| “ | The Siren of the Storm’s tortured soul vengefully roams the world’s seas, singing her paralysing songs of death. | „ |
Cylostra Direfin is a 
Vampire Coast Legendary Lord unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer II with Curse of the Vampire Coast. In the campaign, she leads 
The Drowned.
Description[ | ]
Cylostra Direfin is the vengeful spirit who commands the Lamprey, a cursed ship that oft appears in the raging tempests of the open sea. Many decades ago, Cylostra was the favourite court singer of Bretonnian royalty, a prima donna of considerable size and temper who never accepted anything less than getting her own way. Cylostra was a passenger on the Lamprey during an important diplomatic voyage to perform for the Phoenix King. The galleon went down in a vicious storm, drowning everyone on board. As the Lamprey sank down beneath the waves, her futile, pitch-perfect notes turned to shrill, gurgled screaming. Those who know the legend of the ‘Siren of the Storm’ flee in terror at the sight of her ghostly, barnacle-strewn galleon, for it is said that when it appears, her songs of death paralyse all unfortunate enough to hear them, right before her Undead crew – the Drowned – appear to drag them down into a watery grave.
Attributes[ | ]
Wizard- ▲ Spellcaster: This unit can cast spells.
- ▲ Ethereal: Ethereal units ignore most damage done by non-magical weapons. As they have shed most of their physical form, they are not slowed by terrain-based movement penalties either.
- ▲ Causes Terror: This unit can cause terror, making its melee target rout for a short time. Units that cause terror are immune to terror and fear themselves.
Spells[ | ]
Unit Abilities[ | ]
Active Abilities[ | ]
Campaign Only[ | ]
Passive Abilities[ | ]
Campaign Only[ | ]
Item Abilities[ | ]
Unique Item[ | ]
Mounts[ | ]
Ship[ | ]
- The Lamprey is Cylostra Direfin's personal ship.
Campaign starting units[ | ]
Eye of the Vortex & Mortal Empires[ | ]
Immortal Empires[ | ]
Lord Effects[ | ]
- Enables magical attacks (Lord's army)
- Physical resistance: 5% (Lord's army)
Character Traits[ | ]
Personal Trait[ | ]
Siren of the Storm: Cylostra is a vengeful spirit intent on performing for the Phoenix King, willing to sink all of Ulthuan to achieve her undying goal.
- Enables magical attacks (Lord's army)
- Physical resistance: 5% (Lord's army)
Defeat Trait[ | ]
Siren Extinguished: "Right, earplugs out lads - she's gone down to Stromfels' Chest, where she belongs, the harpy!"
- Winds of Magic power reserve capacity: +10 (Lord's army)
- Miscast base chance: -10%
Warhammer II Defeat Trait[ | ]
- Miscast base chance: -5%
- Winds of Magic starting amount: +15 (Lord's army)
- Enemy Winds of Magic starting amount: -10 (Lord's army)
Talent Tree[ | ]
- Cylostra's skill tree on TWWH Characters
- Skill Tree on TotalWarhammerPlanner
Strategy[ | ]
Trivia[ | ]
- Cylostra Direfin is the first original legendary lord character designed by Creative Assembly and implemented with permission from Games Workshop.[1]
- Cylostra Direfin's starting Damned Paladin is named Robert Barthelemy and has a helmet with antlers. This is most likely a reference to Robert Baratheon, a king and former knight in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Robert Baratheon's kingdom is the Stormlands, known for it's windswept, stormy weather just like Cylostra Direfin.
- Creative Assembly on Cylostra's sound design: "Cylostra was interesting as she was a new character. Finding the actress was a challenge as we had to find someone who could sound larger than life, be a complete diva, but also knock out those big operatic notes! We recorded her spellcasting and screams in different notes and linked this with the music system so that a different note is played depending on which key the music is being played in at the time. To make her sound undead she got a lot of reverb and delay on her voice. A fun fact is that everyone else in the game pronounces her surname as “dire-fin” in a very plain, English way, but she always says it in a more elegant, French style “dear-fan” Some of you may remember a British TV show from the 90s called Keeping Up Appearances where the main character was called Hyacinth Bucket but she always pronounces her surname in a more elegant, French-sounding way: 'bouquet'."[2]
Gallery[ | ]
Prior to reveal, we had this silhouette of Cylostra Direfin
Cylostra Direfin's ship, the Lamprey
References[ | ]
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