Let's just say I know someone, and it's the first time it has payed off with this type of stuff, and as a collector of all things Tzeentch this excites me a great deal.

*faints*

If the Tzeentch content is anything like what Silver tower gave us, that box is going to murder my wallet.

I can't make the picture scroll down to the contents!

Someone give me a job, darn it, I'm going to need a lot of disposable income when this hits.

Crikey... It's beautiful!

Did this certain someone give any indication on a timeframe for this beauty to make it's... appearance?

+1 internet biscuit/cookie/sugary currency of choice for anyone able to find the contents!

From the picture it does look like mostly Silver Tower type Tzeentch stuff vs. a new, more spellcasty Sigmarine... chamber or chapter or whatever they call them.

it would be cool if they kept the existing starter as well.

Does anyone remember this fake leak from a while back? I hope the new leak is true because I am desperate for new Tzeentch stuff but I am dubious about the quality of the art on this box.

I only wished it wasn't another instance of "X vs. Stormcast". Like Stormcast needed more options... I'm already bored of playing against them in tournaments.

Chikout wrote:
Does anyone remember this fake leak from a while back? I hope the new leak is true because I am desperate for new Tzeentch stuff but I am dubious about the quality of the art on this box.

My first thought too. A user with no history posts an image taken in such a way that any small errors in photoshop will be hidden or more easily attributed to being a photo of a screen, and there appears to be little to no skepticism over its veracity?

I'm not dismissing it, but I'd probably be a little more incredulous until something corroborating happens along.

I hope the Stormcast mage isn't like the art. Three of the four foot characters all have the same pose. Stormcast need something more dynamic than staff weapon in right hand, hand weapon held aloft in left. A pose like the plastic Space Marine Librarian would be awesome, blasting something with his staff.

Hell, the Lord Veritant is already just a head and hand swap of the Castellant.

You know I have this large pile of Storm cast gathering. By the time this is all said and done, I will inadvertently have an entire army... LOL

Chikout wrote:
Does anyone remember this fake leak from a while back? I hope the new leak is true because I am desperate for new Tzeentch stuff but I am dubious about the quality of the art on this box.

There are similarities but what makes the above leaked image different is it has never before seen art with many new models seemingly depicted. The Stormcast wizard with a mini Hurricanum on a staff being one and the Chaos dudes being the others. It looks cool. I hope it's true :-)

Well, I certainly hope it's true anyway!

Looks genuine enough to me. Awesome!

The other problem I have is this. If you are going to leak something, why not the hard to fake new minis? Instead we get the easy to fake artwork. Again I hope this is true, but I suspect this is fan art.
Edit. The copy is not good either.

That it is full of new characters and models makes me think this is real. I for one am hoping this is real, this would be just incredible.

One way to know for sure is if Warhammer TV acknowledges this or not. If they dont theres a good possibility that its fake, although since it shows no models they may not feel the need to show clearer photos.

I'm on board the fake train. Decent job but even the more cartoony recent GW artwork is better and they don't do such awkward angles on the box renders/shots.

Stormcasts...again? SERIOUS!?

At the very least we'd hopefully get some new troop types for the Stormcast if it does turn out true.

Seems a waste to include them again. Why not some newly revamped Elves or Dwarfs instead?

2 new factions would mean double the chances of interested parties I would think.

RazorEdge wrote:
Stormcasts...again? SERIOUS!?

As sceptical as I am of the leak, get used to this. This will probably be the pattern going forward.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
At the very least we'd hopefully get some new troop types for the Stormcast if it does turn out true.

Seems a waste to include them again. Why not some newly revamped Elves or Dwarfs instead?

2 new factions would mean double the chances of interested parties I would think.

2 new factions would mean double the chances of interested parties...but also would likely cut into the sales of whatever came next for those armies. That was a big thing with the Stormcast, people didn't buy the individual boxes/characters(because of crazy high prices) when possible because why would you?

