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 Breotan wrote:

 Cream Tea wrote:
It has to be if it's going to be a regular-sized candle in 40k, which I think it is.

What makes you say this? Seems more likely it's AoS. If it were 40k, I'd sooner ascribe it to Dark Angels than anyone else.

Oh sure, I just tend to forget Age of Sigmar exists. I was mostly referring to the scale, which is the same in both games.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It's the shape of the thing, and that it seems to be pointing in the same direction as the flame.

That’s more to do with the constraints of a two-part mould than anything else.

Well, after Admech, IG, Eldar, and Nids all end up getting 'light' releases, I'd say we're probably due for a full scale release. I'd put my money on either Dark Angels or Adeptus Ministorum/Sisters/Inquisition/Agents of the Imperium release. Knowing GW, I'd probably lean a fair bit closer to Dark Angels on this one.

AoS is always a possibility, but I get the feeling GW wants to ride the 40k wave throughout the rest of the year.

My bet is on Adeptus Ministorium or Inquistion. Maybe Undead ir AOS, but it looks a bit too clean for that.

I mean, the Inquisition and Friends Family Funtime Hour needs and deserves the attention more than any other faction in the game has in the history of Warhammer 40k right now, and it would be a prime time to drop them, but I get the feeling that GW's animosity to the faction and the people that like it is far too high to let that actually happen.

Remember, they represent the absolute most indulgent and surreal of 40k's grimdark, absurdist fetishist glory days, in an era where GW keeps trying to whitewash their property and its image.

Aye, jokes and memes aside lets be 1000% real here - it's not Sisters/the Ecclesiarchy, and it's highly unlikely to be Inquisition. It'll be something for AoS, or something wholly new for 40K like those daft Adeptus Retconicus "militant historians" GW had Rowboat invent.

If I'm wrong nobody will be happier, but I doubt I am.

 Fafnir wrote:
I mean, the Inquisition and Friends Family Funtime Hour needs and deserves the attention more than any other faction in the game has in the history of Warhammer 40k right now, and it would be a prime time to drop them, but I get the feeling that GW's animosity to the faction and the people that like it is far too high to let that actually happen.

Remember, they represent the absolute most indulgent and surreal of 40k's grimdark, absurdist fetishist glory days, in an era where GW keeps trying to whitewash their property and its image.

Whitewash?

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FW-OpenDay-Nec2jrx.jpg

absolutely absurd statement to make.There have also been aos khorne guys and GSC. Most representations are made when painting You clearly have no idea as to why the Inquisition 'and friends' haven't been done yet. Someone once made a comment that GW were sexist because they had not remade/updated to plastic the Sisters of Battle...

It could be from anything, we;ve been massively surprised by some of the things GW has done in recent years, I dont think anything is off the table

Inquisitor Greyfax has a candle on her hat, so it could very well be something 40K, related to inquisition/ecclesiasty.
Some type of magician for AoS is more likely, but still, there's hope for the gothic grimdark.

fresus wrote:
Inquisitor Greyfax has a candle on her hat, so it could very well be something 40K, related to inquisition/ecclesiasty.
Some type of magician for AoS is more likely, but still, there's hope for the gothic grimdark.

True, we will seen in due time

 Inquisitor Kallus wrote:
Whitewash?

I'm pretty certain that, in this particular case, whitewash as a term applies to supposed attempts by GW to sanitize the more extreme elements of the setting - Slaanesh, techno bondage, nuns in space, etc.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Aye, jokes and memes aside lets be 1000% real here - it's not Sisters/the Ecclesiarchy, and it's highly unlikely to be Inquisition. It'll be something for AoS, or something wholly new for 40K like those daft Adeptus Retconicus "militant historians" GW had Rowboat invent.

If I'm wrong nobody will be happier, but I doubt I am.

I don't.

I mean, that's an awfully thin reed to lean upon there!

But I guess that's what's "fun" about these snippets they send out?

 Inquisitor Kallus wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
I mean, the Inquisition and Friends Family Funtime Hour needs and deserves the attention more than any other faction in the game has in the history of Warhammer 40k right now, and it would be a prime time to drop them, but I get the feeling that GW's animosity to the faction and the people that like it is far too high to let that actually happen.

Remember, they represent the absolute most indulgent and surreal of 40k's grimdark, absurdist fetishist glory days, in an era where GW keeps trying to whitewash their property and its image.

Whitewash?

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FW-OpenDay-Nec2jrx.jpg

absolutely absurd statement to make.There have also been aos khorne guys and GSC. Most representations are made when painting You clearly have no idea as to why the Inquisition 'and friends' haven't been done yet. Someone once made a comment that GW were sexist because they had not remade/updated to plastic the Sisters of Battle...

It could be from anything, we;ve been massively surprised by some of the things GW has done in recent years, I dont think anything is off the table

he didn't mean white wash in that context. He meant it in the context of trying to make the setting more kid friendly by removing or lessoning the more morally questionable elements of the "good guys" (Ie, the Inquisition and Sisters' habit of setting people on fire if they don't entirely follow the Imperial Creed)

 Inquisitor Kallus wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
I mean, the Inquisition and Friends Family Funtime Hour needs and deserves the attention more than any other faction in the game has in the history of Warhammer 40k right now, and it would be a prime time to drop them, but I get the feeling that GW's animosity to the faction and the people that like it is far too high to let that actually happen.

Remember, they represent the absolute most indulgent and surreal of 40k's grimdark, absurdist fetishist glory days, in an era where GW keeps trying to whitewash their property and its image.

