Mad Priest: The First Figure, Told Two Ways

Every resin bust miniature we make traces back to this one.

“When the artist lays his hand on the clay, fear is only on the one who draws or dreams… But if all this comes together, the Mad Priest will be reborn…” — The Fire Papyrus Catechism

Every universe needs a first line. Ours is that one.

Nobody remembers who wrote it, or when. It survives the way old things survive — passed along, half-believed, kept because it’s useful more than because it’s true. What it promises is simple and old-fashioned: that a thing shaped by hand, with enough intent behind it, can come back.

We took that literally.

The first figure in the Mad Priest series isn’t one story. It’s a choice. Giroldin, or Zeke. The raven’s path, or the weasel’s. Nobody tells you which one is right, because that was never the point — the point was that you’d have to decide, and live with what that says about you.

That’s a strange way to start a business. Most brands lead with their best foot forward — a clean hero shot, a single confident story. We led with a fork in the road and asked people to pick a side of themselves.

It came from three people in a Bucharest winter, in 2020, deciding they wanted to make something with their hands that didn’t already exist on a shelf somewhere. Not epic fantasy. Not another wizard. Something closer to folklore — the kind of story an old woman tells you once, half-joking, and you think about for years without knowing why.

The booklet that comes with the kit isn’t packaging. It’s the first chapter. Every figure since has added to it — Dr. Plague, Herbalista, Miss Ghikka, Le Patissier, The Story Teller — each one another page in the same catechism, another shape the clay took on its way back.

The kit itself is closer to a small ritual than an assembly project. Thirty-one pieces of resin, cast with Scale75 in Spain, packed with a story booklet instead of just instructions. You build Giroldin or Zeke the same way you’d choose a path in an old fable — piece by piece, with no way to undo the choice once the glue sets. Painters who’ve built both versions say the two figures never feel like variations of the same sculpt. They feel like two different people who happen to share a face. That was the intention from the start. Not a customization option. A decision that costs something.

We don’t know if the Mad Priest is real. We know the raven is watching either way

.Mad Priest is a premium 1:10 scale cast resin combo kit — 31 pieces, buildable as either Giroldin or Zeke, complete with story booklet and assembly instructions. It’s where the Mad Priest universe begins.

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