When I first started dabbling with Mordheim, one thing was clear: Wyrdstone was Warpstone, only the people of the Empire, at that time, didn't know. Mostly because anyone showing interest in understanding the nature of Chaos and Magick was dubbed as a witch and burn at the stake.
And when Warpstone is mentioned, my mind goes back to the mid-90s and the first edition of WFRP, where Warpstone is generally described as "a mighty source of raw magic, imbued with all the corrupting power of Chaos". Warpstone rained down from the Warpgates when they collapsed and, carried by the winds, mutated horribly the surrounding lands transforming them into the Chaos Wastelands.
But what does Warpstone look like? The colour green is a later addition: in the old days, Warpstone was intentionally left undescribed because, being Chaos solidified, it was quite silly to give it a colour. What colour is Chaos?
Again, if you grew up in the '80s and '90s, you were reading H.P. Lovecraft at that time. The Colour Out of Space is the place where to look for an impossible colour:
“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.”
Now, in art, how do you portray something that by definition cannot be portrayed? If you look at examples, the answer is surprisingly easy: you paint it black, with a luminescence made of other colours, especially blue, green, red and violet.
So here we go, Warpstone/Wyrdstone tokens. Little sharp stones painted black and drybrushed red, violet, green and blue. In your face, Warpstone Green, you and the dumbness of late Warhammer.
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