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Alcadizzar

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[[File:Alcadizzar.PNG|thumb|right|The only picture of the last and greatest king of Khemri and Nehekhara. Sporting a mighty trumpet helmet forged by the Dwarfs.]]
'''Alcadizzar''', also known as '''Alcadizaar the Conqueror''', was a ruler of Nehekhara as well as a priest king of Khemri. He was well known for being the last priest king of Khemri, killed Nagash, being the greatest king on par with Settra, as well as doomed the entirely of Nehekhara (more on that later). Although fluff texts from the 8th edition of both vampire and tomb kings details little about Alcadizzar's personal life nor on how he achieved victory, it was completely fleshed out in the novel "Nagash Immortal" of the Time of Legend series.

In the older fluff, it stated that Alcadizzar conquered Lahmia after he slew Vashanesh (aka Vlad) whereas in the later retcon, Vashanesh was changed to Ankhat and he is but a noble attendant to Neferata instead of being her husband as well as being Nagash's distant relative and a general in black fire pass. Not much about his upbringing was known nor fleshed out however.

In the novel, he was born to a Rasetran royal bloodline, is a distant descendant of Settra, lived for over 200 years with the power of Neferata's elixir and had a strong relationship with the desert tribes.

Also his name for some reasons was refered to as Alcadizaar sometimes with an extra A instead of Z.

== Commonly known facts about Alcadizzar ==

-He was named the Conqueror after the war against Lahmia.

-He was the greatest king of Nehekhara since Settra and Nehekhara's last living king.

-Under his leadership, his army defeated Nagash's invasion force and routed them.

-He wept on his throne for not being able to save his people from Nagash's plague.

-He slew Nagash with the Fellblade.

-He went mad afterwards and took Nagash's crown with him where the shaman named Kadon found it along with his corpse.

== Background ==
After Neferata's vampirism and victory over her own cousin Khalida in a duel, she was viewed as Asaph's reincarnation by the public. Under W'soran's suggestion, she created her own cult of personality for PR and to harvest blood safely.

The cult's influence attracted many Nehekharans to Lahmia. Since the Nehekharans no longer had any direct blessing from their gods due to Nagash breaking the ancient divine treaty, having a temple and an incarnation of their gods was a comforting tradition.

The Queen of Rasetra (who was never given a name) was one of the Nehekharans who traveled to the temple, hoping she could get help there to overcome her difficult pregnancy. Since Neferata had given the city of Khemri to the Rasetran King Khept-am-shepret (due to him being descended from one of Settra's sons) over two centuries ago, this meant if the child of her and the current Rasetran King - Aten-Heru - was a boy, he would inherit the throne of Khemri... if he survived the pregnancy.

The death of Khalida had Neferata realize she'd been living in a cage her entire life (Being trapped inside the female palace ever since she was born and all). Being an immortal blood drinker was no different, as she had to hide her vampiric nature and activities from the public or they'd purge her any everything she'd built on Nagash's works.

When she suddenly told her vampire cabal she is going to save the queen's child, everyone was stunned. Her plan was giving the queen a vial of elixir distilled from her own blood, not only saving the child, but also letting other great city knew the greatness of Nefereta's miracle that is unlike Nagash's dark magic. By using her fame and some taxation deductions, she also decided to open an academy in Lahmia for every priest king's children (think of it as junior Harvard or Yale in Egypt) and have them staying there (aka kept as political hostage) until adulthood. Still, everyone in the cabal saw through her bullshit and knew the whole plan is but an excuse for Neferata to find a replacement for Khalida as her life partner, as well as wanting to openly ruled the entirely of Nekhehara as the queen of Khemri for eternity.

=== The Birth of a Giga Chad ===

After Alcadizzar was born, he was immediately placed in Neferata's care with the former Viziar Ubaid (as well as
being Neferata’s chief vampire thrall, unknown to Alcadizzar) acting as his servant. His mother died giving birth to him, removing that family tie, and Alcadizzar's father was unable to see him until he completed his training according to Neferata.

He received the best education a Nehekharan prince could get and, due to the elixir's effect, grew into a man of incredible height, musculature and tactical intellect even for his age (think of him as the warhammer's equivalent of [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jonathan Joestar]], a young man with the physique and height of an adult bodybuilder at the age of 19). He beat four armored instructors in a mock battle using only a rope and his fists. His tactical skills were sharpened by games with a wise war veteran called Jabbari, developing Alcadizzar's wit and helping him learn from his mistakes.

Despite the greatness he had shown, Alcadizzar was not permitted to graduate or leave his training (or Neferata) by age 18, which upset him when he saw others being allowed to graduate but not him. He had a dream of enjoying a good life in a mansion with a family of his own while ruling a kingdom, yet his graduation was held back year after year. Little did poor Alcadizzar know that it was all part of Neferata's wife husbandry plan for him.

By the time Alcadizzar is 30 years old (at -1320 Imperial Reckoning), his uncle Khenti, a powerful yet pissed off Rasetra noble came to Lahmia and demands Neferata to hand over Alcadizzar.

Upon reunion, Alcadizzar greet his uncle with utmost warmest joy, even Kenti's bodyguard were moved by the prince's chadness for Alcadizzar treated them as his equal just like everyone he has met, without discrimination nor any of the polite bullcrap Alcadizzar were drilled in from his social arts on royal manners courses (which he had studied a lot of), and that attitude has gotten him a crowd of admirers.

Neferata was unable to grasp his behavior as well as reasons for his warm greeting despite being a vampire who specialized in reading people's heart. The salty bitch was in fact looking down on Alcadizzar's action as "degrading and mysterious".

After Neferata gave a short lessons on how Alcadizzar's ancestry leads to Settra's fifth son Amenophis, she suggests him to take another DECADES of training session at her temple of blood to truly unite Lahmia and Khemri in spirit (just as the sacred treaty demands on how the king of Khemri and the priestess of Lahmia should wed), and had Alcadizzar to decide if he wants to follow this insane suggestion or go rule Khemri just as he always wanted. Is all up to him.

Despite Khenti's persuasion for him to leave while being clueless to the schemes Neferata has cooked up in her sleeves, Alcadizzar naively accept her training course, for he believe it is ultimately for the good of Khemri and it should survive another decade without him.

And so 25 years later, Alcadizzar became the high priest of the blood temple and has been doing nothing but unknowingly drinking Neferata's elixir and playing with live snakes to show the fake Asap aka Neferata his devotion.

Due to the elixir's effect, Alcadizzar is still looking young despite being 55 years old and yet he is still preparing to be a king and he has so many thing he wished to implemented to the city. Neferata told him to not worry however, for she will grant him as many year as he needed to make Khemri and Nehekhara great again. While strolling at the garden of the temple's inner sanctum, Naaima (Neferata's cathayan courtsan vampire friend)
appeared out of blue and delivered a dreadful message for Alcadizzar. His father, the king of Rasetra whom both never met has died (for the entirely 55 fucking years seriously). Rasetra is now ruled by his younger brother Asar, which the later beg Alcadizzar to come back for his father's funeral. Ironically, Alcadizzar doesn't seems to know how to react since he never personally knew his dad, just like his mother who had died after his birth, and was therefore unable to felt a shred of saddness.

Angered by Naaima's sudden interruption from her sweet time between Alcadizzar, Neferata tell Alcadizzar to go pray at the snek goddess for his father's passing. Alcadizzar remain clueless to the scheme Neferata has for him.

5 years later, Alcadizzar finally faced his last trial. He must prove his utmost sacrifice and devotion, by survive 7 day and 7 night without water, food while being tormented with pain from lashes. Kinda similar to the buddism's six cleansing with more bdsm play and Neferata had probably copied the training doctrine from either the Cathayan or the Inds (being a Lahmian, the only type of Nehekharan weeaboo, this seems fitting). Thanks to the elixir's power as well as his own strong will, Alcadizzar survived these [[Slaanesh|painful and inhumane]] trial. On the last part, Alcadizzar needs to survive a dagger to the heart, and he did (plot armor and all) but lost his conscious.

When he woke up however, he found Neferata without her mask on, showing her frightened pale skinned face and vampire saber tooth fang like some kind of freakish monster (take note Twilight). For the first time in his life, Alcadizzar was scared and realized he had been tricked by an abomination created by Nagash. Using her unnatural strength, Neferata force Alcadizzar to drink up the final elixir that would turn him into a vampire. Just then, Ubaid saved him by furiously attacking Neferata's face then telling Alcadizzar to run away.

Despite being a vampire and was under Neffy's control for sometimes, Ubaid was always moved by Alcadizzar charisma even when he was young, especially just a seconds ago when Alcadizzar had criticized Neferata for not putting the poor Ubaid to rest and claimed he should have joined his ancestors long ago.

With Ubaid's sacrifice, Alcadizzar escaped. Neferata was furious that not only he torn off Ubaid with her saber tooth fang like a lion, she became ever vengeful that she would do everything in her power to find Alcadizzar, even if it means to turn her city and into a roach hotel.

=== Lonesome Road ===

Using the training and knowledge he had acquired from the academy as well as the power of elixir he was fed with, Alcadizzar escaped the palace guard and hid in the commoner quarter like [[Metal Gear|a main character in a stealth game]]. He knew he had to survive so he could get to Rasetra and warn everyone about the vampires in Lahmia. For eight months, Alcadizzar took on Ubaid's name as an alias while living the thug life for the first free period of his life [[meme|(not because he chose it, but it chose him)]].

He stole, got drunk and even killed (albeit a member of a group of sailors who tried to press gang him into joining them). He even worked in a brothel in the infamous red <s>light</s> silk district as hired muscle for security. At one point he worked with a gang of jewel thieves whom were planning to rob an old wealthy family, only to ended in betrayal and blood in one night. Alcadizzar also knew his first love and had his first kiss stolen during this time.

When his appearance was finally different enough from Neferata's description of him, he escaped Lahmia without having the guards recognize him. But worse was to come. He tried to hitch a ride on the caravans in order to avoid the outlaws and bandits on the golden plain, but the master and the guards refused, fearing he might be a spy for the caravan raiders. For the next few months as he struggled his way across the plain, forced to fight for his life on more than one occasion, but his training and the lasting potency of Neferata’s elixir saw him through.

He eventually reached Lybaras, greatly diminished due to Neferata's political actions, and hoped to share his information with the king, but was met with refusal as even his vizier refused to answer him.

A full year and a half has passed after he escaped Lahmia when he finally made it to Rasetra. He united with his uncle Khenti, by now an elderly man, and helped arrange a secret meeting between Alcadizzar and his brother. Despite the horrifying tale Alcadizzar told, his brother Asar gave him the benefit of the doubt but demanded proof before any action could be taken.

To start a war with Lahmia and win would require a coalition army of the great cities, something unfeasible for many reasons. Firstly, wars cost a lot of manpower and gold, which are still scarce thanks to Nagash's regime. Neferata took up where Nagash left off by manipulating the great cities into bickering among themselves, weakening them so that none were able to stand up against Lahmia directly. Even Rasetra, which had clawed its way back from the brink of ruin and rebuilt its powerful army, still lacked the resources for a protracted war against the Lahmians. And though many of the great cities now possessed iron weapons and armour that were the equal of Lahmia’s, none of them had a counter for the fearsome dragon staffs they wielded (and were unaware of the Lahmians' bluff). Other than that, there was too much ambition and too little trust among the other cities to make such an alliance possible. Of the great cities, only three were strong enough to present themselves as possible rivals to Lahmia’s power: Rasetra, Zandri and Ka-Sabar, but none were willing to take the first step and risk standing alone in the face of Lahmian reprisal. Evidence of Nagash's dark arts were needed to persuade the rival kings to put aside their ambitions and come together in a common cause against Lahmia.

Knowing how well Lahmia guarded their vampiric secret and the lethality of her vampire agents, Alcadizzar has to risk himself to get the proof. With some supplies from his uncle and some planning, Alcadizzar once again ventured into the lawless desert, alone.

=== Alcadizzar <s>[[Dune|Muad'Dib</s> Ubaid]] ===

Realizing the capability of the desert tribe's (otherwise known as the fallen Bhagarian, whom were defeated and enslaved by Arkhan's forces during Nagash's reign) skill at archery and horse riding, Alcadizzar decided to befriend them to survive and gain a powerful ally against the Lahmians. It was no easy task however, since the tribe at the time were secretive and clannish, making it really hard to earn their trust. Alcadizzar eventually made some progress by befriended one of its young cheiftian named Faisr al-Hashim, of the bani-al-Hashim after he saved him from a carravan raid gone bad.

As a reward for saving his life, Faisr adopted Alcadizzar into his tribe for 20 years (a crucial custom for any outsiders to join their tribe) where during that time, Alcadizzar being the badass he is saved Faisr's dirty arse three times and killed [[meme|fitty men]] (literary). During a tribal gathering, many chieftains from other tribes called out Alcadizzar for being an outsider or worse, a Lahmian spy, that is until an old woman with leonine yellow eye advocate for him and allowing Alcadizzar to become part of their tribe.

This old woman was named Suleima, a <s>Reverend Mother</s> Daughter of the Sands, the bride of Khsar as well as his chosen, whom has the highest authority among the tribe. Her kind was born once in every generation and they have the power <s>Truthsaying</s> to see a man's future through their soul. Suleima was always accompanied by her successor Ophiria, a young girl of 14 year old who shared the same leonine yellow eye and Alcadizzar had already notice Ophiria's gaze towards him beforehand, meaning they already knew about Alcadizzar's plan.

25 years later, Alcadizzar led his raiders to raid a Lahmian watch-fort. He was dismay by the decline of the Lahmian military, whose soldiers are lacking leadership and were willing to surrendered their fully secured fort with many garrisoned soldiers without a fight, which would be considered unacceptable 40 years ago.

After that, Alcadizzar and the raiders were greeted with Suleima's passing. Alcadizzar spent the entire afternoon at his tent after Suleima's funeral, being irritating about the amount of duties he has to accomplish and the years he has to sacrificed before he could retired to the life he has always dreamed of. Just then, Ophiria, now a 39 years old woman barged into his tent. In one conversation, Alcadizzar told her everything (being truthful with her since she can read people's minds). However for Ophiria, being a daughter of the sand, she saw far more than just Alcadizzar's identity, but his future as well and knew he is going to be a king of Khemri. Ophiria then began a to express her sorrow about her people being oathbreakers, who had broken the ancient promise they had made with their god Khsar and Settra after their shameful display during the war with Nagash and are now being punished for it. She hopes Alcadizzar, as the future king of Nehekhara could forgive their sin by remade a new sacred oath with them. Without any delay, Alcadizzar sworn a new blood oath by holding Ophiria's hand with his bloodied one. As a reward, Ophiria told him of a prophecy that would led to his goal...

40 years later, Alcadizzar prepared an ambush at the north of Lahmia to finally obtain the proof of dark art he was so eager to obtain. Another sign from Ophiria's prophecy was a frigging twin-tailed comet on the sky. To many scholar and any warhammer races, it is the harbingers of conflict (as well as other important symbolism like the birth of great ruler, hope or Tzeentch's meddling). A group of six men in black cloak on steed was passing by at that point and the desert raiders made short work of them with their arrows.

Hilariously, this group was lead by Zurhas to act as envoy in order to form an alliance with Nagash at Nagashizzar. Around that time, W'soran had discovered Nagash's location being north of Lahmia, which gave Ushoran an idea to allied themselves with the undying king in order take over Lahmia, as well as the rest of Nehekhara. In order to allow himself to not be suspect by Neferata and her underling, he met Zurhas (who was but a phantom member of the cabal that had spent his immortality on gambling) and manipulate the lowlife into doing his dirty work for him. Since traveling on sea was too noticeable, Zhuras had to travel overland north with a few companion (whose job is to help him find shelters to prevent him burning under the sun). Ushoran even thought about getting rid of Zurhas after he had rid of Neferata and the Nehekharans, and he is definitely going to be disappointed since his action might've doomed himself as well as the entirely of Lahmia.

As soon as every black cloaks were shot down, Zurhas shown himself as a pale clawed monster under the comet's light. Zurhas had killed six raiders that was charging at him with swords (not a single spear were used. Do they play [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] at all?) and tried to run away, but Alcadizzar and his horseman managed to stall him long enough for Faisr to stake the vampire with a barbed javelin in the heart. In the most glorious or perhaps the most iconic moment of his life, Alcadizzar confessed everything to Faisr under the comet's light.

Oh and turns out Zurhas had a lot evidence. [[Fail|The scrolls and letters he bought contained information about the vampires in Lahmia and Nagash's still alive, walking and kicking in the northern part of Lahmia]].

=== The Siege of Lahmia & Alcadizzar's enthronement ===

Six month after the evidences and Alcadizzar's personnel letter being delivered to Rasetra, a coalition army of the great cities was formed on the great plain within a week. Each great city bought their flavors of army:

From Rasetra, its army, lead by Prince Heru (Asar's heir), brought ten thousand heavy infantry, plus two thousand cold one chariots.

From Lybaras, its army lead by King Ahmenefret, brought mostly artillery managed by their scholar warrior. Their artillery were a dozen huge catapults, eight ballistae and four armoured fire-throwers, all were transported on a train pulled by teams of oxens.

From the desert tribes, its army lead by the newly elected leader Fasir (who had won the competition to get the role), brought eight thousand of the finest light cavalry in the land, clad in burnished armour and billowing silk robes.

From Mahrak, its army's commander were not specified, but they brought five thousand priestly warriors. These head shaved warrior priest are called the Hurusanni, or Devoted, patterned their weapons and training on the legendary Ushabti of ancient times. They are known to pray and meditate while traveling, are fanatical and desires nothing but the destruction of Lahmia's abominations, as well as anything created by Nagash's dark magic.

From Quatar, its army lead by king Nebunefre, the Lord of the Tombs, brought five thousand of their fabled Tomb Guard of Quatar. They are heavy infantry who march in silence, wears lacquered armour that glimmer in the moonlight (which makes them look like white ghostly figures from a far) and their helms were fashioned in the shape of jackals’ heads, the sacred visage of Djaf, god of the dead.

From Numas, its army lead by Queen Omorose, brought ten thousand proud Numasi cavalry, whose horse were famously known breed among the Nehekharans.
Their larger size horse tend to picking on and bickering with the much smaller horse breed ridden by the desert tribe riders, whom were marching side by side.

From Zandri, its army lead by King Rakh-an-atum, brought two thousand archers, four thousand spearmen and another five thousand Northlander mercenaries.

From Ka-Sabar, its army lead by Aten-sefu, brought their famed Iron Legion; fifteen thousand heavily-armoured spearmen and four thousand archers, who march in thunders of heavy kettledrums.

Then finally from Khemri, its army lead by none other than the hero of this article: Alcadizzar! Khemri has been managed by generations of viziers over the last four hundred years and yet, it's still looking like Rasetra in is colony state (all thanks to the interventions from Numas and Zandri, but mostly Nagash's fault anyway), meaning it has a small army. They however making up for their lack of military strength by throwing the fanciest and the most expensive parade. Two hundred chariots, each one manned by the lord of one of Khemri’s noble houses. The noble lords and their retainers were not armed and armoured for war, but instead were clad in their finest feast garments, tossing handfuls of coins to the dumbfounded soldiers, laughing and chanting “Alcadizzar! Alcadizzar!” at the top of their lungs. Six thousand infantry in total were sighted. From spearmans to javelin-wielding light infantry, clad in pristine white tunics and polished leather armour, plus another two thousand slave auxiliaries armed with slings and short swords. Despite its small size, the soldiers marched with their head held high and proud, cheering Alcadizzar’s name.

