Warhammer Fantasy - High Elves Chronicles of The Glorious Host Chapter 2 - Prince Tyrion


Warhammer Fantasy - High Elves

Chronicles of The Glorious Host

Chapter 2 - Prince Tyrion


Tyrion, The Defender of Ulthuan

"Though our fair homeland is beset on all sides, we shall resist, as our fathers did before us. In these dark times, as our tainted brethren ravage our shores, we stand defiant and shall emerge victorious. For we are the Asur, the true kin of Aenarion, and Ulthuan shall never fall."

Prince Tyrion


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Tyrion and his twin brother Teclis are the two foremost Asur warriors to have come from the line of Aenarion, these two twins are are the Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger of the Asur, with Teclis a weak but powerful mind and Tyrion the foremost swordsman and warrior among the Elves of Ulthuan, and possible all of Elf kind, perhaps even in the whole Warhammer Fantasy world. (FD- if the elf Propaganda is to be believed "scoff")


Background



Tyrion is one of our favourite Elven "Special" Characters in the Warhammer Fantasy lore. His martial prowess is the Ying to his twin brothers Loremaster Yang. Should you set up your  army and face this elven prince, you will know he is a threat to any mini on the Warhammer battlefield. Tyrion cannot be ignored, resplendent in his golden armour, sat astride Malhandir the finest horse in the elven realms, waving the stoic Asur ranks forward with Aenarion's own blade "Sunfang" and slaying enemy champions in combat. 



  

The dynamic model mirrors the famous stance of Napoleon in the famous painting "Napoleon Crossing the Alps", the same stance was used on Archaon, Lord of the End Times.

We don't think this is a coincidence, this elven warriors pose is surely inspired by Napoleon's famous painting "Napoleon Crossing the Alps". This makes for an evocative model on the battlefield, suitable to lead the disciplined legions of the Asur.

Interestingly, this famous painting was procured as a set of 5 to be hung in different locations in France, Spain and Italy, four where competed and differ from each other slightly, a fifth was never completed by the artist and remained incomplete in his artists workshop until his death.


Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Jaques-Louis David


Should you want to know more about Tyrion I would recommend the Warhammer Wiki link below:


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The Painting


This is an old paint scheme from the mid naughties, as you can see he is resplendent upon his goblin green base which was the basing method of choice or us at the time. As such we will just give a brief overview on the painting strategy employed.





I (The Fat Dwarf) recall being very excited by the release of this mini back in Warhammer Fantasy 6th edition. I negotiated with Gildoren to paint it for him, I was still very much on the learning curve from starting in the hobby and would eagerly paint up a dynamic character mini from any army (even the treacherous Asur!-FD).



Malhandir is an elven steed of noble origin, and as such is venerated with his own headdress 

You can see from the images that I was rigidly following the "layering" technique that was prevalent in the Games Workshop community at that time.


"Our fate brings us here and our fate sends us home! Forth! Forth now! For Ulthuan and the day of our destiny!"

Prince Tyrion


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The Image Gallery


Tyrion as seen from the Ranks..



My line work wasnt quite so good back then.. 



This "unfortunate" went the same way as the famed assassin Urian Poisonblade
(cracking story in the 4th ed Dark Elf book if you ever get a chance to read it..)



"For Ulthuan and the day of our destiny!"

Gildoren and The Fat Dwarf



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