History Characters / TotalWarWarhammerTheVampireCoast

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Cylostra says her own last name with French pronunciation. It does make some degree of sense since she's from France-analogue Bretonnia, but her last name is not very noble when pronounced any other way, and she's exactly the kind of woman/siren who'd try to appear more refined.

* EnthrallingSiren: She is a syreen, a particular type of [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshee]] known for luring sailors to their doom. [[KingMook With certain skills, units of syreens in Cylostra's army receive stat bonuses.]]

* EnthrallingSiren: Syreens, a nautical cousin of the [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshee]] that lures in sailors to crash their ships on rocky shorelines. Unlike banshees, however, syreens of the Vampire Coast congregate in units of fast-moving spectral infantry, enjoying a bonus against infantry and a horrifyingly brutal armour piercing bonus.

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** The ultimate goal of their Vortex campaign is to find the Star-Metal Harpoon, an artifact which will allow them to bring even the mightiest of all sea creatures under their control -- the beast in question being an utterly colossal merwyrm named Amanar, who in the lore is a ancient but benevolent beast who owes his allegiance to the High Elves. Their intention is to use the harpoon to ''kill'' Amanar, and bring him back from the dead under their control with forbidden BlackMagic. [[spoiler:He actually appears in the final battle, looming over the battlefield with hungry eyes, and roars in primal hatred.]]

* CoolBoat: He scourges the waves on the '''The Dread Abyssal''', his personal flagship, a large blackened warship, complete with giant harpoon emplacements, and a frontal ''tri''-cannon.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Fortune favours the ''infamous!"'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:"All shall bow to my Necromantic supremacy!"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Ready the ''Swordfysh''!"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"I shall submerge Ulthuan!"]]

* AFateWorseThanDeath: Becoming a Mourngul is widely considered to be one of the ''worst fates'' imaginable in the entire setting. Dark nightmares made from men who eventually succumbed to starvation and resorted to cannibalism trying to survive, they are neither truly living or dead. Mournguls are forced to wander the earth, forever starving, eternally hungry, but never able to satisfy their aching stomachs, no matter how much they devour.

* {{Pirates}}: Should be perfectly clear by now; a naval based faction that engages in piracy to supplement their poor economy though looting and raiding. They fit the romanticized version to a tee, clearly bloodthirsty and ruthless buccaneers to be sure, [[AffablyEvil but a jovial and personable lot to be around]], minus the whole business of them being mostly zombies anyway.

* ColdSniper: The Gunnery Wights, a powerful HeroUnit. Zombie officers who wield a powerful musket and are excellent at picking off targets from afar (on ships they usually occupy the crow's nest) and sniping enemy leaders. They provide a host of buffs to Zombie Pirate Units, being able to give them special gunpowder that buffs their damage and reload speed, and ''replenish'' their ammo mid-battle, a unique ability exclusive to the Coast.

* HandCannon: A variant of the Zombie Gunners carry a what's essentially an oversized Blunderbuss, and it operates like a Shotgun, very deadly at short distances, but having one of the shortest ranges in the entire game.

* KillItWithFire: The ''Gallows Giant'' Regiment of Reknown has its tri-cannon swapped out with a ''magical flamethrower''. Unlike the Dwarf Irondrakes, this thing fully {{avert|edTrope}}s VideoGameFlameThrowersSuck, being ''devastating'' against all infantry (armored or not) both at long range and short distances, and tall enough to fire over your other infantry without catching them in the flames either (most of the time).

* LongRangeFighter: Slightly {{Downplayed}}, but they're 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 (to be specific: pistols, rifles, handcannons, grenades, and swivel guns). They also have ''artillery'' support, which includes rusty Mortars, their own cannonades, and the ''utterly massive'' Queen Bess. Hell, most of their ''monsters'' have limited ranged capabilities. To top it off, they're the only faction in the game that can resupply their ranged units' ammo ''mid battle'', and can buff them with special gunpowder.
* MonsterKnight: The Depth Guard are the ''naval'' version of this trope, being [[OhCrap dismounted Blood Knights]], and drowned members of the Blood Dragon order. Described as being given the Blood Gift personally by Harkon for their loyalty, they put on heavy suits of black and bronze plate armor, and serve as heavy shock soldiers for the Vampire Coast, wielding boarding axes, as well as halberds.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As the factions name suggests, the Vampire Coast is led by Vampire Admirals and Captains, with suitably naval themed outfits and weapons, as well as the ability to cast magic. It's ambiguous what bloodline they belong too, but they all have the same creepy eyes as Harkon, meaning they were most likely sired by him, making them of the Blood Dragon bloodline. Count Noctilus on the other hand is a Von Carstein, which makes it likely that so are some or all of his Admirals and Captains.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Zombies of the Vampire Coast are the reanimated corpses of drowned sailors, marines killed by Harkon and his hordes, and people "press ganged" into the Coast's service, all covered in disgusting barnacles and algae, and are the mainstay of the faction as a whole. The original name for the army in tabletop, was infact "Zombie Pirates of Lustria" which just goes to show how important they are to the army. What makes them different from regular Vampire Count zombies is they still retain a vestige of their old personality, making them more similar to the Skeletons of the Tomb Kings. As such, not only are they far more cunning than their Sylvanian kin, they actually remember how to use guns! It's actually mentioned in FlavorText that the Zombie Pirates freely engage in drunken debauchery as they did in life, implying they still enjoy drinking alcohol too!
* {{Pirates}}: Should be perfectly clear by now; a naval based faction that engages in piracy to supplement their poor economy though looting and raiding. They fit the romanticised version to a tee, clearly bloodthirsty and ruthless buccaneers to be sure, [[AffablyEvil but a jovial and personable lot to be around]], minus the whole business of them being mostly zombies anyway.

