority
over other Legion elements

Nyss Shards
Led by priors
May include mixed fighting elements

Ogrun Tribes
Led by war chiefs
Large Nyss
Hunting Packs Ancillary Specialties
Led by deacons Including sorcerers,
Packs include cohesive shepherds, spawning vessels Ogrun War Groups
fighting elements Led by deacons

Grotesques
Nyss Hunting Groups The most intelligent grotesques Ogrun Warbands Blighted
Led by vassals gain natural dominance Led by vassals Arcane Support
Groups include cohesive Comprise either warspears Spell Martyrs,
fighting elements or warmongers Forsaken, Incubi

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 The Legion of Everblight

part by giving in to his internal rage rather than following

Blight and the Nyss his reason, forever changed how Everblight viewed the
limits of his power and the necessity of creating an army.
Beyond those refugees who fled the north, the majority of the For years during this imprisonment, Everblight knew
surviving Nyss are tainted with the dragons blight. Though only mindless rage and despair, but eventually rationality
their god, Nyssor, was among them at the time of Everblights returned. Slowly he grew aware of the proximity of the
appearance, he was too deep in slumber to steel most of his Nyss who made their homes not far from his prison.
people against the dragons influence. The blight washed
Occupied with hunting and survival amid the harsh, frozen
over them like a cleansing tide, marking them indelibly in
mountains and offering worship to their god of winter,
body and mind. Everblight had mastered his manipulation
Nyssor, these rustic people lived simpler lives than the
of elven flesh during his centuries beneath Issyrah, and the
Iosans. Their bodies and souls were similar to those he
changes he wrought among the Nyss were profound.
had studied for so long, and he saw a chance to salvage his
His greatest achievement is also his most insidious: every plans. When the weak-minded ogrun Thagrosh came within
Nyss afflicted by his blight becomes instinctually loyal to the range of the dragons silent whispers, he was compelled to
dragon. Though not slavishly bound to his will, the blighted retrieve Everblights imprisoned athanc and plunge it into
Nyss are predisposed to basking in his glory. This loyalty his own chest. With the dragons essence guiding his steps,
cannot be broken, for it is woven into the very being of the ogrun walked down into the valleys of the Nyss to begin
each Nyss. To unravel it would be to unravel that individuals a war of subjugation.
mind and body. The Nyss manifest the effects of the blight
in a variety of other physical, mental, and cultural ways as As the dragon spread his blight among the Nyss, their
well. In almost all instances they have become more prone society was torn apart. Betrayed from the inside by their
to cruelty, their ethics and morality eroded by their devotion own sorceress Vayl Hallyr, the Nyss shards fell one by one to
to Everblight. Everblights corruption. The one-time tyrant of her own tribe
knew a great deal about the fighting strength and armament
The dragon has carefully manipulated the qualities he finds
of the various Nyss shards. At her direction Everblight
most useful in his vassals. Those affected by his blight have
co-opted the strongest and set them to destroy those she
become more draconic in their forms and more instinctive
and animalistic in their thinking. Patches of scales erupt selected as too troublesome to be worth conversion. When
across flesh distorted by boney ridges and protrusions, it became clear resistance brought only death, the survivors,
giving the beings an unquestionably reptilian cast. The including most of the priests of the Fane of Nyssor, fled to
blight has changed some so significantly they scarcely the south. Within weeks the dragon possessed the core of a
resemble the elves they once were, and their basest new legion, one that had already begun to transform into
primitive instincts are now unconstrained and enhanced. something new and unprecedented. Whatever aspects of
The most skilled Nyss hunters became like the cruel birds of their Nyss culture his new adherents retained, they shaped
prey they had long revered. Others developed in ways just for a new purpose; those elements deemed unimportant
as startling, transforming into the perfect blighted weapons remnants of their past existence, they culled.
their master required.
Soon thereafter, the Legion gathered ancillary forces from
More disturbingly, Everblights influence has wrought a the regions neighboring the Shard Spires of the Nyss.
change in the reproductive cycle of the Nyss. Their birthrates Everblight had chosen Thagrosh as a matter of necessity
have increased to a clearly unnatural level, and those born but appreciated the power and fortitude of ogrun flesh, and
since the gift of the blight mature at an accelerated pace. It his army quickly descended upon a number of outlying
seems likely their life spans will be dramatically abbreviated mountain villages of this species. Ogrun do not react as
as well, but not enough time has passed since the absorption predictably to the blight as Nyss do, as Everblight has not
of the Nyss for the full impact of these alterations to be felt. spent time studying their essence, but these warriors added
Everblight cares only that his legion can rapidly replenish its much-needed brawn to the swift and subtle forces arisen
losses. If he manages to establish strongholds where his army
of the Nyss hunting and fighting traditions. These people
can propagate, it is possible that one day their numbers may
would soon become the vital core from which the rest of his
eclipse that of their Iosan cousins, who suffer from steeply
army would be expanded and evolved.
rising infertility. Everblight considers this change to be only
one of many signs his modified creations are superior to their
original forms.

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The Dragons
Chosen
During the centuries the
dragon spent imprisoned and
disembodied, he thought and
planned. Everblight delved
into the study of the limitations
and structure of his athanc
for decades, learning more of
its secrets than the rest of his
siblings combined. Even the
Dragonfather had never been
forced into the necessity of
such focused self-examination.
Everblight arrived at a method
whereby he could divide his
essence and implant portions
into worthy vessels while
retaining his own consciousness.
He had the perfect tool for this
procedure in one of the weapons
he had forged in the time of
Morrdh, originally intended
to be wielded against the
other dragons. Once Thagrosh
recovered that weapon, he was
ready to begin.

Everblights decision to remain

formless and execute his plans
through proxy hosts was
not born solely out of fear of
Toruk and the other dragons,
although he was keenly aware
of the dangers that would face
him if he regained his draconic
body too soon. Because his very essence resides in each input of their beasts grants them considerable situational
of his warlocks, no distance can separate them from the awareness on the battlefield.
commands of their master. Each of his hosts can instantly
Everblights chosen instruments are not mindless pawns,
be made aware of his will. As an unanticipated benefit,
however. He selected each one to fill a unique role in
the warlocks can also communicate with one another.
acknowledgment of their supreme competence and
Through this network of minds Everblight is able to
significant skill. Though he is able to peer through their
coordinate his legion over vast distances, while keeping
eyes at any time, Everblight grants them great autonomy,
his consciousness safe. Even were another dragon to kill a
interfering only when necessary. He is shaping each
number of his warlocks and absorb their shards, it would
warlock in a different direction, though all must sometimes
require the consumption of all of them for Everblight to be
overcome setbacks or failure in order to become greater
truly destroyed.
than the base flesh into which they were born. In return,
In addition, each of his chosen generals can command the warlocks know they can never fully fathom the mind
a whole host of dragonspawn, manipulating nearby of their master and that his favor must be earned by acts
warbeasts as instruments of their will just as Everblight of distinction.
himself once did. This significantly amplifies the killing
force of their armies, and their ability to share the sensory

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 The Legion of Everblight

Equally important to Everblight is the ability of his

warlocks to create the creatures his legion requires: though
The New Order
Though only a few exceptional Nyss have been found
the advantages of his disembodied state are many, in this
worthy of hosting a fragment of Everblights athanc, there
form he cannot directly generate spawn. Fortunately his
is no question this race is favored above all others in his
mastery over his blighted essence has enabled him to
glory. Having cast off the yoke of servitude to their frozen
bestow the secret of the beasts creation upon his warlocks.
god, the Nyss came to accept their destiny at the vanguard
The connection between his athanc shard and the warlocks
of the rising dragons army. Those so transformed are still in
living hearts imbues each warlock with the ability to generate
the process of determining what their new society will be;
Everblights blood within her veins, where it mingles with
the pressures of survival and functioning as an army have
their lesser essence. With adequate preparation time and a
taken priority over any longer-term considerations.
sufficient quantity of this blood, any of Everblights spawn
can be created. The generation of the least spawn requires It has been only a few short years since Thagrosh brought
little blood and recovery time, but creating the greatest the Nyss the blighted message of their new master, yet
beasts exhausts and virtually exsanguinates a warlock. Everblights circumstances required these new converts to
Efforts are underway to overcome this limitation by crafting function as an effective army immediately. The primary
spawning vessels able to transmute baser organic materials architect of this legion was the ice witch Vayl, first of the
into draconic flesh. Dragons willing disciples. Vayl rose to unify and lead the
blighted Nyss in Everblights name, given permission by
A warlock can create dragonspawn anywhere, but bases of
Thagrosh to oversee the details of this complex endeavor.
operation for such undertakings are sometimes necessary.
Semi-permanent facilities are required to produce vital The dragons blight made the Nyss more cruel and predatory
weaponry, including weapons, armor, and spawning as they cast aside countless generations of tradition in a brief
vessels. Remote locations serve best for these carefully period of upheaval and slaughter. The atrocities committed
guarded outposts to avoid drawing the attention of rival during those first days were of concern to Everblight only
dragons or enemy armies. in that he wished his army to be as large as possible. Vayl
brutally quelled this violence, ensuring the core of the
Nyss survived this transformative period. Once order was
restored, Vayl applied her unconditional authority toward
Hearing the Dragons Voice a fundamental reorganization of the dragons new army.

Although many elements of Nyss culture were abandoned as

Those individuals graced with a shard from Everblights unnecessary remnants of an extinct society, some traditions
athanc can hear his thoughts with total clarity. The were easier to adapt, and several groups remained mostly
dragons voice comes unbidden and wordless to each intact. The raptors, for examplehunters and warriors
warlock with a resonance that touches the very fiber of
practiced in riding the swift ulkembodied the strengths
the soul. His warlocks instantly understand any truth he
Everblight sought. Similarly, the rangers were reshaped
reveals to them, seeing his memories as their own. Through
into the striders. A group of sacred warriors once called
this connection Everblight can grant his warlocks access
the ryssovass became the Legionnaires, sworn to protect
to chosen portions of his vast knowledge and experience,
Thagrosh as his inner guard with their traditional weapons,
including mastery of myriad languages, such as the secret
armor, and fighting techniques.
tongue of the dragons, Tkra.

While Everblight can see through every warlocks eyes and Most Nyss continued to identify strongly with the tribes
speak to them with distinct conversations simultaneously, into which they were born as well as their extended hunting
his attention is usually more narrowly focused. At times groups, or shards. Vayl set these ties to a new purpose by
the dragon seals his thoughts from his warlocks entirely, establishing the shards as the basic divisions of the legion,
forcing them to rely on their own counsel. Everblight may each made up of fifty to eighty warriors.
speak to them unbidden at any time, but his attention must
Each shard is led by a prior, a captain of the Legion who
be solicited, and any warlock who puts forth idle requests
formally carries the title of aransor once reserved to elders of
or seeks aid when her own powers will suffice risks
the Fane of Nyssor. Deacons in charge of large hunting packs
provoking his wrath. A natural hierarchy of access to the
within the shards serve as the priors chosen lieutenants,
dragon has formed over time, with most of the warlocks
while smaller hunting groups are supervised by ruthless
preferring to speak to Everblight through Thagrosh as his
sergeants called vassals. Some fighting traditions also use
chosen prophet and messiah.
titles and ranks specific to their training and needs.

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 Eyes of the Dragon
First Scout Shard of the Shadow of Everblight
Tasked with gathering intelligence for the Legion, Lylyth
Voassyr is the most prominent forward commander in
Everblights army. Her wide-ranging reconnaissance not
only covers the mountains of Rhul and the far north but
also extends farther south into the forests and mountains
of western Immorens heartland. The unforgiving pace
she sets requires her forces to be made up of the swiftest
and hardiest Nyss, the only ones who can hope to keep
up with her and her favored dragonspawn. Those
chosen to accompany Lylyth must be prepared to live
for months at a time without even the meager comforts
of the Legions basic camps.

Each strider is expected to maintain a grueling pace

while avoiding observation by any potential enemies.
The feeding of her spawn is one of the primary tasks
assigned to her striders. Each of them knows they will
eat only after the spawn have had their fill; if there is
insufficient game to be found, they will starve while the
beasts eat.

Although her primary charge is reconnaissance, Lylyth

Leadership does not shy from battle when given the opportunity to
Lylyth Voassyr, Herald and Shadow of Everblight thwart any of her masters numerous enemies. Outlying
Annyssa Ryvaal, Talon of Everblight forts, Rhulic patrols, and trollblood warbands that might
Deathstalkers Fysel, Kaevan, Shaness, and Treyfal interfere with the greater workings of the Legion are all
Core Assets potential targets. Those that cross her path invariably
2~ 0 Warbeasts (especially Raeks, Seraphs, and lesser warbeasts) vanish, leaving only a few red stains in the snow to mark
3~ 0 Striders the place they were ambushed.
60+ Archers
2~ 0 Raptors

Above all others and speaking with the authority of the mastery of the written Aeric language and so are involved
dragon are the warlocks. With boundless dominion they in the fabrication of important weapons and tools. They
command the dragons unnatural armies, drawing their are generally more intelligent and possess greater initiative
forces from the ranks as required. Some, like Vayl and than most of the dragons warriors.
Lylyth, oversee a larger aspect of the Legion of Everblight,
Even before their blighting, the Nyss had developed
but the majority act as strike force commanders who go
abilities that would serve them well in facing the challenges
where and when he wills.
Everblights legion would encounter. They were a hardy,
Blighted Nyss sorcerers aid and advise the warlocks and nomadic people, seasoned hunters and killers accustomed
stand just below them in authority. Sorcery has always been to moving rapidly across vast distances with great self-
a part of Nyss life, but the dragon's touch has transformed sufficiency and discipline. They endured a constant fight for
and, in some cases, augmented powers once linked to survival against the elements, beasts of the wild, and those
the Fane of Nyssor. In addition to being able to invoke who trespassed against them. Through periodic clashes
traditional Nyss magics of wind and cold, many Legion with trollkin, humans, and occasional Rhulic patrols, they
sorcerers exhibit control over the blighted energy that had honed their fighting skill to a formidable edge.
seeps into the fiber of their beings. These sorcerers retain

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 The Legion of Everblight

Adopted Sons of
the Dragon
While Nyss make up the
majority of Everblights Legion,
there are substantial auxiliary
elements, in particular the
blighted ogrun. Though each
has a role to play in the fights
ahead, the Nyss and ogrun do
not coexist comfortably. These
groups remain segregated
in daily life, only mixing as
necessary for specific strike
forces. In daily life the Nyss
see ogrun as brutish and
indiscriminately violent, an
opinion only reinforced by the
inevitable Nyss casualties from
berserk ogrun.

The blight turned ogrun into

brutal creatures more akin to
the ravening hordes of Caens
primordial past than to the noble
people unblighted ogrun have
proven to be elsewhere, such as
in Rhul. While they retained their
fierce loyalty and some tribal
traditions, the blight infected
them with unbridled savagery
and an unquenchable thirst for
blood. Abandoning their ancient
ways, they venerated Everblight
with blood sacrifice and named
his prophet Thagrosh their
unquestioned korune.

The command structure of these

ogrun is similarly basic, rooted in
Everblight abandoned his designs on the more settled their feudal traditions. Individual ogrun serve those better
Iosans and modified those plans to use the Nyss, whose and stronger than themselves, who take the title of vassal
nature even better suited his needs during these crucial just as their Nyss counterparts do. Those ogrun strong
early days of his protean army. His soldiers would live off enough to earn the respect of several vassals take on the
the land, foraging and seizing all they required. They would role of deacons, who serve as lieutenants to the war chiefs.
be constantly on the move, halting their progress only to The size of the warbands under the control of each war chief
generate new spawn to replace those lost in battle. Surprise varies considerably, but some have gathered hundreds of
and mobility would be Everblights greatest weapons. proven warspears and warmongers.
The blighted Nyss quickly moved outside their original War chiefs have nearly absolute authority over their sizable
territory. Initially they fell upon remote human and trollkin tribes but are united in their reverence of Thagrosh and
villages, where fresh meat and blood were plentiful and consider themselves sworn to him. Thagrosh rarely delivers
which would become the staging grounds on which orders to them directly, but his aloof bearing does not
hundreds of warbeasts would be birthed. They saw in diminish their fierce loyalty. Regardless of their rank, ogrun
each a reflection of their lord and master. It was with even have no authority over the Nyss, and occasionally the ogrun
more fear and wonder that they gazed upon the nephilim
dragonspawn birthed of Nyss mothers.

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are directed to heed the orders of senior Nyss, reinforcing
their lower stature. The ogrun do not seem to resent this, The Nephilim
for they believe they have a special connection to Thagrosh.
The nephilim occupy a unique place in the emerging society
The Rise to Supremacy of the Legion. The ultimate expression of their masters
Almost immediately after the creation of the new legion,
sadistic genius, these unnatural creatures owe their genesis
Everblights armies fought numerous skirmishes and
to a fusion of elven flesh and blighted essence. Belying their
small battles against the other inhabitants of the northern monstrous forms, each nephilim possesses a sentient soul
regions. Though some of these conflicts were extremely inherited from its Nyss parentage. This soul bestows upon
bloody, they were but preparation for the furtherance of them considerable free will and a degree of independent
Everblights true imperative: to strengthen himself against intelligence lacking in other spawn.
the inevitable conflicts with other dragons. These remote
Khadoran communities had long been out of touch with The nephilim are a wholly new species utterly unlike the
race from which they were derived. Isolated from the
larger armed garrisons, so retaliations from Khador were
clannish Nyss society, the creatures naturally gravitate
slow and disorganized at first, but they gained in strength
toward warlocks, whom they revere as the only individuals
as the Legion made itself known.
as close to their dragon father as they are themselves. In
A shift in plans was prompted by intelligence provided years to come they may develop the rudiments of their
by one of Cryxs warcasters, an eldritch called Goreshade. own culture, but for now they seem willing to devote their
This unlikely emissary brought to Everblights attention the lives to loyal service.
location of a weakened sibling dragon named Pyromalfic.
He offered this vital information as part of a bargain for
future access to the god Nyssor, should Everblight be in Castle of the Keys. Evading the pursuing Circle forced the
a position to have access to that divine entity. Nyssor had Legion to divide. Most of the dragons soldiers continued
already escaped with the unblighted Nyss refugees and moving overland to keep the attention of their foes and
Everblight did not yet have possession of the god, but the fight as necessary. Thagrosh, Vayl, and Saeryn undertook a
dragon saw no reason not to agree to the bargain. hazardous journey in barely passable subterranean tunnels
Everblight dispatched Lylyth to confirm the veracity known only to Everblight, travelling beneath Ios toward a
of the information; when she did, he wasted no time in safer haven in southern Rhul.
committing the majority of his armies to an unprecedented The Prophet of Everblight was barely conscious during most
and rapid advance on Pyromalfics lair in the Castle of the of the journey, and only the cunning and battle prowess
Keys. This advance was a remarkable achievement that of Everblights chosen warlocks made the survival of the
required the Legion to cross hundreds of miles, including Legion possible. The blight wracking the ogruns body
the territory of several enemy hosts. The haste with which required the sorcerous assistance of both Vayl and Saeryn
they moved drew unwelcome attention, particular that of to regulate and contain so that Thagrosh could complete
the Circle Orboros. his transformation into the Messiah. The benefits of the
Despite being hounded by the Circle and having to fight metamorphosis were vast. All of Everblights warlocks were
through the soldiers of the Skorne Empire that held the Castle strengthened, and the Messiah was later able to generate
of the Keys, the Legion ultimately defeated Pyromalfics the terrible beast Typhon, greatest of the dragonspawn.
body and seized the athanc within. This victory came at As great as these gains were, they were ultimately mere
a great price, bringing great casualties to Thagroshs host. side effects compared to the tremendous amplification of
Very few dragonspawn created for the assault survived, Everblights personal potency.
but the losses were nothing to Everblight compared to the Thagrosh summoned his far-flung warlocks to his side, and
recovery of Pyromalfics athanc. they worked to restore the armys strength. Key to this was
Thagrosh consumed their prize even before pulling his army a reunion with Absylonia, who had been left in the north to
from the battle site, to allow the stone to fuse to Everblights create dragonspawn to replace those that would inevitably
athanc and thereby tremendously amplify his masters fall in the battle for Pyromalfics athanc. These much-
collective power. The full absorption of this rival dragon needed spawn were soon joined by others newly made at
proved to be slower and more arduous than Everblight an impromptu base created from an isolated Rhulic mining
had expected; his own nature was divided among his village the Legion discovered and seized. Thanks to the
warlocks, and Pyromalfics essence fought for mental tactics employed at the Castle of the Keys, most of the Nyss
supremacy during the long weeks of their flight from the soldiers had survived both that battle and the subsequent

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 The Legion of Everblight

chase. In addition, their accelerated birth and maturity

Aeric Runes cycles replaced those lost at a rate that would have been
impossible for any other unmodified species.

Before the coming of Everblight, only priests and sorcerers For Everblight this was not enough, and in his impatience
were literate in Aeric, the language of the Nyss. This language he began to further modify several select groups of Nyss
shares origins with Shyr, the language of Ios, but over to become new weapons in his arsenal. Several new Nyss
centuries the Aeric runes developed into a distinct alphabet. and draconic hybrids arose of these desperate efforts, the
With most of the Nyss population illiterate, the written most immediately successful being the grotesques. These
form of the language became increasingly venerated. These creatures can be birthed and grow to fighting maturity in
writings were inextricably linked to the Fane of Nyssor and months rather than years, though their undeveloped minds
the lore of the God of Winter. comprehend only the necessities of fighting and survival.
While such warriors could never rise to the leadership
When the Legion expunged all worship of Nyssor and the
echelons of the Legion, Everblight knew they would serve
priests of the frozen god fled, the blighted sorcerers seized
as useful fodder in his wars, where their abbreviated life
control over the written language. By their efforts the
spans would not be a liability.
Legions Nyss still view the written sigils with reverence
but now associate them with the worship of Everblight and Throughout his frenzied recovery period, Everblight knew
the ritualized control of the dragons blight. Nyss sorcerers well the dangers of keeping his warlocks in one place.
have fused the lore of Aeric runes with both draconic occult Though the Legion was strongest when gathered, this also
secrets passed to them by Everblights chosen warlocks and endangered them in the case of a massive attack by their
their own power over the blight in an effort to expand the myriad enemies, particularly the great rival dragons. The
Legions arsenal. Their greatest success has been the creation
likelihood of a threat from this quarter increased after
of spawning vessels, developed under Vayls guidance.
Everblight sensed a communication between the dragons,
Everblight and his warlocks see tremendous potential for a message and summons sent directly across their athancs
future discoveries by tapping into the power of these runes. by Blighterghast. The attack on Pyromalfic had not gone
They continue to encourage the sorcerers to conduct ongoing unnoticed, as he had been part of an alliance against Lord
research into further adaptations of the Nyss sacred language Toruk that Everblight had never joined.
into an even more complex and useful arcane tool.
With such enemies scheming against him, Everblight
prepared to scatter his might for the next phase of his
operations. By keeping on the move and spreading his forces
across a wide region, he can ensure their long-term survival
as they plan their next strike. The dragons plans beyond
this are uncertain. Some of the warlocks expect orders to
retaliate against the Circle Orboros for their persistence
in seeking the Legions destruction. It may be they will be
sent against other targets of opportunity instead or even be
enlisted as part of some plan to make further gains against
the dragon alliance.

His warlocks have faith in Everblights infinite adaptability,

creativity, and will to survive. There is no question that in
the end Everblight will defeat the other dragons and alone
stand against Toruk. He will consume the Dragonfather and
take his rightful place as last and greatest of all the dragons.

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 Legion Theme Forces

Absylonia, Terror of Everblight

Winds of Change
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Spawning Vessel Blighted Nyss Shepherds,
warbeasts, Typhon The Forsaken

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models Requirements: The army includes two or more Forsaken
listed above. solos.

Benefit: Increase the FA of Forsaken solos by +1 for each Benefit: For each Forsaken solo in the army, one heavy
heavy warbeast in the army. warbeast in Absylonias battlegroup gains Advance
Move. (Before the start of the game but after both players
Tier 2 have deployed, a model with Advance Move can make a
Requirements: Absylonias battlegroup includes three or
full advance.)
more lesser warbeasts.

Benefit: Lesser warbeasts in Absylonias battlegroup gain

Tier 4
Requirements: Absylonias battlegroup includes two or
Advance Deployment .
more heavy warbeasts.

