Elder Aboleth by Epic Miniatures

From the lightless depths where no sun has ever reached, the Elder Aboleth drifts on currents of psychic malice — ancient beyond reckoning, patient beyond endurance, and utterly, terrifyingly aware of you.

• ✔ 32mm scale resin miniature, printed fresh to order in the UK
• ✔ Supplied unpainted and ready to prime
• ✔ Compatible with D&D, Pathfinder, and all tabletop RPGs
• ✔ Equally at home on the gaming table or the display shelf

The Aboleth is one of D&D's most iconic horrors — a creature that predates the gods and remembers every mortal mind it has ever consumed. This Elder variant takes that dread to its logical extreme. The sculpt by Epic Miniatures is a coiling, writhing mass of chitinous armour plating, ribbon-like fins, and lashing tentacles, the creature's body rearing up and twisting forward as though mid-lunge. Multiple layered eyes — cold, unblinking — cluster across its grotesque face alongside an open, fang-ringed maw. Segmented ridges run the length of its back, and long sensory antennae curve overhead, giving the whole form a terrible, alien grandeur.

Mounted on a gargantuan 102mm base, this is an unambiguous table centrepiece. The sheer vertical presence of the sculpt — tentacles curling beneath it like a cresting wave — means it demands space at the table and commands attention the moment it hits the mat. Whether you're running a mind-bending Underdark campaign, a deep-sea horror arc, or a reality-warping encounter where the party uncovers something that should not exist, this miniature carries the weight of that moment effortlessly. Painted in abyssal purples and sickly ochre, or left in raw grey for a more alien, primordial feel — it works either way.

This is a multipart miniature that assembles into the finished sculpt shown. It ships with your choice of plain base or no base, depending on the variant you select.

• Adventurers running deep Underdark campaigns built around elder evils and psychic corruption
• DMs who want a BBEG or dungeon apex predator that stops the table cold the moment it appears
• Painters drawn to complex organic textures — layered scales, segmented chitin, membranous fins, and clusters of detailed eyes all reward careful work
• Collectors building a gallery of the most fearsome aberrations in the game

Encounter Hook

The party has been hired to recover a scholar who descended into a flooded subterranean ruin three weeks ago. They find her — alive, glassy-eyed, and utterly changed — kneeling before a vast underground lake. She speaks in a voice that is not hers: "The Elder has been waiting. It remembers the name your grandmother used to call you. It would like you to stay." The water stirs. Something enormous rises.

Details

• Scale: 32mm (Gargantuan — 102mm base)
• Base options: Plain base (integrated oval) or no base — see variants above
• Multipart miniature — assembles as shown
• Supplied unpainted and unprimed
• Sculpted by Epic Miniatures

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Pairs well with aberration encounters and Underdark delves — or explore more from Epic Miniatures.

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