Exquisite Vineyard

The Exquisite Vineyard is an unusual location in Total War: Warhammer III, offering minor regional effects, a unique item, and an associated special 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 A Taste For Dreamwine 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:

  • Bretonnia
  • Cathay
  • Dwarfs
  • The Empire
  • High Elves
  • Kislev

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