# Back to Drachenfels feat. Geneviève Dieudonné (DLC suggestion) **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Feedback\ **Created:** [August 11, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075 "2019-08-11T18:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/1 "2019-08-11T18:27:33Z")
Hello, it’s me. You may know me from such rants as the [Back to Bögenhafen](http://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-bogenhafen-fixes-content-update-suggestions/34434) thread, [Twitch Mode Improvements](http://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/twitch-mode-improvements-additions/34515) thread, the more popular “[Can we get rid of +20% health and +33% curse resistance already?](http://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/can-we-get-rid-of-20-health-and-33-curse-resistance-already/34562)” thread, my more recent “[Let’s fix the crafting system to be kinda like the Weaves](http://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/lets-fix-the-crafting-system-to-be-kinda-like-weaves-also-traits-and-properties-suggestions/34574)” thread, or maybe just as the guy who will type an essay at you if you respond to me with “tl;dr” or something else that annoys me. In [one of my more recent threads posting various ~~bugs~~](https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/cmxtw9/several_acknowledged_bugs_or_surprise_mechanics/) _ **undocumented features and surprise mechanics** _, I started to spiral into despair, because it became more and more obvious to me that Fatshark doesn’t particularly like to read ideas or suggestions from their forums. I said I would stop writing because I was getting tired of shouting into the wind, but I enjoy it too much as a creative outlet. I can’t resist writing my thoughts down about something, especially something that I feel strongly about. So, while I would genuinely like to think that my ideas are worthy of attention and could be implemented as features within the game, I’m writing this more as a creative outlet that would be nice to see, and because someone on reddit gave me an upvote for the idea. It’s fun to go back and explore the old maps and explore ideas that were seemingly abandoned or forgotten about. It’s nice to use some energy to come up with a creative idea. This thread is a little different than a lot of my other threads: it’s not a particularly original idea. It’s been repeated a lot on the forums in various places since the game has been released. “Bring back Castle Drachenfels” and “add Genevieve as a hero”. I’m not particularly well-versed in Warhammer lore. I haven’t read the books or played tabletop or anything like that, but I felt like digging into the idea more to see how much merit it actually has. I think it’s pretty cool. Like with my Bögenhafen thread, I think there are definitely some more attentive community members that could contribute more meaningfully to the lore aspects. I’m going to explain why I like Castle Drachenfels, how I think we could incorporate it into this game without resorting to the illusion angle like Back to Ubersreik, and how I can tie it in with the release of a new hero, the vampire Geneviève Dieudonné, who seems to be a popular suggestion. She’s even likely alluded to in Vermintide 2 by Lohner, in some keep dialogue, [“Tell you what, folk can surprise you. Had a vampire in the Red Moon once. Paid her tab in full, nary a drop of bloodletting. What was her name? Aye… it began with G, I remember that much.”](https://vermintide2.gamepedia.com/Franz_Lohner/Quotes) For Geneviève, I want to not only explore how I think she could tie in as an ally lore-wise, but also some mechanics for her: her weapons, her possible careers, and some of those careers’ talents. * * * # Why go back to Drachenfels? I loved the Castle Drachenfels DLC. I didn’t purchase Vermintide 1 until May 2017, almost a year after the DLC’s original release in May 2016. It doesn’t have too many reviews, but it was received as “Very Positive”, with 84% of people liking the DLC. It surprised me to read a while ago in a [reddit comment by Robin “Drachenfels wasn’t insanely well received”](https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/ch6u7l/winds_of_magic_a_note_from_the_team/euqfszh/) and was considered a pretty big risk due to how long it took to develop the art and levels themselves, with the greater context being a justification of moving more towards the Winds of Magic’s DLC model to speed up the development of new content. Here are the reviews for major adventure map DLCs in the Vermintide series (disregarding Schluesselschloss and cosmetics): - 93 people, 84% of 111 liked Drachenfels - 75 people, 87% of 87 liked Karak Azgaraz - 78 people, 74% of 105 liked Stromdorf - 11 people, 71% of 14 liked Death on the Reik (it was free and right before V2 release) - 262 people, 47% of 558 liked Shadows Over Bögenhafen - 259 people, 79% of 328 liked Back to Ubersreik Accounting for differences in playerbase sizes between Vermintide 1 and 2, since you can see no one reviewed Death on the Reik due to it coming out just before Vermintide 2, I would have said that Drachenfels was one of the more successful Vermintide DLCs. [Vermintide 1 took a month to sell 300,000 copies](https://www.destructoid.com/vermintide-sold-300k-copies-since-launch-here-are-details-on-future-dlc-320395.phtml), while [Vermintide 2 only took four days to sell 500,000 copies](http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-03-12-warhammer-vermintide-2-sells-500-000-copies-in-under-a-week). It took two years for the original game to sell 2,000,000 copies, a milestone that the sequel blew past easily in the first few months. I don’t think the number of reviews for the two games’ DLCs are even close to representative of the differences in the number of copies sold. It’s hard for me to pin down sales differences among DLC between the games, but it definitely seems like a higher proportion of V1’s playerbase thought positively of Drachenfels and the other DLC than V2’s playerbase of their DLC so far. Given how many Vermintide 1 veterans seem to enjoy Drachenfels, I think it would be appropriate to bring those maps in particular to the new audience who never played them, much like Back to Ubersreik. # What makes Drachenfels special? What makes all of the Vermintide 1 DLC particularly special is that they each had a distinct setting that instantly set them apart from the rest of the map pool. The atmosphere of each DLC is unmistakable. If you’re already kind of sold on the atmosphere of Drachenfels and are sold on it, feel free to skip to the next section, I guess. You can see the pretty pictures embedded while you scroll. Drachenfels was a particularly great DLC, in my opinion, due to its spooky, horrific nature. The first map, the eponymous Castle Drachenfels, has you roam the main halls of the castle’s interior to look for the main temple hall to retrieve a mysterious chalice, Drachengral, before escaping through a trapdoor tunnel to the exterior of the castle. Words don’t do it justice, [here’s some pictures.](https://imgur.com/a/yERCogR) In the end, we see Lohner with a replica chalice behind the counter. The real one’s location seems to be a secret, since it is a sinister artifact that shouldn’t be misused. