Spoilers: Game presentation of the Heralds of the Tempest; no ancient myth and no campaign ending.
Who he is in Total War
Kholek leads the Heralds of the Tempest. He is one of the three lords in the Chaos Warriors Race Pack, with Archaon and Sigvald. In battle he is the Dragon Ogre Shaggoth: a monster you commit where a single enormous charge should break a point in the line, with Dragon Ogres as the troops that share his weight.
The campaign ties his personal strength to vassals. Dark Fortresses and subject tribes are not a side system for him. They are how the Heralds grow the creature at the centre of the army. A warband of marauders still matters, because a monster that outruns its infantry is a duel with no second line.
Undivided, beside Archaon
When Champions of Chaos was announced, Creative Assembly described Archaon and Kholek as the two undivided lords already in the game. The four new lords were each aligned to one god. Kholek was not given a Mark that replaces that role. Sigvald's later move, in Update 9.0, onto a Slaanesh focus did not move Kholek with him.
The 2017 reprisal notes treat him as more monstrous still, and as a lord who pushes that ferocity into Dragon Ogres and Dragon Ogre Shaggoths. One of the skills in that set is named The Sun Eater and grants corruption and frenzy. Suneater is his name in the game. The skill is a battle effect, not a history of a consumed sun.
Subjugation is not a kinship
Update 9.0 lets Archaon subjugate Kholek after beating him. Kholek then joins the Everchosen's character pool, and a Warriors faction in that position is confederated. The Heralds' settlements pass to Archaon. That is a sandbox rule about the Lord of the End Times collecting Chaos lords. It is not a story in which the Shaggoth kneels in the fiction, and it is not available to Beastmen, Chaos Dwarfs, Daemons of Chaos, or Norsca.
His place in the race is the race pack, the vassal bond, and the Dragon Ogres. A god-marked flying lord, a plague doctor, or a mortal duellist is a different Warriors campaign.
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Sources
- Addressing the Chaos Debate — Total War — totalwar.com
- Mortal Empires reprisal beta — Total War — totalwar.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — Total War — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Immortal Empires starting positions — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires dedicated factions — totalwar.com
- A New Player Survival Guide & FAQ — community.creative-assembly.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — community.creative-assembly.com
- Chaos Warriors Race Pack — store.steampowered.com