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Gotrek and Felix are a pair of characters in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, appearing in a series of novels written primarily by William King.
The novels chronicle the adventurers of a Dwarven Slayer named Gotrek Gurnisson and his poet/insurrectionist companion, Felix Jaeger.
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Gotrek and Felix are a pair of characters in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, appearing in a series of novels written primarily by William King.
The novels chronicle the adventurers of a Dwarven Slayer named Gotrek Gurnisson and his poet/insurrectionist companion, Felix Jaeger. As a Slayer, Gotrek seeks a glorious death in battle to atone for his unknown sins. Felix, bound to him by a Dwarven oath incurred after a drunken binge, is tasked with writing and recording his heroic exploits and ultimately his death. Felix, however, has long since come to adopt the opinion that "anything capable of killing The Slayer would finish me off shortly afterwards".
As well as appearing in the novels they have also been incorporated into the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game appearing initially as hero characters for the Dwarf army and then later in the Dogs of War army book.
Character
Gotrek Gurnisson is a very successful (or unsuccessful, depending on your point of view) Dwarven slayer, a Dwarf who has brought shame upon himself and has taken an oath to seek death fighting in honourable combat. Like all slayers, Gotrek had shaved his hair into what usually is a cresent shaped mohawk. He is described as large and heavily muscled, and wears a patch to cover an eye which he lost in battle with Orcs and Goblins. He wields a battleaxe imbued with powerful rune magic, having gained this weapon during his first excursion into the northern Chaos Wastes, where he recovered it from the dead son of King Thangrim Firebeard. Gotrek's axe is as powerful as that wielded by the dwarven High King, Thorgrim Grudgebearer. This weapon was the Runemaster's Axe of the lost dwarven fortress of Karag Dum, and supposedly previously belonged to the dwarven deity Grimnir. The elven mage Teclis once read the magical aura of Gotrek, and determined that immense power is flowing from the axe and slowly changing The Slayer into something greater than an ordinary dwarf.
Felix Jaeger is Gotrek's reluctant companion and "Rememberer." After Gotrek saved Felix from being killed in the Window Tax Riots in Altdorf, in a drunken stupor, Felix promised to record Gotrek's death so that his honor could be maintained. Dwarfs take oaths very seriously, and so Felix was compelled to travel with Gotrek. Felix is a human with a swordman's physique and long blonde hair, who favours a chain shirt and red cloak. Over years of following Gotrek, Felix has become an accomplished swordsman and duelist. His own weapon is the rune sword Karaghul, a blade with a dragon hilt recovered from the fallen hold of Karak Eight Peaks. A relic of the Order of the Fiery Heart templars, it was forged for the purpose of slaying dragons. It grants him a shield from a dragon's fiery breath, as well as providing a powerful confidence when facing such a creature.
Gotrek and Felix Novels
The series is comprised of the following:
- Trollslayer
- Skavenslayer
- Daemonslayer
- Dragonslayer
- Beastslayer
- Vampireslayer
- Giantslayer
- Orcslayer (written by Nathan Long)
- Manslayer (written by Nathan Long)
- Elfslayer (written by Nathan Long)
- Shamanslayer (to be written by Nathan Long) Announced at Games Day 2008
The first six books of the series, from Trollslayer to Vampireslayer, have been reprinted in two Gotrek and Felix omnibus collections.
The third omnibus is scheduled for release in July 2009. It will include the novels Giantslayer, Orcslayer and Manslayer.
The pair have been in several short stories as well including:
- The Dark Beneath the World in the collection Red Thirst
See also
Black Library
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