Character biographies
Tzarina Katarin: Story and Lore
The Ice Queen's power comes from a crown, a magical tradition and a country that lives under the threat of Chaos. Her story is about holding those sources of authority together.
Miao Ying: Story and Lore
The Storm Dragon guards the northern edge of Grand Cathay. Her duty to the Great Bastion places an immortal ruler between the empire and the forces of Chaos.
Ulrika Magdova: Story and Lore
Ulrika begins as a daughter of Kislev and becomes a vampire. The change creates a conflict between her origins, her loyalties and a hunger she did not choose.
Mother Ostankya: Character Story
Mother Ostankya is the feared witch of Kislev’s forests and a guardian of the land, whose protection can be as unsettling as the threats she confronts.
Mother Ostankya – Shadows of Change; also included in the original Shadows of Change pack
Yuan Bo: Story and Lore
The Jade Dragon governs Cathay through administration, sorcery and a hidden network of agents, while carrying out the Dragon Emperor's designs.
Bhashiva: Story and Lore
Bhashiva is the current White Tiger of Shang-Yang, a mercenary sovereign whose people serve Zhao Ming while preserving their own leadership and traditions.
Skarbrand: Story and Lore
Skarbrand was a mighty Bloodthirster whose attack on Khorne brought exile and the loss of everything in his mind except rage.
Tamurkhan: Story and Lore
Tamurkhan is Nurgle’s Maggot Lord, a corpse maggot inhabiting an Ogre Tyrant’s body and gathering champions beneath the banner of the Maggot Host.
The Changeling: Story and Lore
The Changeling is a daemon of Tzeentch who borrows other beings' forms and turns deception into conflict. His identity rests in the mischief he causes, rather than a face others can recognise.
Dechala: Story and Lore
Dechala the Denied One commands the Tormentors, a Slaaneshi warband sustained by the suffering of its Thralls.
Be'lakor: Story and Lore
Be'lakor is the first Daemon Prince of Chaos and the deceiver behind Yuri's journey in Warhammer III's Prologue.
Total War: WARHAMMER III (base game)
The Daemon Prince: Story and Lore
The customisable Daemon Prince follows the fall of Yuri, a Kislevite prince whose search for Ursun ends in service to Chaos.
Total War: WARHAMMER III (base game)
Greasus Goldtooth: Story and Lore
Greasus Goldtooth rose from the Goldtooth tribe to become the Ogre Overtyrant. His authority rests on ruthless strength, immense wealth and a hunger for still more.
Astragoth Ironhand: Story and Lore
Astragoth Ironhand is the High Priest of Hashut, an ancient Chaos Dwarf sorcerer whose mechanical frame keeps him moving as his body turns to stone.
Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs
Archaon the Everchosen: From Templar to Lord of the End Times
Archaon is the Everchosen, a former Sigmarite Templar who turned to the Chaos Gods and became a leader capable of uniting their rival followers.
Karl Franz: Story and Lore
Karl Franz is Emperor, Prince of Altdorf, and Elector Count of Reikland. The Total War reign is that settled throne. An earlier Old World almanack still has the Empire in the Anarchy.
Thorgrim Grudgebearer: Story and Lore
Thorgrim Grudgebearer is the Dwarf High King and keeper of the Great Book of Grudges, determined to restore his people’s lost power.
Total War: Warhammer (base game)
Neferata: Story and Lore
Neferata is the first vampire and the displaced queen of Lahmia. Her rule continues through spies and thralls, with the recovery of her old kingdom still part of her ambition.
Mannfred von Carstein: Story and Lore
Mannfred von Carstein is a vampire of the Sylvania dynasty whose ambition centres on necromantic knowledge. His pursuit of forbidden power connects him to Nagash and to the Books sought in his Immortal Empires campaign.
Grimgor Ironhide: Story and Lore
Grimgor Ironhide is a Black Orc warboss who came out of the Blasted Wastes with Da Immortulz, and who treats a day without battle as an insult.
