The Warhammer universe has decades worth of fascinating stories and exciting adventures. Yet perhaps none are more engaging than the legends of the warrior-poet Felix Jaeger and his dwarven companion, Gotrek Gurnisson, mightiest of the legendary Slayer Cult. Youngest son of a wealthy Altdorf merchant, Felix was expelled from the academy after killing a rival student in what was meant to be a friendly duel. He has been living on the run ever since, sworn by blood oath to follow Gotrek and record his doom in an epic poem so what the world might remember his many exploits. Over time, we learn that the pair have been guided by the gods all along to oppose the taint of Chaos and act as a bane to evil. Much to his displeasure, Gotrek in particular proves to be nigh invincible, with each adventure robbing him of the warrior's death required to atone for an unknown sin. Nevertheless, Felix's enchanted blade and the Slayer's deadly axe have left some awesome (but evil), extremely cool (I know, I know, they are evil) foes in their wake.

8. Throgg the Troll King

       

With a deserved reputation as unintelligent brutes, the trolls of the Old World are vicious beasts who plunder and raid village where and whenever they please. Throgg, known by mane as the King of Trolls, possessing a cunning intelligence equal to that of humans, a gift given to him by the Chaos Gods, along with the brute strength common among his race. After a bloody life filled with many battles, the Troll King decides it is time to put an end to the reign of men, ushering in an Age of Beasts in its place. His bloodlust insatiable, Throgg's ambitions lead him to the frigid city of Praag, where he and his followers overthrew the Kislevites and now rule over the region. Throgg now spends his time gathering the many wizards of the Old World, tasking them with recreating the intelligence given to him by the Chaos Gods and gifting it to his brethren. While the captured Maximillian Schreiber succeeds, granting life to a single stone troll, Throgg himself died in his icy tower at the hands of Gotrek Gurnisson, mightiest of the Trollslayers.

7. Arek Daemonclaw

        In his mortal life, Arek Daemonclaw was a nobleman who grew tired with the corruption seeded within the Empire. Turning to the Chaos Gods, he infiltrated a cult of Tzeentch, god of sorcery, mutation, change, and ambition. Venturing deep into the perilous Chaos Wastes, the Changer of Ways blessed him with many otherworldly gifts, including his enchanted runesword and blacksteel armor. Along with his enchanted weaponry, he possesses inhuman strength and speed. Arek rose to power in the Chaos Wastes, becoming a champion of Tzeentch and amassing an army tens of thousands strong in a bid to sack the city of Praag. While the invading horde was able to penetrate the city's high walls, in the end the Chaos Lord was no match for the Slayer's axe. With inhuman speed, Gotrek separated Arek's head from his shoulders, displaying it to his followers and effectively putting an end to the siege. 

6. Krell

       Known to many as the Lord of Undeath, Krell is one of Nagash's Nine Dark Lords and a mighty Wight King. In ancient times, Krell was a mighty Chaos Lord sworn to Khorne, the Blood God. Gathering his barbarian hordes, he assaulted the Dwarf strongholds, managing to overtake Karak Ungor and Karak Varn, before finally being slain by Grimbul Ironhelm at Karak Kadrin, the Slayer stronghold. Over a millennia later, the Great Necromancer came across Krell's tomb, resurrecting the mighty Chaos Lord to fight by his side against Sigmar Heldenhammer. After Nagash's defeat, the man-god pursued Krell as he cut a bloody swathe through the Empire, until finally being slain by the legendary warhammer. His remains were placed in a magically sealed tomb, where the infamous necromancer Heinrich Kemmler raises the powerful wight as his thrall. While Gotrek and Felix are able to defeat the necromancer and his wight, this particular foe does not actually die, with Kemmler dissipating the pair in a cloud of darkness before the Slayer could deliver the killing blow.

5. Adolphus Krieger

      An immensely powerful Vampire Lord, Adolphus Krieger is over a thousand years old, having spent time pledged to both the Von Carstein and Lahmian vampire clans. After the fall of Mannfred Von Carstein, Krieger is determined to become the new leader of the Vampire Counts, and becomes obsessed with a prophecy detailing a Pale Prince that would bring about a Kingdom of Night: a world where humans' only purpose would be to serve as sustenance for the bloodsuckers. Directly following the siege of Arek Daemonclaw, Krieger procures the Eye of Nagash, an ancient artefact that, once unlocked, gives the user the power to control all vampires, regardless of which clan they belong to. In the process, Krieger kidnaps Ulrika Magdova, Felix's long time lover, which prompts a pursuit across the snow-laden fields of Kislev to Drakenhof Castle. It is there that the Kislevite noblewomen is turned into a vampire at the hands of Krieger, a mistake that proves fatal. While Ulrika is lost to Felix for good, the Vampire Lord's plans are put to a halt. He does battle with Gotrek, Felix, Max Schreiber, and Snorri Nosebiter, another of the Slayer Cult. Adolphus Krieger meets his end before his grand schemes come to fruition through a combination of Max's magic, Gotrek's axe, and a wayward chandelier courtesy of Snorri Nosebiter. In the end, the Eye of Nagash is destroyed, forever concluding the prophecy of the Pale Prince.

