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Greets peeps.

If you’re unfamiliar with Burrows & Badgers. let me welcome you to the Burrow.
It’s a fantasy skirmish game of Anthro-animals that’s really full of character and charm, with miniatures second to none. I wholeheartedly recommend you check it out and invest in something beautiful.

My story here focuses primarily on the skies above Northymbra where a murder of crows is invading alongside a large rat army. The muster of able-bodied birds has been ordered and our heroes embark upon a somewhat desperate air campaign in support of the local warbands.

Wierdly though I’m telling this one visually. I would normally write a story and illustrate a bit but this time I’m trying something different. So I hope it works.

Updates will likely be irregular but bear with me while I explore a new method.

Thanks for following along with…

Looks awesome!

Sorry KK, I’m a bit slow on the actual content.


These are some of the bad guys. The Crows, the eponymous Murder.

And these are our heroes seeking to turn that collective noun into a verb.


I still don’t have names for this lot. Or indeed a very clear idea of the whole story. Just a setting, some moments along the way and an idea of where it’s going.

The Massacre of the Innocents

How the Mighty Have Fallen

Death From Above

I love the art style and the scene where the duck mother and her child got killed made me cry a bit. I'm a big Beatrix Potter fan.

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 Kilkrazy wrote:
I love the art style and the scene where the duck mother and her child got killed made me cry a bit. I'm a big Beatrix Potter fan.

Thanks KK. I can imagine many a Beatrix Potter fan weeping at this story. It’s a bit grim to be fair and not exactly suitable for BP’s target audience.

It’s a funny thing when you start comparing various anthro-animal fictional worlds. You get into all sorts of distinctions and specifications. People often talk about Burrows & Badgers compared to Redwall, or Mouse Guard, or Wind in the Willows too.

Where in Beatrix Potter the animals wear clothes and walk upright and behave like people, they are still the size of regular animals and humans exist. In B&B the animals are human-sized (though there are still larger and smalller animals) and replace the humans altogether and the role that animals play in our society is largely occupied by insects. There are knights mounted on Beetles.

It comes into the way we build terrain too, the scale of a mouse-house is a small cottage not a flower pot. When I’m drawing, the pink pigeon arriving at the harbour isn’t getting off a floating barrel-boat and walking among the feet of humans like he might be in a Beatrix Potter story, he’s walking alone the folks in the dock with a full sized boat behind and a brick wall, beside which he doesn’t measure to the height of two bricks, but stands as tall as a man.

Anyway, I’m glad you’re enjoying the story, if sadly at times, and hope you continue to be moved by it.

Septimus Fulius Septimi Filius Magicis

One for Sorrow

Swift Retribution