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Total Warhammer 3 reveals Cathay's launch lords: a pair of dragon demi-gods

When Total War: Warhammer III launches early next year, it'll introduce the faction of Grand Cathay along with the daemons of Chaos. Team Big and Red has gotten a lot of screen time in the trailers and teasers we've seen for the strategy game to date, but lately Creative Assembly has been providing more details on Cathay. Now, the studio has introduced the nation's launch-day legendary lords, a pair of celestial demi-gods named Miao Ying and Zhao Ming.

Miao Ying and Zhao Ming are sister and brother, the children of the Celestial Dragon Emperor. As such, they're both literal dragons themselves, capable of switching between dragon and human forms as the situation requires. Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon, is the Emperor's eldest child, and she rules Nan-Gau at the western edge of the Great Bastion in northern Cathay. Known as the City of Smoke, Nan-Gau is an industrial center where Cathay's great weapons of war are forged and smithed.

Her brother Zhao Ming is known as the Iron Dragon, and from his powerful city of Shang-Yang, he rules Cathay's western reaches. As Total War: Warhammer III's campaign begins, Zhao Ming is a bit surrounded. Unlike his sister, whose primary concern is the daemons threatening her from the northern wastes, Zhao Ying's borders are threatened by unruly mobs of Skaven, Greenskins, Ogres, and others - but his status as a dragon may afford him the opportunity to use these factions to his advantage.

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Who is Zhao Ming?

[h3]A hardened warrior, the Iron Dragon rules over Western Cathay and keeps the desert clans in order.

Yet, his interest in alchemy and arcane metallurgy led to some bold accusations by his siblings...

Learn more about Zhao Ming: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/who-is-zhao-ming-cathay-warhammer-3/[/h3]

Who is Miao Ying?

[h3]The mighty dragons of Grand Cathay are coming to WARHAMMER III 🐉

We've had a chat with our Lead Writer Andy Hall to learn more about the eldest daughter of the Celestial Dragon Emperor, Miao Ying.

Read the interview: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/who-is-miao-ying-cathay-warhammer-3/[/h3]

Want Ind and Nippon in Total Warhammer 3? Games Workshop just gave you hope

"Hope", mind. Not certainty. Definitely not confirmation. But, with Games Workshop reviving the Warhammer Fantasy setting (upon which Total War: Warhammer is based) with a new tabletop game, and Grand Cathay getting a full army in Total War: Warhammer 3, fans have wondered for a while whether other overlooked nations would get similar treatment.

Asked on the Warhammer Instagram whether "you would do Ind or Nippon?", the response from the official account was: "we may well see more regions of the Old World in future, we'll just have to wait and see."

As the top-voted reply on the related Reddit thread says, this is Games Workshop keeping its options open rather than actually promising anything. With Warhammer: The Old World - Warhammer Fantasy's relaunch - still yet to release and clearly focusing on the titular continent that's always been the core of the game, it'll surely be years before we see anything new of more distant nations like Nippon or Ind. But until very recently, you could've said the same of Cathay, and Games Workshop didn't have to say anything in response to this query.

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Grand Cathay Lore, Lands and History

[h3]With a history originating more than 5,000 years ago, Grand Cathay is full of tales and riches.

Yet dark days are on the horizon and the Chaos forces are gathering beyond the Great Bastion...

Learn more about the Celestial Dragon Emperor and its empire: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-3-grand-cathay-lore/ [/h3]