History Characters / TheEndTimesVermintide

* {{Expy}}: His overall appearance, rack of skulls and dual-wielding fighting style is very reminiscent of [[Characters/WarhammerSkaven Queek Headtaker]].

* VillainousValour: Gotta give the rodent his due, he's impressively brave for a Skaven. Despite them cutting through his entire warren of warriors to get to him he jumps down to fight the party directly when he is in a pretty decent position to run away, as must Skaven Warlords would if they could. He [[FlunkyBoss doesn't fight alone]] but then no boss in the game does.

* CainAndAbel: There's no love lost betweeen the two sisters. Sienna killed her once already for preying on helpless peasants, and they're both prepared to put the other down.

* SuperStrength: He can punt any of the heroes dozens of feet with his strikes, not to mention his abilities to accelerate his own 400+ kg[[note]]Bodvarr is a bulky man around nine feet tall; volumetrically scaling up from a 100 kg, six foot man yields a weight of 337 kg. He's also wearing full plate armor, which historically tended towards 1/5 to 1/4 of the user's bodyweight.[[/note]] armored bulk with ease and swing around a hilariously oversized axe (though he does so pretty slowly, more like a sledgehammer than a proper weapon).

* LargeAndInCharge: On top of being very wide, he's a good foot and then some taller than common Blightstormers, albeit not as tall as Bodvarr.

* GutturalGrowler: His voice is positively gravely, far more than any other Skaven character. The only ones more guttural than him are the ''Rat Ogres''.

* AllThereInTheScript: The boss character Naglfahr is an Exalted Chaos Champion; while this is never stated in-game, his entity name in the game files is "chaos_exalted_champion_norsca" (it can also be inferred from his size and the fact that he uses the same character model as Bodvarr, just without the helmet).

* WeHaveReserves: Just as with the Skaven, they have no qualms about how many of their number die. Which is good, because their forces consist almost entirely of unarmored men and megafauna with melee weapons in a setting where early guns exist, and unlike the Skaven they don't have many specials to balance it out. Bodvarr claims to have an "endless horde" to throw at the Reikland, though by "War Camp" even he admits that the Ubersreik Five has put quite a dent in it (part of why his main base is understaffed). The Chaos Wastes expansion reveals that their home is in the [[EldritchLocation Wastes]] themselves rather than southern Norsca or the Eastern Steppe like most Norscan and Kurgan tribes, which means that conventional demographic limits do not apply to them.
* TheWorfEffect: A generic Rotblood Exalted Chaos Champion who [[PropRecycling uses the same model as Bodvarr]] is killed in seconds by Warrior Priest Saltzpyre in the latter's debut trailer. A second shows up leading a small army towards the Ubersik Five at the end of the same trailer, with the latter being unconcerned.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Despite her ritual structure going down with her on it, both Saltzpyre and Sienna will note that her body is nowhere to be found.

* TheBeastmaster: What they're originally intended to be in the lore. These versions "tame" a different type of beasts, however- said beasts being the heroes. [[LampshadeHanging The website acknowledges that this is unusual]], and speculates as to why Clan Fester would pay the extra warpstone tokens to employ Clan Moulder's agents in this manner; the implications are disturbing... the tutorial level for ''2'' shows exactly why Clan Fester insisted upon this change, as they need a source of fresh man-thing slaves and it eventually managed to capture all the heroes.

* 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.

* 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, being eaten alive as rations, and/or sold off for inhumane biology experiments - their hatred of Packmasters is well-founded.

* EliteMooks: Their melee units compared to the Skaven. Basic Marauders have longer reach are twice as tough as Clanrats (as in double health, cleave resistance, and stagger resistance). A similar difference exists between Cultists and Skavenslaves. When it comes to the elite units, things start to break down somewhat, but despite being mostly unarmored, their Maulers generally take longer to bring down and have a more dangerous moveset than halberd-wielding Stormvermin, and Chaos Warriors are even hardier than that with heavy full-body armor to boot. Thankfully, they're also less numerous than their Skaven counterparts.

* BandageMummy: The're often wrapped in filthy bandages over their gangrenous peeling skin, giving them a leper-like appearance.

* CosmeticallyDifferentSides: Uniquely among the chaos unit list, Savages have the exact same health and damage value as their Skaven counterpart, the Plague Monk.

