History Characters / GotrekAndFelix

* TheAlcoholic: Packs away liquour with a vigor that boggles even other dwarves. It helps that he drinks to numb the pain of his his guilt and his grief. [[spoiler: Then again, he had quite the problem with alcohol even before becoming a slayer.]]

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: He drunkenly caused a fight with a scouting party of Rangers that lead to Gotrek's hometown being razed by a goblin surprise attack, then killed a wounded dwarf (implied to be Gotrek's wife) in the aftermath.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: He's ultimately responsible for the events that led to Gotrek undergoing ''his'' DespairEventHorizon.]]

* HeartbrokenBadass: Perhaps even moreso than Gotrek. [[spoiler: He's convinced, perhaps rightly, that Gotrek having to take the Slayer Oath was all his fault, and he knows for a fact that ''he'' was the one who killed Gotrek's wife.]]

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Details are sketchy, but it's implied he killed his lord, his bodyguards and a good chunk of his court while grief-stricken over the death of his wife and daughter.]]

* DeathSeeker: He's not very good at it, though. Not because he doesn't want to die, but because he kills ''everything'' that ever fights him, much to his disappointment. He's slain lich kings and vampire lords, dragons the length of football fields, and greater Chaos daemons - beings that are only slightly less powerful than the Chaos Gods themselves. [[spoiler:He's even beaten [[GodhoodSeeker Be'lakor, the Prince Who Would Be King]].]]

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Never wears a shirt, though that could be due to not finding one his size or shirtlessness being the traditional garb for slayers.

* DirtyOldMan: Becomes this after the 20 year timeskip where he constantly oggles women half his age.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Inspite of how he views himself, Felix is a powerful warrior, having fought foes the average human would never have a chance of winning against. Its just that Gotrek is an unstoppable killing machine by comparison that he isn't the OneManArmy his friend is.

* TrueCompanions: Over the course of the novels, Gotrek and Felix develop an extremely strong bond. This gets to the point that, even after Gotrek releases Felix from his oath so that Felix could get married, Felix still leaves his wife and child to return to Gotrek's side when he discovers that the dwarf needs him.

* BadAssBookworm: He 's a combat-trained wizard from one of the most scholarship-focused styles in a world where magic is prone to going disastrously wrong.

* OnlySaneMan: He is more even tempered and pragmatic in regards to seeking an honorable death than the other Slayers in the novels. His only concerns when the dragon attacks his airship are the loss of the ancient treasure and the lives of his non-Slayer passengers.

* BoisterousWeakling: Downplayed. While he boasts of his (future) exploits at every opportunity, he's still competent at fighting, he's quite clearly terrified of dying at first.

* IHaveNoSon: Felixes actions in Manslayer get Otto caught up in an assassination attempt. Otto [[GenreSavvy realizes that these attackers know who he is, putting his wife and son in danger as well]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint He angrily orders Felix to stay away from him from then on to keep him and his family safe (Felix had also lied to him beforehand to involve him in the investigation and didn't factor his family into the consequences)]]. The disowning doesn't come until Shamanslayer when they meet after [[spoiler:their father is killed by Skaven agents in Elfslayer]]. Otto says this to Felix and wants nothing more to do with him. [[spoiler: Relents After the events of Zombieslayer, and by Kinslayer Felix and Kat are living with him.]]

* EntitledBastard: [[spoiler: Expected Felix to drop everything and complete a deathbed request for his father - which involves covering up evidence that he jumpstarted the family business via illegal and borderline heretical means - when Felix notes to himself Gustav disowned him twenty years earlier, never bothered to ask after him in all that time, and was a pretty lousy father even before that]].

* LeanAndMean: He is skinny from having a lean build and being sick and he is mean. For example, his response to seeing his second son alive for the first time in twenty years is to give him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech then demand a favor from Felix in exchange for regaining his inheritance.

* IntimateHealing: After Felix falls into a freezing stream while escaping Beastmen hunting them, Kat strips naked and gets under the blankets with Felix to stop him succumbing to hypothermia. Felix finds it incredibly uncomfortable, given his growing attracting to her.

* DeathSeeker: He's not very good at it, though. Not because he doesn't want to die, but because he kills ''everything'' that ever fights him, much to his disappointment.

* ItsPersonal: The daemon has been waiting twenty years to get revenge on the dwarf king that wounded it. [[spoiler: It also swears vengeance on Gotrek and Felix when they 'kill' it, as daemons can only be banished back to the Warp rather than permanently killed.]]
* WhipItGood: Wields a whip along with its huge axe, which is capable of slicing through dwarfen rune armour and flaying the unfortunate victim alive with multiple strikes.

