History Characters / TotalWarWarhammerTheVampireCoast

* CanonImmigrant: Like with Norsca, many of their revealed units have been made wholesale for the game. The faction also draws major elements from the separate naval boardgame ''Dreadfleet''.
** The Vampire Coast also has access to a unique lore of magic, The Lore of the Deep, which is the first original Lore of Magic made for the games series.
* CoolBoat: Like you wouldn't believe. They travel around in the decaying hulks of sunken Imperial Galleons, whose black sails are now tattered, and their hulls covered in coral and decay. Necrofex Colossi are also boat-like ''{{Mecha}}'' made from converted shipwrecks.
** Each Legendary Lord possesses their own unique pirate ship, which can be upgraded similar to the Dark Elves' Black Arks.
* GiantEnemyCrab: In this case we mean ''giant'' crabs. The Rotting Leviathan is the reanimated husk of a Promethean, a species of colossal sea crab that lurks off the coast of Lustria and can devour a small ship whole! They're known to carry parts of sunken ships on their shells. Pirate Zombies goad these massive horrors into battle, which can shatter enemy lines on their lonesome, riding ontop the remains of sunken galleons, and firing below with muskets.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: The trailer hints it may be in their power to control a giant sea monster. The ultimate goal of their campaign is to find the Star-Metal Harpoon, an artifact which will allow them to bring even the mightiest creatures of the depths under their control; the beast in question being an utterly colossus Merwyrm.
* LongRangeFighter: Slightly {{Downplayed}}, but their still a strong example. Sure they have a selection of very powerful melee units, but ultimately their strength lies in their endless supply of ranged units; unlike the Vampire Counts army, these vampires can produce zombies with ranged weapons, in which they have a truly staggering amount of different variants. They also have ''artillery'' support, which includes rusty Imperial Mortars, and they ''utterly'' massive Queen Bess. Hell, most of their ''monsters'' have limited ranged capabilities. To top it off, their the only faction in the game that can resupply their ranged units ammo ''mid battle'', and can buff them with special gunpowder.

Now Luthor teeters on the brink of insanity – his personality fractured in a dozen different facets that battle for dominance in his mind. In the years since, the only common goal that Harkon’s various personalities have been able to work toward is that of finding a cure for his condition. To this end, he has bent his obsessions to seizing Slann artifacts, hoping that their power can undo the damage wrought upon him.

* AxCrazy: To put it very, ''very'' ''[[UpToEleven mildly]]'', simply put Luthor has a few screws loose. Luthor's fragmented mind has rendered him unstable even by Vampire standards, and can go from jolly to murderously homicidal in an instant. In the tabletop, he suffered from a special rule where his personalities would begin clashing mid-battle, with the dominant personality giving him different advantages and drawbacks.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: In contrast to Mannfred's milky whites, Harkon's remaining eye is very noticeably red.

* AdaptionalExpansion: See Ascended Extra and CanonImmigrant.

* AdaptionExpansion: See Ascended Extra and CanonImmigrant.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: The trailer hints it may be in their power to control a giant sea monster. The ultimate goal of their campaign is to find the Star-Metal Harpoon, an artifact which will allow them to bring even the mightiest creatures of the depths under their control; the beast in question being an utterly colossus Merwyrm

[[caption-width-right:300:Fortune favours the ''infamous''.]]

* GiantEnemyCrab: In this case we mean ''giant'' crabs. The Rotting Leviathan is the reanimated husk of a Promethean, a species of colossal sea crab that lurks off the coast of Lustria and can devour a small ship whole!. Their known to carry parts of sunken ships on their shells. Pirate Zombies goad these massive horrors into battle, which can shatter enemy lines on their lonesome, riding ontop the remains of sunken galleons, and firing below with muskets.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: ''Vampire'' pirates.

* AffablyEvil: A very jovial pirate, Luthor speaks to an Empire soldier politely and is very friendly towards in the trailer...who happens to be dead. Since he's quite insane, it appears to be genuine, [[FauxAffablyEvil unlike most Vampire Counts]].

* AffablyEvil: A very jovial pirate, Luthor speaks to an Empire soldier politely and is very friendly towards in the trailer...who happens to be dead. Since he's quite insane, it appears to be quite genuine.

* AscendedExtra: The Vampire Coast had an unofficial army list in White Dwarf #305, but it was very limited and mostly served as an auxiliary to a 'regular' Vampire Counts army. Here, they have become a major faction in their own right.

* CanonImmigrant: Like with Norsca, many of their revealed units have been made wholesale for the game.
* CoolBoat: An entire fleet of grim pirate ships. Necrofex Colossi are boat-like {{Mecha}} made from converted shipwrecks.
** Each Legendary Lord possesses their own unique ship, which can be upgraded similar to the Dark Elves' Black Arks.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Visible as a monster unit in the trailer, in this case we mean ''giant'' crabs.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: The trailer hints it may be in their power to control a giant sea monster. The ultimate goal of their campaign is to find the Star-Metal Harpoon, an artifact which will allow them to bring even the mightiest creatures of the depths under their control.
* LongRangeFighter: Downplayed, in that they still have plenty of powerful melee units, but unlike the Vampire Counts army, these vampires can produce zombies with ranged weapons, including artillery pieces.

* AffablyEvil: A very jovial pirate, Luthor speaks to an Empire soldier with politeness in the trailer...who happens to be dead.

