Latest / The Euro Legions Podcast / 120. Mythic Legions Order of Eathyron Faction Focus
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- 0:02My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
- 0:04I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
- 0:08It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
- 0:12fake hammer. Oh.
- 0:13A fake? Yeah.
- 0:14Whoa. As I say, Dick.
- 0:18Welcome to episode 120 of the Allegiance Podcast.
- 0:22And this week we're going to talk about the Order of Ether on
- 0:26my favorite faction. Couple of weeks ago we talked
- 0:32about their opposites, the congregation of Necrominus.
- 0:36So we have to balance things out here with the order be thrown.
- 0:40So we're going to go through all the different characters there
- 0:43and look at a bit at their lore. And you know, you know the gig
- 0:45if you've seen the Necronominus ones going to be same.
- 0:48And yeah, should be fun. So, Malzy, Are you ready for all
- 0:52those BIOS to read? I am, I think not from reading
- 0:57the BIOS, but just in general. I'll be a few pounds lighter by
- 1:00the time we've finished. We're having a heat wave here.
- 1:04We are. UK is UK is melting.
- 1:07It's pretty warm here too. Bristol, Bristol.
- 1:09Today's 30°C, or 86 Fahrenheit. That's too hot, quite frankly.
- 1:14Yeah, yeah, yeah, with. That with the kind of climate
- 1:17that you have there that is too hot and we don't have the as
- 1:20well, you don't have the homes with the AC and all that kind of
- 1:24stuff. So everything just.
- 1:26Well, they're even insulated, aren't they, to keep the heat
- 1:29in? The one the one thing we have
- 1:34here that we don't have AC like as a kind of standard thing
- 1:38people, people do have it, you know, and you can get a lot of
- 1:40people have these mobile AC units, but we have the window
- 1:44shutter. So the metal shutters that you
- 1:46can put every single house has them as standard and you can
- 1:53just put them all down and like they are upstairs houses
- 1:55basically in pitch black for the the upstairs or else for the
- 1:58last couple of days because the sun has been shining in.
- 2:01So you don't want to get any that's nasty heat during the
- 2:04day. So that keeps it out.
- 2:05But it after if you get a good solid week of it, you kind of
- 2:09you have to admit defeat because if it doesn't go down cold
- 2:11overnight enough, yeah, you're kind of screwed.
- 2:15You know if it stays like 25 or something overnight.
- 2:19Yeah, yeah, they're promising it's going to drop to 21 here
- 2:23overnight, so that'll be lovely. Not.
- 2:26Yeah, sleep on the sleep out in the back garden, get eaten by
- 2:31the midges. I was going to say, yeah, we
- 2:33have foxes. I get toe chewed off by a fox.
- 2:36Just wandered in the garden, No? Now David Williams in Tucson, AZ
- 2:40is just like spit out his cornflakes laughing at us.
- 2:44Yeah, because he posted a little story on his Instagram story a
- 2:49couple of days ago. I remember seeing it because it
- 2:50had the eye of Sauron instead of the sun and there was in the
- 2:55hundreds of Fahrenheit. So I did the I did the I looked
- 2:59it up then on my weather app that's in Celsius and it was 41
- 3:05like 4348 lows of 30. Now I know it's this bone dry
- 3:12climate there, so there is that, but I don't think anyone can
- 3:15convince me. Yeah, it's dry and 31 Hello or
- 3:2048. I would just be hugging the air
- 3:23conditioner and taking my. Standing with that fridge open
- 3:28well. What people can't see here is
- 3:30I've got a a not very effective fan off in the distance.
- 3:34I've my shirt is buttoned just where it needs to be for the
- 3:37show and then my stomach otherwise is fully open.
- 3:40I'm trying to get some fan air blowing on it because.
- 3:43It's so hot. Do you?
- 3:44Know what I mean? People won't sleep when they
- 3:46hear that. Oh.
- 3:47My God, we're going to. We're going to attract a whole
- 3:49new female audience from that. Oh, my goodness.
- 3:55This is. Yeah.
- 3:55You're doing the news reader thing, aren't you?
- 3:57Yeah. Yeah, basically, yeah.
- 3:59It's like COVID lockdown. It's like the top fine shorts
- 4:02underneath sort of thing. Yeah, yeah.
- 4:05You don't want your camera to accidentally go into white
- 4:08screen mode or something like this.
- 4:10I don't tend to use my camera when I'm working at home in the
- 4:12summer just because I'm never wearing a shirt, just literally
- 4:15wearing shorts and that's it. So it's just like, yeah, OK,
- 4:19that's not, you know, every now and again, somebody can put your
- 4:21camera on. And I'm like, just bear me a
- 4:22second. Yeah.
- 4:24There we go. OK, there we go.
- 4:26Yeah. Yeah, well, and my lovely wife,
- 4:28I begged a cake even in this hot weather.
- 4:30So I don't know why I mean that at the moment.
- 4:33Well, I will eat I will start to eat it when miles starts.
- 4:35Three BIOS. So a cup of tea, even though
- 4:40it's warm, I find the tea kind of cools you down and it's it's
- 4:44a it's like having a cold shower is no good in that weather.
- 4:47It just makes you warmer. It's it's a counterintuitive
- 4:50thing. It's it's good at the time, but
- 4:52then afterwards you just, you're like a kettle kind of with.
- 4:55The yeah, I had a coolish shower earlier and then sweated so much
- 4:59afterwards that I might as well just not bothered.
- 5:01Yeah, yeah. This morning I did something
- 5:03similar. It was like, yeah, it was a
- 5:05waste of time. Yeah, I'm upstairs in the
- 5:07bedroom recording this one because we've got people over
- 5:10and there's a cat just slumped next to me just like out for the
- 5:13count. Yeah, just like why is it so hot
- 5:15and you just collapsed like from stretched.
- 5:16Out. It's a good way to keep the cats
- 5:18from making noise or great in havoc.
- 5:20They're just too warm to be bothered.
- 5:24So a couple of things to get through before we get into ether
- 5:28on an intern for a day. That went up between our last
- 5:31recording. So last Thursday, I think it
- 5:35went up, yeah. And we have applied for that
- 5:43model. I believe that.
- 5:44Right. Yeah, I have applied.
- 5:46I, I would very much like to go to intern again.
- 5:50I really enjoyed it last year and yeah, so I'm hopefully
- 5:55fingers crossed I might invite one of you.
- 5:59Yeah, well, you know what, if you find a better, if you find a
- 6:02better alternative, especially, especially if it's a more female
- 6:08than us, I would say go for it. There are many, I was going to
- 6:13say there aren't many of them at Legions Con and is that going to
- 6:15offend people? There's a few, isn't there?
- 6:17But. Well, it's a smaller, it's a
- 6:19definitely a smaller pool and a lot.
- 6:20Of women does men. And, and, and let's be fair, a
- 6:23lot of them are coming with their husbands or other.
- 6:27So, you know, and that's so it's not exactly a single female zone
- 6:36really it's. Really.
- 6:37It's not where you'd be going really if you were trying to for
- 6:41ladies looking for love, you know, if you can find a
- 6:44different type of love, at least it's come and you've applied as
- 6:48well. Rich.
- 6:49I have a double double the chance to increase the chances
- 6:52basically across the river. I'm afraid to to apply now
- 6:56because what if we all three get it well.
- 7:03Yeah, yeah. You don't have to take it so.
- 7:06True, but then if I drop out and then turn up at 1 of you guys,
- 7:09that's funny just. Increasing people's chances of
- 7:13getting it. So true.
- 7:16OK, well, I'm happy to take my chances with the.
- 7:18Yeah. Roll the dice, one.
- 7:21One of us can consider it out, you know.
- 7:22You know, maybe I'll go to New York for the first time ever
- 7:26properly on that day instead. Who knows?
- 7:30Maybe I'll just sit in the lounge in the hotel drinking.
- 7:34Yeah, because that's, yeah, that's what you did.
- 7:36There's not enough for that for that whole weekend.
- 7:38So that's really, that's really something you'd need to hold.
- 7:43Building tolerance levels up early, John.
- 7:44It's getting your body used to it.
- 7:47That's what this summer is for. That's why.
- 7:51That's why the environment is just, you know, the earth is
- 7:54really warmed up. It's so you can drink more beer.
- 7:58I'm have to go to the toilet less because you sweat it out.
- 8:03And anyway, 4 horsemen's a couple of events this weekend
- 8:07and in America, of course, and a hero's con in Charlotte, NC.
- 8:13That's a a legionnaire LED event, which is Ginger Kid
- 8:17collectibles and Jim from studio is going to be there.
- 8:19So if you're in that area, it's Charlotte, NC and Joe Fest in
- 8:25Augusta, GA. There's a little golf tournament
- 8:27that goes on there in April that I might one day be in Augusta,
- 8:31GA for. So if it was between that and
- 8:34Joe Fest, I'm afraid the golf tournament would still win.
