Hello ~

Alright, one more sneak peak before tomorrow's launch. Scroll down for important EU backer news.

Shade! This one will be 2.5" large size, hard enamel plated with black nickel and with a UV printed design. As always there's a bit of lore all the way at the bottom if you're interested!

Unfortunately, the rest of this tier isn't finished yet. Its been an... Eventful few weeks, sadly. But! Like last year I'll be making designs as the campaign goes on :). Pintober is my favourite campaign of the year, and we'll continue to match our funding with stretch goals all the way until the end.

Unfortunately... Shipping regulations are changing again. We're proud to ship worldwide, but its becoming a challenge. We are leaving the option to back from the EU open at this time, but if we can't navigate these changes when the time comes for fulfilment your pledge will be automatically cancelled and refunded; you won't lose money for products you don't receive. This time, there will be a charge for each type of different item in your cart; so one for pins, one for stickers, one for notebooks etc. This is £5 per item type, and its added on top of your usual shipping fees. We'll make sure that freebies don't add to your costs, but we highly recommend sticking with one type of product. I'll add some pin only bundles to make it easier. 

We are grateful for all of our backers, and we're very sorry its come to this. There's just nothing we can do. 


And that's it for now! We have some more surprises on the way. The pumpkin poll has concluded, the results were definitely surprising! I was sure orange would be one of the top two (it'll be a post campaign stretch goal in the add-on store instead). 

Stay tuned for our post launch update!

Shade is what happens when you shrink a displacer beast and allow it to have babies with a stray cat. Those were his grandparents; his mother is a heavy weight scrapper and a bit of a beast, and may be appearing later in the campaign if I have time to finalise the artwork. (That displacer beast is still around. His name is Colander, because as a kitten his idea of sneaking was to hold a metal colander/kitchen strainer over his head with his tentacles and then freeze in place if anyone walked by.)

Shade belongs to the god of loyalty in this setting, a relatively baby god who recently ascended into his position. On faced with his newfound immortality he immediately 'promoted' both his horse and his cat to be his celestial messengers, because the idea of outliving them so dramatically was unacceptable. And thus Shade became the herald of the Black Legion, a rag tag collection of lost soldiers and abandoned companies who'd clung to their steadfast loyalty in whatever command they used to serve. Now they mostly test military hardware for fun. The setting is cross dimensional, and building historical siege weapons to test in the woods is one of the perks of joining the legion.

Shade himself is a spoiled prince of a cat, who is terrible at being herald of anything and prefers to be carried around like a baby. His hobbies including watching his staff spend hours hand preparing his dinner only to eat a single bite and walk away to steal someone else's. He expects access on demand to every room in the castle, and although he is perfectly capable of opening doors he will yell until someone comes to do it for him, mostly his 'boss'. Everyone knows who's really in charge here. But, despite all that, he is sweet enough to behave when it matters, and there's good reason his boss loves him enough to make him his number one side kick. Along with the horse - who's tried to eat him several times - they make a disaster trio to be reckoned with ;). 

(His god was featured last year in our scavenger tier - Arkon, the stained glass wolf pin.)