* BloodKnight: According to at least one version of his MultipleChoicePast, Luthor was originally made a vampire by Abhorash, scion of the Blood Dragons. In-game he's seen wearing pieces of Blood Knight armour beneath his coat.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: The trailer hints it may be in their power to control a giant sea monster.

!!Grand Arch Commodore Luthor Harkon , Mad Pirate Lord of the Vampire Coast

->''"Yar, the blood runs cold, we take our loot but don't get old. Hail the mighty, he's a risin' from the deep, with tattered sails and incrediable tales, we're partin' endless seas!"''

* AscendedExtra: The Vampire Coast had an unofficial army list in White Dwarf #305, but it was very limited and mostly served as an auxiliary to a 'regular' Vampire Counts army. Here, they have become a major faction.
* {{BFG}}: The "Queen Bess", a one-of-a-kind unique cannon captured and modified by Luthor for his own use. Its cinematic model looks big enough to fit several regular-sized cannon inside its muzzle.

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!! Luthor Harkon, Arch Grand Commodore of the Vampire Coast

* Cloudcuckoolander: See AffablyEvil. Harkon has more than a few screws loose.

* SplitPersonality: Multiple, in fact. To the point where he refers to himself not as "I", but "we".

* AxCrazy: Luthor's fragmented mind has rendered him unstable even by Vampire standards. In the tabletop, he suffered from a special rule where his personalities would begin clashing mid-battle, with the dominant personality giving him different advantages and drawbacks.

* MagicallyIneptFighter: Because of his brush with Lizardman magic, Luthor is unable to cast spells in combat.

* GiantEnemyCrab: Visible as a monster unit in the trailer, appearing to be a reskin of the Greenskins' Araknarok spider.

!! Luthor Harkon, Arch Grand Commodore of the Vampire Coast

The stretch of Lustrian shoreline known as the Vampire Coast owes its name to a luckless Norscan raiding party which, as is the way of their kind, attacked an Empire Merchant ship and took everything of value from its holds. Unfortunately for the raiders, their plunder included the sarcophagus of Luthor Harkon, a Vampire of unknown heritage. By the time the longship broke apart on the shores of Lustria, all its crew had undergone a marked change in both allegiance and vital signs.

Though stranded many thousands of miles from home, Luthor never looked back and took his newly indentured vassals on a march of conquest. He carved out a realm for himself on the eastern coast of the southern continent. The winds and currents along that stretch of coast proved to be incredibly treacherous to unwary vessels. Over time, Luthor’s army became swollen with the lifeless corpses of all manner of unfortunate mariners. Before long, the Vampire Coast had its own pirate fleet, crewed by the dead and the damned.

It is possible that Harkon might have become a great power in the world but for his colossal pride and greed. Determined to augment his magical abilities, Luthor took an expedition to the ruined city of Huatl, where he hoped to find some secret that would increase his might. It was on the third week of his excavations that his servants uncovered an undisturbed chamber, sealed tight with ancient and powerful glyphs. Convinced that this vault concealed great secrets from him, Luthor commanded his servants to break down the doors, but the power of the glyphs thwarted him. Each time Luthor’s Zombies assailed the portal, the witchfires in their eyes dimmed and extinguished as the magic that animated them was drained away by the glyphs. Enraged, Luthor assailed the vault with his own dark magic, but the seals had been placed to defeat even the greatest of sorcerers. Faced with a direct assault, the wards responded in kind. As the chamber began to collapse around him, Harkon found that he could not break the magical conduit between himself and the glyphs – worse, he realized that they were draining not only his magical energies, but his very life force as well.

With a supreme effort, Harkon managed to break free from the glyphs and staggered outside just as the passageway collapsed. The vault was swallowed once more. The magical backlash shattered his mind and severed his connection to the Winds of Magic. Now Luthor teeters on the brink of insanity – his personality fractured in a dozen different facets that battle for dominance in his mind. In the years since, the only common goal that Harkon’s various personalities have been able to work toward is that of finding a cure for his condition. To this end, he has bent his obsessions to seizing Slann artifacts, hoping that their power can undo the damage wrought upon him.

* {{Pirate}}: ''Vampire'' pirates.

With a supreme effort, Harkon managed to break free from the glyphs and staggered outside just as the passageway collapsed. The vault was swallowed once more. The magical backlash shattered his mind and severed his connection to the Winds of Magic. Now Luthor teeters on the brink of insanity – his personality fractured in a dozen different facets that battle for dominance in his mind. In the years since, the only common goal that Harkon’s various personalities have been able to work toward is that of finding a cure for his condition. To this end, he has bent his obsessions to seizing Slann artifacts, hoping that their power can undo the damage wrought upon him

It was the undying lord Luthor Harkon that laid claim to a stretch of Lustria’s east coast. Ever since, it has been a domain where the dead stir, leading expeditions into the jungle interior or setting sail across the Great Ocean to commit wanton acts of piracy. But the insane Arch-Commodore Harkon is not the only unliving admiral who takes to the seas with pistol-armed crews of zombies, vampiric depth guard, syreens and mournguls… there are other pirate lords who command dreadfleets of their own, packed to the gunwales with crews press-ganged into eternal service.

These tyrants ply the seas seeking plunder of blood and gold. However, now that the vortex of Ulthuan weakens, the captains search for more than mere treasure… for the Star-Metal Harpoon lies in the deeps, a weapon powerful enough to bring the greatest Merwyrm of them all to heel!

!! Luthor Harkon, Arch Commodore of the Vampire Coast