Alcadizzar too finally making his debut at Khemri as its official ruler. Despite Fasir had already forgiven Alcadizzar for keeping his real name a secret and using his tribesman as his tool for his own gains, its act had already created a rift between the two that could never heal. Still Alcadizzar, no longer using Ubaid as his alias, treat the Fasir and his desert tribe like his own family, even wanting to marry one of its member as his queen. The tradition would requires him to marry a Lahmian, which shouldn't be possible due to its corruption and its now getting its ass whooped.

Although the coalition army greatly outnumbered the Lahmian, Neferata called every vampire she knew to fight the invaders. W'soran was freed from his imprisonment and given [[Nagash]]'s book to stall the Nehekharans with summoned zombie fodders. Ushoran and Ankhat were on the frontline where they inhumanly tore apart the Nehekharans with their supernatural strength. Neferata too was on the field with her vampire handmaiden who has the power of seduction to manipulate the Nekeharans, as well as their usual inhuman strength and agility to kill and chase down anything, even a horse cavalry.

Despite fighting such monstrosities and lost many man, the Nehekharans pressed on with Alcadizzar leading them with great courage.

While Ushoran was enjoying bathing in Nehekharans blood, the swift horse archers of the desert tribe shot him with arrows embedded with asphalt clay flask. The arrows were specifically shot at the lord of the mask's places like feet that it rendered him immobilized, and some are even shot dangerously close to his heart. Once Ushoran was soak in flammable liquid and unable to move, the horseman light him on fire.

Ankhat easily slaughtered a company of Northlander barbarians as well as many Nehekharans spearman through the use of his fabulous display of swordsmanship combine with his inhumane vampiric power. Despite doing so well, the warriors he was put in charge of commanding it were inexperienced, weak, and were easily routed by the overwhelming Nehekharans forces.

W'soran has been doing well stalling the Nehekharans with zombie summons. Just as he was about to find a spell from his book to attack the newly reinforced Nehekharans, the tower he resides was hit by catapult shots, forcing him to run in terror (so much for a vampire's fearless mentality), cancelled out his ritual and putting all the zombies to rest.

It finally leaved to Neferata and her vamprie handmaidens being the only threatening thing left in the Lahmian force. Their seduction power works on anyone that looked them in the eye. Calvaries and elite infantries alike were easily controlled and were dealt with by the handmaidens' claw. Still, the handmaidens were reckless enough to get trample by chariots and stroke down by dozens of arrow shot from the desert tribe archer. Neferata was able to slaughter the most elite warriors of Khemri forces, even the fanatical Mahrak warriors (whom were not immune to her seduction despite being so fanatical), pushed so far into the Nehekharans' army and reached out to Alcadizzar. Alcadizzar, depsite with great strength and will was unable to stood against Neferata's inhuman strength and her vampire mind trick. Between the two, Neferata tried to convinced Alcadizzar to come back to her but was met with his strong refusal instead. Neferata then answered his rejection with a furious claw strike, knocking him down. Just as she was about to suck his blood (to have him "give back" all the "gift" she had given him), Alcadizzar struck her heart with a hidden dagger, and thus defeated her.

As soon as Neferata was defeated, Ankhat desperately ordered every military personnel to rescue her ass before she is captured. Just as the Nehekharan forces is about to swarm Neferata, Abhorash appeared in time, slaughtered many Nehekharans and allowed the vampires to escape. After that, the Nehekharans began sacking Lahmia. For seven days and seven nights, every bit of Lahmia was looted then razed to the bone and its citizens enslaved. Despite the glorious treasury the Nehekharans has looted and were happily celebrated over it, Alcadizzar's dismay however. Not a single vampires were found and captured nor were the book of Nagash was found (W'soran had took it with him to Nagashizzar). To Alcadizzar, this battle is a total loss.

Also there were mentioning of constructs according to the rulebook, but were not mentioned in the novel. And if it were, it could kick a huge amount of vampire asses to the point of resulting the battle into a one sided slaughter.

=== The King of Khemri ===

Finally 37 years later, Alcadizzar began to rule Khemri as well as the entirely of Nehekhara. Under his reign, every great cities return wealthy (since they no longer have Lahmian fucking with them on trades and taxes every year) and peace were restored. However, all the wealth he has accumulated were spent on military and defenses for the eventual return of Nagash. He also wed a girl who shared the same name as the Lybaras Queen Khalida 37 years ago, who just so happend to be Ophiria's niece and is now somewhat 67 years-ish old, ruling Khemri with him as a wise queen. They bore two sons together, named Asar and Ubaid (once again, Alcadizzar named after his former servant and his brother).

Interestingly, one of his explorer named Rahotep he had sent north had an encountered with annu-horesh (also known as the Dwarfs) whom at that time were ruled by Morgrim Blackbeard (by the time the explorer had came back, the year was -1163 Imperial Reckoning and Blackbeard was known for started a troll war at -1245). The Dwarves had treated Rahotep with respect and hospitality for the entire winter, even promised a chance of trading and friendship. To show their respect, they gifted Alcadizzar with mastercrafted armor and a huge two-handed khopesh, golden, enchanted with magic, warm like the sun which could hurt dark foes and were quite lightweight, all the while it was made out of iron (note that it was not even enchanted with runes like Sigmar's hammer, which its power could go off the chart if it were).

Other than the Dwarven crafts, Rahotep also bought knowledges of magic which Alcadizzar had founded sorcerer’s collegium in Khemri in order for their kins to master its power (without the help of some arrogant pointy ears too. Take that Empire!). The other cities too will follow Alcadizzar and began learning magic in order to cope without their gods' blessing (also so they could show off their superiority like every Nehekharan rulers would do). Notably, Ka-Sabar has began using its knowledge to create a small amount of enchanted gears every year. Mahrak was quite butthurt about all of this. Its Hieratic Council was suspecting Alcadizzar had decided to abandoned their faith [[heresy|for some heretical power]] and thus refused to cooprate with the rest.

Despite Morgrim Blackbeard had sent his warmest invitation to the Nehekharan king, welcome him to their hold and discuss relations between their kingdoms, Alcadizzar had to object for Nagash has to be dealt with first.

=== Nagash's Second Invasion (also known as the war of three stooges) ===
Due to the founding of sorcerer’s collegium, there were wizards employed in each great city but Mahrak for obvious reasons. [[Adeptus Astra Telepathica|They act as telephone by telepathically sending their local ruler's messages]] to Alcadizzar without wasting any time with envoys. With Nagash's invasion forces were sighted, they proved vital in quickly sending orders and reports, but it was still a monumental effort that took its toll on Alcadizzar with him overthinking and second-guessing his plans often. But it ultimately paid off, as it made the Nehekharans one step ahead of Nagash's forces, and they prepared for them with siege defenses and armies.

Due to the position of Nagashizzar just north of Lahmia across the sour sea, Nagash's ten armies led by Arkhan and W'soran took over the ruins of Lahmia as soon as they arrived. In response, the closest armies from Lybaras and Rasetra formed a vanguard to challenge them. Thanks to their enchanted weaponry and magic, the Nehekharans gave W'soran and his army a very hard time. But despite putting up a very good fight, the undead legion won through sheer numbers and replenishing its losses with dead Nehekharans. Realizing the Nehekharans were too well prepared, Arkhan sent one third of the army to siege Lybaras and Rasetra to prevent them from reinforcing western Nehekhara.

Mahrak was the next target of the undead legion. The news of Lybaras and Rasetra armies' defeat had reach Mahrak and its fanatical warriors were prepared to defend the city to the death. Without the use of gods' blessing nor Alcadizzar's magic improvements, all Mahrak had was fanatical white robe warriors, basic archers and shield infantry. Under constant attacks from catapults, tomb scorpion constructs and Arkhan's dark magic bolts, the city that had once held off Nagash's army for months was razed within in five days.

Alcadizzar had hoped the Hieratic Council would evacuate behind the thick wall he had fortified at the eastern end of the Valley of Kings to hold against the undead for many weeks and give their non-combatants enough time to reach Quatar. But that was not to be and Alcadizzar and other great cities had to go on without them.

The aforementioned walls were three very strong, thick walls made from granite, built by the finest smith at Ka-Sabar. In addition,, the walls were equipped with weaponry effective against the undead: fire arrows, flaming tar catapults, manned by heavily armored infantries... all that good stuff. What's more, each wall was taller than the one in front of it and not even ladders could reach the top of the third wall, nor could the bone giants or Arkhan's magic hope to breach it.

Just as the third wall was about to be cleared, Alcadizzar came just in time, riding on his chariot with Khalida besides him followed by a host of cavalry. They flanked the undead army and dealt it a serious blow. W'soran managed to blast Alcadizzar off his chariot and had two of his vampire servants ambush him. Dazed, Alcadizzar was saved by his chief wizard Suleiman and an archer who attacked the vampire and brought Alcadizzar time to recover and kill them.

W'soran then blasted the dead vampire and Alcadizzar with his magic, only for Alcadizzar's Dwarven forged armor to protect him and render the spell harmless, to W'soran's surprise. As W'soran advanced on Alcadizzar, Khalida saved him with an arrow shot straight into W'soran eye, the vampire howling and breaking a clay jar to unleash a swarm of scarabs that carried him to safety. With W'soran's retreat the clouds disspated and the undead army was thwarted.

=== Nagash: I'm About to End This Man's Whole Career ===
[[File:Alcadizzar decision.png|thumb|right| The chariot problem]]
Two weeks after Nagash's army had fled from Nehekhara, Alcadizzar and the rest of the Nehekhara armies gathered at Lahmia's docks. Despite his injuries from war AND the fact he is now 189 years old, Alcadizzar decided to give chase to the undead legion on sea and hopefully be rid of them once and for all.

Just then, however, Ophiria came to greet Alcadizzar and after some cajoling, tearfully informed him of his fate: if he went to Nagashizzar, he would kill Nagash but he will die (the actual text was he will not return, so same meaning). Initially, Ophiria didn't want to tell Alcadizzar anything other than to send her niece Khalida back to Khemri and have the king leading the army alone, but Alcadizzar convinced Ophiria to tell him everything when he saw her and knew she had bad news for him.

Alcadizzar, who was already so tired and old, wanted to enjoy good retirement life, as did his wife. With Nagash's invasion force broken and not wanting to trigger Ophiria's prophecy, they decided to abandon the chase and enjoy rebuilding and ruling their city. Ophiria was never seen again after that. Unbeknownst to any of the Nehekharans, Nagash's defeat made him decide to cook up a deadly genocide spell that would make Alcadizzar rue his decision.

Six years later, a horrible plague appeared. Crops began to wither and fail, livestock died, commoners began to fall ill and water turned red. Alcadizzar summoned his chirurgeons and wizards to find a cure, but without success. The lack of food led to citizens rioting or turning to banditry. Worse came as Alcadizzar's two sons, Asar and Ubaid, fell ill. Ubaid died in agony, constantly asking his father to end him. Asar was sent away to live with the desert tribe, Alcadizzar hoped the plaque wouldn't reach them but it did. One night, Asar, now consumed by the illness' madness, left his tent to wander in the desert and was never seen again. Devastated over losing his two sons, he began falling to despair as he watched his empire crumble with people either begging their powerless king to save them, or curse him for unable to save them while somehow not getting sick himself. Then, Khalida finally fell ill; her illness had begun long ago, but she hid it from Alcadizzar and lasted months longer than her two sons. She merely postponed the inevitable, for her stubborness meant the diseased damaged her body to point that she was unrecognizable as the woman she once was and Alcadizzar caved and helped perform a mercy kill on Khalida at her request. Since Alcadizzar shared Khalida's belief against tombs, there was never a pyramid built for his family, despite him being the greatest priest king since Settra. Few attended the funeral for though Khalida was well-loved, many were sick or dead and the king himself had to be pallbearer for his wife. Alcadizzar ultimately couldn't bring himself to let her corpse be cremated, and entombed her at the local necropolis, hoping one day a morturary priest could resurrect her and give her a golden body.

Alcadizzar thought about killing himself to join his family, but news of a new undead army invading Rastera made him gear up mustered what remained of his weakened soldiers. Many citizens that had strength to travel fled to Zandri where they would board its ship and migrate to the Old World. With the remaining forces, weak and sick soldiers who could barely hold a Khopesh, Alcadizzar and his men bravely fought the undead tide in order to buy time for every citizen to escape. Alcadizzar knew it was a battle he cannot win, but gave it his all with his golden blade nonetheless, also hoping one of them could kill him. Then Arkhan came and made short work of the king by parrying all his attacks and capturing him.

=== The Death of Nehekhara, Nagash and Alcadizzar ===
Alcadizzar was stripped of his gear and chained up in a cage for the long journey back to Nagashizzar. While traveling, Alcadizzar was half awake. The cart carried him through the ruins of the great cities, only stopping to occasionally force-feed Alcadizzar a warpstone-laced (or so called because the liquid gives out a fiery sensation) elixir to keep him alive. Eventually reaching the cursed dock where Ophiria had told him of his fate, where they boarded a ship of bone that carried them to Nagashizzar.

At Nagashizzar, he was dragged out of his cage by Nagash himself. Amused by Alcadizzar's weak and malnourished appearance, Nagash took great pleasure in mocking him, claiming that he only sent his army to destroy Nehekhara because he wanted the great cities to know that it was he who had brought them to ruin (leaving out Nagash only used the plague in a temper tantrum after the defeat of his first army. Hypocrite manchild lich...). Alcadizzar remained defiant, telling bone daddy that he would die before betraying his people.

Dismissing his claim, Nagash began his new ritual by paralyzing and painfully carving arcane symbols into Alcadizzar. Nagash explaining how Alcadizzar was the symbol he needed for this ritual, that Nagash had deliberately made the plague to spare Alcadizzar and had not killed him for that reason. That this spell would channel Nagash's magic, kill the last few people living in Nehekhara and bind them to his will. Nagash capped this off by taunting Alcadizzar that he might see his family again and possibly taking Khalida as his consort if he liked her enough, leaving Alcadizzar helpless to do anything but howl in rage.

For the entirely of the ritual, Alcadizzar could only kneel, locked in place by paralyzing needles and the power of the great ritual. The great ritual caused a swirling wind tunnel to form in the sky with green light in it's depth, as if it was a gateway to the underworld. The dead Nehekharans had gathered behind the greenlight gate, drawn by the bond of fealty they owed to Alcadizzar in life. Nagash could sense the spirits gathering behind the greenlight, as could Alcadizzar, who only searched for his dead family.

And just like that, the great ritual summoned up all the undead of Nehekhara. The ancient kings, dead commoners, soldiers. Not even dead wildlife were not safe from Nagash's control. Unbeknownst to them, only the occupants of Settra's tomb hadn't risen.

After the ritual, Nagash was throughly drained but still mighty. He took out the needles from Alcadizzar and had his minions throw Alcadizzar into a dungeon, for Nagash planned to regain a bit of strength then entertain himself by torturing Alcadizzar.

In the cell, Alcadizzar could only thinking about dyiing, tormenting by pain and bad memories, that is until a figure of white light touch his cheek. It was the ghost of Neferem, the long dead queen of Khemri whom Nagash had tormented and killed long ago. Alcadizzar mistook her as his wife Khalida and so he followed her to the cell door. The door opened and two short furry rat like creatures entered the room with a huge lead box. These were the Skaven Eekrit and Eshreegar of Clan Rikek, both business partners and bitter rivals of Nagash. Knowing about Nagash's plan and a prophecy from their Grey Seer about who would kill him, they made the Fellblade: a weapon so deadly it drains the life force of those who wields it, and gave it to Alcadizzar, the Council of Thirteen protecting the wielder.

Confused and desperate, Alcadizzar opened the box and the light of Fellblade filled the entire room. Being in its presence hurt him, and Alcadizzar knew it radiated death, the kind of weapon kill a god... or an undying king. In his delusions, Alcadizzar thought this was Khalida telling him to make things right before it is too late. So he took up the Fellblade blade, which burned him and filled his body with the strength necessary to go where Nagash is and stab the fucker with it.

(It's like the main character from the Gladiator movie, he had lost everything to a tyrant and is about to kill him with the backing of traitorous allies).

Neferem's ghost approached Nagash to distract him. When Neferem disappeared, she left a white smoke, from which Alcadizzar charged. Nagash tried to block the blade with his armored hand, but the blade cut through armor and limb like they were butter. In retaliation, Nagash fired a magic bolt at Alcadizzar, but he was unharmed due to the protection rune carved on the blade (the rune enabled the spellcasters of the Council of Thirteen to protect the weilder, but some of them died from the effort). Alcadizzar then sliced Nagash's spine, which the blade's power causes Nagash to feel actual pain and leech away his power with each strike. In desperation, Nagash grabbed Alcadizzar's throat and planned to crush his spine. But just as Alcadizzar was about to fall unconscious, he freed himself by severing Nagash's other arm, then went into a frenzy and decapitated Nagash.

As his head was severed Nagash let out a hideous scream and his spell came undone. Freed from Nagash's control, the mummy kings began seizing the undead soldiers to serve them, became the Tomb Kings we know and love. The dead that were slain most recently (aka Alcadizzar's people) were instead crumbled and their soul went back to purgatory.

Frenzied, Alcadizzar hacked up Nagash's body and his throne before finally stopping. The last king of Khemri, now dying and insane, took Nagash's crown and the blade and wandered off trying to find Khalida and show her he'd solved the problem. Eventually he found his way out of Nagashizzar and went into the wasteland where he was never seen again.

The legend said he is still searching for redemption.

== Legacy ==
Although Alcadizzar and his people are dead, he did not die without any legacy left behind. The man himself wandered the ruins of Nehekhara until he died and fell into the River Vitae/Mortis and his corpse washed up on a distant shore. The Skaven tracked the Fellblade's magic and recovered the sword, but left Alcadizzar's corpse and crown alone. His body was eventually discovered by a shaman named Kadon, who could recognize the corpse as a Nehekharan king and ordered the construction of a large barrow for him. In an unfortunate move, Kadon decided to wear Nagash's crown and was corrupted by Nagash for it. Under Nagash influence, he had construct a wall city called Mourkhain around Alcadizzar's barrow and have the king's spirit bind to the city's stone for all eternity. Guess Nagash still has the last laugh now since Alcadizzar will stuck there forever. Although the city was later destroyed by the Greenskins, it is unknown if Alcadizzar's spirit was freed after this or continue to stuck in its stone.

Nagash's crown passed down to other people's hand where they would get corrupt by it and become a necromancer (except for [[Sigmar]] himself), then finally took away by a [[Mannfred von Carstein|whiny vampire]] where he would use the crown to ressurect Nagash.

In the Sigmar novel, Sigamr had called upon every scribe to gather any informations about Nagash after a vampire named Khaled al Muntasir came to threaten and parley for Nagash's crown. One of the scribe named Eoforth came across many manuscripts regarding the ancient Nehekhara. One of the manuscripts tells the tale of how Al-Khadizzar (not Alcadizzar or Alcadizaar, whom was referenced as a warrior, not a king btw) slew Nagash with "a dreadful sword of fell power". Many other manuscripts also referenced how Nagash destroyed Nehekhara in a single night. Just how or whom was able to witness these event and documented these manuscripts, when EVERYONE WAS FUCKING DEAD at that time is anyone's guess. Even the events of Neferata and Skaven's alliance with Nagash were mentioned (though it also said Neferata was a consort of Nagash, which is false as she hates Nagash and wanted to rule her own kingdom. Guess whoever made that manuscript didn't know a lot about Neferata). Were they all written by some undead scribes under the order of a tomb kings? did a seer have a vision and and wrote it? Did Ophiria wrote it? Arkhan? Surely the Nehekharan survivors boarding the Zandri ship should be able to remember the tale of Neferata, but not the Skaven or Alcadizzar?

