The Saga of Symbaroum

Each of the eleven barbarian clans is expected to provide 9 of their warriors for the Guard of the Slumbering Wrath, the protectors of the holy site of Karvosti.  Karvosti itself is an interesting place, it’s the seat of the High King of the Barbarians, it’s the home of the Huldra, the leader of the Barbarian witches.  At the same time it’s also the site of a large temple to the Ambrian Sun deity, Prios staffed by members of the Ambrian clergy and defended by Prios Templars.  It’s a holy site for both Barbarian and Ambrian alike and is a  real melting pot of clashing cultures.  The Wrathguard are charged with defending the site and also keeping the peace.  This is the only picture I can find of a Wrathguard.

Unfortunately I couldn’t muster all 9 but this represents the Gaoian contingent of the Wrathguard.  Also, from a Saga perspective, 9 is not a useful number as everything is in multiples of 4.  These represent two potential units of Hearthguard.  With that in mind it’s worth pointing out that I don’t intend to do all 99 Wrathguard, some clans won’t appear in my collection at all.  I may do a couple more variants on this theme from each of the tribal groupings I identified but I absolutely won’t be doing each clan’s offering.  The Miniatures themselves are armoured gauls from Aventine Miniatures with shield swaps to my own 3D printed ones.  I also added some decorations to their helmets which were taken from the plastic Victrix sprues.  I think these actually work really well for the Wrathguard.  They look suitably heavily armoured and although technically they are wearing the same stuff as the nobles I painted for the regular force, I think they somehow appear more heavily armoured.  Perhaps it is the fact that half of them are wearing a solid breastplate rather than chain mail.  To try and keep the overall colour scheme dark I opted for a bronze coloured armour.  This also fits in well with the artwork for the Wrathguard as it has an overall brown look.  I used a deep red as a contrast colour on the cloaks and then used gold as a spot Colour on any decorative metal elements.