I looked outside the window of my games room and initially bemoaned the weather. Then I realised – “Hey I’m in lock -down” – can’t go outside anyway and suddenly I felt much better. I then thought (I know unusual for Guru to have two thoughts in a row) that what great weather to finish off some figures that live in deep mists.

Hero Quest was the catalyst for myself and my two sons to get involved in Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I have to say my all time favourite figures from that game were the Fimir.

The Fimir are a hostile and malicious race of reptilian humanoids with one eye, from the tabletop games Warhammer Fantasy Battles and HeroQuest.

History

The Fimir are cyclopean amphibious humanoid creatures that haunt swamps, fens and desolate moorlands throughout the northern Old World. Their strongholds take the form of forbidding, craggy piles of rock, crudely built in the semblance of the castles of more civilized races. Such dwellings are seldom seen by outsiders, for they are wreathed in thick mist, a miasma which is magically generated by the Fimir to shield their fortresses from prying eyes, and themselves from the harsh glare of the sun.

Long before the rise of Man, possibly while the High Elves and the Dwarves ruled the Old World, the Fimir worshiped the Chaos Gods, and for a time enjoyed their favor. But then, the attention of the gods was swiftly drawn to the more vibrant and amusing race of humans, and the Fimir were abandoned, reduced to seeking boons from bound Daemons where once they had enjoyed the blessings of gods. However, they are still loyal to the Chaos Gods to some degree. They seek to destabilize the barrier between the mortal world and the Realm of Chaos, thus aiding the Chaos Gods to their ultimate victory, and so regaining their favor.

Fimir have thick, protective yellowish-green skin, pointed snouts, jagged fangs, and a single large eye. The Fimm are the strongest of the Fimir, with cruel bony clubs at the tips of their tails. The “Bale fiends”, on the other hand, have “witch sight” in their singular eyes

Long before the rise of Man, possibly while the High Elves ruled the Old World, the Fimir worshiped the Chaos Gods, and for a time enjoyed their favour. Alas, the Eye of the Gods was swiftly drawn to the more vibrant and amusing race of Man, and the Fimir were abandoned, reduced to seeking boons from bound Daemons where once they had enjoyed the blessings of gods. However, they are still loyal to the Chaos Gods. They seek to destabilize the barrier between the mortal world and the Realm of Chaos, thus aiding the Chaos Gods to their ultimate victory, and so regain their favour.

Most Fimir are male. The only female Fimir are the Meargh, powerful spell-casters who rule the Fimir clans. There is only one Meargh per clan, so if she has a daughter, the daughter will leave to form her own clan. The Meargh is aided by a cabal of sorcerers known as Dirach. The Fimm are the warrior caste of Fimir society, but the majority of clan members are the lowly Shearls.

Important possessions to a Fimir clan are crude talismans that can summon a thick cover of mist and fog. Such talismans are carried by Fimir war-bands on raids and expeditions (Fandom with spelling mistakes corrected!).

Now the figures I am talking about are not those puny plastic Hero Quest types, but the “true blue”, “dinky-di”, “original”, “old school”, WFB metal Fimir. These guys are almost worth their own weight in gold these days they are so rare.

Below is the WFB 1988 Games workshop catalogue page for the Fimir. So it looks like I have a Dirach wizard and two warriors.

Not sure if/when they will ever get used, but they will look cool on the shelf and I am pleased that another project, decades in the waiting, is now finally finished even if on a cold and wet Covid-19 lock-down morning.

CHEERS