Warhammer III Unveils 4-Lord End Times DLC, Opening Immortal Empires on Sept. 24

Q: The original End Times lore famously divided fans, so will this DLC force a doomed world or let players rewrite history?

No — the DLC appears designed to let players rewrite history rather than force the original End Times’ fixed apocalypse. Creative Assembly’s own framing is that “the fate of the world will be in your hands; will you save it… or destroy it?” That is a strong signal this is not a strict recreation of the controversial Warhammer ending where the Old World is doomed on rails. Instead, Lords of the End Times folds End Times characters and themes into Immortal Empires’ sandbox structure, where outcomes depend on campaign play. The new systems reinforce that flexibility. Nagash, Thanquol, Boris Todbringer and the Glottkin each get distinct mechanics, but they are being added as playable faction paths, not as a mandatory linear narrative. The accompanying free update also turns the End Times into selectable or dynamic late-game crises — Chaos Invasion, Vermintide and Nagash Rises — rather than a single unavoidable canon ending. Most importantly, players can oppose or embody the catastrophe. Archaon’s reworked campaign reportedly lets him become the endgame crisis if controlled by the player, while everyone else can fight to stop him. That means the DLC supports multiple alternate outcomes: Chaos wins, Nagash rises, Skaven overrun the map, or the world survives. So while the expansion heavily borrows from the End Times’ apocalyptic tone, it is using that lore as a toolkit for sandbox campaigns, not as a mandate to replay Games Workshop’s divisive canonical destruction beat for beat.

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Sept. 24 will bring Total War: Warhammer III’s biggest DLC yet, adding four Legendary Lords—Boris Todbringer, Thanquol, the Glottkin and Nagash—plus new scenarios, gameplay updates and revised victory conditions.
4 Legendary Lords anchor a package that also includes 8 Legendary Heroes, 5 Lords and Heroes, 23 battle units, 12 Regiments of Renown and new faction mechanics, with each lord sold individually or in a bundle.
Immortal Empires will become immediately accessible to buyers of any Lords of the End Times content, marking the first time the mode no longer requires ownership of prior Total War: Warhammer games.
A free update landing alongside the DLC adds Neferata as a fifth Legendary Lord, reworks the Vampire Counts and Archaon, and introduces Chaos Invasion, Vermintide and Nagash Rises endgame challenges.