Benefit: Reduce the point cost of heavy warbeasts by 1.

Bethayne, Voice of Everblight

Black Magic
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Spawning Vessel, Legion units The Forsaken, Incubi, Spell
warbeasts with Magic Ability Martyrs, Legion solos with
Magic Ability

Tier 1 turn. The redeployed models must be placed on the table

Requirements: The army can include only the models in a location they could have been deployed initially.
listed above.
Tier 3
Benefit: Increase the FA of Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Requirements: The army includes two or more units with
Hellion solos by +1 for each unit in the army. Additionally, Magic Ability.
reduce the point cost of Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellion
Benefit: Increase the COST of spells and animi cast by
solos by 1.
enemy models by +1 during the first round of the game.
Tier 2 Tier 4
Requirements: The army includes two or more Blighted
Requirements: Bethaynes battlegroup includes two or
Nyss Sorceress & Hellion solos.
more heavy warbeasts.
Benefit: For each Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellion solo
Benefit: Warbeasts in Bethaynes battlegroup gain +2SPD
in the army, you can redeploy one model/unit after both
during your first turn of the game.
players have deployed but before the first players first

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 Lylyth, Herald of Everblight
Hunter Killers
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Blighted Nyss Archers, Incubi, Legion solos with
warbeasts Blighted Nyss Raptors, Legion Stealth
units with Stealth

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models Requirements: The army includes Annyssa Ryvaal.
listed above.
Benefit: Place Annyssa Ryvaal and Blighted Nyss Raptor
Benefit: Blighted Nyss Raptor units in this army become units after normal deployment. These models are placed at
FA2. Additionally, you gain +1 on your starting roll for the same time as you models with Advance Deployment
the game. (if any). These models must be placed within your normal
deployment zone.
Tier 2
Requirements: The army includes two Blighted Nyss Tier 4
Archer units. Requirements: Lylyths battlegroup includes two or more
Raek warbeasts.
Benefit: Add an attachment to one Blighted Nyss Archer
unit free of cost. This attachment does not count toward Benefit: Lesser warbeasts and Raeks in Lylyths
FA restrictions. battlegroup gain Advance Move. (Before the start of the
game but after both players have deployed, a model with
Advance Move can make a full advance.)

Lylyth, Shadow of Everblight

Ravens of War
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Blighted Nyss Raptors, Strider solos, Annyssa Ryvaal
warbeasts with ranged Blighted Nyss Striders
weapons

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models listed Requirements: The army includes two or more Strider
above. Deathstalker solos.

Benefit: Blighted Nyss Strider units become FAU. Benefit: For every two Strider Deathstalker solos in the army,
Additionally, increase the FA of Strider Deathstalker solos place one 4AOE forest template anywhere completely
within 20 of the back edge of Lylyths deployment zone after
by +1 for every unit in the army.
terrain has been placed but before either player deploys his
Tier 2 army. Forest templates cannot be placed within 3 of another
Requirements: The army includes two Blighted Nyss terrain feature, including other forest templates.
Strider units. Tier 4
Benefit: Add an attachment to one Blighted Nyss Strider Requirements: Lylyths battlegroup includes three or
more warbeasts.
unit free of cost. This attachment does not count toward
FA restrictions. Benefit: Warbeasts in Lylyths battlegroup gain +2SPD
during your first turn of the game.

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 Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight
Alpha Strike
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Blighted Nyss Hex Hunters, Blighted Nyss Shepherds,
warbeasts Blighted Nyss Swordsmen, Incubi
Blackfrost Shard

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models Requirements: The army includes the Blackfrost Shard
listed above. unit.

Benefit: You gain +1 on your starting roll for the game. Benefit: Models/units in your army gain Pathfinder
Additionally, Blighted Nyss Swordsman units and during your first turn of the game.
Blighted Nyss Swordsman unit attachments become FAU.
Tier 4
Tier 2 Requirements: Rhyas battlegroup includes two or more
Requirements: The army includes two or more Blighted Angelius warbeasts.
Nyss Swordsman units.
Benefit: Reduce the point cost of Angelius warbeasts in
Benefit: Blighted Nyss Swordsman units gain +2SPD Rhyas battlegroup by 1.
during your first turn of the game.

Saeryn, Omen of Everblight

Fallen Angels
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Legion units with Flight Blighted Nyss Shepherd,
warbeasts with Flight, Blighted Nyss Sorceress &
Nephilim warbeasts Hellion, Spell Martyrs

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models Requirements: Saeryns battlegroup includes two or more
listed above. heavy warbeasts with Flight.

Benefit: Spell Martyr solos gain Advance Deployment . Benefit: Your deployment zone is extended 2 forward.

Tier 2 Tier 4
Requirements: The army includes one or more Blighted Requirements: Saeryns battlegroup includes three or
Nyss Sorceress & Hellion solos. more Nephilim warbeasts.

Benefit: You gain +1 on your starting roll for the game. Benefit: Add one non-character Nephilim warbeast to the
army free of cost.

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 Thagrosh, Prophet of Everblight
Army of Annihilation
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Spawning Vessels, Blighted The Forsaken, Blighted Ogrun
warbeasts Ogrun units solos

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models Requirements: The army includes one or more Spawning
listed above. Vessel units.

Benefit: Blighted Ogrun units become FAU. Additionally, Benefit: Lesser warbeasts in Thagroshs battlegroup gain
Spawning Vessels become FA2. Advance Deployment .
Tier 2 Tier 4
Requirements: The army includes two or more Blighted Requirements: Thagroshs battlegroup includes two or
Ogrun units. more heavy warbeasts.
Benefit: Add a War Monger War Chief solo free of cost. Benefit: Your deployment zone is extended 2 forward.
This solo ignores FA restrictions.

Thagrosh, The Messiah

Dragons Host
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Blighted Nyss Legionnaires, Blighted Nyss Shepherds,
warbeasts, Typhon Legion units with Flight Incubi, Spell Martyrs, The
Forsaken, Legion solos
with Flight

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models Requirements: The army includes two or more Blighted
listed above. Nyss Legionnaire units.

Benefit: Blighted Nyss Legionnaires become FAU. Benefit: Blighted Nyss Legionnaire units gain +2SPD
Additionally, units and solos with Flight gain Advance during your first turn of the game.
Deployment .
Tier 4
Tier 2 Requirements: The army includes two or more heavy
Requirements: The army includes one or more Blighted warbeasts.
Nyss Sorceress & Hellion solos.
Benefit: For every two heavy warbeasts in the army, add
Benefit: You gain +1 on your starting roll for the game. a Blighted Nyss Shepherd solo to the army free of cost.
These solos ignore FA restrictions.

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 Vayl, Disciple of Everblight
Winter Storm
Warbeasts Units Solos
Non-character Legion Spawning Vessel, Blighted Blighted Nyss Shepherds,
warbeasts Nyss units Incubi, Spell Martyrs, Legion
solos with Magic Ability

Tier 1 Tier 3
Requirements: The army can include only the models Requirements: The army includes the Spawning Vessel
listed above. unit.

Benefit: Blighted Nyss Hex Hunter units become FAU. Benefit: Warbeasts in Vayls battlegroup gain +2SPD
during your first turn of the game.
Tier 2
Requirements: The army includes two Blighted Nyss Hex Tier 4
Hunter units. Requirements: Vayls battlegroup includes five or more
warbeasts.
Benefit: Add Bayal, Hound of Everblight to one Blighted
Nyss Hex Hunter unit free of cost. Benefit: The LOS of models without Eyeless Sight is
reduced to 8 during the first round of the game.

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 Warlocks of the legion
The warlocks who serve Everblight are specifically Though several Legion warlocks had some degree of
chosen by the dragon to be instruments for his sorcerous ability before Everblight chose them to be vessels
blighted power. Within the heart of each of them resides a for his power, the pure draconic potency of his athanc
fragment of his athanc, the crystalline essence of the dragon has further magnified their existing magical aptitude. As
himself. These athanc shards create a deep connection exemplified by Thagrosh, the first of Everblights living
between the warlocks and their master as well as between avatars, the power of the athanc is great enough to grant
those in the dragons service and the myriad monstrosities terrifying arcane capability to a species entirely lacking the
birthed from his blighted blood. native capacity to manipulate such forces. It has been an
altogether simpler matter to unlock the greater inherent
Though Everblights warlocks are great leaders and
arcane potential of the Nyss.
warriors with ambitions and motivations of their own, the
dragons voice is ever with them, and in times of need they Bearing a piece of Everblights athanc allows each Legion
act as living manifestations of his will. The unique link warlock to manifest and shape the dragons blighted
between the warlocks and the dragon allows the Legion to essence. This terrible energy is difficult to master, however,
act in perfect and instantaneous coordination, exploiting a and no mortal creature can contain even a fraction of it
unity its enemies cannot hope to replicate. without undergoing physiological changes. As a result,
all Legion warlocks exhibit draconic attributes, such as
Additionally, the dragons athanc provides Legion
horns, protruding spikes, or wings. The degree to which
warlocks with a number of subtler advantages. Everblights
these physical qualities manifest depends on a combination
constant presence in the minds of his warlocks grants them
of factors, including the warlocks natural resistance to
access to his immense knowledge, a trove of memories and
blighted energy and the size of the athanc fragment she
experiences beyond the ken of mortals with their limited
bears. Despite these variances, the changes wrought by
life spans. Since implanting pieces of his athanc within his
Everblights power are not random mutations but part of
chosen, Everblight remembers their varied experiences as if
an ongoing evolutionary sequence intended to perfect each
they were his own memories. Through him, other warlocks
warlock according to her nature as well as her place as a
gain filtered access to the information as they need it. This
leader within the Legion.
enables them to learn from circumstances far outside their
own limited perspectives: they may recollect details about Without doubt, the most potent ability granted to
enemies they have not fought or perfectly traverse hostile Everblights warlocks is the power to create dragonspawn
landscapes they have never seen with their own eyes. from their own blood, just as the dragon himself can do.
Exploiting the advantages of both this deep communion A blighted warlock need only spill a sufficient amount of
and their seamless coordination of scattered Legion assets, blood in order to spawn almost any warbeast in the Legions
Everblights warlocks can fight on equal or better terms arsenal. Creating the largest spawn in this way is an
against even more numerous enemy forces. exhausting undertaking that leaves a warlock temporarily
vulnerable, however, so a warlock will attempt to do so in
With the exception of the mighty ogrun Thagrosh, all
the field only under the most dire circumstances.
Legion warlocks to date have been drawn from the
ranks of the Nyss, a race of elves long isolated from their
Iosan cousins. Everblight has an intimate history with
the elves, having spent many centuries observing them,
delving into the secrets of their spiritual essence, and
experimenting to discover ways his blight might take hold
within their bodies. His plans for Ios and its inhabitants
were indefinitely forestalled when his corporeal form was
destroyed, preventing the dragon from capitalizing on his
labors as he had expected. Nevertheless, the knowledge
Everblight gained by studying the Iosans has borne fruit
with the Nyss, the majority of whom now serve the dragon
and bear his blight.

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 Absylonia, Terror of Everblight
Legion Blighted Nyss Warlock
If Everblights blessing puts shape to the killer within us, what is at the heart of Absylonia?
Saeryn, the Omen of Everblight

Feat: Panacea Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

ABSYLONIA The imperishable flesh of a Blight Field 2 Ctrl 4 No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
dragon is able to mend with Place the 4 AOE anywhere completely in this models control area. While

7 7 7 6 16 14 8 in the AOE, enemy models cannot be used to channel spells, be forced, or
an alacrity that mocks lesser
Blight Claw creatures. By sending forth an be allocated focus. The AOE remains in play for one round. Blight Field
can be cast once per round.
POW P+S invigorating feast of blighted
6 13 power, Absylonia erases her Carnivore 2 6 Yes No
own injuries and devours the Target friendly model/unit gains +2 to melee attack rolls against living
Fury 6 models. When an affected model boxes a living model with a melee attack, the
wounds of the dragonspawn
Damage 16 boxed model is removed from play and this model heals d3 damage points.
near her. Each arises in perfect
Field Allowance C wholeness as Absylonia Forced Evolution 2 6 Yes No
Warbeast Points +5 accepts trivial reminders of Target friendly living Faction warbeast gains +2STR and DEF.
Small Base each wound on her own skin. Playing God 2 6 Yes No
Target warbeast in this models battlegroup can make power attacks
Remove all damage from
without being forced and gains Terror . Its melee weapons gain Open
Absylonia. She can then suffer 1 or more damage points. For
Fist and Reach .
each damage point she suffers, remove all damage from one
warbeast in her battlegroup in her control area.

ABSYLONIA Tactical Tips

Abomination
Carnivore Because the boxed model is removed from play
Resourceful This model can upkeep spells on models in its before being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token.
battlegroup without spending fury. This model, not the target model, is healed when the target model
Spontaneous Mutation This model can spend fury points boxes another model.
during its activation to spontaneously mutate. For each fury
point spent it gains one of the following abilities for one turn.
For most of Everblights chosen the real change happens
Barbed Hooks This models melee weapons gain Reach . deep within. They must open their minds to control blighted
Flight This model can advance through terrain and obstacles energies and assume a leadership role in the Legion while
without penalty and can advance through obstructions and offering absolute obedience to the dragon. Each must adapt
other models if it has enough movement to move completely
past them. This model ignores intervening models when to the watchful presence and guiding voice of Everblight.
declaring its charge target. Absylonias twisted form might have resulted from an
Warp Strength This model gains +2STR. initial resistance to this change. She has little memory of
those early days except as a hazy recollection of pain and
Blight Claw confusion and remembers even less of her former life
Magical Weapon
as a Nyss. This almost blank mental slate is pleasing to
Critical Grievous Wounds On a critical hit, the model hit by
Everblight, who finds her consciousness easy to inhabit and
this weapon loses Tough, cannot heal or be healed, and cannot
transfer damage for one round. influence, with none of the confusion of residual memories.
In many ways Everblight treats Absylonia with particular
Spirit Eater This model can reave fury points from enemy
warbeasts destroyed by this weapon. Other models cannot reave patience, as if she were a favored child. He spends
fury points from enemy warbeasts destroyed by this weapon. considerable time retraining her animalistic instincts and
preparing her for the work ahead.
The gift of a fragment of Everblights athanc generally Within days of her transformation Absylonia proved to be
weaves subtle changes within the Nyss, whose essence entirely devoted to the dragons will. Though lacking both
the dragon has studied exhaustively. Absylonias blighted memories of her former existence and, initially, the language
transformation continues to reshape her flesh, however, of her former people, she demonstrated an inhuman
and there is no sign she will ever settle into a stable form. cunning backed by the powers imbued in her during her
She is a unique embodiment of Everblight, a creature who transformation. She possesses intuitive control over the
can adapt her flesh and bones to suit her needs. Her mind spawn around her, and those generated from her blood
and body bear little resemblance to what she was. The blood grow with surprising alacrityan ability transcending the
flowing through her veins surges in sympathetic harmony other warlocks to rival Thagrosh himself. She can restore her
with the spawn she crafts for battle. Most would call own body or even the most mutilated spawn to wholeness
Absylonia a horror, but among the Legion she represents with a single outpouring of blighted power.
singular draconic perfection.

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When he took the bulk of his army to confront Pyromalfic at Even at her most human Absylonia is more abomination
the Castle of the Keys, Everblight chose to leave Absylonia than Nyss. She glides swiftly across the battlefield on sleek,
behind, thus safeguarding some portion of his essence from fresh-grown membranes that extend from between her
the battle with the ailing dragon. As the rest of the Legion fingers and arms. Her appendages can lengthen in moments,
moved south for its confrontation with destiny, Absylonia the bones thickening and stretching with a sickening sound.
continued to create fresh spawn in their absence. She Chitinous barbs and spikes extrude through her flesh and
brought these reserves to rejoin the Legion at Everblights shift unpredictably in battle, leaving gruesome wounds
call, enabling him to replace nearly half the spawn lost in where she strikes. Her mutable form and the resilience of
Pyromalfics destruction. her spawn terrify all who oppose her.

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 Bethayne, Voice of Everblight & Belphagor
Legion Blighted Nyss Warlock & Character Light Warbeast
The glory of Everblight shall encompass this world, his song filling all ears, his words consuming all minds.
Bethayne, Voice of Everblight

Feat: Litany of Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

BETHAYNE Ashen Veil 2 6 Yes No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD Everblight
Target friendly model/unit gains concealment. Living enemy models

6 5 6 4 16 12 9 Bethayne has a unique insight
suffer 2 to attack rolls while within 2 of an affected model.
for gathering and amplifying
Talons of Everblight draconic energies. With a litany Blood Thorn 2 6 Yes No
POW P+S Target friendly model/units ranged and melee weapons gain the
of praise to Everblight she
5 10 Corrosion continuous effect .
invokes a wave of focused blight
Fury 7 to sweep across the battlefield Carnivore 2 6 Yes No
and transform her followers Target friendly model/unit gains +2 to melee attack rolls against living
Damage 14
into batteries of extraordinary models. When an affected model boxes a living model with a melee attack, the
Field Allowance C boxed model is removed from play and this model heals d3 damage points.
sorcerous potential.
Warbeast Points +3
Eruption of Spines 3 10 10 No Yes
Small Base While in this models If target model is hit, d6 nearest models within 5 of it suffer a POW10
control area, friendly damage roll.
Faction models gain
boosted magic attack rolls and magic attack damage rolls, and
Gallows 3 10 13 No Yes
When an enemy model is hit by this attack, it can be pushed d6 directly
friendly Faction warbeasts can use their animi without being toward Gallows point of origin.
forced. Litany of Everblight lasts for one turn.

BETHAYNE
Flesh Meld This model can use Flesh Meld at any time during Tactical Tips
its activation while B2B with Belphagor. Remove this model Flesh Meld Belphagor can transfer damage while Bethayne is
from the table. Belphagor becomes a warlock warrior model and flesh melded with it.
loses Blood Creation and Soulless. Belphagor cannot activate
after this model uses Flesh Meld during the turn it used Flesh Carnivore Because the boxed model is removed from play
Meld. While melded, Belphagor takes control of this models before being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token.
battlegroup, its base CMD becomes 9, and its base FURY This model, not the target model, is healed when the target model
becomes 7. Any effects on this model when it melds are applied boxes another model.
to Belphagor. Remove the fury points currently on Belphagor. Gallows This means the model is moved before it suffers damage.
If there are any any fury points on this model when it melds,
place them on Belphagor. While melded, Belphagor can cast
this models spells and use its feat, is not considered to be a In battle she fulfills her role by fusing with her dragonspawn
warbeast, and loses its animus. While melded, Belphagor can Belphagor to become a perfect killing force without sacrificing
make slam, throw, two-handed throw, headlock/weapon lock, her own intelligence and arcane skill. This fusion is symbolic of
and push power attacks without being forced. While melded,
Belphagor suffers damage like a warbeast but does not suffer
the irreversible bond between the blighted Nyss and Everblight.
the effects of crippled aspects. Effects modifying the amount
Before accepting a fragment of Everblights athanc,
of damage to or the manner in which damage is applied to a
warbeast also apply to Belphagor. This model can separate from Bethayne was a priestess of Nyssor from a very young
Belphagor during your Maintenance Phase. If it does, place it age. She demonstrated an unusual sensitivity to spiritual
B2B with Belphagor. If Belphagor is destroyed or removed from doctrine as well as a keen artistic talent that manifested
play while this model is melded with it, this model is destroyed.
through her carvings in wood and bone. Her versatile and
When Bethayne leaves the table, upkeep spells she cast do
not immediately expire and warbeasts in her battlegroup do enthusiastic mind allowed her to excel as she matured,
not go wild. While melded, Belphagor can upkeep spells cast easily mastering the disciplines required of a priestess and
by Bethayne. When Bethayne returns to play, she retains any showing a particular talent for oration. From childhood she
damage she had suffered before leaving the table. Bethayne can
had possessed the gift of persuasion and could stir listeners
upkeep spells cast by Belphagor.
emotions with her words. Upon reaching adulthood,
Talons of Everblight Bethayne was honored to dwell at the central Fane of
Continuous Effect: Corrosion Nyssor, where the gods frozen form was protected.
Magical Weapon
Bethayne might have lived out her life in service to her god
had it not been for Vayl Hallyr. In the guise of a devout
The Nyss were once devoted to the god of winter, Nyssor, but
sorceress, this blasphemer against Nyssor arranged to meet
the blight ended that for the ones who joined the Legion. Those
with the young priestess away from fane grounds. Vayl
of Nyssors clergy who survived the first days of Everblights
quickly earned Bethaynes confidence as they conversed at
arrival fled, bearing with them their frozen god. The resulting
length on a dizzying array of topics, from the fundamental
spiritual void among the blighted Nyss was filled by the words
nature of magic to the obscure origins of Nyss traditions.
of Bethayne, who taught them devotion to a draconic god
Bethayne had never felt her mind engaged so deeply, and
whose tangible blight had blessed them with transformation.

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 ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF BELPHAGOR
BELPHAGOR
Despoiler 2 Self No No Immunity: Cold
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Center a 5 AOE cloud effect on this model. The AOE remains
Immunity: Corrosion
5 9 6 4 12 19 6
centered on the model. Enemy models entering or ending their
activations in the AOE suffer 1 damage point. Despoiler lasts for Immunity: Electricity Claw
one round. Immunity: Fire
POW P+S
L 4 13
Eyeless Sight
her friendship with the older, intelligent woman grew. Claw
Companion [Bethayne, POW P+S
When Vayl professed growing doubts about her faith and
Voice of Everblight] This R 4 13
the stewardship of Nyssor, she planted subversive seeds in model is included in any
the priestess that would grow in time. army that includes Bethayne,
Voice of Everblight. If 2
Bethayne did not see Vayl again until three years later, in the Bethayne is destroyed or 1
3
midst of the cataclysmic coming of Thagrosh to the Nyss. As removed from play, remove BODY

fire and destruction consumed the villages and Nyssor was this model from play. This IN 4

M
D
model is part of Bethaynes
carried south to safety, Bethayne stood among those left to battlegroup.

IT
defend the fane grounds. She was prepared to give her life

IR
SP
Blood Creation This
in defense of her people and her faith but was shocked into model never attacks 6
numbness to see her friend amid the despoilers. Vayl spoke friendly Faction warlocks 5

of the draconic god who made his followers strong in his and cannot choose them as
its frenzy target. Fury 3
own imageone not impotent like the ailing god of winter. Threshold 9
As proof she indicated the destruction around them; no Channeler [Bethayne]
Field Allowance C
While this model is not
miracles had come to save the Nyss. Vayl offered Bethayne a Medium base
engaged and is in Bethaynes
place among the inheritors of their peoples legacy, serving control area, she can channel
as a leader of the dragons emerging army. spells through it.
Soulless This model does not generate a soul token when it
Blight emanated from Vayl, and Bethayne felt the allure
is destroyed.
of that power, the awakening of her doubts. Against this
pressed the need to be true to her oaths, and her mind Claw
splintered. She raised her blade, hoping to find release Open Fist

from self-loathing in death. Vayl instantly froze her in

place, wielding the icy power of winter that should have Bethayne willingly led the dragons hosts, each battle an
shielded a priestess of Nyssor rather than entrapping her. opportunity to demonstrate her gifts, each death by her
Bethaynes mind raved at her helplessness until Thagrosh powerful blighted magic became a paean to the god she
arrived to offer respite from her inner demons; Vayl had had embraced. Yet the portion of her mind that had been
petitioned that Bethayne be initiated as a warlock, speaking shattered before her acceptance of Everblight yearned
of Bethayne with pride and praising her untapped potential. for creative expression to shape lesser materials into
something sublime once again. In response she began
The ice shattered and Thagrosh asked her to choose: forsake
to experiment with Everblights spawn. In a moment of
her vows or die. Part of Bethaynes mind and soul welcomed
perfect adulation she was able to sculpt a new creature,
the thought of death, but in a moment of weakness she
one that embodied her love and fear of Everblight but
accepted Everblight as her master. When she received her
that also gave expression to the missing piece of her soul.
athanc shard all doubts vanished. Her previous calling
Belphagor is a creature unique to her, a masterpiece of
seemed empty compared to the glorious unity she felt when
flesh and bone that Everblight had not dreamt.
her mind joined with the dragons. What she could not
know was this bliss only concealed the deeper emptiness Bethayne is a confident, audacious priestess and general
within her left by the shattering of her faith. with a razor-sharp mind and the words to reach the hearts
and minds of those around her. Once set upon a course she
Everblights essence flowed into the bottomless void in
has no patience for indecision or doubt. When she merges
her soul. Even the dragons mind could not fill the space;
with Belphagor, primal instincts call to her and she can lose
something had changed inside her during her time of
herself in the exultation of slaughter. Because the beast is
indecision. In the days ahead, Bethayne demonstrated her
born from her own essence, Bethayne can easily spawn it
zeal as she followed Vayl in converting or killing the last of
anew when it is destroyed. With it her flesh is made whole
the resisting Nyss. Bethayne was instrumental in convincing
and she experiences true communion with her god.
several shards to give up their arms.

