Edition
- Author
- Chris Wraight
- Publisher
- Black Library
- Series
- The End Times, book 2
Roles: Karl Franz (supporting, The Empire).
Synopsis
Chris Wraight's novel is book 2 of The End Times. With Chaos gathering in the north, Emperor Karl Franz leads his armies in defence of the Empire. The story then follows Reiksmarshal Kurt Helborg as he returns to Altdorf to prepare the capital.
The open jacket stays with that defence: plague, weakening walls, and help that Helborg may not want to accept. Karl Franz is the emperor who takes the field. Helborg is the marshal the rest of the book follows. This is End Times fiction, later than an Immortal Empires sandbox and separate from it.
What the jacket states about the Emperor
The listening note on the same page says the novel begins once the Emperor is lost, and that Helborg must then hold Altdorf. The story blurb calls that moment 'when the worst happens' and does not describe it. The note also says help arrives from an unexpected source. Those lines are the jacket's own framing of the battle for the capital. They are not a campaign outcome.
Reading order
Publication order: 2.
In-universe order: 2.
Sources
- The Fall of Altdorf (MP3) — blacklibrary.com