Whitewash?

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FW-OpenDay-Nec2jrx.jpg

absolutely absurd statement to make.There have also been aos khorne guys and GSC. Most representations are made when painting You clearly have no idea as to why the Inquisition 'and friends' haven't been done yet. Someone once made a comment that GW were sexist because they had not remade/updated to plastic the Sisters of Battle...

It could be from anything, we;ve been massively surprised by some of the things GW has done in recent years, I dont think anything is off the table

The fact that the one majority female army is the one that has been the most marginalised and ignored, is not a good image no matter how you slice it.

I think 'sexist' is the wrong word. But GW has been very poor with female representation in their games.

I think the previous peacock feather and this candle ads up to a classic scribe type of guy.

The design of the candleholder has a much more "fantasy" vibe than the ones used in 40K, at least in my opinion. It probably is something AOS-related.

Regarding the "kid friendly" discussion, let us remember that we still have Commissars shooting people in the head, flamethrowers, GK Purifiers, and for what is worth, still have the AoS Witch Elves, as well as Alarielle and, soon the Escher girls from Necromunda...

To be honest, they released Celestina and her two bodyuards AND Greyax, which is indication they are not cutting them off the game altogether.

 Fayric wrote:
I think the previous peacock feather and this candle ads up to a classic scribe type of guy.

Good call, I can also see both of them coming from the same model.

fresus wrote:

 Fayric wrote:
I think the previous peacock feather and this candle ads up to a classic scribe type of guy.

Good call, I can also see both of them coming from the same model.

Maybe the Order hero for the Undead AoS event which I can now longer remember the name of and we've already seen the Death hero?
Some nerdy human instead of a Stormcast?

Regarding the candle rumor . . . .

Necromunda has a new release coming up . . . what do you think about Mordheim being announced? A candle seems to fit with that universe, as well as searching and discovery. And it also looks somewhat like the "i" in Mordheim's box cover:

Looking at all of the rumor engine pieces, they all are carefully photoshopped to A. be gray and B. be cut out from their context. The edges of the image are sharp, implying someone erased anything that was behind it. The candle could be resting on top of something (a table or night stand for all we know, or even resting on a vehicle chassis).

Also, looking at a lot of the rumor engine images, I feel that a lot of them will be for Shadespire. We're expecting Skaven, Fyreslayers, and plenty of other factions. There will probably also be additional releases for Necromunda after it drops. People have suggested that GW wants to support Necromunda better than Bloodbowl, with faster releases out the gate.

I also can't deny that candles are very Inquisition-y. They're in dire need of an update and Inquisitors are some of the most popular characters in 40k. Eisenhorn, Ravenor, tons of others. They would fit very well in the new Herohammer that 8th edition has become. Different acolytes, attendants, and other characters to add on, along with assassins and other agents as well. Of course, there's also the Sisters of Battle, a faction in this weird position of having one plastic model. It's in this weird position of dichotomy where it feels to most like it's been forgotten and ignored, yet it continues to be mentioned, even scoring in the top 15 of the last tournament...

 Alpharius wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Aye, jokes and memes aside lets be 1000% real here - it's not Sisters/the Ecclesiarchy, and it's highly unlikely to be Inquisition. It'll be something for AoS, or something wholly new for 40K like those daft Adeptus Retconicus "militant historians" GW had Rowboat invent.

If I'm wrong nobody will be happier, but I doubt I am.

I don't.

I mean, that's an awfully thin reed to lean upon there!

But I guess that's what's "fun" about these snippets they send out?

I don't see what's thin about it. We've seen the result of their teasing(and I mean that in the pejorative sense given they knew fine well how much anticipation the comment would generate among a group of long-neglected fans) about plastic Sisters, it was Celestine & Co. Greyfax is the only new Inquisition model that's shown up in years that wasn't a Space Marine. There's been no hints that I've seen that either the Ecclesiarchy or the Inquisition are the focus of some upcoming event-narrative, and GW have demonstrated a clear, unambiguous preference in their recent output for adding wholly new stuff. I think AoS, something brand-new for 40K, or one of the Space Marine variants as an outside chance are by far more likely than them finally paying some attention to a couple of factions they evidently don't really know what to do with.

Looks like a tail curling around a rock?

I honestly have no clue what that can possibly be. The text is particularly cheeky too!

Riding into view like an ancient hero atop some kind of flying machine, the Rumour Engine is here, with a particularly cryptic instalment. What could it possibly be?

Looks like an animal of some kind and then something wrapping around its head or blocking its view. Perhaps an item of the rider? Very strange. Now does it look more AoS or 40k? That is the question.

Rock resembles a pine cone to me, rather than a rock.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Rock resembles a pine cone to me, rather than a rock.

I was thinking more like the trunk of a palm tree.

It kinda looks like some sort of palm tree-animal abomination. lol.

looks like some kind of old chunk of ruins or a standing stone or something, with vines growing up it...and some kind of tail?

...really though, that image is just going to give me a headache if I look at it any more, several parts of it could be many different things, depending on what scale it is, which is hard to determine...

My money is on Shadespire Skaven warband.

The rock makes me think of Sylvaneth, or some other decorative base. Having just put together a bunch of Dryads, I can't help but make the connection, as there are a lot of extra bits in the box that are rocks and skulls with roots curling around it.

The long curved object looks too smooth to be a rat tail and too long and blunt to be a claw. It's touching/attached to the rock/pinecone, which makes me think it might not just be a decorative base...