Last month, we told you that one of the strongest signals from our surveys was a clear request: you wanted collections built around Asian characters. So we didn't wait. We delivered exactly that, right away!
But that wasn't the only thing the surveys made clear. After the enormous success of March's release, that is, our complete reinvention of the Void Elves, so many of you told us the same thing: you wanted more of these strange, magnetic characters. So once again, we've done our best to stay as close as possible to what you asked for.
Today, we're opening a new chapter in the Void Elves saga.
We Couldn't Leave It There
After the feedback you gave us in March, standing still wasn't an option. We owed it to ourselves, and to you, to push the story around this cruel, fascinating faction even further.
So from the very first day of this project, I deliberately steered the work toward one thing: bringing to life the ideas we'd only hinted at before. Their mastery of technologies born from quantum physics.
A large part of this release is built around exactly that. These are characters who appear and vanish. Who strike where you'd never expect them. Who bend forces beyond human understanding, and human technology, right before your eyes. This new collection is stranger, more unsettling, and more fantastical than the one before it.
You'll discover more and what's behind these incredible designs after the video:
All Kinds of Characters
Not every character here lives at the same extreme. That's deliberate. We wanted the release to stay balanced: a few who push things as far as they'll go, and others who hold a more classical line. The classical ones aren't the lesser ones. They're there to anchor the whole thing.
Drystan and Nyriel are those anchors. But classical doesn't mean we didn't have fun with them. Take Drystan: every so often, some of you tell us the same thing, you make so many beautiful women, could we have a few handsome men too? He's our answer.
Masculine and athletic, clearly built, but just as elegant, with long straight hair falling far down his back and a bearing that tells you he knows exactly how good he looks. We drew here on a certain kind of Japanese manga, where a character can feel refined, almost androgynous, and unmistakably masculine all at once. The idea was to lean fully into seduction. To give you a sort of warrior dandy.
The others go much further. Kaelis among them, leaning into everything that makes this faction so unsettling. There's a thread running through them: these are beings who walked away from their own bodies long ago, yet remain endlessly fascinated by flesh, forever trying to wring out of living things something they themselves have lost.
Xazariah is where that idea turns physical. She keeps her full elven body, legs and all, drifting weightless in the void, yet from the waist she's fused into the body of an enormous spider. An arachnid centaur, of a kind.
She's the one who builds the Gruesome Arachnos (see below), experimenting on living flesh to make them.
Sylanxia we designed as a gothic bride. A gown that could pass for a wedding dress, a veil drawn across half her face, a single tear of red crystal on her cheek. Even her weapon, a sheath bristling with hologlass shards, reads almost like a bridal bouquet.
She's a deliberate mystery: why the cursed bride? What is she doing among humans? Her motives clearly run deeper, and stranger, than anyone else's here.
Mal-Akor is unmistakably vampiric. At his feet, a victim lies half-swallowed by a gluey, living web, picture Venom's symbiote, and through it he seems to drain the soul, or the raw energy, of whatever he catches.
Xarith-Zian, the Phase Dancer of the Splinter, slips in and out of reality. We caught her mid-arrival: an explosion bursting from her open palm, her body not even fully materialized, pieces of her simply missing, as a rain of hologlass lances falls behind her.
If one model captures the whirling, multidimensional strangeness of the Void Elves, it's her.
Kaelara opens micro-portals at her wrists. She plunges a hand into one, and that hand, along with the blade it holds, reappears somewhere else entirely. In her scene, she's carving a hapless opponent into ribbons, bounding around him while her hands roam the empty air and catch him completely by surprise.
And there's Harpies' Queen Nys-Ra:
One more thing: if I had to point to the two strangest models in the whole release, it would be these two. Xarith-Zian and Kaelara. They're the clearest sign of where this faction is heading.
The Troops
With the Troops, I'll be honest: we let ourselves have some fun. We've already covered a lot of ground across the previous releases, so this time we focused on giving you alternatives that are either even more striking, or something else entirely.
The Eclipsers on Jet Bikes fall squarely into the first camp.
The Void Scythe Harpies fall into the second, and, led by their Queen Nys-Ra, they're quite possibly one of the most beautiful units we've ever made.
And for those of you who like your creatures big, menacing, and just a little repugnant: the Gruesome Arachnos are waiting for you. The very things Xazariah builds in her experiments.
The Vehicle You Asked For
A lot of you have been asking for a mid-sized vehicle. Here it is.
The Void Requiter comes with a choice of crews, or with no crew at all, so you can equip it exactly the way you want.
And, of course, a Centerpiece
We couldn't resist closing this out with a massive ship. So we didn't. Meet The Splinter Ark.
Because, really… what's cooler than an enormous warship?
Honestly, They Fought Us Every Step of the Way
This release asked a lot of us. I'll admit I was naive: I assumed that once we'd established all the new design rules for the faction, creating these new characters and troops would come easily.
It didn't.
Every single character demanded real research and a lot of balancing. Nys-Ra herself was redesigned from scratch after a first version we just weren't happy with. Several other characters went through major iterations too, until we finally landed the look and the vibe each of them carries today.
There's really no doubt left in my mind: the Void Elves are more treacherous than any other people we've worked on. Even when all we're trying to do is draw them.
Some factions just don't want to be tamed.
Over to You
I hope this release wins you over, and that it makes you want to fire up your printers, expand your army, and give it even more character.
We can't wait to hear from you. Tell us which miniatures are your favorites, which ones you're printing first, and how you plan to bring them to your games.
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