#hedonites

[stearleart]

Keeper of secrets 24/01/24

Digital illustration depicting the infamous greater daemon of Slaanesh, The Keeper of Secrets.

[cobalt-owl]

I couldn't sleep so I did a reaction to the new slaanesh rules. Idrk why I got the sudden inspiration to make a short on it but here we are

[voxbelicosa]

Keeper of Secrets - sketchbook

[fourgods-nobrakes]

WIP Wednesday! I’ve been working on Syll’Esske slowly for a while, and they’re finally starting to get somewhere.

I love Esske’s face sculpt so much—the official paint job gives him these heavy lines on his face that downplay his cheekbones so much. I figure it has to be a “make facial detail visible across the table” thing but he’s so much prettier without that. The kind of guy who would catch a Herald’s attention.

Anyway, I gotta figure out how I want to base them, but I love them so far.

[random-fandom-writah]

The Essengast

Of all the misconceptions common among those trusted with knowledge of the Great Enemy, the idea that the Prince of Pleasure is limited to sexual deviance is one that must be dispelled It is the master of pleasure and excess in all forms. There are numerous examples of other senses, feelings, and emotions being weaponized. Most prominent among them may be the Noise Marines of the Emperor's Children, twisted heretical Astartes who blast the holy warriors of the Emperor with sonic cannons.

Lesser known, the corpse-eating court of Malcarum, the Essengast. They began as a hunting lodge of affluent nobles, searching the wilderness of the pleasure world for rare game creatures and bragging around great fires as servants prepared a banquet following each hunt.

Eventually, war came to the system. Malcarum was forced to industrialize quickly. Great hive cities rose, poisoning the water, polluting the atmosphere, and collapsing the ecosystem.

But the hunts continued.

First, it was the megafauna of the underhives, sump-kroks, and spiders the size of tanks. Then, the mutants, the parodies of humanity that fled down-hive rather than accept judgment. Eventually, the lower hives became the hunting ground. They began to hunt the people of Malcarum.

Somewhere along the line, the banquets stopped being enough for them. They would eat until they were forced to purge, then eat some more. Then, the purging slowly vanished. Now, they never had quite enough. They would still be hungry when the embers smoldered in the pits. The hunger continued, compounding until they felt on the brink of starvation, nothing able to satisfy their excessive appetites. They began to kill indiscriminately, consuming the flesh of their victims without pause. Reports indicate they stopped intentionally killing altogether, preferring to track their prey and devour them alive wherever they fell.

The Sisters of the Vermillion Flame are said to have led the cleansing of Malcarum. By then, the nobles had devolved into mobs of twisted ghouls, their pale, corpse-like flesh stretched taut over their emaciated frames, their bones growing disproportionate to their bodies, spines erupting through the skin.

Their apparent extinction has not stopped the reports of small, bestial humanoids attacking people across the sector, though no substantial proof has ever been offered up.

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I wrote this as a bit of justification to incorporate a handful of Flesheater Courts models into my fledgling Slaanesh Daemon army. I wanted to go for a bit of a cryptid feel, but I think I lost the plot a bit and missed the mark on that one.

If you like this story and want to create them yourself, great news! They're really simple. Just take Flesheater Court Ghouls, raise them slightly off the base (for height, they're slightly shorter than daemonettes), and paint them as if they were Slaanesh Daemons. If you're feeling really fancy, mix up a little green stuff, stand them up straight(ish), and sculpt in a distended stomach as if they've been eating recently and haven't digested anything yet. I'm trying to use Wrack weapons to add blades to the bones they carry and potentially some Kroot character dressing (they carry slabs of meat and knives carved from bone) to flesh them out a bit, pun intended.

[pureundilutedawesomeness]

100% complete (aside from their bases)

[leveractionlesbian]

skaven fans 🤝 slaanesh fans

snorting crack

skaven fans 🔪 slaanesh fans

becoming the fourth

chaos god

[skxrbrand]

His mane stands up, their metallic tips flaring with infernal light. The Reaper is irritated, and that's nothing unusual, but the reason.

The Tempter.

He's irritated the Tempter isn't around.

[astartes-on-ice]

I suck at taking Pictures of my minis and I really need a proper shooting spot (it was a quick decision to shoot them) and they are far away from perfect. But yeah here are my first 2 Myrmidesh Painbringer.

[farsight-the-char]

Tanky Slaanesh apparently.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Man, AoS knocking it out of the park with the flavour shenanigans

[crocodires-mini-painting]

More work on the unit of painbringers today!

[voxbelicosa]

blissbarb archer - sketchbook

[fourgods-nobrakes]

Some AoS guys, little bits of a hypothetical Hedonites army! Slaangors are really charming in general. The Lords of Pain and Hubris are brothers in the imaginary narrative campaign. I’m a little bit sad that the varnish damped down their metallics so much but I still like their colors.

[badlypainted23]

Sickleblade is done, 4 more to go!

Hedonite are really fun to paint, I'm not use to painting skin tones so any tips would be great

[nockergeek]

Finished painting the Dread Pageant. Overall, I’m happy with how they came out. Tried out a few slightly different techniques and color formulas. Some I’m happy with, others not so much, but overall I’m pleased.