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/46529ad8ec4e8acc90a29b4c7721a344.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/46529ad8ec4e8acc90a29b4c7721a344.jpg) Then we have The Dungeons, in which you go through the dungeons (duh) of the castle to retrieve the Skull of Eisenfaust and the Flask of Wayward Souls, some bonus artifacts. It has a very long darkness section, which is explained as being caused by the lingering magic of the castle, rather than simply being a dark cave and sewer like Hunger in the Dark and Blightreaper, respectively. It’s spooky. You can feel the tension and desperation as you look for a way out, leading the way with a torch as you avoid the various pitfalls and spike traps. You’re then met with a finale where you fight a horde and Rat Ogre in the dark before escaping, one of my personal favorite finales. Here’s some pictures again. [[Album] The Dungeons (Vermintide 1) ![](https://i.imgur.com/xfxtbJf.jpeg?fb "The Dungeons (Vermintide 1)") ](https://imgur.com/a/yT6Q7Di) Then there’s Summoner’s Peak. It’s my least favorite of the three maps because of how annoying the objectives are, but it looks pretty damn cool still. You’re not in the castle proper, you’re just destroying some Skaven portals (like mini-Skittergates) to clear out the rat base camp near Drachenfels. You see the castle looming off in the distance. Its main flaw is the tediousness of the objectives, in my opinion. You have to prevent slave rats from cooling off the generator with buckets of water. [[Album] Summoner's Peak (Vermintide 1) ![](https://i.imgur.com/7jviOPz.jpeg?fb "Summoner") ](https://imgur.com/a/MPgjsRx) Overall, they’re pretty cool maps that I’d like to see again in this game. However, I wasn’t a big fan of the whole shoehorned illusion angle as a reason to replay maps for Back to Ubersreik. It seems contrived, especially how the game explains why there’s Chaos Warriors in the old maps by playing it off as “oh yeah, illusion magic is weird, sorry about that”. I also didn’t like Olesya talking into my ear the entire time to scream “you’re going the wrong way, imbecile” every time I grabbed a book that was off the beaten path. **Most importantly, the exact layout of the castle being a perfect recreation from the first game doesn’t seem ideal to me. For one, it may be a little too cramped and trivial for us to navigate with our new career skills. The events of the V1 maps where you carry barrels are _very_ easy in V2, comparatively.** **Secondly, being overly familiar with the layout of the castle from the first game drastically reduces the “horror” that you have in your first run. Navigating the dark labyrinth on your fifteenth run is not the same as your first. For that reason, I’m suggesting a _remake_ of Drachenfels as a setting, not a simple remaster like Back to Ubersreik.** # How do we justify a remake instead of a remaster? [Fatshark posted in a dev blog](https://www.vermintide.com/news/2018/11/29/dev-blog-back-to-ubersreik-map-conversion) before the release of Back to Ubersreik, highlighting some of the challenges of “remastering” a map. It has unique challenges to faithfully recreate something and make sure nothing is out of place. On top of that, that amount of work does go somewhat unappreciated because many people, including myself, question why I’m paying $10 for something I’ve already played before. Moreover, I’ll snag an excerpt of the lore page about Castle Drachenfels from the first game. Emphasis is mine. > [@](#): > > Although Drachenfels, The Great Enchanter is gone, Castle Drachenfels still stands, shunned by even by[sic] most desperate and corrupt inhabitants of the Grey Mountains. Many have wondered why the Castle has not been destroyed. **At times, it has seemed that it was, but always the Castle has reappeared, a tumour that cannot be cut out of the landscape.** > > **It has been theorized that the Castle has a will and personality all of it’s [sic] own, undoubtedly connected to, but still capable of functioning without, its master.** [![](https://i.gyazo.com/13f60dfe803a67d4f332d0b7527e2479.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/13f60dfe803a67d4f332d0b7527e2479.jpg) The Castle is kind of a “living” entity that is alive. You hear unearthly laughter and roars at certain points throughout the levels. It seems entirely plausible that the castle could regenerate and reconfigure its layout and exact corridors. This is important for a few reasons: 1. It allows us to make the map different than we remember, allowing us veteran players the anxiety and horror to face the unexpected in our first run through the map. 2. It allows Fatshark to change the map in the service of gameplay, not being fettered by having to “faithfully” remake the first games’ maps. They’ve already shown off some spooky castle assets with the new Weave arena and spooky statues in some of the maps. 3. It allows us to side-step the issue of “why am I paying $10 for something I already played 3 years ago?” It’s a set of new maps _inspired_ by the first game, not ported. 4. It allows Fatshark to do some more cool stuff with the map by varying its layout slightly, much like how they’ll divert our paths through Fort Brachsenbrücke and others. The traps can be in different places each time. Maybe the exact route through the dark sections are slightly different, so you _need_ to stick together and navigate with a torch, not just speed through if you’re familiar. We could get that sense of horror from our twentieth playthrough, not just our first. # How do we tie Drachenfels into Vermintide 2? There’s a lot of ways that we could see these maps brought back. We basically just snagged some of the probably many secrets lingering in the castle, waiting to be found. I think there’s probably some reasons we could find ourselves going back to Drachenfels, perhaps at the behest of Geneviève. Take a look at some pictures from Waylaid, the final map of Vermintide 1. You can see the Flask of Wayward Souls being used and the Skull of Eisenfaust in her trunk. [![](https://i.imgur.com/TTCctfI.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/TTCctfI.jpg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/f4igMsT.