Spoilers: Game presentation and the 2022 design of his seduction; no campaign ending.
Who he is in Total War
Azazel leads the Ecstatic Legions for the Warriors of Chaos. Champions of Chaos unlocks him, with Festus, Valkia, and Vilitch, for Immortal Empires and for a Realm of Chaos campaign that does not follow the Ursun story. He is a flying Daemon Prince, a melee fighter, and a Lore of Slaanesh caster.
The store page says his beauty is second only to Slaanesh, and that opponents concede before the fight because they cannot bear to harm him. Seduction, borrowed from Slaanesh's own system, tempts enemy units to his side before battle. Temptator is the close-combat tool: a short ward, and damage turned back on whoever strikes him.
An errand among undivided champions
The July 2022 account of the pack is specific about the job. Azazel was sent into the world to find promising undivided champions and lure them into devotion to Slaanesh. That is why seduction sits on a Warriors faction rather than only on the Slaanesh race.
The same note drew a roster line that mattered until later patches. As a Daemon Prince he recruited undivided and Slaanesh units, not the full pantheon. Sigvald, already in the game since 2016, was the lord who could branch outward. Update 9.0 then moved Sigvald onto a Slaanesh focus and took the other gods' units away from him. The two Slaanesh Warriors lords are still not the same body: one flies and tempts a regiment before the lines meet, and the other is the mortal duellist of the Decadent Host.
Who stands beside that patron
N'Kari is the base-game Keeper of Secrets and hates the elven twins. The Masque and Dechala are later Slaanesh lords. None of them leads the Ecstatic Legions. Azazel's marked warband is a mortal Chaos army with a daemon prince at its head, not a cult map and not a thrall economy.
His faction opens with unusually warm relations toward the Empire, Kislev, Grand Cathay, and Bretonnia. Vassals gain immunity to psychology and spread corruption. Those are campaign facts. They are not a claim that those realms have already fallen, or that a player's later wars were history.
Archaon can subjugate him after a defeat from Update 9.0 onward. Azazel is already Warriors of Chaos, so a successful subjugation confederates his faction. A non-Warriors Slaanesh lord in that same rule would leave their regions to a new Slaanesh vassal.
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Sources
- Champions of Chaos — Total War — totalwar.com
- Introducing the Champions of Chaos — Total War — totalwar.com
- Addressing the Chaos Debate — Total War — totalwar.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — Total War — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Patch 9.0.5 notes — store.steampowered.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — community.creative-assembly.com
- Champions of Chaos — store.steampowered.com