Still, Alcadizaar made no mentioned in the end times despite it shows a lot of dead characters coming back to life. However, Nagash had bind the winds of Shyish to himself and control every dead spirits over the world and it is possible Alcadizzar among those souls. Even if he wasn't controlled by Nagash, he would still be freed in the end, where the Chaos gods managed to emerged from the warp rift caused by Archaon's doomsday device and destroy the world. It is also possible for him to be become a [[Stormcast Eternals]] in age of Sigmar or continue to be tormented by Nagash at the realm of Shyish? who knows.

== An alternative point of view ==
So what if Alcadizzar decided to go after Nagash? could things go differently? with all his forces equipping with rune weaponry, the use of wizard against the pathetic numbers of undead army leftover from the invasion, there might be a chance. Not even Nagash had could simply fight them off despite being hulk up on warpstones and wearing new gears.

Even if Alcadizzar had chose to fight Nagash at full strength but died, Nehekhara might enter a new golden age with the Dwarfs, where they would demolish the greenskins in the wasteland and hunt down the remaining vampire menance together. Nehekharan Empire would be so big that by the time Sigmar was born, he would be worshipping Ptra instead (Although it is unknown if Nehekharan allow the worship of foreign human god like Ulric).

Still, all that promises died the moment Alcadizzar made his decision. Perhaps it was part of Khsar's test? He is a pitiless cruel god who only give challenges and the reward often has to do with what the mortal has gained from his challenges, yet Alcadizzar has failed, which has robbed him of his everything. Could Tzeentch also be involved in his suffering too? afterall, there were a twin tailed comet shining above Alcadizzar. Could this be part of his grand plan to see him suffer? along with the entirely of Nehekhara?

==In other media==
Though he does not make a direct appearance in [[Total War: Warhammer II]], a couple of events involving the Tomb Kings do make mention of Nehekara's last king. The first event has you locating the remains of his army, and deciding whether to harvest them for canopic jars or give them a proper burial. The second event, and arguably ''the'' most important, is that the Tomb Kings apparently located Alcadizzar's remains (which is canonically located at Mourkhain, but Tomb Kings DLC came out before the marsh of madness province was added so there weren't any conquest there to claim his remain), and you can build a great pyramid for him in Bhagar, providing some nifty bonuses to your forces. For all their arrogance, [[Awesome|even the Tomb Kings knew damn well they owe him one]]. His wife and two children weren't mentioned however, for the queen was buried in the commoner necropolis (probably with young Ubaid too) and Asar went missing in the great desert.

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Alcadizzar

2021-03-09T22:38:12Z

2406:3400:20F:FFC0:55B8:8667:3C4:286: /* The King of Khemri */

[[File:Alcadizzar.PNG|thumb|right|The only picture of the last and greatest king of Khemri and Nehekhara. Sporting a mighty trumpet helmet forged by the Dwarfs.]]
'''Alcadizzar''', also known as '''Alcadizaar the Conqueror''', was a ruler of Nehekhara as well as a priest king of Khemri. He was well known for being the last priest king of Khemri, killed Nagash, being the greatest king on par with Settra, as well as doomed the entirely of Nehekhara (more on that later). Although fluff texts from the 8th edition of both vampire and tomb kings details little about Alcadizzar's personal life nor on how he achieved victory, it was completely fleshed out in the novel "Nagash Immortal" of the Time of Legend series.

In the older fluff, it stated that Alcadizzar conquered Lahmia after he slew Vashanesh (aka Vlad) whereas in the later retcon, Vashanesh was changed to Ankhat and he is but a noble attendant to Neferata instead of being her husband as well as being Nagash's distant relative and a general in black fire pass. Not much about his upbringing was known nor fleshed out however.

In the novel, he was born to a Rasetran royal bloodline, is a distant descendant of Settra, lived for over 200 years with the power of Neferata's elixir and had a strong relationship with the desert tribes.

Also his name for some reasons was refered to as Alcadizaar sometimes with an extra A instead of Z.

== Commonly known facts about Alcadizzar ==

-He was named the Conqueror after the war against Lahmia.

-He was the greatest king of Nehekhara since Settra and Nehekhara's last living king.

-Under his leadership, his army defeated Nagash's invasion force and routed them.

-He wept on his throne for not being able to save his people from Nagash's plague.

-He slew Nagash with the Fellblade.

-He went mad afterwards and took Nagash's crown with him where the shaman named Kadon found it along with his corpse.

== Background ==
After Neferata's vampirism and victory over her own cousin Khalida in a duel, she was viewed as Asaph's reincarnation by the public. Under W'soran's suggestion, she created her own cult of personality for PR and to harvest blood safely.

The cult's influence attracted many Nehekharans to Lahmia. Since the Nehekharans no longer had any direct blessing from their gods due to Nagash breaking the ancient divine treaty, having a temple and an incarnation of their gods was a comforting tradition.

The Queen of Rasetra (who was never given a name) was one of the Nehekharans who traveled to the temple, hoping she could get help there to overcome her difficult pregnancy. Since Neferata had given the city of Khemri to the Rasetran King Khept-am-shepret (due to him being descended from one of Settra's sons) over two centuries ago, this meant if the child of her and the current Rasetran King - Aten-Heru - was a boy, he would inherit the throne of Khemri... if he survived the pregnancy.

The death of Khalida had Neferata realize she'd been living in a cage her entire life (Being trapped inside the female palace ever since she was born and all). Being an immortal blood drinker was no different, as she had to hide her vampiric nature and activities from the public or they'd purge her any everything she'd built on Nagash's works.

When she suddenly told her vampire cabal she is going to save the queen's child, everyone was stunned. Her plan was giving the queen a vial of elixir distilled from her own blood, not only saving the child, but also letting other great city knew the greatness of Nefereta's miracle that is unlike Nagash's dark magic. By using her fame and some taxation deductions, she also decided to open an academy in Lahmia for every priest king's children (think of it as junior Harvard or Yale in Egypt) and have them staying there (aka kept as political hostage) until adulthood. Still, everyone in the cabal saw through her bullshit and knew the whole plan is but an excuse for Neferata to find a replacement for Khalida as her life partner, as well as wanting to openly ruled the entirely of Nekhehara as the queen of Khemri for eternity.

=== The Birth of a Giga Chad ===

After Alcadizzar was born, he was immediately placed in Neferata's care with the former Viziar Ubaid (as well as
being Neferata’s chief vampire thrall, unknown to Alcadizzar) acting as his servant. His mother died giving birth to him, removing that family tie, and Alcadizzar's father was unable to see him until he completed his training according to Neferata.

He received the best education a Nehekharan prince could get and, due to the elixir's effect, grew into a man of incredible height, musculature and tactical intellect even for his age (think of him as the warhammer's equivalent of [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jonathan Joestar]], a young man with the physique and height of an adult bodybuilder at the age of 19). He beat four armored instructors in a mock battle using only a rope and his fists. His tactical skills were sharpened by games with a wise war veteran called Jabbari, developing Alcadizzar's wit and helping him learn from his mistakes.

Despite the greatness he had shown, Alcadizzar was not permitted to graduate or leave his training (or Neferata) by age 18, which upset him when he saw others being allowed to graduate but not him. He had a dream of enjoying a good life in a mansion with a family of his own while ruling a kingdom, yet his graduation was held back year after year. Little did poor Alcadizzar know that it was all part of Neferata's wife husbandry plan for him.

By the time Alcadizzar is 30 years old (at -1320 Imperial Reckoning), his uncle Khenti, a powerful yet pissed off Rasetra noble came to Lahmia and demands Neferata to hand over Alcadizzar.

Upon reunion, Alcadizzar greet his uncle with utmost warmest joy, even Kenti's bodyguard were moved by the prince's chadness for Alcadizzar treated them as his equal just like everyone he has met, without discrimination nor any of the polite bullcrap Alcadizzar were drilled in from his social arts on royal manners courses (which he had studied a lot of), and that attitude has gotten him a crowd of admirers.

Neferata was unable to grasp his behavior as well as reasons for his warm greeting despite being a vampire who specialized in reading people's heart. The salty bitch was in fact looking down on Alcadizzar's action as "degrading and mysterious".

After Neferata gave a short lessons on how Alcadizzar's ancestry leads to Settra's fifth son Amenophis, she suggests him to take another DECADES of training session at her temple of blood to truly unite Lahmia and Khemri in spirit (just as the sacred treaty demands on how the king of Khemri and the priestess of Lahmia should wed), and had Alcadizzar to decide if he wants to follow this insane suggestion or go rule Khemri just as he always wanted. Is all up to him.

Despite Khenti's persuasion for him to leave while being clueless to the schemes Neferata has cooked up in her sleeves, Alcadizzar naively accept her training course, for he believe it is ultimately for the good of Khemri and it should survive another decade without him.

And so 25 years later, Alcadizzar became the high priest of the blood temple and has been doing nothing but unknowingly drinking Neferata's elixir and playing with live snakes to show the fake Asap aka Neferata his devotion.

Due to the elixir's effect, Alcadizzar is still looking young despite being 55 years old and yet he is still preparing to be a king and he has so many thing he wished to implemented to the city. Neferata told him to not worry however, for she will grant him as many year as he needed to make Khemri and Nehekhara great again. While strolling at the garden of the temple's inner sanctum, Naaima (Neferata's cathayan courtsan vampire friend)
appeared out of blue and delivered a dreadful message for Alcadizzar. His father, the king of Rasetra whom both never met has died (for the entirely 55 fucking years seriously). Rasetra is now ruled by his younger brother Asar, which the later beg Alcadizzar to come back for his father's funeral. Ironically, Alcadizzar doesn't seems to know how to react since he never personally knew his dad, just like his mother who had died after his birth, and was therefore unable to felt a shred of saddness.

Angered by Naaima's sudden interruption from her sweet time between Alcadizzar, Neferata tell Alcadizzar to go pray at the snek goddess for his father's passing. Alcadizzar remain clueless to the scheme Neferata has for him.

5 years later, Alcadizzar finally faced his last trial. He must prove his utmost sacrifice and devotion, by survive 7 day and 7 night without water, food while being tormented with pain from lashes. Kinda similar to the buddism's six cleansing with more bdsm play and Neferata had probably copied the training doctrine from either the Cathayan or the Inds (being a Lahmian, the only type of Nehekharan weeaboo, this seems fitting). Thanks to the elixir's power as well as his own strong will, Alcadizzar survived these [[Slaanesh|painful and inhumane]] trial. On the last part, Alcadizzar needs to survive a dagger to the heart, and he did (plot armor and all) but lost his conscious.

When he woke up however, he found Neferata without her mask on, showing her frightened pale skinned face and vampire saber tooth fang like some kind of freakish monster (take note Twilight). For the first time in his life, Alcadizzar was scared and realized he had been tricked by an abomination created by Nagash. Using her unnatural strength, Neferata force Alcadizzar to drink up the final elixir that would turn him into a vampire. Just then, Ubaid saved him by furiously attacking Neferata's face then telling Alcadizzar to run away.

Despite being a vampire and was under Neffy's control for sometimes, Ubaid was always moved by Alcadizzar charisma even when he was young, especially just a seconds ago when Alcadizzar had criticized Neferata for not putting the poor Ubaid to rest and claimed he should have joined his ancestors long ago.

With Ubaid's sacrifice, Alcadizzar escaped. Neferata was furious that not only he torn off Ubaid with her saber tooth fang like a lion, she became ever vengeful that she would do everything in her power to find Alcadizzar, even if it means to turn her city and into a roach hotel.

=== Lonesome Road ===

Using the training and knowledge he had acquired from the academy as well as the power of elixir he was fed with, Alcadizzar escaped the palace guard and hid in the commoner quarter like [[Metal Gear|a main character in a stealth game]]. He knew he had to survive so he could get to Rasetra and warn everyone about the vampires in Lahmia. For eight months, Alcadizzar took on Ubaid's name as an alias while living the thug life for the first free period of his life [[meme|(not because he chose it, but it chose him)]].

He stole, got drunk and even killed (albeit a member of a group of sailors who tried to press gang him into joining them). He even worked in a brothel in the infamous red <s>light</s> silk district as hired muscle for security. At one point he worked with a gang of jewel thieves whom were planning to rob an old wealthy family, only to ended in betrayal and blood in one night. Alcadizzar also knew his first love and had his first kiss stolen during this time.

When his appearance was finally different enough from Neferata's description of him, he escaped Lahmia without having the guards recognize him. But worse was to come. He tried to hitch a ride on the caravans in order to avoid the outlaws and bandits on the golden plain, but the master and the guards refused, fearing he might be a spy for the caravan raiders. For the next few months as he struggled his way across the plain, forced to fight for his life on more than one occasion, but his training and the lasting potency of Neferata’s elixir saw him through.

He eventually reached Lybaras, greatly diminished due to Neferata's political actions, and hoped to share his information with the king, but was met with refusal as even his vizier refused to answer him.

A full year and a half has passed after he escaped Lahmia when he finally made it to Rasetra. He united with his uncle Khenti, by now an elderly man, and helped arrange a secret meeting between Alcadizzar and his brother. Despite the horrifying tale Alcadizzar told, his brother Asar gave him the benefit of the doubt but demanded proof before any action could be taken.

To start a war with Lahmia and win would require a coalition army of the great cities, something unfeasible for many reasons. Firstly, wars cost a lot of manpower and gold, which are still scarce thanks to Nagash's regime. Neferata took up where Nagash left off by manipulating the great cities into bickering among themselves, weakening them so that none were able to stand up against Lahmia directly. Even Rasetra, which had clawed its way back from the brink of ruin and rebuilt its powerful army, still lacked the resources for a protracted war against the Lahmians. And though many of the great cities now possessed iron weapons and armour that were the equal of Lahmia’s, none of them had a counter for the fearsome dragon staffs they wielded (and were unaware of the Lahmians' bluff). Other than that, there was too much ambition and too little trust among the other cities to make such an alliance possible. Of the great cities, only three were strong enough to present themselves as possible rivals to Lahmia’s power: Rasetra, Zandri and Ka-Sabar, but none were willing to take the first step and risk standing alone in the face of Lahmian reprisal. Evidence of Nagash's dark arts were needed to persuade the rival kings to put aside their ambitions and come together in a common cause against Lahmia.

Knowing how well Lahmia guarded their vampiric secret and the lethality of her vampire agents, Alcadizzar has to risk himself to get the proof. With some supplies from his uncle and some planning, Alcadizzar once again ventured into the lawless desert, alone.

=== Alcadizzar <s>[[Dune|Muad'Dib</s> Ubaid]] ===

Realizing the capability of the desert tribe's (otherwise known as the fallen Bhagarian, whom were defeated and enslaved by Arkhan's forces during Nagash's reign) skill at archery and horse riding, Alcadizzar decided to befriend them to survive and gain a powerful ally against the Lahmians. It was no easy task however, since the tribe at the time were secretive and clannish, making it really hard to earn their trust. Alcadizzar eventually made some progress by befriended one of its young cheiftian named Faisr al-Hashim, of the bani-al-Hashim after he saved him from a carravan raid gone bad.

As a reward for saving his life, Faisr adopted Alcadizzar into his tribe for 20 years (a crucial custom for any outsiders to join their tribe) where during that time, Alcadizzar being the badass he is saved Faisr's dirty arse three times and killed [[meme|fitty men]] (literary). During a tribal gathering, many chieftains from other tribes called out Alcadizzar for being an outsider or worse, a Lahmian spy, that is until an old woman with leonine yellow eye advocate for him and allowing Alcadizzar to become part of their tribe.

This old woman was named Suleima, a <s>Reverend Mother</s> Daughter of the Sands, the bride of Khsar as well as his chosen, whom has the highest authority among the tribe. Her kind was born once in every generation and they have the power <s>Truthsaying</s> to see a man's future through their soul. Suleima was always accompanied by her successor Ophiria, a young girl of 14 year old who shared the same leonine yellow eye and Alcadizzar had already notice Ophiria's gaze towards him beforehand, meaning they already knew about Alcadizzar's plan.

25 years later, Alcadizzar led his raiders to raid a Lahmian watch-fort. He was dismay by the decline of the Lahmian military, whose soldiers are lacking leadership and were willing to surrendered their fully secured fort with many garrisoned soldiers without a fight, which would be considered unacceptable 40 years ago.

After that, Alcadizzar and the raiders were greeted with Suleima's passing. Alcadizzar spent the entire afternoon at his tent after Suleima's funeral, being irritating about the amount of duties he has to accomplish and the years he has to sacrificed before he could retired to the life he has always dreamed of. Just then, Ophiria, now a 39 years old woman barged into his tent. In one conversation, Alcadizzar told her everything (being truthful with her since she can read people's minds). However for Ophiria, being a daughter of the sand, she saw far more than just Alcadizzar's identity, but his future as well and knew he is going to be a king of Khemri. Ophiria then began a to express her sorrow about her people being oathbreakers, who had broken the ancient promise they had made with their god Khsar and Settra after their shameful display during the war with Nagash and are now being punished for it. She hopes Alcadizzar, as the future king of Nehekhara could forgive their sin by remade a new sacred oath with them. Without any delay, Alcadizzar sworn a new blood oath by holding Ophiria's hand with his bloodied one. As a reward, Ophiria told him of a prophecy that would led to his goal...

40 years later, Alcadizzar prepared an ambush at the north of Lahmia to finally obtain the proof of dark art he was so eager to obtain. Another sign from Ophiria's prophecy was a frigging twin-tailed comet on the sky. To many scholar and any warhammer races, it is the harbingers of conflict (as well as other important symbolism like the birth of great ruler, hope or Tzeentch's meddling). A group of six men in black cloak on steed was passing by at that point and the desert raiders made short work of them with their arrows.

Hilariously, this group was lead by Zurhas to act as envoy in order to form an alliance with Nagash at Nagashizzar. Around that time, W'soran had discovered Nagash's location being north of Lahmia, which gave Ushoran an idea to allied themselves with the undying king in order take over Lahmia, as well as the rest of Nehekhara. In order to allow himself to not be suspect by Neferata and her underling, he met Zurhas (who was but a phantom member of the cabal that had spent his immortality on gambling) and manipulate the lowlife into doing his dirty work for him. Since traveling on sea was too noticeable, Zhuras had to travel overland north with a few companion (whose job is to help him find shelters to prevent him burning under the sun). Ushoran even thought about getting rid of Zurhas after he had rid of Neferata and the Nehekharans, and he is definitely going to be disappointed since his action might've doomed himself as well as the entirely of Lahmia.

As soon as every black cloaks were shot down, Zurhas shown himself as a pale clawed monster under the comet's light. Zurhas had killed six raiders that was charging at him with swords (not a single spear were used. Do they play [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] at all?) and tried to run away, but Alcadizzar and his horseman managed to stall him long enough for Faisr to stake the vampire with a barbed javelin in the heart. In the most glorious or perhaps the most iconic moment of his life, Alcadizzar confessed everything to Faisr under the comet's light.

Oh and turns out Zurhas had a lot evidence. [[Fail|The scrolls and letters he bought contained information about the vampires in Lahmia and Nagash's still alive, walking and kicking in the northern part of Lahmia]].

=== The Siege of Lahmia & Alcadizzar's enthronement ===

Six month after the evidences and Alcadizzar's personnel letter being delivered to Rasetra, a coalition army of the great cities was formed on the great plain within a week. Each great city bought their flavors of army:

From Rasetra, its army, lead by Prince Heru (Asar's heir), brought ten thousand heavy infantry, plus two thousand cold one chariots.

From Lybaras, its army lead by King Ahmenefret, brought mostly artillery managed by their scholar warrior. Their artillery were a dozen huge catapults, eight ballistae and four armoured fire-throwers, all were transported on a train pulled by teams of oxens.