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 Lylyth, Herald of Everblight
Legion Blighted Nyss Warlock
By Everblights blessing, I no longer require eyes to see. The world is colorless, and the living shadows
bow before his majesty.
Lylyth, Herald of Everblight

Feat: Field of Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

LYLYTH Bad Blood 2 10 Yes Yes
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD Slaughter
A warlock leaching from target warbeast suffers 1 damage point for

7 4 5 7 16 14 8 The dragons blight has
each fury point leached. The affected warbeast cannot be healed or have
bestowed upon Lylyth an damage transferred to it and loses Regenerate.
Hellsinger almost omniscient awareness
RNG ROF AOE POW
of battles chaosshe controls Parasite 3 8 Yes Yes
12 2 12 Target model/unit suffers 3 ARM and this model gains +1 ARM.
her minions as extensions
Bow Blade of her will to finish off her Eruption of Spines 3 10 10 No Yes
POW P+S enemies. When she evokes If target model is hit, d6 nearest models within 5 of it suffer a POW10
damage roll.
3 7 this gift of Everblight, her
skill imbues all who serve her,
Fury 5
providing unerring accuracy anyone who ventured from their homes. Lylyth returned to
Damage 15 and transforming each attack
Field Allowance C her shard to speak passionately about her father and arouse
into a killing strike.
Warbeast Points +6 in her people a similar desire for vengeance.
While in Lylyths control
Small Base
area, friendly Faction Calling on old unwritten codes, the shard declared a blood
models roll an additional
hunt and vowed to march across the northern territory
die on attack rolls this turn.
slaying any humans they encountered. Though they did
LYLYTH not interfere, the rest of the tribe distanced themselves from
Eyeless Sight Lylyths shard and offered no support or succor as the clan
Pathfinder recklessly attacked village after isolated village in the cold
Bushwhack During its activation, this model can make its and wild north.
combat action before its normal movement. If it does, it must
make a full advance as its normal movement this activation. Thagrosh, Prophet of Everblight, encountered Lylyth
shortly after his own transformation. He saw her shard
Hellsinger pit itself against a large band of savage humans called the
Magical Weapon
Vindol, slaughtering each other down to the last. Lylyth was
Blood Lure Warbeasts in this models battlegroup can charge
mortally wounded and losing consciousness when Thagrosh
enemy models hit by this weapon this turn without being forced.
stepped forward and offered to save her life and give her
Witch Mark If this attack hits an enemy model during this
models activation, this model can target and automatically hit
power beyond any she could imagine. Weakened and bereft
that model with spells, ignoring RNG and LOS, until the end of of reason, she agreed. Thagrosh lifted her above the snow
this models activation. and thrust a shard of Everblights athanc into her breast.

The transformation was excruciating, yet the unbearable

The Voassyr tribe always boasted aggressive and far-ranging pain gave way to acceptance. Her blackened heart pumped
hunters, and each of its shards took part in long sojourns powerful blight through her veins and sent tainted power
defending the people from intruders. Lylyth was born to a into every tissue and bone. Clutching her hands to her eyes,
stern and uncompromising father who instilled in her the she realized she did not need them to see. The blighted
cold discipline of blade and bow. A noted champion of a radiance seeping from the athanc shard shone from her
leading shard, he had high expectations for his daughter. skin, and no flesh was a barrier to its dark energies. Lylyth
She honed her abilities night and day, and sometimes she has now masked her eyes to avoid the mundane light of the
would forego sleep while on the hunt as she learned the world; seeing the world through living eyes feels imperfect,
subtlest arts of tracking and stalking prey. an aberration.
Things changed dramatically for Lylyths shard after She has since learned what it means to be the Herald of
the killing of a local human trapper aroused a mountain Everblight, the stalking death of the Blighted Legion. Lylyth
township to violence. A mob of the Khadoran woodsmen moves as the forward talon of the dragon and strikes deep
ambushed a pair of Voassyr hunters and hacked their into enemy territory. Wherever she strides, the arrow-
bodies into unrecognizable gore. One of their victims was ridden bodies of her enemies fall, and the blight walks in
Lylyths father. her footsteps.
It was Lylyth who discovered the carnage, and something
snapped in her mind. She stalked the woodsmen in a week
of bloodletting and then turned on their township, killing

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 Lylyth, Shadow of Everblight
Legion Epic Blighted Nyss Warlock
Where she strides, his shadow falls.
Vayl, Disciple of Everblight

Feat: Decimation Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

LYLYTH Lylyth can invoke Everblights Pin Cushion 2 10 Yes Yes
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
blessing to convey her own Friendly Faction models gain an additional die on ranged attack and

7 4 5 8 16 14 8 ranged attack damage rolls against target enemy model/unit. Discard the
perfect awareness of the
Whisper battlefield to her followers, lowest die in each roll.
RNG ROF AOE POW allowing them to experience Pursuit 2 8 Yes Yes
12 2 12 how it feels to be the perfect If target enemy model/unit advances during its activation, immediately
hunter. Fired from countless after ending this movement one model in this models battlegroup that is
Fury 5 in its control area can make a full advance.
bows, arrows rise to eclipse the
Damage 15
sun before falling in a piercing Shadow Pack 3 Self Ctrl Yes No
Field Allowance C rain to leave nothing but the Models in this models battlegroup gain Stealth while in its control area.
Warbeast Points +5 sounds of the dead and dying.
Small Base
While in Lylyths control
area, friendly Faction Tactical Tips
models ranged weapons gain Snipe. While in Lylyths control
Pursuit If an affected model made a full advance, ran, or charged
area, models in her battlegroup can make one additional ranged
during its activation, a model in this models battlegroup gets to
attack during their activations. Attacks gained from Decimation
make a full advance.
do not count against a weapons ROF. Decimation lasts for one
turn. (Ranged weapons with Snipe gain +4RNG).
distraught Lylyth at this abandonment, and she pried out
LYLYTH
Eyeless Sight the athanc herself in an attempt to escape the pain. In an
unexpected flood of clarity she saw her recent life through
Pathfinder
a more mortal perspective and found herself consumed
Evasive This model cannot be targeted by free strikes. This model
with horror and shame at what she had done to her
can advance up to 2 immediately after an enemy ranged attack
that missed it is resolved unless it was missed while advancing. people. When Saeryn and Rhyas arrived even as she bled
Range Amplifier When this model casts a spell and is the
out nearly to the last among old memories, she offered the
point of origin for the spell, the spell gains +5 RNG. athanc to them, but they had come to return her to the
Snap Fire When this model destroys one or more enemy Legion. Her reunion with her dragon master, intensified
models with a ranged attack during its combat action, by the later destruction of Pyromalfic, served as a dark
immediately after that attack is resolved this model can make rebirth that renewed her resolve.
one normal ranged attack. Attacks gained from Snap Fire do not
count against a weapons ROF and cannot generate additional Though Lylyth has tried to put this experience aside, it has
attacks from Snap Fire. left its mark. With the dragons mind tightly bound to her
Swift Hunter When this model destroys an enemy model own once more, she has mostly been able to forget the faces
with a normal ranged attack, immediately after the attack is of kinsmen she killed and the guilt that haunted her during
resolved it can advance up to 2.
her forced isolation, but her awareness of her insignificance
Whisper lingers. She hurls herself tirelessly into battle after battle
Magical Weapon to prove her worth to Everblight. Deep within, she has
realized she is important to the dragon only as a receptacle
for one shard of his athanc and he is quite willing to discard
Lylyth has been born anew in the dragons radiance. She is
her useless flesh. Only so long as she proves peerless in the
the Shadow of Everblight, and where his Legion marches
art of delivering death will there be a place for her.
she moves like death itself. While Thagrosh rebuilds his
shattered army, Lylyth and her minions fall upon the Since Pyromalfics destruction, Lylyths senses and reflexes
enemies of the dragon, their arrows obliterating entire have sharpened beyond human reckoning. Her arrows fall
towns and villages. Her memories are drenched in blood, like black rain and strike with inhuman accuracy. At times
but each murder eases the ghosts of her past. her lethal senses are infectious, elevating those who follow
her to echoes of her murderous intuition.
The Castle of the Keys held an even more harrowing
trial for the young warlock. Sent there alone to gather Her amplified senses and renewed awareness come at a
confirmation of the dragon Pyromalfics presence, Lylyth cost. Lylyth now finds it difficult to endure crowded places
drew the attention of his guardians and suffered grave and is inclined to shun the presence of even her own kind.
injuries before she could escape. With her death seemingly
She prefers to keep on the move, avoiding all but the
certain, Everblight simply dispatched others to recover
smallest Legion camps except when duty requires her
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presence. Her kinship is reserved only for the striders and her hand-selected force. Her striders perform meticulous
archers who are the hunters of Everblights army. Lylyths reconnaissance before she gives the command to attack,
hatred of humanity in particular has only grown. coordinating her underlings with an attention to detail
enhanced by draconic awareness.
Lylyth leads her followers in a relentless war against the
enemies of Everblight. That she has done so without
requests for support or supplies impresses even the dragon.
She carefully selects targets large enough to demoralize
yet small enough to fall quickly beneath the arrows of

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 Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight
Legion Blighted Nyss Warlock
She is the sigil of Everblight, a symbol written in the blood of our enemies.
Saeryn, Omen of Everblight

Feat: Tide of Blood Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

RHYAS Rhyas has honed her fighting Dash 2 Self Ctrl No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
prowess to its keenest edge, While in this models control area, friendly Faction warrior models cannot

7 5 8 6 16 14 8 be targeted by free strikes. Rhyas and friendly Legion warrior models
gaining preternatural grace
Antiphon and an endless killing thirst. activating in her control area gain +1SPD. Dash lasts for one turn.
POW P+S In the heat of battle she can Occultation 2 6 Yes No
7 12 unleash a blighted tide of Target friendly model/unit gains Stealth .
infectious frenzy that inspires Rapport 2 6 Yes No
Fury 5
her followers to strike and kill Target warbeast in this models battlegroup can use this models current
Damage 16
as swiftly and elegantly as MAT and RAT in place of its own. This model can transfer damage to
Field Allowance C Rhyas herself. Riding a tide the warbeast even if it is not in this models control area. This model can
Warbeast Points +6 of blood, the Legion sweeps transfer damage to the warbeast once per turn without spending fury.
Small Base across the battlefield pressing
from every direction at once.
Rhyas and friendly Legion Tactical Tips
models activating in her control area gain one additional melee
Perfect Balance If the model forfeits both its movement and
attack during their activations. The first time a friendly Legion
action for other effects, either voluntarily or as required, it cannot
model damages an enemy model with a melee attack during its
use Perfect Balance to stand up for free.
activation while in Rhyas control area, immediately place the
attacking model anywhere B2B with the damaged model. Tide
of Blood lasts for one turn. shard who possessed extraordinary powers and sorcerous
RHYAS sensitivity. Rhyas was the more bold and brutal, as swift
Acrobatics This model can advance through other models if and deadly with a blade as her sister was with her mind.
it has enough movement to move completely past their bases.
This model cannot be targeted by free strikes. This model
Thagrosh went alone to observe these twins with his own
ignores intervening models when declaring its charge target. eyes. In the lands of the Shyvess he found only death.
Perfect Balance This model cannot be targeted by combined Every man, woman, and child in the entire shard had been
melee attacks, combined ranged attacks, or free strikes. Models slaughtered; fresh blood dripped within every wooden hall.
do not gain back strike bonuses against this model. When The killing had clearly just occurred, yet its purpose baffled
knocked down, this model can stand up during its activation him. At that moment the twins sprang from the shadows
without forfeiting its movement or action if it is able to forfeit its
movement or action to stand up. to attack.
Channeler [Saeryn] While this model is not engaged and is in Rhyas and her sister had determined their people were
Saeryns control area, Saeryn can channel spells through it. better off dead than enslaved and corrupted as the other
Riposte When this model is missed by an enemy melee attack, Nyss were. With the cold dispatch of an executioner, Rhyas
immediately after the attack is resolved it can make one normal
had nimbly evaded arrows and deflected blades as she cut
melee attack against the attacking model.
down those who had raised her. She deliberately froze her
Sprint At the end of this models activation, if it destroyed one
heart against their pleas, assured by the mental bond she
or more enemy models with melee attacks this activation it can
make a full advance. shared with her sister that this killing was necessary. The
twins finished their grim business and lay in wait for the
Antiphon approach of the ogrun abomination Saeryn had foreseen.
Magical Weapon
Weapon Master Rhyas speed and skill took Thagrosh entirely by surprise,
Critical Decapitation On a critical hit, double the damage as did the easy manner in which the twins wordlessly
exceeding the ARM of the model hit. A model disabled by this coordinated their movements. Just as Rhyas blade was
attack cannot make a Tough roll. about to decapitate him, an unexpected impulse stayed her
Spirit Eater This model can reave fury points from enemy hand. After letting Thagrosh know how close he had come
warbeasts destroyed by this weapon. Other models cannot reave to death, Saeryn offered up both herself and Rhyas to the
fury points from enemy warbeasts destroyed by this weapon.
Prophet. She said she had foreseen the coming of Everblight
and knew her own crucial role in the events to come.
In the dark hours during the subjugation of the Shard Spires,
Despite the ease with which they shared one anothers
Thagrosh chose lieutenants from among the conquered
thoughts, Rhyas did not perceive her sisters plans.
Nyss. Through Vayl, the Disciple of Everblight, Thagrosh
Her absolute trust and faith in Saeryn led her to accept
learned of a pair of deadly twins in the remote Shyvess

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Everblights athanc fragment alongside her sisteran Rhyas and her sister stand among the upper tier of
event that shattered and reformed her world. She harbors Everblights chosen, and they have sworn to obey the
no doubts or guilt over what she has done, though she does dictates of his Prophet. It was Rhyas who dealt the killing
sometimes wonder at the fact that her sister was able to blow to the dragon Pyromalfic so that his athanc might
withhold some small part of her mind. Rhyas does not dwell be added to her masters glory. As the Sigil, Rhyas is
upon this fact, but now she knows Saeryn can keep secrets Everblights deadly will given form. She sees the massacre
from her. The glory of battle helps her forget this troubling of her own shard a necessary baptism toward this greater
detail; indeed, Rhyas delights in the simplicity of purpose. Rhyas blade has become the brush by which
bloodshed and the pure art of slaughter. the dragon writes bloody runes upon the flesh of
his enemies.

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 Saeryn, Omen of Everblight
Legion Blighted Nyss Warlock
There are depths to her even Everblight cannot fathom. Sinking into her mind is like dropping a stone
into a lake of infinite dark water.
Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight

Feat: Foreboding Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

SAERYN Saeryn can manifest her Banishing Ward 2 6 Yes No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
terrible will as an aura of Enemy upkeep spells on target friendly model/unit expire. Affected

7 5 6 7 16 14 8 models cannot be targeted by enemy spells or animi.
palpable dread. Seeing a being
Thrown Deathspur cloaked in this shroud provokes Blight Bringer 4 10 5 12 No No
RNG ROF AOE POW a terror so deep it borders on Center a 5 AOE on target friendly Faction warbeast. Enemy models in
7 3 3 insanity. It is impossible to the AOE when it is put in play are hit and suffer a POW12 corrosion
bring weapons to bear against damage roll . An enemy model or friendly non-Faction model entering
Deathspur
those protected by this shroud, or ending its activation in the AOE suffers 1 point of corrosion damage .
POW P+S
as both body and mind refuse Blight Bringer lasts for one round.
3 8
to obey any impulse to strike. Breath Stealer 2 10 No Yes
Fury 7 Target model/unit suffers 2SPD and DEF for one round. Breath Stealer
While within her control can be cast only once per turn.
Damage 16
area, small-, medium-,
Field Allowance C Hellfire 3 10 14 No Yes
and large-based models in
Warbeast Points +5 A model/unit hit by Hellfire must pass a command check or flee.
Saeryns battlegroup cannot
Small Base be targeted by melee attacks Respawn 3 6 Yes No
for one round. When target warbeast in this models battlegroup is disabled by an enemy
attackanytime except while it is advancing, place it anywhere within 3 of its
SAERYN current location. It heals 1 damage point in each aspect, then Respawn expires.
Force Barrier This model gains +2 DEF against ranged attack
rolls and does not suffer blast damage. for members of a race that commonly demonstrated such
Channeler [Rhyas] While this model is not engaged and is in traits. For this reason, the twins shied away from Vayl
Rhyass control area, Rhyas can channel spells through it. Hallyr when she attempted to recruit them as pupils. They
Thrown Deathspur sensed something amiss in the sorceress overtures even
Magical Weapon before she earned her title as the Betrayer.
Grievous Wounds When a model is hit by this weapon, for
Unlike Vayl, Saeryn had never possessed the gift of prophecy
one round it loses Tough, cannot heal or be healed, and cannot
transfer damage. or divination. She cannot explain the vision that gripped her
one year later, but she connects this revelation to her brief
Thrown Add this models STR to the POW of this ranged attack.
contact with Vayl. This vision let her foresee the coming
Deathspur of Thagrosh and the imminent blighting of her shard. The
Magical Weapon vision gave Saeryn complete and utter clarity; in a moment
Grievous Wounds See above. of total freedom from her sister she saw her destiny laid
out before her. She knew then what she must do: lead the
Saeryn is the more detached and introspective of the two unknowing Rhyas, whose mind was not yet trained and
otherwise identical twins serving Everblight. Though both hardened against severe necessities, down a dark path that
possessed sorcerous power from birth, Rhyas has sought would ultimately bring about their greatest glory.
only to master certain martial tricks and sleights while
First came the destruction of the Shyvessnot out of mercy,
pursuing her love of the blade. Saeryn plunged into the
as Rhyas believed, but to harden and shape her into an
heart of her power, exploring its every potential. Her more
unbridled weapon. Saeryn directed the killings with cold
cerebral approach prompted her to examine the indivisible
resolve. She kept her sister safe but left to Rhyas the majority
link she shares with her sister, and she now knows the two
of the carnage. When Thagrosh arrived, the two defeated
possess a single, inseparably bonded soul. Though all twins
the Prophet. Saeryn fought not to kill him, however, but
boast a certain affinity, Saeryn and Rhyas connection is
only to test his limits and learn from the battle all the
something greater. Their bond amplifies their power and
sisters must know of their future master. Saeryn stayed
sharpens their shared awarenesswhich ultimately drew
Rhyas hand with a thought and made Thagrosh aware
the attention of a dragon.
of his mortality before submitting to the athanc. That they
Raised among the Shyvess shard away from other Nyss, willingly accepted the shard greatly impressed Everblight.
Saeryn had little formal guidance for her burgeoning This was Saeryns awakening as the Omen.
talents. A local Fane of Nyssor priest taught her the sacred
Saeryn has since heralded the dawn of a new age, the
Aeric runes but nothing more. The Shyvess followed their
eventual rebirth of Everblight in all his glory. She knows
own customs and kept to themselves so stringently that
she and her sister will stand at the vanguard of this new
other Nyss perceived them as peculiar and insulareven
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and regards her fellow warlocks with a mixture of respect There is no question Rhyas and Saeryn are more powerful
and reserve. She resents that both the dragon and Thagrosh together than apart, and Saeryn is convinced they have
hold Vayl the Ice Witch in particularly high esteem for only begun to test their limits. The blighted transformation
orchestrating the swift subjugation of the Nyss. There is is a seed that has not yet fully germinated, and she eagerly
a mutual wariness between Saeryn and Vayl, a complex does whatever is required to quicken the full awakening.
relationship where a polite veneer masks considerable Her mind is a labyrinth of depths hidden even from her
underlying tension. draconic master. The Omen believes absolutely in the twins
invincibility, and no enemy has yet proved her wrong.

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 Thagrosh, Prophet of Everblight
Legion Blighted Ogrun Warlock
Our doom has come. Should Nyssor fall, the whole world will succumb to endless winter.
Vaeril the Wise, Qyr-Aransor of the Fane of Nyssor

Feat: Dark Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

THAGROSH Bad Blood 2 10 Yes Yes
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD Revival
A warlock leaching from target warbeast suffers 1 damage point for

5 9 7 5 14 16 9 The Prophet of Everblight
each fury point leached. The affected warbeast cannot be healed or have
safeguards the largest portion damage transferred to it and loses Regenerate.
Blighted Breath of his masters athanc, and
RNG ROF AOE POW
from its dark energies potent Draconic Blessing 2 6 Yes No
SP 8 1 12 Target friendly Faction model/unit gains +2STR and Terror .
malignancy pumps through
Rapture his veinstrue draconic blood. Fog of War 3 Self Ctrl Yes No
POW P+S As the singular blight of this Models gain concealment while in this models control area.
7 16 blood, Thagrosh can pour new Mutagenesis 3 8 12 No Yes
life into the spawn that have Target model boxed by Mutagenesis is removed from play. When
Claw
fallen in battle, letting them Mutagenesis boxes an enemy model and this model was the spells point of
POW P+S
taste the dragons blessing to origin, this model can replace the boxed model when it is removed from play.
3 12
cheat death. Revitalized, they This model cannot advance this activation after replacing another model as a
Fury 7 result of Mutagenesis. Mutagenesis can be cast only once per activation.
rejoin the battle as if freshly
Damage 18 born. It is a sight that can Obliteration 4 10 4 15 No Yes
Field Allowance C make even the bravest enemy The force of this attack blasts apart the earth itself.
Warbeast Points +5 weep with despair.
Medium Base Return one destroyed
warbeast that was part of
Tactical Tips
Thagroshs battlegroup to Eruption of Ash Because the boxed model is removed from play
play. Place it anywhere within 3 of him. The warbeast forfeits before being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token.
its action this turn.
Mutagenesis Because the boxed model is removed from play
THAGROSH before being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token.
Although replacing the boxed model is optional, removing it from
Terror
play is not. If this spell was channeled, this model cannot replace
Death Shroud While within this models command range, the boxed model.
enemy models suffer 2STR.
Athanc Immediately after leaching, this model gains 1 fury village where he was born and enslaved its population.
point if it has fewer fury points than its FURY. He spent his formative years under the lash, toiling at
Attuned Spirit [Legion] Once per activation, this model can backbreaking labor in darkness and watching others die
cast the animus of a Legion warbeast in its battlegroup as a spell around him. His burning rage eventually compelled him
without spending fury.
to choke a careless keeper with his chains and escape to
Blighted Breath wander the northern wilderness.
Damage Type: Fire
Some time later, fevered whispers and nightmarish visions
Rapture led him to the tallest mountain in the north. Exhausted and
Magical Weapon
barely conscious of what he was doing, Thagrosh climbed
Reach that imposing peak, pulling himself up the ice face with
Eruption of Ash If a model is boxed by an attack made with bleeding fingers and shattered nails. Finally, he discovered
this weapon, center a 3 AOE cloud effect on the boxed model
the sealed repository of the athanc of Everblight.
and then remove that model from play. The AOE remains in
play for one round. Enemy models in the AOE when it was put In an unimaginable test of resolve, Thagrosh mutilated
in play are hit and suffer a POW12 fire damage roll . Enemy
himself to accept the dragons blessing. He cut open his
models entering or ending their activation in the AOE suffer
a POW12 fire damage roll . Eruption of Ash damage rolls chest with a skinning knife and tore apart his own ribcage
cannot be boosted. in order to drive the athanc into his heart. Its dark power
transformed his body into a blighted vessel for an immortal
History will remember Thagrosh Hellborne as the presence. He was no longer ogrun, but the Abomination
abomination who unleashed the Legion of Everblight flesh and bone forever twisted, blood turned into dragons
onto the world. This blight nearly annihilated the Nyss ichor. His mind has expanded far beyond his old reckoning,
and spread down from the icy north into the heart of the and it has become difficult to divorce his perspective from
lands of man. Thagrosh strides at its vanguard like death that of his dragon-god. The athanc has awakened in him a
made flesh. powerful sorcery born of Everblighthis patron, advisor,
and object of worship. Thagrosh the Prophet speaks with
Even before his transformation, Thagrosh endured a harder the dragons voice and embodies his will.
life than most ogrun. Khadoran brigands ransacked the

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The Prophet has begun enacting the dragons schemes, descending upon the
Nyss to shatter their old life and awaken their destiny as Everblights
chosen. He has created new servants for his master by embedding
shards of Everblights athanc within warlocks who extend
the dragons will into the world. Able to wield the
greatest blighted magic, Thagrosh is a terror
unequaled on Caen who leaves behind
only the choking ash of corruption.

