NOOB'S GUIDE to ELSPETH VON DRAKEN

A guide to the lore and gameplay style of Elspeth von Draken - Dark Lady of Nuln, Graveyard Rose, and your new favorite dommy mommy for Total War Warhammer 3.
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[@dragonsaint9446]

NGL it's grimly fitting that the magic of death is tied to the military industrial complex 😂

[@khylerbane4523]

Felix: “I can take her.” Ulrika: “In a fight right?” Gotrek: *ah shit, here we go again* -_-

[@martmeisterpaladin4074]

"Manling, no!"

[@Warmaster2001]

Felix: What Got is something to matter. Gotrek: eh no nothing. Do what you gonna do Fel. Felix: alright. Uly you going with us.

[@ekki6820]

As someone from Montreal, I can confirm. Goths are still found here.

[@Warpstoner]

Based

[@Fx7264]

well.. now i know where to visit next...

[@codybonds]

Hide your silver and gold! Maybe offer them some land in Spain.

[@franespinosa4686]

​​@@codybonds as a Spaniard I wouldn't have anything against it

[@Dirtnap12]

The last bastion of an endangered species after the destruction of their natural habitat, the shopping mall.

[@nickg8100]

One of your best ones yet!

[@IamrealX]

Last Rammstein concert in Montreal was fire, literally!

[@rudelwolf1591]

I really love playing her,especially as she feels like playing a vampire lord with a far superior army. like the vamps, she is a spellcaster that is also pretty good in melee fighting through all her resistances and buffs, but where the vamps come with masses of undead, she comes with the perfect answer - Hellstorm rocket batteries, now with EVEN MORE ROCKETS!!! And oh, because that wasn't destructive enough, how about every rocket now fires a mini purple sun, because if you need vampires dead, you have to beat them at their own game.

[@scavenger6268]

Dropping 17k gold (Dark tower/morr militia, lvl3 alliance base) on Wolfenberg to keep Ostland alive by ensuring the city can't be auto-resolved by the other factions is both loreful and hilarious. Since the AI general can just keep spawning attack armies against chaos or other problems in the north with a decent income.

[@FredericoASousa]

Those were some spicy art works on Elspeth

[@KingOfMadCows]

Come on, she's clearly Maleficent, not evil Elsa.

[@Cpl.Clawhammer]

No, she’s just a kindly old lady offering you an apple

[@tanakakhan]

Ha, I just happened to start an Elspeth campaign when I saw this!

[@honestkyn718]

This game has given us more warhammer waifus then we've had in a while and i am all for it.

[@eomat]

I really wish CA had made her colours a bit more muted like the Amethyst Wizard and her skin more like pale like theirs. She is meant to be the Dark Lady. Instead she looks like a jester or clown. A little too vibrant. Also sadly her Carmine Dragon isn't unique. Just a High Elf Dragon painted a different colour with its fins removed.

[@FortuitusVideo]

I'm assuming the video was delayed so that the artists could work?

[@guilliman1990]

Shes easily the most fun/interesting empire lord. Even if I still choose my beloved Franz 7/10 times.

[@Gruetzsensen]

Nothing beats a good ol franzer-devision

[@guilliman1990]

@Gruetzsensen favourite comment ever 11/10

[@swakage13x]

I love her mentality of don't f*** with me I won't fuk with you you be nice to me I'll be nice to you but if someone starts crap with me you my friend better come help me and I will do the same. Such a simple logic and if more people in our world could comprehend that our Earth would be a slightly better place

[@ripclcze8845]

Just bought it'today

[@stiffykitsune8233]

im just waiting for all Empire Elector Counts to be playable... multiplayer will be fun

[@yamahadrag69]

I know we're probably not gonna get them now but, does Empire lore actually have an engineer that could be a legendary lord? I legitimately can't think of one.

[@keplomancer]

bro why is there a dude at 6:56 for a FRAME

[@ServantofBaal]

Actual real life goth here; on the subject of goth or not, it comes down to goth subculture being music based. You can dress like Siouxsie Sioux every day of the week, but if you've never listened to Siouxsie and the Banshees or any other gothic rock band, or any darkwave in general, you're not a goth, just *gothic* or alternative at most. At least for our world. Fantasy people can have a pass

[@NewGuy2534]

I believe Elspeth survived the end times and is annoying Nagash because he can't kill her.

