Four Horsemen Studios’ Mythic Legions Advent of Decay was their second Mythic Legions Kickstarter and added a slew of new female characters and goblins to the line. I’m finally starting to crack open my backer-kit order and decided to kick off with one of the new knights, Gwendolynne Heavensbrand. Let’s take a look!
Gwendolynne, like all of the Mythic Legions figures, comes in some very collector friendly packaging that you can easily open and re-close. The card features some lush fantasy artwork by Nate Baertsch that is super hard to recycle. It’s too pretty.
The side insert features a little bio about Gwen which poses her as Commander of her brother Gideon’s order of Eathyron and a bit more ruthless than the idealistic Gideon.
The figure comes with a good number of accessories including a shield, two swords, two shoulder pads, a weapon strap, a feather for the helmet, an unmasked head, and three silver adapter pieces for adding wings.
The piece with smaller peg holes can be used with the wings from the Ravens from a previous Four Horsemen line. The second piece has bigger peg holes for newer wings and the third smaller piece looks to me like it’s designed to extend the other two pieces further out behind the back. I’m assuming it’s to try and get around hair and armor.
I only have the skeleton wings, but the adapter peg works really well, plugging in stiff and holding the wings well.
The big sword is a beautiful two hander with a shiny gold paint for the hilt and a shiny silver blade.
I think the smaller sword is a repaint of the sword that came with Gideon Heavensbrand and isn’t quite as flashy, but seems to fit a bit better proportionately with the figure.
The alternate head is pretty cool. She’s got really long hair, but it’s sculpted with the figure’s armor in mind and actually gets a decent range of motion.
The strap can be slung across the body or around the waist and holds both swords well, but I think I prefer her without the strap.
The shoulder pads are designed just like the pads from the other Mythic Legions figures as they plug into large holes in the back of the shoulder.
The figure looks pretty great with or without the shoulder pads.
The feather attachment plugs into a hole in the head and stays in pretty well, though it can pop out when you are moving the head around. I’m surprised at how well balance the figure is with that big piece of plastic on the head.
The sculpt on this figure is just astounding in the amount of detail packed into every body part. The body also has a powerful and feminine build.
The articulation is very good and like the original Mythic Legions, gets a lot of range of motion out of a heavily armored body. Gwen has:
- Ball and socket head and upper torso
- Swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, hips, wrists, knees, and ankles
- Swivel waist, thigh, and gauntlet
- Hinged face mask
Both head sculpts are beautiful and I especially like how the face mask hinges down over the face and has a nice big grill where you can see the face between the slats.
The paint is really impressive featuring a ton of super shiny gold and judicious use of purple and silver highlights. The armor has a good wash that brings out all of those copious armor details. The paint is a little thick on the face, but the eyes and lips really pop.
Overall I’m very pleased with my first Advent of Decay figure and can’t wait to crack into more. The figure is versatile, poseable, solid, and a lot of fun. The hinged face mask adds depth to the helmet that makes me like it more than any of the other helmeted Mythic Legions figures I have.
