Spoilers: Game presentation only. No campaign ending.
Who he is in Total War
Ghorst is the Vampire Counts lord from The Grim and the Grave. The first game unlocks Mannfred and Kemmler and leaves this caravan locked. Select the Caravan of Blue Roses and he starts as his own faction. The connection to Mannfred is background. It is not a shared realm at the first turn.
Raise Dead, after the Vampire Counts rework, is how the army is replaced. Corpses, Blood, and unit capacity still have to be checked before a march. The cart does not recruit by itself. A province you leave behind can be the place the next regiment was going to come from.
The Corpse Cart and the published background
The lord page states the background used for this campaign. Ghorst turned to necromancy after the death of his family, became a student of Mannfred, and carries that history on the Corpse Cart. Place the cart behind an infantry fight, with room to pull it out. Skeleton Warriors can hold. Grave Guard can take the harder contact. Cavalry and monsters belong on the flanks, not in a crowd around the wheels.
That is the game’s account of the man, and it is enough to play him. Kemmler is the other necromancer, with magic and with Krell. Mannfred is the vampire whose books and whose Drakenhof campaign sit on a different page. Ghorst’s job is the cart and the caravan.
The other Vampire Counts lords
Vlad and Isabella are the Sylvania pair and are free with Vampire Counts ownership. Neferata’s Lahmian Sisterhood is the later Free-LC, built on agents rather than a cart. None of those four shares Ghorst’s pack. Owning The Grim and the Grave does not hand you Neferata, and owning Nagash does not hand you Ghorst.
A sandbox that confederates them is a campaign result. It is not a story of the Old World, and it is not an Age of Sigmar court. Ghorst’s page stays with the pack, the cart, and the two sentences of background the lord page already prints.
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Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — Total War — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- The Grim and the Grave — official Steam store — store.steampowered.com
- Lords of the End Times: Free-LC | Neferata — CA — community.creative-assembly.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — CA — community.creative-assembly.com