That was not at all what I was expecting to be greeted with... DAMN YOU BARD!

So where the hell are the MarienBurg soldier and mercenary suddenly go ? Because it seem you just sideline them here and have no mention of even their body-ruins, not to mention how the enemy infiltrate to attack the city here (this latter part is fine to be vague, but not the rest). Beside the Marienburg is the largest city in the old world and from what I search its only around like 100,000 population. So how the hell the dark elf kill them so fast in just one day to only around a hundred ? Especially if they have to go searching people and that Shards while getting harrash by the elf force, too...
I'm not clear on the paragraph around the 'wind carry disease' thing, are you trying to say the healer tent tend to stay away from battlefield corpse to avoid disease but get a bad luck with the wing carry the smell to everyone ? Or you finally realize that keep staying near battlefield corpse will make you get sick easier ? (which most of the previous fight you seem to skim over that problem...).

Aside from the problem above, this chapter are quite good in general, especially the tragedy you write here, lost like that will get hard at first before it become easier (after you stop bottle up, of course)

Now here are one of the obvious problem I noticed so far here.
In this case the 'retell from the future' at the start of this chapter are quite inconsistent with what actually happen in the story here. Because so far there seem to be no paper proof that Terath'orr use for the 'truth' or the enemy told why they turn traitor for her to even pity in the first place.

That is the obvious one aside from the impression part where every evil enemy she killed seem a bit too easy, too.

Finally I noticed that most review after 5~10 chapter tend to go one sided positive, which isn't necessary a bad thing, but careful about the echo chamber that doesn't show any of the problem there or you will have a hard time improving if you don't notice the flaw, the video 'GIVING CRITICISM - Terrible Writing Advice' do show the problem of either extreme here so you can aware which feedback is constructive and which is mindless praise or troll-mindless insult for fun...

This was a delightful read. And I'm pleased it ended on a bittersweet note. I understand Shepard's journey in the Old World has come to an end and that the last chapter was published before Total War: Warhammer 3 was released. Part me still wonders how she would have interacted with Cathay and Kislev now that we got updated lore for them.

PRAISE SIGMAR! KHAZUKAN KAZAKIT HA! Burn in hell, Queek and Skarsnik! Now that was a thoroughly satisfying conclusion for the Eight Peaks arc.

Also...Felix you (un)lucky son of a bitch. Screwing a child into Shepard out of wedlock is either your greatest achievement or your worst mistake.

This has been absolute pleasure to read so far. Right from the get-go you've captured how grimdark the Old World is, from a peaceful village being annhilated by vampires, to Marisa's sad tale, and of course Nurgle's acolytes. I'm looking forward to how the shitshow that is Eight Peaks will unfold.

p.s. I love how Gotrek and Felix are now involved as well.
p.s.s. Sometimes I forget how much of a dick Gelt actually is.

Rereading cause this is one of my favorite fics, and I will say Shepard is... very trusting, in ways that don't really make a lot of sense. Sure, magic being real was made clear to her on day 1, but she should very much be skeptical of the claims of Chaos, and aware of the potential for propaganda. I find myself disappointed by the notion that she would hate someone based on what she read in a book and was told by religious fanatics.

Still, great fic.

One of the best story I came across! Thank you for starting and finished this story!

Aight, I'll have to drop this here. You make it seem that the Bretonnians are engaging the Imperials in melee... On their horses. The strength of cavalry is their devastating charge. You're not stopping an 800 kilo armored horse and it doesn't matter how skilled you are. If they were outnumbered 3 to 1, there's no containing the simple maneuver of riding a bit away and charging back. I understand the arrogance, the "fight me, you imperial scum", but these people are not idiots to fail something so basic.

Couple gripes.
Shepard comes off a bit too immature for my liking, tbh. Being snarky is one thing, but this is a snarky teenager, not a supposedly special forces veteran, Spectre, saviour of the Galaxy, yada yada. She's over 30, not 16.
The distances are a bit sketchy. From Talabecland - was it somewhere aroubd Talabheim - to Altdorf is a BIG distance. By horse, with a contingent of troops even if they're trying to be fast, by my estimation around 8-10 days, not 2 days. This a very rough estimate based on a horse's speed per day, with one stop every 3 days - 40 km per day, and the distance very roughly being about 300-400 km.

Sometimes it's obvious from the very first piece if dialogue that the story is going to be good. Don't know anything at this point, but I know quality when I see it. Thanks for this. Warhamner fantasy fics are rare, and those that are good are rarer still.

This was not war, this was pest control.

LIZZID PEOPLE!

Man, I sure am glad that ratpeople ate merely a myth the small folk of thr Empire and Bretonnia tell to scare their wayward children in to behaving, and therefor no possible consequences of that last sentences or two could ensue.

I'm still unsure as to where this lifelong grief for a man she was married to for 3 years comes from. He started flirting with her the year before, they were married for three years, and then... she was never able to love again?

At her end, she was in her 90s and had only known Gregor for... what, 9 of those? And only started considering him as dating material... What, five years after that? I just don't see it. She knew him for 10% of her life and was married to him for 3 1/3%. Sorry to tell you, but he isn't that significant.

It's hardly my parents - they were married for nearly 40 years (before my father - recently - passed)! My grandparents were married for 70 (before my grandfather passed)!

What's being married for 3 compare to that?