- 8:37Even though Joe Fest is is probably awesome.
- 8:40Jeremy and Diego will be there too.
- 8:42And it's probably much easier to get into Joe Fest, let's be
- 8:45honest. And Toys R Ish is the is the
- 8:49legionary LED event. So that's Ish from Ishkhan.
- 8:54So that's as mild mops. Themselves, I'm going now miles
- 8:59gone. I'm doing the same.
- 9:00It's probably been bulge on it just rolls off here.
- 9:03Yeah, I'm getting worried here now.
- 9:05This could be me in a couple of years, and the Earth's only
- 9:09getting warmer, so I'm going to just get at least you guys will
- 9:12be used to it by then. So yeah, a couple of these
- 9:16steamy biosmal, you know, it'd be tough.
- 9:19I think that that was it. Ginger Kid Collectibles did you
- 9:22say was Yeah, yeah, that's a brand new.
- 9:24I was going to say it's a brand new store.
- 9:26They only opened it a week ago or so.
- 9:28A. Few weeks ago, yeah.
- 9:29Not too long, yeah. So good look to them, they're
- 9:32nice fellas as well. Met them at Legions Khan, very
- 9:35nice guys. It's a father and son set up
- 9:39there, so 2 very nice guys and I'm sure the rest of the family
- 9:43are lovely as well. So let's go on to the order of
- 9:48ether on. Now we're recording this
- 9:51Thursday night before Friday release.
- 9:53So I'm not going to do any of the fancy segways into the the
- 9:59sections because that's just more to edit and more to fiddle
- 10:03around with and more chances stuff gone wrong.
- 10:05So I want to keep it as simple as possible for myself.
- 10:08Right, order of ether on. So the order is an organization
- 10:13steeped in religious tradition. So and I am, I mean, I've said
- 10:18in the podcast before, I'm not a, it's not my favorite faction
- 10:22or wise love the figures though. So that's a different thing.
- 10:25I'm not a maybe I am steeped in the religious tradition in that
- 10:29I was forced to go to the church until I was left home 18,
- 10:35whatever it was. So that's put me off a bit.
- 10:37And it was formed to combat the Congregation of Necronominus and
- 10:42the unholy forces under its command.
- 10:45So, and obviously that's all the skeletons.
- 10:49And thanks to the guidance of Sir Gideon Heavens Brand, the
- 10:52Order is in the process of emerging from a long period
- 10:56marred by scandal and corruption, which we'll find a
- 10:59little bit about. And it involves some greedy men.
- 11:07Should we Should we kick off with the bio from Ethereides?
- 11:11Before we start, can I just say how disappointed am I myself?
- 11:14I rushed my little tagline so it says feeling nightly or feeling
- 11:19nighty, and I thought about it. I'd have done feeling Keira and
- 11:24then it would have been yeah, but I'd rushed it.
- 11:27I'm embarrassed. Never mind.
- 11:30Probably for the best. Sorry.
- 11:34Continue, Ma. Right, I was just in a moment of
- 11:39thinking about feeling Keira Knightley for a minute and
- 11:41sorry, it took me a moment to back into the room.
- 11:46Right? Eons ago in ancient mythos, 4
- 11:51brave warriors arose to combat the evils that were overturned
- 11:54over running the land. The mightily Odysseus, Basilia,
- 11:58Silona and the crowned eagle Etheron were righteous and
- 12:02unyielding forces of nature. Armed with the heavens Brand, a
- 12:06sword bestowed with the power to purify the evil in enemy's
- 12:10souls, Etheron rained down like a mighty storm of unrelenting
- 12:14power from the skies. Although the heroes were
- 12:18victorious, they faded from sight soon after their triumph.
- 12:22In their absence, the four great armies of modern mythos formed
- 12:26to honour their memory and to carry their noble cause forward
- 12:29to this very day. So we get a lot of the, we get a
- 12:34lot of the hits there straight away, Heaven's brand sword,
- 12:37obviously, and I'm a bit fascinated by they faded from
- 12:41sight soon after the triumph. So that that really gives that
- 12:46that leaves something to be explained.
- 12:48It doesn't get. To that we get to later I guess
- 12:52and not later in this episode because it's not really
- 12:54explained in the BIOS, but later in access book and stuff.
- 12:58Yeah, I suspect it'll be touched.
- 13:00Or maybe it won't be. Maybe that'll be for future law
- 13:02book Touched. But we shall see.
- 13:06We shall see. We shall definitely see.
- 13:08Yeah right. So that's ether on.
- 13:11We're hoping that he'll get a re release in the legs season
- 13:15mythos. I think that's been flagged up.
- 13:17He's he is 1 I for some reason I don't know what it is, but I'm I
- 13:21really want him and I'm really excited about a re release of
- 13:24him. I don't really want to spend the
- 13:26money on the the older version, especially knowing there's a
- 13:30newer 1 coming, which I imagine will be, you know, better
- 13:35joints, better articulated and all that sort of thing.
- 13:38I wonder if it'll use, I wonder if the new birds will use
- 13:42three-point O Is that what parts?
- 13:45Yeah. Maybe.
- 13:46Because they've got similar style joints potentially to, I
- 13:51mean, when Dad J haven't they in the, you know, I forget what you
- 13:54call it, but you know, the bent back knees and that sort.
- 13:57Of thing, yeah, Double jointed, kind of, yeah, yeah.
- 14:01But yeah, when they announced that Legions con last year or G
- 14:04con that they were going to redo Ethron, my heart sank.
- 14:08It's like, damn it. Because I was hoping they would
- 14:09at some point, but not at that point because I brought the
- 14:11original with me to sell. But luckily I sold them anyway,
- 14:15so that was OK. So I'm very excited about
- 14:17getting another one. I think it's one of those that
- 14:19people will buy the, you know, certain.
- 14:22Yeah, yeah, not everyone, but. I think buy the old one and
- 14:24people would want both of them, then the certain certain subset
- 14:28of people that would want both of them, definitely, yeah.
- 14:31The real hardcore collectors. And and gotta say, the new
- 14:35version of the Heavens brand that came with the the new
- 14:38Gideon, absolutely fantastic. It is.
- 14:42Yeah. Great good few extra paint UPS,
- 14:47right we got we got Gideon now from next he's coming up.
- 14:50So there's the two versions of them on the screen 1 and 2.
- 14:57Cool. Why don't you give it a?
- 14:59Yeah. If you go there Mount, we've got
- 15:01a bit. It's good bit of lore and caddy
- 15:03in here. There is, yes, there's a bit and
- 15:05a little bit of the history of Etheros in in there as well, by
- 15:09the looks of it. Right As the leader of the Order
- 15:14of Ether on Sir Gideon, Heaven's brand has guided the Order into
- 15:18a new golden age. The once disgraced orders
- 15:21flourished under his command, reclaiming its sanctity and the
- 15:25respect of the people it protects.
- 15:27So Gideon's unwavering faith in the crowned Eagle God Etheron
- 15:31has only strengthened his resolve and given him a courage
- 15:34to defeat the dark armies of Mythos.
- 15:38And this is a bit of I'm guessing from the bio because
- 15:41I'm reading off another document for those at home.
- 15:44So this is, yeah, this is certain for an article from the
- 15:46website this next. The reference here to the once
- 15:51disgraced order struck many buys rise and fans have long wondered
- 15:55what the history behind this disgrace, A reclamation, may
- 15:58have been. This tale is further fleshed
- 16:01out. Oh, there you go.
- 16:01So it is further fleshed out in the forthcoming volume The Rise
- 16:05of the Dark 4, Volume 1. And here we go.
- 16:07A nice excerpt from that right. Over time, greedy men and women
- 16:13made their way to ethos, bearing gifts and spouting Word of
- 16:17Faith. They made themselves part of the
- 16:19great city, all the while working behind the scenes to
- 16:23strengthen their influence. They sought power rather than
- 16:25enlightenment. Little by little, the power
- 16:29structure at the heart of the Order of Etheron began to
- 16:31change. The welcoming hands of faith
- 16:34gave way to discrimination, and only those deemed worthy were
- 16:38granted access to the resources of the Order.
- 16:41Artistic voices who challenged the and the changes in the Order
- 16:46were silenced, their funding cut off and their creations
- 16:49destroyed. Destroyed under the guise of
- 16:51these creations not being in line with the teachings of the
- 16:53Crowned Eagle. This sounds a bit familiar
- 16:56doesn't it? The Heavens Rans family remained
- 16:59in the power during this time, but their influence diminished
- 17:03with each passing day. This once proud family had
- 17:06misplaced their faith not in the great beasts who's for example
- 17:09they endeavoured to follow, but in the advisers and generals
- 17:13they trusted to help them in their holy in that holy mission.
- 17:17The most stunning example of the fall of the order of Etheron
- 17:20came during the time of Sir Gabriel.
