Hag Graef

Hag Graef is a playable Dark Elves faction introduced in Total War: Warhammer II. It is led by Malus Darkblade and can be found in the middle of Naggaroth, close to Malekith's start position. It was made playable in the Shadow and the Blade DLC.

When playing as Malus, the player starts with the city of Hag Graef as well as an expeditionary force with a Black Ark in the southeast part of the map. The player faces an initial dilemma of giving up the city Hag Graef in Naggaroth for a large sum of money or keeping the valuable city and dealing with the separated start position (Hostile Takeover dilemma).

Faction Effects

 * Suitable climate: Jungle
 * Suitable Climate: Mountain
 * Malus is possessed by the daemon Tz’arkan, who is controlled with the use of elixirs
 * Tz’arkan’s Whispers: The Daemon influences Malus to commit acts of slaughter and cruelty
 * Military Alliance with Naggarond
 * Income from Irons Mines, Gold Mines and Marble Quarries +30% (All Regions)

Vortex Victory

 * Have 1,500 Scrolls of Hekarti at the start of your turn.
 * Complete the Rise of Darkness final battle.

Short Campaign Victory

 * Complete 3 Chapter Objectives
 * Capture 15000 battle captives
 * Destroy the following factions: Clan Eshin, Black Crag, Karak Azul, Karaz-a-Karak
 * Construct these buildings: Temple of Khaine, Dragon Hatchery, Palace of Dread Knights, Tower of Dark Sorcery, Slave Market, Dread Bulwark, Arena, Dark Elf Port
 * Maintain a total of 15 units of the following type: Har Ganeth Executioners, Black Dragon, Cold One Dread Knights, Bloodwrack Shrine, War Hydra, Chill of Sontar (Black Hydra), The Siren of Red Ruin (Bloodwrack Medusa), Blades of the Blood Queen (Executioners)

Long Campaign Victory

 * Complete 5 Chapter Objectives
 * Capture 30000 battle captives
 * Destroy the following factions: Clan Eshin, Black Crag, Karak Azul,
 * Maintain a total of 15 units of the following type: Har Ganeth Executioners, Black Dragon, Cold One Dread Knights, Bloodwrack Shrine, War Hydra, Chill of Sontar (Black Hydra), The Siren of Red Ruin (Bloodwrack Medusa), Blades of the Blood Queen (Executioners)

Description
Hag Graef, the Black Crag, is a sinister and foreboding place, built at the bottom of a cold, dark canyon and completely surrounded by mountains of bare rock that stretch into the clouds. It is a city permanently in shadow, for no sunlight ever reaches its walls. Hag Graef is a place of twisted and impossible architecture. Its eight black towers rise from the canyon floor like the ossified remains of some loathsome cephalopod. Between the towers are strung walkways, platforms and bridges of every shape and size. Some are fashioned from withered timber and soot-stained bone, others are crafted from jagged stone or woven from the silk of monstrous spiders.

The larger platforms are so massive as to be towns and villages in their own right, and are supported by gantry-works of iron and stone. It is upon these that the majority of Hag Graef's citizenry dwell, crammed into crooked mansions of cinderbrick and fire-blackened wood; the towers are home only to the city's most powerful Dreadlords. Cramped conditions, combined with the Dark Elves' peremptory nature, ensure that rivalries flare into violence with alarming regularity. Those who do not walk cautiously through Hag Graef's webwork of streets have their throats slit and bodies heaved into the morass of sewage and rotting flesh that covers the canyon floor.

Provinces

 * Eye of the Vortex
 * The Black Flood
 * Army and Black Ark in The Sea of Dread (on the other side of the world)


 * Mortal Empires
 * The Black Flood
 * Army and Black Ark in the Dragon Isles

Diplomatic Traits

 * Supremacy
 * Naval Aggressor
 * Aggressive
 * Rightly Suspicious

Trivia

 * Hag Graef used to be a minor Dark Elf faction ruled by Corvishish, a generic Dreadlord.
 * The Mortal Empires map was expanded in the Potion of Speed Update to include Malus Darkblade's new start location in the Dragon Isles.