Creator: Mammoth Factory | From £5.99
What It Is
This one has a lovely nasty silhouette. It is a female skeleton thrall in full forward motion, spear levelled as if she is about half a second from ruining somebody's day, with a ragged banner streaming behind her. The fire variant gives her a flaming skull and tongues of flame climbing around the bones and tatters, which makes the whole sculpt read less like "generic undead" and more like something a necromancer threw back into the fight before it had finished burning.
At The Table
For D&D 5e or Pathfinder 2e, this is an easy pick for a wight's honour guard, a pyre-bound revenant, or one of several elite undead in a boss room where the dead are not staying politely dead. The spear and banner make her feel like a soldier rather than a shambling corpse, so she works well in an encounter built around disciplined undead ranks, maybe the remnants of a temple guard or a fallen legion still carrying out its last order with grim enthusiasm.
In Shadowdark or Dolmenwood, I would use her as the sort of thing the party spots first by firelight, a single burning standard-bearer pacing the edge of a barrow field while the rest of the dead stay hidden in the dark. She is also good for a one-shot villain's lieutenant, the visible sign that someone has started mixing old bones with very bad magic. If you want something stranger, she would fit neatly into a Blades in the Dark ghost-war story as a spark-craft experiment gone wrong, all ceremonial remains and bottled flame, stalking an abandoned crematorium with far more purpose than is really fair.
Printed in high-quality resin. Supplied unpainted. 25mm base.