[@orben-amos6172]

I think in lore drakenfels was on per with her in power.

[@Soerensen273]

who is the person whose picture can be seen briefly 6:56

[@marloyorkrodriguez9975]

I wish to see Aranessa's guide

[@Razielts1]

At last, grammar policemen like me can rejoice when hearing Elspeth, not Elsef and Nuln not null.

[@pieterstaal1199]

WHO is the Hero at 0:21? the second to the left. Right next to Elspeth. I cant find it anywhere.

[@codybonds]

Possibly a placeholder image for the engineer hero. That clip is from CAs official video.

[@pieterstaal1199]

@@codybonds Ah thanks, makes sence that I couldn't find it then

[@enoughothis]

Spooky Dommy Mommy

[@laatmaasquanariin3945]

Didnt elspeth have a girlfriend at one point? I swear I heard that from somewhere

[@paula.827]

if you shoot a target the target dies there's nothing special or magical for guns bring death to the ones being shot its just how gun works gun bring death lore of magic did not make it special - Balthazar source: tariff "i need to comment this xD"

[@JohnNoneTrue]

It is a little tiring to see this much powercreep

[@lidurts2119]

Um don’t want to be that guy but i think every gen z person knows what a goth is

[@codybonds]

Likely. But can they tell the difference between Goths, Visigoths, and Invisigoths?

[@phill2065]

She seems busted

[@oooeee5556]

I don't know if this is a guide to Elspeth or a video of someone having an emo/goth fetish.

[@thatonelady9772]

6:56

[@meltingskeleton2082]

In the lore, a majority of the Churches support Elspeth when the time comes. Like they have some what of an understanding that death isn't evil and neither is Elspeth. I always thought that was a good touch.

[@guilhemnavarette6282]

Tbf most of the empire citizens believe in Morr, the god of death and afterlife, that protects them from undead

[@jamesashcroft8170]

It's a really nice change honestly. It's so common that anything related to death is shunned in fantasy societies.

[@eriktheos6022]

Agreed, its quite well understood that magic itself isnt evil. It also helps that undead are a very real threat and one of their major gods is one of death

[@ΣκεύοςΓαλουζής]

Also ELSPETH VON DRAKEN is going to go in my collection of goth dommy mommies !

[@codybonds]

Every female character in Warhammer has a fan art where they’re about to step on someone within 24 hours of their announcement.

[@necorV]

@@codybonds That almost sounds like something bad?!

[@ΣκεύοςΓαλουζής]

@@codybonds thats only expected knowing how warhammer players love getting dommed and f

[@paulovinasrocha6166]

​@@necorVthe should just slow it down a bit.

[@SillyTillar]

And the male characters. ​@@codybonds

[@Rukdug]

Ikit Claw: "At last-last. A worthy opponent-foe!! Our battle-war shall be legendary!!" *battle proceeds to be a contest of magical nukes*

[@guilliman1990]

Look tbf the chorfs give him a red hot run for his money

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

Malakai somewhere on the sidelines: "A MIGHTY DEATH!!!"

[@Forestxavier20]

Ikit Claw: "We are friend-allies! Both-both like DOOM! Human-Thing shall live-survive, Ikit wishes to speak-talk to them!"

[@GrandMasterNutBusterYoda]

She's like a combination of Dwarf engineering and Balthasar tech with a splash of Skaven engineering/shenanigans.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

She's that goth girl at the gym who can bench press 700 lbs with ease and has abs you can sharpen diamonds on.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Ikit Claw found his match. Might and magic combined into one devastating army full of gunpowder and explosions. Only trading warpstone for death magic and rats for goth dommy mommy.

[@thanquolrattenherz9665]

so ikit claw is the superior choice.

[@loowick4074]

Elspeth is willing to use an ally as a bomb. She's basically a skaven

[@datkhornedog899]

​@@thanquolrattenherz9665If you're an American.

