Spoilers: Itza, the free lord, and Kroak beside the line. No campaign ending.
A veteran at the centre of the line
Steam's Gor-Rok page calls him the Great White Lizard, a veteran Saurus who fights beside Lord Kroak at the centre of Itza's line. The free lord shipped with The Hunter and the Beast on 11 September 2019. In Immortal Empires he leads Itza. Qualifying ownership is Total War: Warhammer II or a Lizardmen lord pack: The Prophet and the Warlock, The Hunter and the Beast, or The Silence and the Fury.
The lord page builds the faction around a Saurus champion and the hero behind him. Saurus Warriors suit a formation with Gor-Rok near the centre. Skink Skirmishers work outside that line and fall back behind the Saurus when something faster turns on them. The Geomantic Web and Blessed Spawnings are the settled tools, the same family of systems Hexoatl and the Last Defenders use, on a faction whose identity is the temple-city line.
The hero who stays with Itza
Lord Kroak is a Legendary Hero, not a selectable faction leader. The Prophet and the Warlock FAQ of 4 April 2019 says every Lizardmen legendary lord can quest for him, and it describes him as the last of the first-generation Slann, technically dead, whose spirit can still join an army. Gor-Rok's Itza is the campaign that accompanies him from the start, rather than the campaign that has to go and find him.
The split on the battlefield is the one the lord page already uses. Gor-Rok buys time in the fighting. Kroak casts. Keeping enemies off the hero is the infantry's job, and a strong centre that wanders away from its wings is just an isolated centre. Mazdamundi is the living Slann of Hexoatl. Kroak is the spirit the FAQ distinguishes from the living mage-priests.
Itza on the prologue's list
The 28 June 2022 prologue lists Gor-Rok at Itza. That row matches the temple-city Steam names, and it is still a dated list from the article, not a promise about a later patch. Nakai, who arrived in the same September 2019 window, is a horde, not a second garrison of Itza. Tiktaq'to is Tlaqua and the air.
Steam's description is the Great White Lizard, the line, and Kroak. Itza's wars in Immortal Empires start from that defender. They are not a scripted fall of the temple-city.
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Sources
- Gor-Rok on Steam — store.steampowered.com
- The Prophet and the Warlock FAQ — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires starting positions: a prologue — totalwar.com
- SEGA: Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — support.sega.com