Spoilers: The legend as the Academy and the roster reveal print it. No campaign ending.
Who she is in Total War
Aranessa comes with Curse of the Vampire Coast, the same campaign pack as Harkon, Noctilus, and Cylostra. She leads the Pirates of Sartosa. Ships, Pirate Coves, and Infamy are the shared race systems. Her faction income from raiding and sacking, and her eye for treasure maps, are the campaign colour the Academy gives her. The Sartosa Free Company is the living regiment. Vampire first mates raise corpses that wash against the hull.
The roster reveal equips her with a halberd and a net. The halberd is the answer to a large or armoured target. The net pins. Combat statistics from that reveal are not repeated here. A Rotting Promethean is the mount. Deck Gunners and the living crew still need a plan: a screen, a firing line, and a captain who is not duelling three provinces away from both.
Sartosa, Manann, and the Swordfysh
The Academy and the roster reveal use the same legend. She is one of the most respected and feared pirate captains of Sartosa. Some say she is the daughter of the sea god Manann, and that he whispers to her to take the world’s oceans. The Swordfysh is her ship. Sea-bloated corpses wash against that hull, and the vampire first mates breathe unlife into them. She remains part of the living realm and commands the Sartosa Free Company, sharing the Coast’s undead only as far as the crew requires.
Sawfish blades for legs, gunnery, and a knowledge of Rotting Prometheans and Rotting Leviathans are lord effects on the Academy page. They explain the belief about Manann inside the game. They are not a second mythology. Noctilus was Nyklaus von Carstein before the maelstrom. Harkon’s mind was broken on the Lustrian shore. Cylostra drowned on the way to the Phoenix King. Aranessa is the living captain among those three.
Return to the fleet
Dreadfleet, the novel, follows Jaego Roth against Count Noctilus. The jacket used for that book page names Noctilus. Aranessa’s legend stays on the Academy page and the roster reveal. Sartosa is her home in that legend. It is not printed here as an Immortal Empires settlement coordinate.
Use the lord page for ownership, the living regiments, and the ship. Use this page for the Queen of the Tides as Creative Assembly tells her. A cove built in a port you took is your campaign, not a chapter of a novel.
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Sources
- Curse of the Vampire Coast — Total War Academy — academy.totalwar.com
- Curse of the Vampire Coast roster reveal — Total War — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com