You could get the starter set components for cheaper.

It's also possible that this won't be a "traditional" starter set, but rather more like the Stormclaw and Deathstorm sets. A collection of existing stuff for sale with new and "exclusive" character frames.

The quality of the art looks a bit too low for a box cover, but then I guess a lot of GW's all colour art has been lower quality.

That looks like genuine GW art, it's looking low quality because it was taken off a screen with a phone camera. I think it looks legit - if it is a fake, I'm curious where they got the artwork.

Huh? That looks completely legit. Pretty exciting as well. Guess my Steamhead will have to wait.

Chikout wrote:

RazorEdge wrote:
Stormcasts...again? SERIOUS!?

As sceptical as I am of the leak, get used to this. This will probably be the pattern going forward.

Yup. They are the Space Marines of AoS. I would be surprised to see them absent from a starter set.

I think the box art is awesome... does that mean I have low standards?

I would say this is the Third best art with Stormcast Eternals I have seen.

First and second coming from Silver Tower.

Hoping this is real.
The text describes it as "an excellent starter set and introduction to the Age of Sigmar". So are we looking at exclusive mono pose models like the current starter, or will it be more like 40k's Death masque with a couple of mono pose SC and the rest of the models are the main line kits?

FWIW this looks very much like it was a picture taken of a computer screen rather than a white dwarf. And if someone faked this its a very good fake, not because of what's right but because of what's different. A fake would probably have gold stormcasts on it, the art of the tzeentch models would probably be more distinct (look!! the stuff from the other box!!), and the name would probably be better. Not saying its for sure real but if I had to bet...

Its fake . The text is not centered with the box art

Shouldnt the logo have a TM and copyright mark? ala

 streetsamurai wrote:
Its fake . The text is not centered with the box art

Yeah it is...

GW do use that angle for boxes, and the comparison is good, the only thing that looks a little off is the font size and positioning of the bottom strap line, which I'd assume would follow a template as closely as all the other logos etc.

It looks interesting, and it might be an unfinished mock up, as it hasn't been released yet.

I like that Stormcast getting his face and chest ripped out by tentacles. Brings warmth to my heart.

Why do we need more Stormcast in a starter set ? Didn't we have enough in the first AOS starter set ?

It could very well be a mock up, final changes still pending.

 Sammoth wrote:
Why do we need more Stormcast in a starter set ? Didn't we have enough in the first AOS starter set ?

Same reason why we need marines in every version of the 40k starter ever.

A few more thoughts on the Stormcast. The hero in the top left corner is in a pose that is extremely similar to the Lord Relictor from the existing starter, could be another Castellant/Veritant situation? The Liberator shield has the twin tailed comet design on it. That's not on the shields in there box but is on one of the upgrade kits. There's a Stormcast in the middle holding some kind of icon that doesn't look like the ones carried by the existing Vexillor or Veritant models. Given GW's recent aversion to artistic license with there artwork I'd say we are looking at least two new Stormcast hero models and either new mono pose Liberators and Judicators, or the regular kits packed with the Celestial Warbringers upgrade sprue.

Looks like a starter set for Age of Sigmar similiar to Death Masque - and if it is fake, GW should hire the artist

The difference between Stormcasts and Marins is - Marines are popular, Stormcast not.

RazorEdge wrote:
The difference between Stormcasts and Marins is - Marines are popular, Stormcast not.

Is there any evidence for that though or is it just 'I and other vocal people on the internet don't like them, so they must be unpopular'?

Most people I know IRL love them, except those who hate SM also. I do too, and wish they had an official KoW army list.

RazorEdge wrote:
The difference between Stormcasts and Marins is - Marines are popular, Stormcast not.

They literally killed WHFB so they could get the 40k Marine players to make a Stormcast army. From what I've seen, that part succeeded... insofar as every other AoS army is Stormcast, and their lack of popularity stems more from Age of Sigmar not being popular.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Most people I know IRL love them, except those who hate SM also. I do too, and wish they had an official KoW army list.