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 Thagrosh, the Messiah
Legion Epic Blighted Ogrun Warlock
Even this most lowly vessel is made godlike in my image.
Everblight, speaking through Thagrosh

Feat: Dragon Storm Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

THAGROSH Mortal flesh should not bear Dragons Blood 2 6 Yes No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
the weight of a hidden god. Target friendly non-warlock Faction model/unit gains +2ARM. When an
5 11 7 5 13 17 10 affected model is disabled by a melee attack, roll a d6. On a roll of 5 or 6,
With an ear-rending howl
Blight Fire Thagrosh expels a fraction of the attacker suffers 1 damage point.
RNG ROF AOE POW that power to ignite the blood Flesh Eater 3 10 13 No Yes
SP 10 1 12 of all draconic horrors blessed When a living enemy model is boxed by Flesh Eater, it is removed from
of Everblight. Boiling over play and this model or a living warbeast in its battlegroup in its control
Rapture area heals d3 damage points.
POW P+S with fury and strength, they
7 18 surge forward to annihilate Manifest Destiny 3 Self Ctrl No No
anything in their paths. While in this models control area, models in its battlegroup gain an
Claw additional die on melee attack and melee damage rolls this turn. Discard
POW P+S After all friendly models have the lowest die of each roll.
3 14 completed their activations
Scourge 4 8 3 13 No Yes
this turn, each warbeast in Models hit by Scourge are knocked down.
Fury 7 Thagroshs battlegroup that is
Damage 20 in his control area can make Unnatural Aggression 2 6 Yes No
If target friendly non-trooper Faction model suffered damage during your
Field Allowance C a full advance followed by
opponents last turn, during your next Maintenance Phase it can make
Warbeast Points +3 one normal melee attack. a full advance. During this movement, it must move toward the nearest
Large Base Completely resolve each enemy model.
models movement and
attack before moving on to
the next model. Tactical Tips
THAGROSH Eruption of Ash Because the boxed model is removed from play
Abomination before being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token.
Athanc Immediately after leaching, this model gains 1 fury Flesh Eater Because the boxed model is removed from play
point if it has fewer fury points than its FURY. before being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token.
Blood Spawn Once per game, when this model suffers 5 Scourge This means every model in the AOE is knocked down,
or more damage points from an enemy attack that are not friendly and enemy alike.
transferred, after the attack is resolved you can place a non-
character Faction lesser warbeast in play anywhere completely
Everblight did not warn Thagrosh of the painful
within 3 of this model. The warbeast is part of this models
battlegroup. The warbeast cannot activate this turn. transmutation that would follow his consumption of
Pyromalfics athanc. From the first moments after the
Flight This model can advance through terrain and obstacles
without penalty and can advance through obstructions and triumph at the Castle of the Keys, Thagrosh experienced a
other models if it has enough movement to move completely blend of agony and ecstasy as blighted energies suffused
past them. This model ignores intervening models when his being. The process of sublimating Pyromalfics essence
declaring its charge target.
into Everblights consciousness brought a host of confusing
Blight Fire memories, sensations, and physiological changes. No longer
Continuous Effect: Fire ogrun, Thagrosh has become something the world has never
Damage Type: Cold seen, his form closer to and yet distinct from the dragons
Damage Type: Fire themselves. He has become Everblights true avatar.
Critical Freeze On a critical hit, the model hit becomes Thagrosh still does not feel comfortable in his new flesh. His
stationary for one round unless it has Immunity: Cold .
skin, bones, and sinew continue to shift as if struggling to
Rapture contain the power within him. This discomfort vanishes in
Magical Weapon battle, where he revels in his new strength and the effortless
Reach evocation of blighted power. Some part of him understands
Eruption of Ash If a model is boxed by an attack made with his mortal flesh will ultimately fail to contain the might
this weapon, center a 3 AOE cloud effect on the boxed model of dragons, but when combat is upon him he relishes the
and then remove that model from play. The AOE remains in godlike sensations. Doubts for his future creep into the
play for one round. Enemy models in the AOE when it was put
corners of his mind only in those still moments when he
in play are hit and suffer a POW12 fire damage roll . Enemy
models entering or ending their activation in the AOE suffer stands vigil over his protean army, watching it gather its
a POW12 fire damage roll . Eruption of Ash damage rolls strength for the next engagement.
cannot be boosted.

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His metamorphosis came when Thagrosh had just begun dragon. Every time he rises from its depths he feels its
to separate his identity from Everblights. The ogrun had gravitational pull more strongly.
reached an unspoken accord with his master and begun
Draconic temper increasingly dominates Thagroshs
to put forth a distinct voice as leader of the Legion. Since
mood. As the dragon spreads his mind and grows in
he consumed Pyromalfics athanc, however, Everblights
power, Thagrosh finds it increasingly difficult to restrain
presence is stronger than ever, a raging tornado of
the impulse to let loose his full strength. He feels this fury
intelligence and hubris. It is as though Everblight is
like the touch of searing iron that ignites the pure dragon
stirring just below the top layer of his thoughts, a vast
blood pumping through his veins. It is not enough to be
alien presence impatiently looking through his eyes and
victorioushe must annihilate each foe utterly.
sometimes speaking with his tongue. Thagrosh loses
himself for long hours, subsumed by the mind of the

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 Vayl, Disciple of Everblight
Legion Blighted Nyss Warlock
Remember the name of Vayl the Ice Witch. She is the traitor who invited the destruction of our race.
Cylena Raefyll

Feat: Cat & Mouse Spells Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF
VAYL Through the Oraculus, Vayl Chiller 2 6 Yes No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
gains a unique perspective on While within 2 of target friendly Faction model/unit, enemy models

6 5 3 6 15 13 9
the future flow of battle. She suffer 2 DEF unless they have Immunity: Cold .
Oraculus can then channel the dragons Hoarfrost 3 8 3 14 No Yes
RNG ROF AOE POW predatory instincts to move Hoarfrost causes cold damage . On a critical hit, models in the AOE
8 1 8 her minions like pieces on a become stationary for one round unless they have Immunity: Cold .
board, letting them react to her
Fury 8 Incite 3 Self No No
enemys every movement as Models in this models battlegroup gain +2 to attack and damage rolls
Damage 14
part of her unfolding strategy. against enemy models while the enemy models are in this models
Field Allowance C
At the end of this turn after command range. Incite lasts for one turn.
Warbeast Points +6
Small Base all friendly models have Leash 2 6 Yes No
ended their activations, Immediately after this model ends its normal movement, target warbeast
one friendly Faction model in its battlegroup can advance up to 3 toward it.
in Vayls control area can make a full advance for each enemy Malice 2 10 10 No Yes
model in her control area at that time. During this movement, Add +1 to the damage roll for each fury point on the target model.
the affected model cannot be targeted by free strikes. A model Rampager 3 10 No Yes
can advance only once per turn as a result of Cat & Mouse. Take control of target enemy non-character warbeast. You can make one
full advance with the warbeast and can then make one normal attack with
VAYL it, then Rampager expires. While the warbeast is affected by Rampager,
Immunity: Cold it cannot be forced and you cannot use its animus. Rampager can be cast
only once per turn.
Dark Sentinel Once per turn, when an enemy model ends its
normal movement within 5 of this model, a friendly Faction
warbeast within 5 of this model can immediately make a full
advance followed by a normal melee or ranged attack targeting Tactical Tips
the enemy model. The warbeast gains boosted attack and
Rampager You cannot free strike a model you control.
damage rolls against the enemy model.
Snow-Wreathed This model always has concealment.
membership in the clergy, but Vayl laughed at them and
Talion Once per turn when this model suffers damage from
spoke blasphemies in front of them. She was banned from
an enemy attack, it can spend 1 fury point to transfer half the
damage to an enemy warbeast in its control area but must suffer ever again stepping foot on holy ground.
the rest of the damage itself.
Later Vayl organized the Hallyr tribe into an army to
Oraculus carve out territory for herself. Any who spoke against her
Magical Weapon vanished without a trace. Her attacks on nearby shards and
Guided Attacks made with this weapon automatically hit. Nyss shrines prompted the Fane to declare her tribe outlaw,
Spellbound This model can channel spells through a model though any attempts to unseat her met with fatal failure.
hit by an attack made with this weapon. Spellbound lasts for Even her followers began to think she had breached all sane
one turn.
bounds, but the few who whispered too loudly were cruelly
punished for their foolish resistance.
Nyss refugees will forever condemn the perfidious Vayl
Vayl enhanced her already potent gift of divination by
Hallyr as the agent who paved the way for Thagroshs
crafting an arcane sphere of milky crystal spiked with razor-
blighted dominion. This sorceress provided the Prophet
sharp blades and able to leech heat from the air. Peering
with the start of his army by corrupting thousands of her
into the crystal, she foresaw the rise of Everblight. She could
people into the Legions terrible fold. Unlike most, her
have warned her people, but her hunger for power drove
body has changed little in the shadow of Everblightsome
her to join him instead. Thus, Vayl became the first Nyss
would say because she was a monster long before receiving
to embrace the transformation with full, willful awareness.
a shard of the dragons athanc.
Her betrayal allowed Thagrosh to assimilate the Nyss with
Vayl first demonstrated her lack of conscience by coldly exquisite speed and precision after she helped taint the
manipulating the Fane of Nyssor. Only Nyss priests and Nyss water supply. By the time Thagrosh arrived, Vayl had
sorcerers are literate in the sacred language of Aeric, but prepared the patterns of blighted energies keyed to react to
Vayl feigned piety to gain access to every scroll and tome the Prophets words.
she could find until she exhausted their library. Her mentors
When the Nyss defenders finally realized the threat, Vayl
believed her religious zeal so completely they offered her
turned her sorcery against her former kin and the clergy

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of Nyssor. Despite her best efforts, the greatest priests
and the god Nyssor escaped her treachery. Vayl continues
to be secretly haunted by this failure, as Nyssor himself
sometimes appears in her dreams to condemn her. She has
increasingly become obsessed with destroying the god,
hoping to escape the last glimmer of guilt that lurks in
some forgotten part of her frozen heart.

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 Warbeasts of the legion
The monstrosities birthed from the blood of the blighted form given them by Everblight, some warlocks,
Everblights warlocks come in many forms. Each is such as Thagrosh and Absylonia, can spawn hardier beasts
a product of the dragons fearsome biological engineering, that mature even more rapidly than those of the dragons
an unnatural weapon of war born and bred to enact his will. other vassals.
Many Legion warbeast forms are ancient, designed by the
Each warbeast is designed for a specific purpose, its
dragon to guard his ancient lairs in Morrdh and beneath
form perfectly suited to a single task. Heavily armed and
the city of Issyrah, while others are derived from his more
armored warbeasts like the carnivean tear through enemy
recent imaginings.
ranks, while stalking horrors like the raek prowl enemy
Most Legion warbeasts arise from the blood of a warlock, lines before striking hard and fast. Other warbeasts, like the
who spills it specifically for this purpose and who chooses angelius and seraph, attack from the skies or provide aerial
the beasts form at the time of its creation. Although still reconnaissance.
only half-formed, at birth dragonspawn already possess the
Though they are alive in the most basic sense of the word,
formidable natural weaponry, near-insatiable hunger, and
Everblights warbeasts are not natural animals but rather
instinct to kill and feed that is characteristic of their kind.
organic constructs, biological machines created to serve
Freshly spawned beasts are usually taken on immediate
their masters. They need food to fuel their powerful bodies,
hunts to slake their hunger and add the necessary bulk
but they do not require sleep or other aspects of the normal
to reach full size. If given access to an adequate supply of
animal activity cycles. They simply wait inert but aware,
ready flesh and blood to consume, generally from victims
conserving energy until they are needed for a specific task
of recent battle, theoretically even the largest warbeasts
or prompted into action by the appearance of enemies. The
can attain full size in a matter of hours. This unnatural
creatures are far from mindlessthey possess sophisticated
maturation cycle makes it possible for a lone warlock with
instincts that help them excel at the tasks for which they
a spawning vessel to greatly augment her fighting force
are designedbut their true potential is reached only when
by creating warbeasts in the field. Whether due to the
directly controlled by a warlocks will. A Legion warlock
particular potency of their blood or to an innate ability of

Spawning Vessels
Creating warbeasts from the blood and will of Legion warlocks is a
taxing process that saps precious vitality from Everblights most
powerful instruments and removes them from the field for a time.
Spawning vessels instead transmute lesser flesh provided from the
slain into small beasts like the diminutive harriers and shredders,
allowing Legion warlocks to save their energy for the creation of more
potent warbeasts.

The fabrication of spawning vessels is a difficult and time-consuming

task requiring specific arcane rituals by Nyss sorcerers in conjunction
with a warlock of Everblight. The vessels are inscribed with Aeric
runes to channel the powerful blighted energies they will draw upon
to complete the transformation of bodies placed within. The warlock
contributes a small quantity of draconic blood both to empower these
runes and to serve as a transformative base lining the bottom of the
vessel. Vessel attendants subsequently can reactivate the patterned
energies to transform ordinary blood and flesh into the simplest
dragonspawn without the need for additional athanc-empowered
blood. Only the least of Everblights spawn have yet been created
in this manner, but work continues to create larger, more powerful
vessels that can give birth to more potent spawn.

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 carnivean

can transform a warbeast into an extension of her own this respect. Born of blighted Nyss women and possessed
physical body and senses, effortlessly directing its actions of both a soul and a keen animalistic mind, the nephilim
and viewing the world through its eyeless scrutiny. display a degree of autonomy and intelligence unmatched
by other Legion warbeasts and are naturally adept at
Frequently warlocks send their warbeasts alongside Legion
employing weapons and other tools. In some ways similar
soldiers as guardians, but the creatures have little ability to
to particularly strong and resilient soldiers, the nephilim
make decisions or act outside the warlocks specific orders.
can undertake more complex tasks without a warlocks
Shepherds help extend the range at which a warlock can
direct supervision, making them an even more useful and
directly contact the minds of their beasts, but even this
versatile weapon in Everblights growing blighted arsenal.
method has limits. The humanoid nephilim stand apart in

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 Harrier
Legion Lesser Warbeast
They are a plague made flesh striking indiscriminately from the skies.
Lord Tyrant Hexeris

HARRIER ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

HARRIER
Eyeless Sight True Strike 1 Self No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

7 6 5 3 14 12 7 Blood Creation This The next melee attack roll made by this model this activation hits
model never attacks automatically, then True Strike expires. A model can be affected
Talons
friendly Faction warlocks by True Strike only once per turn.
POW P+S
4 10 and cannot choose them as
its frenzy target.
Like all dragonspawn, harriers have no true soul despite
Flight This model can
their bestial intelligence. These unnatural creatures
2 advance through terrain
1
and obstacles without only mimic life and lack their own internal motivation;
3
BODY
penalty and can advance their sole purpose is to serve at the whim of Everblights
IN 4 through obstructions and warlocks. They are endlessly patient and dedicated beyond
M

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other models if it has
any natural living thing, able to sustain themselves for
enough movement to move
IT

protracted periods in the air without fatigue if need be.

IR

SP completely past them. This

6 model ignores intervening
models when declaring its Harriers can strike with tremendous accuracy despite their
5
charge target. lack of sight. Their senses are keener than even those of
Fury 2 Lesser Warbeast This model the shredders; they can home in on the living from great
Threshold 7 cannot make power attacks. distances as though guided by some dark, unseen hand. In
Field Allowance U ancient times Everblight used them to scout distant positions
Soulless This model does
Point Cost 2
not generate a soul token and to find sites suitable for his lairs; now they are simply
Small base when it is destroyed. another potent weapon in the Legions arsenal. The sight of
Sprint At the end of this their sickly, wet flesh gleaming in the waning moonlight is
models activation, if it destroyed one or more enemy models often a harbinger of death for any who behold them.
with melee attacks this activation it can make a full advance.

A horror from earlier eras, the harrier has been called

from the depths of the dragons blood to serve the Legion
of Everblight. Though they bear a passing resemblance to
the endlessly ravenous shredders, harriers are not afflicted
with overpowering hunger after they grow to full size.
Ranging far ahead of the dragon-gods blighted army, they
terrorize the skies and fall upon their victims with the swift
pain of terror given form. Their speed and maneuverability
are prized attributes, giving the harriers the ability to probe
enemy defenses before tearing through their flanks.

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 Shredder
Legion Lesser Warbeast
There is no end to these tainted horrors. For every one we destroy,
they spawn three more to take its place!
Kaya the Wildborne

ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF SHREDDER

Tenacity 1 6 No No SHREDDER
Eyeless Sight SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Target friendly model gains +1DEF and ARM. Tenacity lasts for
6 6 5 3 13 12 7
one round. Blood Creation This
model never attacks Bite
friendly Faction warlocks POW P+S
and cannot choose them as H 4 10
Tactical Tips its frenzy target.
Snacking Because the boxed model is removed from play before Lesser Warbeast This model
being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token. cannot make power attacks. 2
1
Rabid This model can be BODY
3

The creatures now called shredders were known as the forced during its activation to IN 4

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gain +2SPD, Pathfinder ,
D
akriel by Everblight in ancient times. These are the smallest
and boosted attack and
and simplest of the spawn that arise from the blood of those

IT
damage rolls for one turn.

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SP
chosen to bear the dragons divided athanc. Compelled by 6
Snacking When this
ravenous hunger and murderous instinct, shredders are model boxes a living model 5
fearsomely effective at latching onto and devouring any foe with a melee attack, this
unfortunate enough to confront them. model can heal d3 damage Fury 2
points. If this model Threshold 7
Shredders grow to full size with unnatural speed, and heals, the boxed model is Field Allowance U
their escalating appetites drive them to add to their mass removed from play. Point Cost 2
using whatever flesh they can consume. Their metabolism Soulless This model does Small base
not generate a soul token
goes into frenzied overdrive upon maturity: the more they
when it is destroyed.
eat, the more frenetic they become, and still their appetite
pushes them to gorge. Shredders are naturally prone to
cannibalism and in moments of frenzy might attempt to As with all dragonspawn, shredders are blind. Their
consume others of their ilk. This impulse can usually be heads are taken up almost entirely with toothy, unhinged
controlled with some success, however, and shredders fight maws capable of tearing large chunks of flesh from their
well in packs that swarm their hapless victims and tear enemies. Shredders make up for their lack of eyes with
them apart. other hyperaware senses, including a preternaturally
sensitive nose and skin able to register subtle changes in air
pressure from sound and movement. These simple spawn
recognize blighted energies and feel instinctive awe of
their masters athanc. This loyalty means they will
never turn on any of Everblights chosen warlocks,
regardless of hunger or frenzied rage.

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 Stinger
Legion Lesser Warbeast
Among our most perfect creations, it lives only to kill. Once it has performed its task it has no further
need of life.
Thagrosh the Messiah

STINGER ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

STINGER
Eyeless Sight Lurker 1 6 No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 6 5 4 13 12 7 Blood Creation This Target friendly model gains Bushwhack. Lurker lasts for one
model never attacks turn. (During its activation, a model with Bushwhack can make
flame Spitter
friendly Faction warlocks its combat action before its normal movement. If it does, it must
RNG ROF AOE POW make a full advance as its normal movement this activation.)
H SP 6 1 10 and cannot choose them as
its frenzy target.
Barbed StingerS
POW P+S Dig In (HAction) This a pack of stingers working in concert can reduce even a
6 12 model gains cover, does not phalanx of armored warriors to a steaming mound of organic
suffer blast damage, and does
detritus. As a final resort, each stinger also bears a massive
not block LOS. The model
remains dug in until it moves, barbed tail capable of injecting a victim with its poisonous
2
1 is placed, or is engaged. blood. Striking with this terrible weapon can be done only
3 The model cannot dig into
BODY once, as unleashing the stinger tears loose vital organs within
solid rock or man-made
IN 4 the spawn, leaving it vulnerable until it has time to recover.
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constructions. This model can
begin the game dug in. Stingers have no sense of self-preservation, so they have no
fear of unleashing this ultimate killing strike.
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SP
Lesser Warbeast This model
6 cannot make power attacks.
5
Soulless This model does
Fury 2 not generate a soul token
Threshold 7 when it is destroyed.
Field Allowance U
Point Cost 2
Flame Spitter
Damage Type: Fire
Small base
Barbed Stinger
Reach
Poison Gain an additional die on this weapons damage rolls
against living models.
Suicidal Attack If this weapon damages a model, immediately
after the attack is resolved, mark all the damage circles in this
warbeasts body aspect.

Though the simplest and smallest of dragonspawn may

lack the brutal power of Everblights greater creations, they
are an integral part of the dragons legion. Because smaller
spawn are far less taxing on the warlocks who must create
them than their larger brethren are, Everblight readily
experiments with their forms.

The stinger, once formally known as Acrar, is an unnatural

weapon bred to fight and die in the service of its draconic
master. Though living, it seldom stirs unless called to
action. Then the vicious spawn skitters forward to prepare
for battle with its tail flicking, blighted venom churning
within its gullet.

Stingers use their powerful claws to dig into the ground,

where they lurk until their victims come within range. When
they sense the approach of prey, the creatures erupt from the
ground spewing noxious, corrosive venom. The spawn then
fall back to strike again should their prey somehow survive
the first volley of blighted toxin. In just a matter of seconds

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 Nephilim Bolt Thrower
Legion Light Warbeast
There is no refuge for its prey. No distance will keep it from striking down our enemies.
Vayl Hallyr, Disciple of Everblight

ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF BOLT THROWER

BOLT THROWER
Glider 1 Self No No Eyeless Sight
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
This model gains Flight. Glider lasts for one turn. (A model
6 9 5 5 13 16 8
with Flight can advance through terrain and obstacles without Ballista
penalty, can advance through obstructions and other models Thunderbolt Enemy Ballista
if it has enough movement to move completely past them, and models hit are pushed RNG ROF AOE POW
ignores intervening models when declaring its charge target.) d3 directly away from 12 1 14
the attacking model. On
Bow Blade
a critical hit, the enemy
Among the most horrific of Everblights creations, the model is knocked down
POW P+S
3 12
nephilim combine the strength and killing instincts of after being pushed.
dragonspawn with a capacity for independent thought.
The bolt throwers are also extremely mobile living siege 2
its draconic blood to cause 1
engines. Armed with powerful ballistae, they stalk the 3
it to immediately sprout BODY
battlefield guided by their unnatural senses to unleash a
wings from its atrophied IN 4
lethal barrage of crushing projectiles. They are normally

M
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stumps, allowing the

flightless creatures, but a nephilims warlock can manipulate
beast to take the fight to

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SP
the airat least for the 6
short time before its flesh 5
returns to its normal form.
Fury 3
Any target unfortunate Threshold 10
enough to be hit Field Allowance U
with one of a bolt Point Cost 6
throwers oversized Medium base
bolts is hurled
backward by the
tremendous force. Those who take the full brunt of
the weapons impact are knocked to the ground,
easy prey for the nephilim to kill and feast upon.
A nephilim warrior can also fight at close range
with the wicked blade mounted at the fore of its
bow, savagely hacking apart anything that was
not immediately felled by its ballista.

