The Bad Apple – Walking Coven Homestead

The Bad Apple – Walking Coven Homestead

Construct Monstrosity (Structure, Monster)

Lurching forward on feathered, scaly avian bipedal legs with a massive gaping timber maw, this wandering hag dwelling brings towering dread to the tabletop. Billowing chimney smoke vents from a thatched gabled roof line while a long, serpentine tongue unfurls across the soil beneath fangs of jagged wood. Keepers running deep-swamp expeditions, fairy-tale horror pursuits, or wandering coven encounters will find this massive centerpiece commands unmatched vertical presence, terrain versatility, and unyielding momentum across the grid.

Tabletop Lore

Deep within mist-shrouded fenlands where ancient covens conduct their rites beyond the prying eyes of civilization, certain hags prefer not to dwell in stationary hovels. The Bad Apple is a timber-frame homestead animated by root-curses and binding blood rituals, capable of uprooting itself when witch hunters draw near. Functioning as both a sanctuary and an apex carnivore, the cottage lurches through dense timber on immense clawed legs, snapping up wandering travelers with its front-porch gullet to feed the roaring hearth fire burning within its chimney.

Highlight

A colossal 267mm tall walking cottage centerpiece sculpt featuring scaled bird-of-prey legs, a cavernous fanged timber entrance with an extended tongue, thatched roof details, a smoking chimney plume, and a dead hanging tree fused to the rear foundation.

Encounter Insight

Deploy this Artifact as a wandering boss arena, an animated lair pursuing a fleeing party, or the moving base of operations for a hag coven. In tactical combat, Keepers can utilize its dual nature as both creature and interactive terrain, allowing ranged defenders to fire down from the thatched porch and gabled windows while its crushing talons and sweeping tongue hazard create hazardous zones across the ground below.

Features

• Gargantuan Timber Gullet: The front elevation is framed by a yawning maw lined with pointed, wooden fangs and an elongated, curling muscular tongue.
• Avian Talon Stride: Elevated on powerful bird-of-prey bipedal limbs detailed with feather plumes, coarse skin scales, and ground-gripping talons.
• Rustic Architectural Framing: Features thatched multi-tiered roofs, plank sidings, timber posts, roof dormers, and an oval porthole window.
• Volumetric Hearth Smoke: A billowing plume of dense, pillowing smoke vents dynamically from a rooftop chimney flue.
• Fused Deadwood Scaffold: The rear corner integrates a twisted, bare leafless tree with knotted branches and hanging rope nooses.
• Scenic Loam Plinth: Anchored to an expansive scenic footprint detailed with stepping stones, wheat stalks, and woodland trail gravel.

Designed For

• Climactic Lair & Boss Encounters: Serves as the ultimate mobile arena, coven sanctuary, or wandering wilderness predator.
• Interactive Terrain & Skirmish Centers: Operates naturally as a playable multi-level building, animated construct boss, or dynamic battlefield objective.
• Large-Scale Showpiece Painting: An extraordinary canvas for weathering aged wood planks, drybrushing thatch straw, highlighting feathered legs, and layering glowing hearth interior lights.

Size Category

Occupies a 5×5 square or larger (120+ mm base, Colossal Construct)