A terrifying fusion of renaissance whimsy and industrial nightmare, the Failed Apostle is a massive 100mm-base centerpiece for your most harrowing encounters. Featuring a multi-limbed chassis, screaming face-plate armor, and a twisted jester's visage, this figure perfectly captures the aesthetic of a high-tier horror boss.
A horrific fusion of flesh, machine, and madness, this jester-themed creature looms over its prey with a manic, toothy grin.
A final campaign boss or a legendary encounter that requires an entire party of high-level adventurers to coordinate against. Its multiple limbs suggest multi-attack capabilities or legendary actions.
Artist: Ronin Arts Workshop
Type: MONSTER, HERO
Pose: The figure is in a multi-limbed, aggressive crouch, supported by four mechanical legs with upper arms splayed in a threatening display.
Action: Standing/Intimidating
Mood: menacing
Action Category: Standing/Idle
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Steampunk
Suitable Locations: corrupted cathedral, nightmare dimension, underground clockwork laboratory, twisted carnival of horrors, mad scientist's lair, ruined asylum, abyssal throne room, thieves' guild secret sanctum
Encounter Scenarios: A final boss in a dark fantasy campaign, A corrupted priest or apostle transformed by forbidden technology, A guardian of a chaotic gate, A chaotic neutral NPC quest-giver who has lost their sanity
Power Level: Mythic (score 88/10)
Compatible Game Systems: Dungeons & Dragons (5e / general) (good): Excellent as a high-CR Demon, Construct, or Monstrosity boss.; Malifaux (perfect): Fits the Neverborn or Outcast aesthetic perfectly with the jester and mechanical horror theme.; Mork Borg (perfect): Matches the 'misery' and dark, surreal horror aesthetic of the system.; Warhammer 40K (usable): Could serve as a unique Chaos Spawn, Daemon Prince, or Dark Mechanicum creation.; Pathfinder (good): Works well as a unique Outsider or high-level fleshwarp/construct.
Race: Corrupted Humanoid / Construct Hybrid, Sex: Indeterminate, Build: Hulking, Size: Huge, Age: Adult, Style: Stylized Dark Fantasy
Also suitable as: Tiefling, Demon, Homunculus, Flesh Golem
Distinguishing Features: six limbs total (two humanoid arms, two mechanical arms, two mechanical legs), four-pointed jester hat, breastplate with three screaming faces, mass of thick tentacles or tails, toothy, wide grin
Weapons: curved crescent blades: Short, sickle-like blades with inward-curving edges and ornamental hilts.; three-pronged claw: A mechanical assembly ending in three sharp spikes.
Armor: breastplate (metal, torso); bracers (metal, arms)
Clothing: jester hat, ruffled collar/sleeves
Equipment: Mechanical Pistons
Accessories: Jester Baubles
Character Classes: Bard (College of Whispers / Dark) (high%), Artificer (Battle Smith / Armorer) (medium%), Warlock (medium%)
NPC Role: High-level Boss or Corrupted Antagonist
Creature: Failed Apostle (Monstrosity), Size: Huge
Body: Upper humanoid torso with two arms; two additional mechanical arms from the mid-torso; lower body is a complex mechanical chassis with four legs and a dense cluster of organic tentacles.
Also known as: Jester Abomination, Clockwork Horror, Tentacled Harlequin
Related creatures: gibbering mouther, flesh golem, marut, chaos spawn
Distinctive Features: Mechanical-organic hybrid body, Jester motif, Multiple screaming faces on chest plate
Monster Weapons & Attacks: type: Tentacles, description: Numerous thick, lashing appendages., position: lower back/underbelly, type_ja: 触手, description_ja: 多数の太く、打ち付けるような付属肢。, position_ja: 腰の後部/腹部, type: Bite, description: A wide mouth with visible sharp teeth., position: head, type_ja: 噛みつき, description_ja: 鋭い歯が見える広い口。, position_ja: 頭部, type: Crescent Blades, description: Two curved blades held in the upper hands., position: upper hands, type: Mechanical Claw, description: A three-pointed piercing tool., position: middle right arm, The screaming faces on the chest suggest a sonic or psychic attack.
Defensive Features: Mechanical leg plating, Integrated armor
Aesthetic: Creepy / Unsettling, Horrifying / Grotesque, Cool / Badass, Grimdark, Intimidating / Imposing
Cultural Aesthetic: Steampunk Victorian, Generic Western Fantasy, Slavic / Eastern European
Hairstyle: None
Similar to characters: Kefka Palazzo, Shaco, The Joker, Doctor Octopus, Kabal, Pennywise
Miniature Dimensions: 79.6mm H x 83.6mm W x 82.7mm D (base: 100.0mm)
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