Undead Dwarven Brother (Brook) by DM Stash

Once a proud son of the stone halls, Brook walks no longer in service to clan or kin — only to whatever dark will dragged him back from the deep earth.

• ✔ 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

Brook carries with him all the grim hallmarks of dwarven heritage — the stocky, broad-shouldered frame, the thick, matted beard, the scale-and-chainmail armour of someone who once knew exactly where they stood in the world — but undeath has stripped every trace of warmth from the sculpt. He lurches forward mid-stride, spiked mace raised in one skeletal hand, a large hexagonal shield braced in the other, jaw torn open in a hollow, endless snarl. The scale armour across his chest is cracked and worn; his cloak hangs in tatters. Whatever memories Brook retained in life, they serve only to make him more unsettling in death: a familiar silhouette made wholly wrong.

For Dungeon Masters, Brook works brilliantly as a named undead encounter — the kind of enemy that prompts questions rather than simply a fight. Is he a fallen companion, a corrupted ancestor, or a cautionary tale about what happens when dwarven holds are sealed and forgotten? His dwarven identity gives him narrative weight that a generic skeleton simply cannot match, and his name alone suggests there is a story here waiting to be uncovered at the table.

For painters, the sculpt rewards close attention to texture — the interlocking scales of his breastplate, the geometric faceting of his shield, the skeletal gauntlet beneath tattered cloth. A restrained, desaturated palette works beautifully here: ash-grey skin, tarnished bronze, and the faintest ghost of the proud dwarf he once was beneath the decay. A single spot of warm colour — a rusted clan sigil on the shield, a fragment of old paint on a buckle — can make the tragedy land all the harder.

• Adventurers building out a dwarven undead warband or haunted hold encounter
• DMs who want named, characterful undead rather than anonymous hordes
• Painters drawn to the challenge of conveying decay and lost identity through colour and texture
• Collectors who appreciate sculpts with genuine personality and backstory potential

Encounter Hook: The party descends into the lowest gallery of a long-sealed dwarven mine, hired to clear it of restless dead. At the far end of the tunnel, silhouetted against a collapsed ore-face, stands Brook — still armoured, shield raised, spiked mace dragging sparks along the stone floor. The name on the sealed deed the quest-giver handed them matches the rune etched into his breastplate. He does not stop advancing. He does not answer to his name. But for just a moment, before the first blow lands, something in his hollow eyes flickers — and then it is gone.

Details

• 1× Undead Dwarven Brother (Brook) miniature
• Supplied unpainted and unassembled
• Printed in 32mm scale
• Sculpted by DM Stash

Sculpted by DM Stash — a prolific independent studio known for richly characterful sculpts with deep narrative roots across their ever-expanding range.

Pairs well with other undead warbands and Underdark delves — or explore more from DM Stash.

A studio built on equal parts passion and cat hair.

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