ThreeA - Hex : Pumpkin Pi by Crystal Jade Vaughn.

Double, double toil and trouble, Hexy bathe and pumpkin bubble!

- write up from the box.

A (mis) interpretation:

Name: Morrigan.

Age: Unknown.

Alias: The Phantom Queen.

Affiliation: The Dark Elves of Naggaroth.

Abilities: Speed, dexterity, agility, strength; cunningness; master combatant; master strategist and tactician; magic manipulation; enchanted allure; healing factor; immortality.

Std. armaments: "The Sword of Khaine"- bleaksword x 1.

The Dark Elves or Dokkalfar are a race of harsh, warlike and vicious elves. They are the mortal enemy of their own kin, the Light Elves or Ljosalfar. In ages past, the Elves are once a united race comprising various clans and tribes. They are amongst the first sentient beings which come into existence when the world is still young. The Elves are similar to humans but with greater intellect, heightened sense of perception, physiology and closer empathy with nature itself. Physically, they are tall and lean, fair skinned with pointed ears and larger eyes. They have been described as one of the most enchanted looking race in existence. The Elves are immortal although they can be slaine or die of grief and weariness. They are immune to any form of diseases and heal rapidly from even the most grievous wounds as well as capable of surviving in harsh environments. The Elves built many great kingdoms on the young world which they eventually consolidated into a mighty empire, ruling over the other emerging races. They are also immune to any forms of magic attacks. But due to their heightened senses and keen sensitive mind, the Elves are successible to psychic attack and corruption from the Immaterium. Although Elves are way beyond a human in terms of speed, dexterity and strength, they are physically fragile. Famous adventurer and master of magic, William "Bleak" Mission once remarks that in theory, a strong punch could knock an Elf out cold, provided of course that individual could reach the Elf in the first place. When the forces of Chaos rampage across the world, lead by the mighty champion Belial from the Realm of the Ruinous Powers after the Chaos worshipping Fomorians summon a warp portal to open, it is the Elves that successfully defend the world and launch a counter attack against the foul beings, casting them back into the Immaterium through the warp portal, which is known as The Vortex of Ulthuan. They sealed it off with wards and enchanted spells. For millennia, the Elves rule over the other races, including the dwarves, the faeries and the firstborn humankind, the Hyborians. Eventually it is through their own hands that cause the collapse of their civilisation. Without any serious threats to their rule, the Elves become complacent, and through subtle corruption from secretive Chaos cultists of Ishtar, the goddess of pleasure and pain, lead them to indulge in extreme pleasure seeking acts of depravity and debauchery. These acts soon degenerate into excessive sadism through infliction of torture as well as murder. The boundless decadency of the Elves begin to empower further the influence of Ishtar within the Immaterium. Nevertheless a handful of Elves come to self realisation the degree of degenerative acts their own kins have fallen, and begin to distance themselves from the perverse practise. This group calls themselves The Eldar or The People of the Stars. They are soon joined by greater number of Elves. The Council of Phoenix, the ruling body of the Elves, having corrupted by the cultists of pleasures and pains, decrees the Eldar to be heretic under the influence of Chaos. They are captured, extensively tortured and executed. The Council also takes the opportunity to eliminate their political enemies through false accusations and executions without trials. These series of acts anger many Elves and soon the ranks of the Eldars begin to increase exponentially. Calling themselves the Light Elves, they begin to secretly make preparations to take on the Council and their armies. Three years later, the Elves Civil War breaks out, known as The Kinslayings or The Kin Strife. The war lasts seven standard years with victories achieve and defeats suffer by both sides. Finally on the seventh year, the Light Elves successfully break the back of the Council armies and utterly defeat them. The survivors scatter around the world but are hunted down. Without choice, they hide themselves deep beneath the mountains. Within the labyrinths of caverns, they carves out crude fortresses and buildings, establishing a city call Naggaroth. They comes across orcs and trolls whom they eventually enslave as well as forging an alliance with the lizard men. They face threats from the dwarves of Moria and skirmishes with them. Over the millennia, their skin turns purplish or bluish hue, and call themselves the Dark Elves. Then a Phoenix Overseer, Morrigan, is determined to exact revenge upon the Light Elves. She and her armies march out into the open, with hordes of orcs, trolls and lizard men. She also convinces the giant Fomorians,  the Jotnar of Jotunheim and the Titans into an alliance with her. Under her banner of the crescent moon, for Morrigan worships Mani the moon goddess, she leads her