Lord of the Isle

You have inspired me to work up some background for my ‘Remnants of Haven’ Mortal Realms post Bretonnia ideas. Will probably only be used for Soulbound not AoS! But shares some Celtic Twilight common ground. Will post in new thread if of interest

I like this!

...this is really cool

Fascinating Narnia post above. It made me think that really the Lady of the Lake resembles (both in her quite conniving Malory version and in her Aelven goddess manipulating Bretonnians one) no one so much as Jadis the White Witch or, even more so, the Lady of the Green Kirtle in 'The Silver Chair'. Made me think what we need is in our 'Remnants of Haven' the dichotomy of those who still cling to the Lady's ghost and lineage, and those who have rebelled and turned to something more 'Christian' and 'masculine' - and a lion god fits the bill just fine. Now I know Louen Leoncoeur died devoted to the Lady, but perhaps the belief of the anti-Lady knights might summon an entity in his memory and somewhat in his image to play Aslan to the Lady or her successor's White/Green Witch? So I'm beginning to envisage something that will never happen - TWO mortally opposed post-Bret Haven factions, aelf-influenced, Celtic, Lady-worshipping lightly armoured mounted and foot warriors w mysterious armoured fey back up, vs rough and ready, heavily armoured, mounted Lion-worshipping sceptics, extremely monotheistic, maybe even a little 'Saracen' post-'Arabyan' etc. Contesting the ruins of Haven fiercely, but both hating Chaos and very occasionally forced to cooperate against it. Definitely need some wise beasts and 'gentle' courteous chivalric actually deadly and deceptive Gargants involved too. This army or these armies could be actually funny, interesting and scary! Like I say it will never happen. But I'm definitely wedging it into the late stages of our Soulbound campaign... PS Another source of inspiration should be Spenser's Faerie Queene and all of its deeply weird, religiously fanatical, visually lush allegorical greatness

Mordheim was the best. (Does Warcry come close? Genuine question) Feel Soulbound has potential to be nearly as fun tho

I more or less agree, yup! edit: LOVED the amusing well written biased in universe army books from particular racial perspectives I associate w 6th ed

I really like the way wh fantasy stories have continued and changed (especially in the case of aelves and duardin); I just want something similar for my beloved Brets. Not a non Bret thing that’s kinda a bit like a Bret, an army that works the same way or sounds vaguely similar or whatever, but almost the opposite - a very different army that is what the actual few surviving Brets turned into, for good or for ill. I know there are various ways to do this already - freeguild / Stormcasts / Wanderers, vampires, Flesh Eater Courts, even slaves to darkness - but I believe GW could pull off something else really special if it wanted to. The Wanderers are looking pretty anaemia right now having fallen out w their trees. I would probably resurrect the old Bret/WE alliance and blend them up fairly closely if it was my decision. I also do agree with Zilb above about Stormcasts (though Soulbound has made them a bit more interesting somehow...)

Well the Idoneth worship no / a dead god while actively rejecting the god that ‘made’ them which I do like! But yes. I’d like some more minor deities / fairy like entities involved Old World is nice but I’d like a future development as well as a nostalgia fest ideally!

Also instinctively want options for Order humans who aren’t into Sigmar!

I wouldn’t want them back unaltered, that would be silly. But if Tolkien heavy Moorcock lite High Elves can become Idoneth and Lumineth, I don’t see why Arthurian Brets can’t be very excitingly reimagined, and the background possibility is still just about there

But what about those of us who loved the specific background more than the general knightly mechanics? I’m trying to resolve that grief! Through a Soulbound campaign with some unwitting Bretonnian descendants questing for the lost Haven

I think part of what hurts is that other factions get individuals, let alone civilisations, surviving either after a fashion or completely (Gotrek et al). That and the whole elaborate hope offered and dashed by Haven. That makes it tempting to look for hints to continue the Bretonnian story in some way. Doesn’t need to look like French late medieval knighthood any more...

I would love Remnants of Haven as a strange, disturbing Post-Bretonnia. More Mabinogion / old Breton Welsh Irish than French / Malory. Sidhe, fey folk. Aelven and Sylvaneth and Kurnothi elements with a difference. Celtic low armour heroes, fay weirdly armoured knights, in between stages between life and death, good and evil...

Love Walach!

Neferata was really cool as the cat owning queen of the silver pinnacle but can’t help finding her a bit bland in A o S? Don’t like her mortarch model!

He was actually I think, or at least v likely, as the Imperial civil war ended with Magnus the Pious who let a definitely grown up Teclis found the Colleges of Magic...?

Glad to hear! Have a real life Binding but time is hard to come by and withdrawal biting hard!

Gods it’s good to hear anyone remember Repanse! My first model

Would actually consider GMing this if anyone wanted it

Assume this has perished? Would still be v interested if anyone else is!

Just started, but still on brink of first real combat (not counting tavern brawls)! The party has met (apart from the Stormcast) and been Bound, in one case unwillingly, meaning Doom already 2... Particularly excited to see magic work and how the Battlemage fares against a Grey Seer

Feliryr Twainglance A Soulscryer about a century old from a doomed, polluted enclave (maybe from Ghyran near Greywater Fastness if that makes sense, or somewhere else equally grim? Shyish? Ulgu?) who has come to the bleak realisation he can only delay his people's destruction by leaving them behind forever as one of the Soulbound. Gentle and peaceable in manner, steeliness underneath apparent only when absolutely necessary. Carefully detached and dispassionate in his wary, well-informed dealings with gods he inwardly detests. Possibly saved a party member's life, probably in a non combat related manner! Short term goal - forge a close, trusting, reciprocal personal friendship with an ally Long term goal - provide his dying enclave with substantial assistance

While the forum was down I made up a Soulscryer - can put up his details whenever desired! He rolled a ‘saved someone’s life’ connection too so if anyone is interested in being his savee, that would be cool

Have been lurking for a while out of curiosity, last played fantasy many years ago, was intrigued enough to buy Soulbound book, loved it and would definitely be interested in joining this!