#Gotrek and Felix

I’ve just discovered that there is a Gotrek and Felix short story that was written by John Brunner. Yes, that John Brunner, the sci-fi acclaimed author, the one of “Stand On Zanzibar” and “The Sheep Look Up”

Hey everyone! The more I read The Hobbit the more fascinated I am by fantasy dwarves, so I wanted to ask for some recommendations of fantasy books where Dwarves are protagonists. I’ve been researching and found some, but could you all recommend some of your favorites?

Reading gotrek and felix dragonslayer and william king casually dropping the HARDEST lines, “the road to damnation was paved not with good intentions, but with desires gratified by evil means” like godDAMN. WILLIAM. WILL. MR KING. OOF. YOUWCH. THIS IS A FANTASY NOVEL SIR

Come manling! There are plenty more where that came from! This month’s bookclub is SKAVENSLAYER! Since the last Wednesday is the new year we’ll shoot for this livestream to be on Friday Jan. 2!

The more I read of Trollslayer the more I realize that world fucking sucks to live in

Me, sadly, with deep longing in my eyes: “I miss Felix Jaeger” A deep rough voice behind me: “me too, little one” Me, excited: “GOTREK GURNISSON!?!?!!!” Gotrek, sadly, with deep longing in his eyes: “I miss the manling”

I need HBO to adapt the Gotrek and Felix books. Do you like Barbarian/Bard teamups? Do you miss when GOT was good? This is that but set in a pre-apocalyptic grimdark fantasy world and it’s very monster-of-the-week friendly. Go ham! Cast unknowns! You will rake in so much money! Can you not see my vision?!

Ask game! Felix from Warhammer 1. Why do you like or dislike this character? 4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

1. While Felix in universe isn’t an every man (wealthy merchant’s son, college education), he is naive to the wilder experiences of the Warhammer Fantasy world and so gives us that first time experience during his adventures with Gotrek. Also he usually has to be the voice of reason AND still gets to be a lady’s man. 4. If we were adapting HIS story into a new media it’d need to a Monster of the Week/Season TV show. Which means I could easily see him have a guest appearance on something like Buffy or Supernatural. Although if he came with his companion Gotrek, Gotrek would break either of those settings.

I like power scaling. Its fun. But its VERY easy for people to take hype statements or inconsistencies and just run with whatever depiction they want. Here’s an excellent example because it shows how silly it is. In the Warhammer Fantasy novel Kinslayer, Felix Jaeger is stated to parry a lightning bolt while fighting a Dragon Ogre. Now, a normal person would assume that this is artistic license or that the lightning from a Dragon Ogre is not a 1:1 with real lightning. A power scaler, however, would see that line and determine that Felix Jaeger’s combat reaction speed is lightning level. And from that you can scale him to teen Kakashi (its not 100% clear when he cut the lightning, but its implied to be during the third Shinobi war so teen), so you can scale Felix Jaeger to be roughly elite Jonin. From that, you can determine that Druchii are pretty much all Kage level since their speed with a sword is so much that Felix considers himself unable to keep up with any but the least of them, and even then has to rely on tricks. Vampires, of course, would have to be on Kage+ level owing to their even greater speed; perhaps not quite Madara level, but they’d definitely give him more trouble than the five Kage.

I don’t know how much of a Gotrek and Felix fanbase there is on here, but man, reading the omnibuses has made me think that this must be what it’s like to be a comics fan. “Here’s a new book about those characters you like! Well, they’re similar to the characters you like, at least. Well, they look like them, right?” I know that Nathan Long’s books are a bit controversial in the fandom, and it’s true that changing over from William King’s drier, more subdued writing to Long’s more saturated and arguably more lurid writing took a bit of getting used to. But I never felt that Long didn’t understand the characters, even as his books evolved them in ways I’m not sure were originally intended by King. A few more layers become visible to Gotrek as he’s made more vulnerable emotionally and takes more serious hits; Felix has to grapple with the fact that he’s well over the hill of middle age by Old World standards, but in some ways he’s just as immature at 40 as he was at 20. Long!Felix’s understanding of his place in the world, and the bitterness he feels at times over his vow to Gotrek, fits in nicely with the knowledge that the setting itself is hurtling toward its cataclysmic end. (Side note, I do firmly believe that Felix was always intended to be a POV character who grates on the reader to a greater or lesser extent. It doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of good to say about how Warhammer (Fantasy or perhaps otherwise) handles female characters, but while King’s and Long’s treatments of Felix both feel like he buys into the Empire’s societal sexism as a matter of unexamined prejudice, Long at least seems to be making eye contact with the reader about Felix’s pettinesses and prejudices.) But that’s kind of why it’s so jarring that Long then stepped back from the series with, really, only two major books left. I haven’t started in on Kinslayer yet, so I can’t say how I feel about David Guymer’s treatment of the two just yet, but going from Zombieslayer into the short stories in omnibus 5 was very jarring. Maybe I’ll read the short stories that fit earlier into the timeline, both narrative-wise and writing-wise, at some point, but for now, I’m just kind of mourning the loss of Long’s narrative momentum and understanding of the characters.

Slayer has ended….Gotrek and Felix are done. And I am sad. “Remember me” -Gotrek to Felix

Kinslayer starting off making me cry for snorri nosebiter

And so ends shamanslayer. Onto the the last Gotrek and Felix book before the end times, Zombieslayer! (Oh god I’m almost out of Gotrek and Felix books)

Tried reading more of Daemonslayer but got so distracted thinking about how Gotrek and Felix should have a baby together that I got totally derailed.

Felix and Gotrek from Warhammer

ALT Oh good. While we’ve had many beings (mountain men, rotting chaos creatures) menace Felix’s precious holes, the series was sorely lacking in the dangers of tentacle rape. ALT Can you blame the tentacle mutant? Everyone wants a piece of a sweet uke like Felix.

September Bookclub: Gotrek and Felix: Trollslayer! In case you missed it, we FINALLY got around to our second bookclub episode on ‘Flesh and Steel’! Our next bookclub is Gotrek and Felix: Trollslayer! Be sure to have it read by the end of September and enjoy the book! Flesh and Steel bookclub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CiM0R06us8&ab_channel=NUMBSKULLS

I bit the bullet and started trollslayer 1. Love gotrek so much 2. Felix is a twink

Gotrek and Felix…love each other 🥹