La Cirque du Tenebrae - a new company for IHMN/HVF

[Craig]

As promised here is another new company to celebrate the release of Heroes, Villains and Fiends.
The PDF cam be found here: http://inhermajestysname.wordpress.com/additional-material/

Despite being eclipsed in recent times by the mercantile fleet of Great Britain, the Doges of Venice still maintain a significant trading presence in the Mediterranean, Black and Baltic seas.
Of late though they have become more interested in banking and the acquisition and trading of information. They have agents scattered across the courts of Europe but their role is the gathering of intelligence, not covert operations. For these they employ a most intriguing solution - La Cirque du Tenebrae, the circus of
shadows. There are six of these small troupes of performers on the roads of Europe. A seventh remains at the Doge's Palace where it trains the replacements for the relentless attrition amongst its agents.
They travel from town to city to palace entertaining peasant and prince alike with their acrobatics, daring knife acts, mysterious magicians and sinister clowns. As they do so they seduce officials, acquire important
information both by guile and force, and perform small acts of sabotage and assassination. Only the Vatican's secretive Cognoscenti have as fine an appreciation of the wheels and levers of power in mainland Europe.
Through hundreds of often small and quickly forgotten interventions they are able to manipulate the successions of Kings and Emperors, the polices of Empires and the course of history.

[lou passejaire]

yessssssssssss ....  

a fantastic base for a company using those clowns on unicycle i bought years ago from eureka ...

any idea of manufacturer for the  other characters ?

but it's LE (and not la) cirque du tenebrae 

[Craig]

but it's LE (and not la) cirque du tenebrae 

I stand corrected, there again I did give up French at 14

[lou passejaire]

i give up english at 18, and "pas mieux" 

[lou passejaire]

yessssssssssss ....  

a fantastic base for a company using those clowns on unicycle i bought years ago from eureka ...

any idea of manufacturer for the  other characters ?

but it's LE (and not la) cirque du tenebrae 

oups ... brigade games ...

[Bullshott]

I have been considering a Cabinet Noir variant, where the company uses a circus troupe as cover. Possible names include Le Cirque Macabre or Le Cirque Oriental (both options containing appropriatley themed minis (plus legionaires in civilian clothing).

[Michi]

As promised here is another new company to celebrate the release of Heroes, Villains and Fiends.
The PDF cam be found here: http://inhermajestysname.wordpress.com/additional-material/

Despite being eclipsed in recent times by the mercantile fleet of Great Britain, the Doges of Venice still maintain a significant trading presence in the Mediterranean, Black and Baltic seas.
Of late though they have become more interested in banking and the acquisition and trading of information. They have agents scattered across the courts of Europe but their role is the gathering of intelligence, not covert operations. For these they employ a most intriguing solution - La Cirque du Tenebrae, the circus of
shadows. There are six of these small troupes of performers on the roads of Europe. A seventh remains at the Doge's Palace where it trains the replacements for the relentless attrition amongst its agents.
They travel from town to city to palace entertaining peasant and prince alike with their acrobatics, daring knife acts, mysterious magicians and sinister clowns. As they do so they seduce officials, acquire important
information both by guile and force, and perform small acts of sabotage and assassination. Only the Vatican's secretive Cognoscenti have as fine an appreciation of the wheels and levers of power in mainland Europe.
Through hundreds of often small and quickly forgotten interventions they are able to manipulate the successions of Kings and Emperors, the polices of Empires and the course of history.

You have read my thoughts!!!  

[abdul666lw]

Not to be nitpicking but on the opposite trying to be helpful, if the name is French it would be Le Cirque de Tenebrae (or des Ténèbres), if in Italian (it's Venitian) Il circo delle Tenebre, if in Latin (if in the Vatican secret service) Circus Tenebrarum.

A very original and intriguing concept, in any case; propitious to gaming with unconventional miniatures (some Malifaux and even Carnevale ones, for instance). Reminds me -in more 'gothic'- of classical French 'swashbuckling' novels movies such as Le Capitan, le Capitaine Fracasse, La Tour prends garde... where the hero(es) travels as a member of a theatrical troop.

[former user]

excellent idea!
but make sure to post pictures, otherwise they don't exist 

gorgeous stuff, as usual, Michi! 
I was wondering whether the lady with the pantomime face is from Brazil 

[The_Beast]

Not to be nitpicking but on the opposite trying to be helpful, if the name is French it would be Le Cirque de Tenebrae (or des Ténèbres), if in Italian (it's Venitian) Il circo delle Tenebre, if in Latin (if in the Vatican secret service) Circus Tenebrarum...

And if you're going to repeat posts 'tween TMP and here, so shall I! 

> Obviously, a code name created by the American Secret Service…
>
> Who else could so mangle the language? ;->=

Doug

[Craig]

Oh we do have a very classy form of pedant here don't we