Louen Leoncoeur: Story and Lore
Louen Leoncoeur is Bretonnia’s king and a Grail Knight, ruling from Couronne with the approval of the Fay Enchantress.
Bretonnia (Free-LC)
Khazrak the One-Eye: Story and Lore
Khazrak the One-Eye is a cunning Beastlord of the Drakwald, known for elusive raids and his feud with Boris Todbringer of Middenheim.
Call of the Beastmen
Orion: The King in the Woods
Orion is the Wood Elves’ god-king of Athel Loren, whose seasonal death and rebirth give the Wild Hunt its living leader.
Wulfrik the Wanderer: Cursed to Challenge
Wulfrik is a Norscan warrior whose service to the Chaos Gods binds him to a life of travelling the world and challenging its mightiest champions.
Norsca
Tyrion: Champion of Ulthuan
Tyrion is a High Elf warrior descended from Aenarion, twin brother to Teclis and protector of Ulthuan and its Everqueen.
Malekith: the Witch King
Malekith rules the Dark Elves of Naggaroth and claims Ulthuan’s crown; his enduring rivalry with the High Elves gives the Witch King his place in the setting.
Lord Mazdamundi: The Slann of Hexoatl
Lord Mazdamundi is the oldest and most powerful living Slann, Lord of the Solar-City of Hexoatl, and the mage-priest who summoned Kroq-Gar to lead the remaining Saurus armies.
Thanquol: Grey Seer of Clan Scruten
Thanquol is a Grey Seer of the Council of Thirteen. Boneripper is his Rat Ogre, Clan Scruten is his Immortal Empires faction, and the novels start before that campaign.
Ikit Claw: Chief Warlock of Clan Skryre
Ikit Claw is Clan Skryre's Chief Warlock, the Warlock Engineer whose Forbidden Workshop arms a Skaven legion, and the engineer who usurps an army in Thanquol's Doom.
Settra the Imperishable: Story and Lore
Settra is the ancient king of Khemri whose demand for immortality outlived his mortal empire, leaving him to reclaim Nehekhara as an undead conqueror.
Total War: Warhammer II – Rise of the Tomb Kings
Luthor Harkon: The Fractured Pirate King
Luthor Harkon is the vampire pirate whose Lustrian realm became the Vampire Coast, and whose search for ancient treasure became a search for his own lost mind.
Curse of the Vampire Coast
Nagash: Story and Lore
Nagash is the Great Necromancer who leads the Host of Nagash for the Undead Legions. The Immortal Empires campaign and the older fiction of Nehekhara are separate strands.
Boris Ursus: Story and Lore
Boris Ursus is the bear-god’s champion and the father whose apparent loss sits behind Katarin’s crown. The Revivalists field him as their own lord.
Kostaltyn: Story and Lore
Kostaltyn is Kislev’s Supreme Patriarch. The Great Orthodoxy gives the country’s faith a lord of its own, beside the Ice Queen’s crown and the bear-god’s champion.
Zhao Ming: Story and Lore
Zhao Ming, the Iron Dragon, rules Grand Cathay’s west. He is a dragon who governs through alchemy, trade and a brotherhood of mercenary tigermen, and he is a different campaign from his sister on the Bastion.
Ku'gath Plaguefather: Story and Lore
Ku'gath is a Great Unclean One who would rather invent a plague than pass on one that already exists. The Poxmakers of Nurgle are his base-game campaign.
Kairos Fateweaver: Story and Lore
Kairos Fateweaver is Tzeentch’s two-headed Oracle, a flying spellcaster whose Oracles of Tzeentch campaign is part of the base game.
N'Kari: Story and Lore
N'Kari is an ancient Keeper of Secrets, the Arch-Temptor, and the base-game lord of the Seducers of Slaanesh. His grudge against the elven twins is older than any one campaign.
