Primeval Abyssian : Cascadian and Masters of Unlife metal masters!

Thanks very much to Ed Fortae of Troll Forged miniatures - I got some of the metal masters I need to get going on these two factions.

Dimension Tomb

It's been a long time since an update, sorry things have are so slow at times. I have mostly been busy with producing music (If you didn't get it, please consider buying it to support me : https://ionplasmaincineration.bandcamp.com/album/outer-reality-engine-extended-edition )

Anyhow, I have been considering creating a small/simple board-game, something along the lines of Heroquest and Space Crusade, but set in the Primeval Abyssian universe. The reason is that this tabletop wargame is such a lot of work and will likely take at least another year or two before it is ready, so I am considering the idea of putting out something self-contained and smaller in the mean time.

Dimension Tomb is the basic idea I've come up with. It involves playing either a Tolathian or Luuran Dimensionaut which as the name implies, explores other dimensions. In this case, the dimension they are exploring happens to be the Master of Unlife's very own Necroverse. So you will be exploring extra-dimensional tombs in another universe and hunting for treasure while evading Necroverse Sentries.

I have already started sculpting the gaming pieces, and so far it looks like you will have 2 Dimensionauts (1 Tolathian and 1 luuran) along with 4 Masters of Unlife Crypt Sentries, a moulded plastic gaming board, dice ect - the contents will likely change but this is what I plan on so far. I will post photos once there is enough work to show for it.

Would you be interested in buying a small game like this? It will likely be quite cheap and simple to play.

Primeval Abyssian - Faction Overview

Here is the current and updated 2014 Faction list :

Adrifell -

The long extinct Adrifell are the creators of the Etherium Universe. As their own universe was nearing it's natural end into the heat death phase, the Adrifell built an enourmous Hadron Collider that could create a custom God Particle which would give birth to an artificial universe that they could live in. They suceeded, but the Etherium was an imperfect entity with many faults. Relics of Adrifell Civilization can be found all throughout the Etherium on thousands of worlds.

Karuthrax -

The karuthrax were the First Error to emerge within the Etherium Universe after it's Hadron Collider birth, a Universe that was never meant to evolve it's own lifeforms, somehow evolved a mass of sentient micro pocket-universes which have developed cosmic consciousness and have psychically linked themeselves together to form a culture of some sort. They fought a long war against the Adrifell, which resulted in both species eventual extinction, giving way to a new age with less powerful species.

Tolathians -

The realm of the Tolathians is a large, cell based commune empire that is overseen by the Thane of Tol. Tolathians are a mystical, powerfull, wise and elemental species which believe in traits such as fairness and loyality. They often protect and defend the weaker species and ally with the Iaethien and Cascadians to name but a few. 

Luuran -

The Luuran are a species of religious zealots, corrupted by fallen Karuthrax and Adrifell technology - they have become a nemesis to the Etherium, reaching their talons into other species, launching crusades of faith, becoming an enemy of logic, reason and science. The Luuran's imperialist ways have earnt them a terrible reputation across the Etherium.

Masters Of Unlife -

They are Anti-Life itself. From some ancient beyond imagining realm, beyond the sanity of space, time, dimension and reality - lies an anti-existence, a place no eye shall ever see. The place of Anti-Life itself, the dreaded Masters of Unlife come. The minions from the plain of Anti-Matter itself ; dreaded abominations which create swirling Black-Holes to explode into the reality of space in order to do nothing but wipe out all life for insideous reasons that which will never be known.

Cascadians -

The Cascadians are the servants of the living Time-Vortex. Each entity can co-exist with hundreds of it's own selves due to each inhabiting it's own time-bubble. They are masters of chrono based weaponry, guardians of past, present, future and allies to the Tolathians and Iaethlein.

Psylorthion Conflux -

The Conflux are a species of artificially created beings made from a strong resiliant metamaterial that is able to withstand extreme temperature and weathering, making them hardy and strong but with a fast decay-rate. The actual minds of the Conflux are sentient datastreams which live within singularities on planets called Anchorworlds. 