[@gadgetboy4717]

Worst trade deal in the history of trade deals- Furries

[@JacobSky5110]

Cody: "And that's important - Goths HATE Vampires..." My Dumbass Talking to Myself: "...It's true, South Park said so."

[@codybonds]

That was my source as well. I did ask a Goth just to be sure, but he burst into flames when I invited him to lunch.

[@JacobSky5110]

😂😂😂

[@ewanhamilton1012]

An older woman goth dominatrix that loves guns and tinkering? I'm in love 💘🖤❤️‍🔥

[@horstwurst3131]

AKSHUALY: Elspeth is not a Dark Wizard. Dark Magic (Dhar) is a distinct school of magic, she's a amethyst or death wizard. Anti-Necromancers.

[@blugger]

Death magic is the un-undeath

[@krispypriest5116]

13+ mins of Elspeth Von Draken by Cody!!! Yes she is a godly Goth. Nice Rammstein reference too!

[@TheAussieBlue]

The best thing that can be said about the elector countess of Wissenland is that she has an amazing eye for talent, and knows how to delegate. This is also the only nice thing that can be said about her.

[@bruuuuuuuuhhhh]

Don't you slander my beloved Emmanuelle

[@Forestxavier20]

Only nice thing that can be said about her to her face. Methinks if anyone had the audacity to even make briefest of eye contact with anything other than her eyes, she'd kill them.

[@TheAussieBlue]

@@bruuuuuuuuhhhh She needs to stop partying amd actually do something!

[@nagual1992]

I wish to see Khalida noobs guide.

[@Jukrates]

Mia Khalida joke incoming

[@Warmaster2001]

​@@Jukrates I just predicted that will happen because of that name similarities.

[@robbindabank9038]

So Ikit Claw Goth Mommy edition?

[@SnowLeopard784]

Friendly reminder between Gelt and Von Draken, it's the FORMER who canonically resorts to outright necromancy.

[@darloufledestrucucteur346]

6:55 who tf is this lol

[@arthurgomes5188]

I think it's Mr. Beast, but, fuck if i knew why he's there.

[@FINISHHIM09]

I do not remember his name, but I know he's the lead designer on thrones of decay

[@theblueflamerl]

Now that Mommy Elspeth has one, where's the Mommy Katarin one?

[@rebelsoldier6133]

No horny

[@unclebones23]

2:09 - 2:25 I don't know why, but this part made me imagine just a scene where a bunch of Witch Hunters are pelting Elspeth with garlic while she just stands there angrily popped up in my mind. Funny stuff.

[@RonWeasly-gn7ut]

What is that single frame of a guy at 6:50 ish, I got it to pause at 6:56 but I don't know the man it shows.

[@ZincMaster]

Like Avril Lavigne and Evanescence she's from Ancient Alternative History - Thanks Cody now I feel really old

[@_-JonDoe-_]

Shit.. and I thought Clan Skyre and Malakai were nuts.. Nuln got Volley Tanks, enough gunpowder units to form a real regiment, and a fuckin Baneblade. I mean, I like my gunpowder more than the next guy, but this bitch can field an Imperial Guard field army complete with an armored spearhead. She is Blitzkrieg..

[@JonnyDoey]

00:15 she is totally like and looks like the Evil Queen from Snow White. At least the Once Upon a Time version

[@BruhBruhBruhBruhBruuuuuuh]

6:55 I see that

[@maxmichalik4938]

You are massively misrepresenting Death Magic here, bringing undeserved disrepute to all law abiding and patriotic Amethyst Wizards. The purple Wind of Shyish is not dark magic, nor does it bind souls from the afterlife, let alone use them as ingredients or resources. You sound as ignorant as your average Sigmarite zealot or unofficial hinterlands Witch Hunter.

[@josephdragunov374]

And here I thought how she's related to Isabella von Carstein, but I remembered she was a 'von Drak', not 'von Draken'

[@grimdarhk]

Rammstein concerts are quite full of Goths. At least they were back in 2012 >.>

[@RafeLaet]

FREE NULN!!! FREE NULN!!! FREE NULN!!! FREE NULN!!! FREE NULN!!!