- 17:22Heavens brand, a deeply religious and good man Sir
- 17:27Gabriel. I'm guessing it's Gabriel, isn't
- 17:28it? Sought to reform the order and
- 17:31return it to it day. It's days of glory and honour.
- 17:34He maybe have succeeded in this mission had he not taken I'll
- 17:38with a mysterious affliction that robbed the Orders leader of
- 17:41his health and his senses during what should have been a
- 17:44formative years of his rule. With Sir Gabriel indisposed, the
- 17:49greedy members of the Order saw a chance to solidify their power
- 17:52once and for all. A key moment in in their rise
- 17:56came when agents from the Congregation Necronominus
- 17:59desecrated the Temple of Ethron, believed to be the final resting
- 18:03place of the Crowned Eagle. This attack exposed the Temple
- 18:07as being empty and it gave the new leaders of the Order the
- 18:10excuse they needed to span the Templars who guarded that one's
- 18:13sacred place. These power hungry men and women
- 18:17knew that this ancient sect of the Order posed a real threat to
- 18:21their plans, so they jumped upon this excuse to disgrace and
- 18:25remove them. This sad state of affairs
- 18:28continued while Sir Gabriel, Gabriel, Heaven's Brand,
- 18:31remained on his sick bed, a leader in name only.
- 18:34It would be some time before Sir Gabriel's son Gideon would lead
- 18:37the Order of Ethron out from under the dark cloud of avarice
- 18:41and away from the fair, faithless individuals who
- 18:44perpetrated it. The light always returns,
- 18:48however, for even after the darkest of nights, the morning
- 18:51sun rises, ushering in a new day.
- 18:56Yeah, so that's that's a very interesting bit of lore and it
- 19:00reminds me a bit of Lord of the Rings that Roe hunting.
- 19:04Yes, yes, I suppose. Yeah, yeah, it's got that.
- 19:06The king there, doesn't it, where he's he's kind of poisoned
- 19:11by various things. Riches disappeared.
- 19:15I guess we just keep going. Yeah, I'm sure we'll be back in
- 19:18a minute. And yeah, then there's the thing
- 19:22with the the relic guards. They kind of get a mention
- 19:28they're guarding the Temple of Ether on.
- 19:30I assume that's the relic guards anyway.
- 19:34Better take Gideon away. Yeah, assume that's the really
- 19:37current. Gideon two first before.
- 19:40Yeah, let's go for it. Yeah.
- 19:42Sorry, the dark days of the Order of Ether and now in the
- 19:46past thanks to the leadership of Sir Gideon Heaven's brand, a
- 19:49selfless man whose conviction and faith are in wavering.
- 19:53It is an example that is needed as the darkness of Necronominus
- 19:56returns and death itself well walks again when once again in
- 20:00mythos. Sir Gideon's faith shall be
- 20:03tested, yet it shall not break, even as the dead rise from the
- 20:06graves and stand against him on the field of battle, leading an
- 20:10army of Knights, Templars, Mystics, and paladins.
- 20:15Sir Gideon and the Order of Ethron March to meet the horrors
- 20:18of the Congregation, bringing the purifying light of the
- 20:21Crowned Eagle with them. Yeah.
- 20:26So who were the Mystics? That was that was the question I
- 20:29had there. So Templar's Mystics, Knights,
- 20:33paladins? Are the Mystics the glad you're
- 20:40Ellen and Segnatious? No, it'd be more the paladins.
- 20:44Probably not, no. I think it's it's class we've
- 20:46not had yet, isn't it? But it sounds.
- 20:48Does sound like it, yeah. Yeah, I don't think we've got.
- 20:51Would you? Would you, Mystic?
- 20:52There we go. Yeah, indeed.
- 20:56Yeah. So.
- 20:57And, and, and those former greedy members, we probably
- 21:02could learn a little bit more about them, who they were and,
- 21:05and maybe even get a figure or two from them.
- 21:10I don't know if they've joined other congregation or other
- 21:12factions or whatever maybe. And I'd imagine too, it'd be
- 21:17quite easy to do them as like a, you know, reuse wave sort of
- 21:20thing because they're almost older, so maybe they haven't
- 21:22seen, you know, yeah, not cool with some of the new stuff.
- 21:26So yeah, that would work well for that.
- 21:28And what about Sir Gabriel? Do we need him?
- 21:31It'd be kind of cool, but I don't know if we do, do we?
- 21:34Instead of going backwards in the story?
- 21:37Although perhaps that is something that could be done.
- 21:41Yeah, I think it'll be if he does pop up in the story again
- 21:45and or does if there's a couple of stories to do with him that
- 21:49are a bit more maybe heroic or whatever, might be cool to get
- 21:55him. Yeah.
- 21:58And we have a bio for Bishop as well, the horse, Gideon's horse,
- 22:02which which kind of just, it's just a bio to show how great
- 22:06Gideon is, I think. But it's a good one.
- 22:12Right the mighty steed known as Bishop was born lame in the
- 22:16stables of the Heavens Brand family set to be put out of in
- 22:20misery. A young Gideon pleaded that the
- 22:22foe will be given a chance. The stablemaster boy.
- 22:26The stable master told the boy he could pray that night, but
- 22:29come morning the horse would need to be put down.
- 22:33Gideon stayed by the white horse's side that evening with
- 22:38praying continually until sleep overtook him.
- 22:41When he awoke, the horse was miraculously cured, and it was
- 22:46deemed that the healing touch of ether on himself could have seen
- 22:49that miracle could be seen in that miracle.
- 22:52Since that time, Sir Gideon and Bishop have been inseparable.
- 22:56They ride into battle as one, their hearts pure and true, for
- 22:59they know that faith has the power to turn away even death.
- 23:05Yeah, so pretty cool, doesn't it?
- 23:08Doesn't go too much with the further in the law rather than
- 23:12to show kind of how Gideon got his horse, which I suppose is
- 23:16the purpose. And it does paint Gideon in
- 23:20quite a good light. You found a Bishop Rich.
- 23:24Yeah, I think it's my favorite horse.
- 23:25It's just with the the armor and everything else and that's all.
- 23:28Classic white look. Big Fanicky Bishop.
- 23:31Nice. And you?
- 23:33Now you're feeling Kira. There you go.
- 23:35Yeah. You crashed out, you got back
- 23:37in. I crashed out.
- 23:38I had a chance to update it, so it's like, there we go.
- 23:43That's what it was, really. It was like, Oh no, Oh no, the
- 23:46Internet. Yeah.
- 23:46Oh no, the broadband's gone down.
- 23:48Clear, yeah. And if this wasn't, yeah, if
- 23:51this wasn't the later recording, then no one would have seen you
- 23:56crash out and come back in. They would have just seen your
- 23:58thing change and thought that was right.
- 24:05Should we every anything more of them or should we get on to
- 24:07another heaven's brand Gwendoline on the quarter one?
- 24:12My take on Gwendolyn would be she's got a drinking problem and
- 24:15she falls over so much. Mine's all right, mine's OK.
- 24:19Mine's fine, yeah. Sheila, I'll read the bio and
- 24:23then we'll talk a bit more about her brother.
- 24:26Gideon may be the face of the Order of Ether and but Commander
- 24:29Gwendolyn Heaven's brand is is its fist.
- 24:33The Skill warrior strategist remains a step ahead of her
- 24:36enemies at all times as she commands her troops from the
- 24:40front lines. Her hardened outlook is often at
- 24:42odds with her brother's idealistic leadership, but her
- 24:45grit is essential to the Order's survival.
- 24:49Was this bio just written to annoy Stephen Bishati or?
- 24:55Probably. From from a podcast known as
- 24:59Legions Cast. Which isn't isn't.
- 25:04Do they do legions cast anymore? I haven't seen it in ages, no.
- 25:06It's not been coming for a while.
- 25:08No monks and monks with that. One guys, you're still on the
- 25:12way. Are they still listed on the
- 25:13website? We need that updated can being a
- 25:22big mean now, right? Next up we got an exclusive.
- 25:30This is a rare 1A gold dwarf. Rich is in vain.
- 25:36I really really once of our God and hopefully we get a ream a
- 25:40redo of him. As a veteran warrior who once
- 25:45fought under Sir Gabriel, Heavens Brands leadership, Sir
- 25:48Valgard offers wisdom and the guidance to Heavens Brands and
- 25:52Sir Gideon in the newly enlightened age of the author of
- 25:55Etheron. Long ago the Order was shining
- 25:58was a shining star amongst the factions, was both devout and
- 26:01righteous. But as time passed the faction
- 26:04became corrupt, deteriorating into an institution afflicted by
- 26:08greed and discrimination that sought to serve the needs of
- 26:11only the wealthiest denizens of mythos.
- 26:15As the first in new wave of non human warriors to join the
- 26:18faction, so Valgard is an inspiration and a true symbol of
- 26:22the Order of Etheron's return to greatness.
- 26:26So he's a real link to the past. Yeah.