Skulltaker: Story and Lore
Skulltaker is Khorne’s Bloodletter champion, a hunter of kings whose cloak is a record of the lords he has beaten.
Arbaal the Undefeated: Story and Lore
Arbaal is a mortal champion of Khorne who has not been allowed to lose. His axe is the Destroyer, and his campaign is a chain of challenges.
Epidemius: Story and Lore
Epidemius is Nurgle’s Tallyman, a herald who counts diseases and goes where the next outbreak leads.
The Masque of Slaanesh: Story and Lore
The Masque was Slaanesh’s favoured dancer. She tried to lift his mood after a defeat, and he cursed her to dance without rest.
Azazel: Story and Lore
Azazel is Slaanesh's Prince of Damnation, a flying Daemon Prince sent to pull undivided champions into one god's service.
Festus the Leechlord: Story and Lore
Festus was a doctor who bargained his soul for the knowledge to cure, and now brews Nurgle's plagues without that mercy.
The Glottkin: Story and Lore
The Glottkin are three Nurgle-marked brothers who fight as one lord: Otto and Ethrac on the shoulders of Ghurk.
Kholek Suneater: Story and Lore
Kholek Suneater is a Dragon Ogre Shaggoth, an undivided Warriors lord whose power and whose army are built on vassals and his own gigantic kin.
Valkia the Bloody: Story and Lore
Valkia the Bloody is Khorne's consort and the Gorequeen, a winged queen of a northern tribe who returns to drive his worshippers harder.
Vilitch the Curseling: Story and Lore
Vilitch the Curseling is Tzeentch's Twisted Twin: a frail sorcerer fused to a warrior brother, and given control of both.
Malagor the Dark Omen: Story and Lore
Malagor is the Dark Omen, the Bray-Shaman the Beastmen treat as the shape of mankind's end, and a flying caster who moves from warherd to warherd.
Morghur the Shadowgave: Story and Lore
Morghur the Shadowgave leads the Beastmen warherd built around corruption and Chaos Spawn, beside Khazrak's ambushes and Malagor's flight.
Taurox the Brass Bull: Story and Lore
Taurox is the Brass Bull, a Doombull of living brass whose rampage is a chain of battles and whose one gap in the metal is the neck.
Sayl the Faithless: Story and Lore
Sayl the Faithless is the Dolgan shaman who sabotaged his master's ritual, bound the survivors into the spawn Nightmaw, and now lies for a living.
Throgg: Story and Lore
Throgg is the King of Trolls, set apart from his kind by a cunning the northern cold does not usually allow a troll.
Sigvald the Magnificent: Story and Lore
Sigvald the Magnificent is Slaanesh's mortal champion, a duellist of the Decadent Host whose Warriors campaign became Slaanesh-focused in Update 9.0.
Balthasar Gelt: Story and Lore
Balthasar Gelt is the Supreme Patriarch of the Colleges of Magic and the Metal wizard who leads The Golden Order from a Cathay foothold.
Volkmar the Grim: Story and Lore
Volkmar the Grim is the Grand Theogonist. In Immortal Empires he leaves Elector politics for a pilgrimage that seals the Books of Nagash.
Markus Wulfhart: Story and Lore
Markus Wulfhart is Karl Franz's Huntsmarshal. His expedition takes an Empire army into Lustria, with four named hunters to find and a hostility that grows as he expands.
Elspeth von Draken: Story and Lore
Elspeth von Draken is the Dark Lady of Nuln, also called the Graveyard Rose, a Lore of Death magister who advises the Elector Countess and arms Wissenland through the Imperial Gunnery School.
Boris Todbringer: Story and Lore
Boris Todbringer is the Elector Count of Middenland and Graf of Middenheim, an Ulrican lord whose feud with Khazrak the One-Eye is older than his Immortal Empires start.
Alberic de Bordeleaux: Story and Lore
Alberic de Bordeleaux is the duke whose title is Bordeleaux and whose Immortal Empires army is the expedition Bordeleaux Errant, sailing from Bregonne on the Lustria coast.