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 Nephilim Protector
Legion Light Warbeast
They are the product of our spilled blood; now let them shed blood in our stead.
Vayl, Disciple of Everblight

PROTECTOR ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

PROTECTOR
Eyeless Sight Safeguard 2 6 No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

6 8 5 3 12 18 8 Empathic Transference A Target friendly model cannot be knocked down. When it is
friendly Faction warlock slammed, reduce the slam distance rolled by 3. Safeguard lasts
Halberd
can transfer damage to this for one round.
POW P+S
4 12 model even if this model
has a number of fury points Protectors unerringly follow an instinctive imperative to
equal to its current FURY.
guard Everblights generals and will dive into harms way
2 Shield Guard Once per without hesitation or concern for their individual lives. They
1
round, when a friendly
3 are also ideal vessels for any grave wounds their warlocks
BODY
model is directly hit by a
IN 4 ranged attack during your receive and shunt to them, bred as they are to accept and
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opponents turn while endure these injuries even when other spawn can sustain
within 2 of this model, no more. Requiring no rest and incapable of mental fatigue,
IT
IR

SP you can choose to have this

protectors stay constantly alert for danger, ever wary of
6 model directly hit instead.
5 This model is automatically their surroundings in the interest of their charges.
hit and suffers all damage
Fury 3 and effects. This model
Threshold 10 cannot use Shield Guard if
Field Allowance U it is incorporeal, knocked
Point Cost 5 down, or stationary.
Medium base Halberd
Reach
Set Defense A model in this models front arc suffers 2 on
charge, slam power attack, and impact attack rolls against
this model.

Nephilim continue to evolve under Everblights

watchful eye, proving themselves an efficient
breed. Their ability to wield arms while
retaining the assets of draconic blood makes
them ideal soldiers. Everblight has refined
the process of their creation and is now able to
sustain Nyss incubators through several births.
While the dragons forces developed spawning
vats to gestate nephilim in even greater numbers,
he continued to expand the creatures function
and exploit their adaptability. Enter the nephilim
protectors, shaped from birth to guard Everblights
warlocks from harm.

Since the battle at the Castle of the Keys,

the priority of spawning this expression of
nephilim has only increased. Though the gains
were clearly worth the risk, exposing so many of
his warlocks to potential destruction has troubled
Everblight. Dividing his athanc among multiple
generals enhances his own chances of survival only
so long as those hosts endure. The dragon developed the
protectors to help ensure their safety.

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 Nephilim Soldier
Legion Light Warbeast
Massacre followed as the horrors glided behind our lines and slaughtered kriel elders.
We were helpless to prevent it.
Haggran Bilebreath of the Scarsfell kriels

ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF SOLDIER

SOLDIER
Massacre 2 6 No No Eyeless Sight
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Target friendly model can charge without being forced. When
Flight This model can
6 9 6 3 13 16 8
the affected model destroys an enemy model with a charge
advance through terrain
attack, after the attack is resolved it can advance up to 1 and TwoHanded Sword
and obstacles without
make an additional melee attack. Massacre lasts for one turn. POW P+S
penalty and can advance 5 14
through obstructions
Everblights long study of the elves has borne horrific and other models if it has
enough movement to move
fruit in the nephilim. The dragons fascination with living completely past them. This
2
1
organisms informs the creation of his dragonspawn and model ignores intervening BODY
3
allows for great improvement upon natures crude vagaries. models when declaring its IN 4
charge target.

M
D
The process of life goes on among the blighted Nyss, who
continue to bear young. Indeed, since the dragon tampered Two-Handed

IT
IR
SP
with their essences, Nyss mothers bring their offspring Sword 6
to term with shocking speed. What once occurred over Reach 5
months now takes only weeks. Everblight selects certain
pregnant Nyss to receive a special draught of his warlocks Fury 3
blood. This blighted essence courses through their bodies, Threshold 10
transforming the life growing within them into spawn. Field Allowance U
Point Cost 5
All Nyss born with the taint of Everblights gifts mature
Medium base
rapidly, but these near-perfect soldiers grow to maturity in
just a few days.

Everblight sees the nephilim as a marvelous improvement

over the fragile elven form. Nephilim wield weapons
and armor yet boast the powers, fearless tenacity, and
inexhaustible stamina of dragonspawn.
They display greater
independence than
the more bestial
spawn, though, as
well as a distinct
glimmer of self-will
possibly due to their
unforeseen endowment
of souls. This greater self-
determination sets them
apart from their more tractable
brethren and gives them unique
advantages, such as the ability to
interpret their masters orders, act
with some measure of forethought,
and adapt to evolving situations. Their
cunning comes at a price, however, as they
do not fear the athanc shard and can turn on
warlocks in the heat of frenzy. Though outsiders
see the nephilim as warped horrors, the Legion views
them as perfectly sublime creatures and a testament to the
dragons genitive blight.

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 Raek
Legion Light Warbeast
They prowl outside the light of our torches. We cannot see them, but we know they are there.
Every day we wake to find more dead.
Part of the Lay of Sygos from the time of Morrdh

RAEK ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

RAEK
Eyeless Sight Shadow Shift 2 Self No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

7 8 6 3 15 14 6 Pathfinder This model gains Parry. Shadow Shift lasts for one turn. (A
model with Parry cannot be targeted by free strikes.)
Bite Stealth
POW P+S
Blood Creation This
H 3 11 Working from the scattered records of ancient folk tales,
model never attacks
Tail Strike friendly Faction warlocks only the most penetrating and insightful scholars could
POW P+S and cannot choose them as have any hint of the terrors Everblight unleashed while he
4 12 its frenzy target. laired beneath Morrdh. Among these thankfully forgotten
Bounding Leap Once per beasts stalked a predator called the raek, an archaic monster
activation, after making that has again come to hunt mankind. The dark masters of
2
1 a full advance but before
Morrdh once dispatched these terrors when they deemed
3 performing an action, this
death alone too simple a fate. Spawned by Everblight, raeks
BODY
model can be forced to be
IN 4 were living warnings that no betrayer of that accursed
placed completely within
M

5 of its current location. kingdom would find safety. Flight or evasion did nothing
Any effects that prevent
IT

but delay the inevitable, for the raek would stalk undeterred
IR

SP
charging also prevent
6
this model from using across untold distances before closing for the kill. With a
5 single great leap it locked its fang-filled jaws to hold its
Bounding Leap.

Fury 3 Soulless This model does prey fast while repeated strikes from its wickedly sharp tail
Threshold 9 not generate a soul token ripped apart its victim.
Field Allowance U when it is destroyed.
The creation of the Legion has prompted Everblight to
Point Cost 4 Tail Strike
Medium base bring the raek back into the world and send it forth to hunt.
Reach
No matter how fast its quarry, the raek moves faster, never
losing the trail. Sleek, powerful, and graceful, the raek hunts
inexorably and is able to circumvent any barrier that
might shelter its victim. This single-minded and
patient killer ignores all outside distractions and
possesses no instinct for self-preservation
that might hinder a natural predator. It
is a shining example of Everblights
genius at improving upon nature.

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 Teraph
Legion Light Warbeast
That abomination sprung from nowhere to attack our caravan. I could hear the screams as I ran.
Morrow help me, but I do not regret fleeing.
Hulgish Erdonovach

ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF TERAPH

TERAPH
Counterblast 2 Self No No Advance Deployment
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
When an enemy model advances and ends its movement in this
Eyeless Sight
6 8 5 6 13 16 7
models command range, this model can make one normal melee
or ranged attack targeting that model, then Counterblast expires. Pathfinder Blight Blast
Counterblast lasts for one round. Blood Creation This
RNG ROF AOE POW
H 10 1 3 13
model never attacks
friendly Faction warlocks Tail Strike
While Everblight laired below Morrdh, the teraphimthe
and cannot choose them as POW P+S
most patient and silent of his creationsguarded his lair. its frenzy target. 4 12
They burrowed into the earth, where they waited to attack Dig In (HAction) This
any intruders who did not bear the blighted essence of their model gains cover, does not
2
creator. The dragon used them in his ancient alliance with suffer blast damage, and does 1
the men of Morrdh by sending them to slay those who had not block LOS. The model BODY
3
remains dug in until it moves,
been marked for death. is placed, or is engaged.
IN 4

M
D

The model cannot dig into

A teraph is a serpentine, six-limbed spawn boasting a
solid rock or man-made

IT
IR
poisonous barbed tail. While lurking in the ground the constructions. This model can
SP

6
creature accumulates a churning mass of sulfurous and begin the game dug in.
5
acidic fluids in its gullet that erupts in a geyser of black Soulless This model does
fire and blighted ash upon exposure to air. Its incredibly not generate a soul token Fury 3
keen sense of smell allows it to locate any living creature when it is destroyed. Threshold 9
within a hundred yards. Even underground it can find Blight Blast Field Allowance U
enemies by following the vibrations of their footsteps Damage Type: Fire
Point Cost 5
Medium base
then explode from the earth with astonishing speed to
Tail Strike
Reach

ambush them. Everblights warlocks can channel this

same blinding quickness to launch attacks at foes that
draw too near.

Teraphim are an essential

element of the Legions defensive
formations. They are strategically
placed like living mines along
known troop routes, where they
wait to sow terror and confusion
with their earthen eruptions and
terrible incendiary streams.

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 Angelius
Legion Heavy Warbeast
Its coming foretells my true awakening. The wind of its wings presages a dread transformation, an
ascension to supremacy by which the world will be torn asunder and reshaped.
The words of Ethrunbal echoed through Thagrosh, the Prophet

ANGELIUS ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

ANGELIUS
Eyeless Sight Repulsion 2 Self No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 10 6 5 14 17 7 Blood Creation This Enemy models currently within 2 of this model are immediately
model never attacks pushed 3 directly away from it in the order you choose.
Flame Jet
RNG ROF AOE POW
friendly Faction warlocks
H 12 1 12 and cannot choose them as victims with a ferocity belying its serpentine grace. Then
its frenzy target.
Tail Strike it rises from its slain foe with a single great sweep of its
Flight This model can
POW P+S triple wings. The angelius is in constant motion, flying over
4 14 advance through terrain and
obstacles without penalty the battlefield and killing with impunity while evading
and can advance through enemies beneath its notice.
2
obstructions and other models
1 if it has enough movement More than two thousand years have passed since Everblight
BODY
3 to move completely past first unleashed his favored creation. The angelius last arose
them. This model ignores near the end of the dragons meddling with the kingdom of
IN 4
M

D
intervening models when
declaring its charge target.
Morrdh. Grown powerful, confident, and too comfortable
in his influence over the lords of that dark kingdom,
IT
IR

SP
Overtake When this
6 model destroys one or more Everblight created the angelius as both a gift to the dragons
5 enemy warrior models with most favored vassals and a reminder of his watchful eye.
a normal melee attack, after The angelius served well to placate the loyal and terrify the
Fury 4 the attack is resolved this more recalcitrant lords.
Threshold 9 model can immediately
Field Allowance U advance up to 1. In delivering one of its masters lessons, the angelius
Point Cost 9 Serpentine This model descended upon a marching army to slay several lords
Large base cannot make slam or who had openly defied the dragon. In this Everblight made
trample power attacks and
cannot be knocked down.
a grave mistake, for agents of the Dragonfather spotted
the serpentine spawn. Lord Toruk recognized the mark
Soulless This model does not generate a soul token when it
is destroyed. of its creator and immediately discerned the progeny
responsible. Because of Everblights display of arrogance,
Flame Jet the Dragonfather eventually unearthed his hiding place
Critical Fire
and nearly brought about his extinction.
Damage Type: Fire
After taking shelter in Blindwater Lake, Everblight realized
Tail Strike he could not spawn the angelius again until the benefits
Reach
outweighed the risk of drawing attention. That time came
Armor Piercing (HAttack) When calculating damage from
as he prepared to battle Pyromalfic, the dragon hiding at the
this attack, halve the base ARM stats of models hit that have
medium or larger bases. This attack gains +2 to damage rolls Castle of the Keys, as he knew angelii would be necassary
against models with small bases. to assist his warlocks in striking down that rival. After
two weeks of specific preparation, Thagrosh summoned a
seraph and spilled its willing blood upon the soil. He then
The sinuous form of the angelius represents the renewed
cut his own veins and nearly exsanguinated himself to
confidence and arrogance of Everblight. That the dragon has
mingle the seraphs essence with the purer heart-blood of
dared unleash this spawn is a sign of his awakened might
the dragon. With his loyal disciples gathered in awed vigil,
writ large for other dragons to see. The great six-winged
the first angelius of the new age ripped into the sky with a
angelius is a beast crafted to stand above the ranks of the
rending cry and joined Thagrosh as he marched toward his
seraphim and lead the flying hosts of Everblight to victory.
destiny. On the advance south it would have its chance to
While other spawn descend upon the masses to shred the
glut itself on slaughter.
rank and file, the aloof angelius glides serenely above the
tumult and selects victims at its masters behest. Strengthened by the prize awaiting him in the ruins of
Everblights rival, Thagrosh will bring even more of these
Everblight created the angelius to fall upon his enemies
flying terrors to life. The time for secrecy has ended. Under
like a sword from the sky and obliterate them utterly. Its
the shadow of the wings of the angelii, the world will come
razor-barbed tail strikes with blinding speed, impaling its
to know its new master.

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63
 Carnivean
Legion Heavy Warbeast
The carnivean is Everblights will given flesh and form: each claw and tooth a miracle, its breath a
hymn to our master.
Vayl Hallyr

CARNIVEAN ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

CARNIVEAN
Eyeless Sight Spiny Growth 2 6 No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 12 6 4 11 18 7 Pathfinder Target friendly Faction model gains +2ARM. If a warjack
or warbeast hits the affected model with a melee attack, the
Dragon Breath Assault As part of a charge, attacking model suffers d3 damage points immediately after
RNG ROF AOE POW after moving but before the attack has been resolved unless the affected model was
H SP 10 1 14 making its charge attack, this destroyed or removed from play by the attack. Spiny Growth
model can make one ranged lasts for one round.
Bite
POW P+S attack targeting the model
H 6 18 charged unless they were
in melee with each other its masters athanc, a carnivean can undergo a terrible
Talon at the start of this models mutagenesis that causes tremendous spines to erupt from
POW P+S activation. When resolving
L 4 16 its body to deflect attacks and impale foes at close range.
an Assault ranged attack,
Talon the attacking model does A carnivean can also vomit a scorching but quickly
POW P+S not suffer the target in melee consumed naphtha that melts flesh and ignites nerves with
R 4 16 penalty. If the target is not
in melee range after moving,
blighted agony. The sight of this dragonfire incinerating
this model can make the their comrades has caused entire armies to flee in terror.
2 Assault ranged attack before
1 its activation ends.
BODY
3
Blood Creation This
IN 4 model never attacks
M

friendly Faction warlocks

and cannot choose them as
IT
IR

SP
its frenzy target.
6
5
Soulless This model does
not generate a soul token
Fury 4 when it is destroyed.
Threshold 9 Dragon Breath
Field Allowance U Damage Type: Fire
Point Cost 11
Large base Talon
Open Fist

Carniveans are monstrosities designed to destroy

and slaughter. Everblight rarely called upon
them in ancient days; even the black kingdom
of Morrdh was rarely granted command of
these terrifying killing machines.

The rearmost four limbs of the carnivean

allow for a steady stance and a rapid
gait; the huge creature is able to
make shocking haste across
even the most daunting
obstacles. The considerably
longer and more powerfully
muscled two upper limbs end
in massive claws and are ridged
with numerous flesh-tearing
spines. Bony protrusions cover
every inch of a carnivean, and its
thick scales provide more protection
than any natural hide. If urged by

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 Ravagore
Legion Heavy Warbeast
Upon the bones and ashes of the world, we shall build his empire eternal.
Bethayne, Voice of Everblight

ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF RAVAGORE

RAVAGORE
Dragons Fire 1 6 - - No No Eyeless Sight
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Target friendly Faction warbeasts ranged weapons gain
Pathfinder 6 12 5 5 11 18 7
Continuous Effect: Fire . Dragons Fire lasts for one turn.
Blood Creation This Blight Blast
model never attacks RNG ROF AOE POW
As a living vehicle for the delivery of Everblights fiery friendly Faction warlocks H 14 1 3 15
breath, the ravagore is one of the dragons favored creations. and cannot choose them as
Talon
Though the cost in blood is high for the warlocks who must its frenzy target. POW P+S
Soulless This model does L 4 16
spawn the huge creatures, the price is well spent. A single
not generate a soul token
ravagore is capable of inflicting terrible destruction upon Talon
when it is destroyed. POW P+S
any enemy who would stand in the way of the Legion.
R 4 16
Blight Blast
A cold, blue glow produced by the blight-fueled heat within Damage Type: Corrosion
the creatures bellies emanates from their maws. When a
Damage Type: Fire 2
ravagore fills its lungs, a distinctive hiss warns any who can 1
Scather This attacks 3
hear it to flee before it breathes out its terrible flame. Those BODY
AOE remains in play for
killed outright are fortunate; the less lucky may linger on, one round. Enemy models
IN 4

M
D

caught in a blaze almost impossible to extinguish and crying and non-Faction friendly
models entering or ending

IT
out for the mercy of oblivion as they are reduced to ash

IR
SP
their activations in the AOE
and bone. So powerful is the inner fire of the ravagore that 6
suffer 1 point of corrosion
warlocks can easily draw upon these blighted energies to damage . 5
stir similar infernos in other spawn around it. The fires thus
unleashed upon the Legions enemies are both awesome
Talon Fury 4
Open Fist Threshold 9
and terrible to behold. Field Allowance U
Point Cost 10
Large base

65
 Scythean
Legion Heavy Warbeast
It matters little how much blood and suffering is required to craft such a beautiful killer. Its first
feast upon the heart of an enemy army will repay us.
Vayl Hallyr

SCYTHEAN ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

SCYTHEAN
Eyeless Sight Slaughterhouse 1 Self No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 12 6 4 11 18 7 Pathfinder This model gains Take Down. Slaughterhouse lasts for one turn.
(Models disabled by a melee attack made by a model with Take
Scythe Blood Creation This Down cannot make a Tough roll. Models boxed by a melee
POW P+S model never attacks attack made by this model are removed from play.)
L 5 17 friendly Faction warlocks
and cannot choose them as
Scythe
its frenzy target.

R 5 17
POW P+S
Tactical Tips
Soulless This model does
not generate a soul token Slaughterhouse Because a boxed model is removed from play
when it is destroyed. before being destroyed, it does not generate a soul or corpse token.
2
1 Scythe
BODY
3
Reach Before the present age, scytheans last roamed the
4 labyrinthine tunnels beneath the now-blasted Iosan city
Chain Attack: Bloodbath
IN
M

If this model hits the same of Issyrah. When the Iosans finally became aware of the
target with both its initial danger in their midst and marched to confront it, it was
IT
IR

SP
attacks with this weapon, the scytheans that first blocked their way. These terrible
6
after resolving the attacks
5 draconic monsters were supremely deadly in the narrow
it can immediately make
one melee attack with this tunnels leading to their master, as none of them required
Fury 4 weapon against each model light to massacre their enemies. Indeed, the creatures
Threshold 9 in its LOS that is in this seem to take a vicious joy in slaughter, a quality that
Field Allowance U weapons melee range.
brings grim pleasure to the degenerate Nyss serving in
Point Cost 9
Large base the dragons host.
Everblight takes tre-
mendous pride in his
ability to craft fiendish abominations that are more than a
match for any creature born of nature. The scythean is the
most brutal and simplistic of the dragons malefic
beasts, long favored as Everblights guardians
and executioners. Purely dedicated to
destroying any who oppose their masters
will, scytheans fall upon their prey
with enough fury to tear apart even
the most resilient foes in a savage
orgy of bloodshed.

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 Seraph
Legion Heavy Warbeast
It descended from darkness and lit the night as it passed. Nothing but ash remained of my kinsmen.
Kreundar of Nord Kith

ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF SERAPH

SERAPH
Slipstream 1 Self No No Eyeless Sight
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
When this model ends its normal movement, one friendly
Blood Creation This 6 10 6 5 14 16 7
Faction model this model moved within 2 of is placed
model never attacks
completely within 2 of the friendly Faction models current Blight Strike
friendly Faction warlocks
location, then Slipstream expires. A model can be placed by RNG ROF AOE POW
and cannot choose them as H 10 1 12
Slipstream only once per turn. Slipstream lasts for one turn.
its frenzy target.
Stinger
Flight This model can POW P+S
advance through terrain 4 14
Tactical Tips and obstacles without
Strafe These attacks are simultaneous. Attacks against targets penalty and can advance
beyond this weapons range will automatically miss. through obstructions 2
and other models if it has 1
enough movement to move BODY
3
The seraphim are Everblights messengers of death. These completely past them. This IN 4

M
agile flying spawn embody the dragons own sublime model ignores intervening D

models when declaring its

elegance, and it has been long ages since Everblight could

IT
charge target.

IR
SP
create them with abandon.
Serpentine This model 6
The seraph possesses a deceptively slender frame that slices cannot make slam or 5
through the air on powerful wings. Blighted energy streams trample power attacks and
cannot be knocked down. Fury 4
from its wings and leaves a strange, distorted contrail
Soulless This model does Threshold 9
in its wake. The seraph uses this energy to warp Field Allowance U
not generate a soul token
distances around itself and can manipulate when it is destroyed. Point Cost 8
the movement of those caught in Large base
Blight Strike
Damage Type: Fire
Strafe [d3+1] (HAttack) Make d3+1 ranged attacks
targeting a primary target and any number of secondary
targets within 2 of the first target. Ignore intervening
models when declaring secondary targets. A secondary
target cannot be targeted by more attacks than the
primary target. Strafe counts as one attack for ROF.

Stinger
Critical Poison On a critical hit, gain an additional
die on this weapons damage rolls against living
models.

its slipstream. Its long tail ends in wickedly

barbed blades capable of piercing plated steel
and dripping with a poisonous ichor.

Seraphim sense the landscape with perfect

clarity; even the slightest motion registers to their
predatory acuity. They rarely engage in melee,
preferring to annihilate adversaries from a distance
using incinerating miasmas of blighted ash. The ash
quickly sears and melts flesh before disintegrating it into a
filthy, sulfurous powder. Seraphim can strafe and obliterate
an entire enemy formation using this caustic breath.

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 Typhon
Legion Character Heavy Warbeast
Men die. Empires crumble. Only the power of dragons is eternal.
Everblight to Thagrosh

TYPHON ANIMUS Cost RNG AOE POW UP OFF

TYPHON
Eyeless Sight Excessive Healing 2 Self No No
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
When this model is damaged by an enemy attack, immediately
6 11 7 5 13 17 7 Gunfighter
after resolving the attack this model heals d3 damage points.
Blight Breath Affinity [Thagrosh] When Excessive Healing lasts for one round.
RNG ROF AOE POW Typhon is forced to use
SP 8 1 14 Regenerate in Thagroshs
control area, instead of
Bite
POW P+S rolling to determine how Tactical Tips
6 17 many damage points Critical Pitch A model cannot throw a model whose base is
Typhon heals, Typhon and larger than its own.
Thagrosh each heal up to 3
2
damage points.
1
Circular Vision This
theories derived by the dragon during his disembodied exile.
3
BODY
models front arc extends Everblight sees himself as a creator foremost, though many
IN 4 to 360. find his art incomprehensible. He takes pride in his studies
M

Multiple Heads This into form and function, his keen understanding of draconic
model can make three forms, and his deliberate application of blighted energies.
IT
IR

SP
initial attacks each Never satisfied, Everblight is driven to improve upon what
6
combat action, using any has come before. Typhon is the culmination of centuries of
5
combination of Blight
careful planning and schemingthe first of a terrible new
Breath and Bite attacks.
Fury 4 This model loses one initial breed containing true draconic essence.
Threshold 9 attack for each aspect it has
Field Allowance C lost. This model cannot be
Everblight had long sought to consume the athanc of
Point Cost 12 forced to make additional another dragon, for when one dragon devours the heart
Large base Blight Breath attacks. of another, the two athancs fuse and the victor gains the
Regeneration [d3] This vitality of the vanquished. All athancs feel the undeniable
model can be forced to heal urge to reunite in wholeness, but a period of struggle and
d3 damage points once per activation. This model cannot use adjustment occurs before the complete synthesis of two
Regeneration during an activation it runs. athancs. It was in this vital time Everblight saw a unique
Blight Breath possibility to create something new. After Pyromalfics
Damage Type: Fire destruction, Everblight set this experiment into motion.

