Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago

Azadi Solentii is my Wave Warden. Naturally his spells involve a lot of water. To hint at that, I add a shell from the NorthStar Crewman sprue and joined his left hand and the shell with a big gob of UHU tube superglue. When it dried it looked too much like ice, so I mixed some Citadel Contrast blue paint watered down with PVA glue and sparingly coloured parts of the gob.

Azadi Solentii has been with his Heritor for many years and, like many of the expeditions searching for the crystal pool, form the gel that binds the crew together. The Heritor, a great leader from the elite of society and The Wave Warden who saw that they were never becalmed or went thirsty. The two men have healed each other back from wounds and tropical diseases that would kill a lesser man and that has given them a respect and unrivaled friendship.

That said even though the crew looked up to their betters, Azadi has a mysterious aire that puts some of the crew on edge. He is a man of fewer words than his eloquent Heritor. He never talks about his beliefs or his past apart from one failed expedition and even then only because it was his part in a famous Crystal Pool quest story. The Heritor in the story had been involved in the last sea battles and posturing before the Ghost Archipelago appeared. A bitter struggle that broke out in the Southern Seas when a soothsayer sadly wrongfully predicted the resurfacing of the Archipelago. The Heritor had been arrogant, careless and risked the crew at every stage through his lack of experience and blinkered hunt for clues. The Heritor’s death had been used as a fabled warning to not rely too heavily on a Heritor’s abilities. The crew all asked Azadi how he truly had died because the rumour was that the amphibious Heritor ability had failed him during the heat of battle with another Heritor and he had drowned. Some of the crew took his lack of confirmation as a sign of trauma, a reminder of failure, he would rather not revisit. The more cynical amongst the crew were however convinced the look on his face showed that Azadi had seen this unlikeable, dangerous Heritor as a risk to the crew and had some hand in his demise.