Continuity Drift: The stories have been written over a long time frame and some parts of the setting have changed since then. Notably the description of Kislev (and especially Praag) feels a lot less distinctly 'foreign' than in later books dealing with the country. Like many Grey Seers, Thanquol is addicted to Warpstone powder and he always consumes a portion of it when he's upset. Kineater: After a young maiden is kidnapped by the Ogre Tyrant Volk Kineater, her older sister enlists the aid of Gotrek and Felix to rescue her. Revenge Before Reason: The aspect of Dwarven psychology that ultimately spawns their Death Seeker traits and their need for the Slayer Cult.

Qik - A hideously disfigured Grey Seer who earned his injuries at the hands of an ingenious Human Engineer named Werner Grunhelm. Qik sought vengeance on that man, as well as the Warlord Glut of Clan Famin, as his stinginess with the deployment of high-quality Skaven troops was one reason for Qik's disfigurement. Handsome Lech: Subverted. Felix certainly enjoys the company of attractive women, though not to the extent that he's a lech. It's just, well, the girls add up a bit over time. Gotrek and Max lampshade this on occasion. Up to eleven in 'The Serpent Queen', where the Herald of Khalida, the undead champion Zabbai, outright says she would take Felix for herself if she were still a living woman. Gotrek spends half the book trying to hook them up, although he's probably just screwing with Felix. Heterosexual Life-Partners: Gotrek and Felix, with the emphasis on the heterosexual; Felix's only sexual interest is in various women he encounters in his journey, while Gotrek's sole interests are downing beer & ale by the liter and fighting monsters in hopes of getting killed at last. Gotrek's life revolves around blood and booze because he's a widower, driven to take up the Slayer oath by the brutal deaths of his beloved wife and daughter.Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Road of Skulls Canto the Unsworn (the only Chaos champion who doesn't worship Khorne) makes a run for it when Gotrek destroys his sword, then again just before the final battle (making him the only one to survive). He shows up again in The Lord of the End Times, the very last story in the setting, where he intentionally gets himself killed on the (correct, it turns out) reasoning that dying is the only real escape from what's coming. Situational Sword: Felix's sword is designed to destroy dragons. As such, most of its true power only works in the presence of dragons, and the sword actively seeks to push the wielder into combat with such beasts. It's also intelligent enough to activate itself against other foes if doing so means that the wielder will be able to fight a dragon.

Death and Glory!: Gotrek and Felix return to the city of Hauptmannsburg after a troll-hunting expedition to find themselves conscripted into the army being raised to repel an orc invasion. The Red Mage: Max is a very well-rounded mage, and can do pretty much anything the plot demands, subject to his endurance limit. Shaggy Dog" Story: The second Thanquol book Temple of the Serpent introduces a whole new cast of characters who are all killed in the course of their adventure, which was all secretly an experiment by a Slaan. At the end of the book he realizes that he knows so little about humans that his data are completely useless, and the last survivor commits suicide out of spite when offered a chance to surrender and submit to further tests. Even in-universe the events, including the deaths of the cast and an entire temple city were a complete waste of time achieving nothing. The only thing actually accomplished by anyone is the lizardman priest that Thanquol was sent to kill being an almost incidental casualty of the effort to escape the city.

Year Outside, Hour Inside: Time works differently in the furthest part of the chaos wastes. The dwarfen city of Karag Dum is located in such a place. 200 years have past since the fall of Karag Dum, but to it's inhabitants, it was only 20 years. The main characters and the dwarfs of Karag Dum are all surprised by this revelation.