From the desert tribes, its army lead by the newly elected leader Fasir (who had won the competition to get the role), brought eight thousand of the finest light cavalry in the land, clad in burnished armour and billowing silk robes.

From Mahrak, its army's commander were not specified, but they brought five thousand priestly warriors. These head shaved warrior priest are called the Hurusanni, or Devoted, patterned their weapons and training on the legendary Ushabti of ancient times. They are known to pray and meditate while traveling, are fanatical and desires nothing but the destruction of Lahmia's abominations, as well as anything created by Nagash's dark magic.

From Quatar, its army lead by king Nebunefre, the Lord of the Tombs, brought five thousand of their fabled Tomb Guard of Quatar. They are heavy infantry who march in silence, wears lacquered armour that glimmer in the moonlight (which makes them look like white ghostly figures from a far) and their helms were fashioned in the shape of jackals’ heads, the sacred visage of Djaf, god of the dead.

From Numas, its army lead by Queen Omorose, brought ten thousand proud Numasi cavalry, whose horse were famously known breed among the Nehekharans.
Their larger size horse tend to picking on and bickering with the much smaller horse breed ridden by the desert tribe riders, whom were marching side by side.

From Zandri, its army lead by King Rakh-an-atum, brought two thousand archers, four thousand spearmen and another five thousand Northlander mercenaries.

From Ka-Sabar, its army lead by Aten-sefu, brought their famed Iron Legion; fifteen thousand heavily-armoured spearmen and four thousand archers, who march in thunders of heavy kettledrums.

Then finally from Khemri, its army lead by none other than the hero of this article: Alcadizzar! Khemri has been managed by generations of viziers over the last four hundred years and yet, it's still looking like Rasetra in is colony state (all thanks to the interventions from Numas and Zandri, but mostly Nagash's fault anyway), meaning it has a small army. They however making up for their lack of military strength by throwing the fanciest and the most expensive parade. Two hundred chariots, each one manned by the lord of one of Khemri’s noble houses. The noble lords and their retainers were not armed and armoured for war, but instead were clad in their finest feast garments, tossing handfuls of coins to the dumbfounded soldiers, laughing and chanting “Alcadizzar! Alcadizzar!” at the top of their lungs. Six thousand infantry in total were sighted. From spearmans to javelin-wielding light infantry, clad in pristine white tunics and polished leather armour, plus another two thousand slave auxiliaries armed with slings and short swords. Despite its small size, the soldiers marched with their head held high and proud, cheering Alcadizzar’s name.

Alcadizzar too finally making his debut at Khemri as its official ruler. Despite Fasir had already forgiven Alcadizzar for keeping his real name a secret and using his tribesman as his tool for his own gains, its act had already created a rift between the two that could never heal. Still Alcadizzar, no longer using Ubaid as his alias, treat the Fasir and his desert tribe like his own family, even wanting to marry one of its member as his queen. The tradition would requires him to marry a Lahmian, which shouldn't be possible due to its corruption and its now getting its ass whooped.

Although the coalition army greatly outnumbered the Lahmian, Neferata called every vampire she knew to fight the invaders. W'soran was freed from his imprisonment and given [[Nagash]]'s book to stall the Nehekharans with summoned zombie fodders. Ushoran and Ankhat were on the frontline where they inhumanly tore apart the Nehekharans with their supernatural strength. Neferata too was on the field with her vampire handmaiden who has the power of seduction to manipulate the Nekeharans, as well as their usual inhuman strength and agility to kill and chase down anything, even a horse cavalry.

Despite fighting such monstrosities and lost many man, the Nehekharans pressed on with Alcadizzar leading them with great courage.

While Ushoran was enjoying bathing in Nehekharans blood, the swift horse archers of the desert tribe shot him with arrows embedded with asphalt clay flask. The arrows were specifically shot at the lord of the mask's places like feet that it rendered him immobilized, and some are even shot dangerously close to his heart. Once Ushoran was soak in flammable liquid and unable to move, the horseman light him on fire.

Ankhat easily slaughtered a company of Northlander barbarians as well as many Nehekharans spearman through the use of his fabulous display of swordsmanship combine with his inhumane vampiric power. Despite doing so well, the warriors he was put in charge of commanding it were inexperienced, weak, and were easily routed by the overwhelming Nehekharans forces.

W'soran has been doing well stalling the Nehekharans with zombie summons. Just as he was about to find a spell from his book to attack the newly reinforced Nehekharans, the tower he resides was hit by catapult shots, forcing him to run in terror (so much for a vampire's fearless mentality), cancelled out his ritual and putting all the zombies to rest.

It finally leaved to Neferata and her vamprie handmaidens being the only threatening thing left in the Lahmian force. Their seduction power works on anyone that looked them in the eye. Calvaries and elite infantries alike were easily controlled and were dealt with by the handmaidens' claw. Still, the handmaidens were reckless enough to get trample by chariots and stroke down by dozens of arrow shot from the desert tribe archer. Neferata was able to slaughter the most elite warriors of Khemri forces, even the fanatical Mahrak warriors (whom were not immune to her seduction despite being so fanatical), pushed so far into the Nehekharans' army and reached out to Alcadizzar. Alcadizzar, depsite with great strength and will was unable to stood against Neferata's inhuman strength and her vampire mind trick. Between the two, Neferata tried to convinced Alcadizzar to come back to her but was met with his strong refusal instead. Neferata then answered his rejection with a furious claw strike, knocking him down. Just as she was about to suck his blood (to have him "give back" all the "gift" she had given him), Alcadizzar struck her heart with a hidden dagger, and thus defeated her.

As soon as Neferata was defeated, Ankhat desperately ordered every military personnel to rescue her ass before she is captured. Just as the Nehekharan forces is about to swarm Neferata, Abhorash appeared in time, slaughtered many Nehekharans and allowed the vampires to escape. After that, the Nehekharans began sacking Lahmia. For seven days and seven nights, every bit of Lahmia was looted then razed to the bone and its citizens enslaved. Despite the glorious treasury the Nehekharans has looted and were happily celebrated over it, Alcadizzar's dismay however. Not a single vampires were found and captured nor were the book of Nagash was found (W'soran had took it with him to Nagashizzar). To Alcadizzar, this battle is a total loss.

Also there were mentioning of constructs according to the rulebook, but were not mentioned in the novel. And if it were, it could kick a huge amount of vampire asses to the point of resulting the battle into a one sided slaughter.

=== The King of Khemri ===

Finally 37 years later, Alcadizzar began to rule Khemri as well as the entirely of Nehekhara. Under his reign, every great cities return wealthy (since they no longer have Lahmian fucking with them on trades and taxes every year) and peace were restored. However, all the wealth he has accumulated were spent on military and defenses for the eventual return of Nagash. He also wed a girl who shared the same name as the Lybaras Queen Khalida 37 years ago, who just so happend to be Ophiria's niece and is now somewhat 67 years-ish old, ruling Khemri with him as a wise queen. They bore two sons together, named Asar and Ubaid (once again, Alcadizzar named after his former servant and his brother).

Interestingly, one of his explorer named Rahotep he had sent north had an encountered with annu-horesh (also known as the Dwarfs) whom at that time were ruled by Morgrim Blackbeard (by the time the explorer had came back, the year was -1163 Imperial Reckoning and Blackbeard was known for started a troll war at -1245). The Dwarves had treated Rahotep with respect and hospitality for the entire winter, even promised a chance of trading and friendship. To show their respect, they gifted Alcadizzar with mastercrafted armor and a huge two-handed khopesh, golden, enchanted with magic, warm like the sun which could hurt dark foes and were quite lightweight, all the while it was made out of iron (note that it was not even enchanted with runes like Sigmar's hammer, which its power could go off the chart if it were).

Other than the Dwarven crafts, Rahotep also bought knowledges of magic which Alcadizzar had founded sorcerer’s collegium in Khemri in order for their kins to master its power (without the help of some arrogant pointy ears too. Take that Empire!). The other cities too will follow Alcadizzar and began learning magic in order to cope without their gods' blessing (also so they could show off their superiority like every Nehekharan rulers would do). Notably, Ka-Sabar has began using its knowledge to create a small amount of enchanted gears every year. Mahrak was quite butthurt about all of this. Its Hieratic Council was suspecting Alcadizzar had decided to abandoned their faith [[heresy|for some heretical power]] and thus refused to cooprate with the rest.

Despite Morgrim Blackbeard had sent his warmest invitation to the Nehekharan king, welcome him to their hold and discuss relations between their kingdoms, Alcadizzar had to object for Nagash has to be dealt with first.

=== Nagash's Second Invasion (also known as the war of three stooges) ===
Due to the founding of sorcerer’s collegium, there were wizards employed in each great city but Mahrak for obvious reasons. [[Adeptus Astra Telepathica|They act as telephone by telepathically sending their local ruler's messages]] to Alcadizzar without wasting any time with envoys. With Nagash's invasion forces were sighted, they proved vital in quickly sending orders and reports, but it was still a monumental effort that took its toll on Alcadizzar with him overthinking and second-guessing his plans often. But it ultimately paid off, as it made the Nehekharans one step ahead of Nagash's forces, and they prepared for them with siege defenses and armies.

Due to the position of Nagashizzar just north of Lahmia across the sour sea, Nagash's ten armies led by Arkhan and W'soran took over the ruins of Lahmia as soon as they arrived. In response, the closest armies from Lybaras and Rasetra formed a vanguard to challenge them. Thanks to their enchanted weaponry and magic, the Nehekharans gave W'soran and his army a very hard time. But despite putting up a very good fight, the undead legion won through sheer numbers and replenishing its losses with dead Nehekharans. Realizing the Nehekharans were too well prepared, Arkhan sent one third of the army to siege Lybaras and Rasetra to prevent them from reinforcing western Nehekhara.

Mahrak was the next target of the undead legion. The news of Lybaras and Rasetra armies' defeat had reach Mahrak and its fanatical warriors were prepared to defend the city to the death. Without the use of gods' blessing nor Alcadizzar's magic improvements, all Mahrak had was fanatical white robe warriors, basic archers and shield infantry. Under constant attacks from catapults, tomb scorpion constructs and Arkhan's dark magic bolts, the city that had once held off Nagash's army for months was razed within in five days.

Alcadizzar had hoped the Hieratic Council would evacuate behind the thick wall he had fortified at the eastern end of the Valley of Kings to hold against the undead for many weeks and give their non-combatants enough time to reach Quatar. But that was not to be and Alcadizzar and other great cities had to go on without them.

The aforementioned walls were three very strong, thick walls made from granite, built by the finest smith at Ka-Sabar. In addition,, the walls were equipped with weaponry effective against the undead: fire arrows, flaming tar catapults, manned by heavily armored infantries... all that good stuff. What's more, each wall was taller than the one in front of it and not even ladders could reach the top of the third wall, nor could the bone giants or Arkhan's magic hope to breach it.

Just as the third wall was about to be cleared, Alcadizzar came just in time, riding on his chariot with Khalida besides him followed by a host of cavalry. They flanked the undead army and dealt it a serious blow. W'soran managed to blast Alcadizzar off his chariot and had two of his vampire servants ambush him. Dazed, Alcadizzar was saved by his chief wizard Suleiman and an archer who attacked the vampire and brought Alcadizzar time to recover and kill them.

W'soran then blasted the dead vampire and Alcadizzar with his magic, only for Alcadizzar's Dwarven forged armor to protect him and render the spell harmless, to W'soran's surprise. As W'soran advanced on Alcadizzar, Khalida saved him with an arrow shot straight into W'soran eye, the vampire howling and breaking a clay jar to unleash a swarm of scarabs that carried him to safety. With W'soran's retreat the clouds disspated and the undead army was thwarted.

=== Nagash: I'm About to End This Man's Whole Career ===
[[File:Alcadizzar decision.png|thumb|right| The chariot problem]]
Two weeks after Nagash's army had fled from Nehekhara, Alcadizzar and the rest of the Nehekhara armies gathered at Lahmia's docks. Despite his injuries from war AND the fact he is now 189 years old, Alcadizzar decided to give chase to the undead legion on sea and hopefully be rid of them once and for all.

Just then, however, Ophiria came to greet Alcadizzar and after some cajoling, tearfully informed him of his fate: if he went to Nagashizzar, he would kill Nagash but he will die (the actual text was he will not return, so same meaning). Initially, Ophiria didn't want to tell Alcadizzar anything other than to send her niece Khalida back to Khemri and have the king leading the army alone, but Alcadizzar convinced Ophiria to tell him everything when he saw her and knew she had bad news for him.

Alcadizzar, who was already so tired and old, wanted to enjoy good retirement life, as did his wife. With Nagash's invasion force broken and not wanting to trigger Ophiria's prophecy, they decided to abandon the chase and enjoy rebuilding and ruling their city. Ophiria was never seen again after that. Unbeknownst to any of the Nehekharans, Nagash's defeat made him decide to cook up a deadly genocide spell that would make Alcadizzar rue his decision.

Six years later, a horrible plague appeared. Crops began to wither and fail, livestock died, commoners began to fall ill and water turned red. Alcadizzar summoned his chirurgeons and wizards to find a cure, but without success. The lack of food led to citizens rioting or turning to banditry. Worse came as Alcadizzar's two sons, Asar and Ubaid, fell ill. Ubaid died in agony, constantly asking his father to end him. Asar was sent away to live with the desert tribe, Alcadizzar hoped the plaque wouldn't reach them but it did. One night, Asar, now consumed by the illness' madness, left his tent to wander in the desert and was never seen again. Devastated over losing his two sons, he began falling to despair as he watched his empire crumble with people either begging their powerless king to save them, or curse him for unable to save them while somehow not getting sick himself. Then, Khalida finally fell ill; her illness had begun long ago, but she hid it from Alcadizzar and lasted months longer than her two sons. She merely postponed the inevitable, for her stubborness meant the diseased damaged her body to point that she was unrecognizable as the woman she once was and Alcadizzar caved and helped perform a mercy kill on Khalida at her request. Since Alcadizzar shared Khalida's belief against tombs, there was never a pyramid built for his family, despite him being the greatest priest king since Settra. Few attended the funeral for though Khalida was well-loved, many were sick or dead and the king himself had to be pallbearer for his wife. Alcadizzar ultimately couldn't bring himself to let her corpse be cremated, and entombed her at the local necropolis, hoping one day a morturary priest could resurrect her and give her a golden body.

Alcadizzar thought about killing himself to join his family, but news of a new undead army invading Rastera made him gear up mustered what remained of his weakened soldiers. Many citizens that had strength to travel fled to Zandri where they would board its ship and migrate to the Old World. With the remaining forces, weak and sick soldiers who could barely hold a Khopesh, Alcadizzar and his men bravely fought the undead tide in order to buy time for every citizen to escape. Alcadizzar knew it was a battle he cannot win, but gave it his all with his golden blade nonetheless, also hoping one of them could kill him. Then Arkhan came and made short work of the king by parrying all his attacks and capturing him.

=== The Death of Nehekhara, Nagash and Alcadizzar ===
Alcadizzar was stripped of his gear and chained up in a cage for the long journey back to Nagashizzar. While traveling, Alcadizzar was half awake. The cart carried him through the ruins of the great cities, only stopping to occasionally force-feed Alcadizzar a warpstone-laced (or so called because the liquid gives out a fiery sensation) elixir to keep him alive. Eventually reaching the cursed dock where Ophiria had told him of his fate, where they boarded a ship of bone that carried them to Nagashizzar.

At Nagashizzar, he was dragged out of his cage by Nagash himself. Amused by Alcadizzar's weak and malnourished appearance, Nagash took great pleasure in mocking him, claiming that he only sent his army to destroy Nehekhara because he wanted the great cities to know that it was he who had brought them to ruin (leaving out Nagash only used the plague in a temper tantrum after the defeat of his first army. Hypocrite manchild lich...). Alcadizzar remained defiant, telling bone daddy that he would die before betraying his people.

Dismissing his claim, Nagash began his new ritual by paralyzing and painfully carving arcane symbols into Alcadizzar. Nagash explaining how Alcadizzar was the symbol he needed for this ritual, that Nagash had deliberately made the plague to spare Alcadizzar and had not killed him for that reason. That this spell would channel Nagash's magic, kill the last few people living in Nehekhara and bind them to his will. Nagash capped this off by taunting Alcadizzar that he might see his family again and possibly taking Khalida as his consort if he liked her enough, leaving Alcadizzar helpless to do anything but howl in rage.

For the entirely of the ritual, Alcadizzar could only kneel, locked in place by paralyzing needles and the power of the great ritual. The great ritual caused a swirling wind tunnel to form in the sky with green light in it's depth, as if it was a gateway to the underworld. The dead Nehekharans had gathered behind the greenlight gate, drawn by the bond of fealty they owed to Alcadizzar in life. Nagash could sense the spirits gathering behind the greenlight, as could Alcadizzar, who only searched for his dead family.

And just like that, the great ritual summoned up all the undead of Nehekhara. The ancient kings, dead commoners, soldiers. Not even dead wildlife were not safe from Nagash's control. Unbeknownst to them, only the occupants of Settra's tomb hadn't risen.

After the ritual, Nagash was throughly drained but still mighty. He took out the needles from Alcadizzar and had his minions throw Alcadizzar into a dungeon, for Nagash planned to regain a bit of strength then entertain himself by torturing Alcadizzar.

In the cell, Alcadizzar could only thinking about dyiing, tormenting by pain and bad memories, that is until a figure of white light touch his cheek. It was the ghost of Neferem, the long dead queen of Khemri whom Nagash had tormented and killed long ago. Alcadizzar mistook her as his wife Khalida and so he followed her to the cell door. The door opened and two short furry rat like creatures entered the room with a huge lead box. These were the Skaven Eekrit and Eshreegar of Clan Rikek, both business partners and bitter rivals of Nagash. Knowing about Nagash's plan and a prophecy from their Grey Seer about who would kill him, they made the Fellblade: a weapon so deadly it drains the life force of those who wields it, and gave it to Alcadizzar, the Council of Thirteen protecting the wielder.

Confused and desperate, Alcadizzar opened the box and the light of Fellblade filled the entire room. Being in its presence hurt him, and Alcadizzar knew it radiated death, the kind of weapon kill a god... or an undying king. In his delusions, Alcadizzar thought this was Khalida telling him to make things right before it is too late. So he took up the Fellblade blade, which burned him and filled his body with the strength necessary to go where Nagash is and stab the fucker with it.

(It's like the main character from the Gladiator movie, he had lost everything to a tyrant and is about to kill him with the backing of traitorous allies).

Neferem's ghost approached Nagash to distract him. When Neferem disappeared, she left a white smoke, from which Alcadizzar charged. Nagash tried to block the blade with his armored hand, but the blade cut through armor and limb like they were butter. In retaliation, Nagash fired a magic bolt at Alcadizzar, but he was unharmed due to the protection rune carved on the blade (the rune enabled the spellcasters of the Council of Thirteen to protect the weilder, but some of them died from the effort). Alcadizzar then sliced Nagash's spine, which the blade's power causes Nagash to feel actual pain and leech away his power with each strike. In desperation, Nagash grabbed Alcadizzar's throat and planned to crush his spine. But just as Alcadizzar was about to fall unconscious, he freed himself by severing Nagash's other arm, then went into a frenzy and decapitated Nagash.

As his head was severed Nagash let out a hideous scream and his spell came undone. Freed from Nagash's control, the mummy kings began seizing the undead soldiers to serve them, became the Tomb Kings we know and love. The dead that were slain most recently (aka Alcadizzar's people) were instead crumbled and their soul went back to purgatory.