No thanks. One thing I liked about WHFB and Kings of War is how there's not really a dominant, overplayed army of generic super-soldier dudes I know I'll be put up against 80% of my games.

Those suggesting it's fake because of the positioning of text or lack of trademark icons might want to bear in mind that that isn't a photo of the physical box. It's quite clearly (as with the AoS starter also shown in this thread), a mocked-up image using the designs that appear on the box.

Again Stormcraps vs Chaos minions?
OMG this is noa Age of Sigmar... this is Age of Boredom...

OK WH is dead frever ofr me...

More money to buy Panoceania mimiatures...

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Most people I know IRL love them, except those who hate SM also. I do too, and wish they had an official KoW army list.

No thanks. One thing I liked about WHFB and Kings of War is how there's not really a dominant, overplayed army of generic super-soldier dudes I know I'll be put up against 80% of my games.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Apart from Warriors of Chaos you mean?

The percentage of armies that were WoC compared to the rest was nothing close to the percentage of Space Marine armies vs the rest of 40k. They also had to share that spot with the High Elves.

In terms of models, WoC's super human dudes are at least relegated to about three units (Warriors, Chosen, Knights) excluding Heroes/Lords, took up only one army in the entire range and had far, far, far, more character than the eleven or so varieties of colour chart loyalists- I mean, Stormcasts.

This would be ordered without.knowing the contents. I want a small Tzeentch band for a battle of all four gods and ST content is not that impressive on its own. My brother wants Sigmarines. Wayland/ebay has the current starter for a low-ish €€€ amount AND christmas soon AND I get money for a whiplash injury after being rearended.


And god helps my wallet if Nurgle is put in such a box with rotting marauders or plague zombies. I won't ever have enough of those two things.

Fake.
The perspective of the box is off and it is not spelled "Fate Weaver" but "Fateweaver"...

 kendoka wrote:
Fake.
The perspective of the box is off and it is not spelled "Fate Weaver" but "Fateweaver"...

Again, that isn't actually the box, just like the AoS box shown in this thread isn't. Compare the perspective on both and you'll see they're the same. The Fateweaver thing could very easily be a typo, since it looks like a shot from White Dwarf.

If it's fake, someone did a pretty amazing job on the artwork....

That's definitely fake. The text below the box sounds like it's written by a 17 year old.

The illustrations are also below part for GW cover art.

 kendoka wrote:
Fake.
The perspective of the box is off and it is not spelled "Fate Weaver" but "Fateweaver"...

Ok this seals it. Gw would never miswrite one their own names on official copy.
The long wait for AOS Tzeentch continues.

Thommy H wrote:

 kendoka wrote:
Fake.
The perspective of the box is off and it is not spelled "Fate Weaver" but "Fateweaver"...

Again, that isn't actually the box, just like the AoS box shown in this thread isn't. Compare the perspective on both and you'll see they're the same. The Fateweaver thing could very easily be a typo, since it looks like a shot from White Dwarf.

If it's fake, someone did a pretty amazing job on the artwork....

I'm sorry, but "quality of the art" isn't a valid argument on its own merit. If it's fake, it certainly is a good one, but just google "Warhammer fan art" and you'll see any number of images with artists of perfectly adequate skill levels to produce something like this.

Nah just seems fake as

As someone pointed out the trademark should be on the title no?

For me it's because, well, I know some of the new artwork for AoS can be questionable but this just looks bad especially for a cover art, like the guy in the back with the tiny ass head and the Tzeentch fellas just look odd.

As well, most, if not all warhammer art now features art of the actual models, rather than an artist's own interpretation and I don't see their being a Sigmarite wielding a staff with floating planets around it and the horrors in the background look odd compared to the models we have now.

I just think someone made some fan art and tried to see how official it could look, it's the internet so its bound to be true. Don't get me wrong I'd love their to be more Tzeentch....but yeah....no.

