Spoilers: Tiger Warrior origins and Bhashiva’s allegiance; no quest or campaign ending.
An inherited title
Bhashiva is the current bearer of the White Tiger title and head of the Tiger Court. The title passes between champions. Accounts of successive White Tigers belong to that longer tradition, rather than establishing that Bhashiva personally lived through every deed associated with it.
The oath to the Iron Dragon
The first White Tiger led her people across the Mountains of Heaven and into Zhao Ming's western realm, where she pledged allegiance to the Iron Dragon. Later bearers renewed that oath. Bhashiva inherits both leadership of the Tiger Warriors and their enduring relationship with Western Cathay.
A people with their own court
The Tiger Court oversees disputes among the mercenary companies. The Tiger Warriors retain their own commanders and honour Kamau as an exemplar of resistance to Chaos. They serve alongside Cathayan armies while preserving those traditions, giving Bhashiva a position distinct from the empire's dragon governors.
The game’s start in the Mountains of Mourn
In Immortal Empires the Claws of the White Tiger begin in the Vale of Titans, in the Bone Road province, with the Ogre Kingdoms’ Blood Guzzlers as the opening enemy. The faction starts west of Cathay, in the Mountains of Mourn. That position is the campaign map. The inherited oath to Zhao Ming, and the Tiger Court that judges the mercenary companies, are the longer account of who the White Tiger is.
Iron Favour, earned by service to the Iron Dragon and by caravan journeys, opens Cathayan recruitment and the Insignias that specialise those troops. Relics offered to the Tiger Court develop cooperation, ambush and awareness, or faster mobilisation. Those systems are the playable form of a people who keep their own commanders while serving Western Cathay. A player’s wars after that opening are the campaign, not a further chapter of the first oath.
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Sources
- Introducing Bhashiva & the Tiger Warriors — community.creative-assembly.com
- Bhashiva Character Pack – What's Included — community.creative-assembly.com
- Bhashiva – Character Pack — store.steampowered.com
- Bhashiva Launch Trailer — community.creative-assembly.com