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Harakhte is one of the original trueborn Vampires created by Neferata of Lahmia through the ingestion of her flawed variant of the Elixir of Life.[1a]

History[]

Harakhte was originally the brilliant and sinister court vizier of Neferata in the Nehekharan city-state of Lahmia. Alongside his queen and other members of her court (including W'soran, Abhorash, Vashanesh, Ushoran and Maatmeses), he would be one of the few trueborn Vampires Neferata created using her flawed version of the Elixir of Life.[1a][1b]

After the destruction of Lahmia by King Alcadizaar the Conqueror, Harakhte fled to the north alongside Neferata, W'soran, Ushoran and Maatmeses. There they came across a reborn Nagash in the midst of raising an Undead army of his own. It was discovered that Nagash had been manipulating the Vampires through W'soran, and he put them under the command of Vashanesh to defeat Nehekhara. When it became clear that Nagash didn't care about their survival or the reconstruction of Lahmia, Vashanesh let Alcadizaar kill him in combat, freeing the Vampires from Nagash's control.[1a]

Only W'soran stayed with Nagash -- the others scattered to the winds after bickering over where to go and who deserved to lead them. Maatmeses and Harakhte vanished out of history.[1a] However, the latter managed to flee to Grand Cathay, where he created the Jade-Blooded Vampire bloodline.[3]

Most believe they were killed by Nagash, but it is also possible they journeyed elsewhere and created their own vampiric bloodlines. Marco Polare's writings about Grand Cathay include legends of immortal eunuch sorcerers that drink the souls of Men, and there are tales from the jungles of Ind and the Southlands about mad priests who tear out men's hearts to feed to their dark gods. Perhaps these are the children of Maatmeses and Harakhte; perhaps one day they may pay a visit to their cousins.[1b]

Canonicity of the Jade-Blooded Vampires[]

Around 2007-2008, after the publication of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition's Night's Dark Masters supplement, its co-author Steve Darlington published an additional document titled Lost Bloodlines: An Apocryphal Supplement for Night's Dark Masters. This detailed the lore and rules to play Harakhte's Jade-Blooded Vampires and Maatmeses' Mahtmasi bloodline, but it was not officially published by Fantasy Flight Games and is thus considered non-canonical.[3]

Nonetheless, on 11 October 2021 Andy Hall, Creative Assembly's lead writer for the Total War: Warhammer series of PC games, confirmed in an interview with the Lorebeards podcast that the Jade-Blooded would be included in the new lore of Grand Cathay created for Total War: Warhammer III. He specifically confirmed that Harakhte fled to Cathay after the being freed from Nagash where he created the Jade-Blooded, but refused to say more and did not mention the Mahtmasi, so the canonicity of a bloodline created by Maatmeses remains in question.[3]

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