I love the look of the Stormcaster on the top left, and the general idea of it being a big Tzeentch boost. I hate having to keep building the same few models. Time for some new kits!! Can't wait, combined with the new Magnus kit that I'll turn into a huge Greater Demon . . . good time for my Tzeentch forces.

 Starfarer wrote:
That's definitely fake. The text below the box sounds like it's written by a 17 year old.

The illustrations are also below part for GW cover art.

As opposed to the usual Shakespear level marketing blurbs GW usually have? And as for bellow par art? That's kinda subjective but IMO its on par with the Death masque and Stormcloud attack artwork. Not that I'm saying its definitely on the level, I just wouldn't discount it out of hand(plus I really want this to be real )

#TeamFake

Just look at the bow sigmarite with the itsy bisty head, the mashed up chest armour and the Tyrannosaurus Rex leg, come on son.

Chikout wrote:

 kendoka wrote:
Fake.
The perspective of the box is off and it is not spelled "Fate Weaver" but "Fateweaver"...

Ok this seals it. Gw would never miswrite one their own names on official copy.
The long wait for AOS Tzeentch continues.

Not sure if you're serious here Chikout...

GW absolutely miswrites things. All the time lol.

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Starfarer wrote:
That's definitely fake. The text below the box sounds like it's written by a 17 year old.

The illustrations are also below part for GW cover art.

As opposed to the usual Shakespear level marketing blurbs GW usually have? And as for bellow par art?

Not saying GW has the best marketing writers, but they would never mention "the year of Tzeentch" something we've only seen it referred to in rumors as a genreal term. They also wouldn't mention previous sets, because they want you interested in buying this one, not wondering "what came before this?" if you're a new player.

It's just all off. It is written poorly and sounds fake. It reads like a fan would write it, not a marketing team.

And yeah the art is below par. Looks at the details, especially on the stormcasts. They shouldn't be so flat. Not enough depth. It passes at arms length, but closer inspections shows it to be subpar art. GW doesn't put out crap art for their boxsets.

This thread will be pretty funny if it turns out to be real.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
This thread will be pretty funny if it turns out to be real.

And I almost put the caveat, I could be wrong about the art, but I'll happily eat crow if I'm wrong.

Honestly, if someone can find that piece of artwork online somewhere, then I'll agree it's fake. Otherwise someone created it specially - making sure to include several new model concepts! - just to mock up into something they then took a photo of to post online and trick people. Then, having gone to the effort of matching GW's art style, fonts and general presentation for products of this kind, they left in a typo in the copy.

Occam's razor says it's real given the current evidence.

I dunno. I DO know GW is purposefully flushing out leaks with false info and i DO know this would rock, either way.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

Chikout wrote:

 kendoka wrote:
Fake.
The perspective of the box is off and it is not spelled "Fate Weaver" but "Fateweaver"...

Ok this seals it. Gw would never miswrite one their own names on official copy.
The long wait for AOS Tzeentch continues.

Not sure if you're serious here Chikout...

GW absolutely miswrites things. All the time lol.

Of course yes, but not their official names on their official copy of a new product. Of course its possible but when you add it to the proportion altering art (something which gw avoids), the poor copy ( a convoluted plan sounds bad not devious) which conveniently stops just before listing the contents, the lack of photos of new minis, the fact that the 'new' minis in the art are all unimaginative variations on existing minis etc , you get a pretty convincing argument.
I would dearly love for a big Tzeentch box set to be a real thing. I have not bought anything since silver tower because I have been saving my money to build an Arcanites army, but this is not it.

Occam's razor says it's real given the current evidence.

Given there was a whole leaked ruleset prior to 6th Edition being released, that's a really shaky assumption based on one poor resolution picture.

"A fan made it" is just as simple an explanation for that one image as "a Swedish person with no prior posting history actually knows someone with access to GW's studio or other high level creative outlet who is comfortable enough to take their phone out and take a picture of a monitor without worrying about being seen and possibly getting fired and sending it to them."

