Shadow-Horn of Stragovia – The Ossuary Steed

Shadow-Horn of Stragovia – The Ossuary Steed

Undead (Beast)

Prowling across a desecrated battlefield plinth littered with shattered shields and reaching skeletal remnants, the Shadow-Horn of Stragovia brings chilling necrotic grace to the tabletop. A tapering spiraled horn rises above sunken facial sockets and bared teeth, contrasting with torn flanks that expose an entire rib cage, hollow joints, and desiccated muscle fibers. Keepers staging haunted moorland crossings, necromantic knight encounters, or corrupted sylvan blights will find this Artifact establishes haunting physical presence and unmistakable gothic dread across the grid.

Tabletop Lore

Once venerated as celestial sentinels of pristine sylvan sanctuaries, the steeds of the northern reaches fell when necromantic plagues seeped into ancient woodland ley lines. Stripped of divine radiance yet denied peaceful decay, the Shadow-Horn of Stragovia stalks fog-bound graveyards and ruined border skirmishes bound by the will of death-knights and coven matriarchs. Where silver hooves once coaxed blossoming flowers from the turf, its blackened tread now withers vegetation, driving panicked warhorses to madness while impaling routed survivors upon a jagged, marrow-stained horn.

Highlight

A macabre undead equine sculpt featuring a spiraled alicorn horn, an exposed rib cage with hollow flank wounds, necrotic muscle striations, and an expansive battlefield plinth cluttered with weapons, skulls, and reaching skeletal arms.

Encounter Insight

Deploy the Shadow-Horn of Stragovia as a terrifying apex mount for an undead champion, an unholy guardian patrolling a desecrated burial ground, or a tragic corrupted beast confronting parties in blighted wilderness zones. In tactical encounters, Keepers can utilize its broad charging profile to break frontline defensive formations, leveraging its terrifying presence to scatter minion screens while using its reach to impale vulnerable backline spellcasters.

Features

• Spiraled Corrupted Horn: Sculpted with a straight, ridged helical horn protruding forward from a sunken skull crest.
• Exposed Skeletal Ribs: Flank and abdomen feature torn necrotic hide revealing an articulated rib cage, hollow thoracic cavity, and shredded musculature.
• Snarling Undead Portrait: Modeled with drawn lips baring predatory equine teeth, gaunt orbital hollows, and wind-whipped neck mane locks.
• Trotting Carnage Stance: Posed in a deliberate forward walk with raised hooves and a trailing, ragged tail.
• Battlefield Carnage Plinth: Anchored to a round scenic base covered in loose gravel, clustered wild mushrooms, human skulls, a discarded round shield, shattered blades, and a reaching skeletal arm.

Designed For

• Gothic Horror & Moorland Skirmishes: Populates foggy burial mounds, blighted forests, ruined battlefields, and necromancer strongholds.
• Undead Mounts & Boss Servants: Operates naturally as a nightmare variant, corrupted unicorn, skeletal warhorse, death-knight steed, or roaming cemetery predator.
• Weathered Bone & Rot Painting: An exceptional canvas for painting exposed ivory rib cages, bruised necrotic flesh, rusted steel weapon debris, and spectral eye glows.

Size Category

Occupies a 2×2 square (50mm base, Large Undead)