Bite He compelled Thagrosh to use Rapture to carve the smallest

Critical Pitch On a critical hit, instead of rolling damage normally possible piece from his part of the athanc even as it was
you can choose to have this model throw the model hit. Treat the fusing with Pyromalfics. Thagrosh dropped this shard into
throw as if this model had hit with and passed the STR check of a a sizable quantity of his own spilled blood. The timing was
throw power attack. The thrown model suffers a damage roll with
POW equal to this models STR plus the POW of this weapon. The
tricky: Everblight knew he could not risk weakening Thagrosh
POW of collateral damage is equal to this models STR. further through exsanguination. But Thagrosh succeeded, and
Typhon was born. Though the creature is a part of Everblight
and feels compelled by harmonic pressure to obey the dragon,
Even those accustomed to horrors and numb to violence
it is not a part of Everblights divided consciousness.
find the sight of Typhon terrifying. This truly monstrous
creature bears little resemblance to any beast in nature. Typhon is a purely draconic creature possessing a
It is the organic consequence of a malevolent intelligence fragmentary soul of its own. Its athanc shard ties it
bent on creating weapons spawned of its own blood, flesh, intimately to Thagrosh, but it can generate its own blighted
and bone. Its three heads shriek dissonant cries as they blood and think and act with more independence than the
seek victims to rip apart with their powerful jaws or spew regular spawn. From this small shard Typhon gained a
concentrated gouts of superheated ash to melt metal and sense of self, crude and bestial though its mind might be.
flesh. Even more formidable is the creatures resilience:
Possessed of a dragons immortality, Typhon can regenerate
Typhons wounds seem to close as quickly as they appear.
from almost nothing so long as its dissociated athanc
Unlike Everblights ancient spawn, Typhon is a new triumph, fragment endures. Everblight has at last succeeded in
created in the aftermath of the battle at the Castle of the Keys. Its creating a spawn as invulnerable as the dragons themselves,
origins go back considerably further, however, to the esoteric capable of rising from its own ashes to become whole.

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69
 Troops of the legion
The ranks of Everblights Legion are unlike any other they observe with far more rigorous attention than before
fighting force in western Immoren. The dragons the blight, as if they feel compelled to preserve specific
troops serve their master with a loyalty and singularity elements of their existence before the dragons influence.
of purpose of which other military commanders can only Once peerless hunters of the frozen north, the Nyss now
dream, performing each given task with a terrifying speed turn their fearsome capabilities against the enemies of
and proficiency as if their every fiber were devoted to Everblight, descending upon them with murderous fury.
serving their master at war. Existing alongside this ruthless
Whether Nyss or ogrun, all Legion troops share one
efficiency is a cold emptiness and a changed essence that
commonality: they bear the dragons blight within their
goes beyond the physical manifestations of the dragons
flesh. The manner in which the blight takes hold, however,
blight. To outsiders, the plight of Nyss soldiers must seem
largely depends upon an individual troops natural
one worse than deathpower in exchange for absolute,
predilections, for the process enhances characteristics
unflinching loyalty and an eternity of thankless devotion.
already present in the subject. At the most basic level, the
Though other creatures, such as the ogrun, also serve blight bestows greater physical prowess, an unshakable
Everblight, the ranks of blighted Nyss are his most sense of loyalty to Everblight, and minor physical changes
numerous and important servants. They are present at all like small horns, scales, or body spikes. In addition, weak
levels of Legion hierarchy, from the warlocks who lead the character traits like compassion and fear are stripped away
dragons forces to the lowliest foot soldiers who carry out in favor of heightened cruelty and instinctual cunning.
their orders. The dragons blight enhances their physical
The blight wholly alters the bodies of other soldiers in
strength and agility but accentuates certain dark traits
order to better suit their roles and performance on the
inherent in all Nyss. Their magnified cruelty and rapacity
battlefield. Some of these transformations are decidedly
have turned the Nyss into killers as stoically merciless as
animalistic, such as in the case of striders, who in addition
any predatory beast.
to a markedly enhanced predatory disposition gain a
The Nyss have managed to retain much of their cultural length and modified form to their legs that increase
and racial identity even as other aspects of their once- their speed and agility. The changes wrought upon Nyss
proud society have been subsumed or reinterpreted for swordsmen are less evident but no less dramatic, as their
a life of endless war. Many Nyss warrior traditions have minds are stripped of all except a singular devotion to
survived the races assimilation into the Legion; some their deadly craft. This change is useful to their function as

Nyss Blades and Claymores

The Nyss have long been renowned for their elegant and unusual survived the blighting now reside within the Legions few near-
curved blades. The most prominent among these weapons is the permanent camps, where they labor alongside the acolyths who
Nyss claymore, a graceful implement of death more than five feet manufacture fresh horrors in the gory soup of spawning vessels.
long designed to deliver a devastating killing blow. Nyss blades are
The blighted Nyss still treat their blades with a reverence that borders
commonly adorned with Aeric runes and are never allowed to dull or
on religious devotion, going to great lengths to recover the weapons
suffer the ravages of time.
of those who fall on the battlefield. This veneration is a holdover from
Before the coming of Everblight, Nyss bladesmiths learned their craft ancient warrior traditions and is one of the strongest vestiges of Nyss
from a young age and honed it throughout their lives. Those who culture still found among the blighted.

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 Blighted Nyss Striders

skilled killers, but it does render the swordsmen less able The blight can also amplify the sorcerous potential of
to make considered judgments and perform other tasks those it affects, both magnifying the existing capabilities
required of commanding officers. of individuals who had previously shown arcane gifts and
unlocking arcane potential in individuals who had not
Everblights power wreaks even more frightful and
previously exhibited it. Certainly arcane aptitude is on the
unpredictable changes upon blighted ogrun warmongers.
rise among the blighted Nyssone of the many gifts the
Like most of the dragons Legion, they have become more
dragon has bestowed upon his chosen people.
savage and brutal than ever before, but in them the blight
has gone further, stripping them of all sanity and bathing
their minds in crazed hallucinations that drive them to a
madness only battle and bloodshed can relieve.

In others, the blight takes a far more drastic course,

twisting and distorting their bodies beyond recognition.
Degenerate and brutish yet possessing an undeniable
blight-born cunning, these bestial grotesques scarcely
resemble the Nyss stock from which they are spawned.
Others, like the Forsaken, are so infused with blighted
energy they lose themselves entirely to the dragons
warping influence. Unlike the perfecting blight that
evolves the bodies of most of Everblights soldiers, within
them the transformation is random and spontaneous,
characterized by shocking aberration rather than natural
augmentation.

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 Blighted
Legion Unit
Nyss Archers
Let your arrows rain down on them until nothing moves in this village except the blood seeping from
their lifeless bodies.
Lylyth Voassyr, Herald of Everblight

LEADER & GRUNTS

LEADER & GRUNTS
Combined Ranged Attack Tactical Tips
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

6 4 5 5 13 11 8 Suppressing Fire (Order) Suppressing Fire (Order) Place the template after movement.
This order can be issued
Nyss Longbow
only if two or more models
RNG ROF AOE POW Though they are blighted shells of what they once were, the
12 1 10 with ranged weapons
in this unit in formation Nyss have retained pride in their archery and craftsmanship;
Sword are able to forfeit their each of their recurved composite bows is still customized
POW P+S actions. Each model in this exactly to the strength and height of the archer. They are
3 7 unit in formation must
made from carved bone or polished wood laminated over
Field Allowance 2 forfeit its action. Other
than the Standard Bearer, bone using animal-hide glues. The tendon bowstrings they
Leader & 5 Grunts 5
those models that do are use allow for a tremendously strong pull.
Leader & 9 Grunts 8
participants. Place an AOE
Small base completely within 12 of
all participants, with its
center point in LOS of all
participants, ignoring intervening models. The size of the AOE
is based on the number of participants. If there are 24, the AOE
is 3. If there are 57, the AOE is 4. If there are 8 or more, the
AOE is 5. When a model enters or ends its activation within the
AOE, it suffers a POW 10 damage roll. Suppressing Fire lasts
for one round or until all participants have been destroyed or
removed from play.

Everblights corruption has spread with little resistance

among the Nyss, shaping and refining their anatomies to
bring forth a twisted reflection of their inner darkness.
With their purpose given over to the dragons will,
they have become eager accomplices in Everblights
murderous schemes. The most formidable of these,
taken from the Voassyr and Raefyll hunting tribes,
have been transformed into blighted archers.

Blighted archers unleash a hail of deadly arrows to

wither the enemys front ranks before other forces sweep
through the demoralized foes. The sheer number of arrows
they can release is beyond belief. Long a staple among the
Nyss elves of the frozen north, archery was vital not only
for use in warfare but also in the gathering of food; survival
hinged on the constant efforts of these rugged hunters.
Those who were once providers for their people are now
relentless assassins able to murder with chilling precision.
Most elements of their culture and psyche have been
stripped away, leaving only the most brutal and merciless
Nyss qualities. Delighting in slaughter, the archers enjoy
nothing more than ending lives with deadly arrow fire.

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Blighted Nyss Archer OfficerLegion
& Ammo Porter
Unit Attachment
Our enemies have no words for the slaughter that will befall them. They shall remember their dead
collectively, for the numbers will be beyond reckoning.
Deacon Shyvel Kylvis

Attachment [Blighted Nyss

Tactical Tips Archers] This attachment OFFICER
can be added to a Blighted SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Ready Ammo This is how the model gets to take the second shot
6 4 6 6 13 11 9
Nyss Archers unit.
allowed by the ROF2 of its weapon.
OFFICER Nyss Longbow
Take Up Effects include spells and animi. RNG ROF AOE POW
Combined Ranged Attack 12 1 10
Officer Because this model is an Officer, when it is destroyed it
does not replace a Grunt in its unit. Instead the unit Leader becomes Officer Sword
the unit commander. The Officer can issue the Suppressing Fire order.
Granted: Combined POW P+S
Arms While this model 3 7

The Legions inexorable advance has relied heavily upon is in play, models in its AMMO PORTER
unit gain Combined Arms. SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
hundreds of blighted archers delivering death to the enemy (When a model with
6 4 5 5 13 11 8
from afar before the decisive clash of melee. The deacons Combined Arms misses an
commanding these insatiable killers once led entire shards. attack roll for a combined Officers Damage 5
ranged attack, it can reroll Field Allowance 1
Now their archers aim for the most vulnerable targets and
that attack roll. Each Point Cost 2
cripple or maim what they cannot slay outright. attack roll can be rerolled Small Base
only once as a result of
When brought to battle in large numbers, the archers
Combined Arms).
stand in long lines, lean back, and pull their bowstrings
Tactics: Pathfinder Models in this unit gain Pathfinder .
taut in perfect unison. At the call of their leader, or deacon,
the archers release their arrows with a distinct sound AMMO PORTER
the Legions enemies have come to dread. Arrows soar Ready Ammo While this model is in formation, models in its unit
unerringly through the air in a cloud, find any gap in gain Dual Shot and their ranged weapons become ROF2. (When
a model with Dual Shot forfeits its movement to gain the aiming
bonus it can also make one additional ranged attack that activation.)
Take Up If this model is destroyed or removed from play,
you can choose a Grunt in this unit within 1 of this model
to take its place. Effects on this model expire, and it gains
the effects on the chosen Grunt. Remove the Grunt from
the table instead of this model. This model has the same
number of unmarked damage boxes as the chosen Grunt.

armor or thickened hide, and induce screams of

pain and the choking gurgles of men drowning in
their own blood.

Young arrow porters race along the line burdened

with as many quivers as they can carry and
planting arrows before the archers are ready to
reach for them. In perfect concert, the teams
create such harmony of motion that an archers
eyes never waver from his target as each arrow
leaps effortlessly to his fingers. Deacons impress
a severe discipline upon their archers, who can
maintain their astounding accuracy even as they
march through the most forbidding terrain.

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 Blighted
Legion Unit
Nyss Grotesques
They are wretched, degenerate creatures driven only by instinct and hunger. Still, their effectiveness is
unquestionable, their ravenous appetites a blessing of his will.
Vayl, Disciple of Everblight

LEADER & GRUNTS The blighted Nyss grotesques are winged horrors so twisted
LEADER & GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Fearless by Everblights power they hardly resemble the coldly

5 7 5 4 13 13 6 Flight This model can beautiful race from which they are descended. Driven by
advance through terrain only the basest instincts of hunger and a desire to spill blood
Claws
and obstacles without
POW P+S for Everblight, these marauders strike swiftly from the sky,
3 10 penalty and can advance
through obstructions converging on their prey in a cloud of leathery wings and
Field Allowance 2 and other models if it has slashing talons.
Leader & 5 Grunts 4 enough movement to move
Leader & 9 Grunts 6 completely past them. This Not satisfied with the subtle manipulations he worked upon
Small base model ignores intervening the flesh of the Nyss, Everblight set about generating even
models when declaring its more drastic and terrible transformations. In the grotesques
charge target.
he created a new species utterly unlike the race from which
Gang When making a melee attack targeting an enemy model they were drawn and no longer dependent upon them for
in melee range of another model in this unit, this model gains
+2 to melee attack and melee damage rolls. future creation. Though initially born of blighted Nyss
parents, the brutish grotesques now dwell apart from the
Nyss and breed only among themselves, generating spawn
that incubate and mature at a frightful pace.

The grotesques live almost as flocks of nightmarish ravens.

When called upon to carry out Everblights will they descend
from the sky en masse, tearing their prey apart with the great
claws that mark each one as more beast than Nyss.

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 Blighted Nyss Legionnaires
Legion Unit
Where once you stood idle protecting those weaker than yourselves, now you march to battle
as Everblights scales and claws.
Thagrosh, the Messiah

LEADER & GRUNTS

Tactical Tips Combined Melee Attack
LEADER & GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Vengeance Models move after continuous effects have been Fearless
5 6 6 4 12 14 9
resolved during the step of the Maintenance Phase that says
Resolve all other effects that occur during the Maintenance Phase. Defensive Line While this Great Sword
model is B2B with one or POW P+S
Remember, these models can use Combined Melee Attack only more models in its unit, it 4 10
during their activations, not while benefitting from Vengeance. gains +2 ARM.
Field Allowance 2
Vengeance During your Leader & 5 Grunts 4
Maintenance Phase, if one Leader & 9 Grunts 6
or more models in this unit Small base
were destroyed or removed
from play by enemy attacks
during your opponents last turn, each model in the unit can
advance 3 and make one normal melee attack.

Great Sword
Reach

The legionnaires effortlessly cut through flesh and bone

with perfectly executed strikes honed by countless hours of
practice. These blighted warriors have corrupted an ancient
tradition of elite Nyss warriors once called the ryssovass.
This small group of highly disciplined soldiers defended
the narrow, winding passes leading to the heart of Nyss
territory, a guardianship that took them away from their
homes, shards, and tribes. Entrusted with ornate armor
of overlapping steel, these sentries stood against superior
numbers and tirelessly carved through enemy forces
funneled into the passes.

It once took years to train a warrior in the complex ryssovass

fighting style, which taught each legionnaire to act as an
extension of his brother. The precious steel employed
for their armor was in limited supply, drawn from metal
ordinarily reserved for the forging of swords. Under the
dragons corruption, however, it has proven much easier
to expand the legionnaires numbers. Whereas at one
time proud Nyss self-determination made embracing the
discipline required to master such tactics difficult, training
now comes effortlessly to them. Metal seized in raids and
plunder has made it easier to outfit these blighted warriors
and make them ready for battle.

The legionnaires wield the great blades of the ryssovass and

serve as Thagroshs personal guard. Standing side-by-side
they strike with fluid grace, blades rising and falling to cut
down any who would harm their brethren. As one of their
number falls, another steps forward to avenge him. A line of
legionnaires carves through enemies like a living thresher,
a wave of flashing blades that dismembers any defender
foolish enough to hold his ground.

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 Blighted
Legion Unit
Nyss Hex Hunters
They strike from darkness, manifesting his will in blood.
Saeryn, Omen of Everblight

LEADER & GRUNTS

LEADER & GRUNTS
Pathfinder Tactical Tips
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

7 6 7 4 14 12 8 Stealth Magic Ability Performing a Magic Ability special action or
special attack counts as casting a spell.
Hex Razor Battle Wizard Once per
POW P+S turn, when this model Hex Bolt Remember that power attacks are special attacks.
4 10 destroys one or more
enemy models with a melee Once released upon the battlefield hex hunters move
Field Allowance 2
attack during its activation,
Leader & 5 Grunts 5 with frightening speed, easily leaping across obstacles or
immediately after the attack
Leader & 9 Grunts 8 is resolved it can make one difficult ground in their eagerness to kill for Everblight,
Small base Magic Ability special attack their revered master. When they close with their victims
or special action. they lash out with their vicious razors and hex-borne blight
Magic Ability [6] magic, each death fueling a frenzy of murder.
Hex Bolt (HAttack) Hex Bolt is a RNG6, POW13 magic
attack. Models hit cannot make special actions or special
attacks for one round.

Hex Razor
Magical Weapon

Long a people known for their proud tradition of sorcery,

the Nyss have manifested the arcane spark in increasing
numbers since the coming of the dragon. The sorcerers
of this race once prided themselves on their knowledge
of the Aeric script and reverent service to their frozen
god, but they have now turned to the black secrets
of ancient Morrdh, commingling their most sacred
traditions with blasphemous lore and the power of
the blight. Instead of protecting and guiding their
shards to safety, many among this new breed of
Nyss sorcerers devote themselves to nothing less
than slaughter in the name of their master. From
this terrifying blend of ancient lore and blight
rise the hex hunters, sadistic masters of the arts of
death and fell magic.

The hex hunters are arcane assassins, living weapons

who have forsaken the greater mysteries of the arcane
to focus solely on destruction of the flesh. Armed
with hex razors, weapons recovered from the dark and
dangerous pits of the buried ruins of Morrdh, the hunters
channel the deaths of their victims into frightening occult
energies. To be struck by such a blade is to feel ones life
unraveled by the blighted touch of death itself.

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 Bayal, Hound of Everblight
Legion Character Unit Attachment
A relentless and efficient killer, Bayal lives only for the hunt. Let our enemies fear his name as they
fear death itself.
Vayl, Disciple of Everblight

Attachment [Hex
Tactical Tips Hunters] This attachment BAYAL
can be added to a Hex SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Magic Ability Performing a Magic Ability special action or
7 6 8 4 14 12 9
Hunters unit.
special attack counts as casting a spell.
Hex Razor
Hex Bolt Remember that power attacks are special attacks. BAYAL POW P+S
Officer 4 10
Bayal is first among the Hex Hunters, having been Pathfinder Damage 5
instrumental in shaping their shadowed sorceries. Before Stealth Field Allowance C
the arrival of Thagrosh, Bayal was already a ruthless and Battle Wizard Once per Point Cost 3
accomplished sorcerer, a scion of a line of Nyss renowned turn, when this model Small base
for their arcane talents. His gifts granted him command of destroys one or more
enemy models with a
the biting northern winds, which he used to great effect as melee attack during its activation, immediately after the attack
a hunter and killer. is resolved it can make one Magic Ability special attack or
special action.
Long an admirer of the ice witch Vayl, Bayal willingly
Granted: Hunter While this model is in play, models in
followed her into the Legion, where he took command of
this unit gain Hunter. (A model with Hunter ignores forests,
the sorcerous martial order that would become the Hex concealment, and cover when determining LOS or making a
Hunters. When the Legion hastened toward the Castle ranged attack.)
of the Keys to confront Pyromalfic, they descended into Magic Ability [7]
forgotten tunnels beneath the Thornwood to evade armies Frostbite (HAttack) Frostbite is a RNG SP 8 magic attack.
clashing there. Bayal and his followers remained behind to Models hit suffer a POW 12 cold damage roll .
plunder unspoiled Morrdhic ruins while Hex Bolt (HAttack) Hex Bolt is a RNG6, POW13
the rest of the Legion marched magic attack. Models hit cannot make special actions
or special attacks for one round.
Tactics: Advance Deployment Models in
this unit gain Advance Deployment .

Hex Razor
Magical Weapon
Weapon Master
Shadow Bind A model hit by
this weapon suffers 3 DEF and
when it advances it cannot move
except to change facing. Shadow
Bind expires after one round.

on. There they unearthed the secrets

of crafting the barbarous hex razors,
adding dark lore of this ancient kingdom
to Everblights arsenal. Bayal returned to
the Legion with his face concealed behind a
mask of ancient Morrdhic design and is now
a near-perfect weapon. The hex hunters follow
him with slavish devotion, and together
they combine blighted loyalty with potent
human lore that was once withheld from
the dragon by the more recalcitrant
Lords of Morrdh.

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 Blighted Nyss Raptors
Legion Light Cavalry Unit
No arrow nocked, no blade unsheathed, that does not bring a kill.
Motto of the Raptors

LEADER & GRUNTS The raptors traditional ulk, a hardy breed of particularly
LEADER & GRUNTS
Pathfinder large deer, instinctively shun the blighted Nyss, but striders
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

9 6 6 7 14 15 8 Nyss Longbow tracked several herds to exhaustion and captured them.
Nyss Longbow Poison Gain an additional Subjected to the blight, the animals became as aggressive
RNG ROF AOE POW die on this weapons damage as the warriors they carry and enthusiastically slash and
12 1 10 rolls against living models. impale with massive antlers once reserved for self-defense
Nyss Claymore Nyss Claymore and displays of dominance.
POW P+S
4 10 Weapon Master

Mount
POW
12

Damage 5
Field Allowance 1
Leader & 2 Grunts 6
Leader & 4 Grunts 10
Large base

Long before the rise of

Everblight and the Legion,
Nyss raptors descended
upon the Khardic tribes of
the frozen north. Mounted
atop swift and sure-footed
ulk, these outriders rode
through winter storms to
fall upon the villages of men
in a tempest of death and ruin.
Their victims could only flee in
every direction in the hope that
some few might escape the raptors
pounding hooves, deadly arrows,
and merciless blades.

Each raptor earned the right to join the

brotherhood in a tradition as old as the
Nyss themselves. Hopefuls went naked into
the frozen wilderness to find and tame an ulk stag
as their mount. They either returned astride their
bonded beast or died alone.

The raptor tradition has continued among the

Nyss of the Legion. They ride ahead to harass
enemy flanks and formations with their arrows
before the bulk of Legion forces join the battle.
Only skilled warriors who prove themselves
master of both blade and bow can join the ranks
of these daunting riders.

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 Blighted Nyss Scather Crew
Legion weapon crew unit
It exploded in our midst like the judgment of terrible gods, spraying vile droplets that withered all
life and made the very soil hiss in pain.
Kommander Guriv Irestovich

The scather is a light catapult designed to deliver the blight Scather catapult
LEADER
itself as a concentrated liquid poisonous to flesh. This Damage Type: Corrosion
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
substance can dissolve metal, putrefy wood, or crumble Arcing Fire When
4 4 5 5 13 11 8
stone as easily as it disintegrates flesh or bone. Even a few attacking with this weapon,
scather catapult
this model can ignore
drops will inflict searing agony on a man before granting RNG ROF AOE POW
intervening models except 15 1 3 14
the sweet release of death. The blighted liquid inside the those within 1 of the target.
scathers ammunition spreads across a wide area, sizzling as Light Artillery This Sword
POW P+S
it sends up a cloud of deadly vapor. That cloud will disperse weapon cannot be used
3 7
after a short while, but nothing will ever grow again on the to make attacks or special
actions during activations GRUNTs
poisoned earth, and only dragonspawn can draw sustenence
this model moves. This SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
from the flesh of those killed by such vapors. model cannot gain the
4 4 5 5 13 11 8
aiming bonus when
The nomadic Nyss were once content to rely on the accuracy attacking with this weapon
Sword
POW P+S
of their bows, particularly when wielding them from atop and cannot charge. If 3 7
the backs of sure-footed ulks. In clashes with the regimented this model attacks with
this weapon during its Field Allowance 2
armies of their rivals, however, the Legion realized it
activation, it cannot attack Leader & 2 Grunts 3
required additional firepower. Everblight provided the with any other weapons Leader Large Base
insight to construct machines devised by the warlords of that activation. Grunt Small base
ancient Morrdh, and Legion craftsmen immediately began Minimum Range [6]
constructing these expedient and easily fabricated weapons. Attacks made with this
weapon cannot target any model within 6 of it.
This lightweight but formidable catapult transports easily
Range Finder While B2B with one or more Grunts in this unit,
from one battlefield to another. Its elegant design relies on this model gains +2 to attack rolls with this weapon.
the strength of its hinged wooden arms drawn back by rope.
Scather This attacks AOE remains in play for one round.
The light and almost delicate projectile would puzzle any Enemy models and non-Faction friendly models entering or
human siege engineer until he realized the perforated and ending their activations in the AOE suffer 1 point of corrosion
spiked globe contained a fragile bladder of blighted essence. damage .

