Brian Blessed is a national treasure. From attempting to climb Mount Everest multiple times without oxygen, to being the oldest man to trek to the Magnetic North Pole on foot, to that episode of Have I Got News For You where he eroded Ian Hislop's will to live, the man is a veritable force of nature. He also happened to voice Gotrek Gurnisson, the most famous dwarf slayer in Warhammer Fantasy.
It's a role he played in two separate audio productions, Gotrek the Realmslayer and Realmslayer: Blood of the Old World, both of which recount the undying dwarf's adventures in Age of Sigmar after The End Times. He also reprised the role in Total War: Warhammer, where he was added as a free character alongside his erstwhile companion and "rememberer", Felix Jaeger.
Brian Blessed's association with Creative Assembly actually started much earlier, in an extremely fun video for Total War: Rome 2 (which you can watch below) in which he gets very excited about firing a catapulta. Jumping into Total War: Warhammer 2 as Gotrek, though, came a lot later. He wasn't the only celebrity cameo either, as we also got Iwan Rheon as sad...
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