Frenzied, Alcadizzar hacked up Nagash's body and his throne before finally stopping. The last king of Khemri, now dying and insane, took Nagash's crown and the blade and wandered off trying to find Khalida and show her he'd solved the problem. Eventually he found his way out of Nagashizzar and went into the wasteland where he was never seen again.

The legend said he is still searching for redemption.

== Legacy ==
Although Alcadizzar and his people are dead, he did not die without any legacy left behind. The man himself wandered the ruins of Nehekhara until he died and fell into the River Vitae/Mortis and his corpse washed up on a distant shore. The Skaven tracked the Fellblade's magic and recovered the sword, but left Alcadizzar's corpse and crown alone. His body was eventually discovered by a shaman named Kadon, who could recognize the corpse as a Nehekharan king and ordered the construction of a large barrow for him. In an unfortunate move, Kadon decided to wear Nagash's crown and was corrupted by Nagash for it. Under Nagash influence, he had construct a wall city called Mourkhain around Alcadizzar's barrow and have the king's spirit bind to the city's stone for all eternity. Guess Nagash still has the last laugh now since Alcadizzar will stuck there forever. Although the city was later destroyed by the Greenskins, it is unknown if Alcadizzar's spirit was freed after this or continue to stuck in its stone.

Nagash's crown passed down to other people's hand where they would get corrupt by it and become a necromancer (with exceptions to [[Azhag the Slaughterer|orcs]] and [[Sigmar]] himself), then finally took away by a [[Mannfred von Carstein|whiny vampire]] where he would use the crown to ressurect Nagash.

In the Sigmar novel, Sigamr had called upon every scribe to gather any informations about Nagash after a vampire named Khaled al Muntasir came to threaten and parley for Nagash's crown. One of the scribe named Eoforth came across many manuscripts regarding the ancient Nehekhara. One of the manuscripts tells the tale of how Al-Khadizzar (not Alcadizzar or Alcadizaar, whom was referenced as a warrior, not a king btw) slew Nagash with "a dreadful sword of fell power". Many other manuscripts also referenced how Nagash destroyed Nehekhara in a single night. Just how or whom was able to witness these event and documented these manuscripts, when EVERYONE WAS FUCKING DEAD at that time is anyone's guess. Even the events of Neferata and Skaven's alliance with Nagash were mentioned (though it also said Neferata was a consort of Nagash, which is false as she hates Nagash and wanted to rule her own kingdom. Guess whoever made that manuscript didn't know a lot about Neferata). Were they all written by some undead scribes under the order of a tomb kings? did a seer have a vision and and wrote it? Did Ophiria wrote it? Arkhan? Surely the Nehekharan survivors boarding the Zandri ship should be able to remember the tale of Neferata, but not the Skaven or Alcadizzar?

Still, Alcadizaar made no mentioned in the end times despite it shows a lot of dead characters coming back to life. However, Nagash had bind the winds of Shyish to himself and control every dead spirits over the world and it is possible Alcadizzar among those souls. Even if he wasn't controlled by Nagash, he would still be freed in the end, where the Chaos gods managed to emerged from the warp rift caused by Archaon's doomsday device and destroy the world. It is also possible for him to be become a [[Stormcast Eternals]] in age of Sigmar or continue to be tormented by Nagash at the realm of Shyish? who knows.

== An alternative point of view ==
So what if Alcadizzar decided to go after Nagash? could things go differently? with all his forces equipping with rune weaponry, the use of wizard against the pathetic numbers of undead army leftover from the invasion, there might be a chance. Not even Nagash had could simply fight them off despite being hulk up on warpstones and wearing new gears.

Even if Alcadizzar had chose to fight Nagash at full strength but died, Nehekhara might enter a new golden age with the Dwarfs, where they would demolish the greenskins in the wasteland and hunt down the remaining vampire menance together. Nehekharan Empire would be so big that by the time Sigmar was born, he would be worshipping Ptra instead (Although it is unknown if Nehekharan allow the worship of foreign human god like Ulric).

Still, all that promises died the moment Alcadizzar made his decision. Perhaps it was part of Khsar's test? He is a pitiless cruel god who only give challenges and the reward often has to do with what the mortal has gained from his challenges, yet Alcadizzar has failed, which has robbed him of his everything. Could Tzeentch also be involved in his suffering too? afterall, there were a twin tailed comet shining above Alcadizzar. Could this be part of his grand plan to see him suffer? along with the entirely of Nehekhara?

==In other media==
Though he does not make a direct appearance in [[Total War: Warhammer II]], a couple of events involving the Tomb Kings do make mention of Nehekara's last king. The first event has you locating the remains of his army, and deciding whether to harvest them for canopic jars or give them a proper burial. The second event, and arguably ''the'' most important, is that the Tomb Kings apparently located Alcadizzar's remains (which is canonically located at Mourkhain, but Tomb Kings DLC came out before the marsh of madness province was added so there weren't any conquest there to claim his remain), and you can build a great pyramid for him in Bhagar, providing some nifty bonuses to your forces. For all their arrogance, [[Awesome|even the Tomb Kings knew damn well they owe him one]]. His wife and two children weren't mentioned however, for the queen was buried in the commoner necropolis (probably with young Ubaid too) and Asar went missing in the great desert.

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Alcadizzar

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[[File:Alcadizzar.PNG|thumb|right|The only picture of the last and greatest king of Khemri and Nehekhara. Sporting a mighty trumpet helmet forged by the Dwarfs.]]
'''Alcadizzar''', also known as '''Alcadizaar the Conqueror''', was a ruler of Nehekhara as well as a priest king of Khemri. He was well known for being the last priest king of Khemri, killed Nagash, being the greatest king on par with Settra, as well as doomed the entirely of Nehekhara (more on that later). Although fluff texts from the 8th edition of both vampire and tomb kings details little about Alcadizzar's personal life nor on how he achieved victory, it was completely fleshed out in the novel "Nagash Immortal" of the Time of Legend series.

In the older fluff, it stated that Alcadizzar conquered Lahmia after he slew Vashanesh (aka Vlad) whereas in the later retcon, Vashanesh was changed to Ankhat and he is but a noble attendant to Neferata instead of being her husband as well as being Nagash's distant relative and a general in black fire pass. Not much about his upbringing was known nor fleshed out however.

In the novel, he was born to a Rasetran royal bloodline, is a distant descendant of Settra, lived for over 200 years with the power of Neferata's elixir and had a strong relationship with the desert tribes.

Also his name for some reasons was refered to as Alcadizaar sometimes with an extra A instead of Z.

== Commonly known facts about Alcadizzar ==

-He was named the Conqueror after the war against Lahmia.

-He was the greatest king of Nehekhara since Settra and Nehekhara's last living king.

-Under his leadership, his army defeated Nagash's invasion force and routed them.

-He wept on his throne for not being able to save his people from Nagash's plague.

-He slew Nagash with the Fellblade.

-He went mad afterwards and took Nagash's crown with him where the shaman named Kadon found it along with his corpse.

== Background ==
After Neferata's vampirism and victory over her own cousin Khalida in a duel, she was viewed as Asaph's reincarnation by the public. Under W'soran's suggestion, she created her own cult of personality for PR and to harvest blood safely.

The cult's influence attracted many Nehekharans to Lahmia. Since the Nehekharans no longer had any direct blessing from their gods due to Nagash breaking the ancient divine treaty, having a temple and an incarnation of their gods was a comforting tradition.

The Queen of Rasetra (who was never given a name) was one of the Nehekharans who traveled to the temple, hoping she could get help there to overcome her difficult pregnancy. Since Neferata had given the city of Khemri to the Rasetran King Khept-am-shepret (due to him being descended from one of Settra's sons) over two centuries ago, this meant if the child of her and the current Rasetran King - Aten-Heru - was a boy, he would inherit the throne of Khemri... if he survived the pregnancy.

The death of Khalida had Neferata realize she'd been living in a cage her entire life (Being trapped inside the female palace ever since she was born and all). Being an immortal blood drinker was no different, as she had to hide her vampiric nature and activities from the public or they'd purge her any everything she'd built on Nagash's works.

When she suddenly told her vampire cabal she is going to save the queen's child, everyone was stunned. Her plan was giving the queen a vial of elixir distilled from her own blood, not only saving the child, but also letting other great city knew the greatness of Nefereta's miracle that is unlike Nagash's dark magic. By using her fame and some taxation deductions, she also decided to open an academy in Lahmia for every priest king's children (think of it as junior Harvard or Yale in Egypt) and have them staying there (aka kept as political hostage) until adulthood. Still, everyone in the cabal saw through her bullshit and knew the whole plan is but an excuse for Neferata to find a replacement for Khalida as her life partner, as well as wanting to openly ruled the entirely of Nekhehara as the queen of Khemri for eternity.

=== The Birth of a Giga Chad ===

After Alcadizzar was born, he was immediately placed in Neferata's care with the former Viziar Ubaid (as well as
being Neferata’s chief vampire thrall, unknown to Alcadizzar) acting as his servant. His mother died giving birth to him, removing that family tie, and Alcadizzar's father was unable to see him until he completed his training according to Neferata.

He received the best education a Nehekharan prince could get and, due to the elixir's effect, grew into a man of incredible height, musculature and tactical intellect even for his age (think of him as the warhammer's equivalent of [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jonathan Joestar]], a young man with the physique and height of an adult bodybuilder at the age of 19). He beat four armored instructors in a mock battle using only a rope and his fists. His tactical skills were sharpened by games with a wise war veteran called Jabbari, developing Alcadizzar's wit and helping him learn from his mistakes.

Despite the greatness he had shown, Alcadizzar was not permitted to graduate or leave his training (or Neferata) by age 18, which upset him when he saw others being allowed to graduate but not him. He had a dream of enjoying a good life in a mansion with a family of his own while ruling a kingdom, yet his graduation was held back year after year. Little did poor Alcadizzar know that it was all part of Neferata's wife husbandry plan for him.

By the time Alcadizzar is 30 years old (at -1320 Imperial Reckoning), his uncle Khenti, a powerful yet pissed off Rasetra noble came to Lahmia and demands Neferata to hand over Alcadizzar.

Upon reunion, Alcadizzar greet his uncle with utmost warmest joy, even Kenti's bodyguard were moved by the prince's chadness for Alcadizzar treated them as his equal just like everyone he has met, without discrimination nor any of the polite bullcrap Alcadizzar were drilled in from his social arts on royal manners courses (which he had studied a lot of), and that attitude has gotten him a crowd of admirers.

Neferata was unable to grasp his behavior as well as reasons for his warm greeting despite being a vampire who specialized in reading people's heart. The salty bitch was in fact looking down on Alcadizzar's action as "degrading and mysterious".

After Neferata gave a short lessons on how Alcadizzar's ancestry leads to Settra's fifth son Amenophis, she suggests him to take another DECADES of training session at her temple of blood to truly unite Lahmia and Khemri in spirit (just as the sacred treaty demands on how the king of Khemri and the priestess of Lahmia should wed), and had Alcadizzar to decide if he wants to follow this insane suggestion or go rule Khemri just as he always wanted. Is all up to him.

Despite Khenti's persuasion for him to leave while being clueless to the schemes Neferata has cooked up in her sleeves, Alcadizzar naively accept her training course, for he believe it is ultimately for the good of Khemri and it should survive another decade without him.

And so 25 years later, Alcadizzar became the high priest of the blood temple and has been doing nothing but unknowingly drinking Neferata's elixir and playing with live snakes to show the fake Asap aka Neferata his devotion.

Due to the elixir's effect, Alcadizzar is still looking young despite being 55 years old and yet he is still preparing to be a king and he has so many thing he wished to implemented to the city. Neferata told him to not worry however, for she will grant him as many year as he needed to make Khemri and Nehekhara great again. While strolling at the garden of the temple's inner sanctum, Naaima (Neferata's cathayan courtsan vampire friend)
appeared out of blue and delivered a dreadful message for Alcadizzar. His father, the king of Rasetra whom both never met has died (for the entirely 55 fucking years seriously). Rasetra is now ruled by his younger brother Asar, which the later beg Alcadizzar to come back for his father's funeral. Ironically, Alcadizzar doesn't seems to know how to react since he never personally knew his dad, just like his mother who had died after his birth, and was therefore unable to felt a shred of saddness.

Angered by Naaima's sudden interruption from her sweet time between Alcadizzar, Neferata tell Alcadizzar to go pray at the snek goddess for his father's passing. Alcadizzar remain clueless to the scheme Neferata has for him.

5 years later, Alcadizzar finally faced his last trial. He must prove his utmost sacrifice and devotion, by survive 7 day and 7 night without water, food while being tormented with pain from lashes. Kinda similar to the buddism's six cleansing with more bdsm play and Neferata had probably copied the training doctrine from either the Cathayan or the Inds (being a Lahmian, the only type of Nehekharan weeaboo, this seems fitting). Thanks to the elixir's power as well as his own strong will, Alcadizzar survived these [[Slaanesh|painful and inhumane]] trial. On the last part, Alcadizzar needs to survive a dagger to the heart, and he did (plot armor and all) but lost his conscious.

When he woke up however, he found Neferata without her mask on, showing her frightened pale skinned face and vampire saber tooth fang like some kind of freakish monster (take note Twilight). For the first time in his life, Alcadizzar was scared and realized he had been tricked by an abomination created by Nagash. Using her unnatural strength, Neferata force Alcadizzar to drink up the final elixir that would turn him into a vampire. Just then, Ubaid saved him by furiously attacking Neferata's face then telling Alcadizzar to run away.

Despite being a vampire and was under Neffy's control for sometimes, Ubaid was always moved by Alcadizzar charisma even when he was young, especially just a seconds ago when Alcadizzar had criticized Neferata for not putting the poor Ubaid to rest and claimed he should have joined his ancestors long ago.

With Ubaid's sacrifice, Alcadizzar escaped. Neferata was furious that not only he torn off Ubaid with her saber tooth fang like a lion, she became ever vengeful that she would do everything in her power to find Alcadizzar, even if it means to turn her city and into a roach hotel.

=== Lonesome Road ===

Using the training and knowledge he had acquired from the academy as well as the power of elixir he was fed with, Alcadizzar escaped the palace guard and hid in the commoner quarter like [[Metal Gear|a main character in a stealth game]]. He knew he had to survive so he could get to Rasetra and warn everyone about the vampires in Lahmia. For eight months, Alcadizzar took on Ubaid's name as an alias while living the thug life for the first free period of his life [[meme|(not because he chose it, but it chose him)]].

He stole, got drunk and even killed (albeit a member of a group of sailors who tried to press gang him into joining them). He even worked in a brothel in the infamous red <s>light</s> silk district as hired muscle for security. At one point he worked with a gang of jewel thieves whom were planning to rob an old wealthy family, only to ended in betrayal and blood in one night. Alcadizzar also knew his first love and had his first kiss stolen during this time.

When his appearance was finally different enough from Neferata's description of him, he escaped Lahmia without having the guards recognize him. But worse was to come. He tried to hitch a ride on the caravans in order to avoid the outlaws and bandits on the golden plain, but the master and the guards refused, fearing he might be a spy for the caravan raiders. For the next few months as he struggled his way across the plain, forced to fight for his life on more than one occasion, but his training and the lasting potency of Neferata’s elixir saw him through.

He eventually reached Lybaras, greatly diminished due to Neferata's political actions, and hoped to share his information with the king, but was met with refusal as even his vizier refused to answer him.

A full year and a half has passed after he escaped Lahmia when he finally made it to Rasetra. He united with his uncle Khenti, by now an elderly man, and helped arrange a secret meeting between Alcadizzar and his brother. Despite the horrifying tale Alcadizzar told, his brother Asar gave him the benefit of the doubt but demanded proof before any action could be taken.

To start a war with Lahmia and win would require a coalition army of the great cities, something unfeasible for many reasons. Firstly, wars cost a lot of manpower and gold, which are still scarce thanks to Nagash's regime. Neferata took up where Nagash left off by manipulating the great cities into bickering among themselves, weakening them so that none were able to stand up against Lahmia directly. Even Rasetra, which had clawed its way back from the brink of ruin and rebuilt its powerful army, still lacked the resources for a protracted war against the Lahmians. And though many of the great cities now possessed iron weapons and armour that were the equal of Lahmia’s, none of them had a counter for the fearsome dragon staffs they wielded (and were unaware of the Lahmians' bluff). Other than that, there was too much ambition and too little trust among the other cities to make such an alliance possible. Of the great cities, only three were strong enough to present themselves as possible rivals to Lahmia’s power: Rasetra, Zandri and Ka-Sabar, but none were willing to take the first step and risk standing alone in the face of Lahmian reprisal. Evidence of Nagash's dark arts were needed to persuade the rival kings to put aside their ambitions and come together in a common cause against Lahmia.

Knowing how well Lahmia guarded their vampiric secret and the lethality of her vampire agents, Alcadizzar has to risk himself to get the proof. With some supplies from his uncle and some planning, Alcadizzar once again ventured into the lawless desert, alone.

=== Alcadizzar <s>[[Dune|Muad'Dib</s> Ubaid]] ===

Realizing the capability of the desert tribe's (otherwise known as the fallen Bhagarian, whom were defeated and enslaved by Arkhan's forces during Nagash's reign) skill at archery and horse riding, Alcadizzar decided to befriend them to survive and gain a powerful ally against the Lahmians. It was no easy task however, since the tribe at the time were secretive and clannish, making it really hard to earn their trust. Alcadizzar eventually made some progress by befriended one of its young cheiftian named Faisr al-Hashim, of the bani-al-Hashim after he saved him from a carravan raid gone bad.

As a reward for saving his life, Faisr adopted Alcadizzar into his tribe for 20 years (a crucial custom for any outsiders to join their tribe) where during that time, Alcadizzar being the badass he is saved Faisr's dirty arse three times and killed [[meme|fitty men]] (literary). During a tribal gathering, many chieftains from other tribes called out Alcadizzar for being an outsider or worse, a Lahmian spy, that is until an old woman with leonine yellow eye advocate for him and allowing Alcadizzar to become part of their tribe.

This old woman was named Suleima, a <s>Reverend Mother</s> Daughter of the Sands, the bride of Khsar as well as his chosen, whom has the highest authority among the tribe. Her kind was born once in every generation and they have the power <s>Truthsaying</s> to see a man's future through their soul. Suleima was always accompanied by her successor Ophiria, a young girl of 14 year old who shared the same leonine yellow eye and Alcadizzar had already notice Ophiria's gaze towards him beforehand, meaning they already knew about Alcadizzar's plan.

25 years later, Alcadizzar led his raiders to raid a Lahmian watch-fort. He was dismay by the decline of the Lahmian military, whose soldiers are lacking leadership and were willing to surrendered their fully secured fort with many garrisoned soldiers without a fight, which would be considered unacceptable 40 years ago.

After that, Alcadizzar and the raiders were greeted with Suleima's passing. Alcadizzar spent the entire afternoon at his tent after Suleima's funeral, being irritating about the amount of duties he has to accomplish and the years he has to sacrificed before he could retired to the life he has always dreamed of. Just then, Ophiria, now a 39 years old woman barged into his tent. In one conversation, Alcadizzar told her everything (being truthful with her since she can read people's minds). However for Ophiria, being a daughter of the sand, she saw far more than just Alcadizzar's identity, but his future as well and knew he is going to be a king of Khemri. Ophiria then began a to express her sorrow about her people being oathbreakers, who had broken the ancient promise they had made with their god Khsar and Settra after their shameful display during the war with Nagash and are now being punished for it. She hopes Alcadizzar, as the future king of Nehekhara could forgive their sin by remade a new sacred oath with them. Without any delay, Alcadizzar sworn a new blood oath by holding Ophiria's hand with his bloodied one. As a reward, Ophiria told him of a prophecy that would led to his goal...

