Gotrek Makes The Villains Of Age Of Sigmar Quake In Their Boots!
September 2, 2019 by brennon
Games Workshop are bringing one of the most iconic characters in the Warhammer canon back to the tabletop in Age Of Sigmar. Gotrek Gurnisson has stepped forth from a Realm Gate to start hacking his way through the Mortal Realms seeking a good death!
Gotrek is shown here clambering atop a mound of dead Skaven which he has recently carved his way through. He has snagged himself a Fyreslayer axe by the name of Zangrom-Thraz and is out to make his foes pay dearly. Maybe somewhere out there he'll find the soul of his good friend Felix Jaeger?
I like that they have managed to keep a lot of what makes the original character of Gotrek so iconic. He has kept the neat blue trousers and traditional 'slayer' look without going too far down the route of the Fyreslayers. However, he seems to have got back one of his eyes in the process.
If you're interested in finding out more about Gotrek then you can follow along with the new Age Of Sigmar lore in both Realmslayer and Ghoulslayer. The first of these is an audio drama (now available in script form) and the second is the next book in the series.
Realmslayer features the voice of Brian Blessed as the iconic slayer (seems like a damn good choice for the voice!) whilst Ghoulslayer has Gotrek racing off to try and confront Nagash himself alongside a new and unlikely ally.
It will be neat to see how this all plays out for Gotrek and what secrets will be revealed to him as he explores the Mortal Realms. Plus, hopefully, you'll find a use for Gotrek in your Order armies as a force of nature!
Will you be snapping up the new books or the new model?
"It will be neat to see how this all plays out for Gotrek and what secrets will be revealed to him as he explores the Mortal Realms..."
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As that chief says (I like it).
Gotrek is back and better than ever.
If he wasn’t called Gotrek I wouldn’t have realised it was him. No axe.
No eyepatch.
No stripy trousers.
No manling to throw in harms way.
He has a dark elf to that now 😛 well in his travels he meets the ghost of an old friend 🙂
Gotrek sounds like most of the warhammer fantasy guys when they learned of Age of sigmar… which just makes it even funnier ;D
Well i do also like Bryan Blessed voicing him in the audio drama 🙂
Great to see one of the characters from the Old World is still around, and he’s just as ornery and battle-hungry as ever! It would be nice to see even more Age of Sigmar incarnations of old characters, like we’ve gotten with Alarielle, Archaon, and Thanquol and Boneripper. Grimgor Ironhide, maybe…?
You can’t just bring everyone back, there’s too many of the damn things as it is. Gotrek really wasn’t necessary to bring out of retirement imo.
Excellent. Really enjoyed Realmslayer so Ghoulslayer has my attention.
Digging that Gotrek model as well. Thinking it might prove a good excuse to dig out the other versions of the character GW have released and paint them all up….
I hope this is a young Gotrek due to his small stature and lack of muscle, either that or someone hasn’t read the novel series. DOn’t really see the point in this mini if he is a young Gotrek though
I feel the same, it can’t be a young Gotrek since it’s AoS, but at the same time if he’s missing everything that makes him Gotrek, then it’s not him. Why not just give it another name?
It isn’t a young Gotrek. He stumbled out of a Realm Gate in the first new book unaware of how he got where he has. I would assume after the events of Slayer he got somewhat changed up and tweaked by Grimnir and the whole shattered god thing happened.
I don’t mind that they are reinventing Gotrek for the AoS. Yes, he’s not like he was in the old books but it will be interesting to read the new books to see how much of his character has remained.
I was hoping the Age of Sigmar would have their own team of two adventurers, like Gotrek and Felix but different.
I even tried to make my own version, with a doomseeking human (or Stormcast) and a dwarf (or Kharadron, or Fyreslayer) companion.
Maybe Felix has buggered of to Lankhmar