The Fay Enchantress: Story and Lore
The Fay Enchantress leads Carcassonne. She is the Lady of the Lake's representative in Bretonnia, a Lore of Life caster beside the king rather than a second crown.
Repanse de Lyonesse: Story and Lore
Repanse de Lyonesse leads the Chevaliers de Lyonesse from Copher, on the Coast of Araby, with Henri Le Massif beside her and Water Supplies for the desert march.
Ungrim Ironfist: Story and Lore
Ungrim Ironfist is the Slayer King of Karak Kadrin. Kingship and the Slayer vow bind the same line, and his Immortal Empires throng is the one that can lean on Slayers from the first march.
Belegar Ironhammer: Story and Lore
Belegar Ironhammer leads Clan Angrund. The campaign is the march to retake Karak Eight Peaks, and the Black Library sequence puts him in those ruins between Queek, Skarsnik, and a call to the High King.
Grombrindal: Story and Lore
Grombrindal is the White Dwarf. In Immortal Empires he leads the Ancestral Throng from Dracla Spire against Malekith. In the Mortal Realms he is a different story, with his own Black Library books.
Thorek Ironbrow: Story and Lore
Thorek Ironbrow is a Master Runelord. His Vortex expedition hunted relics under Lustria. His Immortal Empires start is Karak Zorn, in the Southlands, with the Anvil of Doom still under him.
Malakai Makaisson: Story and Lore
Malakai Makaisson is the Slayer-engineer of the Masters of Innovation. The guild cast him out after the Unsinkable sank and the Indestructible blew up. The Spirit of Grungni is his later airship in the game, and Daemonslayer gives him an earlier voyage.
Heinrich Kemmler: Story and Lore
Heinrich Kemmler is the Lichemaster. Total War’s biography takes him from the tombs to a beggar’s life in the Grey Mountains, and then to a pact at a Chaos champion’s mound. The Barrow Legion is the faction he leads in the game.
Helman Ghorst: Story and Lore
Helman Ghorst leads the Caravan of Blue Roses. The Grim and the Grave is his pack. The Corpse Cart is the battlefield object the faction is built around, and the lord page already ties that cart to a family death and to study under Mannfred.
Isabella von Carstein: Story and Lore
Isabella von Carstein can open the Sylvania campaign in place of Vlad. She is Free-LC with Vampire Counts ownership. The lord page makes her a fighter and a caster, and it ties her to Vlad and to the human nobility of Sylvania.
Vlad von Carstein: Story and Lore
Vlad von Carstein is the free Vampire Counts lord who can open Sylvania, with Isabella beside him. Update 3 calls him the first of those counts and the one who tainted Sylvania’s human aristocracy. Inheritance is the novel of that rise.
Aranessa Saltspite: Story and Lore
Aranessa Saltspite is Queen of the Tides and a pirate captain of Sartosa. She is living. Curse of the Vampire Coast puts her at the head of the Pirates of Sartosa, with a human crew and vampire mates who raise the drowned.
Count Noctilus: Story and Lore
Count Noctilus leads The Dreadfleet from the Galleon’s Graveyard. He was Nyklaus von Carstein. Phil Kelly’s Dreadfleet sends Captain Jaego Roth of the Heldenhammer after him.
Cylostra Direfin: Story and Lore
Cylostra Direfin leads The Drowned. The Academy legend makes her a Bretonnian court singer who drowned on the voyage to the Phoenix King and returned as the spirit of the Lamprey.
Arkhan the Black: Story and Lore
Arkhan the Black is Nagash’s lieutenant and the lord of the Followers of Nagash. Rise of the Tomb Kings unlocks him. The Return of Nagash, the first End Times novel, makes him and Mannfred the plotters of the resurrection.
Grand Hierophant Khatep: Story and Lore
Grand Hierophant Khatep is the oldest of the Liche Priests and the head of the Mortuary Cult’s Hierophantic Council. He woke Settra after Nagash’s Great Ritual. Settra exiled him. In the game he leads the Exiles of Nehek.
