Thraice Wraithhailer

Not a scary goth girl, oohhhhh noooo! Illusive and dangerous, the pale skinned Umangeist are thought by many to be apocryphal. A corrupt supernatural mingling of flesh and phantasm, the ashen-skinned Umangeist are all too real to those unfortunate enough to cross their path. Thraice Wraithhailer's ambition has driven her to augment her deadly capabilities by learning the ways of summoning magic. Thraice's inherent connection to the spirit world heightens her abilities to devastating effect. An unquenched lust for power eventually drove her into the fold of The Circle of Poxxus where Thraice Wraithhailer emerged from the shadows as a transformed being created by the horrific melding of unnatural magical powers. Another new series, another new race. Mythoss truly is a diverse panoply of different species that somehow all manage to look exactly like one another. At least Star Trek aliens all got different forehead bumps, half the time these weird one-offs just get a different skintone. Also, is this one really just named "human-ghost" in pidgin German? [Funny made-up "goth girl" name here removed because I Googled it and it turned out to already be in use by a real person] has pale skin (distinctly blue in the promo shots, but thankfully gray in production) with darker lips and airbrushed shadows around her icy blue eyes. I was trying to figure out why the design looked so familiar, and suddenly it struck me: she's Rule 63 Drizzt Do'Urden! As you'd expect, her clothes are all dark. She gets a new torso that sees her wearing a laced corset, and gets a softgoods skirt and loincloth (two separate pieces both sitting on the waist peg) that have a posing wire sewn into the edges so they can hang nicely. There are the usual layered pauldrons, leather bracers, and boots with flared kneepads. The legs are sculpted with armor, and there's chainmail visible on her hips if you look beneath both the skirt and the plates hanging off the sides of the waist armor. She even gets a new belt, which is just plain leather with a golden buckle, but it's been sculpted with a pair of small pouches on the left hip and a second strap hanging to the right to form a big loop where a weapon could be carried. The corset, belt, boots, and bracers are all a dark brown, while the rest of her clothes are black. Well, not all the rest of her clothes: she also gets a hooded cloak, and that's a lovely rich purple. And since it's a cloak and not a cape, we don't have to suffer from the Four Horsemen's "even we can't figure out how we meant these capes to be used" fashion. She looks terrific with the garment on, adding a splash of still-not-that-light color and preventing the toy from looking drab. The figure includes two heads that are nearly identical; the only difference is the hair, which is slightly fuller on one head than the other, and only goes down her back on one. The one with the more compact hair is meant to go inside the hood, but it's not that different, and it looks fine even without the hood on, so there really wasn't any specific need for two different heads. At least not these two heads. Maybe some kind of Hagnon thing, where there's one head that's more ghostal than the other, to play up her "half phantasm-y" nature? Thanks to their modular nature, Mythic Legions all have the same articulation: balljointed head, swivel neck, swivel/hinge shoulders and elbows, swivel forearms at the top of the bracers, swivel/hinge wrists, a balljointed torso, swivel waist (though that's more for construction/​"putting on her skirts" purposes than play and poseability), swivel/hinge hips, swivel thighs, swivel/hinge knees, and swivel/hinge/swivel ankles. Plus there are the posing wires in her dress and cloak, which isn't exactly "articulation" per se, but definitely feels like something that should count as part of the toy's movement. The magic-user factions have been really overlooked in Mythic Legions so far, but Poxxus is making up for that. Because so much of Thraice's budget went to fancy new clothes, she doesn't get a ton of accessories, but the ones we do get are pretty cool. She's a spellcaster, so naturally we begin with a magic staff. It's a simple piece, a straight rod instead of wood or anything, with metal sections at the ends and a clear blue ball on the tip. There's a 7" long magical effect meant to wrap around the staff, starting as just a little wisp but curling around and getting broader as it goes, culminating in a scaly snake head. There's a second effect (both of them are translucent blue, to fit her colorscheme) that goes around her arm and is shaped like a human skull. The set also includes the plug-in shoulder armor, like so many of these figures, but those make her cape bulge out and get in the way of her non-hood hair, thus you may choose to forego them. We, as toy fans, can always use more cool female characters. And Mythic Legions, as a line, can use more magicians, both good and evil. Thraice Wraithhailer is a lovely example of both those categories. -- 06/29/24