Pyramid Review
Warhammer Armies: Wood Elves (for Warhammer Fantasy Battle)
Published by Games Workshop
Written by Anthony Reynolds and Matthew Ward
Illustrated by John Blanche, Alex Boyd, Paul Dainton, David Gallagher, Paul Jeacock, Nuala Kinrade and Karl Kopinski
Cover by Paul Dainton
80-page b&w softcover with color plates; $20.00
The latest army book for Warhammer Fantasy Battle's sixth edition —- and probably the last book before the inevitable seventh edition -— deals with the Wood Elves at long last. Fans of this army have been waiting a long time for a supplement dealing with the Elves of the Everwood. Will it live up to their expectations?
The Wood Elves are essentially the same magically adept expert archers and forest-lovers of every fantasy setting, but with a dark Warhammer twist. They leave the forest in Wild Hunts, killing those they cross for sport, steal away human children to be their unaging slaves, and ally themselves with capricious fairies called Spites who are as likely to go for your eyeballs with knives as they are to steal your milk.
Separated from the High Elves after their war with the Dwarfs, the Wood Elves chose to remain in the haunted and sentient forest of Athel Loren rather than retreat over the sea (brief mention is made of other Wood Elves in the Old World, though they are not described). Renaming themselves the Asrai, they divided into kinbands and settled different areas of the forest, forming pacts with the spirits . . .
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Article publication date: December 9, 2005
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