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Details like goblins being willing to work for humans and vampires mingling relatively openly in Imperial society will look like massive errors to anyone who got into the fandom any time after the early nineties. 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. It occupies a bizarre place in the Warhammer canon, suffering from a huge, setting-wide case of Characterization Marches On.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?ĭrachenfels is a Warhammer novel by Kim Newman under his Jack Yeovil pen name, first published back in 1989. The surviving members of the original band who traveled 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. Oswald, the aforementioned brave prince, has a simple proposition for Detlef: he wants to produce a play about his defeat of the Great Enchanter Drachenfels, and he wants Detlef to write and star in it.

Detlef is frequently referenced in the Gotrek & Felix series, often when Felix Jaeger sees his circumstances as overly melodramatic.Twenty-five years later, Detlef Sierck, the Empire's greatest playwright, is rescued from debtor's prison by the Crown Prince Oswald.

However the timeline appearing in the Boxtree books give Detlef's birthdate as 2471 and the date of Drachenfels' death in 2477 (the Boxtree timeline also states that Karl Franz was elected and crowned in 2491).

Warhammer Companion states that Drachenfels was defeated by Oswald in 2480 IC and Detlef remembers that he was 4 years old at the time.

The name of the character is possibly a homage to film director Douglas Sirk.

To My Unchanging Lady: a sonnet cycle, dedicated to Genevieve, widely considered his best work.

Drachenfels (later rewritten and renamed as The Tragedy of Oswald).

History of Sigmar (full title, The True history of Sigmar Heldenhammer, Founder of the Empire, Saviour of the Reik, Defier of the Darkness).

He is currently the owner of the very successful Vargr Breughel Memorial Theatre, patronized by Prince Luitpold. ĭetlef accepted and wrote a play named Drachenfels which was performed at Castle Drachenfels before Emperor Karl Franz, Prince Luitpold, the Electors and other high-ranking officials. Oswald von Konigswald made Detlef an offer which he couldn't refuse: all his debts would be paid, and he would be handsomely rewarded for the creation and direction of a new theatre play based upon Oswald's heroic feat: the slaying of Constant Drachenfels (which feat occurred when Detlef was only 4 years old). Unable to pay, he was incarcerated in the Mundsen Keep, a debtor's prison, for the princely sum of "119,255 gold crowns, 17 shillings and 9 pence". Unfortunately an outbreak of plague cancelled the megalomaniac project.įorced to assume all expenses and responsibilities, Detlef was ruined. Determined to create a masterpiece, Detlef saw no reason to spare in the expenses. He was later hired by the Count of Middenland to write, perform and direct a theatre play called The History of Sigmar. Giving proof of his extraordinary talent, Detlef gained fame and fortune in Middenheim. Detlef was born in 2476 IC, the son of a vegetable merchant in Nuln.