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Bannerman Fiend "Nu" - Courts Troop

Description

Dissolute, degenerate, & at the bottom of the demonic pecking order, these fiends rage against their place but are too pathetic to ever raise a hand against their masters. All that's left to them is to be intensely cruel to those beneath them, the human chattle of the Court's reaving parties. 

These creatures are the end result of hundreds of years of inbreeding amongst the fallen, the only inflows of new material being the animals they prey upon, & these are the lowest of the low, more domestic animal than demon. Thus they are denied even the gratification of offspring, their masters deciding that the rot must end somewhere, & it ends with their castration. A fate all the worse for those fiends in the command of those aligned to Lust.

& even then the indignities do not end, for a passing sorcerer laid eyes upon these pathetic miscreants & came to the conclusion that they were quite ugly. Indeed that was true, but few cared. To these fiends' misfortune the sorcerer decided to beautify them. The idea was to transfigure them into moving marble statues mocking the great accomplishments of the humans in pay of St Peter's court.
It was only partly successful: flesh painfully twisted & calcified into marble tumours, joints partially knitting into contropasto poses. 
Looking upon its work the sorcerer was however more than pleased, a happy little accident had created something much more amusing.
So it passed on. But the woebegone creatures it left behind were fitted with muzzles to better control their bestial urges & armed to better be the vanguard of their less beautiful kin...

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Yoke Fiends are the least interesting part of the Court's roster to me, so I wasn't really jazzed about working on a bunch of them, but as I worked I got a lot more into it, & I'm pretty pleased with the end result. 
I'm going to do at least another 3, & when I get a moment I'll come back & add a few more weapon choices to this sculpt too.
Right now it's armed with a flamethrower & a spear, but I think I'd like to do a great axe, & an arquebus armed version too. 
The weapons are reminiscent of the designs found on my Sister Chastity sculpt, & the designs on the armour are similar to the ones found on the Father sculpt too, so there's a nice through line if you decide to create a warband out of my figures.
Oh yeah, the "muzzle" in my design is the goetic symbol with nails driven through it on its head, the nails semi-lobotimising the fiend & making them more plyable to their masters. 
The statue it's fused with is Bernini's David btw.

Tell me what you think of it!



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