High Queen Khalida: Story and Lore
High Queen Khalida is the Warrior-Queen of Lybaras. The Rise of the Tomb Kings FAQ tells how her cousin Neferata slew her, gave her the Blood Kiss, and how Asaph burned that taint out. In the game she leads the Court of Lybaras and an army of archers.
Azhag the Slaughterer: Story and Lore
Azhag the Slaughterer is an orc warboss whose iron crown gives him tactics, trances, and a way of speaking that other greenskins do not share.
Gorbad Ironclaw: Story and Lore
Gorbad Ironclaw is the orc warboss whose wars in the Empire made the name a byword, and whose Total War campaign is built on Da Plan.
Wurrzag: Story and Lore
Wurrzag, Da Great Green Prophet, is the free Greenskin lord whose Bloody Handz have had two different campaign starts: Ekrund, then Cuexotl.
Grom the Paunch: Story and Lore
Grom the Paunch is the goblin warboss of the Broken Axe, rival of Eltharion in both the Warden and the Paunch pack and an older tabletop starter.
Skarsnik: Story and Lore
Skarsnik is the night goblin warlord of the Eight Peaks, playable as Crooked Moon, and the protagonist of Guy Haley's novel of the same name.
Golgfag Maneater: Story and Lore
Golgfag Maneater is the ogre mercenary whose own stories became the pattern other ogre sellswords copied, and whose campaign is a string of contracts.
Skrag the Slaughterer: Story and Lore
Skrag the Slaughterer is the Prophet of the Great Maw, a slaughter-master who drags a cauldron and leads the Disciples of the Maw.
Drazhoath the Ashen: Story and Lore
Drazhoath the Ashen is the Sorcerer-Prophet of Hashut who rules the Black Fortress, trains in exile under Astragoth, and wants Zharr-Naggrund back.
Zhatan the Black: Story and Lore
Zhatan the Black commands the Tower of Zharr for Ghorth the Cruel, and in Total War he is the Chaos Dwarf lord whose work is labour, sacrifice, and the melee.
Teclis: Story and Lore
Teclis is the High Elf mage of the Order of Loremasters, twin of Tyrion, and the sorcerer at the centre of William King's Tyrion and Teclis novels.
Alarielle the Radiant: Story and Lore
Alarielle the Radiant is the Everqueen of Avelorn, a Life and High mage whose Immortal Empires campaign watches the Elven homeland.
Alith Anar: Story and Lore
Alith Anar is the Shadow King of Nagarythe, a High Elf Free-LC hunter whose novel follows a prince of a betrayed house through the elven civil war.
Eltharion: Story and Lore
Eltharion is the Warden of Yvresse, a High Elf lord who imprisons enemy leaders and whose older tabletop pairing is Grom the Paunch.
Imrik: Story and Lore
Imrik is the dragon prince of the Knights of Caledor, a High Elf Free-LC lord whose campaign is a series of dragon encounters.
Aislinn: Story and Lore
Sea Lord Aislinn commands Ulthuan's Dragonships for the High Elf Sea Patrol, a Tides of Torment lord who starts by the Eastern Isles.
Morathi: Story and Lore
Morathi is Malekith's mother and the sorceress of the Cult of Pleasure, goading the passed-over prince in Gav Thorpe's Sundering novel.
Crone Hellebron: Story and Lore
Crone Hellebron is the Hag Queen of Har Ganeth, whose Death Nights spend slaves and whose lord pack pairs her with Alarielle the Radiant.
Malus Darkblade: Story and Lore
Malus Darkblade rules Hag Graef under the daemon Tz'arkan, in a Shadow and the Blade campaign and in the Chronicles of Malus Darkblade.
Lokhir Fellheart: Story and Lore
Lokhir Fellheart is the Kraken Lord of the Blessed Dread, a Dark Elf Free-LC admiral whose Update 7.0 notes pair him with Sea Lord Aislinn.
