This Month in Mantic – January 2024

The Kings of War: The Chill of Twilight 2-Player Ambush Starter Set is the perfect way for two players to begin their Kings of War adventure – pitting the malevolent Twilight Kin against the hardy Northern Alliance.

The Twilight Kin have deliberately cast aside the morality and compassion that endowed Elvenholme with much of its grandeur at the height of the kingdom’s power. In their ruthless drive to restore the glories of the past, the Twilight Kin have shed the very essence of that past and become a sinister menace in the world of Pannithor.

Despite their rougher appearance, the elves known as Ice Kin are every bit as graceful and swift as those of other kindreds. With sharp blades and sharper senses, they fight to protect their newfound home, their winter attire doing little to stymie their elven celerity. Under threat of invasion and unwilling to join their Imperial cousins, dwarfen outcasts are drawn to Chill, braving the harsh frozen wastes to reach sanctuary.

For centuries, Basilea has seen itself as the last shining bastion of humanity, the centre of man’s power and learning, and the upholder of the traditions of Primovantor, in whose shadow it persists. Conservative by nature and paralysed by ritual it may be, Basilea still reflects some of the ancient glories of that ancient civilisation. Its cities are the largest, its princes the richest, its mages the most powerful of all the kingdoms of Men. Basilea insists that it is the only true protector of Primovantor’s legacy.

Unlike the forces of good, whose impure hearts often waver towards the allure of darkness, the forces of evil themselves are near-uniformly devoid of goodness. From the distant lands of the north, the lost kin of King Golloch’s folk plot and scheme within their fire-lit halls. Twisted almost beyond recognition, the Abyssal Dwarfs are driven by a thirst for power and wealth that surpasses mortal concepts of desire – and driven by these lusts they plan a campaign for world domination.

To be neutral in the world of Pannithor is not merely a refusal to align oneself with this race or that, nor merely a failure to declare for the forces of good or evil. For the Forces of Nature, natural balance and ecological harmony are the guiding influences. The Green Lady seeks always to preserve balance in the world, to stave off the dominance of good and evil alike, and to crush those who would seek to undo it, whoever they may be.