Lady Atia gave her opinion on the veracity of the starter on her blog:

Lady Atia wrote:From what I know, there is nothing AoS major on the horizon for 2016. And I'm not aware of a boxed game called "Lords of Light & Champions of Change".

Besides that - the art looks rubbish, and not in line with GW's new tzeentch style (imo). They kind of have a library for tzeentch stuff these days. Same with khorne, stormcasts, nurgle. They all use common elements (and infact, they can re-use whole sprues or elements from them now) all saved for CAD use.

Last but not least, I can't see a R or TM there. To give you a comparison with the picture from the AoS starter taken from the GW webstore ...

Remember when people saw the ripped box of Magnus and started shouting PFFFT thats so fake! obv photoshop, etc etc etc.

This looks like a digital mockup of a box, not and actual 3d product, so I see no fault in it being incomplete (missing TM and other wording). Suddenly we're all photoshop experts now?

I for one can't wait for some new Tzeentch models.

RazorEdge wrote:Stormcasts...again? SERIOUS!?

Yeah more space marines. While I finally stopped calling them sigmarines, it is getting tiring seeing space marines ALL the time now. Getting into fantasy was suppose to get away from that, but now sadly it looks like the only way to get away from it is to start Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit or going to another gaming system/company now.

Starfarer wrote:That's definitely fake. The text below the box sounds like it's written by a 17 year old.

The illustrations are also below part for GW cover art.

What just like the writing GW has now? I don't find GW writing to be all that good right now, and it looks like everything is being done by a 17 year old. So maybe you just confirmed it's real.

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Joking aside now, what is this suppose to be? A new starter set?

I believe so, if it turns out true. Though Lady Atia's doubt really makes me believe it's either fake or GW taking a more hands on approach with leaks. (I.e, screwing with us)

Thommy H wrote:
Honestly, if someone can find that piece of artwork online somewhere, then I'll agree it's fake. Otherwise someone created it specially - making sure to include several new model concepts! - just to mock up into something they then took a photo of to post online and trick people. Then, having gone to the effort of matching GW's art style, fonts and general presentation for products of this kind, they left in a typo in the copy.

Occam's razor says it's real given the current evidence.

Well, people have done more for less. Some people have too much time on their hands.

Also, I definitely get "aww, more Stormcasts?" but at least the rumored premium box sets will add variety, so really AoS is getting five boxsets if this ends up being real.

Also, looking forward to someone making a joke about that bottom left Stormcast and that's what happens when you watch too much anime.

WHERE IS THE DEATH STUFF!!!!!!

I'm not a reliable Rumor source or anything, but I broached the subject with my FLGS owner tonight and he smiled and said it was going to be similar to the original starter set.

It could have been him yanking my chain as I love Tzeentch models and stuff. Bucket of salt and all that jazz.

Sooner or later WarhammerTV is gonna bust some video about this leak if there is any truth to it.

Atia said there's nothing major for AoS coming in 2016, but if this is real it's obviously been leaked early and all the text reads as though it's next year anyway ('the year of change is upon us' probably doesn't just mean the rest of November and December, and 'this upcoming year'). And the trademark icons as said before might just not be present as it's just a mockup. I could see it going either way, and I'd be happy if it's real.

Here is yet another nail in the coffin of this rumour. In the copy it says 'models' but GW always says citadel miniatures. ( check the product descriptions on the website.)

Chikout wrote:
Here is yet another nail in the coffin of this rumour. In the copy it says 'models' but GW always says citadel miniatures. ( check the product descriptions on the website.)

It all fits in line with it being a mock-up though.

 VeteranNoob wrote:
I dunno. I DO know GW is purposefully flushing out leaks with false info [...]

That's a good point

I think this image could be from a GW order form, their website's retailer section or an email GW sends to retailers. All three have been poorly worded in the past including typos and wrong information like "GSC will be the first allies for Tyranids" when Overkill went into preorder.

