Zheem Azanko
Augur of Hashulhu
"Sonorous chanting rides the whistling wind with unsettling dissonance, punctuated with guttural utterances that rattle in the skull. Clouds burgeon and roil with portentous volatility.
Perched high atop the mountains of madness, nestled amidst cyclopean masonry replete with indecipherable inscriptions, the cult of the great Hashulhu attempts an eldritch communion. As their channeling continues, one by one the cultists collapse onto the stone dais, bodies rendered into gelatinous sludge, until only one remains standing with arms outstretched, one to the left and the other above his head.
After remaining still for quite some time, with unnatural slowness, his arms move simultaneously, like the hands of a clock until they mirror their original station. His eyes open, truly open, for the first time to all manner of unknowable truths and insights beyond mortal comprehension."
Spoiled by @Zanko as so many on this forum have been in the past, I sat with his request for a banner bearer to exchange in the ad hoc Zhanta 2024. I admit, I had originally planned a quick and dirty conversion or sculpt to paint up as a unique piece. Grab a mini, sculpt some Reavery tentacles and presto pasta, a noodly emissary.
Fresh off a sorcerous podcast with @chitzkoi I was inspired by my Mom Minis Vizier and decided I’d take a whack at a dopey octopopey re-imagining. In the end it was good for me to sculpt from a physical reference, even though I went off script at the end. It was a bit painful to wait until the end to add the octoturbin since that was one of the founding ideas for the concept. As a post-justification of my actions, I figure it is only fitting that a gift for Zanko benefits the whole forum. Sorry you’ll have to wait a bit longer to get a copy!
Apologies for the lack of WIP and modularity. I really wasn’t sure he’d go up here on the bastards until it was too late. I’d love to see folks sculpt alternate hands for him or find other suitable hands among the bastard files.