Iaethlein -

The Iaethlein are a species of Energy beings that inhabit hard-holographic armoured shells. A unique trait of the Iaethien is their empire which is a vast array of Dyson Spheres connected together into one enourmous cosmic circuit. A unique aspect of Iaethlein technology is how their brains work - they can partition a part of their holo-bodies and slow the light down to an almost static state, allowing complex arrays of signals and patterns to exist in order to create an advanced mind with mass-storage capacities beyond any organic beings.

Calixyren Syndicate -

The Calixyren Syndicate are a civilization based on one of the Adrifells strange cosmic equations. In effect, the Calixyren are a culture of living sentient mathematical formulae. Due to them being such a core component of the Etherium, they are highly guarded, cautious, defensive and isolationist.

Exorphiens -

The Exorphiens are a race of living paradoxes living in conjunction with each other - allowing each one to exist together. As such the empire is named the Exorphien Conjunction.

Quartoulians -

The Quartoulians are the remnants of a living reflection of a universe simulation discarded aeons ago by the Adrifell. The Adrifell did not expect their universe simulation to have a reflective shadow to it, but somehow once the simulation was disabled - the reflective shadow of it still remained and evolved. 

Halaedion Talons -

Evolving on the firey planet of Asaag, the Halaedion are the physical avatars of a vast magnetic pull between two enourmous worlds, that for whatever reason developed a consciousness, perhaps due to the complexity of the magnetic wave between both worlds. The magnetic wave was able to use it's pull to piece together automatons for itself that it could use to explore the Etherium and learn and discover it's purpose - and these became the Halaedion.

Ylataran Nexus -

The Feared Nexus are an immensely powerful species which have seemingly conquered millions of universes, converted the mass-energy of each and used it to increase the power of their own biological and quantum extra-reality. The Nexus seek to make themselves the masters of the "Existiverse", or outer-universal shell from which all other universes reside within, so as that they can break down the very walls of existence itself and see what lies beyond. They possess reality altering weaponry and ships which are dimensionally transcendental - allowing them to insert entire legions unknowingly into whole worlds and galaxies. They have now arrived in the Etherium.

Primeval Abyssian - Masters Of Unlife Seeker model

Heres something for the Masters Of Unlife, this is the Work In Progress "Seeker" :

These large bio-mechanical worm-like drones do what they say on the tin, they fly ahead of the other drone types - seeking out the best places to hit and run to soften the enemy down until the main drone-army can get there.

It still need tons of work before it's finished, but I wanted to show one of the things I've been doing this month :)

Primeval Abyssian - Masters Of Unlife

Here is the WIP "new" Master of Unlife :

The old one felt more like one of the Masters "pets" than a Master itself, so it has been repurposed as as "Guardian" instead.

Primeval Abyssian : Masters Of Unlife Origins

The Lost Souls :

Within the Outer-Universe, where all Universae are born - all living things die, it is simply the natural order of the Greater Nature. Normally when living things die their soul is reborn as something else, the memories retained in their particles which are reused again and again over a cycle we could not possibly comprehend it's length. Sometimes, however - some souls will slip through minute cracks in their respective universe. These temporary cracks are almost non-existant but when a soul escapes through this crack it will eventually find itself in a place known only as the Necroverse.

Nothing truly lives in the Necroverse, and it is the unfortuante fate of these souls that they are bound into the unliving techno-organism drones, forever enslaved to the Masters Of Unlife, the kings of the Necroverse. The Masters of Unlife weave their spiral fog towers amid the black nether vortex that they live in - thinking beyond the capacity of what would be considered sane.

It is within the Fog towers and cities of smoke that form and reform constantly, that the Masters Of Unlife float in harmony - directing their abyssal drones and other souless servants to work unimaginable contraptions that keep the Necroverse cities alive. For, if even the slightest mechanism fails - the Necroverse would shrivel-up and rot away into nothingness and as Grave Keepers, the Masters must make sure the cosmic graveyard always exists.

The Strife Of Reaping :

The Necroverse has existed for an unimaginable amount of time. A thousand universes would of lived and died in comparison to a single century in Necroversal chronography. It is because of it's age it is increasingly frail and weak. As time went on, The stability of the Necroverse ensured it needed an increasing amount of 

maintenance - more than what the Masters Of Unlife could deal with themselves. 