* HeavilyArmoredMook: Chaos Warriors are infamous for their heavy armor, and the ones the party will encounter are no exception. There is no part of them that is ''not'' armored, just parts that are ''less'' armored than others. Taking them down effectively requires coordinated attacks or piercing weapons.

* FlashyTeleportation: They teleport with a distinctive noise, puff of smoke, and motion blur, which can give players a chance to get the drop on them.

* TragicMonster: Oddly enough they are this. While some trolls turn to Chaos of their own accord the game's Bile Trolls are explicitly normal trolls infected by the Rotbloods against their will. On the mission to stop this happening Victor remarks that even ''trolls'' don't deserve what's been done to them.

* ConfusionFu: The Chaos Spawn mostly fights in a similar manner to the Rat Ogre, but has a much more erratic AI, making it significantly harder to deal with.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Why, of course. In fact, they are ''so'' chaotically-evil that they would often butt heads with even other Chaos-aligned factions that are remotely organized in any way, such as the ''Skaven''. They only "cooperate" with the Warriors of Chaos, who generally consider them barely-sapient cannon fodder.

* BloodKnight: All Beastment exist to slaughter enemies in glorious combat, in the name of their Chaotic patrons.

* ItsPersonal: Except for Bardin (who still hates them), the heroes seem to despise the Beastmen more than the Skaven or Norscans, each for their own reasons. Kruber hates them because, as a FarmBoy in the Empire, he knows how much of a persistent threat they are to rural communities near the forests (in fact his first kill was a Tuskgor as a kid), and he sees their savage religion and customs as a perversion of Taal worship. Kerillian hates them because they're traditionally the ArchEnemy of the Wood Elves (both Asrai and Eonir) and because their very existence spreads Chaos corruption, reducing beautiful nature to hellscape and causing magical pestilence (including "sickness in the hearts of newborns"). Sienna hates them for perverting the Winds of Magic, which she as a wizard has a connection to. And Saltzpyre hates them both for being as pure an embodiment of Chaos as possible outside of daemons (the Beastmen are called the "Children of Chaos" for a reason) and for their existence owing in part to the weakness in the heart of the Empire (many parents are unable to kill their mutated children and instead dump them in the forests, where they grow into Beastmen).

* {{Mooks}}: Generally, they die in droves when facing a disciplined, organized army and thus only prey on weaker forces... or five heroes traipsing through their territory.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/Left4Dead2 Ellis' buddy Keith]], being an [[TheGhost unseen]] friend of one of the player characters who gets mentioned a lot in unusual stories. The main difference is that while Keith is famous for [[AmusingInjuries getting into all sorts of self-destructive shenanigans]], Okri is presented as more of a straight up badass.

* CrazyPrepared: He would have to be, to hire a grey wizard to keep a PerceptionFilter spell cast over his inn.

* 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.

* CardSharp: Apparently unwinds with the main characters from time to time and is well known for being a master at gambling. Kruber suspects that she [[ParanormalGamblingAdvantage cheats]]... which for an unsanctioned grey wizard, is both entirely plausible and would be nearly impossible to catch her in the act of (and further imply she is certainly unsanctioned, as the Grey Order has no tolerance at all toward the use of illusion magic for personal profit).

* DragonInChief / DragonAscendant: Olesya reveals in the second game that Rasknitt was never the true leader of Clan Fester, and was only the leader of the invasion force during the events of the first game. After Clan Fester's Warlord was slain, Rasknitt returned, pinned the failure of Ubersreik on said Warlord and took over.

* {{Expy}}: Of another ambitious Grey Seer, Thanquol. Rasknitt is uncharacteristically lucky and hard for the protagonists to kill, coming back from certain death and getting away from the consequences of his actions by pinning the blame of defeat on someone else, in this case the previous warlord of Clan Fester. In the finale of II, he returns one last time with his own personal, AceCustom Rat Ogre named Deathrattler, who draws parallels to many, many commissioned Bonerippers Thanquol is fond of using.

* SquishyWizard: While he still has the obligatory boss health pool, Rasknitt is rather pathetically easily staggered. Indeed, just spamming light attacks on him will lock him into a CycleOfHurting until his uninterruptible teleport, allowing a team that knows he only teleports into the four corners of the arena he's fought in to camp around and take turns beating him into a pulp.

