Spoilers: The Sword of Caledor jacket, through Malekith’s pact. The pact’s result is left on the jacket. No campaign ending.
The Seducers of Slaanesh
N'Kari leads the Seducers of Slaanesh. The faction is part of Total War: Warhammer III, in Immortal Empires and in The Realm of Chaos. Dechala’s Tormentors and the Masque’s Accursed Troupe are later Slaanesh campaigns. They share speed and cruelty. They do not share his seduction politics.
On the field he is a fast melee lord and a caster, built to catch characters and units that have been left alone. Harvester of Souls, Willing Prey, and Witstealer Sword are the names of his battlefield tools.
The campaign side is seduction, devotees, and disciple armies. A Seducers game can threaten a faction through influence as well as through a charge. The player’s conquests stay on the map. They are not the history of Ulthuan.
The Arch-Temptor and the twins
The Slaanesh roster calls N'Kari a notorious and ancient Keeper of Secrets, scouring mortal and immortal realms for the sharpest sensation. Over recent millennia that hunger has settled into hatred for the elven twins of Ulthuan. Whatever shorter goal he is chasing, the next part of the plan is their misery.
That hatred is the thread between the game and the novel. Tyrion is the sword of the pair. Teclis is the mage. N'Kari wants them ruined. The game lets a player point the Seducers at Eataine, at the Order of Loremasters, or at someone else entirely. The pointing is a campaign choice. The grudge is the character.
Sword of Caledor
William King’s Sword of Caledor is book 2 of Tyrion & Teclis, published by Black Library. The jacket sends Tyrion and Teclis into the jungles of Lustria after Sunfang, the lost sword of Caledor Dragontamer. While they are gone, the dark elves keep up the assault on Ulthuan and send the assassin Urian Poisonblade to kill the Everqueen.
In the Realm of Chaos, the Witch King Malekith makes a pact with N'Kari. The jacket calls the daemon another enemy of Tyrion and Teclis. The twins are the book’s centres. Malekith is the prince who offers the pact. N'Kari is the keeper who takes it.
The novel is Warhammer Fantasy fiction about Ulthuan, Lustria, and one bargain. An Immortal Empires campaign with the Seducers is a different war, on a different map.
Other servants of the Prince
Dechala the Denied One leads a mortal-heavy warband and spends Thralls. The Masque is a Daemonette cursed to dance without rest. Sigvald and Azazel serve Slaanesh among the Warriors of Chaos. N'Kari is the greater daemon of the set, and the one the novel names.
Update 9.0 lets Archaon subjugate N'Kari, Dechala, or the Masque after a defeat, and hand their regions to a Slaanesh vassal. That is the Everchosen’s campaign rule. It is not Malekith’s pact, and it does not make the Keeper a mortal champion.
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Sources
- Slaanesh roster reveal — Total War — totalwar.com
- Sword of Caledor (eBook) — Black Library — blacklibrary.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — Total War — totalwar.com
- Update 9.0 Release Notes — CA — community.creative-assembly.com