Exploring Mythos with the Priory and Wildborn Faction

Just a really short update.

First time I used the rolls from Greenstuff world. I did try it with water and with their sculpting vaseline, still, the Greenstuff stuck to them.

This resulted in a bit warped and bent sheet, but as reality gets warped that’s not a bad thing.

I did cut it up after it cured overnight, before cutting it up.

Next time I will form a greenstuff sheet and let that cure for a while before using the role on it.

As promised we’ll have a more in-depth look at the fluff and rules of Mythos.

The short version is: It is inspired by the Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos. Actually, the game derives its name from that, and one of the core mechanisms as well. The general theme of descent into madness is carried through the rules and the fluff quite well.

The gorgeous rulebook, thin, DINA5 High-quality print on thick and sturdy cardboard-paper is only 5 GBP rrp. The rulebook is full color, contains fantastic artwork and also the fluff for each of the 5 available factions.

The Miniatures each come with two two-sided cards, a small card with one side the life points to mark off and the other one with keyword definitions, while the bigger main card contains a profile on each side, which will be flipped if a character descent too much into the madness caused by horrors beyond comprehension. Each faction box also contains a card with a game overview.

The fluff of each faction is found on the website https://www.paranoid-minatures.com, so I’ll only give a brief overview for each of them:

Wildborn:

Witches and Healers of old, fed up how humanity treated them and nature. They now twist Nature and each other to fight humankind and civilization.

Priory:

Humanities Guardians. They try and protect us from the horrors lurking in the dark.

Hidden Ones:

Agents of the Old Ones. Plotting to destroy humanity and open a path to our reality for their gods.

Custos Crypta:

Insectoid Guardians of the tombs of old Egypt. Forgotten and evolved in darkness, humanities greed set them loose on the modern world.

Order of the Enlightened Path:

Humans dabbling with magic and dark powers they don’t understand.

So that’s it for today. Tomorrow we’ll start basing the two factions and then paint them.

I’ll try to give them each distinctive bases but connect them, so I’ll be using stones made from Green Stuff with the GreenStuff World rolls with the rune theme, and both will get water effects, but while the Priory will get a coastal town cobblestone theme, the Wildborn will get a forest theme.

The last thing I wanted to say, the more I read and work on the minis, the more I fall in love with them. So go check them out and ask questions here in the comments, and if you want to let us know there as well which faction you would like to start with?

As promised this entry will deal with the Wildborn faction box. The minis again are of really superb quality, minimal flash. However,  again the head of the big guy  – The Goat and the skull on the back of Loren have flow sticks placed in the worst position imaginable, both took me each extreme carefulness – as I learned from the disaster with Maharal form the Priory box – 10 minutes of extreme carefulness with an X-Acto blade.

However besides that, the minis are incredibly pleasant to be put together, everything fits without issue. They’ll require cleaning as well, which I want to stress is normal with resin, just take a bowl of hot water and add a few drops of dishwasher soap.

In general, there is no bending required, which if you’ver ever dealt with Forgeworlds resin miniatures is a happy surprise.

One thing I did notice is that they do however not bond as well as Forgeworld with the Army painter Resin/Metal Glue, so you’ll want to have some activator ready.

Please have a look at a few pictures when putting them together.

Ps.: I did already order a new Cutting mat ^^

So I started building the Priory box.

First thing I noticed the miniatures are extremely sharp and have extremely little flash. They are of extremely great quality, some of the highest quality Resin minis I’ve seen.

The second thing to notice,  you want to clean them as they feel a bit soapy, before gluing and painting.

The third thing that catches the eye is that the slots for the bases are very small so you will need some greenstuff to secure them and fill the gaps.

So now the sad part: the mold for the big guy here is located such that his hair pieces are parallel for it, and even though I am experienced and was carefully using an X-Acto knife and GW’s Flash remover, I managed to damage both of them. Sad.

However, I don’t think it’s much noticeable.

In the next post will cover the building for the Wildborn faction and the one after that we’ll have a look at the Rulebook and fluff. Then we’ll be off for painting the minis up.

So I finally received my package and opened it and had a look at the content.

The cards are of great quality, as are the rulebooks. The miniatures don’t seem to have much flash and are finely detailed and sharp, made from Resin, no Metal, and no Plastic. The packaging was extremely well and protective.

The Box Design is elegant and not overly simple but not cluttered. Really nice and looks valuable.

The back of the boxes displays the contents, which you will notice does neither contain rules, nor dice nor rulers, which is unusual nowadays for a starter box, but I don’t mind as the rules are very cheap. I will talk about those in one of the next posts in detail.

Personally, I don’t mind as after 25 years I have thousands of dice, dozens of rulers and hundreds of markers if necessary. However, I think it is worth noticing this if you’re a new player and want to start out. It’s nothing to be held against a company as it would be especially for a small start-up lots of extra cost and overhead.