Spoilers: The emissary, the brass body, and the belief about the Heart of the Dark; no ritual result.
Who he is in Total War
Taurox leads the Slaughterhorn Tribe for the Beastmen. The Silence & The Fury unlocks him. Call of the Beastmen is a different purchase for Khazrak, Malagor, and Morghur. The FAQ is blunt about the split: Taurox's buyers do not confederate or hire those three unless they own the older pack, and owners of only the older pack keep the reworked herd mechanics without Taurox or his new units.
In battle he is a minotaur lord who wants the herd in contact with him. Rampage is the campaign half. Victories build momentum and raise the rampage, and each tier offers a bonus for Taurox, for the army, or for recruitment. Momentum can also be spent to reset campaign movement, so several battles can fall in one turn. That is the Fury the FAQ names: a nigh-invulnerable Doombull who moves from fight to fight.
Brass, the neck, and an emissary's head
The roster introduction gives the life before the metal. He was a domineering minotaur chieftain who ravaged outward in every direction. He devoured the head of an emissary of the fell powers. The madness that followed multiplied the slaughter. He was reborn with a shining body of brass and a heart of endless rage. The FAQ adds the practical weakness: the neck is the only part of the body not covered in brass.
The same FAQ gives him a belief, and it marks the belief as unproven. Taunted by the Chaos Gods, he holds that he can finish his ascendance and become unstoppable if he completes a ritual and lets Chaos flood the world. True or not, he gathers the herd to find the Heart of the Dark, using lesser rituals to locate it. The page keeps the sentence 'true or not'. A Slaughterhorn campaign that finds a ruin and fights there is the player's war. It is not confirmation that the ritual does what he expects.
One herd mechanic, four lords
Khazrak sets ambushes and carries the feud with Boris Todbringer. Malagor flies and is feared as an omen. Morghur's herd leans on corruption and Spawn. Taurox shares their Herdstones and then adds a reason to stack battles before the turn ends. Oxyotl is the other legendary lord in The Silence & The Fury, for the Lizardmen, and he is not part of this herd.
The brass, the eaten emissary, the bare neck, and the Heart of the Dark are the account Creative Assembly printed for the Brass Bull. Beastmen are outside Archaon's Update 9.0 subjugation list, so the Bull is not collected into the Warhost by that rule.
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Sources
- The Silence & The Fury roster — Total War — totalwar.com
- The Silence & The Fury FAQ — Total War — totalwar.com
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- The Silence & The Fury — Creative Assembly / SEGA — store.steampowered.com