Trollslayer
core novel 1999 Gotrek and Felix
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.97 (6,599 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780671783730 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Trollslayer (1999) by William King is the first novel in the Gotrek and Felix series, set in the Warhammer Fantasy world, and was the first novel published under Games Workshop's Black Library imprint. It is narrated in retrospect by Felix Jaeger, a disillusioned young poet and former student who, after a drunken oath, becomes bound to record the exploits of Gotrek Gurnisson, a dwarf Slayer who has renounced his old life and now seeks a glorious death in battle to atone for an unspecified past shame. Told in an episodic format, the novel follows the unlikely pair through a series of separate, loosely connected adventures across the Old World, encountering monsters, cultists, and other dangers of the Empire, as Felix struggles to keep pace with a companion who actively courts death at every turn.
Where it sits
- Universe: Gotrek and Felix
- Series: Gotrek and Felix core; position 1 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: William King
Notes
- From the series record (Gotrek and Felix): A seven-novel tie-in sword-and-sorcery sequence (1999-2003) for a tabletop miniatures-game setting, following a dwarf monster-slayer and his human chronicler. The founding author's run is treated as its own complete, self-contained sequence; the same characters were later continued by several other, different authors in books not catalogued here.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Gotrek and Felix: position 1 of 7: next Skavenslayer (1999)
Sources
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