Hey everyone! Benny here. I’m the CEO of Sordane Publishing (formerly Arcane Minis!). I’ve spoken with many of you before on our Discord and previous Kickstarters (Thanks again to everyone who backed Moonsoon – What a success!!).

This is going be a very long post. So I apologize for that, but we have a lot going on right now. This is a total rundown on our company and product changes, and future plans. The following list is what we will go through in this post, you can click one the menu to learn more and there is a scroll to top button as well to make it easier to navigate!

Alternatively, you can view the video embedded below of my lovely mug (sarcasm mode actvated) going through the content of this post and explaining everything in a bit more nuance and detail (warning, that is also long.. haha)!

Update Table of Contents

• Rebranding Our Company
  • New Sordane Publishing Website
• Big Changes on Small Minis
  • Changing Scales of Miniatures & Airships
  • Redesigning The Airships
  • Redesigning The Miniatures
• Subscriptions
  • Sordane Stories being rebranded to World of Sordane (RPG Miniatures)
  • Big Bad Evil Guy (RPG Miniatures)
  • Skies Ablaze v2 (Tabletop Wargame + RPG Airships & Miniatures)
    • Changing Skies Ablaze Scale?
    • So What is the Difference in Versions?
    • Modelling Options + Customization
    • What Will the Board Look Like?
    • What Is the Current State?
    • Skies Ablaze Miniatures (Tabletop Wargaming + RPG)
    • Gaming Mats
    • Still Free to Play?
    • Supported Skies Ablaze or an Airship Project in the Past?
    • Skies Ablaze Launch Date
    • Airship Campaigns 2 Future Plans (Airship RPGers Read This)
  • Tales of Sordane (Graphic Novels & Novels)
• Sordane Publishing Merchants
• Aldarra
  • Delivery & Retail
  • Unboxing Video
  • Unboxing Competition
• Moonsoon
  • Moonsoon Changes?
  • Fullfillment Schedule
• Pantheons
• PAX Unplugged

Rebranding Our Company

As many of you may have noticed or seen on a Kickstarter update or on the Discord, we have officially rebranded to Sordane Publishing! This change has been a few months in the making and there’s a lot to undertake when making a change like this.

Why Rebrand? The main reason is that we have been growing as a company for several years now and we are expanding what we offer in terms of products and content beyond just miniatures (though we are doubling down on minis as well!). We are no longer strictly a miniatures company, but instead create content in many forms. Including board games, Aldarra as our first one (more planned next year), our two RPG books Airship Campaigns and Moonsoon (again – more planned!), and our upcoming 3 novel crowdfunder that will be launched on Backerkit Crowdfunding in December. All of that and more as we ramp up the stuff we are working on! There will be more and more content and announcements over the next 1-2 months info October as well.

With this new rebrand comes a whole slew of changes to our monthly releases and how we will be structuring our content. Check out all the additional information below! You can email us if you have questions at support@sordane.com or you can Join our Discord to join the community and ask some questions there!

New Sordane Publishing Website

We are currently in the process of rebuilding our website. The new website will be located on www.sordane.com (Where you are reading this update). There’s nothing much right now beyond this singular update, but as we develop it further and get ready to launch in October, it will have a bunch of new features to help make it easier for our customers and fans to follow our projects and product offerings.

Big Changes on Small Minis

It has been over 4 years since the success of Skies of Sordane (Thank you to everyone who backed!). Since then, we have made dozens of ships and 100s of miniatures. We have grown the world of Sordane massively in lore and content. STLs, digital PDFs and VTTs and even our physical book and maps! 

Seeing all of the beautiful prints of our airships and miniatures that you all have done over the years has been awesome to see! It takes a truly large amount of time, effort and resources to print and paint those massive airships and every time I see one, it’s really impressive and it makes us feel proud to provide you all with stuff we love to make! 