During this period known as the Strife Of Reaping, many Black Hole Crypts were lost forever, their memories of dead universes histories forever gone - for what most do not know, is that the Necroverse is an unliving cosmological library that contains memories and knowledge of all universes that have come and gone, including precious souls deemed too important to be reincarnated into future realms of existence.

As the thousandath Black Hole Crypt dissolved into nothingness, the Masters decided they must meet each other for the time - and so they would put their collective minds together and share their knowledge and power to come up with a solution to save the Necroverse from entropy. This plan of course, would be that they would open cracks in space to other universes - so they could collect lost souls which they would use to combine with their necroversal technology to create drones that would aid the increasing maintenance of the Necroverse. Of course, as time went on - more and more drones would be needed, and a place known as the Etherium was deemed perfect as it was not a natural universe, but a manufactured one and so it would have a larger amount of lost-souls that could be used to fuel their abyssal technology. So come the Masters Of Unlife.

Primeval Abyssian - The Faction Breakdown!

Here is a brief Overview of the ten factions that make up my up and coming wargame Primeval Abyssian. It's been a while since I posted any fluff, so hopefully this will give people a stronger idea of what to expect and the variety of the factions!

Races Of The Etherium

Tolathians :

Tolathians are an elemental race based around the elements of thunder, lightning, clouds and storms. They have a society that is a mix of Nomadic and Marxist elements allthough they do have an overlord, the Thane of Tol. They use cloud shaping as a long-range communication method, while their actual mouths work a little like advanced Tesla-coils, with each tooth discharging electrical energy to make a different frequency. Tolathians planets are stormformed - so they have a constant supply of lightning to feed them and keep them charged up. Their bodies look deceptively frail because they are very thin and wirey, but they are one of the toughest races of the Etherium.

Cascadians : 

The Cascadians are a time-manipulating species able to co-exist with millions of their own copies that exist in slightly different time-streams. Governed by the sentient time-vortex itself, the Cascadians are the guardians of time and uphold the laws of defending the Vortex and time-streams from any and all that would dare corrupt it.

Iaethlein :

The Iaethlein are a race of noble energy beings that use hard-holographic technology to defend themselves from the perils of the Ether. Their bodies are permenantly contained within a hard holographic armoured shell to protect their fragile energy bodies. Their realm of space is a collection of stars linked together through holo-roads which make up a larger Circuit. 

Prymarsiam Dominion : 

The Prymarsiam Dominion consists of a triangular area of Etherspace, within this area lives two aquatic species the Pryark and Marsiarm. The Pryark are a leech-like elemental species of Aquamancers able to control water as a weapon - they are the governers of the dominion and order any outsiders that dare to enter the dominion be destroyed. The Marsiam are a bionic jellyfish-like species - low on intelligence but tough and capable in battle. The Marsiam are excellent footsoldiers and police within the Dominion - together the two races form a highly militant force capable of destroying any who enter their boundries.

Jequerita : 

The Jequerita are an aggressive re-foliating plant species that spread through the ether using Ether-seeds. When a Seed reaches a planetary body it will grow into Jequerita plants which detach themselves and spread smaller seeds to spread over the planet. The Jequerita can control native plants and foilage. They are a scourge upon the Ether, however they have a low intelligence and tend to act purely on instinct.

Luuran : 

Lead by the High-Seclorums, the cthulhoid elphantine Luuran are a zealous religious species which wish only to convert the Ethers races under one God, known by outsiders as the All-Seeing-Eye and one unified Realm. The Luuran send out fleets of ships to save neighbour species from invaders - only to take them over themselves under the watchfull eye of the Luuran. Those that join the Luuran are gifted by the Sect-Tome Keepers many secrets and revelations of the Ether - as well as permenent defensive forces to ensure their safety.

Axon Synapse : 

The Axon Synapse are a super-intelligent race of disembodied brain aliens which use mechanical spinal-chord suits to move about freely. While the Synapse are incredibly intelligent, they are also insanely paranoid and obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge to the detriment of other races. The paranoia of the Synapse has also lead to the Axons becoming a highly isolationist species - however given the nature of their pursuit of knowledge, it is not uncommon to see Axon Nerve-Fleets investigating other worlds and civilizations.

