JohnR's Month 4 - Leader and Monster Month (525.5 points)

A trip to wales for a get together for multiple significant family birthdays (18th, 21st, 40th, 50th, 50th, 50th and 80th!) was followed by two weeks in South West France this month, severely curtailing my painting time and I was going to take a mulligan*. But then we got back to Blighty with 6 days to spare and I just wanted to sit quietly and paint for some reason...

So here is my offering for April. Our eponymous (anti)hero, the pro/antagonist of my challenge, the man, the myth, the legend himself: Aksys the Evil.

Aksys is completely bonkers. His mood swings between black depression and gregarious friendliness, acute paranoia and a narcissistic, manic megalomania.

Sometimes he’ll wander through the camp, trying to strike up friendly conversation with plague monks or shake hands with goblins. Asking them about their day, what they do and whether they enjoy their job? At other times he’ll refuse to leave his tower, brooding in a black fugue, coiled inward, engaged in whispered arguments with himself. Then he’ll appear at his balcony and rant and rave, through spittle flecked lips, promising to drown the world in blood, all the while watched from below by his bemused minions.

Still he is a powerful mage and possessed of a devious cunning. His followers live in awe and fear of him: the fact he has a Jabberwock as a devoted pet probably helps in that regard.

Aksys raised Mittens from an egg and the creature follows him everywhere like a love sick puppy. During Aksys’ spells and rituals Mittens mimics his movements with gangly limbs, chattering and braying childishly as Aksys chants words of power.

Of course should anyone threaten Aksys, Mittens would tear their limbs off. A fact not lost on Aksys’ more ambitious captains and lieutenants.

I also put paint on a couple of Rat Ogres and their Beastmaster.

This month's tally:

Aksys, level 20 human sorcerer                240  points

Mittens, jabberwock                                  200  points

Skaven Beastmaster with 2 Rat Ogres        85.5 points

The army so far:

I'll try to get some better photo's next month...

*on the plus side it also meant several weeks off Facebook, which I didn't miss at all and don't plan on going back to :)