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 Blighted
Legion Unit
Nyss Striders
Our enemy moves invisibly, leaving no trace of their passage save the arrow-strewn corpses
of the dead.
Krueger the Stormwrath

LEADER & GRUNTS The blight brought a special gift to these rangers who
LEADER & GRUNTS
Advance Deployment once patrolled the wilds. As it consumed them, their legs
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

7 6 5 6 15 11 8 Combined Ranged Attack deformed and lengthened. Their bones stretched as if
Nyss Longbow Pathfinder pulled on a torturers rack while their calves snapped in
RNG ROF AOE POW
Stealth
half to be reshaped into new leg joints. The bones of their
12 1 10
feet fused and reformed, and their nails hardened into
Sword
Striders are blighted claws able to grip the earth. These alterations turned them
POW P+S
Nyss scouts sent ahead into swift hunters able to run at full speed across solid ice,
3 9
of the Legion to spy on hurdle logs, weave through underbrush, and easily leap
Field Allowance 2 across small streams.
Leader & 5 Grunts 6 troop movements and
Small base assassinate sentries Keeping to the shadows and trees, striders in-stinctively
and other targets of approach from downwind and strike from blind spots.
opportunity deep within Enemies fleeing the Legion are quickly overtaken by these
hostile lands. Their transformation has reduced them to fleet-footed assassins, who cruelly toy with their prey before
bitter vassals, enhanced their killer instinct, and honed their granting the mercy of death. Despite being transformed into
talent for slaying the living. Striders sadistically and gladly ruthless killing machines, striders still maintain one vestige
kill the lowest animals or murder any unarmed innocent of their former lives: After each slaughter they perform
crossing their path. They savor the grim satisfaction gained a ritual in which they dip a single ravens feather in the
from each death because it is one of the few emotions they blood of every kill. They wear ever-growing cloaks of these
are still able to feel. Striders have fallen upon defenseless feathers to remind them of their role in the many deaths left
villages in northern Khador in the dead of night, barging by the Legions passing.
into houses to satisfy their implacable need to slay every
last man, woman, and child they meet.

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Blighted Nyss Strider Officer & Musician
Legion Unit Attachment
The striders are both hunter and hound. The horn calls them to chase and sets their prey to flight.
Kaya the Moonhunter

Tactical Tips Attachment [Blighted Nyss

Striders] This attachment OFFICER
Take Up Effects include spells and animi. Remember that if this can be added to a Blighted SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
model remains in play as a result of Take Up it is the same model. Nyss Striders unit.
7 6 6 7 15 11 9

OFFICER Nyss Longbow

RNG ROF AOE POW
Striders are tremendously efficient hunters and killers. Advance Deployment 12 1 10
Their skill with the bow derives from a unique mix of Combined Ranged Attack Sword
inherent Nyss ability and their own bodies blight-based
Officer POW P+S
enhancement. Possessed of keen instincts and endless 3 9
Pathfinder
stamina, in motion they seem more similar to animals than MUSICIAN
to the race that spawned them. Stealth SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Granted: Reform While
7 6 5 6 15 11 8
Their leaders are entrusted to operate autonomously, this model is in play, after Nyss Longbow
scouting each new region ahead of Everblights quickly all models in its unit have RNG ROF AOE POW
moving legion. Their prominence among the newly completed their actions, 12 1 10
each can advance up to 3.
established blighted Nyss society is a reflection of their Sword
shrewd anticipation of the needs of this growing army. Tactics: Hunter Models POW P+S
in this unit gain Hunter. (A 3 9
The striders are artisans of the ambush, always prepared model with Hunter ignores
to harass and bloody the enemy and allowing no reprieve forests, concealment, and Officers Damage 5
from their unerring assaults. cover when determining LOS Field Allowance 1
or making a ranged attack.) Point Cost 3
Striders rely on the call of the horn to communicate their Small base
will across the most desolate landscapes. By this sound they
MUSICIAN
Advance Deployment
are called to gather and are unleashed upon the enemies of
Combined Ranged Attack
Everblight. The Nyss have used such horns since ancient
times to convey information rapidly across great distances, Pathfinder
particularly in times of strife. The sudden sounding of these Stealth
horns followed by a hail of deadly arrows has long terrified In Step While this model is within 3 of it, the unit
commander gains +3 to its command range.
Take Up If this model is destroyed
or removed from play, you can
choose a Grunt in this unit within
1 of this model to take its place.
Effects on this model expire, and it
gains the effects on the chosen Grunt.
Remove the Grunt from the table
instead of this model. This model has the
same number of unmarked damage boxes
as the chosen Grunt.

the humans of northern mountain towns.

Nyss musicians can convey a wealth of
information in subtle shifts of tone and
length of note. In battle they can also
unleash a mournful wail that drowns out
all other sound and sends an instinctive
chill straight to the bones of their enemies.

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 Blighted
Legion Unit
Nyss Swordsmen
The stillness within stillness is false; true stillness is found in motion.
Nyss blademaster teaching

LEADER & GRUNTS with these claymores and fight with absolutely no fear of
LEADER & GRUNTS
Fearless death. They even disdain armor, preferring to enter battle
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

6 7 7 4 14 13 8 Nyss Claymore bare-chested. Their black eyes show no sign of rage or
Nyss Claymore Weapon Master cruelty as they conduct their atrocities, only an emptiness
POW P+S more akin to serene calm.
4 11
For many unsuspecting The swordsmen revere their blades more than they could
Field Allowance 2
Nyss, the first hint of any single life, fastidiously accounting for the weapons of
Leader & 5 Grunts 5
approaching doom was their fallen compatriots after battle is done. They consider
Leader & 9 Grunts 8
Small base a long line of their own their treasured claymores to be the very embodiment
people striding toward of their essence, utterly refusing to abandon these keen
them holding long reminders of their past. The only satisfaction they might
claymores pulled from their sheaths. As the villagers witnessed derive from life, in fact, is knowing their swords will outlast
this unsettling group drawing closer, their sense of dread only them. Between battles blighted swordsmen can often be
increased, fed by a growing certainty that something terrible found staring at their weapons, as if almost recapturing a
and inherently wrong approached. faint memory of their former lives.
It was not simply the strangely lean forms of the advancing
troops, as if all fat had been trimmed from them, nor even the
barbs poking from their flesh that
was most disturbing. It was their
dead eyes, terrible and empty.
The warriors did not respond to
queries or pleas, and as village
defenders realized their peril
and drew their own weapons,
it was too late. The blighted
swordsmen swept through them
like threshers at harvest. Their
keen blades severed heads and
sheared off limbs with brutal
and emotionless precision. For
them this act was not one of
warfare or the slaughter of their
own peopleit was elegant and
precisely executed butchery. The
blighted Nyss swordsmen now
turn this skill upon Everblights
enemies, be they Khadorans, the
hardy trollkin of the northwest,
or survivors of their own Nyss
bloodlines.

Blighted swordsmen retain

a close connection to their
swordsthe traditionally
sacred weapons of the Nyss.
This attachment could well be
the only remnant of ordinary
emotions they retain. In battle
they achieve perfect union

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Blighted Nyss Swordsman Abbot & Champion
Legion Unit Attachme nt
Behind the blade you might hear its shimmering wail. That is the song of a weapon that thirsts for
the taste of flesh.
Abbot Syryth Laryssar

Attachment [Blighted
Tactical Tips Nyss Swordsmen] This ABBOT
attachment can be added to SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Officer - Because this model is an Officer, when it is destroyed it
6 7 8 4 14 13 9
a Blighted Nyss Swordsmen
does not replace a grunt in its unit. Instead the unit leader becomes
unit.
the unit commander. Nyss Claymore
POW P+S
ABBOT 4 11
Among the Nyss corrupted by the dragons blight, the Fearless
CHAMPION
swordsmen were the first to answer Everblights call. Officer SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Many lost their sense of self, unable to comprehend what Granted: Cleave While
6 7 8 4 14 13 8
compelled them to hack apart their kin. Their hollowness this model is in play, Nyss Claymore
aligned naturally with the meditative discipline of sword models in its unit gain POW P+S
Cleave. (When a model 4 11
mastery, allowing them to evade the horror of their actions with Cleave destroys one
by concentrating solely on their skill. They turned emptiness or more enemy models abbots Damage 5
itself into a form of spirituality, embracing an emotional with a melee attack during Champions Damage 5
void to achieve absolute perfection with the blade. its activation, immediately Field Allowance 1
after the attack is resolved Point Cost 3
Those who fully embraced this murderous meditation have the model can make one Small Base
additional melee attack. A
since become the greatest blade masters of their race. These
model can gain only one
are the abbots, both feared and respected within the Legion additional attack from
for the absolute calm with which they skillfully execute a Cleave per activation.)
variety of atrocities. Tactics: Overtake Models in this unit gain Overtake. (When
a model with Overtake destroys one or more enemy warrior
The abbots have achieved something akin to a state of models with a normal melee attack, after the attack is resolved
enlightenment, gaining a recognized ability to fight with this model can immediately advance up to 1.)
utter dispassion and grace. The monks of the blade have
Nyss Claymore
Weapon Master

CHAMPION
Fearless
Defensive Strike Once per turn, when an enemy
model advances into and ends its movement in this
models melee range, this model can immediately
make one normal melee attack against it.

Nyss Claymore
(Champion Only)
Weapon Master
Combo Strike (HAttack) Make a melee attack.
Instead of making a normal damage roll, the POW
of the damage roll is equal to this models STR plus
twice the POW of this weapon.

attracted devotees from among the most skilled and

disciplined swordsmen. Abbots and their students
are devoted not to a god but to the abstraction of the
blight and the refinement it brings to their flesh. The
best students are called champions, some of whom
have learned to immerse themselves so utterly in
their art that they can perform the astonishing
task of fighting with two claymores in tandem.

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 Blighted
Legion Unit
Ogrun Warmongers
They are crude and imperfect but effective. Send them against the enemy first to sow terror
and rend all hope, then follow to slaughter those who flee.
Vayl, Disciple of Everblight

LEADER & GRUNTS After conquering the Nyss, Everblight turned his attention
LEADER & GRUNTS
Fearless to enslaving and converting the outlying tribes of wild
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

5 9 7 3 12 16 8 Terror ogrun dwelling in the northern mountains. Having been
War Cleaver Berserk When this model born among them, Thagrosh knew the locations of their
POW P+S destroys one or more enclaves and the numbers of their race. The Prophet is
5 14 models with a melee attack so removed from his former nature that he feels neither
during its combat action,
Damage 8 ea mercy nor malice for those he once claimed as kin, and
immediately after the attack
Field Allowance 3 is resolved it must make he willingly offered his knowledge to his dragon master.
Leader & 2 grunts 5 one additional melee attack Despite Thagroshs cold treachery, the warmongers both
Leader & 4 grunts 8 against another model in its fear and revere him; their leaders have gone so far as to
Medium Base melee range.
name themselves his apostles.
War Cleaver
The Nyss are markedly cool toward the warmongers. They
Reach
barely tolerate the brutes and keep themselves carefully
segregated, for the ogrun have a nasty habit of murdering
The blight has brutalized the ogrun, ravaging their bodies
anything in their path, whether friend or foe. More than one
by deforming and augmenting them at the same time.
Nyss has lingered too close to these horrible creatures in
Warmongers are blight-bred for slaughter. Their mad
combat only to be brutally hacked to pieces by a berserking
eyes constantly reflect the twisted hallucinations they
warmongers cleaver.
endure night and day. Completely incapable of sleeping,
warmongers often chant to themselves in low tones and
stare obsessively at some vision unseen by others, their
faces twisted with anger and seething menace. Only battle
brings them true release. Divorced from any sense of
self-preservation, they can withstand brutal punishment
without feeling any pain. They constantly emit a putrid
odor, as if the lingering stench of death has seeped into their
very being.

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 Blighted Ogrun Warspears
Legion Unit
Which is more horrible: the broken remains of their victims or their joyous howls upon each kill?
Garkarsh Martovin, Wolf of Orboros huntsman

LEADER & GRUNTS

Tactical Tips Fearless
LEADER & GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Assault (Order) The assaulting model ignores the target in melee Terror
5 9 7 5 12 16 8
penalty even if is not in melee range of its charge target after moving.
Assault (Order) Affected Thrown Spear
models must charge or run. RNG ROF AOE POW
Only in comparison to the deranged warmongers would As part of a charge, after 8 1 4
moving but before making
the warspears be described as anything except violent War Spear
its charge attack, an affected POW P+S
savages. The blight has twisted their minds as well as their model can make one ranged 4 13
flesh, addicting them to the joy of bloodlust. The force with attack targeting the model
which they deliver their massive spears is enough to pierce charged unless they were in Damage 8 each
melee with each other at the Field Allowance 3
iron and impale a man at thirty paces.
start of the affected models Leader & 2 Grunts 5
Out of some twisted sense of sport, ogrun warspears enjoy activation. Models that Leader & 4 Grunts 8
received this order cannot Medium Base
the opportunity to test their might against more formidable make combined ranged
adversaries. Though killing humans provides minor attacks this activation.
When resolving an Assault ranged attack, the attacking model
does not suffer the target in melee penalty. If the target is not in
melee range after moving, the affected model must still make
the ranged attack before its activation ends.

Thrown Spear
Thrown Add this models STR to the POW of this ranged attack.

War Spear
Reach
Set Defense A model in this models front arc
suffers 2 on charge, slam power attack, and
impact attack rolls against this model.

amusement, it is no challenge;
they prefer to do battle with
the likes of trolls, warpwolves,
cyclopes, and warjacks. These
brutal warriors preface frenzied
rushes with the deadly arcs of their
spears. Enemies not killed outright
by this initial onslaught are typically
stunned long enough for the blighted
ogrun to close and finish the job.

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 Blackfrost Shard
Legion Blighted Nyss Character Unit
Blade and blight are our weapons. Should one fail the other will prevail.
Sevryn Blackfrost

SEVRYN When the blighted Nyss speak of the Blackfrost Shard,

SEVRYN
Pathfinder they refer to the three most ruthless scions of the shard: the
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

6 5 7 4 14 12 9 Immunity: Cold warrior-sorcerers Sevryn, Rhylyss, and Vysarr. Though the
Nyss Claymore Officer clan has long been known for its arcane potential, the shard
POW P+S
Magic Ability [7]
has risen in prominence considerably since the arrival of the
4 9 dragon. The three brothers who now lead its numbers have
Disbinding (HAction)
RHYLYSS Enemy upkeep spells on gained reputations for lethality and viciousness remarkable
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
this model and/or its unit even among the ruthless blighted Nyss.

6 5 7 4 14 12 9
immediately expire.
Nyss Claymore The trio were once considered rebellious malcontents by
Ice Bolt (HAttack) Ice
POW P+S
Bolt is a RNG10 magic
their kinsmen but have risen to lead those who scorned
4 9
attack. A model hit them. The sorcerer Sevryn heads this inner cabal. A severe
VYSARR suffers a POW12 cold and practical Nyss, Sevryn possesses extraordinary insight
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD damage roll . On a into the interactions of blight and sorcerous energies. He

6 5 7 4 14 12 9 critical hit, the model hit
becomes stationary for
is able to unravel the enchantments of his enemies while
Nyss Claymore
POW P+S one round unless it has summoning powerful evocations to strike them down with
4 9 Immunity: Cold . chilling ruthlessness. It is he who maintains order with the
Damage 5 Ice Cage (HAttack) Ice shard, enforcing discipline throughout its ranks.
Cage is a RNG 10 magic
Field Allowance C His younger brothers Rhylyss and Vysarr invariably
attack. A model hit suffers
sevryn, Rhylyss & Vysarr 5
a cumulative 2 DEF for accompany Sevryn in all actions. Potent sorcerers in their
Small base one turn unless it has own right, they nevertheless follow their elder brother
Immunity: Cold . When
unquestioningly. Even before the blight touched them, the
a model without Immunity: Cold is hit with three or more Ice
Cage attacks the same turn, it becomes stationary for one round. three shared an intuitive bond, each of them complementing
the movements of the others as they fought with spell and
RHYLYSS blade. Rhylyss learned to work bloody curses upon their
Pathfinder
enemies, and Vysarr developed means of hiding them from
Immunity: Cold
detection. Working in conjunction, the three can ensnare
Magic Ability [7] even the most powerful prey in bonds of ice, leaving their
Ice Bolt (HAttack) See above. victims fates to the whims of their blighted masters.
Ice Cage (HAttack) See above.
With the dragons blighted touch deepening the darkest
Kiss of Lyliss (HAttack) Kiss of Lyliss is a RNG 10 magic aspects of their personalities, Rhylyss predilection toward
attack. For one round, when a model/unit hit by Kiss of Lyliss
suffers a damage roll add +2 to the roll. cruelty finds outlet in part of his every action, and Vysarrs
reclusive mind has made him as quietly focused as a hawk
VYSARR fixed upon its prey. Sevryn appears to have changed the least
Pathfinder
of the three, but what was once a brooding rebelliousness
Immunity: Cold toward the traditions of the Nyss has become something
Magic Ability [7] else. He is an ambitious and keenly intelligent leader, one
Ice Bolt (HAttack) See above. who secretly hopes to cement a permanent leadership role
Ice Cage (HAttack) See above. in the evolving society of the blighted Nyss. He aspires
Cloak of Mist (HAction) While in formation models in this someday to be granted one of Everblights athanc shards. He
unit gain Stealth . Cloak of Mist lasts for one round. will do anything and sacrifice anyoneeven his brothers
to see this ambition fulfilled.
Nyss Claymore
Magical Weapon
Weapon Master Sevryn

Tactical Tips Vysarr

Magic Ability Performing a Magic Ability special action or Rhylyss
special attack counts as casting a spell.

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 Spawning Vessel
Legion Blighted Nyss Unit
We offer this sacrifice of flesh unto Ethrunbal. We beg the miracle of birth by your essence.
Heed our call and send forth the akriel!
Prayer of the Acolyths of Everblight

VESSEL
VESSEL
Construct Tactical Tips
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

0 0 0 5 18 Carried This model is Spawn Horror The warbeast can activate the turn it is put into play.
not a warrior model. It can Focal Point Because this unit does not have a unit commander,
NYSS GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
advance only during its models in this unit cannot receive the run or charge orders.

6 6 5 4 13 11 8 units normal movement.
When it advances, it can
Gaff move up to 1 for each Grunt Spawning vessels are wrought-iron cauldrons crafted by
POW P+S in this unit within 2 of it at ogrun slaves and delivered to Everblights chosen warlocks.
3 9 the beginning of this units Blighted Nyss sorcerers inscribe profane runes upon them
Vessels Damage 10 activation. This model is
automatically hit by melee in the language of the dragons to imbue the vessel with the
Field Allowance 1
attacks. It cannot be knocked essence of unchecked growth. This power is awakened by a
Vessel & 4 Grunts 2
down or made stationary. baptism in draconic blood that allows the vessel to serve as
Vessel & 6 Grunts 3
Vessel Medium Base Focal Point This a crucible for the creation of dragonspawn. Pure draconic
Grunt Small Base models unit has no unit essence mixes with the flesh and blood of those slaughtered
commander. Models in
by the Legion until the foul, black soup becomes gravid
this unit within 8 of this
model are in formation. If a model in this models unit is out of with corruption.
formation when beginning its normal movement, it must either
advance toward this model and forfeit its action or run directly
The acolyths who administer the vessel are blighted
toward this model. If this model is destroyed or removed from female Nyss bound by oaths to perform the rituals and
play, remove the remaining models in this unit from play. sacrifices required to ensure the rapid generation of spawn.
Last Call If this model is disabled by an enemy attack, it can They actively embody the Legions ghastly proliferation.
immediately make a special action. Battlefields they decimate are eerie placesseeped in blood
Recycle When a living model is destroyed within 4 of this and covered in the tracks of countless claws and conflict, yet
model + 1 for each Grunt in this unit that is in formation, place plucked clean of corpses.
one corpse token on this model. This model can have up to
three corpse tokens at a time.
Spawn Horror (HAction) Remove three corpse tokens from
this model to place a non-character Faction lesser warbeast into
play under your control. Place the warbeast within 3 of this
model and choose a friendly Faction warlock. This warbeast
becomes part of that warlocks battlegroup.

NYSS GRUNTS
Stone Heart This model never flees and automatically passes
command checks.

Gaff
Reach

The cowled acolyths entrusted with spawning vessels

prowl the battlefield behind the front ranks,
snagging corpses with their gaff hooks and
flinging them into the waiting cauldron. Bodies
splash into the brackish fluids, a gruesome
charnel reduction that sucks additions into its
depths. There the corpses churn and simmer
until a film forms. Suddenly a birthing
spawn stretches and snaps the membrane
on the liquids surface as it leaps out onto the
battlefield with a terrible screech, seeking to sate
its ravenous hunger.

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 Blighted Nyss Shepherd
Legion Solo
I have seen the shepherds of Everblight caress the spawn entrusted to their care with an affection
unknown among our peopleand I have seen that affection returned in kind.
Saeryn, Omen of Everblight

The effect of the blight is not entirely predictable. It SHEPHERD

SHEPHERD
overcomes and disfigures some individuals, while to others Beast Manipulation A
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
it brings singular purity of mind and purpose. Among warbeast can be affected by
6 5 5 4 14 12 8
only one Beast Manipulation
those graced with nearly perfect acceptance of their special action each turn. Crooked Staff
new state are the shepherds, who sense echoes POW P+S
Condition (HAction) 4 9
of Everblights whispered thoughts in the RNG3. Target friendly
behavior of the spawn around them. Faction warbeast. If the Field Allowance 2
warbeast is in range, place Point Cost 1
any number of fury points Small Base
on or remove any number
of fury points from it.
Medicate (HAction) RNG3. Target friendly Faction warbeast.
If the warbeast is in range, it heals d3 damage points. A
warbeast can be affected by Medicate only once per turn.
Beast Master This model can force friendly Faction warbeasts
in its command range as if it were their controlling warlock.

Crooked Staff
Reach

While most of the Legion respect and fear dragonspawn

as symbolic extensions of Everblight, shepherds share a
particular and close relationship with the creatures. They
spend nearly all their time with the spawn entrusted to their
care, even preferring to sleep among them, and can become
short-tempered if forced to deal with their own kind beyond
the briefest of exchanges.

Other Nyss look upon the connection between shepherd

and spawn with awe and sometimes envy, as only the
few warlocks gifted with shards of the dragons athanc
share a closer connection to their draconic master.
Shepherds are set apart and viewed as specially
blessed because of their unique relationship
with Everblights dragonspawn.

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 Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellion
Legion Cavalry Solo
By the grace of Everblight will we split the sky asunder and let hell rain down
on those who would stand against us.
Nyss Sorceress Nyleth

SORCERESS
SORCERESS
Aerial Coordination Tactical Tips
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

8 5 6 4 14 16 8 Friendly Faction warbeasts Magic Ability Performing a Magic Ability special action or
with Flight beginning their special attack counts as casting a spell.
Spear activations in this models
POW P+S command range can charge
4 9 without being forced. their full potential. Since joining the Legion these bloodlines
Mount Flight This model can have risen to new prominence as Everblights energies have
POW advance through terrain and awakened the power even in those who had not previously
10 obstacles without penalty
manifested it.
Damage 10 and can advance through
obstructions and other models Blighted Nyss sorceresses have carved a niche as vassals and
Field Allowance 2
if it has enough movement
Point Cost 4
to move completely past messengers of Everblights generals. Though the dragon
Large Base them. This model ignores and his warlocks enjoy instantaneous communication
intervening models when across any distance, the rest of the Nyss must rely upon
declaring its charge target. more mundane means to convey orders. Sorceresses play a
Magic Ability [7] key role, using their swift flying mounts to great advantage.
Blight Storm (HAction) Place a 5 AOE anywhere They also lend their power and knowledge of blighted
completely in this models command range. When an enemy runecraft to the creation of spawning vessels, ensuring their
model in the AOE is directly hit by an attack and the damage
masters forces are well supplied with creatures of war.
roll fails to exceed its ARM, it automatically suffers 1 damage
point. Blight Storm lasts for one round.
Frostbite (HAttack) Frostbite is a RNG SP 8 magic attack.
Models hit suffer a POW 12 cold damage roll .
Wind Ravager (HAction) While in this models command
range, enemy models cannot make ranged attacks for one round.