- 26:30Which kind of it kind of almost lines up with the ashes of egg
- 26:35Bender wave and a bit with the is it the great beasts wave?
- 26:40The most recent G con wave. Yeah, so so actually maybe we
- 26:45could go backwards and get the so Gabriel and yeah.
- 26:49And then and a free do of. Yeah, come on, those Kickstarter
- 26:54backers won't be mad about this point.
- 26:56Was it more than 10 years ago? Well, and also to be fair, it'll
- 27:00be so different if it's anything like the others.
- 27:03Are they just put an extra or in there?
- 27:05Sir Valgard I I'd like to update as well that Legions cast is no
- 27:13longer listed in the Four Horsemen website, so.
- 27:16It's gone. They're taking control of their
- 27:20own shows, but that's cool, Andrea.
- 27:28Another one I would like but I don't think she is going to get
- 27:32a remake unfortunately. Oh, you don't have her?
- 27:37No, Well, she's I tried to buy it from Big Bad when she came in
- 27:40to stock. Oh.
- 27:41Yeah, that's when I got. There they cut.
- 27:43Well, they cocked up the figures, didn't they?
- 27:45A bunch of people bought it and then never got it.
- 27:48Oh no, I think I got her before that the the time during curl
- 27:53COVID to 2020 when she was in stock or she was pre-order there
- 27:58again. Yeah, yeah, she's one of only a
- 27:59couple of figures I regret selling.
- 28:03I really don't like the head sculpt, but the figure as a
- 28:04whole is awesome. I'm like, yeah, shouldn't have
- 28:06sold it, but there we. Go did we get another 2.0 Angel
- 28:11at some point? It'd.
- 28:13Be good if we did, but well, we shall see.
- 28:16We shall see. I mean, we might do, I suppose,
- 28:19if we're getting, we got Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, right?
- 28:28So Cyrus the Great Golden city in the clouds is home to the
- 28:32angels of Mythos. Revered as sacred creatures,
- 28:36angels are known to be both powerful and wise.
- 28:38While they serve as guardians to the people of Mythos, angels
- 28:42generally avoid meddling in their affairs unless great
- 28:45threat looms on the horizon. Gadriel, now exiled from Cyrus,
- 28:49was banned for being too determined to protect the people
- 28:52at all costs. With a new home and her new
- 28:55found allies in the Order of Ethron, Gadriel is a battle
- 28:58hardened and devastatingly powerful force for peace in
- 29:01Mythos. Very cool, she.
- 29:06Doesn't come across Sir Maxilius though in Sycamore because we
- 29:10know angels don't fare well against him.
- 29:13Should be gold color, so that'll be have to be a 2.0 gold skelet.
- 29:17And then do we say 2 point or 2.0 what?
- 29:21Which is grammatically British correct.
- 29:24I'd say 2 point O. OK.
- 29:27But I don't think it matters. No, it's not like Z or Z where
- 29:30it's clearly ZI. Know I I noticed this all the
- 29:36time now anytime I listen to like ABBC podcast or something
- 29:38like that, they always say Z Yeah, it actually becomes
- 29:46jarring because you're used to hearing ZA lot like I think a
- 29:49lot of people have taken on the American English.
- 29:52I mean in Ireland it's definitely Z yeah, for a lot of
- 29:55people. So I found it jarring now once
- 30:00you brought it up once on this show and I can't really roll
- 30:04back from it. Not here, yeah.
- 30:06The in in the original Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis,
- 30:10there's a they have the what they call AZ Point Z Point
- 30:14module, which is powers like ancient artifacts, but one of
- 30:17the characters is Canadian so he calls it AZ Point Module and
- 30:21they get really Narcanas. I'm Canadian, I'm not changing
- 30:24how I pronounce. Oh, pledding on Stargate.
- 30:29I love it. So we got the other, the other
- 30:34dude, the other Angel, Or was the other Angel that we have in
- 30:38hand at least? Sir Ignatius, do you do you
- 30:44think he's meant to be an Angel? I've never thought no.
- 30:47He's a knight. I will use his body as an Angel.
- 30:51That sounds dodgy when I'm making some when I'm making some
- 30:53costumes. I think he's just so pious.
- 30:58That's why his armour is reminiscent the angels.
- 31:02That's my sort of yeah. I like my take on him.
- 31:06Right. So Sir Ignatius, as one of the
- 31:09few remaining Knights from the Order of Ethron's muddied past,
- 31:12Sir Ignatius, his absolute faith is a source of inspiration for
- 31:16his brother in arms. Once a denouncer of the Order in
- 31:19its flawed ways, he was an integral part of the Orders
- 31:22Reformation and Sir Gideon's right to leadership.
- 31:25After so many years of frustration with the very
- 31:29institution that he swore to serve, Sir Ignatius is finally
- 31:32at peace with himself as a warrior in this time of great
- 31:36unrest. Yeah, some pretty cool bio.
- 31:40I mean, what you notice is some of these are the older BIOS, so
- 31:44they're a bit shorter. A bit shorter, yeah.
- 31:46Yeah, which is maybe good for you on this show now, but.
- 31:52Can you imagine take us like 3 hours to do it all if they're
- 31:55all? There Jeremy BIOS Yeah, but
- 32:01yeah, I like the, you know, that he was kind of he was a
- 32:05denouncer at some points, especially when things were gone
- 32:09bad and then he's involved in putting things right.
- 32:12So, you know it, it's a very, it's a very cool character
- 32:18thing, you know. And and he's a great looking
- 32:21figure isn't he, even if the older one wasn't knowing some
- 32:24gold as Mal was certified many times wasn't quite up to it.
- 32:27But the pearlescent is such a cool colour even though there's
- 32:30been remade. I kept one of my old ones.
- 32:32She's like one of the old ones as Surgnacious.
- 32:36Yeah, same. I'll keep one of the old ones,
- 32:38but I love the new one. I think he looks so good.
- 32:42Right, well, I'm going to try and tip him over here, but
- 32:47standing up. So, first time for everything,
- 32:52Jack. Once as evil and savages the
- 32:57rest of the impure. The ogre named Good.
- 32:59Check. It was visited in his sleep by a
- 33:02vision of the golden bird, wreathed in flames and cleansed
- 33:06rather than consumed. Waking from his dream, Ugjak
- 33:10immediately made his way to Ethos, seen as a threat, and
- 33:14turned away. The yoga found a simple Hut in
- 33:16the mountains. Here he made his home, combing
- 33:20over prayer books and collecting trinkets left behind by Mystic
- 33:24who had found enlightenment many years prior.
- 33:27Travellers through the land told the strange tales of the remote
- 33:30Hut and the devout ogre who now prayed to Etheron.
- 33:34These tales eventually made their way to Sir Gideon Heaven's
- 33:37Brand, and the leader of the Order sought out the ogre and
- 33:41bade him return with him to the Crown City.
- 33:44Today, the paladin known as Sir Ugchak is one of the most
- 33:47faithful and most powerful warriors fighting for the
- 33:50Legions of Light. A very cool figure.
- 33:57He's a grey finger, isn't? He yeah, it's a very good bio.
- 34:00Yeah, definitely. And he mentions Mystics again,
- 34:03so I'm not sure if that's a different type of Mystic.
- 34:06Or. He is a Cooley as well.
- 34:09It just yeah, sorry, my I was going to say Cooley as well.
- 34:12He's also one of only two characters that we know
- 34:14definitely survived or three, I guess technically definitely
- 34:18survived the second Great War, right?
- 34:21He's he's featured in the Sway story, isn't it?
- 34:25Oh, is he OK? This is where your memory is
- 34:28much better. Oh, we got fell overhead.
- 34:31We had Big Greg on the show doing the voice guys, come on.
- 34:34That's right, yeah. How many podcasts ago?
- 34:38That a long time ago. Yeah, and he's fallen over.
- 34:42All that just. Yes, I I just did that now.
- 34:49Yeah, yeah, that much of the saddle.
- 34:52At least it's the actual figure. If I was trying to do this I'd
- 34:55have a white board around it where I just it from there
- 34:58something. No, I'm very well organized.
- 35:00I just went in to my photo editor.
- 35:02I rotated them sideways and exported it again and added it
- 35:06in here. There you go, while Matt was
- 35:08doing the bio. Very, sort of very well done.
- 35:10Very. What do you guys reckon about
- 35:14the the current trend with him? That everyone, not everybody.
- 35:16A lot of people seem to find the little extenders to make him a
- 35:19bit taller again. I don't need it.
- 35:21I don't need it. I like.
- 35:23Yeah, sorry about the proportions.
- 35:24No, I was. Going to say, I like the
- 35:25proportions. I like the the kind of squat
- 35:29element too, because I think that's what it is for people is
- 35:32they kind of got feel like they've got short legs.
- 35:34Short legs, yeah. Just I like it.
- 35:37I like it and all the other that ogre scale.
- 35:40Figures, yeah. John, how about you?