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/f4igMsT.jpg) Maybe Geneviève sought out the group after hearing some rumors about their deeds and their raid of Castle Drachenfels to steal the artifacts. Perhaps, through her travels and long life as a vampire, she has some additional information about the artifacts beyond Olesya’s purview, since she seemed only to have some particular purpose for the Flask of Wayward Souls, but the chalice is deemed entirely evil and unusable. Even the skull just seems to be sitting there. Let’s look back at some lore pages again. Here’s an excerpt from the Castle’s owner, Constant Drachenfels. I’ll throw some bold emphasis on some of the juicy bits and skip over big chunks of the page. It’s pretty long. > [@](#): > > **Drachenfels paid a certain amount of respect to the gods of Chaos but never pledged his allegiance to any of them.** It is said he considered himself somewhat superior to them, and even referring to the Lords of Ruin as ‘undisciplined amateurs’. > > … > > Drachenfels remained quiet for long periods, but recurrently emerged to terrorize the Old World, entertaining himself by releasing plagues, unleashing daemons and even sacking whole kingdoms. His boundless evil instilled fear into everyone … **as he was known to imprison the souls of his victims and keep them as playthings to torture at his pleasure.** > > … > > Drachenfels army of goblins was crushed by Sigmar’s forces and the Great Enchanter was slain by Sigmar himself. It would take over a thousand years for Drachenfels to regenerate and **through unknown methods find a new body and return to life** [![](https://i.gyazo.com/aadf6dd7239f599d9132c45ecd95d34e.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/aadf6dd7239f599d9132c45ecd95d34e.jpg) Now, we know that he “died” and has died times after Sigmar, without trying to spoil much. We don’t know how he keeps coming back to life, even when it seems like he’s really dead. He still comes back. There’s a reference to someone called “The Nameless” in Warhammer lore that seems it could be [Drachenfels allied with Nurgle later on in the End Times, after inhabiting the body of a Warrior Priest.](https://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Constant_Drachenfels#End_Times) Let’s look at the lore page for **Drachengral** , the chalice that we first snatch from the heart of the Castle. I’ll snag an excerpt from it, since it’s already pasted far earlier in the post. > No good will ever come from such a depraved relic of malevolence, and the risk of the Drachengral falling into the hands of a resourceful and ambitious Skaven Sorcerer was simple unacceptable. **What if the Drachengral chalice was something like a horcrux, a fragment of his soul and the heart of the Castle itself, that could be used for him to easily come back to life?** What if he tried to make a pact with the pact-sworn to retrieve the chalice that was stolen from the Castle, so that he can come back to life to fight alongside the forces of Chaos? What if Geneviève, someone acquainted with kinda killing him a little bit, learned of his connection to Drachengral and perhaps also learned how to destroy it to hopefully finish the job (but, probably not, given the whole “End Times” thing and whatnot). Perhaps she navigated the Castle sometime recently after learning of how to destroy it, but _somebody_ kinda just stole it to just put it on display in our house (somewhere, it’s probably still in the moving boxes that we haven’t unpacked). We do have a history of just keeping powerful mystical artifacts laying around in our trophy room, like how we have a cursed Chaos runesword that spreads plague to everything near it just chilling next to this nifty dwarven luckstone that we found. Admittedly, we’re very stupid. So, just as throwing out some basic ideas to how to rework the maps, if we wanted to keep all three from the first game. 1. **Summoner’s Peak** becomes the first map. We start to clear out some Skaven/Chaos encampments and portals that are surrounding the Castle proper. I don’t know why we delve into the Castle itself, only to have the third map be wandering around the Castle in the first game. It seems like they tacked on Summoner’s Peak after they ran out of time making the first two maps. 2. **The Dungeons** explores the heart of the Castle to retrieve some other spooky relic that we need to destroy the Drachengral chalice. Maybe the Castle recognizes all of us and isn’t too entirely thrilled with us being there, so it does some extra spooky stuff to actively try to kill us. Maybe it does something really cool and we find **ghost Stormvermin and Chaos Warriors with some spooky translucent appearance combined with the Shyish-ish invisibility stuff** in the deepest depths of the Castle proper, since we recall the quote _“he was known to imprison the souls of his victims and keep them as playthings”_. That definitely adds some spook factor where we think “man, let’s totally not die in this dungeon right now”. It also doesn’t seem too terribly intense to port some of Shyish into the main game, as well as slapping a translucent texture on an enemy like how every other game handles spooky ghosts. I mean, look, [this guy basically looks like a Chaos Warrior ghost in Skyrim.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/8/81/TESV_Ghost_Old_Hroldan.png/revision/latest?cb=20120925183346) Maybe we even fight the ghost of the Rat Ogre we killed in the first game at the end of the level. That’d be spooky. 3. **Castle Drachenfels** , where we revisit the iconic parts of the Castle like the Poison Feast and that creepy blood fountain temple. They weren’t there last time, but maybe the Castle will try and spook us by bringing out the statuesque corpses of the feast’s victims to display there. Instead of doing the challenge where we bring three Statuettes to the altar, which is completely trivialized by movement skills and invisibility, **we bring our artifacts we’ve gathered to destroy the Chalice at the altar itself.