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The one outline could be anew character or elite or whatever.

The daemonettes that look standard minus faces, I’d say the poses/faces arms etc match the current models, so even more so just artistic style.

Watch them relase the redone Daemonettes as a new, Primaris-esque unit without rules in Broken Realms.

A new Herald would be fantastic. I'm basically at peace with the current Daemonettes now, and don't expect them to be changed.

I'm actually surprised that after 2 big range updates and battletomes and now a hinted further update; that the Herald hasn't (as far as we know so far) got a new model. You'd have thought getting out the finecast would be a must for GW right now and the Herald is the one last finecast model in the entire range; its the one thorn left in Slaanesh.

It's the one "must update" left in the range.


Deamonettes, hellstriders, seekers and chariots would be nice to update to more dynamic poses and such, but they aren't essential things to update and work well as kits right now. They can certainly stand a good few more years on the market without any bother.

 Overread wrote:
I'm actually surprised that after 2 big range updates and battletomes and now a hinted further update; that the Herald hasn't (as far as we know so far) got a new model. You'd have thought getting out the finecast would be a must for GW right now and the Herald is the one last finecast model in the entire range; its the one thorn left in Slaanesh.

It's the one "must update" left in the range.


Deamonettes, hellstriders, seekers and chariots would be nice to update to more dynamic poses and such, but they aren't essential things to update and work well as kits right now. They can certainly stand a good few more years on the market without any bother.

I reckon the herald will show up when Fulgrim does!

Perhaps - honestly I'm excited by the prospect that right now Slaanesh is basically in a position where almost anything they are likely to add now is going to be a new thing for them. I'd love to see some more demons and winged monsters added to the range in time.


I'd also like to see some 40K models. Chariots always look wrong in 40K to me from Slaanesh, even an upgrade kit with some guns or something abit more sci-fi just to get them something to blend with the setting. Granted 40K doesn't (yet?) have mono-god armies as a standard for Chaos Demons so its somewhat masked with the other demon forces unless you're building a niche list.

I just want my Nurgle heralds on palanquins back :(

Of course if GW would stop being so anal about conversions we could mount a Poxbringer on a rot fly too.

 Overread wrote:
I'd be amazed if they did new deamonettes. Pleased, but amazed.

I think its just some artistic licence at likely simplifying the design and artwork for something that is basically a minor element in the drawing whilst the twins are the key focus. GW has often had little bits like that in artwork that are simply there and varied and not part of a future model.

Normally I'd lean towards artistic license, but this is GW. They literally just put a piece of art in White Dwarf that has a "Chaos Warrior but with 40K Terminator Sorcerer head" featuring pretty prominently in it. They're generally pretty meticulous about models being clearly identifiable and matching models in AoS art.

 Overread wrote:
I'm actually surprised that after 2 big range updates and battletomes and now a hinted further update; that the Herald hasn't (as far as we know so far) got a new model. You'd have thought getting out the finecast would be a must for GW right now and the Herald is the one last finecast model in the entire range; its the one thorn left in Slaanesh.

It's the one "must update" left in the range.

Eh. Like a couple other models (transcendent c'tan comes to mind) its buildable out of other kits- specifically the chariots. Sometimes GW feels that's 'good enough.'

Khorne herald on Jugger could use a kit, too. There's a resin one, or you can kitbash it out of the throne herald and a jugger, buts its one of the few non-special characters not in plastic (the tzeentch herald off or on disc is easily built out of other things)

Tomorrow's model's preview:



I want to bet on a Sylvaneth with a giante scythe on the back with owls perching on top of it. I'd be extremely surprised if this turns out to be a shadow elf.

 CMLR wrote:
Tomorrow's model's preview:

https://lustria-online.com/attachments/upload_2021-4-25_14-41-18-png.91097/

I want to bet on a Sylvaneth with a giante scythe on the back with owls perching on top of it. I'd be extremely surprised if this turns out to be a shadow elf.

The back are insects hatching, as clearly shown in a rumor engine that match the silhouette 100%. They may be sylvaneth insect spirits tho.

It looks a lot like a lumineth headdress consumed by the roots of the sylvaneth... could this be Teclis' betrayer?

Umbros wrote:
It looks a lot like a lumineth headdress consumed by the roots of the sylvaneth... could this be Teclis' betrayer?