A chieftain of Clan Fester that has struck...''some'' kind of deal to make his clan more powerful. As ''II'' clearly shows, it was an alliance with the Nurgle-worshipping Rotblood army.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His habit of [[FlunkyBoss calling in backup]] tends to backfire on him more than it helps, as he takes time calling them in, time during which he is ''entirely vulnerable''. Bödvarr tends to lose as much, if not more of his health during these intermission speeches than he does while ''actually fighting''.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Given how sadistically careless Skaven tend to be, it's completely possible for a Ratling Gun, Globadier, Warpfire Thrower or even a Stormfiend to utterly annihilate a horde of slaves for you, doing some of the work for you at worst or giving you an opening to escape at best.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: ''Vermintide 2'' introduces a sword and shield variant of the stormvermin. Their shields are thick metal pieces that'd make a dwarf proud, as opposed to the shoddy wooden shields Clanrats use, so they can't be destroyed. A handful of attacks, however, can still go right through them (like handgun bullets).

* FragileSpeedster: They don't have much health, but are incredibly fast, can come from many different angles thanks to their impressive leaps, and can deal very high damage with their attacks. This occasionally works against them, as their high-speed leaps can slam them right into a wall if they miss their target and kill them, or send them flying off a cliff. Even if you don't kill one with the first hit, their nonexistent resistance to being staggered will usually allow you to finish them off before they can either get away or pounce.

* BeefGate: The Stormvermin Patrols, which consist of 4-6 of them on the lower difficulties, and 20-30 on the higher. The game info even suggests that you avoid the patrol.
* EliteMook: Much stronger and tougher than their Clanrat brethren.

* WolfpackBoss: Alerting and fighting an entire patrol can become like this, as they're made of at least six EliteMooks that can surround and deal very heavy damage to an unprepared team.

* ActionBomb: When its gas tank is damaged, it'll try to blow up on a hero as a LastDitchMove.

* {{Expy}}: Of the Hunter from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. A fast but fragile unit that incapacitates heroes while doing high damage per second. Runners are a lot quieter about preparing to pounce, but give themselves away with their constant skittering.

* NeverSplitTheParty: They enforce this, as an incapacitated hero can only be saved by another party member and Gutter Runners know this.

* AxeCrazy: "Unhinged" might be an understated way to describe Norscan warriors, who fight to the death confident that their gods will preserve the souls of those who kill and die in their name.

* WeHaveReserves: Their leadership is entirely unconcerned about sending thousands of them into the meat grinder to conquer Ubersreik and later Helmgart.

* {{Expy}}: Of the Hunter from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. A fast but fragile unit that incapacitates heroes while doing high damage per second. Runners are a bit chewier than Hunters though, especially on higher difficulties.
* FragileSpeedster: They don't have much health, but are incredibly fast, can come from many different angles thanks to their impressive leaps, and can deal very high damage with their attacks. This occasionally works against them, as their high-speed leaps can slam them right into a wall if they miss their target and kill them, or send them flying off a cliff.

* BlowYouAway: Ironically, the actual flames aren't particularly dangerous to a hero, but the sheer force of the weapon's pushback can easily keep you pinned and be left at the mercy of the horde, or leave you dangling off a cliff.

* EliteMooks: Their melee units compared to the Skaven. Basic Marauders have longer reach are twice as tough as Clanrats (as in double health, cleave resistance, and stagger resistance) and are accompanied by Marauder Champions who have no clear counterpart in the Skaven forces. A similar difference exists between Cultists and Skavenslaves, Chaos Spawn and Bile Trolls have more powerful attacks than Rat Ogres and both can regenerate, and Chaos Warriors are ludicrously more dangerous than Stormvermin. Balancing this out is the fact that the Warriors of Chaos have zero ranged units or "disablers" aside from their sorceers, thus they're generally less dangerous than the Skaven due to the latter's spam of poison gas, teleporting assassins, ratling guns, and flamethrowers.

They come in four variants: Raiders (one-handed weapons), Bulwarks (shields), Savages (dual-wielding axes) and Maulers (great axes).

* CoolHelmet: Maulers wear full-faced, metal helmets with chainmail masks, which makes attacking their head a worse prospect than attacking their body, with only a few weapons being able to cause damage to their head. In-game, their helmet is considered Super Armor, which is the same level as a Chaos Warrior's body; their helmets are ''really good'', but they don't have any armor elsewhere.
* GiantMook: Chaos Maulers are taller than the rest of the marauder variants, wielding two-handed axes and slightly more armored. They are essentially weaker versions of Chaos Warriors.

