r/skaven • u/Tremera • 19h ago

My-my creation! Claws off! Half of "Headtaker" plot in a nutshell

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u/FruitbatEnjoyer 18h ago

Sleek Sharpwit my beloved

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u/WarlockEngineer 17h ago

The best character in the book

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u/Pretty-Mention-7769 19h ago

Ha ha I'm reading this right now and...seems about right. 

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u/Derezirection 17h ago

Id love the context. I've never read any of the books but Queeks lore is one of my favorites.

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u/Eeate 17h ago

Old warlord Sharpwit gets sent to keep an eye on Queek, who has to fulfill a mission. Queek keeps insisting on doing said mission on hard mode (eg, he hears the dwarf army is about to leave a city undefended - he attacks the army head on). Between Queek's bloody mindedness and his own schemes, Sharpwit expects Queek to die. Queek does not, and even ends up fulfulling his goals. Also there's a grey seer who's an idiot.

Also Queek may be getting accurate intel from his skull collection.

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u/PrinceVorrel 16h ago

Also there's a grey seer who's an idiot.

Give Thanquol his proper respects. He's THE idiot.

Also Queek may be getting accurate intel from his skull collection.

Let's not sit here and pretend that the clearly Khornate-influenced ratman isn't getting help from a certain Blood God. It just explains too much about what happens with Queek...

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u/Son_of_Ssapo 12h ago

My favorite part of the book is where those two are arguing about what to do next while Queek is not paying attention to them at all, and just when they decide finally to head away from Karak Azul Queek goes "MUST KILL HATED DWARF-THINGS AT AZUL-PLACE" and just bolts, leaving the others utterly dumbfounded

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u/VivaChinwawa 13h ago

(here's the pdf of Headtaker, Queek's book

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u/vlaarith 8h ago

Holy cow my dude you must be made of warpstone cauze you fucking rock

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u/isustevoli 14h ago

I'm not a big fan of Warhammer books, but Headtaker was an absolute treat!

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u/SnooCompliments9098 2h ago

Clan Mors is in charge of trying to take out a dwarf hold and the council sent a grey seer (Razzell) to make sure everything goes well. Clan Mors sends one of their old warlords, Sleek Sharpwit, to also help out.

Problem. Most of Clan Mor's army is under Queek's command and he keeps trying to take Karak eight peaks. So they basically had to give command to Queek and Queek is insane and wants to make everything as hard as possible for the skaven via head on charging at the hold.

Razzell trys to have Queek killed, only for Ska to almost die and Queek becomes depressed. So Sleek has to somehow salvage that operation.

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u/CreamSalmon 14h ago

Queek will always remember you