#lo'tos

Eldar don't need money. But Motley's making sure Ash's troupe never runs low anyway. You can see my Rogue Trader story here or check out my other Rogue Trader art here

Cegorach's murder acrobats: so entertaining they'll make you forget to keep watch for trouble.

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The players in a Harlequin troupe seem to take up fixed roles both on and off the stage, their personal interactions always suborned to the characters they portray. Of these singular roles, the High Avatar and Death Jester are most easily comprehended as those of a leader and a personification of death. The Master Mime is a more complex figure and seems to include the concepts of invisibility or shadow play. This role crosses with that of the Shadowseer – a notorious psychic puppeteer in its own right, but with functions that also embrace a nurturing aspect to offset the harshness of the kingly High Avatar. Most curious of all is the so-called Solitaire. An outcast generally shunned by the rest of the group, the Solitaire appears infrequently at performances. Only a Solitaire can perform the role of the entity that brought about the legendary downfall of the eldar race, the Chaos god Slaanesh, the being the eldar refer to as “She Who Thirsts ”. ’ – Excerpted from De Libratii Xenostius Maxima, Volume XXII, Addendum 95.0349.378 – ‘Additional apocrypha’.

Art by @magua-vida , commissioned by me. I really loved Masque of Vyle, I'm surprised there's not more art of them.

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Allein, a train of undead, and a threat hiding in the shadows.

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A hasty and unusual retreat.

The last panel are for the commentors who have been commenting on this story for almost every chapter. Thank you!

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As Master Mime and magician for the troupe, Lo’tos knew his place and seamlessly began to weave his own performance around that of Ashanthourus. He began by apishly imitating the Sun-King’s movements with his own, stepping directly in the troupe-master’s footprints. Moving like a clownish shadow, Lo’tos barely escaped the rushing blade-limbs that Ashanthourus had avoided so effortlessly. Lo’tos capered in mock terror from one of the machine-dead to another before darting back to follow the footsteps of Ashanthourus. Soon Lo’tos was fluttering around his leader and king as if in helpless supplication, before Ashanthourus led the last of the automata to impale itself on the wreckage of its fellows. Lo’tos straightened and bowed elaborately to Ashanthourus, who returned the gesture, although he did not bow so deeply. -The Masque of Vyle

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Lo’tos for his part only shrugged and blurred his mask to display the swirling mass of debris he had witnessed rushing towards him. So armed with the image of his antagonist for a face the magician crept forwards more cautiously, on hands and toes like a four-legged spider.

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Allein trying to learn eldar grace and dance when they've always had two flat feet. and Ashanthoroous has already been on the receiving end of Allein's heavy boots twice. (Accidentally)