I was hoping to get to some long overdue Mythic Legions figures before the end of the year, but then the second wave of Cosmic Legions landed on my doorstep and I decided I might as well hit these while they’re fresh and new. Considering I have a Mythic Legions pre-order in there from almost a year ago waiting to be fulfilled, this new assortment of Cosmic Legions was a pretty quick turnaround for The Four Horsemen. Gravenight is billed as Hvalkatar Book Two, continuing the prison story laid out in that initial wave. And while the space prison thing isn’t gripping me all that much, I’ve always been with TFH’s Legions lines more for the figures and less for the fiction, so that’s fine.

We’re kicking things off with Noveunn Leen, part of an organization known as The Bleeder’s Guild, which seems to be a league of bounty hunters who’s specialty is locating and extracting information rather than bringing in bounties. He’s a real piece of nasty business and his race is known as Carzynians. Sounds good! I’m on board so far… 

Noveunn feels like a pretty fresh figure to kick off this wave with. He comes out of the box needing his shoulders attached, which peg into the back just like the Mythic Legions figures. He still has a collar piece that looks like it’s designed for a space suit with the matching shoulders adding to that bulk. The collar piece even has some cool tanks sculpted into the back with some snazzy silver paint. But the rest of the figure lacks the armored space suit look we got with a lot of the first wave, offering a nice bit of variety. The bulk of the body is a sculpted blue jumpsuit with a weave-like texture and some wrinkles and rumples. There’s a segmented matte gray armor piece running down his front and ending in a codpiece.

His belt is a collection of brown pouches with neatly painted silver buttons and clasps and two pieces of gray hip armor with orange accents to match the collar and shoulders. His right arm has an armored bracer on the forearm while the left is a simple medieval-style brown gauntlet, again with some lovely little touches of silver paint on the rivets and buckles. The brown boots are reinforced with matte gray bands and heavy soles. I kind of get a little Boba Fett vibe off this guy, what with the blue jumpsuit and matte gray armor, but it’s not enough to make it feel like a direct homage. I also love the overall color scheme here. The blue, gray, and brown bits look great together and the orange and silver adds just the right amount of pop to the deco. There’s also a generally cool mix of sci-fi and medieval design here, which is a neat aesthetic for a guild of ruthless and savage info hunters.

TFH have been on fire with the head sculpts in this line and Noveunn is no exception. His chiseled reptilian face is chock full of detail and I had a blast just turning these heads around in my hand and inspecting every last inch of them. The color goes from green on top to a sandy yellow in the middle and a tan on the jowls and chin. You get some cybernetic gear grafted into the sides of the head and some horns protruding from each side of the chin with lots more jutting out the back of the head. The beady yellow eyes are sunken under a prominent brow ridge. Noveunn is just a fantastic alien design that feels wholly original and terrifically fierce.

And you get a second head with an open mouth, which is extremely well done. I dig the cavernous maw and the high gloss used on the deep red tongue. Both of these portraits are gorgeous and it’ll be a tough decision on which one to go with for regular display.

And before we dig into the accessories, here is a look at Noveunn with his collar and shoulders removed. There’s some nice detail hidden under those pieces, including the buckles holding the chest plate to the shoulder straps and some painted silver bolts in the chest piece itself. I’m not really big on the modular nature of deconstructing these figures, but I think this looks really good as an alternate display option. It also opens up the option for rifle storage on his back by using one of those holes that the shoulder pieces peg into.

And since I mentioned the rifle, let’s start there with his accessories. Without cheating and looking ahead, my hope is that we’ll see some new gear in this assortment of figures as the first wave was pretty bad about recycling the same handful of weapons. But, if Noveunn is to be any indication, I don’t think my hopes will pay off. This rifle is the same one we’ve seen a few times in Book One, although I will say it’s my favorite use of the mold so far. The matte black paint does a great job in bringing out just how impressive the detail on this weapon really is. Couple that with the hits of silver paint all around and this is just a phenomenal looking space rifle.

And the twin pistols make a return appearance, and once again these are my favorite versions so far because of the matte black and silver accents. As before, the figure comes with clear pegs, which can be used to attach the pistols to the sockets on the hip armor and this works really well.

And there is one new accessory included and it’s a rocket to peg into the socket in his arm bracer. I guess this can either be a permanent attachment or something that’s meant to pop out of the bracer when needed. Either way, it’s a cool addition, but I would have liked a bit more in the way of new accessories for this second assortment.

Noveunn makes for a strong introduction to this wave, and that’s promising because I picked him out totally at random as the first figure to open and review. I dig the slightly less armored look to the suit and there’s some absolutely wonderful use of color for what is an overall pretty sedate deco. And those headsculpts! TFH never disappoint when it comes to the head sculpts! Seeing the same old weapons was a bit disappointing at first, but these are undoubtedly my favorite versions of these weapons to date, so that helps to cushion the blow. All in all, a really fun and great looking figure that makes me eager to tear into the next one!