Having said all that – the time has come to evolve! If you ask anyone who has printed and painted one of our airships, they’re a pain to print! No pre-supported versions, expensive to print, hard to store due to their size, a total undertaking to paint, etc. Simply put, there are a lot of hurdles when it comes to getting one on the table. Some people love it and they are amazing at it and we will not be taking that aspect of them away, but like I said, it’s time to evolve!

Changing Scales of Miniatures & Airships

So, what does evolving mean exactly? Well, we are officially changing the scale of miniatures we make to go from 28-32mm to 15mm/30mm scale. For all of the ships and miniatures we have done in the past, this will basically mean everything we do going forward will be in the same scale as before, but we are adding a new aspect to them all – the 15mm scale.

For a long time, people have always roleplayed and wargamed at 28-32mm scale. And I got to thinking – well, why? Beyond having a little more detail on our character miniatures and being a little easier to handle smaller miniatures, is there anything that a 28-32mm scale miniature really provides you that say, a 15mm scale miniature, couldn’t? I found myself answering primarily “no” to that question. You can print more, paint more, store more, have larger battle scenes, you could even have an entire floating village… basically you can do everything better at a smaller scale. 

“Wait, what are you trying to say here, Benny? Are you only making 15mm scale tiny minis?”

I hear you ask. Well, no. To reiterate – we are doing both 30mm scale and 15mm scale. Simply put, we will still make sure all of our models can be played with in the normal scale for RPGs you have come to love, but also make sure all of our miniatures print and play at the smaller 15mm scale as well. This is primarily evident when you look at the airships and the changes we are doing for their redesign.

Redesigning The Airships

On a base level, we wish that people would be able print, paint and play with our airships much easier than they already do (again – those of you who do impress the hell out of me!). As I mentioned, printing and storing these monsters can be such a headache!

Starting from October, we begin to officially re-release all of our airships one at a time. They will be more modular, more detailed, more well thought out than ever before. They are a complete revamping of our entire ethos of construction. You can see some updated concept art below

This is the current work in progress of our reimagining of the Zephyr Class Frigate from the Cin’darian Empire. If you would like to get this ship when it’s done, please check out the Skies Ablaze section in this post. It will outline the new subscription service we will be launching in October that will be airship focused with a bunch of additional crew and other miniatures!

Here are some examples of the new designs of the Zephyr Class Frigate. What? A blimp? On the Zephyr? Yes, that’s right! Our new ships will have a lot more options than the old ones. We have learned a lot in the last 4 years! None of these are final. Please keep that in mind that the final miniatures will likely change slightly as we navigate the development process

More Detailed? Yes, way more detailed. The designs of each ship will be redone to be more well planned out, more considerate of their lines and how they come apart and overall, just much nicer to look at. You will even see a massive increase in their modularity and options

Presupported? You better believe it! The 15mm scale versions of the ships will be presupported. That means you can use your resin printers to print them.

But How Big is 15mm Really? I’m glad you asked! It’s about half as big as they are now which makes them roughly 4x less massive in volume. So a 1.2 metre long ship from before (like the Roshan) will now be about 60cm when fully printed. Still big, still impressive, but much much more manageable. You will still be able to get lots of detail even from your normal human sized miniatures, but the airship especially will be much easier to paint than before!

What about the older versions and the larger scale? The older versions of our ships will be discontinued as the newer versions are released. If you have access to them on MMF, you will never lose access though. So even if the file disappears from the store, you will still have access in your libraries.

Are there different files for the 15mm scale and 30mm scale? Nope! They are the same design and files. The newer ships will be provided in files that can be doubled in size to 200% and will work perfectly for that scale. For example, if we have a magnet hole on the 15mm scale version, the hole will be something like 5x1mm in size so that it fits a 10x2mm magnet when it’s at the 30mm scale. The same thing is true for the grid and every other piece of the ship. We are designing them from the ground up to be perfectly scaled in both.

