Realmslayer.

Gotrek Gurnisson was the greatest monster slayer of the age, who met his doom at the End Times. The heroic Duardin stepped forth into the Realm of Chaos to fight the daemons gnawing at the world's ending and satisfy his death oath, leaving behind his companion Felix Jaeger. Now Gotrek has returned, having outlived the old gods and the Old World. Spat from the ruinous depths with his redemption unfulfilled, he emerges into the Mortal Realms, a strange new world where gods walk the earth and dark forces are ascendant. Nothing is as he remembers. His oaths are dust, and the lands are torn asunder by Chaos. Yet when Gotrek learns of human champions being elevated to immortality for Sigmar’s fight against this darkness, the so-called 'Stormcast Eternals', he knows why fate has brought him into this new age. To find Felix. For only then can he find the peace in death he seeks. But is there more to Gotrek's apotheosis than even he can fathom? Has he truly been chosen by Grimnir and for what purpose?

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Jesus fucking Christ. Oh hell yes!

I can see it now:

Past the end of the world the battle lasted, into eternity, until a new age, and with a new age, a new beginning and a new battle.

The din had ended.

It had come to pass, as impossible as that was. He slowly sat up and looked up at the cataclysm dwindling out into nothingness before them. The violent display of blinding lightning and Godfire had almost gone. With a grunt he levered himself up off the ground and slowly, painfully, hobbled over to the silent figure, sitting morosely at the edge of a newborn abyss.

The Duardin didn't pay him any attention, apart from a swift, inscrutable glance, only conveying acknowledgment, nothing else. The Eternal looked at him and was silent.

The Duardin gave him another glance and then looked back to the dazzling panorama in front of him. The death of a realm unfolded before them, not a sight to be seen every day.
And still the Stormcast Eternal did not look away from the stoic face.

 He didn't say anything. After all, it had been an age, what could mere words possibly convey?

He was silent, and then, in an awed voice; "A slayer still, even after all this time."

The Duardin, in an aeon past named Gotrek, son of Gurni, froze and looked silently at the Stormcast Eternal, hunching deathly still beside him.

He frowned, hesitated and then ventured,

"Manling?"

The blond Stormcast Eternal with the short-cropped hair was silent as in the distance lightning crackled. Then, slowly, he smiled.

I might be foregoing any and all reservations about the Age of Sigmar for this one. The greatest bromance of the Old World is returning, baby! Fuck. I'd even accept the ridiculous naming conventions if they do this right.

On the other hand though... They're really going to re-introduce Gotrek by the use of an Audio drama?

I'm not harping on Audio in any way, but doesn't that get into the flow of anyone's immersion, or is that just me?

To have the voices in your head, essentially your voices, every nuance perfectly yours, as perfect as you can make them, delivered unto you by proxy? With accents, pauses and speech patterns present that aren't yours...  mind language is a whole lot different than spoken language, you know.

I'm really not harping on audio dramas but, even as someone who listened to Slayer of the Storm God and, knowing that you can in fact provide, I'd be a lot more happier with a prose version.

This needs to be epic, and imagination would provide filler for all the possible blanks in a novel version, while auditory input from another party will definitely fill in a lot of those same blanks, and maybe not in a way that is all that conducive to what people want. For instance: Is a rural Brittish or Scottish accent really what's needed for Dwarves, excuse me; Duardin, in the Age of Sigmar?

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One of the biggest arguments I've heard, from those proponents of the Age of Sigmar, is that moving away from the old setting would give the option to do away with all the old tired stereotypes.
Now, Dwarfs have still been present in this new age, in their new incarnation; the Duardin, and as far as I'm aware they have not had any audio dramas yet.
This one one then; Realmslayer, will give us dwarf-accents in the age of Sigmar. The trouble with this then, is what will be the inevitable relapse into the scottish accent. They could've moved away from this, clean slate. But, because Gotrek is Gotrek and needs the accent, or else he wouldn't feel the same, be the same, it would necessitate a race-wide relapse, a slide backward into the speech patterns and vernacular of the Duardin as a whole. What was left up to interpretation in the magic of the written prose, voice actors will make absolute.
This is the kind of stuff I don't like, this is why I will always read the novel rather than listen to the audio book or dramatization. It's why I generally want to read the novels before they're adapted to the big screen, or the small one. Because auditory and visual input corrupts your story experience.
Someone else's speech/accent/patterns will inform what you see, whereas with the prose version, it's your inner voice that does all the work, fitting it sympatico to what suits you best.

Now this is completely subjective, and I know this is at least true for me. We're all different. What doesn't suit me will undoubtedly work for others. But, I at least will be passing on the audio drama box set.