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Exquisite Vineyard

Exquisite Vineyard is an unusual location in Total War: Warhammer III. It slightly boosts control in exchange for an increase in corruption, has a chance to provide a powerful unique item that can grant an associated negative trait.

Exquisite Vineyard
Cult of the Exquisite Cadaver
From a distance, this vineyard looks immaculate, its grapevines perfectly kept, almost as if sculpted into the hillside. It's almost hard to resist paying such a place a visit...
  • Chance for events to trigger related to this location
  • Control: +2
  • Slaanesh corruption: +5 (local region)

Location Discovery

This unusual location can be discovered:

  • From Turn: 5
  • Discovery Chance: 50% per turn.
  • Regions: In any region.

Event: A Wine to Die For

On turn start, if a character is present in the same region as the Exquisite Vineyard, there is a 5% to trigger an event that awards the Jug of Dreamwine item. With an initial delay of 8 turns before the first possible occurrence. This event can only occur once per campaign.

A Wine to Die For

While passing through your lands, your forces are approached by a wine merchant, a middle-aged lady calling herself Marlene. Although she appears somewhat aged, it is clear that there’s a youthful vigour about her, perhaps beyond what might be expected. In fact, such curiosity is soon confirmed as she offers to sell some of what she calls her “Dreamwine” for a very reasonable price, explaining that drinking it brings good health, long life and a youthful appearance. A small amount of coin is exchanged for the dark, syrupy vintage and she soon leaves, heading in the direction of the nearby vineyard…

  • Treasury: -20
  • Jug of Dreamwine

Item: Jug of Dreamwine

The Jug of Dreamwine is a unique enchanted item that can be equipped by characters, with a small chance to grant the A Taste For Dreamwine trait.

Jug of Dreamwine

Enchanted Item

A dark, syrupy vintage truly unlike any other.

  • This Lord will be wounded instead of killed in battle
  • Character experience gain: +10%
  • Physical resistance: 20%
  • Attribute: Unbreakable

Trait: A Taste For Dreamwine

Once a character equips the Jug of Dreamwine, they have a 5% chance to gain the A Taste For Dreamwine trait each turn. This trait has three progressive levels, with each level introducing increasingly severe downsides.

To remove the trait, the character must unequip the Jug of Dreamwine. There is a 10% chance per turn for a trait level to be removed.

A Taste For Dreamwine (Level 1)

A Taste For Dreamwine
If you were to ask, they would say the vintage is so good its almost to die for.
  • Slaanesh corruption: +5 (local province)
  • Leadership aura size: -20%
  • Leadership: -2 (Lord's army)

A Taste For Dreamwine (Level 2)

A Taste For Dreamwine
A regular customer of one Marlene Gebhardt.
  • Slaanesh corruption: +10 (local province)
  • Leadership aura size: -50%
  • Leadership: -3 (Lord's army)

A Taste For Dreamwine (Level 3)

A Taste For Dreamwine
"The vineyard... it calls me..."
  • Slaanesh corruption: +20 (local province)
  • Leadership aura size: -100%
  • Leadership: -5 (Lord's army)

Eligible Races

This unusual location can be discovered by factions belonging to the following races:

Beastmen
Bretonnia
Chaos Dwarfs
Daemons of Chaos
Dark Elves
Dwarfs
The Empire
Grand Cathay
Greenskins
High Elves
Khorne
Kislev
Lizardmen
Norsca
Nurgle
Ogre Kingdoms
Skaven
Slaanesh
Tomb Kings
Tzeentch
Vampire Coast
Vampire Counts
Warriors of Chaos
Wood Elves

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