![]() ![]() ![]() 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. A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits travel to the Haunted Castle of the Evil Overlord Constant Drachenfels. ![]()
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