* WeHaveReserves: Similar to their parent army, but different in that it's based on gathering mass ''ranged units''. Whilst they have impressive elites, the best tactic for any Coast army is to bring ''legions'' of horribly inaccurate, but still plentiful Pirate Zombies, mainly their ranged variants, and they have ''the'' largest unit sizes in the series for ranged units. While their accuracy is poor, well, you don't [[MoreDakka really need accuracy when there's so many zombies.]] What melee units they do possess exist mostly to hold enemies in place, allowing them to get shot even more. Further {{Downplayed}} in the sense that even Deckhands are moderately more expensive then regular zombies, and cannot be treated like them.

* BatOutOfHell: Harkon can ride into battle atop a Death Shriek Terrorgheist, a more nautical-themed version of the regular Terrorgheist. He's infact the ''only'' non-Strigoi to ever ride one in ''Warhammer.''

* WeaksauceWeakness: Ironically, despite never routing from combat, focusing on morale damage is actually extremely effective against undead armies, as their broken units will constantly lose health while fighting -- which will result in their Leadership values decreasing from lost members, which will then make them easier to break again if they ever recover, and so on...

* OriginalGeneration: The very first Legendary Lord and faction leader to not be an existing character in the Warhammer universe.

* AscendedExtra: Probably one of the most notable examples in the series. The Vampire Coast had a semi-official army list in ''White Dwarf #306'', 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. This is also true within the game, as the Coast was original a minor Vampire Counts faction.

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* WreathedInFlames: The ''Gallow's Giant'', a perpetually burning Regiment of Renown, Necrofex, covering in blackened, charred wood, and eternally everlasting embers. It's potentially one of the single strongest Monsters in the game being able to massacre most infantry with its flamethrower.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Somewhat noticeable when compared to the other Vampire Coast legendary lords. Aranessa's goal is to wipe the seas of the undead, even if it means using them to that end. This goal is shown in her Mortal Empires victory condition, requiring her to get rid of the other Vampire Coast factions, along with wiping out Norsca and a Dark Elf faction. [[spoiler: Averted in the Vortex Campaign, however, as she suffers from MotiveDecay and will likely remain in a prolonged war with the High Elves.]] Her quest also involves her [[spoiler:forming an alliance with the Empire to deal with Norscan raiders led by her father, though said alliance is purely out of convenience]].

** In ''Mortal Empires'', her faction's victory condition requires her to destroy all other Vampire Coast factions along with Norsca, Wintertooth and the Blessed Dread; all evil factions led by very evil people. This aligns with her original goals [[spoiler:before her MotiveDecay]]. She's currently the only Vampire Coast faction that does not require the destruction of any good-aligned factions.

* TheCameo: She receives a very creepy one from [[spoiler: [[Literature/{{Drachenfels}} Count Drachenfels himself]] in her ending, although he is under his alias as The Nameless from the ''End Times'']].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the original canon set by the ''TabletopGame/Dreadfleet'' boardgame, Jaego Roth and his Grand Alliance defeated Count Noctilus and silenced the maelstrom of the Galleon's Graveyard. In the ''Total War: Warhammer'' universe, the expedition apparently ended in disaster; Roth and the Golden Magus are dead, Red Brokk and Prince Yrellian are unaccounted for, and Aranessa Saltspite has become a WellIntentionedExtremist trafficking in necromancy.

* SavedByCanon: In the original Warhammer canon, Jaego Roth and the Grand Alliance defeats Count Noctilus and the Dreadfleet. Here, Roth and the Golden Magus are dead, Red Brokk and Prince Yrellian are unaccounted for, but Aranessa Saltspite is still alive albeit much more jaded and cruel.