This goes without saying (but I guess I will anyway haha) that it is an awesome amount of work to take this on and stick the landing, your patience and feedback will be key. It’s much more work than any of our previous projects or single release airships before, but we are confident that it will result in beautiful models and entire ships filled with crews, doodads, full furnishings and really improve your RPG experience when using Airships! You could say that we are trying to reimagine the way people do RPGs on the tabletop!

If you have any questions or want to know more, you can come chat with me and the team on the Discord as always or you can leave a comment on this post!

Join our Discord Here!

Redesigning The Miniatures

In addition to the airships, we are also going to be making our miniatures in an all new way with the mindset of both the 15mm and 30mm scale. Both sizes will be provided presupported. We will be expanding our offering as well when it comes to monthly STLs provided. With each new ship we design and release, we will have several crew minis designed as well along with a bunch of furniture, doodads, etc. It’s gonna be great!

All of our currently releases on places like Big Bad Evil Guy and Sordane Stories (name is changing, see below), will have 15mm scale and 30mm scale versions created for them every month so you can use all of our miniatures together.

We will also be slowely going through our back catalogue and redesigning miniatures every month and releasing them as part of our Sordane Stories monthly releases!

Every miniature we do will be designed for both scales. We will get better and better at tiptoeing the line as time goes on as well, but we are committed to making amazing miniatures that work at both scales. Your feedback will be invaluable!

Design Ethos Changing Thought

This is a lot of new information to process for our audience – that is for sure. It’s been a very chaotic time for us behind the scenes as well and we’ve been in overdrive making sure everything is prepared properly. I deeply appreciate everyone’s support over the years and look forward to many more in the future!

Subscriptions

With that massive news of new scales out of the way, it’s time to tell you more about our monthly offerings – Also going through huge changes… (Sorry XD)

We sent out a survey a couple of months ago where we asked people what they used the most, what they want to see more of, etc. You all voted (about 300+ responses) and what came out on top was clearly – you want more STLs and not nearly as many people as we assumed were using the one-shot adventures. So we are making some creative and fiscal changes to how we release our current content. This section will be quite long and will likely be the most complicated section so please if you have questions, comment on this post us here or join our Discord!

NOTE: This could potentially get confusing, so please ask questions about anything if you’re confused. I deeply apologise for the complexity of the changes, but with luck this will not be changed for quite some time into the future! We are making these changes for sustainability.

Sordane Stories (RPG Miniatures)

Sordane Stories being rebranded to World of Sordane from September.

For over 2 years now, we have been making a ton of amazing adventures and miniatures every month. During that time, a bunch of you have used our adventures to introduce yourselves and your friend groups into the World fo Sordane, but we need to streamline and “trim the fat” as it were and due to the recent survey, we decided to turn Sordane Stories into World of Sordane and focus primarily on the miniatures.

While the adventures and original art is amazingly fun to do and does a lot for world building, it is quite clearly less desired than the STLs and we need to make sure the development dollarinos are going to the products that people want the most.

This does not mean we won’t be doing adventures in the future, but they will likely be released individually as part of a Frontiers, Kickstarter or as a single sold product on our website / MMF.

So, for the foreseeable future, in the short term at least, our one-shot adventures will be discontinued from monthly circulation. Our past adventures will all still be available and all subscribers can still buy them at a discount. We have about 26 in total from the last 2 years.

Going forward the following changes will take place on Sordane Stories (Now World of Sordane).

Loyalty Reward NOTE: We are also going to be removing Loyalty Rewards. There will be other bonuses and benefits to being a subscriber to our individual content releases going forward, but for now, the loyalty rewards themselves will be retired. There will be 2 more loyalty rewards for sordane Stories and 1 more for BBEG both released in October.

Resculpted Miniatures NOTE: Not included in this release (September), but included in the next release (October) will include 6-10 resculpted STLs from our library rereleased. The old files will be discontinued, but everyone with access to them will keep their old access on MMF.

