Grombrindal: Ancestor's Burden

Warhammer Age of Sigmar

De: Chris Thursten

Narrado por: Richard Reed

A Warhammer Age of Sigmar Audio Anthology

In every duardin’s soul there burns the legend of the Wanderer known as Grombrindal, the mysterious whitebeard appearing since time immemorial to guide his people through their darkest hours – though few can attest to seeing him in the flesh.

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It's a tour of the breadth and depth of duardin culture in the Mortal Realms, all centered around the heroic deeds of Grombrindal, the semi-mythical whitebeard who is always ready to save the day.

THE STORY

When the ancient sky-city of Barak-Thryng comes under attack by the Gloomspite Gitz on their quest to reach the Bad Moon, it is an opportunity for the city’s defenders to prove their mettle. But there are darker, more dangerous forces pulling the strings behind this attack, for the Weaver of Fates has set his gaze upon the city.

It is into this powder keg that Grombrindal appears. And he is followed by the Oathbreakers, desperate for the whitebeard’s help in lifting an ancient curse afflicting one of their number, a curse Grombrindal had promised to lift – the Ancestor’s Burden.

CONTENTS

Rat-Tail (short story)

High Airs (short story)

Durkar's Wake (short story)

King Osgek's Prize (short story)

No God's Land (short story)

Bitter Oaths (short story)

The Maker's Promise (short novel)

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A decent but clearly modern GW dwarf series

I hope this is all leading to the return of chaos dwarves and a unified dwarf force. The story is decent and Grombrindal is still the force of nature like his previous novel. The weak part is the predictable nature of early 2020s GW approved writing. It's always going to have an amazing girl boss that largely overshadows everyone else including the lead character.

Raise another to the White Beared Ancestor!

liked the first half. not as good as in the first book but I do appreciate it being a continuation with the characters. the second half was a little rough to start. once it started going, it was smooth sailing. I especially like the last few chapters, the epilouge the most funny enough.

this is the ancestors promise

a great book, good characters, solid plot lots and ups and downs good narration

can't wait to relisten

sad use of character

just gunna put this before the spoilers, the namesake of the book is barely a secondary character in the story...less than a fourth of the time is Grombrindal present. overall it was well read and the voice acting was great, if the book has a different title and wasn't using Grombrindals name it wouldn't have changed anything about it. but don't get this and expect a Dawi story.

spoilers beyond this.

came expecting to get some more in depth looks into our white bearded ancestor but didn't even get any classic dwarfs. a small throng at the beginning that just ended up becoming ghoul food and never talked about again. and a single other dwarf who is from a forest clan of wood working dwarfs that don't use metal or stone....very dwarf-y. but to make up for it we get to have as main characters: human mage, high elf swords woman, self exiled fyreslayer, self exiled Kharadron Overlord and a GHOUL!? what the fuck honestly, you had a chance to write something beautiful for the dwarfs and you instead take us on a journey of a ghoul fighting to keep his sanity. and the ending, instead of giving the dwarfs a final stand in the city and making Grombrindal being them hope and save the day....we get the fucking sigmarite Marines showing up and they save it, way to just remove all sense that the dawi would feel safe with their ancestor right there with them. then you have an entire epilogue without the books namesake even in it, leaving a dumb and hollow feeling about the entire story.

I came to this book to hear Grombrindal, to hear his thoughts and see the world thru his eyes, but the writer barely gave us him talking. we get a main cast that's mostly non dwarfs, including here the woods woman dwarf...no good respecting Dawi don't work with stone, and a story that in the end any chance of an epic bit with the dwarfs is ruined by the golden heros of sigmar...for reasons that while explained kinda is pretty dumb.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who is hoping to get a good look into who/what Grombrindal is. cuz it's not