The Making of Beyond Mortality (Patreon)

I'm making this post to talk a little bit about Beyond Mortality, the first major miniature range released from Battle Yak Miniatures. Heroes of the Order of the Blue Flame use arcane technology and esoteric knowledge to battle the nightmarish Ectomorphs, creatures from beyond the veil of death itself.

The concept for Beyond Mortality began with one of my favorite video games, the eldritch horror themed rogue-like Darkest Dungeon, by Red Hook Studios (fellow Vancouver-dwellers!) I became an instant fan of Darkest Dungeon's art, with its minimalist style and intensely creative character design. The game was wonderfully atmospheric and created a very engaging eldritch horror setting, with ancient temples buried beneath an unsuspecting hamlet unleashing Lovecraftian tentacled abominations upon hapless heroes totally unprepared for what they were facing.

As it turns out, the game is also pretty easy to mod, and I dipped my toe into those waters about a year ago through the Moonlit Dungeon Modding Discord, a wonderful and supportive creative community that has developed tons of mod content for the game. All this led to the genesis of the Beyond Mortality concept, which began as a mod for Darkest Dungeon adding science-powered heroes and ghostly enemies to the game.

Making the mod was a load of fun, and in fact it's available currently on the Steam Darkest Dungeon Workshop (so check it out!)

Most fun of all was designing the heroes and creatures that went into the mod, and when I started exploring 3D printing more I decided I wasn't done with the character designs I had made, or developing the overall concept of retrofuturist science-heroes fighting ghostly monsters.

So I decided to build Beyond Mortality into its own stand-alone concept, leading to me making it the focus of my first major 3D printable miniature range.

The Beyond Mortality miniature range is available right now to subscribers at the Warrior-tier! 

Like the mod that started it, creating the Beyond Mortality miniatures was a lot of fun, and it represents some of the 3D sculpting and design work I'm most proud of artistically. And I'm still far from finished with the concept or the miniature range - there are many more frightful ectomorphs and stalwart heroes that exist as designs, waiting to take shape as 3D printable minis.

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