So i'll kick off the proceedings with some pics, because thats how i roll.
Picked up even more harlequins for cheap, simply because i love painting them.
The Seer council, which i'm working on right now. and my Craftworld color scheme.
My rendition on Corsair Jetbikes, or Reavers with Wraithlord weapons and bits added to take some of the "Evil" away.
Wraithlord, with Bright Lance and two flamers, posed with tender love and care. (I love LOVE this model and want another one)
The Farseer, head swap.
Craftworld
Vol-Yor
At
the time of the Eldar Empire; Vol-Yor was a merchant guild of some renown, they
traded in raw materials and were heavily involved in the creation of Eldar
psycho-reactive plastics, and Starship construction. When the pleasure cults began to secure
prominence in the empire, the leading members of the guild were disgusted and
appalled. They promptly moved the bulk of their operations to the border of
Eldar space, and formed their own satellite empire on the Eastern Fringe of the
galaxy. The birth of Slannesh and the fall of the Eldar still had a profound
effect on the population of Vol-Yor, shattering the minds and souls of the
majority of the craftworlds military leaders, seers, and killing 25% of its
total populace.
The
forces of Vol-Yor, sat licking their wounds for several centuries, rebuilding
the population, and attempting to salvage what they could of the military and
seer hierarchy. By the time of the birth of the Imperium and the launching of
the great crusades, Craftworld Vol-Yor had reached a degree of its former
glory. With their strength returned, the Craftworld went searching for other
Eldar survivors, what the scouts of Vol-Yor discovered when they braved the
paths of the webway and ventured to the maiden worlds, were planetary crypts.
Dead worlds, barren and scarred by the fall of the empire, when this news
reached the Craftworld, the populace assumed that they were the last of their
species.
After
much time and strong deliberation by the oldest and most potent leaders of
Vol-Yor, the Eldar decided to re-take their empire, world by world. No matter
what alien or daemon tried to stop them, the Craftworld was out to avenge the
death of a species, and the galaxy would drown in the debt blood.
For
the next eleven centuries, the Eldar of Vol-Yor waged a tireless war against
outlying human and alien worlds all along the Eastern Fringe and up into the
Halo Stars. This campaign of vengeance and blood ended when a strike force
preparing to attack an Imperial Guard complex on Lucien’s Jump, watched as Eldar
clad in black and flying on hover skiffs attack the compound using vicious and
twisted weaponry. They stayed back away from the fighting; watching in horror,
as the newcomers sadistically tortured the surviving humans before returning
through their webway portal with a handful of captives. Autarch Kellio, immediately sent word of the atrocity,
and the Eldar of Vol-Yor, had a new purpose, find the surviving Eldar of the
Pleasure Cults and exterminate them all.
This
tragically led to a devastating encounter with Craftworld Il-Kathe, which is
the first Craftworld to meet the Eldar of Vol-Yor. Immediately assuming that these newcomers
were of the Pleasure Cults, and wary for their own continued existence. Vol-Yor
launched into a full fleet engagement with Il-Kathe, the Craftworlds tore one
another apart, but Il-Kathe proved the stronger, overwhelming Vol-Yor’s
merchant ships turned war vessels. The remaining ships of Vol-Yor limped away,
not to be seen by other Eldar for another three centuries.
A
Harlequin troupe traversing the webway discovered the gate to Vol-Yor, opening
it they ventured in. They were immediately greeted by a war host, who swiftly
captured the storytellers. The Harlequins told the Vol-Yor, of what the true
nature of their people was, and of the grave blunder they had made attacking
Il-Kathe.
The
Harlequin’s spread the word of Vol-Yor, a Craftworld so fanatical in its battle
against the forces of the Dark-Kin and its attempts at reclaiming the lost
Empire, that they had waged mistaken battle against a craftworld three times the
size and strength of them. Immediately upon learning the facts, Vol-Yor sent
out apologizes and offers of recompense to Il-Kathe. They pledged themselves to
Il-Kathe as a subsidiary craftworld, and now fight in many of the same wars.
Though they remain partially autonomous, attempting to aggressively reclaim Eldar
space, and purge the Dark Kin from existence.
After
the battle with Il-Kathe, Vol-Yor lost many of its military supplies. In that
time they became desperate and turned to piracy. What ships they had became
dreaded Corsair fleets, and terrorized Imperial shipping lanes, ravaging the
humans for supplies and equipment. Since
learning the truth, the Vol-Yor Craftworld has drawn from these fleets, along
with the Harlequins which they have formed close bonds with, to back them on
the field of battle.
what do you guys think ?
