Was Shadowheart a Dark Eldar All Along? New Warhammer 40,000 Drukhari Model Gets Baldur’s Gate 3 Fans’ Attention

It’s been a large week for Drukhari fans aft Games Workshop yet remembered the Dark Eldar beryllium and announced 2 caller models for the faction arsenic good arsenic a caller codex and Combat Patrol. But 1 of the models successful peculiar has caught the attraction of Baldur’s Gate 3 fans, galore of whom deliberation she looks precise overmuch similar God's Favourite Princess.

“The Drukhari person been biding their clip successful the depths of Commorragh, but it’s yet clip to motorboat the raid and portion heavy of the galaxy’s misery — Codex: Drukhari is connected its way!” Games Workshop said successful a station connected the Warhammer Community website earlier this week.

“At the fore is simply a quality agelong known for her quicksilver intellect and convulsive tendencies, who present steps onto the battlefield with a wicked weave of schemes and strategies to confound her prey.

“Give it up for the Archon of the Poisoned Tongue — Lady Malys.”

Lady Malys, a marque caller exemplary coming to the Dark Eldar. Look familiar? Image credit: Games Workshop.

Look familiar? If you’re reasoning of Shadowheart from Baldur’s Gate 3, past you’re 1 of galore with the aforesaid opinion. Ever since Lady Malys was revealed, the speech astir the exemplary has progressive comparisons to the much-loved Baldur’s Gate 3 companion, which is arsenic overmuch to bash with the akin hairstyle and colour and benignant of akin facial features arsenic it does her imposing demeanor.

Here’s the authoritative blurb connected Lady Malys:

Lady Malys is arsenic deadly with her wit arsenic she is with her slender blades, warring with a barbed longsword known arsenic the Lady’s Blade and a instrumentality of razor crisp knives. Her cognition of poisons tin render her unit’s attacks adjacent deadlier than usual, and opponents are ever caught disconnected defender erstwhile Kabalites they thought they had sussed retired are abruptly spirited elsewhere earlier the conflict adjacent begins.

“It legit is Shadowheart,” said redditor Sliversix. “I was conscionable tempted to get her exemplary due to the fact that of however gorgeous it looks.” “FR. Someone successful the mini making section has been playing excessively overmuch BG3,” replied Sufficient_Quit353. “Yeah, this is GW making a bully looking pistillate head, and this is Shadowheart if she became a Dark Justiciar and past took things to space,” added lycantrophee. “That's decidedly precise similar. I privation one!” declared OftenSarcastic. “I privation a 2nd caput truthful I tin marque a ‘Selunite’ Craftworld mentation arsenic well.”

There are immoderate Warhammer 40,000 fans who are saying the Lady Malys exemplary is too Shadowheart, oregon excessively “cute” to beryllium a Drukhari, who are meant to beryllium ultra evil slavers who delight successful torture and sucking the souls close retired of their victims. They should look much similar a twisted signifier of the Eldar, Warhammer 40,000’s abstraction elves, than Eldar successful gnarly armor.

“Am I the lone 1 who feels her look looks incorrect for a Drukhari?” asked Perversoris. “Like mode excessively airy and person to Craftworld than Drukhari quality imho.”

Drukhari shouldn’t beryllium cute!!! pic.twitter.com/STQueb3OQ8

— Marius Gage (@For_Macragge) September 9, 2025

Whatever your take, Drukhari fans are yet having a moment aft years spent successful the wilderness, looking connected enviously astatine their Space Marine-loving brethren. It’s just to accidental the Dark Eldar haven’t been connected apical of Games Workshop’s to-do database erstwhile it comes to caller Warhammer 40,000 models, truthful whenever Lady Malys and co deed store shelves, the Drukhari fandom volition person plentifulness to descend their teeth into.

And possibly they’ll bring a fewer Baldur’s Gate 3 players on for the ride. All we request present is simply a Karlach World Eater...

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