** Also, we could have a boss fight where **Constant Drachenfels himself possesses a Chaos Champion or some other Lord-level enemy, to thank us for bringing back his Chalice** , showing his gratitude by killing us. Think “Chaos Champion” except also he’s going to throw magic fireballs at you because he’s good at that wizbiz stuff. * * * # Characterization of Geneviève I didn’t read all her novels, so I know basically the [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Dieudonn%C3%A9) backgrounds [about Geneviève](https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Genevieve_Dieudonn%C3%A9). At the same time, she is like 700 years old at this point in the End Times, so it’s possible that she has matured and changed a bit over the years. Who can say? All we know is that she probably doesn’t skip out on her bar tabs. She’d be an interesting complement to the existing cast. Let’s break it down in bullet points: - **Kerillian** will either respect her or have to come up with more original material than calling her “mayfly” or “lumberfoot”, since she is functionally immortal and very nimble. Kerillian may even empathize with her plight of being a wandering outcast, like with Bardin. - **Sienna** may also like her because she maybe gleaned a thing or two about wizbiz over the years, although fire probably isn’t Geneviève’s favorite lore to practice. - **Kruber** , being the sole survivor of a necromancer attack, is likely prejudiced against the undead. At the same time, she’s probably pretty cute, so he may have some [issues with being “scare-roused”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5lEbWLhsiU), and he does have some lines questioning about the state of Bretonnia to help ease along conversation. Most of the characters at least refer to Bretonnia in some capacity, so that’s a somewhat easy win to have conversations with a vampire. - **Bardin** is probably at least a little uneasy about her as a vampire, although they may relate on being well-traveled outcasts. - But most importantly of all, she’s another female character and heretic for **Saltzpyre** to be confused and frustrated by, so that’s even better. Imagine a run with Saltzpyre, Kerillian, Sienna, Geneviève all at once. He would be absolutely _fuming_ about it, and that’s great. I could see her playing well with all the existing cast members. I’m kind of imagining her voice as something like [Widowmaker from the little indie game called Overwatch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8TRGaqM9I), which you may be familiar with. She’s French and also she’s technically cold and dead. She’d probably be a little less evil sounding, but maybe not. I’m not sure. If we can’t afford her, maybe we can hire her [non-union Bretonnian equivalent.](https://youtu.be/uWxcnl8PL_o?t=44) Worried about the sun, crossing running water, or waltzing around holy ground? Well, we could have some mumbo jumbo with Olesya saying that her Shadow magic is helping Genevieve fight with us, because holy crap Olesya seems OP and basically able to do whatever. Maybe that’s a good way to nerf her as well, if she’s slightly weakened due to Olesya’s magic that lets her run around with us in the daytime. On top of that, maybe Lohner is collecting donations from a blood-drive where he mysteriously gets regular supplies to our keep on the top of a mountain, so Genevieve isn’t going to be an awkward bloodthirsty weirdo. Maybe she needs blood like Bardin needs ale, so one of the artifacts we’re looking for is something that gives an infinite, humanely-sourced supply of blood (instead of humanly-sourced). Doing errands for her in the Drachenfels DLC might be Geneviève’s unlock pre-condition, much like the weapons for other DLCs. # Weapon Ideas - **Spear** , since Fatshark loves spears. Also, we could call it a “ **pike** ” because that’s the French-sounding word and so it’s totally not just a spear like Saltzpyre’s Billhook and Kruber’s _Tuskgor_ Spear. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/30c025b2d25881656dfa5f5490adaf32.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/30c025b2d25881656dfa5f5490adaf32.png) - **Executioner Sword or Greatsword** because she’s definitely strong enough to wield the sword.exe like a toothpick. Maybe she can have Kerillian’s style of swinging the sword like a weirdo. - **Falchion** because it’s a French-derived word and it’d be hilarious to give her a Saltzpyre weapon. Also, you know what? He has a bunch of unique weapons that he never uses because they’re overshadowed by the Axe + Falchion and the flail. Use it or lose it, Salty mains. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/4b711cc66ec9c909a89c7a1d318ecf13.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/4b711cc66ec9c909a89c7a1d318ecf13.png) - **Rapier** for the same reasons as Falchion, however we should keep the pistol alt-fire aspect of it unique to Saltzpyre. Maybe give hers the bonus headshot damage that Saltz has on WHC with Deathknell, and we should give hers some extra crit chance to compensate for the lack of pistol. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/519c7a0994f3802ce6a2621a003c9e7c.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/519c7a0994f3802ce6a2621a003c9e7c.png) - **Derringer** because a two-shot pistol French-sounding pistol sounds cool, even though I know it’s not a French word. Also, Saltzpyre has one for his ult, so that’d be hilarious to take a weapon from him again. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/5a3fe8bbd7c646864416a3e2125d7950.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/5a3fe8bbd7c646864416a3e2125d7950.png) - **Longbow** is a good choice because she would definitely be strong enough to shoot like Kruber and Kerillian, as well as having had enough time being alive to learn how. Kerillian says she would need many decades to teach Kruber how to shoot an arrow like an elf, and Geneviève has had time to kill. Maybe a **Swift Bow** too, so we can have another weapon that never gets used because it sucks (again, I’m joking, don’t @ me) - **Volley Crossbow** because it was also introduced in Drachenfels, “volley” is derived from the French word “volée” and “volare” for “to fly”. Vampires fly like bats, case closed. Also, again, Saltzpyre sharing arsenal with a vampire is still hilarious. Maybe we can compromise and give her one similar to Kerillian’s, since it’s only for Shade and barely anyone uses it (don’t @ me in the comments about this, shut up) [![](https://i.gyazo.com/f364abde17ffc98d757ac33d01a354b9.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/f364abde17ffc98d757ac33d01a354b9.png) - Maybe a mage staff of some sort if we want to make the case that she should have a powerful grasp of magic, naturally, as a vampire. I doubt we’d want to give her the lore of fire like Sienna, so this takes more thought. But, it’s an idea if we want her to be a spellcaster with some wizbiz. Shyish sends out heat-seeking soul bombs at us like a needler, so why not that? Moving on. # Career Ideas Here, I’ll throw out some basic ideas and even the ideas for ~~level 30~~ level 35 talents. 1. **Melee-DPS career** : Basic bloodlust-driven melee ult where her melee prowess is increased and she generates temp health from hitting enemies (like the old Zealot level 25 talent that’s gone). Make it into a shout or a dash like everyone else has as a bread-and-butter class. You could even come up with some of the level 35 talents around this: 2. **Support/mixed career** : Take the Shade’s **Cloak of Mist** talent that removes Infiltrate’s bonus damage and throw it in the trash. Then, take it out of the trash, slap some extra movement speed on it, and give it to Geneviève. The whole idea of a phasewalk support talent to go invisible, reposition, and help allies is cool, but totally unfitting for Shade. Also, it’s fitting because vampires totally turn into mist and stuff. 