GW’s recent Malign Portents campaign gave me the final push I required to start building a Death army for Age of Sigmar. Admittedly, I didn’t need much pushing and between how great the Malign Portents and Legions of Nagash books looked and the fact that my local GW was having a store birthday celebration it wasn’t too hard to splurge on a new Death army.

I wanted to paint my death army in a way different to any I’d seen before, but at the same time keep it traditional and even lore-inspired if at all possible. Age of Sigmar, being a far more flamboyant setting than the Old World, certainly makes it easy to conceive of some pretty radical looking undead: golden metallic, fiery red, crystal, etc. Still, I wanted something colourful that still had a lot of bone and bone colour in it, otherwise, why bother?

I stumbled upon a brief passage in the Nagash volume of the Warhammer End Times books, describing the forces of the Silver Pinnacle, a Neferata army, and a legion within called the Green Skulls. Suitably, it is an undead legion with, you guessed it, glowing green skulls. Loved the concept, and I think it will carry through an entire army brilliantly. Here’s my first unit, just completed.