Or this is deliberate GW marketing to keep the interest high but not actually showing the product to be released. It was pointed out that the Magnus box-photo and the WarhammerTV video about Magnus were taken in a similiar trashcan. Warzone Fenris II was released in February, and we had several hints from GW like the Silver Towers in space artwork.

I feel all this is to keep people curious: "More Tzeentch models will come, keep your ear on the tracks".

On the other hand Death Masque and the concept of new, multipart sprues in a campaign starter set was quite a surprise back in September. Being able to buy the new multipart Death Watch miniatures at a discount from early on had only been done once before - with Betrayal at Calth. And this here could be an identical approach, with new Tzeentch and new character models but 'old' Stormcast sprues in one set for 125 EUR.

While I think this image still has a chance to be for a real product I tend more towards it is 'a fake'. But the effort put into an artwork and a box mockup is beyond what ordinary folks can pull off - especially at that quality. As viral marketing it worked well though and would be a good use of your department. It was posted basically everywhere and keeps people talking about new Tzeentch releases. What would GW want more? If they had some artwork commissioned that didnt make it into a product, they could use it for those 'leaks' and it would serve a purpose that way.

I guess it really comes down to the artwork source. If its existing GW art or fan art then yeah fake. But if it is new art than its either true or some one has gone above and beyond for the sake of a hoax.

Most of GW's freelance artists show their work on Artstation and Deviantart.

As someone who puts together Age of Sigmar books designed to look as official as possible, I am in awe if this is a fake. It is masterful and I want to know who did it and follow them on social media :-)

If this is real upcoming GW art pinched from the web before anyone has seen it, that still means we are getting all the models depicted, just not in one box together.

It's fake. The artist posted the full art on FB and said they'd faked it.

I'm leaning towards it being a fake, but it's a tossup.
The weird angle is used for real products, and any spelling errors and inconsistencies can be explained by it being a early mockup.

Anyone claiming that the artwork is too bad for it to be a real product though . Wtf? This is AoS we're talking about. They've churned out a lot worse than this.

 ImAGeek wrote:
It's fake. The artist posted the full art on FB and said they'd faked it.

Have you got a link to the posts?

 ImAGeek wrote:
It's fake. The artist posted the full art on FB and said they'd faked it.

Link?

Wraithwing wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
It's fake. The artist posted the full art on FB and said they'd faked it.

Have you got a link to the posts?

There's no share option, I screenshotted it:

Yep, I've just seen this on Twitter.



The OP is the creator of the art. I have to say, dude, you did an amazing job, especially your concept designs for new models. I hope this becomes a powerful part of your portfolio!

If the artist is reading this, I just want to apologise for slating it before. It looked bad on the box mock up all cropped up and stuff but seeing the big picture there. love it, can see all the details now. I feel really bad about knocking a guy's work especially since its 100x better than what I could probably hope to produce and I was annoyed tbh that someone tried to 'trick' people so sorry if my comments stung you a bit.

If you posted that big picture with the logos put on I would have believed it, seriously the art looks awesome seeing all the little details now and the although the heads are a tinsy winsy bit smaller than usual, the proportions don't look off now.

#TeamFake prevails though.

Noooo! Oh well, good job on the convincing fake I suppose

Awesome art from the OP.

The Purple/brown of the Stormcasts makes them seem much more human to me then the usual solid gold.

Sad that it a fake though...

No bad feelings, next time show the hq image first as the art is benefitting from it quite a lot

Well played... well played indeed...

Okay, cool. That's all I needed. Shown properly you can see the differences between this and the GW house style.

I don't get why someone would fake a box to troll the tiny number of people who'd care, but if this week has taught me anything it's that human behaviour is often hard to make sense of.

