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[[File:Neferata.jpg|thumb|297px|'''Neferata''' - '''''She who is beautiful in death''''']]
 
Neferata is the very first [[vampire]]. Thousands of years ago she was '''Neferatem''' and the daughter of Lamasheptra the king of the city of [[Lahmia (city)|Lahmia]] as well as a priestess. Her father nearly bankrupted the city state in order to buy early blackpowder weapons from Cathy in order to dominate the war between Nagash and the other Priest Kings of Nehekhara, though which side he would fight for he wasn't sure about. Eventually deciding the join his fellow kings against Nagash, Lamasheptra's blackpowder weapons were instrumental in defeating the Usurper.
 
  
After the death of her father Neferata married her brother Lamashizzar and managed the city while he and the other Priest Kings defeated the remaining forces of Nagash, a campaign that took many years. This time gave Neferata a taste for ruling, and when her brother-husband returned, she was very reluctant to go back to being nothing more than a ceremonial religious figure and source of heirs.
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Neferata is a [[Vampire]] Queen, the first of her kind and the Mortarch of Blood.
  
She learnt that her husband had brought back more than just the usual spoils of war; he returned with the Books of Nagash and the captured Grand Vizar of Nagash, Arkhan the Black. Lamashizzar intended to use these things to learn the secret of eternal life, but needed his wife's assistance as her training as a priestess gave her knowledge required to understand the mystical nature of the tomes. She worked with Arkhan to create a watered down version of Nagash Elixir of Life that allowed herself and Lamashizzar's inner circle to gain a weak form of immortality.
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* For the character see [[Neferata (Character)]].
 
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* For the novel by [[Josh Reynolds]], see [[Neferata (Novel)]].
Eventually she mastered Nagash's secrets to the extent that she was able, along with her ally Arkhan, to usurp her husband, buying his inner circle's loyalty with a more powerful form of the elixir. Lamashizzar was reduced to a powerless figurehead with Neferata as the true power behind the throne. This eventually ended when Lamashizzar conspired with others to assassinate his wife with the deadly venom of a sphinx. Arkhan managed to fight his way back to Neferata and used every sorcerous secret he knew to try to restore her. After days of trying he gave up and broke into Lamashizzar's section of the palace in order to kill him in revenge. He was successful, but was swiftly killed by the king's champion Abhorash.   
 
 
 
Unbeknowst to Arkhan, Neferata survived, the elixir, venom and dark magic mixing together to restore her. She awoke as a true immortal but cursed with an insatiable thirst for the blood of the living. She became the first vampire.
 
 
 
Over the next centuries Lahmia became the most powerful city in Nehekhara as the other cities tried to rebuild following the war. Neferata ruled from behind the scenes, extending her influence across whole whole of the empire. Few suspected the foul truth behind Neferata, but one did...
 
 
 
Neferata was the cousin of [[Khalida|High Queen Khalida Neferher]], ruler of [[Lybaras]]. Khalida accused her cousin of treason and attempts of assassination and announced them at a banquet. Khalida demanded a trial by combat, but without electing a champion. Neferata relunctantly agreed. Neferata and Khalida fought violently but Khalida could not match the strength and speed of a vampire. As she lay on the floor in her own blood, Neferata sunk her sharp teeth into Khalida's neck and sucked deeply. Then, she bit her own lip and let her vampiric blood drip into Khalida's mouth. Neferata would have succeeded had the Asp Goddess, [[Nehekharan Gods and Goddesses|Asaph]], not intervened. She drained the tainted blood from Khalida and allowed her to die a free person.
 
 
 
Later the Queen of Rasetra came to Neferata asking help with unborn son. Neferata gave the woman an infusion containing her blood and when the boy was born, claimed him as her own saying he would stay in Lahmia until he came of age and took his throne in Khemri. This child would be called Alcadizzar.
 
 
Neferata is currently inhabiting the Silver Pinnacle, previously a Dwarf mining-stronghold of the Worlds Edge Mountains, along with her following of vampiric handmaidens.
 
 
 
==Sources==
 
*<sup>1</sup>:[[Warhammer Armies: Tomb Kings (6th Edition)]]
 
 
 
[[Category:Vampires & Necromancers]]
 
[[Category:Tomb Kings]]
 
[[Category:Special characters]]
 
 
 
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Neferata is a Vampire Queen, the first of her kind and the Mortarch of Blood.