- 35:43Yeah, I get it with the big Greg thing, because, I mean, he's a
- 35:48huge tall guy and this is his, you know, tribute figure as
- 35:52such. So they do want to, you know,
- 35:54make him as tall as possible again.
- 35:57And that's a cool thing. But yeah, I don't need for the
- 36:01figure to get better. Now if someone told me they
- 36:03would stand up better with these, I'll I'll take.
- 36:05I'll pay $5 for them, whatever. John wants is someone to just
- 36:09make your thick round ankle pegs that I just.
- 36:13I just don't. I mean I know he's top heavy but
- 36:15I don't get how he falls over so easy.
- 36:18I haven't figured it out yet. I got frustrated and just left
- 36:22him. I think I'll just put him in a
- 36:23stand. That's it, I'm done with it.
- 36:25Just have him leaning against a pole, maybe with something in
- 36:27his other hand other than a, you know, a hammer.
- 36:31That would be a realistic look. Yeah, or or just put him on the
- 36:34ground and have him leaning on. It I was going to say, how do
- 36:37you have him displayed like like he is here with his hand?
- 36:39Lying on the shelf. Ideally, I mean in terms of his
- 36:44weapon, do you have him? Like I've got the hammer in one
- 36:47hand slightly lower, so I wonder if that helps balance in a bit
- 36:51somewhere. Oh, maybe, yeah.
- 36:53Yeah. I think I would have it, you
- 36:54know, where the hammer is just kind of on like so the if you
- 36:58angle, if you swap the hands there or swap the hammer Even,
- 37:02so that the big part of the hammer is lower.
- 37:05Yeah, yeah. And maybe on the ground, just
- 37:07ready to be swung up in the air again.
- 37:09Yeah. Yeah, that's a cool idea.
- 37:13That looked pretty good. But it is a cool figure.
- 37:15I just got frustrated with it with the standing up thing
- 37:17because he kept coming back into the room here and he had to
- 37:21toppled over somebody or he was on the floor and I was looking
- 37:25for maybe it was he broken and like did the break anything?
- 37:31So then I just eventually gave up and left him lying down until
- 37:33I figured out. But I think maybe just to stand
- 37:36for the moment. I've not thought it before, but
- 37:38this is what the one occasion where the fact that these
- 37:42figures, the prototypes are glued, actually benefits Trevor.
- 37:46Yes, they can't get into a pose, but he's not dropping, he's not
- 37:48falling over. Because it's just like I'm
- 37:50stuck. But Barodac is not.
- 37:53This is not the same. It's funny.
- 37:55Oh really? No, just a lucky look for having
- 37:59him. No, he's, it's still a little
- 38:02bit tough, heavy, but he doesn't fall as easily, definitely.
- 38:06And he has more bones and stuff sticking out the head that
- 38:10actually could get broken. So anyway, yes, right.
- 38:15Yosef Yosef, Yosef Russo. A hero from the first age of
- 38:21myths. Mythos Yosef of the Golden Spear
- 38:24LED a battalion of angelic warriors from the Celestial City
- 38:27of Cyrus to fight in the Great in the First Great War
- 38:32Tragically, their mission was a doomed one, and only Iosuf
- 38:36survived an encounter with Mexilius the Harvester.
- 38:40The angels fought valiantly, but they were each cut down by the
- 38:44Harvester and raised from death by their unholy magic of
- 38:47Necronominus. Still, Yosef did not surrender,
- 38:51and he proved instrumental to the victory of the First Great
- 38:54War. Returning to Cirrus alone, it
- 38:57would be ages before another of his kind would leave the Angelic
- 39:00City to fight in the battles of Mythos.
- 39:05So he does have a bunch more lore as well, but we did that
- 39:12story in yes episode. I'm going to find it now 70
- 39:17something I. Found it up, giving it my best.
- 39:21You did. Read from a volleyball. 76 yeah,
- 39:25that's what I had in my head. So episode 76 if you want to get
- 39:30more in at the Yosef story and and a few other stories as
- 39:35cosmic story in there as well. So, but yeah, cool story with
- 39:40Maxillus there, kind of. I love when other characters pop
- 39:44up, especially other characters from a different faction pop in
- 39:48someone's bio. I always think that's cool.
- 39:52And we have the thing as well with the gold skeleton that kind
- 39:58of mix them together. So maybe Joe Russo is eventually
- 40:02a gold skeleton. It's the one thing missing from
- 40:07this one, isn't it is a purple visor to replicate the the
- 40:11shades. Sure, someone will paint it,
- 40:17make a little clear piece of resin or something.
- 40:20There's an idea. If you know her Silver Knight 2,
- 40:25then we have. Silver Knight 2 is This is the
- 40:27one that's coming with the book, is it?
- 40:30It is. Yes.
- 40:34Very cool. I'd sort of forgot about this.
- 40:36And then it popped up. Well, it didn't pop up.
- 40:39It was there on Big Bad Toy Store and I was like, Oh yeah,
- 40:42I've ordered some of them. Did they say it was definitely
- 40:45coming with the book or just listed it at the same time but
- 40:47make a different? I think it was coming before.
- 40:49I think the intention was it was coming before the book.
- 40:53Yeah. It was just solicited at the
- 40:54same time a week. If it is it just.
- 40:58Am I just hidden now? You haven't gotten 1.
- 41:01Right. No, I can't find them in my
- 41:03list, so I must have forgotten. I'll pop them up here while
- 41:07you're reading about it. Well, the fish are not going to
- 41:10take that long. Shall I?
- 41:11Shall I talk and kick? Drag it out a little bit and
- 41:14keep going. Now slowly kill Fatah.
- 41:20Horses of heath, someone's going to put us on double speed then,
- 41:23and then don't forget to switch it off.
- 41:26Well, the forces of Etheros are most commonly known to the Order
- 41:30of the Templar Knights, or the Holy Paladins and battle Clerics
- 41:34who fight in the name of the Crowned Eagle.
- 41:37It is the vast ranks of Silver Knights who make up the front
- 41:40lines of the Audrey Thruns army, fearless soldiers who have taken
- 41:45a sacred oath to protect the realm.
- 41:48They are the first in line of defence against the undead
- 41:50horrors pouring forth from the House of the Blessed Bone.
- 41:56There you go. So it's I love now that Legion
- 41:59builders are getting a little bio explain what the you know,
- 42:04what their army is or why they're why they are legion.
- 42:08I think it gives you more reason to buy the legion build them in
- 42:11a way. Yeah, like the 12.
- 42:13We'll get to the 12 thing with the really cards and it's coming
- 42:17up next and yeah, I got a couple of these coming.
- 42:21I can't wait for this guy. He's going to be super popular.
- 42:23If I mean the Valiant Knight was very popular, the silver and gun
- 42:28metal and the kind of black and gun metal Knights from the
- 42:35Allegiance con stuff from this year, they were very popular.
- 42:38So yeah. I think this guy will be
- 42:40additionally popular because of the Four Horsemen shield as
- 42:44well. Thank you.
- 42:46People pick extra just so they can do something with that.
- 42:50And yeah, the four, yeah, look at it.
- 42:52Looks superb. The Gold Knight was originally
- 42:57in this faction and now it's in early Odysseus.
- 43:01So I think this this one kind of is now the main knight for kind
- 43:06of generic knight. I mean, OK, you have the
- 43:08Templars as well, but he's the main kind of generic knight for
- 43:12this faction. So I.
- 43:13Mean that sort of works. It shows Gideon and his gold off
- 43:16as you know, the boss. Yeah, I was going to say yes.
- 43:19And that makes sense, doesn't it?
- 43:21Because. It does, yeah.
- 43:22Colour themes of the charity that works doesn't.
- 43:28It relicart. An ancient sect with the
- 43:32Hutchcuse We sorry. An ancient sect within the Order
- 43:38of Etheron. The Templars have been restored
- 43:41to the glory by Sir Gideon Heaven's Brand within the
- 43:44chambers of the Sacred Temple of Ether and other relic guards
- 43:48recognized by the black crosses ablaze emblazoned upon their
- 43:51white tunics. This elite unit is comprised of
- 43:5412 of the Templars, most capable and loyal members.
- 44:00The Relic Guards protect secret known only to them.
- 44:03It is a secret that these Knights take with them as they
- 44:06pass from this life to the final meeting with the Crowned Eagle
- 44:10whose memory they have faithfully served.
- 44:14Yeah, so there's your there's your little fishing hook out to
- 44:18get your 12 Legion builders rich.
- 44:22I didn't for that. I didn't bite for once.
- 44:25I've got four, I think maybe 5 of my and then, but I have got
- 44:3011 of the figures in total because I'm using them as the
- 44:32basis for another faction I think I mentioned before.
- 44:36So yeah. But when you when you read the
- 44:39the Lord the Jeremy we we had for Gideon, where they basically
- 44:45ether On's temple was in ransacked, they discovered that
- 44:49ether on wasn't actually in there or, you know, these
- 44:51remains and then these rally cards were dismissed.
