Story Split · 6:56pm Nov 10th, 2015
Hey y'all!
I've got a preference question regarding the story Entrenchment, which is progressing slowly but steadily ahead.
Spoiler warning for below, if some of you guys haven't read Chapter 2 yet.
Hey y'all!
I've got a preference question regarding the story Entrenchment, which is progressing slowly but steadily ahead.
Spoiler warning for below, if some of you guys haven't read Chapter 2 yet.
I'm trying to spread out a little creative energy on the Age of Iron front, so when an artist I patronize frequently opened up comic commissions, I was intrigued and decided to see how it would work out.
A little intro comic for a new mercenary horse, Kometka
by BuvanyBu
Here are the long-awaited Dark Mechanicus wargear tables. I mean, I'm sure SOMEBODY was waiting for them. You know who you are. Even if I don't. Not much funny stuff here, just super-cereal grimdark military-industrialism.
Codex 7 Supplemental - Dark Mechanicus Wargear tables
Welp, someone asked, so I might as well keep re-doing these.
Section 4 supplemental codex: Lunar Guard
In a worrying trend, I have more news about Age of Iron that doesn't include an actual new chapter of anything!
I've set up a group on DeviantArt to host all the commissions I've had done for the story in one place, which are starting to pile up quite a bit. Here, check it out.
Decided to try giving Tumblr a try since my time on Twitter in increasingly less rewarding and I expect the entire site will probably go belly-up sometime soon.
Age of Iron
I don't know if there's much value in anyone from here following me there, but it's an easier place to post commissioned art pieces than DeviantArt.
This part is all about them weasely gray critters, the Tau, and all their lovable tools friends working for the Greater Good!
Except not, because they're working for Chaos now. Ha! Updated for 8th Edition.
Codex 5 Supplemental - Detachment Xenis
This section contains rules for fielding Tau Empire units in a 38th Company army.
So, one day one of the artists that I patronize got real fed up with being an artist (apparently), and basically deleted his entire gallery. Luckily I saved all the pictures I commissioned, and for a while the picture links still worked, but recently they just stopped, for some reason.
The automata that started it all...
The Tykan-Pattern Probe Automata
Let's ring in 2022 with some new Ponyhammer Art!
Starting off with a (now outdated) holiday icon!
It was drawn by BuvanyBu, who also did this piece of Gear Works and Dusk Blade running from a random explosion.
Here's some more Gear Works, this time pondering the ancient wisdom of his people. This was by Ules.
EZ the Pony is, as of now, still not recovered and I don't see much prospect of getting any big compositions from him soon. But I reached out to a few other artists and got new pictures of a few of the secondary characters done, mostly so that I have better references for future art pieces.
I've been keeping the art community busy creating wonderful new art for the glory of Chaos!
Let's start with everyone's favorite OC, Gear Works!
Here he is pictured with everyone's least favorite OC, Dusk Blade! Both of these are by Fenwaru!
So, after completing a massive million-word epic and setting up a group for it, naturally I looked back upon the fruits of my labors and thought to myself: "Sweet Gods, that's a lot of text. Isn't there anyway to give people a concise explanation of what happens in the story so that they don't have to read all that crap?"
This was followed, also naturally, by the follow-up thought: "And can it be done in crayon?"
Hello all you heresy-lovers!
I've again collected enough artwork to fill one of these blog posts, so let's get to it.
Today's feature is the Age of Iron Mascot himself, Dark Acolyte Gear Works!
Starting off with a picture of pre-augmentation Gears, after one of his many unfortunate incidents, drawn by Junne.
Now revised with corrected rules, points values, flavor text, and nifty illustrations provided by Omny87. Are you watching, Games Workshop?! Hire me, damn you!
Ha! Just kidding. I doubt I'd have either the free time to write pony stories or the money to have them illustrated working in that sweatshop.
This section contains pony Special Characters, as well as the Harmony Psychic Discipline.
We may have reached a point where there are more man-hours being put into drawing for this fanfiction than writing for it.
I regret nothing.
First up, we have several ink drawings from Omny87 that I'll be using to refurbish the Codex:
"You wanted to know more about us, grayskin?
Do you want to know why humans turn to Chaos?
Sometimes we convert at gunpoint. Sometimes we trade our souls for petty comforts or advantages. Sometimes we need to think that there's some kind of greater intelligence and will standing behind this cruel, merciless universe, and wish to align ourselves with it."
Gaela smiled.
"Sometimes, though, we just need help. And in our fury and desperation, we scream into the darkness, demanding power.