Spear
Magical Weapon
Reach

Traditionally Nyss sorcerers rode into battle on the backs

of ulk alongside Nyss hunters. Always looking to improve
upon natural offerings, Everblight has presented his
sorceresses with hellions, fell creatures that once carried
the warlords of Morrdh into battle. Sweeping out
of frozen skies, hellions fall upon their earthbound
enemies and deliver their mistresses into the heart
of the fray. The half-mad sorceresses who ride
them must be strong and agile enough to stand
precariously atop their beasts without saddles or
harnesses. Hellions whip over the battlefield at
dizzying speeds while their riders unleash powerful
magic wherever the need is most pressing. With little
more than a shouted word and a pointed finger, a
sorceress can summon howling winds to rip a distant
victim limb from limb.

In the conquered Nyss, Everblight assimilated a rich magical

tradition. Sorcery has a distinguished history among these
people, initially connected to their religious practices.
Certain bloodlines produced a great number of sorcerers,
prompting Nyss priests to nurture and train them to unlock

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 The Forsaken
Legion Blighted Nyss Solo
You shall come to know my masters hand by his glorious works.
Thagrosh, Prophet of Everblight

Twisted beyond recognition, the forsaken are the malignant FORSAKEN

FORSAKEN
children of the dragons accursed touch. The very presence Abomination
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
of these abominations is anathema to life. They feed upon the Fearless
6 7 5 4 14 14 8
misery of the battlefield and can mimic their masters burning Blight Shroud (HAction) Claw
aura to generate a mantle of blighted essence overwhelming Remove all fury points from POW P+S
enough to strike down the living by mere proximity. this model. Enemy models 5 12
within 1 of this model for
Damage 5
These harrowing creatures are as sacred to the Legion each fury point removed
suffer a POW8 damage
Field Allowance 2
as they are terrible, and they are indeed horrific despite Point Cost 2
roll. Add an additional die
their alien beauty and strange majesty. Capable of to the damage roll for each Small Base
momentary periods of lucidity, forsaken are nonetheless focus or fury point on the
enemy model.
Consume Fury (HAction) RNGCMD. Target friendly Faction
warbeast. If the warbeast is in range, remove up to 5 fury points
from it and put them on this model. This model can have up to
5 fury points at a time.
Ferocious During its activation, this model can spend fury
points to gain additional attacks or to boost attack or damage
rolls, at 1 fury point per attack or boost.

unquestionably insane. This madness might derive from an

awareness of the conflict between what they are and what
they once were, unprotected by the blind resolve brought
to other Nyss by more subtle applications of the blight.
In their more cogent moments the forsaken remember the
annihilation of their race and see in themselves the pure
essence of the darkness responsible.

No ordered method guides the genesis of forsaken, though

they seem to be created with greater frequency within
the strong aura of blight that immediately surrounds
warlocks and their athancs. Each of the sinister creatures
is an aberration spawned from the unique stresses of one
overwhelming moment in battle, a fluke eruption of the
blight that prompts an uncontrolled and unpredictable
acceleration of the transmutative cycle. Even the most
fanatical of Everblights vassals fears this fate. With bodies
changed suddenly and irrevocably, forsaken often display
draconic features, such as arms warped into vestigial
wings, flesh covered in thick scales, serpentine tails, and
spurred claws.

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 Incubus
Legion Solo
Though our enemy hides beneath a guise of flesh and bone, there can be no doubt that
in such illimitable horror Everblight reveals its true face.
Omnipotent Lortus

INCUBUS Incubi originated as a by-product of the research that

INCUBUS
Fearless gave birth to the nephilim. Chosen hosts welcome this
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

6 8 7 3 12 15 6 Host Incubi models infection, considering it an honor to bear any concentration
do not begin the game of Everblights blood. They know that when they fall, the
Claws
in play. When a friendly
POW P+S incubus they carry will strike down their killer. The horrible
3 11 living non-Incubus, non-
warlock, small-based monstrosities triggered by their death throes survive no
Field Allowance 2 Faction warrior model is more than an hour before they dissolve into a caustic mass
5 Incubi 5 destroyed, you can mark of blighted tissue. In their short lives these creatures can
Small Base its center point and remove
amass a dreadful body count against the Legions enemies
that model from play. You
can only mark up to one in addition to doing incalculable damage to the oppositions
point for each Incubus you have that has not been put into morale: often, witnesses will hesitate to strike a killing blow
play or removed from play. During your next Maintenance in later clashes for fear of spawning a devouring nightmare.
Phase, put one Incubus model into play within 2 of each
point marked. If there is not room to place an Incubus model,
remove the marker from the table and remove from play one
Incubi that has not been put into play.
Soulless This model does not generate a soul token when it
is destroyed.

Claws
Combo Strike (HAttack) Make a melee attack. Instead of
making a normal damage roll, the POW of the damage roll is
equal to this models STR plus twice the POW of this weapon.

The sheer inhumanity of Everblights designs appears in the

twisted manifestations of his will, and few of his creations
are more insidious than the incubus. This blighted organism
infects its host like a sentient disease, spreading through the
flesh and awaiting the energies of death to unleash it. Those
who have witnessed this defilement describe a slain Nyss
transforming into a hideous draconic abomination
and fighting past death. No one can detect which
blighted Nyss hosts a lurking incubus. With an
inhuman cry of pain from its host, the incubus
organism tears through flesh and continues
the attack.

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 Strider Deathstalker
Legion Blighted Nyss Solo
Though unquestionably the pinnacle of some malign evolution, such fiends have no place in nature.
Morvahna the Autumnblade

Though all striders are precision instruments of death, DEATHSTALKER

DEATHSTALKER
some few rise above their peers. These creatures are so Advance Deployment
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
far mutated from their old species they are barely even Pathfinder
7 6 7 8 15 11 9
recognizable as Nyss. From the way they tilt their heads Stealth Nyss Longbow
at peculiar angles to the coldness of their unblinking Leadership [Striders] While
RNG ROF AOE POW
12 1 10
countenances, deathstalkers resemble ravens or falcons far in this models command
more than they do those who were once their kin. range, friendly Strider models Sword
gain Swift Hunter. POW P+S
Deathstalkers find their reward in slaughter. They plan 3 9
Snap Fire When this
their attacks in meticulous detail and gather as much model destroys one or Damage 5
information as possible before they strike. The assault of more enemy models with Field Allowance 2
a single deathstalker has been known to convince enemies a ranged attack during its Point Cost 2
combat action, immediately
that an entire force of bowmen had besieged them. Like Small Base
after that attack is resolved
predatory animals, these archers toy with their victims this model can make one
dispassionately, yet their games are far more intricate and normal ranged attack. Attacks gained from Snap Fire do not
deliberately cruel. After provoking the enemy to foolish count against a weapons ROF and cannot generate additional
attacks from Snap Fire.
action, they wait with arrows at the readyas long as it
Sniper When damaging a warjack or warbeast with a ranged
attack, choose which column or branch suffers damage. Instead
of rolling damage on a ranged attack, this model can inflict 1
damage point. A model that participates in a combined ranged
attack loses Sniper until the attack is resolved.
Swift Hunter When this model destroys an enemy model
with a normal ranged attack, immediately after the attack is
resolved it can advance up to 2.

takes for their quarry to make a mistake.

A deathstalker can blend into her
surroundings and sit silently for hours
to avoid giving away her position; the
depth of her patience is unnerving even
to other striders.

Deathstalkers enjoy a clear place of honor

among the Legion, demanding obeisance
from fellow Nyss by virtue of their piercing
intelligence and Everblights obvious
favor. Their skill and ruthlessness justifies
their arrogance, however; Legion warlocks
trust them to execute long and complex
missions and afford them considerable leeway
in commanding other stalkers. Coordinating
their brethren with the barest glances and
gestures, deathstalkers move effortlessly to entrap
and execute their prey.

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 Spell
Legion Solo
Martyr
Do not weep for them, for they are blessed among us. They are truly vessels of his wrath.
Nyss Sorceress Nyleth

SPELL MARTYR extend the lives of injured Nyss, they began to experiment
SPELL MARTYR
Fearless with mingling Aeric runes and draconic secrets formerly
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

6 5 4 1 13 12 6 Soulless This model does known only to their master. Eventually they sought to use
not generate a soul token the Legions intimate knowledge of the dragons athanc to
Claws
when it is destroyed.
POW P+S create a crude simulacrum, a crystalline talisman to bind
3 8 Spiritual Conflagration dying Nyss to the will of their master and capable of briefly
While this model is not in
Field Allowance 3 serving as a conduit for blighted energies. The simulacrum
melee and is in a friendly
Point Cost 1 Faction warlocks control holds the mortally injured Nyss in perpetual stasis at the
Small Base area, the warlock can very threshold of death, as hollow shells awaiting the touch
channel a spell through it. of the dragons will. With a thought, Everblights warlocks
Remove this model from
send their power through the martyrs to release them from
play after the spell is cast.
their torpor in the radiance of sacrifice for dragon.

Floating above the earth, spell martyrs are visible reminders

that every life in the Legion is bound to its draconic master.
Each martyr, though scarcely alive, is a ready vessel for
the tremendous arcane might of Everblights warlocks.
Channeling such energies through a martyr extends the
arcane reach of the dragons chosen even as it spontaneously
consumes the martyr in a blaze of ashen fire.

Though the Nyss are Everblights favored servants, they

are relatively few in number; thus, each of them is valuable
beyond estimation. Pragmatic in the extreme, the dragon
sought to find ways to extend the usefulness of his most
damaged followers so that they might continue to serve him
even in the final moments of their lives. The martyrs, who
offer their bodies up to Everblights warlocks to use as they
see fit, are one product of his exploration in this area.

The most permanent of the Legions camps in the far

north house a cabal of sorcerers devoted to the furthering
the Legions occult knowledge. It is these sorcerers who
designed many of the armys deadliest weapons. When
they turned their abilities toward the search for ways to

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 Warmonger War Chief
Legion Blighted Ogrun Solo
Brutal and stupid though they may be, ogrun will heed leaders strong enough to terrify even them.
Vayl, Disciple of Everblight

Though all warmongers are sadistic butchers, only a few WAR CHIEF
WAR CHIEF
have the will and intellect required to lead the degenerate Fearless
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
tribes as war chiefs. War chiefs look to Thagrosh as the Terror
5 9 8 3 12 17 9
embodiment of the dragon that has enthralled their twisted Berserk When this model War Cleaver
minds. When Thagrosh stands before his ogrun, they destroys one or more POW P+S
become united in purpose and stronger than any other force models with a melee attack 5 14
during its combat action,
in the Legion. Damage 8
immediately after the attack
is resolved it must make
Field Allowance 2
Aware of their preeminence over their kind, war chiefs Point Cost 3
one additional melee attack
delight in pausing over their kills, devouring them in against another model in its Medium Base
the heat of battle and challenging any to question their melee range.
dominance. The very scent of blood lends the war chief Blood Drinker Immediately after this model resolves a melee
strength, and drinking it fresh restores his vitality. attack in which it destroys one or more living models, it can end
its activation to heal d3 damage points.
Leadership [Blighted Ogrun] While in this models command
range, friendly Blighted Ogrun models gain Blood Drinker.
Veteran Leader [Blighted Ogrun] Friendly Blighted Ogrun trooper
models gain +2 to attack rolls while this model is in their LOS.

War Cleaver
Reach

Even though the blight has transformed these warriors in

mind as well as flesh, some essential part of their original
psyche remains. Ogrun feel it is their purpose in life to
follow a great leader, one worthy of being called korune.
This instinct is so powerful it can partially override
a warmongers berserker frenzy, inciting them to
follow his bloody example in battle.

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 Annyssa Ryvaal, Talon of Everblight
blighted nyss Light Cavalry Character Solo
She strikes like a murderous wind at blinding speed, delivering death to the enemies of Everblight.
Lylyth, Shadow of Everblight

RYVAAL
RYVAAL
Pathfinder Tactical Tips
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD

9 6 6 7 15 15 9 Stealth Prey Modifiers to movement apply only to a models normal
movement.
Nyss Longbow Parry This model cannot
RNG ROF AOE POW be targeted by free strikes.
12 1 10 Her efforts did not escape notice, and it became increasingly
Prey After deployment
Mount but before the first players difficult to evade her pursuers. Annyssa sensed the approach
POW turn, choose an enemy of death and accepted its inevitability. If she must perish,
12 model/unit to be this she would take as many of the foe with her as possible. Her
model/units prey. This
Damage 8 tactics grew more reckless and her victories more pyrrhic.
model gains +2 to attack
Field Allowance C
and damage rolls against Eventually her efforts drew attention from a hunter worthy
Point Cost 4 its prey. When this model of her: Lylyth, the Herald of Everblight.
Large base begins its activation within
10 of its prey, it gains +2 Lylyths forces chased the outlaw and her followers into
movement that activation. a narrow defile. Finding herself cornered without hope
When the prey is destroyed or removed from play, choose
of escape, Ryvaal turned her armored ulk and charged
another model/unit to be the prey.
alongside her followers in a final act of defiance. Her mount
Snap Fire When this model destroys one or more enemy
leapt into the midst of the enclosing enemy archers, and she
models with a ranged attack during its combat action,
immediately after that attack is resolved this model can make set upon them with a savage fury. She demonstrated peerless
one normal ranged attack. Attacks gained from Snap Fire do not mastery of the raptor fighting arts, rapidly unleashing
count against a weapons ROF and cannot generate additional arrows and parrying enemy blades with her reinforceed bow
attacks from Snap Fire.
as her ulk impaled blighted Nyss with its horns. Shocked by
Veteran Leader [Raptor] Friendly Raptor trooper models gain Ryvaals frenzy, her pursuers began to fall back. She might
+2 to attack rolls while this model is in their LOS.
have routed them entirely had Lylyth not been present,
Nyss Longbow gauging her movements and preparing a blight-empowered
Poison Gain an additional die on this weapons damage rolls arrow. The Herald ended her defiance with a single perfect
against living models.
shot. As the dragons forces closed around her, Ryvaal lost
consciousness, sure her end was at hand.
Those Annyssa Ryvaal marks for death rarely see their
When she awoke to the agony of her wound and the
killer but instead fall to poisoned arrows that emerge from
alien sensation of the blight enveloping her, Ryvaal saw
the darkness of night. Ryvaal is first among the raptors of
only Lylyth. The warlock had spared her, recognizing in
the blighted Nyss, a distinction that marks her as one of
her a determination and ruthless spirit equal to her own.
the finest trackers and hunters in all western Immoren. Her
Accepting her fate, Ryvaal took Lylyths hand and never
superb weapon skills have made her second only to Lylyth
looked back.
among the ranks of Everblights scouts.
As Lylyth assumed control of the Legions scout forces, it
By the time Everblight came to dominate the Nyss, Ryvaal
was Ryvaal she looked to as her lieutenant. Under Ryvaals
was already an outcast on the fringes of Nyss society. Her
command her raptors range miles beyond the forces of the
marauding band accepted any Nyss willing to do whatever
Legion carrying out missions and making attacks against
was required to survive. They took what they needed from
targets of opportunity. More than one Rhulic or Winter
any who crossed their path, stealing from their fellow Nyss
Guard patrol has met its end on a mountain pass beneath
and murdering any humans they encountered. When she
the poisoned arrows of Ryvaals hunters.
heard of the Legions rise, Ryvaal turned on them with
cunning and skill acquired from decades of life as an outlaw.
She was no match for the Legion in direct confrontation, so
for months she conducted a campaign of elimination and
harassment at their remote encampments, hunting blighted
Nyss whenever small bands separated from the main body
and vanishing afterward.

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 Legion painting guide
The Legion of Everblight is a horrific browns and blacks for a striking effect. To keep
alien force, and the color scheme we use on the palette from being overpowering, there
the studio army emphasizes this. Details like is no color contrast on the models; instead,
blood spatter, white alien eyes, and the blue complementary colors of dark blue-green,
glow of blighted fire appear sparingly but have magenta, and pale purples harmonize to produce
great impact. a balanced palette. This is a good approach to use
in your own paint schemes, since a scheme that
Of the paint schemes for all the WARMACHINE
contrasts strongly on both the color and value
and HORDES armies, Legions has the highest
scales is likely to come off as overpowering and
value contrast. Large sections of gleaming
unpleasant to the eye.
platinum and snowy white contrast with dark

Painting Terminology
BASECOAT HIGHLIGHTING
The initial coat of paint on which everything else will be built. It is A lighter color applied to the basecoat in the raised areas of a
important that the basecoat is very clean and every color is where miniature to create the look of light hitting the surface. When
it should be. Your shades and highlights will coordinate with the highlighting in multiple steps, keep a little bit of the underlying color
basecoat and main color choices. showing, overlapping them like the shingles on a roof.

DRYBRUSHING SHADING
The quick way to highlight a textured surface. Use a lighter color, A darker color applied to the basecoat in the recessed areas of a
but remove most of the paint from your brush by stroking the miniature to create shadows. Exaggerating the shade and highlight
bristles on a paper towel until the paint is almost gone. Then colors will add to the visual appeal of a model.
carefully and quickly move the brush back and forth across the
WASH
surface of the miniature.
A tinted mix liberally applied to the basecoat to create detailed
GLAZE shading. The wash will run into the smallest crevasses on a model and
A mixture of water and a small amount of ink that is applied in dry as a shadow, so it needs to be a darker color than the basecoat.
successive layers to subtly tint an area. The wash mix works well as 4 parts Mixing Medium, 1 part paint/ink,
and 3 parts water.

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Blighted Flesh
Step 1) Mix a small dot each of Exile Blue and
Skorne Red into Frostbite for the basecoat,
making sure Frostbite remains the dominant
color. Add a couple more dots of Exile Blue and
Skorne Red to the mixture for shading.
Step 2) Mix just Skorne Red and Exile Blue for
the final shading color. 1 2
Step 3) Mix some of the base color with Morrow
White for the initial highlights.
Step 4) For the final highlights, add a little
mixing medium to Morrow White to ease the
transition of color.
Step 5) Use Thamar Black to black out the eyes
and draw a thin eyebrow line.
Step 6) Fill in the eyeballs with Trollblood 3 4
Highlight, leaving a thin line of black around the
rim of the eyeball.
Step 7) Add tiny dots of Morrow White to give
the eyes expression while maintaining a lifeless
and alien look.
Step 8) Apply a thin glaze of Murderous
Magenta on the lips and upper eyelids.

5 6
Frostbite Thamar Black

Exile Blue Trollblood Highlight

Skorne Red Murderous Magenta

Morrow White

7 8

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 Beast Flesh Step 3) Shade with a mix of Khador Red Base
and Murderous Magenta.
Step 1) The blighted Nyss and their warbeasts
share the same skin tone, so start by shading and Step 4) Reclaim any flesh areas with Morrow
highlighting your beasts flesh as described in White.
the section on blighted flesh.
Step 2) Wash the areas with a mix of Khador Khador Red Base Murderous Magenta
Red Base, Carnal Pink, Murderous Magenta,
mixing medium, and water. Carnal Pink Morrow White

1 2

3 4

Chitin Battlefield Brown Brown Ink

Step 1) Basecoat the chitin with a mix of
Umbral Umber Red Ink
Battlefield Brown, Umbral Umber, and Gun
Corps Brown. Gun Corps Brown Hammerfall Khaki
Step 2) Shade with a mix of Thamar Black, Thamar Black
Brown Ink, and Red Ink.
Step 3) Highlight with a mix of Battlefield
Brown and Hammerfall Khaki.

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Platinum Armor Step 4) After matte-sealing the model, highlight the edges
of the armor with Quick Silver.
Step 1) Basecoat the armor with a mixture of Pig Iron,
Beaten Purple, and Exile Blue. Make sure the iron metallic Pig Iron Sanguine Base
dominates the mixture.
Beaten Purple Radiant Platinum
Step 2) For the shading, mix equal parts Coal Black, Exile
Blue, and Sanguine Base, then add a couple of drops of Exile Blue Quick Silver
mixing medium for translucency. Apply this mixture as a
wash to define the armors complex texture of the armor. Coal Black

Step 3) Highlight the texture using multiple layers of

Radiant Platinum. Blend as you go, and allow some of the
color from the previous steps to show through.

1 2 3 4

Black leather Armor

Step 1) Basecoat the leather armor with Thamar Black to Step 4) Paint the trim and rivets following steps 1, 3, and 4
ensure an especially dark base. in Platinum Armor (see above).

Step 2) Mix Coal Black with Exile Blue and a drop of mixing Thamar Black Exile Blue
medium and use this to apply highlights.
Coal Black Frostbite
Step 3) Add Frostbite to the previous mixture and continue
highlighting in successive layers, adding a little more
Frostbite to the mixture for each layer.

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 BLOOD SPLATTER TECHNIQUES
Blow 2) Blow a very hard, short burst of air on
the brush. Be sure to have a second, slightly
damp brush handy to soak up any overspray.
Its best to practice this on something else before
committing to a miniature.
Blow 3) This technique is great for precise,
focused spattering. It is easy to control and
yields a random pattern. Take care not to
oversaturate the area by overloading your
brush or layering too many spatters on top of
Blow 1) Mix two parts Brown Ink and one part
each other.
Red Ink. Load a fine hobby brush with ink. Wipe
some of it off on a paper towel, but make sure Brown Ink
your brush retains a point. Position your brush
about half an inch away from the target area. Red Ink

1 2 3

Flick 1) Load a work or base hobby brush with Flick 3) Be sure to use a brush that comes to a
the ink mixture and wipe a little off, maintaining fine point and to point your brush tip between
a point on the brush tip. Position the brush each flick to avoid making an entirely random
about half an inch away from the target area. spray pattern.
Pull the tip of your brush back as far as it will go
Combined Technique: Using blowing and
and let fly!
flicking together can create some especially nice
Flick 2) This technique creates swaths of spatters blood-spatter effects. You can also use these
and can be messy, so have a second brush ready techniques to paint spattered mud and create
to clean up immediately after each flick. texture on stone surfaces.

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Legion Gallery

LYLYTH, HERALD OF EVERBLIGHT LYLYTH, SHADOW OF EVERBLIGHT

Warlock Epic Warlock

VAYL, DISCIPLE OF EVERBLIGHT ABSYLONIA, TERROR OF EVERBLIGHT

Warlock Warlock

RHYAS, SIGIL OF EVERBLIGHT SAERYN, OMEN OF EVERBLIGHT

Warlock Warlock

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 THAGROSH, PROPHET OF EVERBLIGHT THAGROSH, THE MESSIAH
Warlock Epic Warlock

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 HARRIERS STINGERS
Lesser Warbeasts Lesser Warbeasts

CARNIVEAN
Heavy Warbeast

RAVAGORE SCYTHEAN
Heavy Warbeast Heavy Warbeast

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 BLIGHTED Nyss SWORDSMEN
Unit

BLIGHTED Nyss SWORDSMaN ABBOT & CHAMPION BLIGHTED Nyss ARCHER OFFICER & AMMO PORTER
Unit Attachment Unit Attachment

BLIGHTED Nyss ARCHERS

Unit

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 ANGELIUS Blighted Nyss SCATHER CREW
Heavy Warbeast Weapon Crew Unit

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 SHREDDERS NEPHILIM PROTECTOR
Lesser Warbeasts Light Warbeast

NEPHILIM BOLT THROWER NEPHILIM SOLDIER

Light Warbeast Light Warbeast

INCUBI
Solos

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 Blighted Nyss STRIDERS
Unit

STRIDER DEATHSTALKER BLighted Nyss STRIDER OFFICER & MUSICIAN

Solo Unit Attachment

Blighted Nyss RAPTORS

Unit

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 SERAPH BLIGHTED NYSS SORCERESS & HELLION
Heavy Warbeast Solo

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Blighted Ogrun WARMONGERS WARMONGER WAR CHIEF
Unit Solo

SPAWNING VESSEL The FORSAKEN

Unit Solo

TYPHON Spell Martyrs

Heavy Warbeast Solos

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 Blighted Ogrun WARSPEARS
Unit

Blighted Nyss SHEPHERD RAEK TERAPH

Solo Light Warbeast Light Warbeast

BLIGHTED Nyss LEGIONNAIRES

Unit

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 Whatever my blight touches,

I control.

There are no limits to what I can do

and no end to the growth

of my legions power.

SPINE
I hunger first to feast on god flesh,

on the essence of my father,

and then to swallow the world.

Everblight