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.
I’m really hoping that it’s a huge facade that’s completely fake and over-the-top. We already have a precedent with fake-sounding, pitch-shifted voices like “Christoph Engel” from the first game who is probably just Olesya. It’d also explaining why she’s so positive towards Saltzpyre: to throw him off her scent. I really want her to shut up when I’m opening boxes lol.
I’d really rather imagine her having a cooler, collected tone in actuality like Widowmaker from Overwatch, or at least a more normal voice that sounds like a 16-year-old who has been alive for 800 years. I have no idea if that fits her personality, ask someone else who has read the books like a big nerd lol.
Geneviève Dieudonné is actually blessed by Sigmar. She bathed in his sparkly light. Which is kinda weird, as his blessing can instantly kill undead and so on. But somehow she’s good to go. They make it very clear she’s a “good” guy. All she wanted to do was settle down and live with her hubby. But the fawking religious nut jobs had to ruin everything.
Even the young girl that she made a vampire. She did it so the girl could rebuild her family’s village and protect it. She does bad things for the right reasons. But, this is warhammer and even though she got her revenge on the “bad guys”. The high elves (“good” guys) showed up and destroyed her village all over again when she was off destroying Dark Elf cities. Writing on the walls of her village, “the enemy of our enemy is still our enemy”.
What story of Genevieve is that in, Smoker? The bit about the village and the High Elves. I read the whole Vampire Genevieve collection and don’t recall it.
I definitely think she would have a more cool and detached demeanour, @scottz0rz. She’s really a pretty chill character, given to withdrawing from the world at times, and often being full of ennui at the weight of being an immortal. A bit like an elf, really; she actually was the first Warhammer character that I know of to compare mortals to mayflies. And given that she’s Bretonnian, she could kinda be that Bret rep that people want . . .
@Krator, Genevieve being a good Vampire has been a part of Warhammer since 1989, which means she actually pre-dates factions having their own army books (or even necessarily being forced to draw your units from a specific faction). Plus, she literally got Sigmar’s approval - it would be heresy to condemn her!
I could see her taking up painting, really. Might be a thing she never really tried, and decided to - perhaps even suggested by none other than her husband, Detlef Sierck. He always wanted her to act after that ONE time, but she always refused - he could have suggested a different creative outlet!
I think this is an important unmentioned point here, the connection. Sierck is famous as hell in the Warhammer lore, being constantly name-dropped in other major series like Gotrek and Felix. He’s basically the most famous living actor and playwright in the Empire, who I could see all the characters having an opinion on. Not that I think she should be defined by that, but I feel like it would definitely come up and create some interesting fodder for dialogue.
Sorry to double-post, but I just realized an easy explanation for Saltzpyre accepting Genevieve; we know he’s had a vision of the future, one that is very dark. We don’t know all the details, though. It raises the question; how and why did he get this glimpse? The most obvious answer, to me, would be through Sigmar. Prophecy is going to be part and parcel of Sigmar, due to his connection to Azyr (even prior to AoS).
Thus, it is reasonable to say that Sigmar was responsible for Saltz’s vision. What if one of the things in that vision was him finding common cause with a Vampire? That could be another aspect of it that disturbs him so deeply, and then if a Vampire appears who has both the blessing of Karl Franz and Sigmar, he would surely be at least willing to consider first, shoot later.
While Genevieve is the perfect match for Drachenfels lore-wise, to paraphrase what I said in the Unofficial New Character Poll thread, I like our humble motley crew of (previously) unheard of heroes. While I’d be all for a sixth character either way, and I’d be happy with Genevieve, I’d prefer it be someone new.
For a young vampire (ie turned in the past few years) there’d be plenty of potential to tie her into Saltzpyre’s backstory, eg a mission that went wrong and she was turned as a result, perhaps he and his fellow WH’s got played and without her they would’ve perished, so there’d be the element of guilt in there, which would be interesting. Perhaps he even put her down at the end (or thought he did), and she got brought back to unlife. Then they (her and the Ü5) cross paths later and she saves a bad situation.
It’d be neat to have a new character the party doesn’t trust at first but has to work with, and has mixed feelings over.
Well, I don’t recall any mentions of her in Warhammer Fantasy Role Play 2nd edition books. So apparently GW themselves felt that she doesn’t really fit into the grim world full of dangerous adventures. Fantasy Battle always loved its overpowered characters taking on whole armies lore, Role Play was more down to earth and “realistic” - even the modt badass characters can die due to random accidents and generally a 10-musket salvo takes care of anything not being a daemon
Maybe that’s the whole issue, I prefer the RPG take on the Warhammer world, which she doesn’t quite fit, while the more heroic and epic and over the top Fantasy Battle is just the right place for her. Now, it all depends on which setting do you like more, Vermintide clearly has its own style, so what works for some people, doesn’t work for me, because I like the good old “white, gray and black” aspect of Warhammer, where undead, orcs, chaos, beastmen and dark lelves were simply evil guys deserving only to be “blessed” over their heads by Warrior Priest’s mighty hammer.
No, that’s the girl she turned. I can’t remember her name, but she got some bad ass title. Basically, similar thing happened to her as happened to Geneviève Dieudonné. Geneviève turned her, trained her and equipped her with magic items to go get her revenge. I’ll have to look for it in a bit.
Edit; found her. Her title was “Princess of war, the bloody maiden”. Amelia Jayne Jonson. Wait, I think she might actually be a fandom character. Thought I read about her somewhere. But I can’t seem to find it.
Next Smoker is going to be telling us that Sigmar wears aviators, this Tzeentchian (and potentially Slaaneshi considering fanfics) tomfoolery has to end.
kek, it was just one thing I mixed up I just remember reading something about a girl she turned. I think it was that chick, but I’m not 100% sure. None the less, it’s not important and doesn’t related to anything else said about her. So it turns out she didn’t make a side kick
Add a new character. NO! Add new jobs to the already established characters.
Add Geneviève, are you kidding?! You do understand that she can’t be in any map where there’s exposure to the sun right? No! Just, no! Also, she’s way to vaulable for the vampires to have her run around with a bunch of geurilla idiots.
@brandter, Genevieve is a vampire that can go in sunlight without being hurt. Just makes her a little weakened. And she’s not a servant of vampires - she didn’t even fight with them in the End Times*, she just delivered a message and then stated that she was on her way to Brettonnia, which would actually have her passing through the region our heroes are in.
*Granted, her name is not mentioned, but it seems a clear reference to her.
@Krator; Genevieve was not a tabletop hero, she was in the official novels, and in them she basically goes on RPG-style adventures. Drachenfels is about a group of adventurers re-uniting after having fought the Great Enchanter years before. Fatshark themselves have used it as a large inspiration for the game - the first DLC was based on it for VT1, Saltzpyre’s Triple Crossbow is straight from that story, and so is Kerillian’s predilection for calling mortals “mayflies” (though Genevieve uses the reference only once).
I just remember reading something about a girl she turned. I think it was that chick, but I’m not 100% sure. None the less, it’s not important and doesn’t related to anything else said about her. So it turns out she didn’t make a side kick 
