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

Tamurkhan, Elspeth von Draken, and Malakai Makaisson

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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.