History Literature / GotrekAndFelix

* WaterSourceTampering: In ''Grey Seer'', Thanquol, after numerous setbacks on other plans, decides to screw over all his enemies in Altdorf (everyone) by dumping the Wormstone into the city reservoir. The Imperial forces are only able to stop him by blasting a whole in the reservoir to drain it before the tainted water reaches the city, which they note will also mean a shortage of clean drinking water in the largest city of the Empire until it's fixed, and extraordinary taxes to pay for the repairs.

* DeathSeeker: All Slayers are dwarves who have taken an oath to seek heroic doom in recompense for something so disgraceful or shameful that death can be the only recompense. It highlights the importance of death in a Slayer's role that Gotrek is considered the worst slayer of all time -- he might be a hero, but until he gets killed in combat whatever disgrace he committed cannot be atoned for -- and at the rate he's going, he's going to die of old age, which is the worst possible death for any Slayer.

Or not, as Gotrek has appeared in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', alive despite his supposed doom (which he is ''not'' happy about). He is voiced by Creator/BrianBlessed in the audiobooks. Gotrek, Felix, and Ulrika also appear in the ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer Trilogy'' as Legendary Heroes (with Creator/BrianBlessed reprising his role as Gotrek).

''Gitslayer'': Gotrek travels to the city of Barak-Urbaz in the hopes that the Kharadron alchemists might have a way of removing the ur-gold rune from his chest. But the Ork chieftain Gloomspite Gitz has received a vision of that rune and the power it possesses, and plots to claim it for himself.

Or not, as Gotrek has appeared in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', alive despite his supposed doom (which he is ''not'' happy about). He is voiced by Creator/BrianBlessed in the audiobooks.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Window taxes, such as the one in Altdorf that Felix got into trouble for protesting against when he first met Gotrek, were a real thing in 18th and 19th Century Europe. They were intended as a way to tax income without actually having an income tax (as the public felt that the government had no right to ask everyone what they made in a year so they could tax it), on the theory that wealthier people would own larger houses, which would have more windows. The tax dodge of sealing up windows to lower the taxes was also fairly common, though corrupt tax collectors knocking holes in walls and taxing the hole as a window probably wasn't. And though they didn't escalate to riots IRL the way the protests Felix was part of did, such taxes were highly unpopular, as the public felt that they were taxing people's access to light and fresh air.

* AnAxeToGrind:
** Gotrek wields a battle axe originally forged by Grimnir, the Dwarf god of war, and grants him superhuman (superdwarfish?) fighting abilities.
** Garmr, a Chaos Champion of Khorne, wields a daemon-axe almost as badass in Road of Skulls.

** Gotrek and Felix have never quite equaled that feat but the events of ''Elfslayer'', ''Shamanslayer'', and ''Dragonslayer'' have all gone to UpToEleven levels for mortals in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'''s setting.

* HandsomeLech: Subverted. Felix certainly enjoys the company of attractive women, though not to the extent that he's a lech. It's just, well, the girls add up a bit over time. Gotrek and Max lampshade this on occasion. UpToEleven in 'The Serpent Queen', where the Herald of Khalida, the undead champion Zabbai, outright says she would take Felix for herself if she were still a living woman. Gotrek spends half the book trying to hook them up, although he's probably just screwing with Felix.

* SpringtimeForHitler: Gotrek is on a quest to die heroically in battle to atone for his sins. He is spectacularly bad at the 'dying' part.

%%* BashBrothers: Gotrek and Felix. Humans and Dwarfs in general, too, thanks to an ancient oath sworn by the Dwarfs to Sigmar.%%Explain.

** Possibly suberted with Heskitt One-Eye. A tech genius certainly but rather than invent his own things he tries to steal them from humans and improve on them.

%%* GeniusCripple: Teclis, obviously.

* ThemeNaming: Most of the books are called "[blank]slayer" with the blank being filled in by whatever Gotrek needs to kill this time. In a few cases the slayer in the title is not him however. [[spoiler: In ''Dragonslayer'' Felix is the one to kill the titular dragon and in ''Vampireslayer'' the vampire is killed by Snorru, more or less by accident.]]

* DrinkingContest: Gotrek and Snorri's meeting at the start of ''Daemonslayer'' is celebrated with one. Specifically, they order twenty pints of beer, and the one who downs their ten first has to pay.

''Slayer'': After decades of adventures, Gotrek and Felix, brought together by fate but torn asunder by Gotrek's brutal actions towards an old friend, face their final challenge as the world reaches the End Times...

''Realmslayer'': Long after the death of the Old World, Gotrek emerges from the Realm of Chaos and into the Mortal Realms. With his fatal redemption spoiled and without Felix, his axe or any idea what is going on in the bizarre new world he finds himself in, Gotrek embarks on a new adventure followed now by the aelven warrior Maleneth -- much to his displeasure.\\

''Ghoulslayer'': Gotrek and Maelneth cross through the bleak, haunted underworld of Shyish to seek out Nagash, the Lord of Undeath, but are caught up in the invasion of the kingdom by the Flesh-Eater Court of King Galan. As they fight to protect themselves, Gotrek will find much more than he expected.

* ''Gitslayer'': Gotrek travels to the city of Barak-Urbaz in the hopes that the Kharadron alchemists might have a way of removing the ur-gold rune from his chest. But the Ork chieftain Gloomspite Gitz has received a vision of that rune and the power it possesses, and plots to claim it for himself.

** Ulrika is now a [[spoiler:vampire of the Lahmia clan, despite his vampire father being described as a Von Carstein vampire in ''Vampireslayer'' and other works]].

!!Thanquol and Boneripper
!Novels

!Short Stories:

!!Ulrika the Vampire
!Novels

''Thanquol Triumphant'': Thanquol single-handedly saves a clan of Skaven from destruction by Orks... a clan of Skaen that he was supposed to be destroying himself.

* FungusHumongous: While in the Chaos Wastes in ''Daemonslayer'', the crew of the ''Spirit of Grungni'' encounters a forest of tree-sized fungi in a rainbow of sickly shades and dripping with toxic slime, as an example of the twisted and unnatural life found there.

%%* BadassBeard: Too many to count.

* AnachronicOrder: While the novels are in chronological order, the short stories are not, and many of them are impossible to place in any sort of order whatsoever.

** ''Grey Seer'': Scrivner's men stop Thanquol from poisoning all of Altkirk, but [[spoiler:preventing anyone from drinking the powdered Wormstone he had dumped in the reservoir required them to blow it up. With the city's supply of clean water gone, the lower classes will be forced to choose between greater poverty in order to buy water from out of town importers and greater risk of illness from trying to drink river water. Not to mention greater taxes to pay for repairing the reservoir.]]

''Slayer of the Storm God'': With Hans Euler dead, Felix makes another attempt at retrieving his father's letter from his home.\\

''City of the Damned'': Gotrek and Felix travel to Ostermark to hunt a creature known as The Beast, which has apparently kidnapped the Baron of Sigmarshafen. But The Beast lairs in the City of the Damned, a den of Chaos that has been trapped outside of time since the days of Magnus the Pious, and is home to the Daemon that will anoint the Everchosen of Chaos who will bring about the End Times if it ever escapes.\\
''Kinslayer'': Felix Jaeger, now living with his family in Altdorf, is drawn back into his life of adventure when an old friend is captured by a monstrous foe. But where is Gotrek, and will he be able to help?\\

''Rememberers': While returning to Altdorf after the events of ''Kinslayer'', Gotrek and Felix encounter a Chaos army on the march... and choose not to fight it.