History Characters / TheEndTimesVermintide

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: They're by far the most hated of the rats the heroes face, with Kerillian in particular lamenting them as 'cruel among a cruel kin'. Whoever is caught by a Packmaster as isn't killed soon after can look forward to captivity and slavery, being eaten alive as rations, and/or sold off for inhumane science experiments - their hatred of Packmasters is well-founded.

* AdaptationalBadass: Your standard Ratling Gun is a hefty weapon that requires two operators to use, one to carry and feed ammo into the gun and someone else to aim and fire it, with the shoddy and sometimes deliberately dangerous design of the weapon meaning that at best the weapon can jam up while firing and at worst straight up explode and kill its user. Ratling Guns in Vermintide are much more mobile and reliable due to their experimental design, with one strong and armored rat being able to carry the ammo supply on his back and wield the gun without anyones help to rain down a hailstorm of bullets on people, the only caveat being that the sheer weight of it all makes them slow and lumbering targets if caught out of position.

* TeamKiller: Like the Ratling Gunners, Warpfire Throwers could roast any hapless mook that strays into their cone of fire.

* TheVoice: She doesn't appear onscreen in the Karak Azgaraz quest line, first giving instructions through a speaking tube and later taking Lohner's place as MissionControl via magical communciation. Nonetheless, Bardin recognizes her voice as soon as he hears her.

* TimeAbyss: While probably under a different name Drachenfels was alive as a primitive human tribal shaman when the Old Ones first arrived in the Warhammer world. This means that by the time of his death the only beings in the world that were older than him were the oldest of the dragons, dragon ogres and treemen.

* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:The Waylaid DLC has him in possession of a Grudgebringer shield; heavily suggesting that he's a former Grudgebringer and has fought the skaven before. [[OffScreenMomentOfAwesome It also has you first find him alone in a room full of dead Stormvermin]].]] The "A Guide to Ubersreik" does indeed confirm he was once part of [[spoiler:the Grudgebringers.]]
* SecretKeeper: It appears most of the party trust him with their darkest secrets, including ''[[DarkAndTroubledPast Bardin]]'' and even ''[[TheSpook Kerillian.]]'' When he gets loose lips and shares a few tidbits about Bardin with the others, Bardin threatens to reveal ''his'' history in retribution.

* MageTower: His residence, though no obvious doors exist to get into it from the street level. This is intentional, as a Grey Wizard he prefers cleverly hidden entrances over obvious ones.

* WalkingSpoiler: Isn't mentioned in most of the missions. His interest in the arcane helps drive parts of the ''Castle Drachenfels'' and ''Karak Azgaraz'' content however, as he knows of magical artifacts that could help the resistance... or at the very least should be kept out of the skaven's paws. [[http://www.vermintide.com/news/dev_blog_lohner_olesya/ It's also suggested]] by the a developer blog post for ''II'' that Christoph Engel could be nothing but a guise for Olesya, which was later confirmed in [[https://www.vermintide.com/news/franz-lohners-chronicle-shadow-magic Lohner's journal.]]

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Packmasters are the only Special in the game marked as the Monster enemy type rather than Armored or Infantry. Mechanically speaking, this change in their base stats means they're resistant to shotgun/scatter shot weaponry so that you can't just blow them away so easily. Metamorphically speaking, they're also the vilest, cruelest and most morally monstrous of all Skaven thanks to their M.O and what typically happens to their victims.

* TheQuietOne: The sequel has them lose all of their voicelines, leaving only the chittering of bones they wear as the only hint that they're near. When they actually capture someone, every player in the game can hear their distinctly quiet and wheezy laughter as the victim gets dragged away.

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: They're by far the most hated of the rats the heroes face, with Kerillian in particular lamenting them as 'cruel among a cruel kin'. Whoever is caught by a Packmaster as isn't killed soon after can look forward to captivity and slavery, being eaten alive as rations, and/or sold off for inhumane biology experiments - their hatred of Packmasters is well-founded.

* ArmoredButFrail: They have half the health of other specials, but compensate with full-body armor like Stormvermin.

* ArmoredButFrail: They have half the health of other specials, but compensate with full-body armor like Stormvermin.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A very large and noticeble Warpstone crystal is in a holder above their back. Shooting it with a powerful enough ranged attack will cause it to explode, killing the fire rat instantly. Banging on the crystal with a melee weapon also causes the fire rat to explode, however, which deposits the flame patch ''right under your feet'', so give it a second thought before bumrushing one at close range.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The Monster enemy type is used for all bosses... and the Packmaster.

* ArcherArchetype: Oddly enough (for this game), Ungors can use bows, making them the first common enemy with a ranged variant.

* ButNotTooChallenging: He makes a big show of bragging that he'll singlehandedly kill all the heroes in the Arena, but starts calling for backup as soon as they put a dent in his health.
-->'''Bödvarr:''' Hack me down if you can! I need no aid against Southlander weaklings! ''[...]'' Who else wants to try these Southlings?

[[caption-width-right:350:''Rested? Healed? Good, because I got another job for you. And it won’t keep.'']]

* MysteriousPast: There's a considerable level of mystery surrounding who or ''what'' Lohner is. He's without a doubt more than "just an innkeeper", as evident by his [[TheSpymaster myriad of connections with many powerful figures, Emperor Karl Franz implied to be one of them]]. According to "[[Tabletopgame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay A Guide to Ubersreik]]", Lohner worked as a very successful mercenary in his youth, and [[spoiler:Waylaid shows him with a Grudgebringer shield]]. Talking to Lohner in the Keep in ''2'' may also have him refer to a "beaut of a sword" that he once owned, [[spoiler:which could very well be ''the'' Grudgebringer, after which the mercenary band was named, thus directly implying him to be none other than [[Videogame/WarhammerDarkOmen Morgan Bernhardt]] himself]]. Additionally, the way he [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial quite suspiciously denies]] knowing who the "other chap" in the "Old Comrades" ravaged art is indirectly implies it ''was'' him in his youth, when he was a nobleman warrior and trusted ally of Countess Gertrun of Middenheim. The Lohner's Chronicle post "Obsession" more or less confirms him as Morgan Bernhardt, with him referencing an old elven friend named Elrod, who was an allied Wood Elf commander in ''Dark Omen''. [[https://www.vermintide.com/news/franz-lohners-chronicle-deathly-whispers "Deathly Whispers"]] has him imply he's done a lot of mysterious things in his time - some of which would probably make members of the Ubersreik Five quite mad at him - and he claims to know exactly why the infamously insane Elector Count [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Marius Leitdorf]] went mad, yet another matter that few in-universe can answer.