
While there’s plenty of danger and bloodshed, it’s not the darkest of books, but if you’re after something pacy and fun, which does a great job of showing off some of the spectacular sights and inhabitants of the Mortal Realms – floating mountains, hidden cities, monstrous sea beasts and so on – then this should be high up on your list. It’s a book that continues the trend in Age of Sigmar fiction for exploring the Mortal Realms and mortal characters, and in doing so demonstrates once again just how much scope there is in the setting. It’s a journey that forces them to call upon all their skill and determination, and allies, just to survive.Īway from the grand scale of epic battlefields, it’s hugely satisfying to go on this sort of globe-trotting adventure with a few plucky characters in pursuit of a charismatic and devious enemy. Leaving Excelsis behind, Toll and ex-Freeguild soldier Armand Callis pursue their enemy across the land, sea and air as Vermyre seeks out a long-lost artefact with the power to inflict untold damage on the Mortal Realms. It’s a journey that forces them to call upon a Warning: there are spoilers here if you haven’t read City of Secrets.Ī direct sequel to the short but very enjoyable City of Secrets, this explores Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll’s single-minded pursuit of ex-High Arbiter Ortam Vermyre. A direct sequel to the short but very enjoyable City of Secrets, this explores Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll’s single-minded pursuit of ex-High Arbiter Ortam Vermyre. Warning: there are spoilers here if you haven’t read City of Secrets. Can Toll and his companion, a former Freeguild soldier known as Armand Callis, capture their nemesis in time? Or will Vermyre evade the Order of Azyr’s justice and tear the Mortal Realms asunder?. For within this forgotten ruin lies an artefact of darkest sorcery that possesses the power to reshape reality itself.

Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll must brave the deadly seas and jungles of the Taloncoast to stop Vermyre before he can reach the legendary lost city of Xoantica. For as long as the treacherous Ortam Vermyre lives, civilisation is no longer safe within the Realm of Beasts.

It's an exploration of the people and dark places of the Mortal Realms, far from the front lines of war.Ī malevolent threat looms over the once great city of Excelsis. Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll and his companion, former Freeguild soldier Armand Callis, brave the deadly seas and jungles of the Taloncoast as they try to prevent their nemesis, Ortam Vermyre, from seizing an artefact that can reshape reality. READ IT BECAUSE It's an exploration of the people and dark places of the Mortal Realms, far from the fro A Warhammer Age of Sigmar novel A Warhammer Age of Sigmar novel Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll and his companion, former Freeguild soldier Armand Callis, brave the deadly seas and jungles of the Taloncoast as they try to prevent their nemesis, Ortam Vermyre, from seizing an artefact that can reshape reality.
