The Wild Hunt

[snitcythedog]

I have always been intrigued by the myth of the Wild Hunt.  For this build I was unable to find any skeletal dogs that fit what I imagined so I just used some ghostly cavalry that I found on Etsy.  Painted using Ana Polanscak's wonderful tutorial from the old Garden of Hecate Blog.  Still needs tufts and vegetation.  I don't actually have a game system that I can field it in so it is just a neat miniature to go on the shelf.  More photos on my blog if you are interested. 



Hope you like. 

[Inkpaduta]

What exactly is a wild Hunt and what is the myth behind it?

[Pattus Magnus]

I can’t comment on the myth, we have other ones here, but I really like the model!

For the tufts, how heavy are you planning to go with them? I like the devastated look the base currently has. Adding some tufts would work well, maybe with healthy looking ones toward the outside of the base and fewer and dead looking ones close to the ghosts, so it looks like the spirits are killing the plants as they ride across them?

[snitcythedog]

For the tufts, how heavy are you planning to go with them? I like the devastated look the base currently has. Adding some tufts would work well, maybe with healthy looking ones toward the outside of the base and fewer and dead looking ones close to the ghosts, so it looks like the spirits are killing the plants as they ride across them?

I plan on a few different types that will look more scorched the further into the base you go. 

What exactly is a wild Hunt and what is the myth behind it?

It is a ghostly hunt that depending on where it will either carry you away to join the hunt, carry you miles away or it will kill you.  Here is a quick primer.  https://norse-mythology.org/the-wild-hunt/

[ithoriel]

A well executed and evocative piece.

Personally I imaging the Wild Hunt as more Dark Ages than Medieval but we are all entitled to our own vision of imaginary entities!

[ithoriel]

My first encounter with the Wild Hunt was, thankfully, in literature.

Alan Garner's book "The Moon of Gomrath" has the Einheriar of the Herlathing as incarnations of the Old Magic. They are much more colourful and fantastical than the mythical Wild Hunts I've read of since.

[Chairface]

Lovely minis, and a wonderful subject.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

A well executed and evocative piece.

Personally I imaging the Wild Hunt as more Dark Ages than Medieval but we are all entitled to our own vision of imaginary entities!

Sure, but like their 19th century successors, successful elves and spirits, such as the man with the thistle down hair, may dress only in the latest of fashions.

[Daeothar]

Great work! The desaturated palette works really well with the subject matter 

And the Wild Hunt has usually been depicted in contemporary garb whenever it was mentioned. As I'm knee deep in Lowlands folklore right now, I can mention the Bokkenrijders (buckriders) for instance; a band of bandits that roamed the south of the Netherlands and North of Belgium at the end of the eighteenth century. They were closely associated with the Wild Hunt and, as the legend suggests, were riding bucks through the sky. For which many were tried as executed as witches btw...

[Tom Dulski]

 what a great piece

[anevilgiraffe]

I had some notes somewhere on the wildhunt for my Folk Horror project...

[ithoriel]

A modern incarnation is to be found in the lyrics of "Ghost Riders In The Sky." I rather like the Geoff Castelluci version but there are many others.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=y5qZrrovpuw

[Bloggard]

brilliantly done.

very evocative subject (first encounted it in the Witcher game tbh, which I tried to get into a while back).

[FierceKitty]

My first encounter with the Wild Hunt was, thankfully, in literature.

Alan Garner's book "The Moon of Gomrath" has the Einheriar of the Herlathing as incarnations of the Old Magic. They are much more colourful and fantastical than the mythical Wild Hunts I've read of since.

Have you read the third book in the trilogy? I've been reluctant to try, given that I dislike most of Garner's later writing but was fond of the earlier stuff (despite their serious shortcomings).

[ithoriel]

Have you read the third book in the trilogy? I've been reluctant to try, given that I dislike most of Garner's later writing but was fond of the earlier stuff (despite their serious shortcomings).

I was in my early teens and spending a couple of weeks on holiday with my aunt and uncle when I was introduced to the Weirdstone and Moon of Gomrath by my aunt. I was told that if I could read both books by the end of the holiday my aunt and uncle would take me and a couple of my cousins to the places mentioned in the book. By the end of day two I'd finished both. So at dusk on day three we were at Alderley Edge visiting the Wizards Well, Clockhouse Wood, the Mossock's farm, etc.

As a twelve or thirteen year old, as we roamed the Edge every rustle in the undergrowth was either a svart alfar scuttling through the woods or lios alfar guarding our passage.
Those two books were magical then .. and still are. I couldn't bring myself to read the third in case it was a disappointment.