40 years later, Alcadizzar prepared an ambush at the north of Lahmia to finally obtain the proof of dark art he was so eager to obtain. Another sign from Ophiria's prophecy was a frigging twin-tailed comet on the sky. To many scholar and any warhammer races, it is the harbingers of conflict (as well as other important symbolism like the birth of great ruler, hope or Tzeentch's meddling). A group of six men in black cloak on steed was passing by at that point and the desert raiders made short work of them with their arrows.

Hilariously, this group was lead by Zurhas to act as envoy in order to form an alliance with Nagash at Nagashizzar. Around that time, W'soran had discovered Nagash's location being north of Lahmia, which gave Ushoran an idea to allied themselves with the undying king in order take over Lahmia, as well as the rest of Nehekhara. In order to allow himself to not be suspect by Neferata and her underling, he met Zurhas (who was but a phantom member of the cabal that had spent his immortality on gambling) and manipulate the lowlife into doing his dirty work for him. Since traveling on sea was too noticeable, Zhuras had to travel overland north with a few companion (whose job is to help him find shelters to prevent him burning under the sun). Ushoran even thought about getting rid of Zurhas after he had rid of Neferata and the Nehekharans, and he is definitely going to be disappointed since his action might've doomed himself as well as the entirely of Lahmia.

As soon as every black cloaks were shot down, Zurhas shown himself as a pale clawed monster under the comet's light. Zurhas had killed six raiders that was charging at him with swords (not a single spear were used. Do they play [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] at all?) and tried to run away, but Alcadizzar and his horseman managed to stall him long enough for Faisr to stake the vampire with a barbed javelin in the heart. In the most glorious or perhaps the most iconic moment of his life, Alcadizzar confessed everything to Faisr under the comet's light.

Oh and turns out Zurhas had a lot evidence. [[Fail|The scrolls and letters he bought contained information about the vampires in Lahmia and Nagash's still alive, walking and kicking in the northern part of Lahmia]].

=== The Siege of Lahmia & Alcadizzar's enthronement ===

Six month after the evidences and Alcadizzar's personnel letter being delivered to Rasetra, a coalition army of the great cities was formed on the great plain within a week. Each great city bought their flavors of army:

From Rasetra, its army, lead by Prince Heru (Asar's heir), brought ten thousand heavy infantry, plus two thousand cold one chariots.

From Lybaras, its army lead by King Ahmenefret, brought mostly artillery managed by their scholar warrior. Their artillery were a dozen huge catapults, eight ballistae and four armoured fire-throwers, all were transported on a train pulled by teams of oxens.

From the desert tribes, its army lead by the newly elected leader Fasir (who had won the competition to get the role), brought eight thousand of the finest light cavalry in the land, clad in burnished armour and billowing silk robes.

From Mahrak, its army's commander were not specified, but they brought five thousand priestly warriors. These head shaved warrior priest are called the Hurusanni, or Devoted, patterned their weapons and training on the legendary Ushabti of ancient times. They are known to pray and meditate while traveling, are fanatical and desires nothing but the destruction of Lahmia's abominations, as well as anything created by Nagash's dark magic.

From Quatar, its army lead by king Nebunefre, the Lord of the Tombs, brought five thousand of their fabled Tomb Guard of Quatar. They are heavy infantry who march in silence, wears lacquered armour that glimmer in the moonlight (which makes them look like white ghostly figures from a far) and their helms were fashioned in the shape of jackals’ heads, the sacred visage of Djaf, god of the dead.

From Numas, its army lead by Queen Omorose, brought ten thousand proud Numasi cavalry, whose horse were famously known breed among the Nehekharans.
Their larger size horse tend to picking on and bickering with the much smaller horse breed ridden by the desert tribe riders, whom were marching side by side.

From Zandri, its army lead by King Rakh-an-atum, brought two thousand archers, four thousand spearmen and another five thousand Northlander mercenaries.

From Ka-Sabar, its army lead by Aten-sefu, brought their famed Iron Legion; fifteen thousand heavily-armoured spearmen and four thousand archers, who march in thunders of heavy kettledrums.

Then finally from Khemri, its army lead by none other than the hero of this article: Alcadizzar! Khemri has been managed by generations of viziers over the last four hundred years and yet, it's still looking like Rasetra in is colony state (all thanks to the interventions from Numas and Zandri, but mostly Nagash's fault anyway), meaning it has a small army. They however making up for their lack of military strength by throwing the fanciest and the most expensive parade. Two hundred chariots, each one manned by the lord of one of Khemri’s noble houses. The noble lords and their retainers were not armed and armoured for war, but instead were clad in their finest feast garments, tossing handfuls of coins to the dumbfounded soldiers, laughing and chanting “Alcadizzar! Alcadizzar!” at the top of their lungs. Six thousand infantry in total were sighted. From spearmans to javelin-wielding light infantry, clad in pristine white tunics and polished leather armour, plus another two thousand slave auxiliaries armed with slings and short swords. Despite its small size, the soldiers marched with their head held high and proud, cheering Alcadizzar’s name.

Alcadizzar too finally making his debut at Khemri as its official ruler. Despite Fasir had already forgiven Alcadizzar for keeping his real name a secret and using his tribesman as his tool for his own gains, its act had already created a rift between the two that could never heal. Still Alcadizzar, no longer using Ubaid as his alias, treat the Fasir and his desert tribe like his own family, even wanting to marry one of its member as his queen. The tradition would requires him to marry a Lahmian, which shouldn't be possible due to its corruption and its now getting its ass whooped.

Although the coalition army greatly outnumbered the Lahmian, Neferata called every vampire she knew to fight the invaders. W'soran was freed from his imprisonment and given [[Nagash]]'s book to stall the Nehekharans with summoned zombie fodders. Ushoran and Ankhat were on the frontline where they inhumanly tore apart the Nehekharans with their supernatural strength. Neferata too was on the field with her vampire handmaiden who has the power of seduction to manipulate the Nekeharans, as well as their usual inhuman strength and agility to kill and chase down anything, even a horse cavalry.

Despite fighting such monstrosities and lost many man, the Nehekharans pressed on with Alcadizzar leading them with great courage.

While Ushoran was enjoying bathing in Nehekharans blood, the swift horse archers of the desert tribe shot him with arrows embedded with asphalt clay flask. The arrows were specifically shot at the lord of the mask's places like feet that it rendered him immobilized, and some are even shot dangerously close to his heart. Once Ushoran was soak in flammable liquid and unable to move, the horseman light him on fire.

Ankhat easily slaughtered a company of Northlander barbarians as well as many Nehekharans spearman through the use of his fabulous display of swordsmanship combine with his inhumane vampiric power. Despite doing so well, the warriors he was put in charge of commanding it were inexperienced, weak, and were easily routed by the overwhelming Nehekharans forces.

W'soran has been doing well stalling the Nehekharans with zombie summons. Just as he was about to find a spell from his book to attack the newly reinforced Nehekharans, the tower he resides was hit by catapult shots, forcing him to run in terror (so much for a vampire's fearless mentality), cancelled out his ritual and putting all the zombies to rest.

It finally leaved to Neferata and her vamprie handmaidens being the only threatening thing left in the Lahmian force. Their seduction power works on anyone that looked them in the eye. Calvaries and elite infantries alike were easily controlled and were dealt with by the handmaidens' claw. Still, the handmaidens were reckless enough to get trample by chariots and stroke down by dozens of arrow shot from the desert tribe archer. Neferata was able to slaughter the most elite warriors of Khemri forces, even the fanatical Mahrak warriors (whom were not immune to her seduction despite being so fanatical), pushed so far into the Nehekharans' army and reached out to Alcadizzar. Alcadizzar, depsite with great strength and will was unable to stood against Neferata's inhuman strength and her vampire mind trick. Between the two, Neferata tried to convinced Alcadizzar to come back to her but was met with his strong refusal instead. Neferata then answered his rejection with a furious claw strike, knocking him down. Just as she was about to suck his blood (to have him "give back" all the "gift" she had given him), Alcadizzar struck her heart with a hidden dagger, and thus defeated her.

As soon as Neferata was defeated, Ankhat desperately ordered every military personnel to rescue her ass before she is captured. Just as the Nehekharan forces is about to swarm Neferata, Abhorash appeared in time, slaughtered many Nehekharans and allowed the vampires to escape. After that, the Nehekharans began sacking Lahmia. For seven days and seven nights, every bit of Lahmia was looted then razed to the bone and its citizens enslaved. Despite the glorious treasury the Nehekharans has looted and were happily celebrated over it, Alcadizzar's dismay however. Not a single vampires were found and captured nor were the book of Nagash was found (W'soran had took it with him to Nagashizzar). To Alcadizzar, this battle is a total loss.

Also there were mentioning of constructs according to the rulebook, but were not mentioned in the novel. And if it were, it could kick a huge amount of vampire asses to the point of resulting the battle into a one sided slaughter.

=== The King of Khemri ===

Finally 37 years later, Alcadizzar began to rule Khemri as well as the entirely of Nehekhara. Under his reign, every great cities return wealthy (since they no longer have Lahmian fucking with them on trades and taxes every year) and peace were restored. However, all the wealth he has accumulated were spent on military and defenses for the eventual return of Nagash. He also wed a girl who shared the same name as the Lybaras Queen Khalida 37 years ago, who just so happend to be Ophiria's niece and is now somewhat 67 years-ish old, ruling Khemri with him as a wise queen. They bore two sons together, named Asar and Ubaid (once again, Alcadizzar named after his former servant and his brother).

Interestingly, one of his explorer named Rahotep he had sent north had an encountered with annu-horesh (also known as the Dwarfs) whom at that time were ruled by Morgrim Blackbeard (by the time the explorer had came back, the year was -1163 Imperial Reckoning and Blackbeard was known for started a troll war at -1245). The Dwarves had treated Rahotep with respect and hospility for the entire winter, even promised a chance of trading and friendship. To show their respect, they gifted Alcadizzar an armor and a huge two-handed khopesh that were mastercrafted, golden, enchanted with magic, warm like sunlight which it is capable of hurting dark foes and were quite light weighted, all the while it was made out of iron (note that it was not even enchanted with runes like Sigmar's hammer, which its power could go off the chart if it were).

Other than the Dwarven crafts, Rahotep also bought knowledges of magic which Alcadizzar had founded sorcerer’s collegium in Khemri in order for their kins to master its power (without the help of some arrogant pointy ears too. Take that Empire!). The other cities too will follow Alcadizzar and began learning magic in order to cope without their gods' blessing (also so they could show off their superiority like every Nehekharan rulers would do). Notably, Ka-Sabar has began using its knowledge to create a small amount of enchanted gears every year. Mahrak was quite butthurt about all of this. Its Hieratic Council was suspecting Alcadizzar had decided to abandoned their faith [[heresy|for some heretical power]] and thus refused to cooprate with the rest.

Despite Morgrim Blackbeard had sent his warmest invitation to the Nehekharan king, welcome him to their hold and discuss relations between their kingdom, Alcadizzar had to object for Nagash has to be dealt with first.

=== Nagash's Second Invasion (also known as the war of three stooges) ===
Due to the founding of sorcerer’s collegium, there were wizards employed in each great city but Mahrak for obvious reasons. [[Adeptus Astra Telepathica|They act as telephone by telepathically sending their local ruler's messages]] to Alcadizzar without wasting any time with envoys. With Nagash's invasion forces were sighted, they proved vital in quickly sending orders and reports, but it was still a monumental effort that took its toll on Alcadizzar with him overthinking and second-guessing his plans often. But it ultimately paid off, as it made the Nehekharans one step ahead of Nagash's forces, and they prepared for them with siege defenses and armies.

Due to the position of Nagashizzar just north of Lahmia across the sour sea, Nagash's ten armies led by Arkhan and W'soran took over the ruins of Lahmia as soon as they arrived. In response, the closest armies from Lybaras and Rasetra formed a vanguard to challenge them. Thanks to their enchanted weaponry and magic, the Nehekharans gave W'soran and his army a very hard time. But despite putting up a very good fight, the undead legion won through sheer numbers and replenishing its losses with dead Nehekharans. Realizing the Nehekharans were too well prepared, Arkhan sent one third of the army to siege Lybaras and Rasetra to prevent them from reinforcing western Nehekhara.

Mahrak was the next target of the undead legion. The news of Lybaras and Rasetra armies' defeat had reach Mahrak and its fanatical warriors were prepared to defend the city to the death. Without the use of gods' blessing nor Alcadizzar's magic improvements, all Mahrak had was fanatical white robe warriors, basic archers and shield infantry. Under constant attacks from catapults, tomb scorpion constructs and Arkhan's dark magic bolts, the city that had once held off Nagash's army for months was razed within in five days.

Alcadizzar had hoped the Hieratic Council would evacuate behind the thick wall he had fortified at the eastern end of the Valley of Kings to hold against the undead for many weeks and give their non-combatants enough time to reach Quatar. But that was not to be and Alcadizzar and other great cities had to go on without them.

The aforementioned walls were three very strong, thick walls made from granite, built by the finest smith at Ka-Sabar. In addition,, the walls were equipped with weaponry effective against the undead: fire arrows, flaming tar catapults, manned by heavily armored infantries... all that good stuff. What's more, each wall was taller than the one in front of it and not even ladders could reach the top of the third wall, nor could the bone giants or Arkhan's magic hope to breach it.

Just as the third wall was about to be cleared, Alcadizzar came just in time, riding on his chariot with Khalida besides him followed by a host of cavalry. They flanked the undead army and dealt it a serious blow. W'soran managed to blast Alcadizzar off his chariot and had two of his vampire servants ambush him. Dazed, Alcadizzar was saved by his chief wizard Suleiman and an archer who attacked the vampire and brought Alcadizzar time to recover and kill them.

W'soran then blasted the dead vampire and Alcadizzar with his magic, only for Alcadizzar's Dwarven forged armor to protect him and render the spell harmless, to W'soran's surprise. As W'soran advanced on Alcadizzar, Khalida saved him with an arrow shot straight into W'soran eye, the vampire howling and breaking a clay jar to unleash a swarm of scarabs that carried him to safety. With W'soran's retreat the clouds disspated and the undead army was thwarted.

=== Nagash: I'm About to End This Man's Whole Career ===
[[File:Alcadizzar decision.png|thumb|right| The chariot problem]]
Two weeks after Nagash's army had fled from Nehekhara, Alcadizzar and the rest of the Nehekhara armies gathered at Lahmia's docks. Despite his injuries from war AND the fact he is now 189 years old, Alcadizzar decided to give chase to the undead legion on sea and hopefully be rid of them once and for all.

Just then, however, Ophiria came to greet Alcadizzar and after some cajoling, tearfully informed him of his fate: if he went to Nagashizzar, he would kill Nagash but he will die (the actual text was he will not return, so same meaning). Initially, Ophiria didn't want to tell Alcadizzar anything other than to send her niece Khalida back to Khemri and have the king leading the army alone, but Alcadizzar convinced Ophiria to tell him everything when he saw her and knew she had bad news for him.

Alcadizzar, who was already so tired and old, wanted to enjoy good retirement life, as did his wife. With Nagash's invasion force broken and not wanting to trigger Ophiria's prophecy, they decided to abandon the chase and enjoy rebuilding and ruling their city. Ophiria was never seen again after that. Unbeknownst to any of the Nehekharans, Nagash's defeat made him decide to cook up a deadly genocide spell that would make Alcadizzar rue his decision.

Six years later, a horrible plague appeared. Crops began to wither and fail, livestock died, commoners began to fall ill and water turned red. Alcadizzar summoned his chirurgeons and wizards to find a cure, but without success. The lack of food led to citizens rioting or turning to banditry. Worse came as Alcadizzar's two sons, Asar and Ubaid, fell ill. Ubaid died in agony, constantly asking his father to end him. Asar was sent away to live with the desert tribe, Alcadizzar hoped the plaque wouldn't reach them but it did. One night, Asar, now consumed by the illness' madness, left his tent to wander in the desert and was never seen again. Devastated over losing his two sons, he began falling to despair as he watched his empire crumble with people either begging their powerless king to save them, or curse him for unable to save them while somehow not getting sick himself. Then, Khalida finally fell ill; her illness had begun long ago, but she hid it from Alcadizzar and lasted months longer than her two sons. She merely postponed the inevitable, for her stubborness meant the diseased damaged her body to point that she was unrecognizable as the woman she once was and Alcadizzar caved and helped perform a mercy kill on Khalida at her request. Since Alcadizzar shared Khalida's belief against tombs, there was never a pyramid built for his family, despite him being the greatest priest king since Settra. Few attended the funeral for though Khalida was well-loved, many were sick or dead and the king himself had to be pallbearer for his wife. Alcadizzar ultimately couldn't bring himself to let her corpse be cremated, and entombed her at the local necropolis, hoping one day a morturary priest could resurrect her and give her a golden body.

Alcadizzar thought about killing himself to join his family, but news of a new undead army invading Rastera made him gear up mustered what remained of his weakened soldiers. Many citizens that had strength to travel fled to Zandri where they would board its ship and migrate to the Old World. With the remaining forces, weak and sick soldiers who could barely hold a Khopesh, Alcadizzar and his men bravely fought the undead tide in order to buy time for every citizen to escape. Alcadizzar knew it was a battle he cannot win, but gave it his all with his golden blade nonetheless, also hoping one of them could kill him. Then Arkhan came and made short work of the king by parrying all his attacks and capturing him.

=== The Death of Nehekhara, Nagash and Alcadizzar ===
Alcadizzar was stripped of his gear and chained up in a cage for the long journey back to Nagashizzar. While traveling, Alcadizzar was half awake. The cart carried him through the ruins of the great cities, only stopping to occasionally force-feed Alcadizzar a warpstone-laced (or so called because the liquid gives out a fiery sensation) elixir to keep him alive. Eventually reaching the cursed dock where Ophiria had told him of his fate, where they boarded a ship of bone that carried them to Nagashizzar.

At Nagashizzar, he was dragged out of his cage by Nagash himself. Amused by Alcadizzar's weak and malnourished appearance, Nagash took great pleasure in mocking him, claiming that he only sent his army to destroy Nehekhara because he wanted the great cities to know that it was he who had brought them to ruin (leaving out Nagash only used the plague in a temper tantrum after the defeat of his first army. Hypocrite manchild lich...). Alcadizzar remained defiant, telling bone daddy that he would die before betraying his people.

Dismissing his claim, Nagash began his new ritual by paralyzing and painfully carving arcane symbols into Alcadizzar. Nagash explaining how Alcadizzar was the symbol he needed for this ritual, that Nagash had deliberately made the plague to spare Alcadizzar and had not killed him for that reason. That this spell would channel Nagash's magic, kill the last few people living in Nehekhara and bind them to his will. Nagash capped this off by taunting Alcadizzar that he might see his family again and possibly taking Khalida as his consort if he liked her enough, leaving Alcadizzar helpless to do anything but howl in rage.

For the entirely of the ritual, Alcadizzar could only kneel, locked in place by paralyzing needles and the power of the great ritual. The great ritual caused a swirling wind tunnel to form in the sky with green light in it's depth, as if it was a gateway to the underworld. The dead Nehekharans had gathered behind the greenlight gate, drawn by the bond of fealty they owed to Alcadizzar in life. Nagash could sense the spirits gathering behind the greenlight, as could Alcadizzar, who only searched for his dead family.

And just like that, the great ritual summoned up all the undead of Nehekhara. The ancient kings, dead commoners, soldiers. Not even dead wildlife were not safe from Nagash's control. Unbeknownst to them, only the occupants of Settra's tomb hadn't risen.

After the ritual, Nagash was throughly drained but still mighty. He took out the needles from Alcadizzar and had his minions throw Alcadizzar into a dungeon, for Nagash planned to regain a bit of strength then entertain himself by torturing Alcadizzar.

