Our Lady Immaculata Peniten
8 days ago
– Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 08:36:47 AM
Greetings Crusaders!
A longer update today about a variety of subjects so do please read it through attentively!
Rest assured though, there’s a nice surprise waiting for you at the end!
Physical miniature production
The timeline we discussed in our previous update is moving along as planned. A handful of orders have trickled out but you should be seeing a LOT of movement very soon as the end of the month approaches. We’re about to go visit S3D to personally check on preparations so you can expect more details and photos very shortly.
As of writing 89% of you have completed your shipping survey for S3D. If you haven’t done so yet please endeavor to do so otherwise there may be a much longer delay in getting your minis to you!
Assistance
- I didn’t get my email invitation
Another batch of reminder emails should be going out before the end of the week so please keep an eye out for it. Additionally, please double check your Backerkit account to make sure you filled out the survey properly. If you still haven’t received anything after that, you can contact Shop3D here who will look into it for you.
- There’s something missing from my order
Please check your order on Backerkit before messaging us. If it’s something you forgot to add, our apologies but we cannot change your order at this stage. If the item in question is in your order on BK but missing on S3D due to an importation error or something similar, rest assured that we will fix it. You can contact us on Backerkit.
- I have a problem with the S3D site
For anything related to issues with the platform, please contact S3D here.
- I need to correct/change my address
Once you’ve submitted your address, you cannot change it yourself. OnlyGames has to do this for you. Contact OnlyGames ASAP to have your address changed. Please note that if your order has already been processed and shipped, they won’t be able to help.
Baron of Dice
Things are going swimmingly with the dice pre-production. We should have some nice shots of the finished product within the next month or so!
Here’s a sneak peak at the back of the tin:
Please note that it’s normal that you haven’t received an invitation to settle the shipping for these yet. That will come much closer to the shipping date. We will of course let you know when that is about to begin. Until then, sit tight, we’re in good hands with the BoD team!
The Third Party License
A lot of people have been contacting us about creating content for TC and what the rules are. We are still going ahead with our plans for a TPL but have had to rework things slightly to account for the success and popularity of the game.
We’re currently finalising the details of this and will do a full update about it as soon as it’s ready. Until then, basic copyright law and common sense is the way.
The Book
Design is proceeding apace but we still need to polish things up a lot more before we start showing it off.
Rest assured though, we’re very excited to be able to do so: the design is CRISPY and we’ve got so many surprises to reveal in terms of art and lore!
Speaking of which… I did promise you guys a treat.
You may remember that during the KS we unlocked a special character design by the Evil Lord Varlak AKA Andy Chambers.
As the campaign went pretty well we thought we’d treat ourselves and bring in a new artist to illustrate Andy’s design. We have a feeling you’ll get the same kick out of it we did.
May I present Our Lady Immaculata Penitens, created by Andy Chambers and designed by the legend that is Adrian Smith.
Sister Loretta was a member of a modest order of devotees to St Dionysia, who was scourged and subsequently martyred by a barbarian king in the 5th century. Together, the sisters maintained a tiny hospice within the Sanctuary of the Immaculate Heart in Ambireika in southern
Nubia. The remote Sanctuary had remained untouched by war for decades, even when the Legions of Mammon ravened to the south and west after the sack of Kerada.
In December, beginning three days after St Dionysius' Holy Day, the night showed the sullen red of settlements being put to the torch and thereafter each morning the smoke columns came closer. The injured and refugees fleeing to the Sanctuary grew from a trickle into a flood. Bitter, defeated soldiers, terrified peasants, dust-streaked, hungry children, each day brought more and the sisters could turn no-one away.
As the surrounding regions emptied, stripped bare by the followers of Mammon, food, medicine and water became barely sufficient. Supplies were rationed, and the rations were cut, again and again. As bellies emptied and the sick multiplied men became desperate, and inevitably, despite the sisters' protestations, harsh penalties were enacted upon thieves and looters both real and imagined.
Brutal discipline, devout prayer and sheer desperation kept the Sanctuary functioning across months of deprivation and torment, each day a dull, keening knife of despair. Finally, the Legion of the Fifth Golden Horn took note and closed in with the confident certainty of a hunter checking their traps. Even cornered, the people of the Sanctuary knew that surrender to the Prince of Greed's brazen demands offered no peace. Instead they chose to resist, accepting the finality of the grave, and the thin prayer of hope that someone, or something, would come to their aid.
Laughing at such temerity, the Golden Legion laid siege in unhurried fashion while awaiting their mortal followers. Hunger would do their work, aided by the slobbering belch of mortar and cannon as they rained shells down upon their hapless prey. More days and nights of torment and sacrifice followed with no hope in sight. All of the sisters perished one by one until only Sister Loretta was left, and nine-tenths of the people trapped inside the Sanctuary died before the first assault. Finally, on the seventh day, strident horns sounded in the Legion camp, but it was not to unleash the long-anticipated assault, it was a call to arms. Another war host glittered on the horizon and battle erupted in the besieger's rear, but as the new force came closer it became clear that they were deathless soldiers of the Black Grail.
The two forces, damned and dead, struggled like giants beside an ant hill and none can say who was the victor. The Sanctuary was overrun in the fighting and left in ruins, its defenders died to a man and woman, the sick and injured were slain in their cots, no refugee escaped the trap. And the final sister? The last of her order? The one who suffered, and witnessed, and prayed, and fought as everything she had ever known or cared about was relentlessly ground down into dust and despair? Well she lived, after a fashion, or at least she didn't perish in the rubble. Perhaps the Grail bestowed a gift upon her, or perhaps her apotheosis was truly Divine.
Whatever the truth, our Sister Loretta did not die that day, our Lady of Penitens - she rose again.
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Obviously this is a work in progress, you’ll get to see the final product a bit later on along with her rules!
And on that note, I bid you all a good day!
