Spoilers: Jackets for Headtaker, Thorgrim, and The Rise of the Horned Rat stop before the hold's fate. The listening note on the End Times book is collapsed on that book page.
Who he is in Total War
Belegar leads Clan Angrund. The King and the Warlord unlocks him. His claim to Karak Eight Peaks is the campaign, inherited from King Lunn's line, and the spirits of his ancestors accompany him as heroes in the opening army. While the hold is outside his control the army carries a financial burden. The June 2022 Immortal Empires list starts him at Zarakzil. Eight Peaks is the objective. Zarakzil is the opening on that game map.
He is an armoured melee lord. Dwarf Warriors hold, Irondrakes need a lane, and the ancestor heroes matter most when they stand in a useful fight. After the hold is taken, the Deeps and the shared grudges are the next jobs. Securing the mountain and then marching away is a choice the campaign leaves open.
Kazador, then the call to Thorgrim
David Guymer's novel Headtaker follows Queek. The jacket sends Queek against King Kazador at Karak Azul. A note on the same Black Library page says the book also draws Queen Kemma and Belegar, and that Belegar's part of the Eight Peaks story continues in the novella Thorgrim. Belegar is not the viewpoint. Kazador is a different dwarf king.
The novella Thorgrim is set in the ruins of Karak Eight Peaks. Belegar is pressed by Queek, the goblin Skarsnik, and the orc Gorfang Rotgut. As Gorfang prepares a final assault, Belegar asks High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer for help. The jacket stops at that call. Black Library places the novella with Headtaker and Skarsnik on a path toward the End Times. Gorfang is the orc in this plot. He is not a playable Greenskin lord. The Warlords of Karak Eight Peaks omnibus collects Skarsnik, Headtaker, Thorgrim, and two short stories.
End Times, labeled
Guy Haley's The Rise of the Horned Rat is book 4 of The End Times. The jacket puts Queek on an assault against Eight Peaks, names Skarsnik and Belegar as rival kings in the hold, and places Thorgrim in Karaz-a-Karak. That fiction is later than the novella's call for aid, and it is separate from a Clan Angrund campaign that begins at Zarakzil.
The open synopsis stops at those preparations. What the listening note adds about the war sits on the book page, in the collapsed block. An Immortal Empires recapture of Eight Peaks is a sandbox result. It does not confirm or cancel the End Times novel.
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Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Immortal Empires starting positions, a prologue — Total War — totalwar.com
- Headtaker (eBook) — Black Library — blacklibrary.com
- Thorgrim (eBook) — Black Library — blacklibrary.com
- The Rise of the Horned Rat (MP3) — Black Library — blacklibrary.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — support.sega.com
- The King and the Warlord — store.steampowered.com
- Patch 5.2.0 — community.creative-assembly.com