In the cell, Alcadizzar could only thinking about dyiing, tormenting by pain and bad memories, that is until a figure of white light touch his cheek. It was the ghost of Neferem, the long dead queen of Khemri whom Nagash had tormented and killed long ago. Alcadizzar mistook her as his wife Khalida and so he followed her to the cell door. The door opened and two short furry rat like creatures entered the room with a huge lead box. These were the Skaven Eekrit and Eshreegar of Clan Rikek, both business partners and bitter rivals of Nagash. Knowing about Nagash's plan and a prophecy from their Grey Seer about who would kill him, they made the Fellblade: a weapon so deadly it drains the life force of those who wields it, and gave it to Alcadizzar, the Council of Thirteen protecting the wielder.

Confused and desperate, Alcadizzar opened the box and the light of Fellblade filled the entire room. Being in its presence hurt him, and Alcadizzar knew it radiated death, the kind of weapon kill a god... or an undying king. In his delusions, Alcadizzar thought this was Khalida telling him to make things right before it is too late. So he took up the Fellblade blade, which burned him and filled his body with the strength necessary to go where Nagash is and stab the fucker with it.

(It's like the main character from the Gladiator movie, he had lost everything to a tyrant and is about to kill him with the backing of traitorous allies).

Neferem's ghost approached Nagash to distract him. When Neferem disappeared, she left a white smoke, from which Alcadizzar charged. Nagash tried to block the blade with his armored hand, but the blade cut through armor and limb like they were butter. In retaliation, Nagash fired a magic bolt at Alcadizzar, but he was unharmed due to the protection rune carved on the blade (the rune enabled the spellcasters of the Council of Thirteen to protect the weilder, but some of them died from the effort). Alcadizzar then sliced Nagash's spine, which the blade's power causes Nagash to feel actual pain and leech away his power with each strike. In desperation, Nagash grabbed Alcadizzar's throat and planned to crush his spine. But just as Alcadizzar was about to fall unconscious, he freed himself by severing Nagash's other arm, then went into a frenzy and decapitated Nagash.

As his head was severed Nagash let out a hideous scream and his spell came undone. Freed from Nagash's control, the mummy kings began seizing the undead soldiers to serve them, became the Tomb Kings we know and love. The dead that were slain most recently (aka Alcadizzar's people) were instead crumbled and their soul went back to purgatory.

Frenzied, Alcadizzar hacked up Nagash's body and his throne before finally stopping. The last king of Khemri, now dying and insane, took Nagash's crown and the blade and wandered off trying to find Khalida and show her he'd solved the problem. Eventually he found his way out of Nagashizzar and went into the wasteland where he was never seen again.

The legend said he is still searching for redemption.

== Legacy ==
Although Alcadizzar and his people are dead, he did not die without any legacy left behind. The man himself wandered the ruins of Nehekhara until he died and fell into the River Vitae/Mortis and his corpse washed up on a distant shore. The Skaven tracked the Fellblade's magic and recovered the sword, but left Alcadizzar's corpse and crown alone. His body was eventually discovered by a shaman named Kadon, who could recognize the corpse as a Nehekharan king and ordered the construction of a large barrow for him. In an unfortunate move, Kadon decided to wear Nagash's crown and was corrupted by Nagash for it. Under Nagash influence, he had construct a wall city called Mourkhain around Alcadizzar's barrow and have the king's spirit bind to the city's stone for all eternity. Guess Nagash still has the last laugh now since Alcadizzar will stuck there forever. Although the city was later destroyed by the Greenskins, it is unknown if Alcadizzar's spirit was freed after this or continue to stuck in its stone.

Nagash's crown passed down to other people's hand where they would get corrupt by it and become a necromancer (with exceptions to [[Azhag the Slaughterer|orcs]] and [[Sigmar]] himself), then finally took away by a [[Mannfred von Carstein|whiny vampire]] where he would use the crown to ressurect Nagash.

In the Sigmar novel, Sigamr had called upon every scribe to gather any informations about Nagash after a vampire named Khaled al Muntasir came to threaten and parley for Nagash's crown. One of the scribe named Eoforth came across many manuscripts regarding the ancient Nehekhara. One of the manuscripts tells the tale of how Al-Khadizzar (not Alcadizzar or Alcadizaar, whom was referenced as a warrior, not a king btw) slew Nagash with "a dreadful sword of fell power". Many other manuscripts also referenced how Nagash destroyed Nehekhara in a single night. Just how or whom was able to witness these event and documented these manuscripts, when EVERYONE WAS FUCKING DEAD at that time is anyone's guess. Even the events of Neferata and Skaven's alliance with Nagash were mentioned (though it also said Neferata was a consort of Nagash, which is false as she hates Nagash and wanted to rule her own kingdom. Guess whoever made that manuscript didn't know a lot about Neferata). Were they all written by some undead scribes under the order of a tomb kings? did a seer have a vision and and wrote it? Did Ophiria wrote it? Arkhan? Surely the Nehekharan survivors boarding the Zandri ship should be able to remember the tale of Neferata, but not the Skaven or Alcadizzar?

Still, Alcadizaar made no mentioned in the end times despite it shows a lot of dead characters coming back to life. However, Nagash had bind the winds of Shyish to himself and control every dead spirits over the world and it is possible Alcadizzar among those souls. Even if he wasn't controlled by Nagash, he would still be freed in the end, where the Chaos gods managed to emerged from the warp rift caused by Archaon's doomsday device and destroy the world. It is also possible for him to be become a [[Stormcast Eternals]] in age of Sigmar or continue to be tormented by Nagash at the realm of Shyish? who knows.

== An alternative point of view ==
So what if Alcadizzar decided to go after Nagash? could things go differently? with all his forces equipping with rune weaponry, the use of wizard against the pathetic numbers of undead army leftover from the invasion, there might be a chance. Not even Nagash had could simply fight them off despite being hulk up on warpstones and wearing new gears.

Even if Alcadizzar had chose to fight Nagash at full strength but died, Nehekhara might enter a new golden age with the Dwarfs, where they would demolish the greenskins in the wasteland and hunt down the remaining vampire menance together. Nehekharan Empire would be so big that by the time Sigmar was born, he would be worshipping Ptra instead (Although it is unknown if Nehekharan allow the worship of foreign human god like Ulric).

Still, all that promises died the moment Alcadizzar made his decision. Perhaps it was part of Khsar's test? He is a pitiless cruel god who only give challenges and the reward often has to do with what the mortal has gained from his challenges, yet Alcadizzar has failed, which has robbed him of his everything. Could Tzeentch also be involved in his suffering too? afterall, there were a twin tailed comet shining above Alcadizzar. Could this be part of his grand plan to see him suffer? along with the entirely of Nehekhara?

==In other media==
Though he does not make a direct appearance in [[Total War: Warhammer II]], a couple of events involving the Tomb Kings do make mention of Nehekara's last king. The first event has you locating the remains of his army, and deciding whether to harvest them for canopic jars or give them a proper burial. The second event, and arguably ''the'' most important, is that the Tomb Kings apparently located Alcadizzar's remains (which is canonically located at Mourkhain, but Tomb Kings DLC came out before the marsh of madness province was added so there weren't any conquest there to claim his remain), and you can build a great pyramid for him in Bhagar, providing some nifty bonuses to your forces. For all their arrogance, [[Awesome|even the Tomb Kings knew damn well they owe him one]]. His wife and two children weren't mentioned however, for the queen was buried in the commoner necropolis (probably with young Ubaid too) and Asar went missing in the great desert.

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Queen Neferata

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{{cleanup}}[[Image:Nef or nothing.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Although in [[Warhammer 40k]] she'd be a planetary governor with a skin condition, in [[Warhammer Fantasy]] she's one of the most powerful and evil beings outside the [[Warp]].]]
{{Topquote|A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.|Eleanor Roosevelt}}
{{Topquote|Behind every great man, there is a great woman. Behind those great women, there is me!|Neferata}}

The very first fucking vampire in a setting where vampires are still cool, which is a product of her own creation rather than a Biblical curse or demonic possession. She's something of a Cleopatra expy who's been in a lot of positions of leadership-no pun intended-then found she preferred to run things behind the scenes.

==Warhammer Fantasy==
===Early History===
Neferata, originally Neferatem (Neferata was the name she went by outside of Nehekhara, although later writers forgot about it and had her always called Neferata), was born a princess of the city of Lahmia in [[Nehekhara]] during the war of the Seven Kings against [[Nagash]]. She grew up with her cousin [[Queen Khalida|Khalida]]. But when they became adults, Khalida preferred to wear pants, ride horses, shoot arrows, and pray to the snake goddess, Neferata enjoyed dresses, learning about potion-making, getting drunk on black lotus wine and forcing her servants to act out softcore porn.

This is because of unintended parental neglect; her father King Lamasheptra was too busy waging war against Nagash and the writers never bothered to elaborate on her mother. When Neferata's father died, her brother Lamashizzar took command of his forces and she was left to run the city. But Lamashizzar made a secret deal with [[Arkhan the Black]] to become necromancer bros by looting Nagash's house. After a string of betrayals, Lamashizzar won and took Nagash's books home plus an incapacitated Arkhan to give cliffnotes. As soon as Lamashizzar got back to Lahmia, he took over from Neferata and put her to work on the elixir while taking over her pastime of ordering cooks to suck face with stablehands.

As Lamashizzar got into studying Nagash's power, Neferata was put back in charge of running of the city. Then one day the Celestial Emperor of Cathay's son, Prince Xian Ha Feng, arrived to discuss a trade agreement they'd made with her father. Out of desperation because his sister Neferem was Nagash's hostage, Lamasheptra signed a trade agreement to pay Cathay a bunch of gold every year in exchange for dragon staffs (cutting-edge Cathayan guns) and dragon powder (gun powder with some Cathyan secret ingredient), and if he missed a payment, Lahmia would belong to Cathay. Prince Xian announced that a new gold mine had been found in Cathay and so they were altering the deal to require more gold from Lahmia, putting the city in deep trouble with Neferata being expected to fix the problem.

Fed up and desperate, Neferata secretly turned to Arkhan for help. She asked Arkhan to teach her the secrets of necromancy and immortality, and tried hard to persuade him with charm. To her surprise, Neferata ended up sympathizing with Arkhan, the two bonding and potentially starting to love each other. Instead of taking notes and preparing a wizard army for her brother, Neferata experimented and actually improved Nagash's techniques.

===Creation of Vampires===
When Lamashizzar and his cabal members (Ushoran, W'soran, Ankhat, Abhorash, Zhuras, Adio, Khenti, Ubaid) found out Nefereta's plans, she convinced them to join her using knowledge Arkhan had shared on each cabal member, her charisma and a demonstration what her elixir could do (using her superhuman strength to throw her brother with a slight shove). Most of the cabal immediately jumped ship and followed Nefereta, except for the king's vizier Ubaid as well as the spoiled nobles Adio and Khenti. As reward, Arkhan was freed at Neferata's command.

But Lamashizzar arranged for Ubaid to assassinate Neferata with the magical sphinx venom and Adio and Khenti to kill Arkhan in revenge. While Arkhan slew his would-be killers, but by the time he found Neferata, she was already poisoned. He quickly carried Neferata to the female palace seeking help to save her, but only a servant girl named Aiyah was willing to help him. Aiyah guided Arkhan to the queen's room, and was strong-armed into assisting Arkhan's attempts to save Neferata with Nagash's rituals and magic. After five days, Neferata seemed to die, and a distraught Arkhan killed Lamashizzar. Blinded by his grief, Arkhan had left Aiyah as a loose end, who fled to Lybaras after Neferata's apparent death.

However, the ritual had saved Neferata and made her the first vampire. When she returned, she learned that in her absence Arkhan had killed her brother and that Abhorash had killed Arkhan. This also meant that since her brother died childless she was in charge of Lahmia, now the most important Nehekharan city given how Nagash had ruined Khemri. After secretly having Arkhan buried in a cairn, she strong-armed Prince Xian into making a new deal with Cathay - no more dragon powder, but the debt would be called off and they would still trade in other ways. She also convinced Prince Xian to give her his courtesan Naamia. Then she organized Lamashizzar's funeral; though many attended, Lamashizzar wasn't well-loved so most where there to discuss politics... except for Khalida, who Neferata hadn't seen in years.

Neferata hoped to use the opportunity to reconcile with cousin Khalida, who she dearly loved (possibly to obsessive and incestuous levels). After a feast of Cathayan Malatang (seafood boiled using various chili spices from Cathay, so close enough) at the Lahmian garden, Neferata tried to solidify her rule with the promise to rebuild the destroyed cities and temples by offering yearly payments of gold. She also offered the Rasetran King Shepret the ruined city of Khemri because their bloodline has connection to Amenophis - a son of Settra whom was disowned by the latter - plus the gold needed to rebuilt it.

While the others were busy drooling over Neferata's wonderful promises, Khalida suddenly called her out for bullshitting and for embracing Nagash's dark power; Aiyah had made it back to Khalida and spilled the beans. Neferata, of course, rejected the accusation as outrageous and went "no, you", so an incensed Khalida challenged her to an honor duel. Neferata ended up killing Khalida with her surprising vampire strength during the duel, and tried to Khalida into a vampire using the blood on her lips, but Khalida was either too far gone to be turned into one or was saved from that fate by the goddess Asaph.

As time went on, people around Neferata started to notice she wasn't aging and was going through more servants than most. Neferata realized she'd need some meatshields that weren't mooks, so she picked eleven notable individuals to be given the elixir; captain of the guard and all around badass [[Abhorash]] (whom Neferata tricked to becoming a vampire because he was too honorbound and stubborn to accept it; he self exiled in shame after a killing spree brought on by his transformation), former vizier Ubaid (whom is now loyal to Neferata after she had "tamed" him with her new found [[Toreador| vampire seduction power]]) her high priest [[W'soran/Melkhior and Zacharias the Everliving|W'soran]], her younger brother [[Ushoran]], Maatmeses (unknown, went to Ind or retcon?), Naamia (a former Cathay noble courtesan given to her by [[Cathay|Prince Xian Ha Feng as mentioned above]]) and Ankhat (Neferata's husband Vashanesh or her political assistant). She educated them on their new strengths and dietary requirement. She also planted puppet rulers in the Lahmia court named King Sothis and Queen Ammanura in order to rule behind the scenes and keep her immortality out of the public eye.

[[Cathay|Prince Xian Ha Feng]] took some vials of the Elixir to [[Cathay]] as payment ([[fail|then rebelled against his dragon father and probably died]]). [[Jade-Blooded|The vampire bloodline in Cathay remain alive still]].

Neferata later founded the Lahmian cult under W'soran's suggestion, as a clever way to acquire more blood unnoticed and recruit more vampire underlings (especially female), indoctrinated to believe Neferata is the incarnation of the goddess Asaph. The cult even served a good purpose as a political tool that made the Lahmian ruler look divine, in an age where the Nehekhara kings are no longer protected by the gods blessings.

===Rise of [[Alcadizzar]] and the Fall of Lahmia===
Such a cult attracted the attention of Queen of Rasetra, who came to the temple to pray for her difficult pregnancy. Neferata agreed to save the queen's child, to the shock of her vampire cabal. Her plan was giving the queen a vial of elixir distilled from her own blood, saving the child and letting every priest kings know the greatness of Nefereta's miracle that is ''totally'' unlike Nagash's dark magic. By using her fame and some taxation deductions as a bribe, she opened an academy in Lahmia for all the priest king's children (think of it as junior Harvard or Yale in Egypt) and having them staying there (aka kept as political hostage) until adulthood.

Such an outrageous plan made the cabal believe Neferata lost her mind after Khalida died, but they had no power to oppose her. The other kings initially disapproved, but they were under heavy taxation by Lahmia at that time and would to do anything to decrease their tax, especially after they heard how the Lahmian cult saved the Queen of Rasetra's child.

When the child turned out to be male, knowing he will be the next king of Khemri, Neferata claimed him as her own saying he would stay in Lahmia until he came of age and took his throne. This child was named Alcadizaar.

Because of Khalida's death, Neferata grew to believe that Alcadizaar would become her partner, eventually becoming a vampire and joining with her to rule all Nehekahra from Khemri, so she started practicing wife husbandry on him (some hardcore vampire pedophilia action here...), training him in every aspect of war and statehood (while also making sure he didn't get with any other woman). Even though Alcadizaar was sick of doing the preparation past the age of 18 years old (his other classmate/prince friend had already left Lahmia and began their ruling), Neferata insisted him to stay for further training at the Lahmian cult.

By the time Alcadizzar is 30 years old (at -1320 Imperial Reckoning), his uncle Khenti, a powerful yet pissed off Rasetran noble came to Lahmia and demanded Neferata to hand over Alcadizzar.

According to Ushoran's spies, Neferata's action to hold back Alcadizzar's release ticked off the Rasetran King. The king had been sending letters to other priest kings not only for this matter, but also because the amount of tax they had to pay Lahmia every year. Zandri has begun testing Lahmia's resolve by not paying them. If things got worse, a coalition army of priest kings could form and destroy Lahmia, and Lahmia's military was still weak with inexperienced soldiers, not to mention they no longer had their famed dragon staff force since the dragon powder had been all used up and the bluff of its existence was the only thing keeping the the priest kings from attacking Lahmia.

Despite objections from many powerful rulers, Neferata didn't give a shit and simply lied, saying Alcadizzar was not ready yet and suggested another DECADE of training session at her temple to truly unite Lahmia and Khemri in spirit (in other words, vampirize Alcadizzar and claim his vampiric D for herself). Brilliant and wicked, Neferata had Alcadizzar decide if he wanted follow this insane suggestion or go fuck off rule his Khemri just as he always wanted.

Despite Khenti's suggestion for Alcadizzar to leave, he remained clueless to the schemes Neferata had up her sleeves and accept her training course, believing it was ultimately for the good of Khemri and that the city can survive another decade without him.

And so for the next 25 fucking years, Alcadizzar became the high priest of the blood temple and unknowingly drank more of Neferata's elixir (making him incredibly strong and youthful) and playing with live snakes in fake devotion services to Asaph AKA show Neferata his devotion.

During a romantic stroll through the garden of the temple's inner sanctum, Naaima appeared out of the blue and delivered a dreadful message to Alcadizzar; his father, the king of Rasetra, had died (yes, Neferata kept Alcadizzar for 55 fucking years and father and son never got to meet... seriously).

Angered by Naaima's sudden interruption from her sweet time with Alcadizzar (as well as for Naaima's many years of absence since her transformation), Neferata told Alcadizzar to go pray at the snek goddess shrine for his father's passing. When he was gone, Neferata angrily snarled at Naaima, calling her a "eastern slut" (actual quote). Even though Naaima was trying to help Neferata's plans, get her through the trauma of losing Khalida and even playing matchmaker for Neferata and Alcadizzar despite Naamia herself falling in love with Neferata, all Naamia got back was Neferata's seething and cursing, telling her to fuck off.

5 years later, Alcadizzar met with the final trial where he had to endure the pain of whips and survive a stab in the heart (which only rendered him unconscious). When Alcadizaar woke up, Neferata was waiting for him without her mask on, revealing her vampiric nature, then tried to force feed the terrified Alcadizaar her final elixir to become a vampire. But Ubaid, the former vizier (whom Neferata has entrusted to assist Alcadizzar many years ago) sacrificed himself to save Alcadizzar, allowing him to flee into the wild, where he hid in the desert and was welcomed into a nomadic desert tribe after performing a heroic action to win their trust.