* BrutalHonesty: Gotrek tells absolutely everyone what he thinks of them, friends are fair game, same with other slayer and even kings, much to the chagrin of Felix, and also [[BadassInCharge Ungrim Ironfist]]

* SpringtimeForHitler: His oath requires him to die heroically in battle killing as many enemies as possible. He's does well with the second part, not so much the first.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: He's dead by The End Times. The only reason we know that is because another character mentions it offhand.]]
** UnexplainedRecovery: Then he turns up again in ''Slayer'', and was still alive and fighting at the end of the book, not that this means much given that The End Times are in full swing by then.

* GadgeteerGenius: His defining character trait.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBlessed (Realmslayer,)

* ActionDad: [[spoiler:As of ''Kinslayer'']].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever

* LoveTriangle: With Felix over Ulrika.

* Catch22Dilemma: Unthinkingly puts Felix into one that kills their relationship. She asks if he would abandon his travels with Gotrek to be with her. If he said yes, than he's an oathbreaker and not worthy of her. If he said no, then he doesn't truly love her and thus not worthy of her. Twenty years later she realizes that this was totally unfair and apologizes.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: When she becomes a vampire.]]
* GroinAttack: Gives one to Grey Seer Thanquol when he and the Skaven are about to ambush the airship Spirit of Grungni.
* HorrorHunger: She has a hard time resisting being around of Felix because of her bloodlust. [[spoiler: An extended period of starvation and imprisonment during ''Kinslayer'' ultimately leads to her death at Felix's hands.]]

* VampireRefugee: She is turned into a vampire by Adolphus Krieger.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Inspite of how he views himself, Felix is a powerful warrior, having fought foes the average human would never have a chance of winning against. Its just that Gotrek is an unstoppable killing machine by comparison that isn't the OneManArmy his friend is.

* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: To Kislev and the Dwarfs he's one of the greatest living human heroes. In the Empire he's denounced as a hack fantasy author and liar because some of his battles were against Skaven, which everyone knows don't exist.
* NeverMyFault: Tends to shift blame towards others for his disfortunes.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Felix is badass, but Gotrek is an unstoppable killing machine.

* SharedUnsualTrait: Inherited from her mother and key to proving the link between them. Disappears after her near-starvation experience leaves her hair white.

* WeaponOfChoice: His crossbow.

* DeathSeeker: Par for the course amongst Slayers.
* DualWielding: Typically fights with an [[AnAxeToGrind axe]] in one hand and a [[DropTheHammer hammer]] in the other.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields the Axe of Krell.

%%* AnAxeToGrind

* AxCrazy
* AnAxToGrind: [[spoiler: Gargorath's weapon of choice is a brutal battle axe that ''eats what it kills''; it drains the life force of those it kills and uses it to heal its wielder's injuries]].

* KnifeNut: Like many Witch Aelves, she is an expert in the use of daggers, and typically fights with twin daggers.

* BalefulPolymorph: Urslak can use the stone to transform people into Beastmen. His plan is to conduct a ritual to transform the vast majority of the Empire into more Beastmen.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: A rare example of a male Lahmian Vampire.

* FailedASpotCheck: Claims to have found no evidence of magical sabotage in an Imperial Gunnery school cannon that violently self-destructed. [[spoiler: When it turns out the cannons were contaminated with warpstone during their forging, Felix realises that Lichtmann [[MoleInCharge deliberately hid the flaw to avert further investigation by the authorities]].

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Wissen completely loses his shit when the cult's plan to [[EarthShatteringKaboom detonate a massive bomb under the city of Nuln]] are thwarted by Gotrek flooding the chamber where the explosives are planted with the contents of the local sewer]].

%%* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:How Gotrek kills Arek]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: He murders a gang of racist Kislevite noblemen who try to harass him because their ringleader sees Adolphus and his girl make eye contact and assumes the worst]].

%%* ForTheEvulz

* WoundThatWillNotHeal: After Razek crashes into with a bomb-laden gyrocoptor it gets a huge wound in its chest.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Before his reveal as the main villain]], he's quite friendly and polite, as well as engaging in lengthy debate with Malakai how magical fire might be used to aid the creation of new and better metal alloys.

%%* PragmaticVillainy

* AbusiveParents: Zig-zagged. He was a short tempered man with no patience for any indiscretions on the part of his children, and Felix has no memories of his father even being pleasant or kind to him, but he does acknowledge that Gustav, while hardly the perfect dad, did make sure that his sons didn't want for anything and did everything he could to ensure they had the best start in life.

* SkunkStripe: Inherited from her mother and key to proving the link between them. Disappears after her near-starvation experience leaves her hair white.

* BadassBeard: Par the course for slayers, but Gotreks is revered as the best (or worst, since Slayers are [[DeathSeeker Death Seekers]]).

%%* BadAssMoustache

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: They're indirectly behind the dragon's return in Dragonslayer, responsible for Arek's rise to power in Beastslayer; which spurred the antagonist of Vampireslayer into action, and the cause of the trouble on Albion in Giantslayer]].