Spoilers: Character origins and relationships; no campaign ending.
The first vampire
Neferata used Nagash’s research to create an immortality elixir that made her a vampire. Driven out of Lahmia, she established herself at the Silver Pinnacle and ruled through a network of servants and spies. She wants Lahmia restored and other vampires brought under her influence.
The queen in Immortal Empires
Her campaign turns that identity into decisions about agents, armies and influence. Choose where to act and which territory to hold, then give the army a purpose that supports those decisions.
The campaign’s outcome depends on your choices. A journey toward Lahmia can become a long war or a postponed ambition as new enemies appear. Her gameplay guide follows the faction mechanics and the technology route to Ulrika.
The Blood of Nagash
Josh Reynolds’s Neferata is book 1 of The Blood of Nagash. She is a queen without a kingdom. Lahmia has fallen, her vampire children have scattered, and she is reduced to draining beasts in the mountains. After a chance encounter with dwarfs she aims at the Silver Pinnacle as a capital. She calls Ushoran, Lord of Masks, and his Strigoi, and the jacket asks whether she can trust them. The reading note calls her the first vampire. Silver Pinnacle in that plot is a fiction stronghold. It is not an Immortal Empires start, and Lahmia remains the ambition named in Creative Assembly’s introduction.
Master of Death is book 2 of the same series and is not her story. W’soran, first of the Necrarchs and a former pupil of Nagash, is caught in a civil war in Mourkain under Ushoran. Nagash is named as the teacher. The anointing the title points at stays in the book.
The cousin in the Tomb Kings FAQ
The Rise of the Tomb Kings FAQ tells Khalida’s side. Neferata, her cousin, tried to create the Elixir of Life, produced vampirism, slew Khalida, and gave her the Blood Kiss. Khalida called on Asaph, who purified the taint. Creative Assembly’s Neferata post tells Lahmia, the Silver Pinnacle, the spies, and the wish to restore the old kingdom. The FAQ is the cousin, the elixir, and Asaph. The Creative Assembly post is Lahmia and the Silver Pinnacle. In the game Khalida is a Tomb Kings lord and Neferata is Vampire Counts. Ulrika joins Neferata through a technology. That route is the campaign, not the novel.
Nulahmia and Nuhlamia
Warhammer Community’s article of 13 May 2021 is Age of Sigmar. Neferata is Mortarch of Blood and the original vampire, and she leads the Legion of Blood. The city in that article is spelled Nulahmia. Akmet-har is the dagger named there. The English edition of Rulers of the Dead, the omnibus of Nagash: The Undying King and Neferata: Mortarch of Blood, spells the city Nuhlamia in the line about her rule through guile and terror. Each spelling stays in the sentence that cites its page. Both are the Mortal Realms. Neither is the Lahmian Sisterhood on the Immortal Empires map.
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Sources
- Lords of the End Times: Free-LC | Neferata — CA — community.creative-assembly.com
- Neferata — Black Library — blacklibrary.com
- Master of Death — Black Library — blacklibrary.com
- Rise of the Tomb Kings FAQ — Total War — totalwar.com
- Forget Mannfred, Here Are 5 Reasons to Serve Queen Neferata Instead — Warhammer Community — warhammer-community.com
- Rulers of the Dead — Black Library — blacklibrary.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — CA — community.creative-assembly.com
- New-player survival guide and FAQ — CA — community.creative-assembly.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com