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Realmslayer

By: David Guymer
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Brian Blessed, David Seddon, Andrew Wincott, Steve Conlin, Penelope Rawlins, John Banks, Joe Shire, Vanessa Donovan, Matthew Hunt, Connie M'Gadzah, Toby Longworth
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Summary

Realmslayer is the most exciting project I have worked on in years, and playing Gotrek fired my imagination with wonder. He possesses enormous courage and imagination, and is totally fearless – more powerful than any hero in literature and history.

What a challenge! It was like playing ten King Lears at once! He will live forever.

(Brian Blessed, the voice of Gotrek Gurnisson in Realmslayer)

Gotrek Gurnisson was the greatest monster slayer of the age, who met his doom at the End Times. The heroic duardin stepped forth into the Realm of Chaos to fight the daemons gnawing at the world's ending and satisfy his death oath, leaving behind his companion Felix Jaeger. 

Now Gotrek has returned, having outlived the old gods and the Old World. Spat from the ruinous depths with his redemption unfulfilled, he emerges into the Mortal Realms, a strange new world where gods walk the earth and dark forces are ascendant. Nothing is as he remembers. His oaths are dust, and the lands are torn asunder by Chaos.   

Yet when Gotrek learns of human champions being elevated to immortality for Sigmar’s fight against this darkness, the so-called 'Stormcast Eternals', he knows why fate has brought him into this new age. To find Felix. For only then can he find the peace in death he seeks. But is there more to Gotrek's apotheosis than even he can fathom? Has he truly been chosen by Grimnir and for what purpose?

©2018 Games Workshop Limited (P)2018 Games Workshop Limited

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An absolute must!

An amazing cast and production that makes it feel like a (great) Hollywood movie! I actually listened to the whole thing in one sitting. They need to make more of these!

I've been listening to GW audio dramas / books for years and this is by far the best thing they've done (and they've done a lot of great stuff)!

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Gotrek is Back!

Absolutely loved this, the gotrek and felix books are my all time favourite fantasy novels and bringing this into the new warhammer world made me very happy indeed and I hope they make more! P.S Brian Blessed is amazing!

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A Love Letter to Old Fans

Long time Gotrek fans will enjoy this. Brian Blessed is great, but strikes me as a slightly odd choice for the character in retrospect; Gotrek has quite a dark, tragic side that Blessed isn't quite able to capture.

That being said, Gotrek is very much the embodiment of grouchy, old-school Warhammer fans in this story. It's great to see GW are not beyond laughing at themselves, and it work very well seeing the Mortal Realms through the lens of an ancient, irascible grouch.

It's nice to see a bit more of the Fyreslayers, too, as they've been somewhat neglected for a long time.

The plot itself, whilst not outstanding, is not bad either. Realmslayer serves as an amusing, gentle reintroduction of a beloved character into a new setting, btmut probably won't be terribly entertaining to listeners without a vested interested in Gotrek's story.

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"My axe thirsts, and I shall lead her to drink!"

The only negative I have about this production is that I want so much more of it!!! This isn't an audiobook, a reading of a novel, but more a radio play, relying on the amazing ambient sound effects and the divine delivery of all the voice actors involved. Dialogue heavy, sound effects and music are all perfectly balanced and Gotrek was made for Blessed! Story is only four hours long, last hour is interviews. Set up for a whole series. Bring it on!!!!

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Great performance, terrible (if any) story.

Games Workshop have spent some cash here, hiring great voice actors, and using brilliant sound effects. It's just such a shame they're sticking with their own in-house terrible authors. David Guymer is just not up to scratch. I could write a better novel than this. Almost anyone could. Give Gotrek back to Bill King, who created him and could actually spin a good yarn! Really GW, this is a great idea, but do it with material from Dan Abnett if you do it again, he's the only quality writer you have.

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Too much theatre not enough novel.

Great story and acting, no doubt about that.
But for me the lack of audio description left me very lost in this new world.
Many new races and creatures were unknown to me and there was a lack of description or explanation that you would get from a novel.
I found myself having to Google things I didn't know how to spell. Instead of using my imagination as there was no description to base it on.
Great story, definitely not for listening too at night as very loud and noisy with the sound effects.

With all the effort that's been made to put out such a great production it would have been great to have an appendix with descriptions,explanations or pictures of the creatures or races.
We don't all play Age Of Sigmar.
I'm just a fan of Gotrek and the black library.
Worth a listen, but I think I'll stick to the classic style of audio books in the future.

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Pretty good for a leyman of 40k like myself

The story was great, I love greater-than-life characters. I wish they would make a movie about him. The narration was amazing! As to be expected from such names. The only thing I didn't like were the added noises from the background. Sometimes it was hard to understand what the actual characters were saying. And some of the have hard enough accents alreary.

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GOTREKS ALIVE

far and wide the best Gotrek story yet and Brian Blessed just takes this whole work to the next level.

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Brian blessed was incredible , buy it listen to it

More please black library ! Awesome work to all the cast and crew. The story/script going forward needs to keep up the tempo , the diversity of characters is particularly excellent.

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gotrek reborn

I truly believe that Brian blessed is the perfect voice for gotrek I wish that they would get him to do all the gotrek and Felix books

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