Masters Of Unlife :

From the hidden Necroverse, a shadowy graveyard dimension - the Masters Of Unlife seek only to elliminate life in all it's forms. The Masters discovered the Ether by accident, when an alien race opened a rift between the Ether and Necroverse - allowing the Masters of Unlife to continously send their Abyssal Drone hordes into the Etherspace safely. Many wars have occured since they have entered the Ether, and it has taken the combined strengths of many other species to ensure the Masters Of Unlife are kept at bay.

Ylataran Nexus :

An Extra-dimensional threat from beyond. The Nexus are a race of organic aliens who have dimensionally transcendental technology built into everything including themselves. They have in the past destroyed entire universes and dimensions - and now they have discovered the Etherium. The Nexus infilitrate planets easily using drop-pods that contain entire armies inside the larger interiors - they convert the planets into sickly yellow organic globes similar to that of their own forms and technology.

Ekimmu : 

The Ekimmu are a powerful and ancient species of Wind-based entities that live off the lifeforce of others. The Ekimmu rage across Etherspace in powerful fleets, their vampiric war-machines and cruel infantry scouring any civilization they discover. It is said the Ekimmu are the accidently created warriors of the Lumenenion, a deadly race of alien spriits who in their fleshforms once built the mightiest war engines and weapons in the entire Ether - only to be destroyed by that which they created. The relationship between Lumenenion and Ekimmu is unclear but this deadly civilization should be avoided at all costs.

Primeval Abyssian - New sculpts

So, finally I have some new WIP stuff to show you today.

First up is the Luuran Eye Of Judgement, the gaps still need filling (obviously) but it's done enough to show you :

Next up is the Tolathian Thunder-Drummer, which also still needs more work, and maybe a few bits that need resculpting (What do you think?) :

Next we have the Master Of Unlife. These abominations exist in the Necroverse and Lead the legions of Abyssal Drones, biomechanical abominations that seek to wipe out all life :

And finally, we have the Mind-Harvest prototype which looks a bit rought at current and not to mention the "static" pose of the spinal-Chord. That will change once I get resin casts to put into fancy poses, and they'll be a variety of lethal surgical type weaponry on the ends of the spinal-chords :

Well, that's all for today folks - hope you like the sculpts so far!

Primeval Abyssian - misc updates!

No new pictures today sorry, but heres a roundup of various newsbits of what I've been working on.

Tolathians - The Thunder-Drummer kit is being worked on. Thunder-Drummers have litteral drums growing out their backs and their hands are organic drum-sticks - a bash on the drum sends a powerful signal into the skies ending a blitzkrieg of lightning bolts into enemy ranks! Thunder-Drummers will come in packs of 3 Plastic figures and are a heavy-support slot.

Luuran - I'm making the vehicle kit for these guys. It's called "The Eye Of Judgement" and is a pyramid shaped machine with an organic eye growing on top of it. It's shaping up rather nicely, but I don't want to spoil it too much.

Masters Of Unlife - Commander kit done, Infantry kit done. 2 more kits need to be created still.

Mind-Harvest (temp name) - Killer space-brains, the master model is done and done. It has a robotic spinal-chord with surgical weaponry on the end. These creatures live in large Dyson-Spheres and the backround is shaping up to be a mix of classic 1950's b-movie elements and Olaf Stapledon influences.

Tolathians - Outpost Cyclopean (The web series) :
I've heard that Ed will be casting the plastic puppet kit's for these soon, hopefully this month. I still have yet to start on the tiles I intend to use to create the sets with, but should be able to do some basic test-filming once I get the puppets back at least.

Primeval Abyssian - misc updates!

Got some more updates for you guys who are following the progress of Primeval Abyssian today.

Firstly, they'll be three initial releases instead of the previous two!

Tolathians and Luuran get their first-waves (each having 4 of their 10 miniatures) but we'ere also including the first wave of the Masters Of Unlife too! giving the game a larger starting-base! the plan for 2012 will see the second-waves completing their lines - as well as two more of the factions including the aggressive refoliating plant race the Jequerita and the Time-manipulating Cascadians! Also, if you think 10 unit's per race is too low - then don't worry, they'll plenty more once all of the factions get their core units done!

As a bonus, here's a work in progress shot of the Cascadian master-model :