Koolkiwi Miniatures: Napoleonic Dread Vampire

Koolkiwi Miniatures haben einen Vampir veröffentlicht der in höfischen Kreisen unterwegs ist.

Napoleonic Dread – Vampire 1 – 3,00€

From the earliest records of antiquity, whispers have persisted of those men and women whom some darker power has seen fit to afflict with the curse of the beast: wretched souls who, in the depths of their desolation and exile, sought congress with infernal forces, and were granted in return a constitution of preternatural vigour, swiftness of limb, and an acuity of mind surpassing all natural faculty. The price exacted is terrible: an appetite for human blood that neither reason nor resolution can subdue.

These creatures have been known by many appellations — strigoi, lamia, nosferatu — yet here, on a continent that bleeds beneath the boots of a Corsican Emperor and his adversaries alike, they are spoken of in hushed tones as Vampires.

They have penetrated every station of society, yet it is to the corridors of power that their natures most naturally tend — to the courts of Vienna, Paris, and Saint Petersburg, to the councils of generals and the drawing rooms of those who move nations as lesser men move chess pieces. There, an occasional eccentricity is attributed to noble temperament rather than something more sinister. In the countryside, where the peasant still hangs garlic above his door, such irregularities would not long go unremarked.

Behind these gilded façades, a shadow war is perpetually prosecuted: a contest for dominion over those human cattle whom they regard with the cool detachment of a proprietor surveying his livestock. How high their influence has reached, no natural philosopher has dared assert — but there are those who suggest, in private, that certain campaigns have been undertaken at the instigation of interests no official dispatch has ever named.

It is among the few mercies afforded to mankind that they are too consumed by personal ambition to combine their forces — for such a coalition would represent a peril before which even the armies of the great powers would be as nothing. Each vampire perceives this weakness clearly, yet each is equally persuaded that they alone possess the genius to bring the others to heel. It is a vanity as ancient as the curse itself, and it has, thus far, preserved us.

Yet they are damned. The curse grows within them as the decades lengthen into centuries, and the blood upon which they subsist nourishes them ever less completely. There comes at last a point — for every one of them, without exception — when the beast can no longer be governed by reason. What remains is a thing of pure appetite, wholly lost to whatever remnant of humanity it once possessed.

They are conquerors of men. And they are conquered, in the end, by themselves.

Fits on a 25mm base, supports will follow shortly!

Quelle: Koolkiwi Miniatures bei Cults 3D