- 44:55So who knows what's to do with them now?
- 45:01Or did they move it so that it wouldn't be found?
- 45:03Maybe. Or maybe because he's not dead.
- 45:07Yeah, or whether all they're just sat there picking their
- 45:09teeth like chicken bones. Yeah, I have no idea.
- 45:13No, I'm no, no. You're fired.
- 45:17Yeah, yeah. And sugar in We won't mention
- 45:26the other guy, Sir Owain. As a skilled warrior, a master
- 45:33swordsmith, Sir Owain is an indispensable member of the
- 45:38Order of Etheron. He's world renowned for the
- 45:41intricate detail that he pours into every blade that he
- 45:44creates, and equally revered for his prowess wielding them.
- 45:50Possibly more important than his skills with sword is so are
- 45:53Owain's jovial good nature. In the direst of times, even the
- 45:57thinnest sliver of light can help fracture the darkness.
- 46:01So it's quite a cool bio for a character that I find really
- 46:06uninspiring and I figure. He may make good blades, but he
- 46:10could make himself in a decent armor, could he?
- 46:12I. Mean it's a funny one because
- 46:15it's all bad looking it just, I don't know, just.
- 46:17Doesn't I think. Sort of thing just doesn't work
- 46:21for me. I think Sarah Wayne would have
- 46:23maintained his mystique more if he hadn't been an All Star.
- 46:27Because now maybe. Yeah.
- 46:28Very plentiful and yeah, it's also and people and there's
- 46:33probably better there's obviously better looking Knights
- 46:35been revealed released since, but I think if he'd have never
- 46:40got released in All Stars, they think he'd be a more sought
- 46:43after figure at this point. Is the tribute figure as well to
- 46:49Owen Ortling one of the original people that worked at the four
- 46:52horsemen at that time. So I remember is Ramirez telling
- 46:57me that. So that's and I guess that's
- 47:01where it comes with the his jovial good nature.
- 47:06Must be, Must be relevance to that someone.
- 47:11And I know wines are GUI on up because they don't pronounce the
- 47:14name the same as they would have done in Welsh.
- 47:16So it's a wine in Welsh? Ah, OK, right.
- 47:21Yeah, I can see that, Galleron. Sigaleron Although Sigaleron is
- 47:28one of Gideon Heavens Brands most notable or heroic allies,
- 47:32there is a subtle darkness lurking beneath the surface.
- 47:35As a Spearman and standard bearer in the Etherean army, he
- 47:40invariably seeks to be on the frontline in every battle.
- 47:43Galleron is fuelled not only by his inaikens, but by an
- 47:47unquenchable thirst for revenge against those responsible for a
- 47:51mysterious event in his troubled past.
- 47:56So this is an interesting bio for for this mysterious event.
- 48:03They've got to go for that, surely in the book.
- 48:08Yeah, I think so, yeah. What do you think we're going to
- 48:13get a redo of? I don't know, maybe if we get a
- 48:19proper head scope maybe yeah be worth redoing him.
- 48:23It's difficult, isn't it, because he he doesn't really fit
- 48:27that important character, but his bio makes him feel important
- 48:33because he's always on the front lines, always battling him.
- 48:39And I guess he sort of ties in a bit with Sir Andrew as well,
- 48:42doesn't he? And obviously Joe did the
- 48:45colours, so they're similar and all that sort of stuff.
- 48:48So. So we might get another one of
- 48:50him. Yeah, Joe's pushing for it, The
- 48:54background. We get him to to match the
- 48:57colour of Saint Andrew, Sir Saint Andrew, Sir Andrew.
- 49:03That would be, Yeah, that would be cool.
- 49:07Yeah. So yeah, and he and he wants to
- 49:09be in the frontline of every battle.
- 49:11So yeah, he's a he's a kind of heroic character in that way.
- 49:16Tortured. So Adelrick, Adelrick the Richie
- 49:24as as. Haughty and as proud as he is
- 49:26wealthy, so Adelrick is one of the richest individuals in
- 49:30Etheros, having made his fortunes in shipping.
- 49:33So Adelrich's favour was coveted by the corrupt individuals who
- 49:37sought to gain control of the faction.
- 49:39He snubbed these advances and he could not be bribed, for he had
- 49:44more riches than all of the corrupt politicians combined.
- 49:48Instead, Sir Adelrich gave generously to the arts and to
- 49:51the charities of Ethos. Now that the Order is back on
- 49:54the righteous path, this lavishly dressed night uses his
- 49:59wealth and he sword armed to defend the cause of the crowned
- 50:03eagle. Very cool night.
- 50:08Very cool. Yeah.
- 50:11Yeah. So he's the interesting part of
- 50:13his bio is that he's loaded. So why is he fighting?
- 50:17You know, why isn't he more in the background?
- 50:20But yeah, and I suppose his armor is a bit more.
- 50:26What would you say for display than for battle?
- 50:29Yeah, yeah, he's the. He's got the chimney, whatever.
- 50:32Some of the back lines leading people and you know, pointing
- 50:35them in the right direction. Yeah, I think he over there to
- 50:39get stabbed. What do you think of this guy?
- 50:45Rich head person? How have we?
- 50:50Is Rich gone? Frozen again, I think.
- 50:54You must have, yeah. OK.
- 50:57Well, let's keep going, Sir Andrew.
- 51:04Read it and then we could talk about the figure, can't we?
- 51:06There he is. We need Rich back.
- 51:11He'll. Be buying loads of them, shall I
- 51:15wait or? No, Go for it, Go for it.
- 51:18Born to a humble conjurer in which Andrew grew up on the
- 51:22eastern base of the Evergreen Mountains, raised to be a
- 51:25caretaker to the wild, tragedy stuck struck his quiet life
- 51:29while misusing a powerful spell of renewal on a dying flame.
- 51:33Spell was too much for the young boy to control and Andrew
- 51:36accidentally blasted the small home he shared with his family,
- 51:40killing them all instantly. Responding to the great Mr.
- 51:44Kleinages he felt unleashed nearby, Joran Druinshaper found
- 51:48the grieving fledgling magic user trying to revive his
- 51:51parents using more spells that he was ill prepared to cast.
- 51:56Taking pity on the orphan and seeing great potential in his
- 51:59abilities, Joran took Andrew under his wing.
- 52:02The dwarf and mage vowed to guide his new charge and helped
- 52:06harness the flame that grew within him for the cause of
- 52:09good. Trained for years in the magical
- 52:13schools of Afidian, Sir Andrew eventually became a powerful
- 52:16pyromancer. Discipline as rare as it is
- 52:19powerful. Seeking absolution for his
- 52:22greatest mistake, Andrew eventually travelled to Ethos
- 52:26where he joined the Order. Committed protecting to
- 52:29protecting life the way he was raised by his family, Andrew
- 52:32vowed to use his flames to destroy any who would seek to do
- 52:35evil. Recognized for his convictions
- 52:38and devotion to the Order, so Andrew now leads the Repentant,
- 52:42a small band of criminals who volunteered to fight the undead
- 52:45to atone for past wrongdoings. Sir Andrew's flames destroyed
- 52:50the undead enemy and his fallen allies alike.
- 52:53For what is ash cannot rise again.
- 52:55So. This is a super cool bio, yeah.
- 53:00Really good. And it's done by Joe from
- 53:03studio, so very cool, who also designed the figure.
- 53:09So I want to see more of the Repentant.
- 53:14Yes. What do you think?
- 53:18Yeah, I've got, I've got 3 heads I think painted and lined up for
- 53:22them already. My proper bruises and this sort
- 53:27of stuff that look like they might have done I'll leads in
- 53:32the past. I'm trying to make up for it
- 53:33now. Nice.
- 53:36Yeah, that's true. You could make, I suppose, more
- 53:38repentance if you had a few extra surrenders and your own
- 53:42head or was just helmets even. But I think that they probably
- 53:49wouldn't have as fancy armor as Surrender, that's for sure.
- 53:53No, I think you'd want to get rid of the soft goods,
- 53:55definitely. Maybe not even worry about the
- 53:59shield just giving us a spear or a Pike or something like that.
- 54:01Yeah, yeah. So that I saw, was it Joe that
- 54:06took the the pauldrons from is it Zende maybe and put them on
- 54:14Sir Andrew. So it's like much smaller
- 54:16pauldrons and it worked really well as like a sort of, you
- 54:20know, more of a standard nightmare in that colour.
- 54:23Let me check that. And yeah, I think that the
- 54:29mythical neighbors were talking about that too.
- 54:30So. But those colours must match I
- 54:34guess the Zende. Close enough.
- 54:36Yeah, very, very close. If they're not exact.
