#false ravens

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An assortment of goobers. (I missed drawing these guys!)

Some lore and yapping under the cut:

This was for an “assorted Ravens” page on Artfight for ppl to chose other designs from or make up their own if they wanted. Including chaos spawn too, or more like half-spawn: most of these guys tend to inevitably succumb to a sort of flesh-change problem where older or just less psychically skilled warband members begin to lose their ability to disguise themselves as regular space marines (or whatever they are impersonating, they have dreadnoughts and vehicles etc too) Those that can't physically disguise themselves 100% can sometimes use "trick of the light" tactics to appear passingly normal, or create other illusions at a distance, but this requires psychic skill and is far less effective against anyone/anything that is sensitive to or skilled in warp/psyker nonsense. But yeah they also have a handful of these spirit-healer types (I have yet to come up with a good term) dedicated to guiding other members through this process when their bodies start to falter - sometimes it ends in failure, sometimes it ends up with members stuck in this halfway state where they are degraded pretty heavily into chaos-spawn territory, but still have a degree of control over their bodies. Just the nature of things when you make pacts with the denizens of Tzeentch..!

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Silly page that started out as warmup doodles assembled over time. Chaos unleashed!

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Had this critter sitting in my folder for a while, decided to finish up some of the sketches and throw together a half-baked ref sheet hah Combo refpage, yapping and greyscale lineworks:

More heldrakes! This one based on the Xiphon interceptor. This specific one ends up with the False Ravens by accident, very "oops it followed me home ma what the heck do we do with it now" and it's been shoved into the mix with their warptalons, which have a similar enough disposition to get along with it to keep it entertained & have it refrain from shredding warband members. It's been put under raptor captian Vron's care, much to his utter dismay, hehehe I have some oldies somewhere based on other 40k vehicles I should finish... but my beef with the canon heldrake designs is that they just look like metal dragons. Which is cool, but doesn't visually story-tell the whole "pilot + daemon + fighter fusion" thing. (I think I've written about that before but I'll say it again!!)

This could go for daemon engines in general too, though there are some cool ones out there. It always delights me greatly to see people make weird custom designs of 'em. I get that you need standardization for tabletop-toy-production reasons, but I wanna see more variety and weirder designs for Chaos especially! (Fellow chaos & weird critter enthusiasts please feel free to send me stuff if you've seen any bangers, I'm not online enough these days to catch most things so I'm sure a lot of cool stuff out there is flying under my radar!)

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A bit late, but I hope that those who celebrate Halloween had a good time! Have some goofy goobers

(I sure had fun, it's the first time I hadn't celebrated that one alone in...many years, I don't think I want to count LOL) It's been over a decade since I carved any pumpkins too, so that was fun to do again! Ofc I had to attempt a Creature hehe

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Another lil menace on the loose!

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"Mirror, mirror"

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Another concept/sketch batch I have been sitting on for a while, suppose I could toss this out into the aether now haha Basically it's a whole chaos space marine warband based around mimicry and infiltration - they look like a suspiciously normal space marine chapter from the outside but OOPS! It's all mimics.

(And not just the space marines/power armor, but everything is game: crew fused with their vehicles, transforming weapon "familiars," etc. It gets silly.)

They stem from the Raven Guard but can end up anywhere, and will take on the colors/appearance necessary to pass undetected. there is a catch though: their presence has a tendency to cause things around them to start to warp and glitch and in extreme cases, essentially cause little warp micro-rifts that end up mimic-ifyng things around them - so they pretty much have to operate solo to have the best chance at keeping their disguise up.

This CAN work to their advantage though if they are attacking in full-force as a warband, and some older members might have fallen too far to Chaos to keep up a normal "shell" anymore, so the overly mutated fellows have to be put to different uses (in fact, there a degree of hierarchy of mutation stages that influences how they organize themselves as a warband & determines everyone's primary functions. And it's not really one over the other either - there are not all that many of them, so they have more luck spreading their influence clandestinely versus relying on brute force of any kind, that would have to be for emergencies. So, some of the more senior & mutated fellows might be more powerful on a physical/psychic level, but it is also like a forced retirement from their infiltration role, so it limits what they can do to further the warband's interests.)

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Attack for Zyhe on AF!

Look like someone tripped through a portal and ended up in the wrong setting. Chaos ensues!