After many long months punctuated by bouts of bloody conflict, the warbands cutting their way through the Ravening Ruin have their eyes on the final prize – the wrecked Seraphon temple ship Talaxis is near. But the heart of the Gnarlwood is a tangled mess of ravenous beasts and lethal plantlife, giving rise to great swamps overflowing with corpses. Talaxis will not give up its treasures easily.
Few gods in the Mortal Realms are as inextricably linked and vehemently opposed as Nagash and Alarielle. In Warcry: Briar and Bone, the endless war between Death and Life continues to rage between the Teratic Cohorts of the Ossiarch Bonereapers and the Twistweald of the Sylvaneth.
Though Nagash resents the uncontrolled fecundity of the Gnarlwood, the potent technology in these ruins has given even the Great Necromancer pause. To prevent this power from falling into the hands of his enemies – and investigate it for his own nefarious ends – he has dispatched the Teratic Cohorts to secure relics, slay rivals, and collect a tidy tithe of bone in the process.
These are some of Nagash’s most pitiable creations, twisted bone constructs wrought out of spite and flung out to range the wilds. Each cohort is led by a Kavalos Centari, the humiliating fusion of a Liege-Kavalos and their former steed, and herded by Mortek Cykloptians whose humanoid silhouette conceals a warped, bestial mind. Teratic Prowlers are debased hunting beasts crafted from failed Mortek soldiers, while winged Aviarch Harpies are sculpted for lethality and self-loathing.
Such is the fate of those who fail the God of Undeath.
The woeful forces of Death must contend with equally-tormented Sylvaneth – spirit-warriors infested by bizarre arcane parasites born from the Gnarlwood’s misfiring realm-shaper engines. With minds clouded by saprophyte spores and bodies overgrown by constant agony, many Twistweald are driven only by an obsessive hope to reach the Everspring Swathe and receive Alarielle’s healing touch.
Those with their sanity intact fear that this could spell disaster for the Sylvaneth. Instead, they become wandering pariahs, moving from grove to grove to avoid spreading their infection, or delving into the Gnarlwood to seek a cure. These bands are led by Swarmsages, whose spiteswarm colonies hungrily prune the parasitic growths of their followers. Twistroot Wardens are stalwart sentinels who suppress their pain to command Twistwood Revenants and Twistwood Dryads in battle, while maddened Twistwood Spite-Revenants descend upon unfortunate enemies with lashing briars.
Alongside these two warbands, you’ll also get a Ravening Gnarloak. This carnivorous tree has long since abandoned subtlety in its eagerness to feast on flesh, roaming around the Gnarlwood on powerful gnarled limbs.
The box also contains the exclusive Warband Tome: Briar and Bone, which is a banquet of lore, illustrations, rules for both warbands and the Ravening Gnarloak, as well as quests, background tables, a shared campaign arc, and a new Battleplan Generator.
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