- 54:40Cool. And yeah, I think this bio also
- 54:45has other awesome things that you want to see in BIOS, which
- 54:50is kind of cross faction dealings, gerunds an appearance
- 54:56here. So I think that's that it hits
- 55:04all the the boxes, this one. This is why we apart from the
- 55:08figure itself, why we fell in love with this figure from the
- 55:13start. Yeah, it is definitely the
- 55:16Sunday quadrant, so OK, cool. I maintain, even though if
- 55:20probably possibly wasn't intended when it was written and
- 55:24all that, there's got to be some link to the AFA with Sir Andrew.
- 55:31Oh yeah. Just definitely the, you know,
- 55:34the, the, the story, the the pyromantic respect.
- 55:37It's just it's perfect to somehow, you know, fit it in.
- 55:42Definitely. And yeah, I think they they
- 55:46should let Joe Vaspalo do a few more figures, maybe 1A wave one
- 55:52or one a wave. Yeah, this guy's a great,
- 55:56fabulous Yeah. Absolutely getting to do a
- 55:59dwarf. Yeah.
- 56:01Oh, yeah, absolutely. And I'm sure he has his hand in
- 56:05all the figures in a way. But, you know, give him, give
- 56:08him full control over the odd one, Yeah.
- 56:11Yeah, Jeremy's, I think Jeremy's always said on his show that
- 56:13they have an idea about what they want, and then Joe will
- 56:16just drop her an extra weapon, something to go.
- 56:18What about this? Yeah.
- 56:20And Eric's always like, yeah, go on then.
- 56:24Absolutely right. And to round us off, we have the
- 56:27Templars, starting with the plainest of planes of named
- 56:32Templars. Sir Godfrey thankfully never got
- 56:36an All Stars release, but he did get a blind box release so.
- 56:42The Templar Knights are an ancient sect that was once known
- 56:45as the Order of Etherums Temple. Once beloved by all in mythos,
- 56:51the Templars swore to protect Etheron's Temple, which was
- 56:54believed to be Etheron's final resting place and the Home to
- 56:57the Heavens Brand. But after the temple was taken
- 56:59by Necronominus many millennia ago and discovered to be empty,
- 57:04the disgraced Templars were banished from the Order of
- 57:06Etheron. They've operated clandestinely
- 57:10ever since, but now, under Sir Godfrey's leadership at Sir
- 57:14Gideon's guidance, the Templars have returned to the Order of
- 57:17Etheron. So that's the the return of the
- 57:22Templars. I assume the relic cards as
- 57:24well. Yeah.
- 57:27And did that say that I may say that I did that say the temple
- 57:30sacked millennia ago. It does, yeah.
- 57:34Because that's the first real, it was a long time ago, the
- 57:38first Great War sort of thing. I think I've seen, you know,
- 57:42it's never been stated about how long ago it was, but obviously
- 57:45that would have been post the first great wars.
- 57:47If that was many a year ago, then yeah.
- 57:51Definitely, yeah. And we have Delphina, female
- 57:58Templar, the only one. Growing up near Etheron's Temple
- 58:02in the city of Ethos, Delphina was always fascinated with the
- 58:05Templar Knights and their Holy temple as she grew.
- 58:09The fact that the Order was enigmatic, mysterious and
- 58:12operated secretly knighted Delphina's imagination and
- 58:16nourished her desire to join the Templars.
- 58:19Delphina was 19 years old when Sir Gideon Heaven's Brand re
- 58:22established the Templars and they began to recruit new
- 58:25members. Although quite young to be a
- 58:27Templar Knight, Delphina of Ethos has become a spirited and
- 58:31vital member of the Order. So I would say not, not the most
- 58:40in detail bio a little bit, I'd say a little bit generic, like
- 58:45one or two of the nick or not a little bit.
- 58:48But she has plenty of scope to have some more interesting lore.
- 58:54Yeah, you know. And she's a really good figure
- 58:56and comes with loads of accessories as.
- 58:58Well, yeah, she's another one of those figures I never got, but I
- 59:02would. And even though she's a Templar
- 59:04and I'm not super bust, I think because she's a female Templar
- 59:07and it's a bit different, I'd quite like her.
- 59:10Yeah. And again, she's got a character
- 59:12head, which always like the character heads, you know?
- 59:15Yeah, that's that's definitely one cool reason to have picked
- 59:19her up back in the day. Right now I'm going to put
- 59:23Godfrey back up, and then I'm going to put our next figure
- 59:26back up just so you can see. Show the difference.
- 59:31You're just embarrassing Godfrey now, John, it's like, whoa.
- 59:34He's even a little bit smaller. I didn't scale him properly.
- 59:38Just to make a point. All right, we got Sir Elijah.
- 59:45Raised on A4 form a farm on the open plains of Etheros, Sir
- 59:50Elijah grew up around horses and he became an equestrian whose
- 59:54skills were second to none. It is therefore no surprise that
- 59:57this young man was eventually recruited into the ranks of the
- 1:00:00Templar Emissaries, a sub sect of the Templars of Etheron.
- 1:00:04The Emissaries travel the realm carrying important messages and
- 1:00:08items at the behest of their factions leadership.
- 1:00:11In addition to his skills as a rider, so Elijah is also fluent
- 1:00:15in a variety of tongues and more than capable of defending
- 1:00:18himself and the important messages he carries.
- 1:00:24So I just realized I need to get a horse for Sir Elijah.
- 1:00:27Yeah, they need to do a special. Horse.
- 1:00:29A swift horse. Yeah.
- 1:00:32Or maybe just take some of the tack from Deacon and put him on
- 1:00:39a different horse. Yeah, I was going to say like
- 1:00:42I've got a spare Boreas thing. I'm not used at the moment.
- 1:00:45Yeah, so I'm not sure I'm going to use the ban on him.
- 1:00:48So actually this might work for Sir Elijah.
- 1:00:50I think. I think I have a spare moose
- 1:00:55Templar moose horse. He stands out in the Templar
- 1:00:58amateurs by riding the moose. Yeah, I mean look how kick ass
- 1:01:01he looks. Imagine what he looked like on a
- 1:01:03moose. It's true, actually.
- 1:01:05The moose is like throwing people out the way with his
- 1:01:07antlers and then he's coming in with that really nasty hammer,
- 1:01:10just like. I could paint the antlers in
- 1:01:13with the Templar cross and everything.
- 1:01:14The Holy Moose. There we go that.
- 1:01:18Might be? Would that be?
- 1:01:20Would that be, would that be kind of?
- 1:01:22I don't know. No, they've said maybe that's
- 1:01:26that side of things, maybe, but they've always said that the
- 1:01:28Templar thing isn't related to Templars and no, our world it's,
- 1:01:32you know, yeah, it's the cross of ether on and this sort of
- 1:01:36thing, so. Yeah, we did get a comment
- 1:01:39recently on YouTube on our All Star 6 review episode where
- 1:01:43someone said that the Horsemen did some of the crosses wrong
- 1:01:49for the Templars. And I did say that they never
- 1:01:51really meant to, you know, them to be directly related to
- 1:01:56historical Templars. And the person said, yeah, but
- 1:01:59they some of the crosses are correct.
- 1:02:02So maybe if they got them all wrong or did their own version
- 1:02:05of all them, it would be more understandable.
- 1:02:07And I kind of get that. But I think we have a little bit
- 1:02:10here of an evolution of the line, you know, that maybe at
- 1:02:13the start it wasn't as clear how they were going to do the the
- 1:02:17Templars as their own thing or whether it was just a nod to
- 1:02:21historical figures. So yeah.
- 1:02:24I think it was a bit of a capture, wasn't it, to be
- 1:02:27honest, You know, they. Look, it's also a good way to
- 1:02:30sell figures. You know, this is a very
- 1:02:33recognizable type of design. So yeah, another awesome looking
- 1:02:39Templar Look at them there. I.
- 1:02:40Think the best for in my opinion.
- 1:02:43Yeah, I think, I think I'd be there with you, there with the
- 1:02:47Sir Enoch, Sean Connery. Yes, yeah, he does.
- 1:02:52He. Well, it reminds me of it
- 1:02:54reminds me of the night from the Last Crusade.
- 1:02:58You know, in the temple. Is it a temple?
- 1:03:01It's a temple, isn't it? Right.
- 1:03:04A long serving member of the Templar Emissaries, Serenoch now
- 1:03:07leads these loyal messengers as their commander.
- 1:03:10A veteran of too many battles to count, Serenoch has never lost
- 1:03:14his faith or his purpose, and he gladly serves as a mentor to
- 1:03:18younger members of the Emissaries.
- 1:03:20Serenoch's greatest honour was being charged with delivering
- 1:03:24the message of Sir Gideon's ascension to the leadership of
- 1:03:27the Order, riding to all corners of Etheros and heralding a new
- 1:03:31dawn for this heroic faction. And that sorry, John, I'm just
- 1:03:37going to say that's interesting because if Gideon's the guy that
- 1:03:39brought them back in, how, how was he already riding around
- 1:03:43before Gideon or just as Gideon was brought into power?
