Spoilers: Game presentation, and a short Age of Sigmar note kept in its own section. No campaign ending.
The Oracles of Tzeentch
Kairos is the base-game Legendary Lord for Tzeentch. He leads the Oracles of Tzeentch in Immortal Empires and in The Realm of Chaos. Shadows of Change is the Changeling’s pack. It is not the key to Kairos. The Blue Scribes, if recruited into his faction, still belong to that later Tzeentch pack.
He is a flying spellcaster. Since patch 6.1, Fragments of Sorcery is where his spell list is chosen, in place of the older fragment ancillaries. Cults and Changing of the Ways are how the faction meddles in wars it has not marched to. The same patch places starting cults at Montfort and the Crystal Spires, footholds away from the main host.
Those cults are a campaign tool. They are not a claim that the Oracle’s whole history is a Bretonnian border war. The 2021 preview put an early start on the edge of Cathay. Later patches moved the campaign. Use the lord page for the current footholds, and treat an old preview as an old preview.
Two heads, one Oracle
The game presents Kairos as the two-headed Oracle of Tzeentch, the greater daemon who carries the Changer’s schemes into a field battle. Spell selection is the practical face of that role. A lord who can rewrite his lore is a different caster from a herald with one fixed book.
The Changeling is the other playable face of Tzeentch, and he is not a second head on Kairos. The Changeling steals forms and runs Schemes through other people’s settlements. Kairos holds a faction of his own and bends events from a spellcaster’s perch. Players who want infiltration pick the later lord. Players who want the Oracle pick the base game.
Age of Sigmar
Warhammer Community’s April 2026 story Chronicles of Ruin follows Kairos against the Lumineth Realm-lords. That fiction is Age of Sigmar. It is not an Immortal Empires prologue and it is not Old World history pasted onto the Oracles’ campaign.
In the story, one head can look across the span of history and the other can see futures. The gap between those sights is the Fateweaver’s old failing, and Tzeentch has sent him to make war on the Lumineth for a reason of the god’s own. The opening calls the plan something that could spell doom for those aelves.
Rivals in the Great Game
Skarbrand’s exile is a Khorne story, and the two greater daemons are enemies of circumstance whenever a campaign puts them on the same map. N'Kari hunts sensation and the line of Aenarion. Ku'gath invents plagues. None of them commands Kairos.
Update 9.0 lets Archaon subjugate Kairos after a defeat and pass the Oracles’ regions to a Tzeentch vassal. The same list includes the Changeling. Subjugation is a campaign option on the Everchosen. It does not rewrite the Oracle into a Warrior of Chaos, and it does not settle the Lumineth war.
Kairos Fateweaver: gameplay and availability · More character stories
Sources
- Playing as Kairos — Total War — totalwar.com
- Chronicles of Ruin: Past, Present, Future — Warhammer Community — warhammer-community.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — Total War — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — support.sega.com
- Patch Notes 6.1 — community.creative-assembly.com
- The Changeling – Shadows of Change — store.steampowered.com
- A New Player Survival Guide & FAQ — support.sega.com