Surprise. The assassin is a lady assassin. (There were a very obscure hint the first time she appeared in the comic)
If you know Skaven lore that will raise eye brow. And if you don't: Female Skaven end up as breeding machine (Called Brood mother) by being heavily drugged continuously. But i always liked the idea of female skaven managing to (rarely) escape and hide, so here she go.
When young, she escaped her fate thanks to an under dosage, fighting back her "assailant", being beaten till they thought she was dead, thrown into a meat pile which she escaped from by stabbing whoever came by after regaining consciousness, and since then learned to steal food and stab whoever caught her, before turning sneaky-stabbing into her job. And nobody know about her real identity. At least, nobody alive so far.
I do enjoy these takes on the established canon. It enriches the setting by creating variation and showing that not everything is the same. The "vat of clones", or "race/world of hats", as it's called happens too much through sci-fi and fantasy.
I do enjoy these takes on the established canon. It enriches the setting by creating variation and s
Like many fantasy things, the skaven are an interesting lot. But the whole "race of evil" individuals is not something I care for in fiction. To say that there has never been/or never will be a skaven of a more neutral persuasion, it shows a lack of imagination. It also locks off possibilities for the stories that would belong to such an individual. A shame.
I also agree with the complexity. Sometimes people try to step outside of the mold with a created character. But often they try to make the character too unique and become rather elaborate with their histories. Or appearance.
Like many fantasy things, the skaven are an interesting lot. But the whole "race of evil" individual