September Release – Dino Domination 2

• Nayantari Playable Race
• Nayantari Lore & Art
• 5 Nayantari NPC Stat Blocks
• New Dino Lore & Art
• 5 New Dino Stat Blocks
• Pinnacle Class Luxury Yacht (Last month with an airship)
  STLs (30mm scale) – 32x – pre-supported
• Nayantari Barbarian STLs – 4x – (25mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Cleric STLs – 4x – (25mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Rogue STLs – 4x – (25mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Sorcerer STLs – 4x – (25mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Fighter STLs – 4x – (25mm base – medium size) 
• Spike Raptor STLs – 4x – (50mm base – large size)
• Ardorsus Spinosaurus – 2x – (100mm base – gargantuan size)
• Ranaos Salamander – 2x – (50mm base – large size)
• Combivis Therizinosaurus – 2x – (75mm base – huge size)
• Armatrah Ankylosaurus – 2x – (100mm base – gargantuan size)
  STLs (15mm scale) – 32x – pre-supported
• Nayantari Barbarian STLs – 4x – (12.5mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Cleric STLs – 4x – (12.5mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Rogue STLs – 4x – (12.5mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Sorcerer STLs – 4x – (12.5mm base – medium size) 
• Nayantari Fighter STLs – 4x – (12.5mm base – medium size) 
• Spike Raptor STLs – 4x – (25mm base – large size)
• Ardorsus Spinosaurus – 2x – (50mm base – gargantuan size)
• Ranaos Salamander – 2x – (25mm base – large size)
• Combivis Therizinosaurus – 2x – (37.5mm base – huge size)
• Armatrah Ankylosaurus – 2x – (50mm base – gargantuan size)

Tier Changes (From September!)

Grandfathering Tiers

Everyone on the Crewman Tier will be moved to the Silver Tier with their current price.

Everyone on the Captain & Admiral Tiers will be grandfathered into the Crystal Tier with their current price

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Big Bad Evil Guy (RPG Miniatures)

Our newest content subscription will be changing as well! The encounters for BBEG also seem to be low on the list of things people look for so these will also be put on hiatus for now and will be adding additional STLs! If you have any questions or want to know more comment on this post us here or join our Discord!

Loyalty Reward NOTE: We are also going to be removing Loyalty Rewards. There will be other bonuses and benefits to being a subscriber to our individual content releases going forward, but for now, the loyalty rewards themselves will be retired. There will be 2 more loyalty rewards for sordane Stories and 1 more for BBEG both released in October.

September Release – Azahai, Dream Stealer

• Azahai, Dream Stealer Lore, Art & Stat Blocks
• Somnumbra Demon Lore, Art & Stat Block
• Briarest Corpse Lore, Art & Stat Block
  STLs (30mm scale) – 10x – pre-supported
• Fouldream Demonlord STLs – 2x – (75mm base – medium size) 
• Briarest Corpse Female STLs – 2x – (25mm base – medium size) 
• Briarest Corpse Male STLs – 2x – (25mm base – medium size) 
• Somnumbra Demon STLs – 4x – (25mm base – medium size) 
  STLs (15mm scale) – 10x – pre-supported
• Fouldream Demonlord STLs – 2x – (37.5mm base – medium size) 
• Briarest Corpse Female STLs – 2x – (12.5mm base – medium size)  
• Briarest Corpse Male STLs – 2x – (12.5mm base – medium size) 
• Somnumbra Demon STLs – 4x – (12.5mm base – medium size) 

Tier Changes (From September!)

Silver Tier $2 -> Silver Tier $3 

• 2 BBEG STLs (2 poses each. 30mm/15mm scales – 4 STLs)

Gold Tier $3.50 -> Gold Tier $5

• 2 BBEG STLs (2 poses each. 30mm/15mm scales – 4 STLs)
• 2-3 Minion Creature STLs (2-4 poses each. 30mm/15mm scales – 16+ STLs)

Crystal Tier $7 -> Crystal Tier $8

• 2 BBEG STLs (2 poses each. 30mm/15mm scales – 4 STLs)
• 2-3 Minion Creature STLs (2-4 poses each. 30mm/15mm scales – 16+ STLs)
• BBEG Lore, Art & 3x Stat Blocks
• Minion Lore, Art & 2+ Stat Blocks
• 5 Magic Items & Art

Grandfathering Tiers

Everyone on the Silver Tier will remain on the Silver Tier with their current price.