3. **Ranged wizbiz career** : Vampires are immortal and are supposed to be pretty good at doing wizbiz magic stuff, so you could give her some mastery over another non-fire lore. Maybe Death, maybe Shadow. I don’t know. Don’t make her a necromancer, that’ll hurt Kruber’s feelings. 4. **Lahmian** : Geneviève is supposed to be a secret descendant of the sexy all-female Vampire clique, so maybe she embraces a little bit of the sisterhood. Maybe she gets the ability **Dominate - you can enthrall a man-sized, non-special enemy. Thralls will get increased attack power and health. You can only have one servant at a time, using the ult again will kill your previous thrall.** It’s kinda like “Dominator” from Payday 2, where we can convince a cop to help us rob a bank somehow. It seems a lot more reasonable to get a rat to kill another rat. Anyways, slap those talents on her, give her some stagger and temp health stuff, and you’re basically halfway done with the talent trees for Geneviève. That’s 3 out of 6 tiers. I’m sure you could give her some stuff like “+50% headshot damage” and “+30% maximum ammunition” or any number of cookie-cutter talents that are plaguing the rest of the talent trees. Easy peasy. /s # TL;DR 1. **Drachenfels is a really cool DLC from the first game because it’s spooky and horrific the first time you go through it.** 2. Instead of just straight remastering the levels, like Back to Ubersreik, where it’s dumb to shoehorn us in an “illusion” context on levels that were never intended to have Chaos, **_remake_ the DLC where we revisit the old setting.** 3. **Castle Drachenfels itself is a spooky “living” entity that seems to be able of regenerating damage and reconfiguring its layout** , so that can be justification why the Castle layout is different than we remember. It allows us veterans to recapture that spookiness of playing it for the first time and side-steps the issue of “why is this remaster of three maps $10 when I can buy Halo Remastered for $10?” 4. **The Drachengral chalice is super spooky and also never mentioned again** , kinda like how we have the Blightreaper just collecting dust next to our other crap in the attic. We could say that it is the “heart” of the Castle and Constant Drachenfels himself, so we can take it back to the Castle to destroy it. 5. Geneviève may be here to provide some exposition and say **“hey you idiots, why do you have this Chalice just sitting somewhere collecting dust? Let’s go destroy it. Also I’m a vampire, deal with it.”** 6. Geneviève is a vampire and it’d be totally funny if she had some **weapons similar to Saltzpyre’s because the weapon names are Frenchie-sounding and she is French. It’d be ironic.** 7. Geneviève is a vampire and she can do totally cool vampire stuff for some of her career skills such as: 8. It’d be really funny to add a female vampire to the gang because both the female and vampire aspects will confused and anger Saltzpyre. Imagine doing a run with Saltzpyre, Kerillian, Sienna, and Geneviève. **That’d be hilarious**. All of the dialogue could basically just be “shut up, Saltzpyre” with him grumbling about heretics. # TL;DR for the TL;DR - just read the title ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/2 "2019-08-11T18:35:56Z")
TL;DR anyway here’s a reddit link too: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/cp0dpj/back\_to\_drachenfels\_feat\_geneviève\_dieudonné\_big](https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/cp0dpj/back_to_drachenfels_feat_genevi%C3%A8ve_dieudonn%C3%A9_big) ---
**Author:** ![BizarreSalp](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/bizarresalp/32/28058_2.png) [@BizarreSalp](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/BizarreSalp)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/3 "2019-08-11T19:45:51Z")
Loving on sheer principle; I don’t have time to read all this in-depth right now, but I will comment later. I read all the Genevieve stories not too long ago, so I can help fill in some thoughts. 🙂 Naturally, I’m sure @SmokerT69 will have a lot to say on this topic, too! ---
**Author:** ![Osrali](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/osrali/32/36100_2.png) [@Osrali](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Osrali)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/4 "2019-08-11T20:24:21Z")
You’re a good man, Scottie Brown…Z0rz. An interesting concept to say the least, would be cool to see them take the faults of BtU and expand on them here with Drachenfels. I’m a little less confident about adding another hero considering the plights they’ve suffered getting the five we have now with their zillion weapons to all feel proper. I shudder to imagine how long it would take to get a sixth in a decent place, atop the few hours of voice lines for interactions and the like. Being able to dominate enemies sounds rad, though. It’s making me miss Nosgoth… ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/5 "2019-08-11T20:38:19Z")
> [@Osrali](#): > > You’re a good man, Scottie Brown…Z0rz. Thanks lol. > An interesting concept to say the least, would be cool to see them take the faults of BtU and expand on them here with Drachenfels. Yeah, while I _liked_ Back to Ubersreik, it seems severely held back by the illusion concept as a way of explaining away the inconsistencies. Otherwise, the maps play well. The Izrakrak, the lucky shiny dwarf rock, would be super cool if we used it somehow to dispel and destroy the chalice, if that’s how dawi rune mumbo jumbo works versus umgak wizard sippy cups. I don’t know, I doubt Fatshark even knows what they’re doing with that thing, if they have it kinda just chillin’ next to the Blightreaper lol. > I’m a little less confident about adding another hero considering the plights they’ve suffered getting the five we have now with their zillion weapons to all feel proper. Given how often they like to throw out the entirety of balance out the window by reworking weapons and reworking talent trees from the ground up for all fifteen classes, I honestly think stealing some weapons from other characters and reusing abandoned talents wouldn’t be too hard in comparison lol. It’s also truthfully easier to balance a single DLC character because you can experiment and try new things with them, like the suggested Dominate ability, instead of “ruining” someone’s favorite existing class. pls fix Slayer fatshark ☹ > I shudder to imagine how long it would take to get a sixth in a decent place, atop the few hours of voice lines for interactions and the like. I think it’s basically a given that it’ll be almost impossible to throw a new character into the mix that’ll have the same depth and voicelines as the base game’s cast. At least, with her being an 800-year-old vampire who wanders around the world, there could be some justification why she isn’t the chattiest of the bunch. Also, to be fair, this is also true of their existing DLC’s voicelines. Bogenhafen had new lines, BtU sidestepped the issue by being a remaster, and Winds of Magic is silly sometimes because the voicework doesn’t seem as inspired outside of the Beastie Boys adventure map. Don’t make a drinking game for hearing the same lines in WoM, you’ll probably die. [Pretty here, isn’t it?