Rakarth: Story and Lore
Rakarth is the beastmaster of the Thousand Maws, a Dark Elf Free-LC lord who fills his Beast Pens from battles, raids, and captures.
Durthu: Story and Lore
Durthu is the elder of Argwylon, an ancient treeman whose Realm of the Wood Elves campaign sits beside Orion's pact with the forest spirits.
Drycha: Story and Lore
Drycha leads the Wargrove of Woe, the free Wood Elf lord whose Glamoured Elves and quest for Coeddil set her apart from Orion and Durthu.
Sisters of Twilight: Story and Lore
Naestra and Arahan are Ariel's twin heralds, the flying ranged lord of The Twisted and the Twilight and the keepers of the Forge of Daith.
Kroq-Gar: Last Defender of Xhotl
Kroq-Gar is the last Saurus of ruined Xhotl. Mazdamundi summoned him to lead the remaining Saurus armies, and he still rides the Carnosaur Grymloq.
Gor-Rok: The Great White Lizard
Gor-Rok is the Great White Lizard, the veteran Saurus who holds the centre of Itza's line beside Lord Kroak.
Tehenhauin: Prophet of Sotek
Tehenhauin is the prophet of Sotek. His Red Crested Skinks sacrifice so the serpent can be made manifest, and the Vortex pack sets him against Ikit Claw.
Tiktaq'to: Master of Skies
Tiktaq'to leads Tlaqua from the Terradon Zwup. The free Lizardmen lord is the campaign built around flying troops and the Rite of Tzunki.
Nakai the Wanderer: Spirit of the Jungle
Nakai is a Kroxigor of the first spawning whose city, Tlanxla, fell in the Great Catastrophe. He wanders for the Great Plan, and the 2019 pack sets him against Markus Wulfhart.
Oxyotl: He That Hunts Unseen
Oxyotl is the Chameleon Skink who hunted in the Realm of Chaos and came back to Lustria. A year there, in the studio's words, was seven thousand years at home.
Queek Headtaker: Right Claw of Clan Mors
Queek Headtaker is the Great Warlord of Clan Mors, right-claw of Warlord Gnawdwell, called Headtaker and the Dwarf-Smiter.
Lord Skrolk: Plaguelord of Clan Pestilens
Lord Skrolk is a Plaguelord of Clan Pestilens under Arch-Plaguelord Nurglitch, and he-who-is-tenth on the Council of Thirteen.
Deathmaster Snikch: Nightlord's Blade
Deathmaster Snikch leads Clan Eshin. The Nightlord sends him after Tz'arkan, the daemon bound to Malus Darkblade.
Throt the Unclean: Master Mutator
Throt the Unclean is Master Mutator of Clan Moulder and one of the nine Lords of Hell Pit. The 2020 pack sets him against the Sisters of Twilight.
Tretch Craventail: Lord of Clan Rictus
Tretch Craventail leads Clan Rictus. His reputation is guile, treachery, and getting out of the disaster he helped to start.
Read the person, then play the campaign
Katarin's story connects royal inheritance to the Ice Court and the Great Orthodoxy. Miao Ying's begins with a dragon family's duty to an empire. Ulrika's follows the difficult boundary between her Kislevite origins and her life as a vampire.
Each story marks its spoiler scope and links back to the character's gameplay page. Background relationships explain the starting identity; Immortal Empires gives the player room to create a different course of wars and alliances.
Katarin's story connects royal inheritance to the Ice Court and the Great Orthodoxy. Miao Ying's begins with a dragon family's duty to an empire. Ulrika's follows the difficult boundary between her Kislevite origins and her life as a vampire. Mother Ostankya's story follows the witch behind Kislev's warnings and her role as a guardian of its land.
Yuan Bo connects imperial administration to espionage and the Jade Compass. Bhashiva inherits the White Tiger title and her people’s oath to Zhao Ming.