Everyone on the Gold & Crystal Tiers will be grandfathered into the Crystal Tier with their current price.

Skies Ablaze (Tabletop Wargame + RPG Airships & Miniatures)

Now onto a very large and important update that I know a bunch of you have been waiting for – What the heck is happening with Skies Ablaze!? Skies Ablaze, for those who don’t know, is our tabletop wargame. It has been in beta for about a year and has been on hiatus for the last 8 months or so while we focused on Moonsoon! It’s been a long time since we had some significant updates, but here they are! Thank you for everyone’s patience during the time we were preparing for this!

As with the updates for Sordane Stories and Big Bad Evil Guy, this could get a bit confusing, but please comment below or join our Discord to ask questions and get clarifications!

First off, I suggest you read the Big Changes on Small Minis section if you haven’t already. It will explain the general premise of what we are doing with these new ship sizes and scales. TLDR – We are changing our minis to use 15mm scale and 30 mm scale (both).

While the change in scale to 15mm/30mm is to make it much easier for RPG players to print and paint more airships and miniatures (and use them!), it also allows us to make our tabletop wargame use the exact same miniature sizes and make a game that is unique and dynamic!

We are creating an ecosystem of miniatures that spans from one medium to another. The main focus being 15mm scale for our wargame and RPGs.

Note: If you like playing in the normal RPG scale everyone is accustomed to, you can still do so. Every single one of our airships and miniatures will be designed for both scales!

Changing Skies Ablaze Scale?

Bingo. Originally, the scale of Skies Ablaze was about 3mm scale (very small ships) and, while this offered a gameplay we liked, it didn’t have that element of personalization that we feel like we want our game to have. You couldn’t customise your ships, you couldn’t really have characters of your own, we couldn’t do skirmisher units, etc. Needless to say, the game was cool, but we feel like it could be massively improved.

So What is the Difference in Versions?

Typically in version 1 of Skies Ablaze, you would see anywhere from 10-20 ships on both sides and then a bunch of terrain in between. The game took place on a 44×44 inch table (for those of you who preordered a gaming mat for Skies Ablaze, please see a little lower down for what we will be doing with that!).

The new version of the game will be played with a 15mm scale. “What? Isn’t this the same scale for the RPG airships?”. Why yes, yes it is! We are consolidating the way we make miniatures to make the RPG side of our products and the wargaming side much more in-line with each other. 

With this new scale, we will now be able to have ships, crew on those ships (including characters) and even skirmishers like eagle riders, sky jetbikes, shark riders, troop transports and a loooot more. We are very excited about the opportunities this new scale will provide us from a game design standpoint.

Modelling Options + Customization

This new scale of the game will open many doors when it comes to not only the mechanics, but also the modelling side of the hobby. You will now be able to customise your ships with all of the different attachments, build out your crews and characters how you want, furnish the decks with doodads and all sorts of other items (as well as the interiors for RPG play!). 

What Will the Board Look Like?

The new board will be played on boards from as small as 4×4 feet (48×48 inchs) all the way up to 4×8 feet (48×96 inches). On the smaller board sizes, you will see fleets of varying sizes from 1-3 ships per side (depending on their sizes) and a dozen or more skirmishers. On the larger board sizes, you may see 2-5 ships per side and 20 or more skirmishers. 

There will be a heavy emphasis on the terrain on the board as well. A lot of objectives will rely on taking control of specific objectives with either your ships, crew or skirmishers. A very dynamic and narrative focused objective process. We will look forward to hearing feedback from you

What Is the Current State?

We are underway of making the first version of this game to be tested. It will release in October along with the first release of this new project. The rules are still being written. Once the first version of the game is released, we will welcome any and all feedback on the game as we did for the initial version! So look for Skies Ablaze rules around the start of October! That’s when we are really ramping up!

