The Magmahold

  Hey folks. I've been to a whole bunch of events since I last got round to blogging, so this month's blog is going to be a wrap-up of all of them.  A Crown of Salt and Shadows - AoS28 narrative event I did a full blog on this one already, which you can find here . It was a blast! I had a great time and would love to go to other similar events in future. As well as playing in the event I also had a lot of fun practicing my mini photography skills, I used my camera's macro lens and tried to get some atmospheric shots with very low depth of field, which was a good challenge. War in the Mortal Realms AoS narrative event This was a 2000 point AoS event run by Bad Moon Cafe back in June. I took my Living City army, which I painted back during lockdown but had never taken to an event before because it is terrible. But I figured a narrative event was a good opportunity to get it on the table. I'm still not sure how I feel about this one, it was great to see Bad Moon try to do ...

Last weekend I went to an AoS-28 narrative event run for the Rollmodels community, A Crown of Salt and Shadow. I had a blast, so I'm going to run through what I got up to and talk a bit about what made it a good event. The setting The event was set in Shyish, on the Isles of Munsalvesch. Queen Roswitha, the ruler of the Isles, was dying after a reign that had lasted for as long as anyone could remember. Various factions stood to profit or fall by her death, including merchant houses, the folk of the isles, the forces of law and order, and the long dead, possible mythical king of the pale salt mist. 'In a lost corner of the Dwindlesea, the Isles of Munsalvesch rise above the waves. Clinging to the rocks, the flotsam and the bones of those who came before, folk have made lives here for generations.' Essentially it was a small, fairly self-contained part of Shyish where events could play out without needing to worry about the bigger picture of AoS, though there was lots of sco...