When Video games Workshop branched out into fiction it did so cautiously, with a string of brief story anthologies earlier than it dedicated to something so formidable as novels. A spotlight of these anthologies have been the tales about Gotrek and Felix, a duo within the sword-and-sorcery custom, with one a homicidal maniac and the opposite a easy poet doomed to observe the opposite round recording his adventures whereas attempting to not get killed by them.
They have been an ideal encapsulation of Warhammer, grim but additionally a bit foolish, heroic but additionally earthy. Finally they’d get their very own novels, however first they appeared in a compilation of brief tales referred to as Trollslayer.
Actually, I do not assume the Felix and Gotrek tales labored as effectively as soon as they have been expanded out to novel size. With a couple of exceptions, virtually all of their finest adventures have been brief tales like these collected in Trollslayer, which is why I am within the particular version Video games Workshop just lately introduced.
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The hardcover ebook comes with a bookmark formed like an axe, artwork prints together with a map of the Previous World and a needed poster for the ebook’s ostensible heroes, two cash—a gold crown from Felix’s residence of the Empire, and a silver dwarf coin for Gotrek—and 4 beer mats.
Two of these are emblazoned with designs representing Bugman’s well-known Trollbrew and One Finger’s Tar Drop, whereas the opposite are for a generic-sounding fantasy tavern referred to as The Sleeping Dragon and the Brodag Brewing Pageant, the place new dwarf beers are historically uncorked. (That one additionally says “Grungi” which I hope is not a typo for the dwarf god “Grungni”.)
This deluxe model of Trollslayer can be a restricted version, solely out there whereas shares final, and I am certain it will not be low-cost. Its value and launch date have but to be introduced, and it will be extra smart to only seize the omnibus with the primary three Gotrek and Felix books in it. Will I do the smart factor? Most likely not.
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