Skies Ablaze Miniatures (Tabletop Wargaming + RPG)

Now comes the information about how this content will be released. Essentially what we are doing is taking the airships from our old Admiral tier on Sordane Stories, moving them to Skies Ablaze and adding a bunch of additional miniatures that will be able to be used in game.

Will there be RPG Rules for the Airships + Miniatures? To start with – no. There will be no 5e or other RPG related material published alongside these miniatures. Having said that, If you look below on the “Airship Campaigns 2 Future Plans” section, I will go into more detail about what we have planned for the future there.

NOTE ON RELEASE SCHEDULE: Skies Ablaze will start by releasing every 2 months. The amount of content is very large and we want to make sure we do things to our own schedule and not be slaves to the monthly grind for such an important and technical project

Cin’darian Attack Wing

• 1x Airship Miniature
  • Zephyr Class Frigate (Presupported in 15mm scale)
    • Sails + Blimp External Attachments
    • Customizable Modular Interiors
    • Multiple Hull Modular Exteriors (optional cannon railings, modular side panellings for the hull and windows, etc)
    • Unique and customized gaming stand for Skies Ablaze
      
• 5x Crew Miniatures (Presupported in 15mm scale and 30mm scale)
  • 1x Captain (2 poses)
  • 1x Mage (2 poses)
  • 1x Engineer (2 poses)
  • 2x Crew/Deckhands (2 poses each)
    
• 2x Skirmisher Miniatures (Presupported in 15mm scale and 30mm scale)
  • 2x Cin’darian Featherlite Eagle Riders (2 poses each)
    
• 20x Furniture & Doodads (Presupported in 15mm scale and 30mm scale)
  • Cannons, Boxes, Crates, Chests, etc. Themed for the Cin’darian Empire.

Gaming Mats

We will be manufacturing 3 different sizes of mats.

• 4×4 feet (48×48 inches)
• 6×4 feet (72×48 inches)
• 8×4 feet (96×48 inches)

They will be in stock to order from around October on our new store when it’s open! Prices are still to be determined, but the price we did already on the 44×44 inch mats will be similar to what the smaller mats will go for.

Did you preorder a mat already? If you preordered a 44×44 inch gaming mat, you will instead be getting the new 48×48 inch gaming mat (or mats if you ordered more than one!) no further cost for the larger mat size.

If you are no longer interested in the game, you can request a refund for your gaming mats at support@sordane.com. Just make sure you send your order number and we can process that for you no problem!

Still Free to Play?

The rules and online army builder will both be free to use from the get go. The rules will always be free. The army builder may go to a subscribers only model in the future, but for the short term (at least 1 year or so) it will definitely remain free and both the rules and the builder will be updated for as we grow the game.

As for the miniatures. There will be no free starter pack like we have now on the first version of Skies Ablaze. The reason for this is purely financial. We are recreating all of the airship from scratch and adding a ton of additional things on top of that. It’s quite simply a mountain of work and doing any free miniatures, at least at the start, will not be possible. As the game progresses and we release more and more miniatures, we may create a game “welcome” pack for subscribers that has 1 or 2 starting ships and crews in it though.

Supported Skies Ablaze or an Airship Project in the Past?

We want to reward our past backers and subscribers related to our airships as much as possible when it comes to releasing these new beasts and game. This is how we will do it.

The following will receive an offer for 50% off their subscription (validated and sent through emails):

• Subscribed 3+ months to any tier on Skies Ablaze Tribe
• Subscribed 3+ months at Admiral Tier level on the Sordane Stories Tribe or Patreon as of September 1st 2024

The following will receive an offer for 35% off their subscription (validated and sent through emails):

• Supported the Skies of Sordane Kickstarter
• Supported the Airship Campaigns Kickstarter
• Supported the Aldarra Kickstarter Campaign
• Supported the Moonsoon Kickstarter Campaign
• Subscribed 6+ months at any tier level of either Big Bad Evil Guy or Sordane Stories at any point in time.

