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Total War: Warhammer 3 – Thrones of Decay Legendary Lords revealed

Tamurkhan, Elspeth von Draken, and Malakai Makaisson

Marco Wutz

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Creative Assembly said we’d be getting details on Thrones of Decay, the next DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3, in the ongoing week and kept its word: All three Legendary Lords of the upcoming expansion have been revealed.

The Thrones of Decay key art depicts Tamurkhan, Elspeth von Draken, and Malakai Makaisson – all of them are shown with some of the key units they’re bringing to the table.

Elspeth von Draken, who’ll represent a new Empire faction, is shown with her Carmine Dragon at her back. Known as the Dark Lady of Nuln, she’s a powerful wizard of the Amethyst Order – and rumored to be a vampire. 

Tamurkhan, who’ll enlist in the Daemons of Nurgle and has been soft-confirmed by game director Rich Aldridge in an interview with GLHF last year, is standing in front of a Toad Dragon – or, well, the body he’s currently residing in is standing there. Tamurkhan is actually a maggot-like creature, which is able to inhabit corpses and use them as flesh puppets. Its favorite body is that of an Ogre Tyrant, as depicted on the artwork.

Finally, there is Malakai Makaisson standing on a Goblin Hewer and with a Thunderbarge flying in the sky – he’s probably the biggest surprise of the package. Most players assumed that he’d be coming to the game as a Legendary Hero and the Dwarves’ Legendary Lord for this DLC would be Grim Burloksson. Malakai is known from the Gotrek & Felix books and is a Slayer-Engineer.

Not included on the artwork is the free Legendary Lord coming alongside the DLC, whose identity is still very much open – Boris Todbringer for the Empire and Epidemus for Nurgle are the favored candidates for the spot.

You can check out the Thrones of Decay announcement trailer on YouTube. A release date for the DLC has not yet been revealed.

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Marco Wutz

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg