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Title: Grey Seer
Title: Grey Seer
Series:
Warhammer: Thanquol & Boneripper #1
Author: C.L.
Werner
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Fantasy
Pages: 296
Format: Digital
Edition
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Synopsis:
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Thanquol is a skaven magician, one of the Grey Seers. After having several of his plots foiled by Gotrek and Felix, Thanquol is sent on a dangerous mission to Altdorf, capital of the Empire, to recover the Wormstone, a huge piece of warpstone that will give its user tremendous power.
Of
course, being skaven, Thanquol plots how to seize the stone for
himself or at least how to use it to climb up the rungs of power. But
since his “allies” are skaven too, they all are also planning on
how to take it for themselves.
Upon
finding out that the Stone is actually weapon more effective against
skaven than humans, Thanquol plots on how to wipe out the city of
Altdorf AND the skaven city of Under-Altdorf, thus gaining prestige
and favor with the Council of 13. A human wizard of Altdorf has been
keeping an eye of the skavens and with his cronies does his best to
stop said plan. The other skavens of Altdorf also do their best to
stop Thanquol, since dying isn't really what they want to do.
The
book ends with Thanquol's plan going awry yet again, most of the
skavens fighting him dying and most of the humans fighting the
skavens dying.
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My
Thoughts:
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First off,
Boneripper is just a name that Thanquol gives to his current giant
rat bodyguard. It's almost more of a title than a name, as he seems
to go through them at a pretty rapid pace. Now that I know that, I
won't be expecting a real duo as main characters.
I've not read any
of the Gotrek and Felix books, which I gather is where Thanquol is
originally introduced. From the little bit that is referenced, I'm
not sure I WANT to read those books. They sound like a right pair of
brutal thugs. Given, I'm getting that from Thanquol's viewpoint, but
even still.
So, I finally read
a book about the skavens. Giant magical rat people with all the
characteristics of rats. Cowardly, self-serving, backstabbing and
generally bad guys. You'd think that would depress me but for some
reason it really didn't. What DID get me down was how the humans
opposing the skavens were just as much scumbags, even the wizard guy.
With characters like that fighting against Chaos, I'm kind of glad
Chaos ends up taking this world.
I keep going into
these Warhammer books thinking they're alternates to the
Forgotten Realms books. Ha, not even close. Warhammer is
bleak, bleak, bleak. It is a good thing I have a month or two between
them. Any sooner and I'd be overwhelmed and have to defenestrate
myself, which just wouldn't be cool.
I'll definitely be
finishing this trilogy. I've also got 2 more Age of Legends
trilogies to work through but after that, I don't know that I'll
be staying in this world anymore. It's just too bleak and depressing
for me.
★★★☆☆
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