Black insectile gunships descending on columns of azure flame and battered civilian lighters with hulls bedecked with human body parts and daubed with strange symbols shuddered to the ground. From the first came black-robed Mechanicus bearing macabre weapons, robotic spider-skulls scuttling before them and multi-headed battle-automata, each large enough to dwarf a Legiones Astartes Dreadnought, grinding after them in their wake. But as outlandish and sinister these ‘Dark Mechanicum’ undoubtedly were, the wasted, scarecrow figures that issued from the charnel bedecked lighters carried with them such a palpable aura of horror and sickening power that even the hardened Space Marines drew back wearily where they walked. They were the witch-priests of Davin and the taint of the Warp hung heavily around them like an unseen, worm-ridden shroud.
Now that I’ve finished painting my Sons of Horus for the upcoming P500-Aleatoris match I am free to paint some random stuff. The Forge World event exclusive miniature of the Davinite Lodge Priest is a must have for every Sons of Horus or Word Bearers player. As you can read above (an excerpt from FW’s Book ‘Betrayal’) the Davinite Priests have had an appearance on the battlefield of Isstvan III. Unfortunately there are no rules and I have yet to get an idea how I could use this model in the game.
The Davinite Priest of the Serpent Lodge.
“Lisssten Tarron, Chaosss isss ssstrong!”