The following will receive an offer for 25% off their subscription (validated and sent through emails):

• Subscribed 3+ months at any tier level of either Big Bad Evil Guy or Sordane Stories at any point in time.

The following will receive an offer for 15% off their subscription:

• Everyone else on our mailing list will be sent an invite to get in at an early bird discount!

Skies Ablaze Launch Date

Skies Ablaze will launch in Alpha State in early October (tentative at the moment). The release mentioned above will be coming out and the first edition of the rules will also be released. This MAY have to get delayed if the progress of the airships is slowed at all.

This is a massive project for us and we really appreciate all of your patience and understanding as we make this fundamental shift in how our company makes miniautres and products for you to enjoy!

Airship Campaigns 2 Future Plans (Airship RPGers Read This)

As some of you have seen on the Discord, we have been dropping hints that we are soon to be working on a World of Sordane campaign setting and an Airship Campaigns 2. These are still over a year away. They may see launching together in the same crowdfunding campaign, but they may also come out as individual projects. We will cross those bridges when we get to them.

Keep your eyes peeled for Airship Campaigns 2 beta material as soon as possibly December or January. The main focus of this system will be to make it RPG system agnostic. You will be able to use your airships with ANY gaming system.

The insides of the ships will be fully customizable. It’s going to be quite the sight!

This is a very large and difficult undertaking and we will be relying on devote and focused feedback from our community as we go through beta test. We intend for this new edition to be the holy grail of all airship supplements. It will cover tons of new subjects the first one hasn’t covered and be 200-300 pages of pure, straight up Airship Campaign goodness.

We are extremely excited for this new edition! The old edition will still be around for over a year and it will never be reprinted! It will become a piece of Sordane Publishing / Arcane Minis history!

Skies Ablaze and Airship Campaigns 2 will be tightly woven around each other in their development as well. They will use similar systems when dealing with certain combat and interaction elements. We are attempting to create a full ecosystem for our users to enjoy and play with!

Tales of Sordane (Graphic Novels & Novels)

Tales of Sordane is a new venture we find ourselves on in 2024. Started at the start of the year, we have begun working on crafting stories into the world of Sordane and bringing its rich color and vibrancy to life on the pages for everyone to read. This has been a goal for us for a long time and now we finally see it coming true! We are making novels and graphic novels.

Novels

For now, this will be a relatively small update, but as some of you are aware, we are working on a 3 novel series currently for the expansion of the lore of Sordane into narrative form! All 3 novels are currently in their editing stages and we are looking to launch these projects on Backerkit Crowdfunding in November / December.

All 3 books are of the adventurous nature to go swashbuckling and diving headfirst into new adventures in Sordane with awesome new characters. Our 3 authors have been working very diligently on those!

Graphic Novels

More immediate than the novels themselves, we will be releasing the first issue of a graphic novel series some time in October. The release date is not yet set as we are still working on the finer points of crafting stories in graphic novel form, but we have a good team so far on it and I’m very confident that you all will love these books! They will be available in digital format and limited physical print runs as well as we gauge the audience demand for such a thing. If you’ve ever wanted us to create stories in Sordane, this is the perfect project to support!

Sordane Publishing Merchants

With the changes in Sordane Stories, Big Bad Evil Guy and Skies Ablaze. Our current merchants probably have a lot of questions about how this will effect their licenses going forward. The following is how this will apply to everyone until the end of 2024 when new rules and guides might be put in place.

Sordane Stories Subscription Miniatures (Now World of Sordane)
Merchants will be permitted to continue selling prints of all the miniatures released through Sordane Stories from past to present. You may print and sell in either the 15mm scale or the 30mm scale.

Big Bad Evil Guy Subscription Miniatures
Merchants will be permitted to continue selling prints of all the miniatures released through BBEG from past to present. You may print and sell in either the 15mm scale or the 30mm scale.

