At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Mobile daemonic melee lord
- Race
- Slaanesh
- Faction
- The Accursed Troupe
Availability
- Free Legendary Lord added with Update 7.0. Own Slaanesh content on the same storefront to access this Free-LC: Total War: Warhammer III or Dechala — Tides of Torment provides a Slaanesh ownership route.
The Accursed Troupe
The Masque is a Legendary Lord who starts her own Immortal Empires campaign. She is a Daemonette cursed by Slaanesh to dance without rest. Pick her for armies whose evolving bonuses encourage you to plan the next engagement while finishing the current one.
The Eternal Dance
The Pageant of Pain, the Symphony of Excess and the Burning Bacchanal lead towards the Final Dance. Each progresses through Movements with alternative effects. Battles, stances and Unholy Manifestations help maintain the tempo; choose a Movement around what that army needs to do next.
Completed sequences enter the Repertoire and can become templates for later armies. You can reuse a useful sequence or create a fresh Dance. An army guarding a province and an army advancing into enemy territory may need different choices.
Dance with the army
Keep the Masque near a fight that the rest of her army can support. Daemonettes offer infantry pressure, while mounted troops can approach from another direction. Use the lord's mobility to help create an opening rather than sending every fast unit into a separate engagement.
On the campaign map, judge the next Dance objective against the condition and position of the army. Keeping momentum is valuable, but it still takes troops to win the next battle. Plan a route with time and space to replace losses.
Shared troops, a different campaign
The Masque and N'Kari share the recruitment building changes introduced in Update 9.0. Their campaign identities differ: the Accursed Troupe builds an army's Repertoire, while N'Kari's Seducers focus on influence. Dechala instead uses Thralls and specialised settlement types.
A free dancer with a Slaanesh key
The Masque is free with Update 7.0, once a Slaanesh route is on the same store. Total War: Warhammer III or Dechala — Tides of Torment supplies that route. The Accursed Troupe’s Eternal Dance changes the army as the campaign continues. She is a Daemonette in melee, not a Keeper and not a six-armed champion.
The curse is the lore: she danced to ease Slaanesh after his loss to Khorne and Nurgle, and he heard mockery. The campaign’s two opening cults, and the neighbours around her start, are a map. They are not the moment of the curse.
Sources
- Update 7.0: Introducing the Free Content and The Masque — CA — community.creative-assembly.com
- Total War: WARHAMMER — A New Player Survival Guide & FAQ — CA — community.creative-assembly.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Update 9.0 Release Notes — CA — community.creative-assembly.com