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkzcIxcwrqI) > Being able to dominate enemies sounds rad, though. It’s making me miss Nosgoth… I’m not familiar with that game, but the idea _was_ partly inspired by the Mastermind tree in Payday 2, as well as me replaying [Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and having the dominate ability](https://youtu.be/B5-uosMwLzY?t=107) to build an orc army, with upgrades to mind-control the bigger boys. Then, I dug around the lore to see how to justify it, and Lahmian vampires totally just coincidentally have this ability, which is great. ---
**Author:** ![Howdhi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/howdhi/32/20358_2.png) [@Howdhi](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Howdhi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/6 "2019-08-11T21:52:52Z")
Saw a small text in there somewhere mentioned " pls fix Slayer fatshark ☹ ", Have an upvote for that alone! We Slayers need stick togheter after all. And also the effort put into the orignal post. Didnt read the whole post either right now, but will come back very soon and read it. Only thing would be if drachenfels ever came back, it would be the perfect time and theme for undead faction to appear at the same time. If that would ever happen. Imagine some proper boss fight against a necromancer with summons or a bloodknight or warghulf or what they are called as a grand finale. would be quite something 👌 ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/7 "2019-08-11T21:57:43Z")
Fatshark definitely is gettin’ a grudging on them for how they did Slayer dirty in this patch, in my opinion. Yeah, I toyed with the idea of researching the undead in general as another faction that helps us, but that seemed like _a lot_ of work to come up with. I think I read that the undead and vampires were mostly on the “good guys” side of the whole End Times, except for a few bad eggs, so that also just confused me. Somebody else who knows more can probably explain it more for dumb, lazy people like me. I settled with spooky ghost Stormvermin and Chaos Warriors in the depths of the castle because it’s really easy to make a translucent texture and port some functionality from the Death/Shadow winds maybe, and it would play well with the whole “this is a spooky haunted castle” idea. I mean just look at this guy, he’s _basically_ a spooky Mauler ghost just by slapping on a translucent texture on an NPC from Skyrim. Easy peasy and it looks cool. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/e/e/ee4b71ad4ab6fb055ad745317a01e3a7a7de87a5.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Angerblaze](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/angerblaze/32/22155_2.png) [@Angerblaze](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Angerblaze)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/8 "2019-08-11T22:54:49Z")
That Vampire girl again? This is all that I have to say: ![grudge2](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/5/c/5ce3f302a4ae05e513004f1b87660af4834ab8e7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/9 "2019-08-11T23:16:55Z")
I think there’s a little more nuance and depth to it than “that vampire girl again”, since I’m not even a little fanboy. I’ve not read any of the novels or all the stuff that Warhammer has to offer, however I will say that I think dismissing an idea without reading it is also a grudgin’, given how dwarves like their long books and tales of their history. # ಠ\_ಠ ---
**Author:** ![Angerblaze](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/angerblaze/32/22155_2.png) [@Angerblaze](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Angerblaze)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/10 "2019-08-11T23:49:20Z")
Hahaha, no, it’s just a joke, I’m not being serious 😃 There’s a guy here on the forums (won’t mention any names, but is starts with S and ends with 9) who’s a proper Dieudonné fanboy. And this joke, although I admit a highly redundant joke, is half directed to him 😉 And I’m just defending the “No Vampires of any kind as a part of U5” code 😛 ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/11 "2019-08-12T00:04:14Z")
All good mate lol. I think one of the most interesting part of adding a vampire, particularly a female vampire is the potential interactions amongst the characters. I’d really enjoy playing a match with Saltzpyre, Kerillian, Sienna, and Genevieve just because of the overwhelming amount of heresy and girl power to mess with him lol. Someone even pointed out that the story of Saltzpyre losing his eye loosely relates to him investigating a vampire girl, only to be ambushed by Skaven, which makes it _double heresy_ to him. I think it’s great. Even Kruber and Bardin, the more friendly of the bunch, will have some built-in prejudice against her as a vampire that they’ll have to overlook. And best of all, Kerillian will need some new material other than calling Genevieve a “mayfly” or “lumberfoot”, since those don’t quite work in this context lol. ---
**Author:** ![SrRaulCL](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/srraulcl/32/18885_2.png) [@SrRaulCL](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SrRaulCL)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/12 "2019-08-12T00:37:29Z")
Castle Drachenfels is my favorite map of all Vermintide. That dark theme and the possibility of being able to see it full of Undeads someday makes me very excited. Genevieve is a great option as a new hero but … is Catrinne the new vampire hero? I have seen Lohner says that Catrinne is very upset by the people who breathe and in one of the paintings reference the description says that she´s literally dead. Maybe our vampire hero has always been in the castle, hidden, waiting for the right moment to appear. From the beginning of Vermintide 2 there are voice lines talking about strange voices and noises at night inside the castle. ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/13 "2019-08-12T00:42:22Z")
