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That's the prologue. Twenty five years later, Detlef Sierck, the Empire's greatest playwright, is rescued from debtor's jail by the Crown Prince Oswald. Oswald has a proposition for him: he wants to produce a play about his defeat of the Great Enchanter Drachenfels, and he wants Detlef to write and star in it. The original band who travelled 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. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]?
''[[Drachenfels]]'' is a ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' novel by [[Kim Newman]] under his Jack Yeovil pen name, first published back in 1989. It occupies a bizarre place in the ''Warhammer'' canon, suffering from a huge, setting-wide case of [[Characterization Marches On]]. Constant Drachenfels hasn't been mentioned in the background for years, having long since been displaced by Nagash the Black as the setting's necromantic [[Big Bad]]. Details like goblins being willing to work for humans and vampires mingling relatively openly in Imperial society will look like massive cases of [[Did Not Do the Research]] to anyone who got into the fandom any time after the early nineties. Thing is, people ''really'' like it, so Games Workshop
The protagonist of ''Drachenfels'', the vampire Genevieve, also starred in a collection of three novellas called ''Genevieve Undead''; ''Silver Nails'', a short story collection; and had a small role in ''Beasts In Velvet''. [[Wolverine Publicity|Apparently not small enough to stop the Black Library bundling the latter in with their ''Vampire Genevieve'' collections]].
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Drachenfels, mostly just to mess with people.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: A favourite of Drachenfels. Freezing people in place to starve to death with a feast laid out before them, trapping people in tiny pocket dimensions to be chewed on by rats for all eternity...okay, the second one might have been an illusion to fuck with Genevieve. When he died, there was a ''mass exodus'' of trapped souls finally leaving.
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