!!Chaos Warriors
Imbued with the power of Chaos and encased in armour forged in infernal flames, the Chaos Warriors are living weapons equal in strength to several battle-hardened mortal men. Having shed the concerns of petty mortality, the Chaos Warrior dons the mantle of war in the name of the Chaos Gods' ruinous powers, replacing comfort and love for power and immortality. Transcending beyond such primitive needs as food and rest, their nourishment becomes carnage, their language violence. They walk the face of the Old World as instruments for their blasphemous god’s will, with the lifeblood of the slain staining their armour.

* AllThereInTheManual: According to "[[Tabletopgame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay A Guide to Ubersreik]]", Lohner worked as a very successful mercenary in his youth, and made enough money from it while he still had his health to buy the Red Moon Inn and retire to being an innkeep.

* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:She led a war party on an ambitious strike to reclaim Khazid Kro from the Skaven, but it went wrong, leaving most of the party dead and her barricaded in enemy territory. The Ubersreik Five play TheCavalry to get her out and complete her attack, but Lohner didn't even tell them about her presence beforehand in case she was already dead.]]

* TheEngineer: She served as an engineer in the dwarf navy of Barak Varr, a position that tests one's technical acumen and fighting prowess, and Bardin claims that she was brilliant at her craft even before that.

* CardSharp: Apparently unwinds with the main characters from time to time and is well known for being a master at gambling. Kruber suspects that she cheats... which for an unsanctioned grey wizard, is both entirely plausible and would be nearly impossible to catch her in the act of (and further imply she is certainly unsanctioned, as the Grey Order has no tolerance at all toward the use of illusion magic for personal profit).

* ArchEnemy: Her nemesis in the Chronicles of Hedda Bardinsdottir is Gangplank Git, a goblin pirate who stole both a precious family heirloom from her clan and a relic from the King of Karak Azgaraz. She undertakes a long, risky voyage to bring him down.

* HuskyRusskie: Olesya's accent implies that she's from Kislev, Warhammer's FantasyCounterpartCulture of Russia. Downplayed, as she's never seen fighting and her [[CastingAShadow Grey Magic]] specializes in illusions and stealth. She definitely has the thick-skinned, unfazeable personality this trope implies however.
** The second game confirms she's from Kislev in the description for the Hunter of the Wastes painting, which mentions that she lived in the Kislev borderlands.

* {{Necromancer}}: Wields BlackMagic and commands the spirits of the dead, and intends to ignite a plague of undeath in the region -- A dangerous prospect, considering how many dead bodies are lying around the countryside by that point in the story. In her boss battle, she summons waves of skeletons (which use the animations of shield-bearing marauders and warhammer-wielding maulers) in conjunction with a sweeping beam that rapidly saps health as skeletal hands claw at the player.

* EldritchAbomination: They are twisted beyond all measure, a mass of pink flesh and tentacles with only a jagged maw as a discernible feature.

Bardin's daughter, a capable warrior and engineer who's been missing for years. In the Karak Azgaraz DLC, Lohner finally uncovers information about her whereabouts.

* HannibalLecture: It often taunts and mocks the heroes this way, pointing out their past regrets and failures.

* BladeOnAStick: Their weapon of choice is a halberd which allows them to guard, as well as attack from a range.

* BladeOnAStick: In addition to their bows, they wield crude spears which they ready if their target closes to short range.

[[folder:Nameless Voice (Spoilers)]]
A mysterious and ominous disembodied voice that occasionally whispers to the Ubersreik Five during their trip to Castle Drachenfels in the second game, and the basement in the keep as they prepare to go to the Chaos Wastes. As it spoke to them while a daemon-summoning ritual was occurring and while the Ubersreik Five prepared to magically travel to a land of the Chaos gods, it can be inferred that the voice comes from a daemon -- specifically, an ancient and powerful daemon prince known as Be'lakor, the Dark Master.

* ScreamingWarrior: Their Berserkers in particular scream incoherently as they lunge into the enemy with their due hand axes.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Krench's green clothing, as well as parts of the room he's in resembling [[https://1d4chan.org/images/b/b6/220px-Nurgle_Symbol.png the symbol of Nurgle]], foreshadowed how Nurgle-worshippers were a new enemy faction within ''Vermintide II''.]]