I posted this and pictures on the "Age of Sigmar Fans" Facebook page a little while ago, I figured I might as well leave it here as well. If you are interested in seeing the artwork in full with a couple closeups and some of my other artwork here is the link to my portfolio: https://antonback.squarespace.com

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I’m so sorry you guys :( The new Tzeentch vs. Stormcasts box is a lie straight from the depths of the crystal labyrinth, nothing more than an illusion sent forth to toy with the emotions of hopeful hobbyists.
How do I know this? Well… I am the false prophet who spun this lie. Now, please lower your pitchforks and torches and let me try to explain as best as I can.
I started this painting simply as a study to try and tackle the feel of a GW AoS box cover, it was a challenge I put myself up to and something I did to spice up my portfolio. But, t’was not long before the beaked devil on my shoulder began feeding me dubious ideas, temptations and grandiose fantasies of me being the shadowy puppet master who would use people's hopes and dreams against themselves, just to stir up the pot.
This evil imp with it’s silver tongue firmly in and around my ear teased my curiosity, “How quickly will it spread?”, “Will it fool anyone?” and “What kinds of reactions will this get?”. At this point, I was already lost, the dark God of lies was using me like His puppet.
Yesterday I finished the painting early in the morning. I immediately started working on a fake leak, something that would look convincing, more so than just slapping the AoS logo on the painting and putting it out there. I was inspired by the previous fake leak but determined to make mine more convincing, the original artwork was a good start. Another big inspiration was the quite recent Sombra leak for Overwatch.
I decided to “leak” it on DakkaDakka, partially because the News and Rumours thread is quite popular but also because my account there is old and not tied to my real name or background in any obvious way, it seemed like the least suspicious of my options.
Immediately after the first comment popped up, the guilt hit me.
“*faints*
If the Tzeentch content is anything like what Silver tower gave us, that box is going to murder my wallet.”
-His Master’s Voice [DCM] - DakkaDakka
I had instilled false hope in this person, given him the promise of something he wanted while knowing he would never receive it.
Then the comments kept coming, the speculation started, some people very sceptical, and some naive, probably driven by their wishful thinking and hope that it would be real.
The guilt didn’t recede, and to make things worse, now I was under the looking glass. In the process of making the final touches to my fake leak I had gotten sloppy, and messed up on minor details like trademark stamps, putting the title text slightly too high up and the pretty huge blunder of writing “Fate Weaver” instead of “Fateweaver” in the description. These things however were not enough to completely give it away it seemed. And what seemed to keep the speculations going was the hopes and dreams of fellow hobbyists on the forum.
In an attempt to get my mind off of things for a second I opened up my Facebook on my phone, to my horror, there it was. My lie had already made it’s way to the AoS fan page, and now my favorite community was infected, it was no longer contained within the salty and hostile confinements of DakkaDakka’s forums, but spreading, and spreading fast. Before I knew it, it was on my local gaming groups FB page, and it even popped up elsewhere on other facebook pages, who knows how far the snake has slithered.
My goal from the beginning was to see if it would make it to BoLS, and then I would reveal the sad truth. Well, there it was, staring at me, and the comments section had already started stirring with life.
At that point I was filled with relief, and my heavy remorse finally lightened by the knowledge that in the morning I would come out with the truth. The curse that I had put on myself would be lifted, and the only thing remaining was gaining the forgiveness of my beloved community, and maybe regain their trust. And hopefully I would start to heal from the wounds made by comments like “rubbish artwork”.
But, even though mean comments about the artwork did sting a bit, they were nothing compared to the warm feeling left on my cold, tzeentch corrupted heart by comments like this one by Warhams-77 on DakkaDakka:
“Looks like a starter set for Age of Sigmar similiar to Death Masque - and if it is fake, GW should hire the artist”
And I agree GW SHOULD hire me, although I may not deserve to have that dream fulfilled after crushing the dreams of others, the dreams of my fellow hobbyists no less.
And, well, here we are.

Weird thing to do, dude.

I'm sure there's an important lesson here.

Somewhere.


Nice art BTW.