hosts into six major battles against the Ljosalfar. A mighty warrior priestess, Morrigan slay twenty Light Elves champions and six Princes. During the sixth battle, known as Dagor Nimaeth Amoediad or The Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Morrigan decides on a final gamble. She gathers her sorceresses and attempts to unravel the Vortex of Ulthuan. As Morrigan and her coven begin the dark ritual, the mages of the Light Elves intervene, weaving a powerful counter spells. The resulting magical backlash causes the terrible cataclysm known as The Sundering, of which massive tidal waves several thousands meters high strike major Elven kingdoms, drowning millions of Elves and other races, submerging great parts of the continents beneath the sea, forever changing the facet of the land. It effectively ends the Light Elves as a race, with only a handful of survivors. Seeing the destruction, the Nine Sisters unite together and lead the other great Houses, including The Dagda of the Tuatha De Danann, Woutan of the Aesirs, Dyaus of the Olympians and Gilgamesh of the Hyborians  to form the Last Alliance and wage The War of Wrath against Morrigan. She doesn't flinch. Instead she orders the Formorians to ambush the Tuatha De Danann amongst the green fields of Bru na Boinne, while the Jotnar engages the Aesirs at Asgard and the Titans assault Mount Olympus. The battle is so terrible that the world is thrown in utter destruction. Nevertheless, the Nine Sisters use all their might and Morrigan's defeat is so great that the Dark Elves and those under her banner are utterly annihilated. Morrigan and few survivors retreat back into the underworld of Naggaroth of which is protected by a powerful spell weaves by Morrigan herself. For the next few millennia, the Dark Elves are not seen nor heard of. They are a dwindling species, even though there are new born, the Dark Elves could never again regain back their former powers and glories. Their civilisation fall into despair, a primal like state. Morrigan becomes the Phantom Queen of Naggaroth. Having learnt of the Great Change, of which many of the first races which used to inhabits the land are no longer in existence or have gone to other worlds or dimensions, Morrigan focuses on exacting revenge on the descendents of the Hyborians, the current humankind. She has become mentally unstable by then, and her followers are extremely cautious of her fickleness and taste for sadistic, murderous inclination. This is partly due to her immortality as she has been in existence since the awakening of the Elves at the dawn of time. Her accumulated experience and knowledge are unparalleled, highly intelligent and outright devious with mighty combat skills. Morrigan makes Ishtar and Mani the primary goddesses to be worshipped by the Dark Elves, carrying out perverse rituals in their names. She is also an avatar of Khaine, the war god of the Elves. As such Morrigan is gifted with The Sword of Khaine, a master crafted Bleaksword made of nanocrystalline adamastos hyper alloy and contains the essence of the bloodlust god of war himself. It is an incomparably sharp and strong weapon, capable of cutting and slashing apart any physical object. She has also become a mistress of the dark arts of sorcery, capable of conjuring any forms of magic. Morrigan is extremely beautiful and she uses this to her advantage, manipulating and enchanting her targets, subjugate them to carry out her commands until she is bored of them, of which she would personally torture them alive, deriving pleasures from the sounds of their screams. When a herald of Crom Cruach and his entourage come uninvited into Naggaroth to seek her audience in her throne hall, Morrigan becomes agitated and simply cut apart the herald's head, severing it into half with a single swing of her sword. The entourage are killed on spot by Morrigan's own retinues. She then strips off her garbs and bath herself in the blood of the giant pumpkin head.

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Crystal Jade Vaughn is one the latest creator and addition to the ThreeA roaster of artists. Hex is the first figure based on her ideas and illustrations, which are great. I have to forgo Sawyer and the milk carrying robot (which I forgotten the name) due to lack of funds. Anyway this figure is great with tight joints and good QC all around. There is a sword and a bath towel for her, yes a bath towel with a crescent moon symbol on it. It comes with a heavy Pumpkin head which is severed into half. I do not know what it is made of but incredibly heavy. And of course the bubbly bath cover. Initially I am at lost on how to pose her bathing in the pumpkin bath tub (he he). The purple bubbly bath cover also stained her chest of which I later uses acne cream to remove after I tried to use eraser to remove the stain. As a result, one of the skin suffers from peeling. Sigh. Later I learnt from the forum that I have to remove both her arms which I did and eureka, the bathing pose. The sword holding fingers are also fused together, but could be easily but carefully cut, using a penknife. The fan fiction self made silly background story is based on Games Workshop Warhammer universe, the Celtic and Irish mythology.