Airship Campaigns Kickstarter Miniatures
Merchants will be permitted to continue selling prints of all the miniatures released through the Airship Campaigns Kickstarter.

Skies of Sordane Kickstarter Miniatures
Merchants will be permitted to continue selling prints of all the miniatures released through the Airship Campaigns Kickstarter.

Moonsoon Kickstarter Miniatures
Merchants will be permitted to continue selling prints of all the miniatures released through the Moonsoon Kickstarter.

Aldarra Kickstarter Miniatures
Merchants will be permitted to continue selling prints of all the miniatures released through the Aldarra Kickstarter.

Skies Ablaze v1 Miniatures
Merchants will be permitted to sell prints from the v1 of Skies Ablaze miniatures.

Skies Ablaze v2 Miniatures
Merchants will not be permitted to sell prints from the Skies Ablaze releases from October onward. This includes our new airships and all of the miniatures included in those releases. The reason for this is due to the expansion of physical products we intend to make in the future.

The merchant tier pricing on World of Sordane will be increasing from October onward. If you’re on a merchant tier now, you will be able to keep your pricing as long as you’re subscribed. No price increase applied to your current subscription.

If you have questions or concerns regarding any of this, please message me, Benny, directly in the #merchant-public or the #merchants channel in Discord.

Aldarra Board Game

Now onto some really excited news – Aldarra is nearly finished manufacturing! The final Mass Production Sample will be shipped out to us this week and the first batch of games will be on a ship headed for the US on September 10th (give or take a day potentially!).

You can still pre-order your copy here while stocks last! (The Arcane Minis site will be up for about a month before we switch it over to Sordane Publishing)

Deliver & Retail

Delivery to your doors should start around the end of September for those in Asia and Australia and a little later than that for the US and Canadian backers. European backers will likely start later than everyone else’s but rest assured, everyone will receive their games!

Unboxing Video

I will be filming an unboxing video next week and putting it up on our Youtube Channel. We will be releasing more and more content through our Youtube so please give us a subscribe if you want to see more of my beautiful face and more content for products and events we do!

Unboxing Competition

We are going to be holding an unboxing competition on Instagram. Once we start shipping games, I will make the rules of the competition known, but it will be based on who can make their game night, box opening or reveal as epic as possible and sharing them with us. We have all waited so long for this game to be finished and we want to see your reactions and plans for your first game nights or unboxings of Aldarra! There will of course be prizes… 🙂

Moonsoon

Thank you to everyone who backed Moonsoon! It has been a very long project to get it to the point we are at right now and we are already working hard to fulfill this project by early next year!

Check out our newest update for Moonsoon here

You can still late pledge on Moonsoon until early next week. We have extended the Kickstarter late pledges feature by a few days in order to allow for stragglers this month and to give us a bit more time to sort out the pledge manager on Backerkit!

Moonsoon Changes?

With all of the massive changes happening on all of our other projects, does it change anything with Moonsoon in terms of miniatures? The simple answer is no. The drastic changes happening to our Sordane line of miniatures and products is not effecting Moonsoon right now!

Fulfillment Schedule & Information

Currently we are looking to have Moonsoon physicall fulfilled by March at the latest and hopefully all of the VTTs will be done around the same time. The VTTs will be one of the last things to do as we cannot start integrating them until the PDFs and book files are finished.

STLs will be delivered sooner. The should start to be delivered from September onward.

We will be putting out updates every month on the Moonsoon Kickstarter!

Pantheons

Coming in October to Frontiers… Follow here the page here ->

PAX Unplugged

Some really fun news is that we will be attending PAX Unplugged this year in Philedelphia! This is our first convention ever and we will be showcasing Aldarra while we’re there. You can come by, play a game and go home with a copy of the first print run! We are really excited to be attending and look forward to seeing everyone there who attends!

I will share more information about this event as the time draws near!

Thank you everyone for supporting Arcane Minis through these first 4 and a half years and here’s to another 4 and a half as Sordane Publishing!

All the best
Benny and the SP team