Thing is, people really like it, so Games Workshop keeps it in print and other authors give it Shout Outs on a regular basis. Details like goblins being willing to work for humans and vampires mingling relatively openly in Imperial society will look like massive errors to anyone who got into the fandom any time after the early nineties. Constant Drachenfels hasn't been mentioned in the background for years, having long since been displaced by Nagash the Great Necromancer as the setting's necromantic Big Bad. It occupies a bizarre place in the Warhammer canon, suffering from a huge, setting-wide case of Characterization Marches On. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?ĭrachenfels is a Warhammer novel by Kim Newman under his Jack Yeovil pen name, first published back in 1989.

The surviving members of the original band who traveled with Oswald are reunited for the play's premiere, a one-time performance staged in the very walls of Drachenfels' abandoned fortress, attended by all the nobility of the Empire. Oswald, the aforementioned brave prince, has a simple proposition for Detlef: he wants to produce a play about his defeat of the Great Enchanter Drachenfels, and he wants Detlef to write and star in it. Twenty-five years later, Detlef Sierck, the Empire's greatest playwright, is rescued from debtor's prison by the Crown Prince Oswald. One by one they fall to his minions and his Death Traps, until only the brave prince remains to fight the sorcerer and vanquish him at last. She smiled, and her heart beat away the seconds, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits travel to the Haunted Castle of the Evil Overlord Constant Drachenfels. She wouldn’t be seeing any dead women getting out of their rocking chairs. She wasn’t hallucinating any more, she knew.

Maybe she should invest in a few more elaborate bio-amendments. Once she got her bearings, she could head for Dead Rat and get Doc Threadneedle to sort out her skullplates. Many people want her dead, so they’re sending three assassins: a Californian Op, a psychopathic killer, and Jibbenainosay, a creature from the Outer Darkness. Krokodil is an ex-juvenile delinquent turned-cyborg killer, who’s also the host of an extra-dimensional entity.

Krokodil Tears by Jack Yeovil