Interesting take, Catrinne came up as a topic as to why she seemingly likes Victor so much. Let me hit you with an even more mindblowing idea that [I wrote in a reddit comment on the sister thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/cp0dpj/back_to_drachenfels_feat_genevi%C3%A8ve_dieudonn%C3%A9_big/ewn69ul/): > [@Scottz0rz](#): > > > Whoa, whoa, whoa. Something just occurred to me. Maybe Catrinne is a future new playable character and her addition with the paintings and now with her voice in the keep is a way to organically work her into the story and slowly introduce us to her. And with Lohner saying that she has a talent for not being seen when she doesn’t want to be seen… do you think she might be a wizard? > > Maybe Catrinne is a pseudonym for Geneviève 😮 > > It would explain: > > 1. Her painting skill, since it could be developed over several centuries and she has a lot of artwork, despite being “a girl”, which suggests her youthful appearance if one of the five caught a glimpse at her from afar somehow. _Shucks_, maybe she painted _everything_ in the keep under different names. > 2. Lohner calls her “a girl”, to suggest her young appearance, despite her being a prolific painter who has done damn near half the artwork in my keep. > 3. Vampires can literally go invisible, which can be said to be “a talent for not being seen” > 4. She is ingratiating towards Victor, in order to throw him off the scent of her heresy. > 5. She stays up in the sunlight, to test Olesya’s sunlight workaround and also to bask in the sunlight for the first time in several hundred years. > 6. The weird inflection and tone of her voice, which is another by Olesya illusion to mask her true accent, much like Christoph Engel’s voice is likely masking Olesya’s accent. A Bretonnian accent would be very suspicious to hear for someone named Catrinne of Aldenstein > > > How wild a hypothesis is this? > > No more wild than the one I just spitballed right there lol. > > It’d also be great for her to be a character so I can stop hearing her damn keep dialogue on repeat when I’m crafting. It’d also be a better way for her to paint by going out and living the action with us. If they did that, it’d blow my damn mind, if I’m going to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![SmokerT69](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/smokert69/32/19655_2.png) [@SmokerT69](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SmokerT69)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/14 "2019-08-12T10:04:49Z")
What’s this, _ **sniff,sniff** _ Geneviève Dieudonné? Yes, good good. This thread gets a smoker stamp of approval. Interesting theories btw. If I’m not mistaken, Geneviève lived in Altdorf. She got permission from Karl Franz, you might have heard of him. During the end times she would be passing though Helmgart to get back to Brettonia. She actually owned a tavern/pub in Altdorf. Perhaps how she knows Lohner? Also, tying it into Castle Drachenfels is interesting as she’s been there before to kill Drachenfel. Not only that, she has all his memories and knowledge from when she bit him. Which, funny enough, Drachenfels doesn’t even have his own memories. > [@scottz0rz](#): > > Her painting skill, since it could be developed over several centuries and she has a lot of artwork, despite being “a girl”, which suggests her youthful appearance if one of the five caught a glimpse at her from afar somehow. Yea, Geneviève was turned at the age of 16. Funny enough, she’s described as having blonde hair but in nearly all artwork she has black or dark hair. From the decades she spent in Cathy (China), she trained with a monk and was able to supress her need for blood. She’s needs very very little to survive. As for her accent… She retained a trace of a Bretonian accent, which could become more prominent when she was emotional. As for magic, it’s stated she knows charms and wards from Cathy and Nipon. But, she for sure knows necromancy as she turned another girl and taught her necromancy so she could get revenge on the Dark Elves and slavers. I’ll have to read the rest of the thread in the future. Should be home tonight. ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/15 "2019-08-12T13:16:41Z")
> [@SmokerT69](#): > > What’s this, _ **sniff,sniff** _ Geneviève Dieudonné? > > Yes, good good. This thread gets a smoker stamp of approval. Oh hey, it’s the resident Geneviève ~~fan girl~~ lore expert! Good to have you here. > Interesting theories btw. If I’m not mistaken, Geneviève lived in Altdorf. She got permission from Karl Franz, you might have heard of him. During the end times she would be passing though Helmgart to get back to Brettonia. She actually owned a tavern/pub in Altdorf. Perhaps how she knows Lohner? I wasn’t aware of her being a fellow barkeep, perhaps she met Lohner at a convention lol. I’m also picturing her as bearing some imperial notarized letter or seal from Karl Franz telling Witch Hunters to not mess with her unless she’s doing something wrong. That’d be even funnier to see Victor get flustered about that, being _legally_ obligated to not kill her and also confused how the emperor is chill with a vampire. > Also, tying it into Castle Drachenfels is interesting as she’s been there before to kill Drachenfel. Not only that, she has all his memories and knowledge from when she bit him. Which, funny enough, Drachenfels doesn’t even have his own memories. I just saw she was from a novel called Drachenfels and I went “oh hey, I know that place” lol. I knew it sounded like she killed him, but I’m not aware of the gory details, especially since it seems like he has a habit of coming back and not dying. I wonder if we could tie it in that Drachenfels has the means to resurrect, with a little help, but part of his memories and essence is in the Drachengral chalice. **EDIT** : It’d also make a lot of sense why Geneviève is here to offer exposition about why we should go back to Drachenfels, if she can pore through his memories a bit to discover how he keeps coming back and not dying. Maybe she’d remember the chalice as important to his full resurrection with some details on how they could destroy it. No chalice = no memories, which would explain “The Nameless” later in the lore. > Yea, Geneviève was turned at the age of 16. Funny enough, she’s described as having blonde hair but in nearly all artwork she has black or dark hair. I feel like it’s a lot easier to communicate “this person is a vampire” if they have black or white hair and a little dribble of blood down their cheek, is probably the answer. It’s also sometimes hard to get blonde to look good in artwork. > From the decades she spent in Cathy (China), she trained with a monk and was able to supress her need for blood. She’s needs very very little to survive. Oh, good, that solves her potential drinking problem. Lohner seems to have issue getting enough ale for Bardin, I didn’t want supply issues to be a factor in preventing her from joining. Perhaps it could also tie in as a “nerf” of sorts by saying she’s been training to suppress her vampiric nature and powers, to explain why she doesn’t just solo a level for us. I already had a pocket Olesya as my other ace in the hole saying “yeah it’s magic and it’s weird, don’t worry about it”. > As for her accent… She retained a trace of a Bretonian accent, which could become more prominent when she was emotional. I don’t _really_ know what a Bretonnian accent is, but I’m guessing it’s French or some offshoot of French. So, having a Widowmaker-esque voice that sometimes bounces from “longtime Imperial citizen”, “world traveler”, and “Bretonnian from several centuries ago” seems interesting. > As for magic, it’s stated she knows charms and wards from Cathy and Nipon. But, she for sure knows necromancy as she turned another girl and taught her necromancy so she could get revenge on the Dark Elves and slavers. Shhh… don’t tell Kruber she’s a necromancer. Well, maybe it could be a good conversation bit with him to help him move on from that trauma. ---