Katarin's story connects royal inheritance to the Ice Court and the Great Orthodoxy. Miao Ying's begins with a dragon family's duty to an empire. Ulrika's follows the difficult boundary between her Kislevite origins and her life as a vampire. Skarbrand’s biography follows the attack on Khorne that cost him his personality and left him with rage.
Tamurkhan’s story follows the corpse maggot within an Ogre Tyrant’s body and the followers gathering under his banner.
The Changeling embodies Tzeentch's deception, taking other beings' forms and provoking conflict. His short biography introduces the trickster behind The Deceivers.
Katarin's story connects royal inheritance to the Ice Court and the Great Orthodoxy. Miao Ying's begins with a dragon family's duty to an empire. Ulrika's follows the difficult boundary between her Kislevite origins and her life as a vampire. Dechala's story follows a Slaaneshi warlord and the Thralls who sustain her excess.
Be'lakor and the customisable Daemon Prince connect the Prologue's betrayal to two different Immortal Empires factions: Shadow Legion and Legion of Chaos.
Greasus’s rise begins with his seizure of the Goldtooth tribe. Wealth and the allegiance of other Tyrants bring him the standing of an Overtyrant.
Astragoth Ironhand's biography explains the petrification behind his mechanical frame and his position in Hashut's priesthood.
Karl Franz’s story connects the Emperor’s authority to Reikland, his fellow Electors and personal command in war. His gameplay page follows the campaign tools used to defend that realm.
Thorgrim’s biography follows his rise to the Dwarf throne and his duty as keeper of the Great Book of Grudges.
Neferata’s biography follows the first vampire and the loss of Lahmia. Mannfred’s follows the pursuit of necromantic knowledge and his connection to Nagash.
Grimgor's background centres on his hunger for battle and his Black Orc bodyguard, Da Immortulz.
Louen Leoncoeur’s background connects the crown at Couronne to Grail knighthood, the Lady of the Lake and the Fay Enchantress.
Khazrak’s story follows a Drakwald Beastlord whose cunning and rivalry with Boris Todbringer explain his identity as an elusive enemy of the Empire.
Orion’s story follows the Wood Elf god-king’s seasonal renewal and his place in Athel Loren. His campaign page connects that identity to Talsyn in Immortal Empires.
Tyrion’s background connects the warrior of Eataine to his twin Teclis, Phoenix King Finubar and the Everqueen Alarielle.
Malekith’s claim to Ulthuan connects the Witch King’s wars to his scars and to Morathi’s ambitions for her son.
Thanquol’s story begins with a Grey Seer’s ambition and his service to the Horned Rat. Ikit Claw’s follows Clan Skryre’s combination of magic and engineering, including the machinery that sustains his own body.
Tyrion and Teclis share William King's trilogy. Malekith's Sundering novel and The Curse of Khaine are separate from a Naggarond campaign. Alith Anar's Shadow King and Malus Darkblade's Daemon's Curse are their own books. Orion's Vaults of Winter is the forest king's novel.
Move between story and gameplay
Katarin’s biography leads back to The Ice Court and Kislev’s heroes and troops. Miao Ying’s leads to The Northern Provinces and Cathay’s army. Ulrika’s leads to her recruitment routes and battlefield role. Each story marks its spoiler scope.
Choose the gameplay page when planning a campaign and the story when exploring a character’s background. Immortal Empires allows wars and alliances to develop through play, so a character’s biography is not a fixed campaign ending.
Follow a story into the army
Katarin’s background leads into the Kislev race overview, her Legendary Lord campaign and the Frost Maidens who share her magical tradition. Miao Ying’s northern duty connects her story to Cathay’s formations and its other dragon ruler, Zhao Ming.
Ulrika’s Kislevite origins describe her background; her recruitment page explains the factions she can join. A character’s birthplace or allegiance in a biography is different from the set of playable campaigns that can recruit that character.