Age of Sigmar - Fyreslayers Auric Runesmiter

 This is the Store Anniversary Special Edition Miniature from 2024. I picked it up almost a year ago when the new Warhammer Store in Saskatoon celebrated it's first anniversary. The second is coming up soon and there are more store anniversary special edition miniatures, one of which I was thinking of picking up... and I figured I couldn't justify to myself doing so if I hadn't finished the one from last year... 

Auric Runesmiter

The figure was named "Brakki the Guilded Key", but I don't think that's actually a character from any stories from the black library or a named character of any sort from the Fyreslayer battletome... so I'm just going to use it as a generic Auric Runesmiter... should I ever need one. 

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure what an Auric Runesmiter actually does for a living... though I have a feeling it might be the dude that hammers ur-golf runes into the skin of Fyreslayer warriors that give them all their powers and stuff...? I'm also pretty sure they're a playable Archtype in Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound. So I though it would be fun to pick up for that... just in case anyone ever wanted to run one. 

I don't have a lot of Fyreslayers... the only other ones I have are The Chosen Axes Warhammer Underworlds Warband... Which is plenty, for me... 

There is a part of my brain that thinks it would be fun to have one miniature for each playable archtype in Soulbound... but as they're almost alway Hero-Character models... that could get pretty expensive... Even if they weren't, since you can't buy (or field in the game) anything less than a full unit, it would get to be a lot to collect them ALL! 

The new Age of Sigmar Store Anniversary Special Edition Miniature for 2025 is a Knight-Zephyros - one of Sigmars Hunter/Assassins... They hunt down evil chaos sorcerers... and kill them... though I've seen the term assassin used to describe them, I don't think stealth or subtlety is their way... I think there might be stats for them in Soulbound... but I don't think there are any for regular tabletop Age of Sigmar... other than Neve Blacktallon - a named character, who comes with a group of odd friends!? 

Anyway, it's a neat looking model and I'll probably pick it up... 

(There is also a 40K model - a genestealer holding a marine helmet... and... honestly... if we were regularly playing Space Hulk, I would totally get that too! But we haven't played in ages, so...)