To me it just looks like an upscaled version of Ylthari, same headdress, same vines, same hair, same dangly amulet-like bits et al.

Someone pointed out that the thing it's holding could be a huge horn or pipe.

 CMLR wrote:
Tomorrow's model's preview:



I want to bet on a Sylvaneth with a giante scythe on the back with owls perching on top of it. I'd be extremely surprised if this turns out to be a shadow elf.

Those are eggs on top with those beetle things.
Owls are more Lumineth I guess anyway.

It looks like a big musical horn or something, there’s a sword in scabbard on the waist/back there.
And vines etc around the base.

It's definitely got a horn of some kind. But I can't tell if it could be an AOS version of Orion's

Unlikely. Too small.

I'm pretty sure they would go all-out with him if they remade Orion.

Does Orion exist in AoS?

Definitely looks viney to me. Very excited!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Does Orion exist in AoS?

Kinda?

Dark Harvest by Josh Reynolds touches on a... dormant god that's got a lot of Orion's aspects. It wasn't clear that the entity was actually Orion or that he'd really 'wake up' all the way.
It was also all the 'worst' aspects of Orion, almost a wood elf/tree spirit version of Khaine (lots of Wild Hunt stuff tying back to Orion)

Unless Reynolds touched on something else? We have Kurnoth, the god that Orion was the Avatar for. Weirdly though Isha became Alarielle rather than Kurnoth becoming Orion.

The AoS stories have a lot of potential seeds in them for returning or appearing Old World things. Sometimes they are only hinted at and whilst we can connect the dots they do not guarantee things.

We could be seeing a trend of Elven duality gods.

Tyrion and Teclis

Morathi and Malekith

Alarielle and ???

We have enough aelves called "kurnothi" to know that Kurnoth is still somewhere in some form in AoS.

Wouldn't be surprised if Alarielle's "secret stuff" she's hinting while she's talking with Teclis in Broken Realm: Teclis involves him, in the end.

After all, the renewal of life is pretty much simular to the cycles of death and rebirth Orion had to pass by in the Old World every year. Maybe with death being pushed back, he can be brought fully to life permanently or something.


Still don't think that miniature is Kurnoth at all. Sylvaneth looks very likely...but then...insects and all, that's also the stuff of Nurgle, isn't that ?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
We could be seeing a trend of Elven duality gods.

Tyrion and Teclis

Morathi and Malekith

Alarielle and ???

I know, it's even far from wishfull thinking - but wasn't the Lady of the lake an elven godess?

Nibbler wrote:


I know, it's even far from wishfull thinking - but wasn't the Lady of the lake an elven godess?

She was Lileath, yes, and she died with the Old World. She stayed behind at the very end when the elf survivors fled to the realms.

Aerial and Alarielle kind of ish merged into Alarielle as we know her now. I’d need to read the relevant book again to be sure though.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Aerial and Alarielle kind of ish merged into Alarielle as we know her now. I’d need to read the relevant book again to be sure though.

It's Ariel but otherwise that's what happened in End Times : Khaine.

Well, sort of...actually Lileath poisoned Ariel so that she's forced to give her divine essence to Alarielle and effectively help "ending the cycle" of the elven gods' tragedy. Technically, Ariel/Isha died...she just gave her power to Alarielle, in the end. That's why Orion longed so much for death in the battles following the return of Alarielle to Ulthuan with the wood elves : he couldn't keep living without his beloved, since Alarielle isn't her.

Lileath is really like Tzeentch in End Times, manipulating everyone.

Sarouan wrote:

Nibbler wrote:


I know, it's even far from wishfull thinking - but wasn't the Lady of the lake an elven godess?

She was Lileath, yes, and she died with the Old World. She stayed behind at the very end when the elf survivors fled to the realms.

Well death in end times hasn't been issue before. Only thing that matters have sculptors sculpted model. If yes rules and fluff are made to suit.

Sarouan wrote:
Lileath is really like Tzeentch in End Times, manipulating everyone.

Yeah, cause she clearly doesn't have a history of, say, manipulating the entire history of another race's nation or anything before that, right?

Also, her actions of manipulation in the End Times don't come at all close to what Teclis did in the same period.