Well, they're Khenetai in my version of all this.
Now despite all that talk in the last entry about trying hard to make the Blade Occult squad members all look dynamic and different, I noticed early on that I'd made two of one legs+torso+arms combinations. Or more accurately, that the only pieces I had left ended up making a double. I had accidentally made twin bodies.
In the typically fortunate way that things have tended to work out on this project, however, there actually are a set of twins in the fiction: Zabaia and Siamak. These guys only feature in Ahriman: Exile, and exist just to be a threat to be overcome by the rest of Ahriman's crew. They're still cool, however, and the idea of my army background means they could very easily be running around in Ahriman's old Circle.
I decided to make both of them look almost identical, but also make them stand out from the rest of the squad. They got upgrade helmets and some spare old shoulder-pads with huge scarabs on them to mark them out as elite. The other pad has a double-headed snake on it.
I also gave them the two feathery-ish cloaks from the Sisters of Silence kit. To make them further stand out, I decided to avoid the white feathers everyone else has and gave them shiny blued feathers. I know I said I wanted to avoid random blue appearing on units like the writers keep trying to jam in just because the 40K Thousand Sons are blue, but I figured this was pretty subtle and suited their role as 'bad guys' in their scant fluff appearance.
Though in taking this photo I noticed I'd forgotten to do a bit of Siamak's backpack. Siamak is the one with the stripe in his cloak, I decided, as he's got the cooler name. Sorry, Zabaia.
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