4. Skjalandir

      The corruption of Chaos touches all living creatures, and the dragons of that dwell in the mountains of the Old World are no exception. Returning from the dreaded Chaos Wastes atop the airship of the brilliant engineer-Slayer Malakai Makaisson, the residing war party were ambushed and nearly exterminated by the red dragon Skjalandir. Having slumbered for nigh a thousand years, Skjalandir was awoken inside his lair by the twin Chaos sorcerers Lhoigor Goldenrod and Kelmain Blackstaff. Corrupted and empowered by the blessing of the Dark Gods, Skjalandir had been terrorizing the World's Edge Mountains for months on end. The Chaos dragon was so mighty that it took all of Gotrek, Felix, Snorri, Malakai, Max Schreiber, and Ulrika to slay the beast using a combination of melee weaponry, battle magic, arrows to the eye and an organ gun. In the end, it was only the inherit dragonslaying magic woven into Felx's blade, Karaghul, that allowed the war party to overcome Skjalandir.

3. Bloodthirster of Khorne

     Across the perilious Chaos Wastes, in the lost dwarven city of Karug Dum, lies a being so terrifying that even the mighty Gotrek Gurnisson experienced fear when encountered by it. Khorne's Bloodthirsters are Greater Daemons; beings of pure hatred and rage that exist only to pile more skulls upon the throne of the Blood God. This particular Bloodthirster went to war with King Thangrim Firebeard over 200 years prior. When Gotrek and Felix fly to Karug Dum on Malaki Makaisson's airship, they learn that time flows differently in the wastes, and the remnants of the dwarven army had only lived a mere 20 years. Furthermore, King Firebeard was still in possession of the Hammer of Fate; a legendary dwarven weapon blessed by the gods with the ability to slay daemons and shoot lightning bolts. The Bloodthirster itself was known to the dwarves as the Terror, and upon encountering the fell creature the name rung true. Twice as tall as a man with huge, leathery wings, the Bloodthirster wields a massive great axe in one hand and a torturous whip in the other. Mortal weapons are incapable of piercing its flesh, and only the rune weapons of Gotrek, Felix, and Firebeard even wounded the Greater Daemon. After a long and bloody battle that saw much of the dwarven host fall, it was Felix who delivered the Bloodthirster a killing blow, granted the power to lift the Hammer of Fate after pleading for the boon of the dwarven gods.

2. Grey Seer Thanquol

      Grey Seer Thanquol is arguably the greatest, and certainly the most frequent antagonist Gotrek and Felix encounter along their many adventures. First encountered during the invasion of Nuln, Thanquol is what is called a Skaven; a race of nefarious rat-men that dwell in the Old World's Under-Empire. Thanquol is favored among his kind, blessed by the Horned Rat as with the magical abilities of a Grey Seer. Drunk with power and driven nearly mad by the Chaos-infused substance known as Warpstone, Thanquol is constantly concocting his next scheme to take over some portion, if not all, of the Old World. As fate would have it, the Slayer and his poet companion are there to halt his schemes at every turn, much to the Grey Seer's rage. Regardless, Thanquol is a potent sorcerer worthy of both fear and respect, capable of using Chaos magic to flay enemy and friend alike. Grey Seer Thanquol's fate during the End Times is unknown.

1. Be'lakor

      All mortals who pledge their souls to the Ruinous Powers strive to one day become a Daemon Prince. These Chaos Champions operate with such heavy devotion to their respective god that that they are elevated to the rank of daemon upon death, taking on the aspects of whichever of the four Chaos Gods they pledge their soul to. Daemon Princes are rare, with the vast majority of the tainted becoming mindless Chaos Spawn, or settling as lesser Chaos Warriors. Even more uncommon are the Daemon Princes who serve Chaos Undivided, meaning they do not solely serve any of Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, or Slaneesh, and instead worship Chaos as whole, unified force of nature. This was the case with Be'lakor, first of the humans to ever be risen to the rank of Daemon Prince. Be'lakor's history is long and bloody, capable of reforming in the mortal plane at the whim of the Dark Gods. Gotrek and Felix encounter the Daemon Prince in the ruins of Mordheim, where he looked to create a physical form that would release him from the hold of the Ruinous Powers. In the end, Be'lakor was banished back to the Realm of Chaos, where he awaits the crowning of Archaon, the thirteenth Everchosen that is fated to lead the apocalypse of the Old World.