Spoilers: Major spoilers for the Prologue's ending; no Realm of Chaos campaign ending.
A prince sent to find Ursun
Yuri begins the Prologue leading a Kislevite expedition north to discover what has happened to Ursun. The Bear-God's silence has left Kislev trapped in winter. Yuri follows a voice he believes belongs to his god, taking his army farther into the Chaos Wastes.
The bargain at the end of the journey
At the end of the Prologue, Be'lakor reveals that he impersonated Ursun to guide Yuri. The captive god urges Yuri to resist, but the prince renounces him. Betrayed by Be'lakor and left broken, Yuri appeals to the Chaos Gods for power and pledges Kislev to their service.
The Daemon Prince carries that fall into the campaign's character premise. Players choose his new name and alter his appearance through daemonic gifts. Daniel is a nickname associated with this customisable lord, not a separate Legendary Lord.
The Legion of Chaos
In Immortal Empires he leads the Legion of Chaos under Daemons of Chaos. Be'lakor leads the Shadow Legion under Warriors of Chaos. Other Chaos lords can ascend to Daemon Princes through their own campaign systems; those characters have their own identities.
One custom prince among many
The Legion of Chaos prince is the lord whose body is assembled from gifts and whose name is chosen at the start. Daniel is a nickname for that custom lord, not a second character with a separate campaign. Be'lakor, the first Daemon Prince, leads the Shadow Legion under Warriors of Chaos. His warbands and Gifts of Chaos are a different system from Daemonic Glory.
Other lords can ascend inside their own factions and keep the names they already had. Those ascensions are their stories. They do not turn Valkia, Azazel, or a Chaos Lord on the Path to Glory into Yuri. The Prologue’s prince is the one who marched for Ursun, heard Be'lakor, and asked the four gods for power. Everyone else who wears horns got there by another road.
Prologue, Realm of Chaos, and the Forest of Decay
The Prologue and The Realm of Chaos are the game’s story of the fall. Ursun’s silence, the march north, and the bargain are that narrative. Immortal Empires is the sandbox. The 2022 reveal placed this prince in the Forest of Decay, in the northern Chaos Wastes. Nearby factions there are a strategic problem. They are not a scripted last chapter of Yuri’s journey.
The four gods remain the source of his gifts in both modes. A dedication changes which daemons he can lean on and what kind of fighter the body becomes. That is army-building. It is not a claim that the prince has replaced any one god’s greater daemon. Skarbrand, Ku'gath, Kairos, and N'Kari still exist, still lead their own factions, and still have older stories of their own.
Update 9.0’s subjugation list for Archaon covers mono-god lords and Warriors of Chaos. It does not list the Daemon Prince. The Legion of Chaos stays his own faction even when the Everchosen is collecting other champions.
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Sources
- Update 9.0 release notes — Total War — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Immortal Empires content ownership — SEGA — support.sega.com