Rangers of Shadow Deep - Lord Arblemarch

Hadn’t intended on starting with Tabitha, but as she was already in my collection and based i brush painted here with black paint.

This was one of only a couple of attempts I have made at Object Source Lighting (OSL).

I used Macragge Blue as the base for the dress and Nighthaunt Gloom, Talassar Blue and Nihilakh Oxide for the OSL.

On the belt… I used Zandri Dust, Morghast Bone and Wraithbone on the scrolls, Warpstone Glow on a pouch and Mournfang Brown on the leather bags and cross belt.

The basing was coffee stirrers cut into sections and in half. I chose these smaller boards because I wanted it to look like a damaged house rather than a ships deck as done on other minis recently. The Agrax and Snakebite Leather washed Vallejo new wood floorboards and flint stones and a touch of grass finished the look.

Kyteler was taken from a list of witches names from Irish history.

Tabitha was from the TV series Bewitched. ?

For the initial gift of opening stats I went with +3 in Survival.

As a conjurer she gets to pick from 2 spells every scenario. They can only be used once, but you don’t have to risk losing health like in Frostgrave on failed spell casts. Spells are not desperately powerful, but they do cast automatically, are often a useful buff for your team and most creature targets are unlikely to avoid any damage effects.

There is only a small selection of spells to pick from so i printed off a version from the RoSD Facebook page to make selecting spells easier.

Tabitha has a personal interest in returning to the fray with the bold and enthusiastic Lord Arblemarch. Tabitha is only an apprentice wizard, though a very accomplished one, many years into her studies and ready to face her final mage college trials. Sadly in the first encounters investigating the Shadow Deep her mentor had been killed. Lord Arblemarch knows the risk of taking a companion that may be bent on revenge, but he trusted this young sensible woman. She knew the stakes they were playing for and would honour her dead mentor, not by wanton slaughter of creatures in their path but by giving her all to the survival of the warband and the success of the mission.