- 1:03:46Oh, I wish. I took it as once Gideon was in
- 1:03:49power, he was sent off to make it known.
- 1:03:54Yeah, because that was how I took it.
- 1:03:56With the second proclamation going so Gideon's now in charge
- 1:03:59and here's one saying the Templars are OK.
- 1:04:03I can imagine that movie montage, you know, there's loads
- 1:04:06of Serena galloping through the different corners of the land,
- 1:04:10you know, and putting a scroll out and you've got very heroic
- 1:04:13kind of music, you know, going over a 2 minute little montage
- 1:04:19in the middle of the movie. I want, yeah, I want the Ether
- 1:04:22on to have a the faction, the Audrey Ether on to have a page
- 1:04:28boy who comes with a little pair of coconuts.
- 1:04:31Because that's. How I always imagine them.
- 1:04:34Yeah, really can get through this.
- 1:04:37That's very step before they need, yeah, they need a Squire
- 1:04:40as part of this faction. Yeah, yeah, I'll take a Squire.
- 1:04:43But yeah, that is a little bit like village folk, you know?
- 1:04:47It's a bit too close to it maybe.
- 1:04:50Someone someone, if they do do that, 3D print a little pair of
- 1:04:54coke half coconut halves please. And our last figure, a named
- 1:05:00figure, at least for this action, is Deacon the horse.
- 1:05:05The greatest horses of ethos of those of the Templar Emissaries.
- 1:05:09Before beginning their service to the Order, these deeds
- 1:05:12undergo an ancient ceremony at the Templar of Ether On During
- 1:05:17this ceremony, they received the blessing of the Golden Eagle,
- 1:05:20helping to protect them in their missions they will undergo in
- 1:05:23his name. The mighty steed of Serenoch.
- 1:05:26Deacon is the swiftest and bravest of all the Emissaries
- 1:05:29horses, and he's much and is as much a symbol of hope to his
- 1:05:37order as the pious knight who rides upon his back.
- 1:05:41The last one broke here. I didn't get my mouth around it,
- 1:05:46so to speak. What were you?
- 1:05:49What are you chuckling about? I just, I just, there was just
- 1:05:55the fuck out. What did it say again?
- 1:05:58Give me a second. Before beginning their service
- 1:06:00to the original. Special horse ceremony or
- 1:06:02something? Ceremony.
- 1:06:04It was like I had visions of like being sent to the dog food
- 1:06:06factory and. Run quick or.
- 1:06:11Else, Oh my God. That's it.
- 1:06:12Can you escape the dog food factory?
- 1:06:16I don't know why that came into a head to toe all it's a bit,
- 1:06:19but it did. So that is the order of Ethron.
- 1:06:23Have we anything more to say on that?
- 1:06:25How and how do we want to see this faction go forward?
- 1:06:31More figures. Squires.
- 1:06:33Squires OK, mistakes, mistakes. I think we need yeah, yeah,
- 1:06:38yeah. Slightly, you know, move away
- 1:06:40from the nights a little bit and do some of the other characters
- 1:06:43that are in there, although it would be cool to get some more
- 1:06:45soft good nights as well. I must admit that you know,
- 1:06:49whilst they're not my favourites given the soft goods as
- 1:06:52definitely, but you could do elevated them in my.
- 1:06:54Ear, you know, if you were doing a wave with a couple of ether on
- 1:06:56characters, you make it maybe do 1 deluxe nights with a couple of
- 1:06:59different options. You know, even a couple of
- 1:07:03different torsos or something like that, or torso plates those
- 1:07:08nights. Maybe some sort of unusual night
- 1:07:11as well. So like a non human night.
- 1:07:13So I never got yeah and some algard, but checker.
- 1:07:17Well, obviously for me, yeah, a shark man knight.
- 1:07:19No, no, but but just have so you know, just a a different sort of
- 1:07:24night. I mean my Templars, most of them
- 1:07:26are not human. Yeah, so something like that'd
- 1:07:28be quite cool. Well, it did say yeah.
- 1:07:31Was it Savalgard? It was the first of non human,
- 1:07:38what you call it, species into into the order.
- 1:07:41And Oprah paved the way for others.
- 1:07:43So there's room for non human characters in there definitely.
- 1:07:47Yeah, very cool. Yeah, I think I'd be kind of
- 1:07:54mistakes as what I really want to see now after reading the
- 1:07:57BIOS and even if if anyone wants to pipe in with what they think
- 1:08:02might if any of the characters are Mystics or if we've if we've
- 1:08:06just missed that, but I don't think so.
- 1:08:08Yeah, I don't think. No, no, I think they're all too
- 1:08:11heavily armoured to be a mess, yeah.
- 1:08:12Yeah, yeah, A. Paladin or a paladin?
- 1:08:16I'd like it would be cool to have another paladin that's
- 1:08:18maybe, you know, slightly different shape and size.
- 1:08:21There's enough parts there now that they can definitely make
- 1:08:26all right. So that is ether on next week we
- 1:08:31have a bumper edition of 3D Parts news.
- 1:08:35Rich, is that right? Yes, my evenings are being taken
- 1:08:39up by that. That's good.
- 1:08:42Yeah, I like doing that episode there.
- 1:08:45You go how many? What did you say?
- 1:08:48Something at 90 something. It was 90, but I've added a few
- 1:08:52more since, so it's now up to bear with me.
- 1:08:58All these damn people putting these pictures up and it's like,
- 1:09:00yeah, that's a new park. I need to include that.
- 1:09:06It is up to 98, so I'm sure 100A. 100, yeah, yeah.
- 1:09:13OK. So I'm going to have to be doing
- 1:09:15a lot of moving you along. Yes, I'll put I'll put the
- 1:09:18slideshow together and put as many on the page as I can and
- 1:09:20that sort of stuff. But yeah, you will have to
- 1:09:22gallop me along. Very good.
- 1:09:24In a special horsey ceremony, maybe?
- 1:09:26Yeah, I can get get a coconut during the week, man.
- 1:09:29You know, scoop out the coconut, eat all the nice inside, and
- 1:09:35then just keep it there are, you know, because there's some.
- 1:09:39I get distracted and turn out with the bounty and then like
- 1:09:41hitting the two bounties together.
- 1:09:47We'll have some food as some more, yeah.
- 1:09:50Can I drop another reminder to people as well that we've been
- 1:09:53in a live quiz a few, well, Sunday the 29th, a couple of
- 1:09:59weeks as I've been putting some effort into that over the last
- 1:10:01couple of nights as well sort of thing.
- 1:10:03So there are 10, if I do so much say so myself, Astounding
- 1:10:06drawings covering two different topics.
- 1:10:10So yeah, got most of the questions done.
- 1:10:12So join us for everybody. Excellent and Jeremy had a bit
- 1:10:19of news last night and he show Mal the 1st 10 years book is
- 1:10:22still on for the end of the summer.
- 1:10:24Yep. He, he said that they'd gotten
- 1:10:27the first. I don't know, I missed whether
- 1:10:31what whether he said he was first printing of it.
- 1:10:33They've got a printing that he needs to go through and have a
- 1:10:37look at. Yeah.
- 1:10:40Are not any issues. And he said he was working on
- 1:10:46the. Page 225.
- 1:10:49Yeah, he said, page 225, which I thought made me chuckle.
- 1:10:53That you're so precise about. Well, he's right in and I guess.
- 1:10:57You know, that'll be it, waiting to tell.
- 1:11:00Yeah. So you did mention something
- 1:11:03about some of the singles have got have arrived in the factory
- 1:11:08and they're shipping some of them out, but I missed.
- 1:11:11OK, the author. Oh, OK.
- 1:11:12Yeah, yeah, most of them still on the water and I'm sure they
- 1:11:15say he said that some a few bits and pieces had come in so they
- 1:11:19were I completely missed. I know this is rubbish and he's
- 1:11:24sorry. Everyone listening.
- 1:11:25This is why it's at the end. This is why.
- 1:11:28The 3D part, but it will be better next week.
- 1:11:32But yeah, so some people should expect any single orders they
- 1:11:37had to turn up. Very good.
- 1:11:39Very, very good. Yeah, Yeah.
- 1:11:42So let's see you get some figures.
- 1:11:43I don't have. I just had my all in the, my
- 1:11:45other orders are retailer. So I'm tied into that August
- 1:11:50date, I think Rich as well. Yeah.
- 1:11:52Oh yeah, I am. Oh actually no.
- 1:11:55I've got some belt packs and a couple of head packs coming from
- 1:11:594 horsemen. But in terms of figures.
- 1:12:02Is to put them on. No figures to put them on, no
- 1:12:04just the heads of the belt pack. Well, you'll have 100 figures in
- 1:12:08your in your boots. Yeah, not the right ones.
- 1:12:11Yeah, a couple 100. I wish it was that for you.
- 1:12:16Right, let's go. Stay safe out there everybody.
- 1:12:21Bye