Elfslayer by Nathan Long

Gotrek and Felix 10 Elfslayer by Nathan Long

Gotrek and Felix arrive in Altdorf where Felix’s father is dying. Let’s be clear. Felix’s dad is a jerk, condemning Felix’s accomplishments and then trying to bribe him with a portion of his inheritance if Felix will help him out of a jam. Felix wants to simply walk away, but in the final analysis can’t help himself from trying to pull his father’s bacon out of the fire.

 

The problem is that Felix’s father is being blackmailed for a controlling interest in his company over a letter that he wrote in his youth admitting to smuggling. One would think that a man who has spent the last few decades killing every problem that confronted him would have just gone in and done a Gotrek on the blackmailer, but civilization holds his hand creating a problem that lasts the entire book as an interesting subplot.

 

The main plot is an attempt to recover a magical harp from a group of dark elves who plan to use it to drown all of the human (and elfish) coastal lands. This is an often-exciting adventure punctuated by the large number of times that Felix and Gotrek manage to get themselves captured (or trapped) by the bad guys. As you would expect, they are not the kind to stay imprisoned for long and make pretty short work of all the evils confronting them. The only problem for Gotrek is that none are powerful enough to actually be his doom.