#deathmarks

[syberfab]

Artfight attack on @exuviast's Bhenu, both forms cus I love them 😘

[lastenline]

And the Deathmarks are finished.

[angoryt]

Det här är Druvan och Kakan, det var ute på ett uppdrag men det verkar som att dem blev kvarglömda av nån anledning?

Kakan började gå omkring och utforska, Druvan har bestämt sig för att följa efter.

De hittade vatten.

Kakan hittade en fin utsikt.

[sara-paints]

Deathmarks, DONE!

These were actually a lot of fun to print and paint. As previously mentioned, I had some green acrylic rods from Plastruct sitting in my hobby stash for like 12 years or however long it's been, and I really wanted my Deathmarks to have green rods. I took the models into Blender and removed a chunk of the rifle, and cut these green rods to specific length. Side-by-side with my Warriors, you almost can't tell they aren't supposed to have the rods.

[alex-leweird]

Thinking about Deathmarks.

What if the origin of them was a Mistery cult (when I use the term is reference of the Mysteries like Demeter's, Dyonisus, Isis, Cybeles, Orphics mysteries/cults in Ancient times) related to the old cult of the Nightbringer (not the C'tan but the God based on)?

We know that C'tan's bodies were created based on old gods in the Necrontyr culture.

Deathmarks are peculiar. They follow a code, has access to niche knowledge to hyper-dimensional technology and even if they are warriors, they don't fit, even having ancient rules to not deploy them against nobility.

Using some reference in myth of our world I can't not think about Apollo and Artemis. Apollo and Artemis were the deathbringer for males and women (in A.Greek poem's and fragments we found a lot of references about this. Like in the Illiad, the first appereance of Apollo was shooting the Greek soldiers. In the Odyssey, when Odysseus visits his mother he asks if she was dead bc of the plague or bc Artemis) Also Eros (at least the firsts versions of him fits here). The similarities of these gods are that they use a bow. In Ancient times an archer was a symbol of lethality. A soldier couldn't see the archer and an arrow was always lethal, or it kill instantly or the wound was fatal. One of the best analogies I have heard of this was from my professor: "If the Ancient Greeks were able to know about some of our technology, Eros, Apollo and Artemis would be snipers".

So imagine, that the original Deathmarks were a cult who worshiped the ancient Nightbringer of the necrontyr culture as the Mysteries cults. The cult would evolved and left the religious roots of the begining.

Maybe the role could be similar to La acabadora or the S'Agabbadora (In the Mediterranean towns there was a woman who would finnish off someone who would be suffering for a long time by a sickness or something similar) and hitmans in the begining. Seeing the potential, nobles or officials would deploy him at wars too as a special force.

[ghostinthegallery]

Deathmarks make such good characters. Lysikor, Huntmaster, the Deathmark from Pariah Nexus. Not a stinker in the bunch. Top marks. More stories about these sniper guys plz.

[paint-pot-pete]

First of my Deathmarks. More units on the way 😁 lovely little cyclopean murder bastards 🤣

[agbpaints]

Cyclops week- painted up some sniper boys and a few weird chickens