* SecretKeeper: It appears most of the party trust him with their darkest secrets, including ''[[DarkAndTroubledPast Bardin]]'' and even ''[[TheSpook Kerillian.]]''

* MissionControl: Gathers intelligence and comes up with critical objectives that the party needs to meet to stem the Vermintide.

* CastingAShadow: She is a Grey Wizard, whose magical arts relate to darkness, deceit and confusion.

* EvilSorceror: He's a Grey Seer, a powerful Skaven sorcerer.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: During his fight, he swears that he will make the heroes pay for freeing his slaves, burning his supplies and preventing him from harnessing the power of Ghulmagak's monolith.

-->'''Bödvarr Ribspreader:''' My slaves. My spoils of war. Lord Ghulmagak. You will pay for them all!

* {{Necromancer}}: Wields BlackMagic and commands the spirits of the dead, and intends to ignite a plague of undeath in the region -- A dangerous prospect, considering how many dead bodies are lying around the countryside by that point in the story. In her boss battle, she summons waves of skeletons (which use the animations of shield-bearing marauders and warhammer-wielding maulers) in conjunction with a sweeping beam that rapidly saps health as skeletal hands claw at the player. Notably this makes her her connection to the Pactsworn an alliance of convenience; she's not a Chaos worshipper (and obviously isn't a Skaven) and indeed necromancers and others associated with the undead are usually opposed to Chaos, though considering it's made clear that she's dominating the Packsworn, and they don't know what's really going on, she probably isn't allied with them at all.
* MindControl: According to her the Pactsworn guarding Sofia in Olesya's tower are being dominated by her.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Despite her ritual structure going down with her on it, both Saltzpyre and Sienna will note that her body is nowhere to be found

** The books repeatedly emphasize that the Skaven are cowards who will break and run after fewer losses than comparable human forces. This is reflected in their stats in the tabletop, RPG, and ''Total War'' series by giving most Skaven low morale/leadership rankings (most Skaven, including ''Stormvermin'', are Leadership 5, putting them on par with Bretonnian men-at-arms and two or three tiers below Imperial State Troops; meanwhile skavenslaves at Leadership 2 are the easiest to rout infantry in the entire game). But in ''Vermintide'' the lowliest skavenslave will still continue to charge with zombie-like persistence even after you've killed a thousand of his comrades, only fleeing in scripted sequences at the very end of certain missions.

* SoundCodedForYourConvenience: If the tolling of bells and the war cries of hundreds of Skaven doesn't come out of nowhere, then you can anticipate a horde ambush if you hear the angry chittering and babbling of Skaven lying in wait around you before they charge for the kills after a few seconds.

--> ''I didn't throw that.''
--> ''Fool-slaves! Got in the way!''
--> '''''HRRRGH,''''' ''Idiots! Go die somewhere else!''

* BreathWeapon: Like all trolls, they weaponize the digestive acid in their bellies by vomiting it up on their foes. It can blind as well as slow, and the sticky spot remains festering on the ground for several seconds.

A Sorcerer Lord of the Rotblood Tribe, Burblespue Halescourge was involved in the making of the pact with Clan Fester. His existence is first eluded in the original game's [=DLCs=], after he steals a number of dangerous books from Franz Lohner.

* MindControl: According to her the Pactsworn guarding Sofia in Olesya's tower are being dominated by her

* {{Necromancer}}: Wields BlackMagic and commands the spirits of the dead, and intends to ignite a plague of undeath in the region -- A dangerous prospect, considering how many dead bodies are lying around the countryside by that point in the story. In her boss battle, she summons waves of skeletons (which use the animations of shield-bearing marauders and warhammer-wielding maulers) in conjunction with a sweeping beam that rapidly saps health as skeletal hands claw at the player. Notably this makes her her connection to the Pactsworn an alliance of convenience; she's not a Chaos worshipper (and obviously isn't a Skaven) and indeed necromancers and others associated with the undead are usually opposed to Chaos.

* {{Necromancer}}: Wields BlackMagic and commands the spirits of the dead, and intends to ignite a plague of undeath in the region -- A dangerous prospect, considering how many dead bodies are lying around the countryside by that point in the story. In her boss battle, she summons waves of skeletons (which use the animations of shield-bearing marauders and warhammer-wielding maulers) in conjunction with a sweeping beam that rapidly saps health as skeletal hands claw at the player.