After Alcadizaar's escape, Neferata turned towards vengeance and finding her would-be boy toy. She sent Ushoran and his spies to find him and filled her court with torturers that were used to interrogate civilians to spit out Alcadizzar's location. Lahmia suffered greatly under her wrath. Kidnappings became common, everyone who used to party in Lahmia's nightlife decided to stay at home, traders came in less often, the street and building went uncared for longer, armies weren't properly trained, equipped or motivated (for an army captain, having their men dying to the enemies is punishable) and Lahmia was now truly the shadow of its former self.

Her Cabal members got sick of her behavior, of course, and started to do their own thing. W'soran tried to summon [[Nagash]] and found out he is still alive, but got staked and locked in a barrel for it so Naggy couldn't steal Neffy't thunder. Ushoran planned to defect to Nagash after W'soran revealed bone daddy's location. Zhuras had been living in depression since he couldn't prove useful for Lamashizzar when he was alive, but was encouraged by Ushoran to form an alliance with him and Nagash. Aborhash was still nowhere to be found since his exile, wandering the desert to prey on nomads and hone his combat skills. Every vampire in the cabal wanted to jump out of the sinking ship... all but [[Vlad von Carstein|Ankhat]] who was still loyal.

Alcadizzar's tribe eventually killed Zhuras on one of his trips as an envoy to Nagashizzar. His head and his letter was bought as proof to the other kings (note: the god damned twin tailed comet was there when Alcadizzar killed the vampire, so even Tzeentch knew what's up). After this, the Nehekharans realized how dangerously close things were to becoming [[Twilight]], so they gathered their forces into a vast army and laid siege to Lahmia.

Despite being outnumbered, Neferata did her best of defend her city. She gathered every vampire she knew: from the loyal [[Vlad von Carstein|Lord Ankhat]], the treacherous [[Ushoran]] (whom Neferata and Ankhat had caught right just before he was about to escape), W'soran (whom Neferata had freed to serve them with his undead summoning in battle) and her female vampire cultists including her returned lovelorn Naamia.

In battle, Neferata and her cultists demonstrated their ability of seduction upon the Nekheharan invaders, charming them with their beauty and gazes to the point of all but paralyzing them, then slew them. Every Nekheharan who met with their gaze were controlled instantly, turning them into meat shield who would take arrows for them or fight their closest comrades in fits of false jealousy. Despite facing such a supernatural enemy, Alcadizzar's tribal desert horse archers were able to down some cultists with arrow shots (since vampire can't move if staked in the heart, shooting a mass number of arrows will surely have high chances for them to stuck in their heart, and at that distance their seduction powers don't work). Neferata then faced Alcadizaar in a duel. Alcadizaar, despite being strong and well trained was none the less effected by Neferata's seduction, and she was able to regenerate every wound he struck. Eventually Neferata struck him down with her inhuman strength, then proceed to suck the blood from his neck as a way to recover every "gift" she has given to Alcadizzar. Unfortunately for her, Alcadizaar had hidden a dagger which he used to stab Neferata's heart.

As soon as Neferata fell, Ankhat desperately went to her rescue, ordering the royal guards to her aid. Despite doing everything he could, the Nekheharan's cavalry and soldiers kept pouring into Neferata's position. Just as they are about to catch up, [[Abhorash]] appeared, wielding a pair of huge, dripping khopeshes and wearing nothing but ragged clothing while slaughtering the shit out of any enemy Nekheharan who stood in his way.

After every vampire escaped to the palace, with Abhorash and four loyal vampire warrior sired by him acting as a rearguard, Neferata resolved to die with Lahmia until Ankhat reminded her that they are fucking immortals and should've started taking over the entire world instead of wasting time in Lahmia. Interested in Ankhat's suggestion, Neferata had a change of mind and decided to board the ship at the harbor where Naamia awaited, and sailed to the east.

The entire city fell, reduced to rubble, and most of its vampiric aristocracy were destroyed despite major losses on the side of Nekeharans.

===Exile===

Of Neferata's Eleven, only seven survived. Abhorash and Neferata separately took their minions and headed north, both finding passes through the supposedly impassible mountains and reaching the Badlands, [[Orcs & Goblins|greenskin]]-infested no man's land. Due to this she avoided the final war between Nagash and Alcadizaar that saw the rest of Nehekhara join Lahmia in becoming a lifeless ruin. She did however experience it's consequences when the newly risen Tomb Kings began to hunt down vampires. In particular her cousin Khalida, returned from the dead and filled with rage, chased her across the world.

In the absence of their leaders the vampires were left in a panic. They went their own ways along the same route Nef and Ab had taken, founding different bloodlines. When Nagash cursed the vampires with weaknesses to the sun, running water (like all old people), garlic, and other random things. Neferata and her minions caught the curse too despite not being there (although there's also the suggestion this was Sigmar's doing).

Then a fuckton of time passed while Neferata traveled the world. During that time she became a misandrist, espousing the belief that men are blood farms without worthwhile thoughts or emotions unless they kowtow to women (being effeminate, watching Sex and the City, be unthinking Sugar Daddies, that sort of thing). Eventually Neferata found herself compelled to come to the capital of the Strigoi empire, Mourkain. Here she found a kingdom that was a pale reflection of her long lost Lahmia, ruled once again by a vampiric aristocracy. It's king was her former Lord of Masks Ushoran and his vizier W'soran, who together she blamed for the destruction of her home. She had been drawn by the Crown of Nagash which was buried at the heart of the capital as had most of the others of her kind.

===Queen of Mysteries===
A group of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dorfs]] investigating the douchebaggery of the other vampire bloodlines eventually uncovered the vampiric double-crossing. In response Ushoran had them slaughtered and used the Crown of Nagash to force Neferata to serve as his herald, demaning the Dwarf city's surrender. Instead Neferata used the invasion force to take the city for herself since she was safely away from the Crown's influence and made the conquered [[Dwarf Fortress]] her <strike>lesbian love-den</strike> MANLY BASTION OF BADASSERY. The undead Dwarfs rebuilt the mines, crafted with Granite and menacing with spikes of Onyx, into an Egyptian-style palace.

Nowadays the zombies are soaked in perfume and drum while skeletons do the skeleton dance ([[Meme|''2spooky!'']]) to entertain her court. Eventually Ghouls showed up to serve her, which she spent several generations trying to exterminate before confining them to the sewers when she realized they would be great for garbage disposal. She bathes in blood (because nobody has ever made vampires do that before!) of young men, then heads off to the war room an organizes her femvamps and shotavamps (all vouched for by femvamps as their subordinates) to spy on the civilizations of the world and manipulate them into getting into wars with each other ([[Skaven]] also do this, but more capably), or rooting out rival bloodlines and wiping them out (the VonCarsteins also do this, but less capably).

Queen Neferata had one goal: make the <s>women</s> worthy mortals of the world into Lahmian vampires and the <s>men</s> unworthy mortals cattle or pampered pets. Meanwhile, her cousin Khalida (who's such a badass not even [[Settra the Imperishable|Settra]] wants to fuck with her) was a [[Tomb King|Tomb <strike>King</strike> Queen]] and wanted to purge the world of vampires and their homoerotic heresy, with Neferata at the top of her list.

Neferata's cat is her Cathayan concubine shape shifter Naamia who is in love with her (at least in the novel [[Neferata (Black Library)|Neferata]] by [[Josh Reynolds]], in all other sources the cat is simply an undead ghost cat named Bastet).

===End times===

Neferata was recruited to rejoin [[Arkhan the Black]] (who was still in love with her after thousands of years) and [[Mannfred von Carstein]] in their plans to resurrect Nagash. Nef followed the plan, sending one of her minions (who may be fan favourite the Vampire Genevieve) to [[Balthazar Gelt]] to manipulate him into building an anti-Chaos wall protecting the humans of the [[Old World]] (in theory so Nagash could have them all to himself). Realizing that Nagash's return meant either her servitude or destruction, Neferata sent no further aid at first. However, Neferata grew concerned that if she didn't have something to offer Nagash might destroy her out of spite. She was also antsy due to lack of knowledge about Nagash's other servants, because her spies on them were dead or trapped in Sylvania and Arkhan rarely called.

After daemons attacked her fortress Neferata decided to try and get shit done, massing the forces of the Silver Pinnacle to get a re-birthday present for Nagash; the magic power of the Dwarf gods themselves (which Neferata had accidentally discovered while backpacking across the world). Fighting her way through various greenskin tribes at Skull Chasm, she led her army to the Lost Pass of the dwarfs, a long lost treasure trove of the ancestor gods. There at the Battle of Valaya's Gate her army, supported by the Wight King Krell (who had been sent by Arkhan as a precaution), their forces defeated the throng of Karak Azul leading to the deaths of both the venerable runelord Thorek Ironbrow and the mighty King Kazador. Having secured a source of power for the returned but weakened Nagash she was inducted into the ranks of his Mortarchs, becoming the Mortarch of Blood.

Once Nagash fed on [[Valaya|Valaya's]] magic, he used the power to shroud Nehekhara in darkness so the vampires wouldn't burn in the sun (no such thing as sunblock in the Warhammer world). The assembled Mortarchs then waged war on the Tomb Kings. When Nagash led his forces south into Nehekhara Neferata was given permission to lead a force to the ruins of her long lost Lahmia. There she was once more met by Khalida and the army of Lybaras. As the two armies clashed the two undead queens dueled in the Temple of Blood in the heart of the city itself. Once more Neferata was forced to flee before her vengeful cousin. Though she failed to secure the city Neferata's expedition had performed all Nagash required of it which was to lure troops away from his main target- Khemri and his Black Pyramid there. In the end defeated the Nehekharans, bringing their skulls under Nagash's boot. In a spectacular twist of irony, Neferata and Khalida were charged to work together. As a result, they basically dropped out of End Times until the very end when Mannfred managed to completely fuck up the last chance at stopping Chaos and the world was slowly drawn into the Warp as a third Warpgate was activated in the Empire despite every non-Chaos group from Orcs to Wood Elves all working together (yeah, ET was a complete fucking mess).

Neferata and Arkhan were present at the end of the final battle, with the latter promising to fight to the last to give the former a chance to outrun the encroaching wall of solid Daemonic blackness despite her Abyssal being injured. After a parting kiss with Arkhan (who she still had some feelings for) Neferata only just made it back to the fortress in the [[Moot (Warhammer Fantasy)|Moot]] that she and Khalida had established offscreen. The Halflings and remaining humans of the Empire fled there for protection, and the undead under Khalida's command allowed them in. Neferata arrived and immediately shouted to make preparations to repel Chaos, before Khalida told her there was no point; Chaos won. Neferata instead convinced her to fight together, as Nehekharan Queens, and their assembled forces readied their weapons as the Warp overtook them.

==Age of Sigmar==
Then [[Age of Sigmar]] happened. Nagash is an immortal god of the afterlife and gets all souls Chaos doesn't, barring the [[Stormcast Eternals]]. Since Games Workhop undid their complete reboot with identical factions reappearing, Vampires came back too. Neferata was shown alongside the other Mortarchs meaning that the entire End Times story meant jack. But since Khalida hasn't been shown and the Tomb Kings were revealed to have been Squatted, Nef at least outlived her. Neferata got her own part of the realm of death and "creatively" named it Nulahmia while also basing it's fashion and architecture off of Nehekhara's. She built an even bigger spy network and ensured that she was the top vampire. Mannfred, Ushoran, and possibly Vhordai (and definitely Abhorash if he is still alive or "alive" at any rate), are the only ones who don't pay homage to her, and Neferata and Mannfred have clashed several times. She's also gotten over her misandry, as she employs male and female vampires depending on their abilities.

Later, Nulahmia came under attack from an army of mortal followers of Chaos of Slaanesh, because a Slaaneshi Chaos Lord wants her for himself, not caring that she's undead. Quite a thing to sneak past the kiddies, Geedubs! (In the novel Lords of Death, the same lord kills a beastman who tried to stop him raping it). Her forces are aided by the Stormcast Eternals and together they defeat the forces of Slaanesh. Neferata later tries to make a secret alliance with the Stormcast right under Nagash's nasal bones. After the battle (where Neferata's obsessed fan Chaos Lord falls into a pit of skeletons), Neferata is disappointed that Nagash was just dicking with the Stormcast but had to go along with it. During Malign Portents, Neferata used her manipulations and spy network to keep Tzeentch's forces occupied, undermine Sigmar's forces and spread Nagash's influence across the realms.

Not too long after, Neferata's double dealing causes Nagash to punish her by putting half her city under Arkhan's rulership; Arkhan himself doesn't really want the city, but "when Nagash says 'jump'..." so Arkhan left a vampiric vassal of his to rule in his stead. She also has to contend with rebellious nobles who want to kill her rallying under a noble she turned into a vampire and an invading Khornate army led by the Chaos Lord Ruhok. Neferata uses her powers and schemes to play them all against each other, and ends up destroying the Khornates, rebels and much of her realm by temporarily releasing the black hole in the center of Shyish (and a clever ploy involving said noble being a Manchurian Agent). As a result Nagash gives full rule of Nulahmia back to Neferata and she rebuilds it.

Fast forward a few centuries and Neferata begins to wage war against the Khornate forces of Angaria (a name that rivals [[Angron]] in creativity) and its daemon prince ruler Graunos. The prince is oddly cunning for a daemon of Khorne, and is aided by the nearly-as-cunning deathbringer Kathag - one of the few survivors from Lord Ruhok's forces. They refuse to play Neferata’s game of manipulations and spying, [[Just As Planned|unknowingly playing right into the Mortarch of Blood’s hands]]. Through a series of infiltrations and convoluted schemes that’d make Tzeentch orgasm with joy, she managed to wipe out the entirety of Angaria by [[Awesome|dropping an entire underworld on top of the city, wiping them out just like the Skaven did to the Lizardmen]]. She followed up by duelling Graunos, and defeated the Daemon Prince by slashing his eyes, triggering the scotomaphobia (fear of blindness) Graunos still had from his mortal origins, which made him destroy himself when he desperately tried to use purging fire be brought from Hysh to restore his sight.

One interesting part of her character hasn't been extrapolated upon yet; whether or not she still has a thing for [[Arkhan the Black]]. Some parts hints that Arkhan isn't the same as he was in the [[Warhammer Fantasy|World-That-Was]] and may not remember Nef at all, but we don't know how Nef herself feels about this - if she cares at all, that is. They clearly have a thing going in the Josh Reynolds novels, but that's it. Maybe the [[The End Times|coming apocalypse]] brought her inner sweetheart out for a short while.

==Lahmians==
Main article: [[Lahmian]].

Neferata's Bloodline, mostly female and in varying degrees of control of most of the factions of the world.

==Nagadron The Adevore==
The [[Dread Abyssal]] given to Neferata by Nagash in End Times. In the times of the Nehekharan gods, Nagadron resided with the other Dread Abyssals in the afterlife of men. Nagadron's job was to punish the gluttonous, ambushing selfish souls and chewing on them for all eternity. In Neferata's service, Nagadron now consumes the souls he eats, vomiting them up in smaller and smaller chunks as he gorges himself on flesh and spirit alike and eating them again (so yeah, Neferata's giant undead dragon demon is predictably a giant cat on the inside).

According to the team that produced the model, the hooded eyes are supposed to resemble a predatory [[snek]].

Nagadron was last seen in End Times re-dying from mortal wounds with its last act being carrying Neferata and the unconscious Isabella back to the fortress of Nef and Khalida, but was resurrected alongside his (apparently its a he despite always being an undead skeleton monster) master in Age of Sigmar.

==On the Tabletop==
===Old Editions===
Queen Neferata used to have a model in the game, but she suffered from [[Everqueen|Alarielle the Everqueen]] syndrome and had a badass model you wanted to use for fluff reasons, but it was pretty crap on the field and thus was unlikely to ever be used. So GW removed it, leaving the von Carsteins as the only models in Vampire Counts until the latter part of 8th edition. The original model came with a cat, who was originally a ghost cat named Bastet, referencing the aforementioned story about [[felinid]] vampires.

===The End Times===
With the addition of Nagash's campaign, Neferata makes a triumphant return to the field as a mounted model with an on-foot option (although GW makes her share a kit with [[Mannfred von Carstein]] and Arkhan the Black, the thrill of her return far outshines the insult).

Since bloodlines are gone, Lahmians are represented by gearing out your Lord and Hero vampires with Beguile and similar abilities as well as ample spellcasting. Use skeletons, ghosts, and similar minions that can be handwaved as unwanted hauntings or the bones of ancestors when the Witch Hunters come calling. Feel free to use proxies of living models from any faction you want as servants to a mortal lover/manipulated army but statted as zombies, ghouls, skeletons, or whatever. Finally, Coven Thrones. The only two bloodlines that should be using Coven Thrones are von Carsteins and Lahmians, and you better not let those lower class fuckers put more on the tabletop then you or Neferata will want to have a private chat with you...

Lahmian armies will do very well against low LD armies, and poorly against armies like High Elves with 9's across the board in Leadership.

As for the Queen of Mysteries herself, her latest incarnation hits hard and can debuff the enemy ten ways from town. She has eight Strength 5 attacks that Always Strike First at Inititative 9. Eight Strength 5 attacks are rough but always striking first takes it to another level, then you have Thunderstomp. With a combined profile with her mount, that's D6 Strength 5 hits at Initiative 9 since ASF and ASL cancel each other out. As for the Debuffs, Neferata can debuff to a level that even [[Nagash|her boss]] can't. Her Dagger of Jetl minuses 1- to the Strength, Initiative and Attack of a model that suffers an unsaved wound for the rest of the game. There's also Twilight Allure making all shooting and close combat attacks are at -1 to hit, so even a Chaos Lord will be hitting her on 5's. She also has a fun little trick of being able to, once per game, turn a character she slays in a challenge into a Vampire. If they get to keep all their gear (come on FAQ!) imagine turning Korhil or, even better, Kurt Helborg, into a Vampire.

===Age Of Sigmar===
As with the rest of the Mortarchs with fancy new models, Neferata was also reincarnated in the Mortal Realms, complete with her giant ghost-thingy mount. This leads her to a total of 11 wounds with a 4+ save and a respectable 16" flying move, though this decays as she suffers damage. She's very much at home in close combat, as all of her attacks are in 1" range. First off is Akmet-har, the Dagger of Jet, a fairly unremarkable but fast weapon that has the chance to outright murder her opponent if she deals damage (but not enough to kill them) and you roll a d6 higher than their remaining wounds. Second is Aken-Seth, a staff with considerably fewer attacks, but each one deals 2 damage with -2 Rend. Her steed can lash out with its own melee attacks, each as dangerous as the staff and with a good quantity (declining as she suffers wounds). The last weapon to be displayed is the weaponry of the various ghosts surrounding Neffy, all piddly compared to the rest, but if they roll a 6+ to hit, they deal a Mortal Wound.The rest of her rules all supplement this preference in melee - the ability to heal 2 wounds when she kills a model with her weapons, a command ability that forces enemies to rake a penalty to hit her, and a spell that lets its target ignore the rend of any weapons that hit them. As a bonus, if she kills a hero, she can also raise them as a Vampire Lord and then make them eat their former associates.

==Gallery==
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Image:Neferata_2.jpg|Neferata's original model, looking like Elvira.
Image:Neferata Returns.jpg|Neferata's new model. Note that the [[Hat]] principle is still in effect.
Image:Neferata 3.jpg|This is what she looks like while casting.
Image:Neferata 4.jpg|This is what she looks like a minute later in melee.
Image:Neferata Book.jpg|What Neferata wears on weekends. (and when with Arkhan)
Image:Neferata-Warhammer-Age.png|Even after an apocalypse she's still got it.
Image:Nef+Ark.jpg| And Iiiiii will always love youuuuuuu...
Image:Neferata.jpg
Image:Nef Lite.jpg
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