Meanwhile in the Under-Empire that spans across the world, The Skaven have sent forth Queek Headtaker for a diabolical quest to gather warpstone, all in an attempt to gain control of the vortex in the name of the Horned Rat and the Council of Thirteen. He tastes great weakness in the vortex and great opportunity in its demise.

The Witch King Malekith and his sadistic Dark Elf hordes spew forth from Naggaroth and their labyrinthine Black Arks. He, too, is intent on preventing cataclysm, though the methods of The Old Ones must prevail. Prince Tyrion, Defender of Ulthuan, guides the High Elves in their desperate efforts to stabilise the vortex as it roils above their home continent.Ītop his palanquin-throne, the Slann Mage-Priest Mazdamundi directs his Lizardmen war-hosts as they surge northward from Lustria. The race is on, and the very fate of the world will lie in the hands of the victor. Yet others seek to harness its terrible energies for their own bitter purpose. Powerful forces move to heal the maelstrom and avert catastrophe. Now the Great Vortex falters, and the world again stands at the brink of ruin. Its purpose was to draw the Winds of Magic from the world as a sinkhole drains an ocean, and blast the Daemonic hordes back to the Realm of Chaos. Millennia ago, besieged by a Chaos invasion, a conclave of High Elf mages forged a vast, arcane vortex.

Players who own both games, as well as individual DLC packs, will have the option of playing them separately or as a single combined campaign map, the massive Mortal Empires campaign. It is to take place in the New World, Ulthuan and the Southlands, and will focus one the Vortex in Ulthuan, a maelstrom of arcane energies created by High Elf mages to drain excess magic and Chaos influence from the material world, and the playable races' struggle to control both it and the Ley Line network in Lustria. The game was announced on Ma, confirmed for release later that year with the introduction of the Dark Elves, High Elves, Lizardmen and Skaven.

Total War: Warhammer II is the sequel to Total War: Warhammer and the second game in the planned trilogy.

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