The Lore of Death is a lore of magic introduced in Total War: Warhammer.
Lore Attribute[ | ]
Spells[ | ]
Units[ | ]
Beastmen[ | ]
Malagor the Dark Omen
(Life Leeching and Doom & Darkness)
(Life Leeching is campaign only)
Chaos Dwarfs[ | ]
Dark Elves[ | ]
Morathi
(Life Leeching, Doom & Darkness, and Soulblight)
Daemons of Chaos[ | ]
The Blue Scribes
(campaign only)
Greenskins[ | ]
High Elves[ | ]
Cavill
(Life Leeching and Spirit Leech )
(Life Leeching is campaign only)Loremaster of Hoeth
(Life Leeching and Spirit Leech)
(Life Leeching is campaign only)
Kislev[ | ]
Lizardmen[ | ]
Norsca[ | ]
Azrik the Maze Keeper
(Aspect of the Dreadknight, Soulblight, and The Fate of Bjuna)
(WH1 & WH2 only)
Nurgle[ | ]
Daemon Prince of Nurgle
(Life Leeching, Spirit Leech, Soulblight, and The Fate of Bjuna)
The Empire[ | ]
Tomb Kings[ | ]
Tzeentch[ | ]
Kairos Fateweaver (Fragment of Shyish: The Fate of Bruja and The Purple Sun of Xereus)
The Changeling
(Formless Horror: When transforming into Archaon the Everchosen, Arkhan the Black, Azhag the Slaughterer, Malagor the Dark Omen, Morathi, Mannfred von Carstein, or The Blue Scribes)
Vampire Coast[ | ]
Vampire Counts[ | ]
Necrarch Vampire Lord
(Life Leeching, Spirit Leech, and The Purple Sun of Xereus)Strigoi Vampire Lord
(Sprit Leech, Doom and Darkness, and Soulblight)
Warriors of Chaos[ | ]
Archaon the Everchosen
(Spirit Leech and The Purple Sun of Xereus)
(WH3 only)Daemon Prince of Nurgle
(Life Leeching, Spirit Leech, Soulblight, and The Fate of Bjuna)The Blue Scribes
(campaign only)
Strategy[ | ]
Despite its ominous title, the Lore of Death is an awkward and fairly poor school of magic which is best avoided if you have a choice, unless the hero or lord wielding it has good enough traits to make them worthwhile on their own merits. It focuses on bypassing armour in numerous different ways.
- Life Leeching is a pretty good passive, simply rewarding you with more magic the more you cast, making Death magic practitioners good secondary wizards if you already have one.
- The iconic Soul Drain is an obvious choice to cast upon problem SEMs and lords, but it absolutely cannot take out anything powerful on its own and needs to be followed through with attackers. It's a strong contender to max out first so you can overcast it for maximum effect.
- Aspect of the Dread Knight is a nice, cheap buff which is definitely worth investing in if you're fighting Daemonic or Undead enemies who are vulnerable to magic attacks.
- Doom & Darkness might help you break some enemies quicker when cast at the right time, but it's rare to see it have a noticeable effect.
- Soulblight is similarly mediocre and even more expensive. Reducing enemy damage output is much less valuable than increasing their own susceptibility to damage so you can get rid of them faster, and armour is one of the less important stats.
- The Purple Sun of Xereus certainly looks impressive and can annihilate clumps of enemies... sometimes. It moves randomly, so it may decide it's not interested on staying over your foes. This is the price of a relatively quick casting time for a nuke spell. Obviously you need to cast it well away from your own troops.
- Fate of Bjuna is an extremely potent unit killer, but it also has an insanely high cost. Pick a target for it carefully because without plenty of Arcane Conduits it may well be the only sizeable spell you'll get to cast that battle.
Videos[ | ]
How to use the Lore of Death
Trivia[ | ]
- The Fate of Bjuna has quite the interesting backstory. "Bjuna was a mighty warrior, so the story goes, but famously never smiled -- leastways not until the trickster god cursed him to laugh until his sides ruptured and split. Tellers of this tale cannot agree whose fate was worse: Bjuna's, or the servants who had to clean up the mess." [1]
- The Lore of Death is the most widely-accessible lore in the game, being available to generic casters of ten races as of The Warden & The Paunch's introduction of the River Troll Hag. The next-most common lore, Shadows, is available to nine.
References[ | ]
- Warhammer: Rulebook (8th Edition)
- pg. 499
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