The mysterious Demiurg of the first decade of this millennium was a teasing concept and attempt to reboot the Squats as a more alien species in Warhammer 40’000, not wholly dissimilar from the out-in-the-cold status of Chaos Dwarfs in Warhammer Fantasy at the same time. Both sported occasional mentions in official background materials, a few new miniatures and tidbits to throw people a bone about the mystery. Fringe niche stuff, for the avid enthusiasts to embroil themselves in and get creative about. While the Chaos Dwarfs of WHFB got new releases every decade, the Squats and Demiurg stayed cold until Leagues of Votann rolled in with a fantastic backround vision for space Dwarfs. I cannot recommend the first dozen or so pages of the new Squat codex highly enough: Treat yourself and read it if you haven’t!
Still, the resemblance between WHFB Chaos Dwarfs and 40k Demiurg carries over to the realm of community creativity. Lately, I discovered that there had in fact been a fair amount of community creativity around the Demiurg, including converted armies in project logs and various artworks scattered over different websites. This corresponds on a much smaller scale to the gigantic amount of community creativity over on Chaos Dwarfs Online. While CDO requires many thousands of pictures salvaged for a compilation, the Demiurg required only a few dozen.
While small in number, these community works are still visionary and excellent concepts, and well worth looking at.
Especially so if you want to model Leagues of Votann Kin with strange cloneskeins in close contact with the Tau Empire. For you know what? Demiurg as hinted at in previous background is still relevant, only now we know that they are Kin. And most prominently the Seran-Tok Mercantile League, known to have traded the most with Tau.
And so, I want to share the Demiurg salvage work I did for my own references, made far easier by the efforts of Old Lawgrim over on the sadly dead forum Space Dwarfs Online. Naturally, official and community-brewn both feature:
@Fuggit_Khan and other Squat collectors of yore may find some interest with this parallell pocket in 40k to our works here on CDO.