[@Warmaster2001]

Franz: NEIN! Your ass is mine!

[@SDRlegacy]

goth mommy

[@robertforsythe7613]

Buddy, gen z definitely knows what goths are, believe me

[@Alexrenda]

Getting flashbacks to South Park Goth VS Vamp VS Emo kids

[@Aircastegamer]

Wow finally you made a video on the gothic lady of death 👏 😁

[@Nightbanekaizer]

The timing of your video couldn't be more perfect. I was about to beat the campaign and then the update came which meant I had to delete my save. With your wisdom of her lore you've inspired me to try again in the wake of the morale I've lost. Thank you sincerely.

[@DamosLexicon]

There's a South Park reference here but I am unable to type nor do I have the wit to make it

[@codybonds]

My source on how much Goths hate Vamps is from the unimpeachable research of M. Stone and T. Parker, Esquire.

[@devilsmessanger]

LOVE the Shin Godzilla reference !!!

[@JJTN2K]

I swear this man is just waiting for Henry Cavill 40k series to come out to make the Noobs Guide on Emperor Karl Franz. Pd: by Sigma-R belive in big tiddy goth gf supremacy.

[@torquevonthorne948]

9:37 Nice meet the Engie quote

[@phil.moloney2980]

So she hates Vampire, now I'm wondering how she feels about the tomb kings. Speaking of the tomb kings I have a feel that Arkhan and Neferata have a Davy/Calypso type of relationship.

[@dabluflcn]

Elspeth is a secret South Park goth kid. She’s sick of the Vamp kids in Sylvania bogarting her style.

[@herrdoctor2895]

I still remember when Hot Topic invented Goth Girls, its like they just walk out in the dozens out of the shops

[@erikthered7876]

As a follower of Hashut, let me just say... gib dommy goth mommy to me now, and no one catches a dreadquake shell to the face

[@davidziegler7743]

damn vampire poseurs

[@Firefocus-fz2we]

5:28 Which unit got a reskin(top row, second from the right)? 🤔

[@atomicsquid3345]

oh thank god! i was needing a fix of intelligent humor in these interesting times. kindly keep up the great work

[@nulllex0099]

Dear god the last thing I ever expected was a goth emo vamp beef break down in one of these XDDDD I wished I were a decade younger to see what the kiddos now would take from all of it

[@Scaphism36]

Her reskin mod is 10/10. Not oversexualized, just good

[@mctbaggins2084]

Im gooning! Rammstein, hot topic, goths, dark chamber of secrets.

[@MatthewSmith-qd6du]

you didnt meantion that knights of the black rose have skull helmets; dissapointed. good video tho

[@privateeyety5735]

Hell yeah! Thanks for the vid, i knew u wouldnt disappoint with goth dommy lol

[@BernardRednix]

when will you do the gigachad Karl Franz next?

[@Mancansftw]

that .25 of a second of vladimir zalensky

[@marc-andredeslauriers7687]

You should redo Gelt, now that he has a new lore intro and gameplay

[@LandofMert76]

Amy Lee does not look young anymore. Avril tho...

[@bavettesAstartes]

I paused RIGHT at 6:56 and it scared the shit out of me.

[@saryntv]

Dommy Mommy

[@aliidowali1946]

Can we get a Karl Fran’s or Louie fellhart noobs

[@Noblesix84]

YEEEES. Let's go, been waiting for this one.

[@demonicangel31]

This is my dream faction...

[@ginghinaandrei5013]

I have been looking forward to this.

[@danyalexys4956]

Serious question: is she a vampire or not?

[@plasticbag4102]

The second dommiest of all mommys 😫😩😖😣

[@LullabyNight]

Death had a near-Elspeth experience.

[@riptide1ful]

Still waiting for Karl Franz

[@OCGreenDevil]

Awesome, I have been waiting for this

[@lumanson21]

Can you do hag hellbron?

[@CyberK4]

2:58 I see what you did there.

[@capysanti]

6:56 Mr Beast jumpscare?

[@MrVireon]

6:56 illuminati confirmed