Shroudfall: Sporebound Brute

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Sporebound Brute (Bloodthorne) – € 26,90

While the Sporebound Thralls represent the first stage of the Bloodthorne’s corruption, some victims are left to fester for far longer than nature ever intended. As the fungus continues to spread unchecked, flesh twists, bones thicken, and the unfortunate host swells into something far larger—and far angrier.

The Sporebound Brute is the result. These hulking abominations serve as shock troops for the Bloodthorne, relying on overwhelming strength and relentless aggression rather than intelligence. Capable of absorbing tremendous punishment, a Brute remains dangerous even in death; when finally brought down, its bloated body ruptures in a violent burst of spores and gore, raining death to everything caught nearby.

Product contains:

• 1 x Sporebound Brute (1 pose)
• 1 x 40 mm base

Models are supplied unpainted and unassembled and may require trimming and cleaning before assembly and painting. Models shown are not to scale and may vary from actual contents. Models shown on cover include digital render.

Use superglue for assembly.

The Forest’s Angriest Meatball Has Arrived

While the Sporebound Thralls represent the first stage of the Bloodthorne’s corruption, things can become a little… strange, given enough time.

Enter the Sporebound Brute.

The Brute is what happens when corruption is left to grow unchecked. A hulking, shambling monstrosity with not an ounce of grace in its bloated frame, the Brute exists for one purpose: to run down anything unfortunate enough to stand in its way.

The Sporebound Brute on the Battlefield

While not particularly fast on its own, the Brute reacts violently whenever nearby Sporebound are destroyed. Thanks to its reactive Essence ability, Sporelink Response, it can surge across the battlefield and reach melee combat far faster than opponents expect.

And that’s exactly where it wants to be. Its base ARM 3 may not seem impressive, but once engaged, the Brute becomes significantly harder to bring down. Its passive ability Brawler grants +1 ARM against melee attacks, while Regeneration helps it shrug off more damage than it should be able to withstand. Combined, these abilities can turn the Brute into a stubborn roadblock that refuses to die. Combined with it’s active Essence ability ‚Taunt‘ it can become a real thorne in you opponents side.

Destroying it isn’t always the end of the problem, either. Once the Brute finally falls, its reactive Essence ability Gory Explosion can make life miserable for any enemy troops caught nearby. Units with lower ARM values may find themselves regretting every second spent in melee with it.

And while its attacks aren’t known for their precision, its two melee attacks hit hard enough to give even heavily armoured enemies something to worry about.

So if you see one lumbering toward your front line… you might want to shoot first.

Synergy Spotlight: Autumn Bride

The Autumn Bride naturally enhances many of the Brute’s strengths. She can help it cross the battlefield faster while also improving its chances of landing hits and actually damaging tougher foes.

However, their most devastating interaction is far less subtle.

Thanks to her passive ability Sporebound Sight, the Autumn Bride can effectively detonate a Sporebound Brute on command. Once the ability resolves, the Brute is destroyed, immediately triggering the Brute’s reactive Essence ability Gory Explosion. A very powerful synergy and highly dangerous to expensive models with low ARM values.

Stop, Drop, and… Explode? Meet Your New Favorite Nightmare

The Bloodthorne does not wage war like the armies of Astira. It does not march for glory, conquest, or revenge. It does not build fortresses or forge weapons. The forest simply spreads, slowly and endlessly, reclaiming everything that stands in its way.

But sometimes, the forest needs something stronger than roots and thorns. Sometimes, it needs something that can walk into the fire.

The Sporebound Brute is the newest horror to emerge from the depths of the Bloodthorne. A towering monstrosity of corrupted flesh and twisted growth, it serves as a living shield for the forest’s armies. Blows that would shatter lesser creatures only drive it forward – and when its borrowed life finally ends, the Brute ensures that those who brought it down will not walk away unchanged.

To Have and To Haunt

The Aiyani possessed an intimate understanding of the woodland, their lives once woven into the quiet rhythm of the trees. They knew which paths were safe, which roots would hold their weight, and which branches were merely waiting to betray them. For generations, they had listened to the forest’s secrets, assuming that as long as they offered it respect, the canopy would provide a sanctuary. But that ancient compact had dissolved, replaced by a suffocating, alien malice. The trees had warped into grotesque, agonized shapes, their bark twisting into faces frozen in silent screams, while their branches hung low like skeletal fingers. Even the vines, once dormant, now crawled across the forest floor with a predatory intent, scouring the dead leaves for the faint, flickering heat of a living heart.

The Windrunners, the Aiyani’s most agile scouts, were the first to realize that the woods had grown a mind of its own. These masters of evasion, who relied on the blur of movement to vanish from sight, found themselves cornered in a clearing that felt less like a battlefield and more like a trap. At the center of the gloom stood the Autumn Bride. She was a motionless, harrowing anomaly, her pristine white gown a stark, ghostly contrast to the grime and decay consuming the grove. She did not command the forest as a soldier commands a troop; she stood as a hollow conduit, a silent witness through which the Bloodthorne exhaled its hunger.

From the crushing density of the thicket, the Sporebound Brute emerged. It did not merely walk; it breached the forest, snapping ancient, iron-hard trunks like dry kindling as it waded into the light. It was a mountainous, fungal horror, a horrific mosaic of rotting, reanimated flesh stitched together by pulsating, invasive mold. It dragged the weight of its own decay, leaving a trail of black, humid rot in its wake. When the scouts struck, their blades singing through the air to find soft points in its hide, the creature did not react. It possessed no fear, no instinct for self-preservation, and no sense of urgency. It simply pressed forward, its massive, heavy limbs indifferent to the steel biting into its porous, necrotic bulk.

The Beastbane Slayers stood their ground, their fur bristling as they unleashed a flurry of strikes, while the Vanguard anchored the line, loosing heavy, piercing shafts into the creature’s center of mass. The Slayers moved with a desperate, rhythmic intensity, carving deep channels into the fungus, yet the Brute continued to close the distance as if the wounds were nothing more than a passing breeze. High above, the Bride watched with a terrifying, placid detachment. She offered them no mercy; as the scouts attempted to retreat, the very ground beneath them shuddered and surged. Roots erupted from the loam like questing serpents, ensnaring ankles and pinning the nimble warriors in place, forcing them to stand helpless as the rot closed in.

When the Brute finally stalled in the center of the clearing, its body ravaged and leaking bioluminescent ichor, the defenders felt a fleeting, desperate surge of hope. They had breached its form; they had brought the mountain to its knees. But the Bride merely raised a hand, her fingers pressing into the rough, weeping bark of a nearby tree. She became a bridge for the forest’s concentrated, volatile essence. The Brute shuddered as its own internal anatomy turned against it, roots piercing through its skin and pressurized spores erupting from every wound, turning the creature into a pulsating, necrotic doorway.

The collapse was not a death, but a liberation. A wave of corrupted energy and rapid-growth vegetation detonated from the corpse, a psychic scream that shattered the silence of the woods. The force of the blast tore through everything, bypassing the defenses of the warriors and the grace of the scouts alike, binding them instantly in a suffocating, thorny embrace of new, corrupted life. When the dust finally settled and the screams were silenced by the encroaching moss, the Bride took a single, slow step forward. Her dress brushed against the ruin of the earth, and around her, the trees leaned in, their boughs creaking in a rhythmic, jarring cadence that mimicked the chilling sound of laughter. She stood amidst the carnage as if she were receiving her guests, her presence the final, horrific vow. She was the bride of the blight, and she had finally invited them to a wedding where the only union was the eternal, silent rot of the forest floor.

Quelle: Shroudfall