Remembrancer Camille Shivani

Something a bit different

I was in need of a short break from power armour.  I could've ordered that Eddy I want, or a Land Raider, or even a Thudd Gun Rapier or something, but I still wanted to add another person to my collection.  It's the characters I care about, after all.

Every now and then I consider that I'd like to add some Prosperine Spireguard to my force, once all the marines are done.  I've looked through a lot of options for human miniatures, and most are unsatisfying to be perfectly honest.  In comparison to the astartes, anyway.  I still want to get some in there somehow, as militia or something perhaps.

While doing this, I did note that many of the Infinity game system models were quite cool, and it was while browsing through their catalogue I had my next idea.  I was going to make the remembrancers.

In A Thousand Sons by Graham McNeil, the main characters roll around with three remembrancers hanging off their coat-tails. Pretty decent characters all, one of them even becomes Ahriman's apprentice.  Ahriman's developed a kind of teacher vibe in many of his modern appearances, which suits him.  It gives him a little something else, with his arrogance and personality flaws eventually ruining the teacher-student relationship he seems to prize having, in both A Thousand Sons and John French's Ahriman series.

The XVth in general have a vaguely parental, encouraging attitude to humans that, while of course inflected with arrogance and superiority, is something I like as a concept.  Many of the marine legions, while ostensibly defenders of humanity, can barely tolerate the presence of ordinary mortals.  McNeil's Thousand Sons, however, can be found sitting chatting with humans about archaeology, wine or a good book.  Further, and made explicitly clear in Inferno, the Legionaries cared about the lives of the civilian inhabitants of Tizca, and made just as much effort to protect and save them as they did anything else.

I picked up three Infinity models to use as Gaumon, Shivani and Eris.  I initially thought to paint them as first described in the book, but realised they would stand out and clash with the Legion colour scheme, Gaumon especially.  So Legion colours it would be.  Camille Shivani is a psychometric archaeologist, practical, can handle herself in a dangerous situation, and is one of the first gay characters I can think of in the setting.  I had gotten Shivani up to the basecoat and first layer you see in these pictures when Crimson King came out, and wouldn't you know it, the Remembrancers return for that novel.  Nothing I read about their fates put me off on working on them, but I think having them fresh in my mind made thinking about them more kind of unappealing, so this is where I stopped on the project.  To be continued.

In game terms, they will be used as Objective markers for my army to secure and protect.