**Author:** ![Krator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@Krator](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Krator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/16 "2019-08-12T13:50:32Z")
Nice idea, but no vampires please, unless as Saltz I’ll be getting THP for “friendly” fire aimed at her. ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/17 "2019-08-12T14:08:24Z")
Well, reading more wiki pages on her lore and hearing the fanatic cries of @SmokerT69, I imagine Victor could be persuaded to not kill a vampire who basically saved Emperor Karl Franz’s life, slayed Constant Drachenfels (maybe with the help of Sigmar somehow, I read in one of the pages), allegedly doesn’t skip out on bar tabs according to Lohner, and was given permission to own a tavern in Altdorf by Karl Franz. Victor tolerated Kerillian and Sienna up to this point, so this would be a bigger test for him to struggle with the conflicting orders being ingrained to hunt the undead but also to heed the Emperor. What’s worse is that his personal backstory includes him hunting a recently-turned vampire girl that was secreted away in a warpstone mine, leading to him losing his eye in a Skaven ambush. So, vampires probably are pretty high on his list of heretics. So, I get the “no vampires” bit that a lot of people are adamant about, I really do, but I think there’s a little more gray area to allow her to be here. ---
**Author:** ![Krator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@Krator](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Krator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/18 "2019-08-12T14:19:48Z")
This whole Gertrude Doomdonner is an obvious cash grab by GW, aimed at prepubescent Twilight fans turned Warhammer - hey look at this HOT gothic achick, she’s with the good guys and saved emperor, even though before her all vampires were clearly evil, but see, she’s good, and cool, and has magical superpowers yadda yadda yadda. Warhammer universe used to be a nice cozy place, where bad guys were bad, good guys weren’t that good, unless you compared them with the bad guys, and life was generally a struggle similiar to Latvian potato-less malnurish existence. At some point it turned into this whole “hey, we can be friends with vampires” business, and since I represent my own views and opinions, I would be very happy, if no such heresy made its way into Vermintide, I mean, the art is already, in large part, heretical as hell, but here we at least have a choice. ---
**Author:** ![scottz0rz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scottz0rz/32/21483_2.png) [@scottz0rz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scottz0rz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/19 "2019-08-12T14:36:09Z")
> This whole Gertrude Doomdonner is an obvious cash grab by GW, aimed at prepubescent Twilight fans turned Warhammer - hey look at this HOT gothic achick Totally haven’t read any of her books or any Twilight books, but I still can respect the aversion. From the wikipedia article, I’d say the Drachenfels novel that she originates in predates the birth of most Twilight fans, and it’s also a murder-mystery thriller as opposed to some weird crap whatever Twilight is. Also, at some level, if it makes money and keeps the lights on to fund further creative DLC, can you _really_ complain? > even though before her all vampires were clearly evil Hey man, I think it’s silly to say a vampire is _intrinsically_ evil just because some other weirdo vampire bit them. This ain’t Nosferatu or Dracula, chief, there’s more gray area than in those black-and-white novels and silent films. Look, Nosferatu is a silly guy even in Spongebob lore: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ykxcdp6-2kE/maxresdefault.jpg "Spongebob Squarepants - Nosferatu") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykxcdp6-2kE) I think it’s inevitable for different heresies to come ally with the Empire in the literal End Times. Everyone’s fighting off Chaos from their doorsteps, including vampires. Vampires just have spookier doorsteps, but they’re allied in a similar cause with the Empire later on in the End Times, from what I’ve read, except for a few whiny jerks. > I mean, the art is already, in large part, heretical as hell, but here we at least have a choice. Maybe the art is heretical because it’s being painted by a vampire lady using various psuedonyms while residing in our keep. The “Catrinne” pieces seem to ingratiate Saltzpyre while other named artwork is weird as hell with daemons and crap, beyond what a mortal would have concept of. Not to mention Catrinne’s voice is over-the-top and fake as hell like the voice of “Christoph Engel”, when it hits my ear, echoing throughout the keep as she swoons over Saltzpyre while I’m opening loot boxes. Considering she stole the memories of Constant Drachenfels, a bajillion-year-old daemonologist, I’d say the suspiciously on-point portrayals of daemons make sense if they’re painted by someone who has literally seen them. ---
**Author:** ![DeMasked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@DeMasked](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/DeMasked)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075/20 "2019-08-12T15:06:55Z")
Castle Drachnefels would be a great area to revisit especially if the developers made the map a bit bigger with more alternate routes for replay value. I hope Catrinne isn’t Genevieve as her voice and attitude is probably more annoying then any of the other characters combined. I would welcome Genevieve as another hero if they slowly introduce her although we’ve had some allusions towards her character already. [Next page](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/back-to-drachenfels-feat-genevieve-dieudonne-dlc-suggestion/35075.md?page=2)