Warhammer Armies: Vampire Counts
Year:
1999
Nationality:
UK
Designer:
Alessio Cavatore, Tuomas Pirinen
Artists:
John Blanche, Alex Boyd, Wayne England, Des Hanley
Publisher:
Games Workshop
Number of Players:
2
Genre:
Fantasy, Adventure, History
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Summary of the game
Armies book of the Warhammer Fantasy game, complement to the 5th edition. This book explains how the armies of the Vampire Counts work. Besides describing the game dynamics and units for this war game, it describes the origin of the vampires, their families and regions where they settle. The origin is linked to Nagash, a priest king of the kingdom of Khemintri (an idealized version of Egypt) who was the first necromancer. His curses affected Queen Lamiha and six Khemintri nobles, making them the first vampires. This book tells their story, the story of the origin of vampirism and of each of their families.
Character description of Neferata taken from the book Warhammer Armies: Vampire Counts (Scanned from the book by the author)
Egyptomania narratives or motifs
One of the essential elements of the army of the Vampire Counts is necromancy, an art developed in the kingdom of Nehekhara, clearly inspired by ancient Egypt. In this land, Nagash was a priest who invented an elixir to achieve immortality. The notations of that formula, stolen and used by the priest-king of Lahmia, a city of Nehekhara, caused the city's nobility to become vampires, the first of their kind.
As well as explaining the origin of vampirism and linking it to the idealised vision of Egypt in this universe, the book also describes Neferata, the vampire queen belonging to the blood of the Lahmias and clearly an Egyptian-inspired character, as her name indicates. Among the Egyptian elements that characterise Neferata, the following should also be mentioned: she carries weapons, such as a Jet dagger that is symbolic of her being a high priestess, she carries a serpent-headed staff (both Egyptian elements), and she has a familiar, Bastet, a monstrous black cat.
As well as explaining the origin of vampirism and linking it to the idealised vision of Egypt in this universe, the book also describes Neferata, the vampire queen belonging to the blood of the Lahmias and clearly an Egyptian-inspired character, as her name indicates. Among the Egyptian elements that characterise Neferata, the following should also be mentioned: she carries weapons, such as a Jet dagger that is symbolic of her being a high priestess, she carries a serpent-headed staff (both Egyptian elements), and she has a familiar, Bastet, a monstrous black cat.
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