NOOB'S GUIDE to VILITCH the CURSELING

A noob's guide to the Lore and intended gameplay style of Vilitch the Curseling, a playable legendary lord in Total War Warhammer 3. The Master of Misrule may just be a pink flesh tag hanging off his brother's back, but this parasitic twin is one of Tzeentch's greatest champions!

[firetarrasque]

I fucking love Vilitch. Literally his entire story is just Tzeench going "lmao you know what would be funny"

[denharte]

Vilitch: “Great Eagle I beseech you to grant me my brother’s strength”

Tzeentch: “U know what would b funny? Lmao. “

[DainnGreywall]

Wait, I thought Thomen wasn't able to take control, but spent all those years praying to Tseenczh to allow him to take over, and eventually Tseenczh just decided "Lmao ok that sounds hilarious, let's do it" straight up trapping Vilitch in his own mind as Thomen got a switcheroo slapped on his brother.

[rubz]

According to wiki :"Thinking himself lost forever, he suddenly found himself back within Tzeentch's realm. Confused as to why he was saved by his patron when he had not requested any aid, the answer was not to his liking. Vilitch's silent and brutish conjoined brother spoke for the first time in ages, revealing that it was he who had requested aid. Realising his peril too late, Vilitch's mind was wiped clean as his brother, so long subservient to his will, took control of the pair. "Vilitch" the Curseling was no more". Doesn't sound like Thommen was really in control for 30 years to me.

[TheWhiteDragon]

I could've sworn that Vilitch's fate in the end times was different. I thought he failed to take a city and asked Tzeentch for more power, and Tzeentch granted his request by putting Thomin back in control.

[cheesus]

"He was trying to beat the weak and pathetic out of him", ah the old norscan way of brotherhood, classic

[jean-sebastienmatte]

When you play Miao Ying, this MFer quickly becomes a thorn in your backside. The worse is that you try to attack him and he just teleports around, while you waste a dozen turns trying to corner him... [Frustration]

[bendoldon]

It's always an exciting day when we get a new Noob's guide!

[thenethralking]

On the topic of the end times, while initially I thought of that twist as stupid, I just remembered, this is Tzeench we’re talking about. I think I’d be more surprised if he didn’t do something like give Torman the ability to take back over on a whim.

[LordTheCyril]

The swedish:
Oh, great bird man in the sky.
Change my fate.
Make my brother into the Slave.
And me very strong.
Good with the ladies(fruntimren old swedish for ladies relatively degrading) and maybe hung like a horse.

[marcusbergman]

As a Swede I was not expecting a Swedish prayer 😂It roughly checked out.

[GymBroGranite]

One Cool Easter egg if you click on vilitch hero icon a lot in his menu during campaign he breaks the fourth wall and will tell you to stop clicking it

[Gallalad]

Viltch: praying to the changer of ways to change his fate.
Some comety boy: ♫ YOUNG MAN ♫

[serenedoge]

Vilitch and Thommen spend so much time together. They’re practically inseparable, and just can’t stand to be apart. Sibling goals.❤✨

[brianwalsh]

Ironically, Vilitch was a key ally in my daemon prince campaign. I was honestly thinking of betraying him early on but then he kept winning, so I just went with it lmao

[weabootrash]

Honestly I love Vilich's end times lore, I find it a great twist of fate and something Tzeentch would do after Vilich fails one too many times and whines like a petulant child. I'm pretty sure Tommen was actually trapped as a prisoner in his own body and unable to actually do anything the whole time, though, but I might be misremembering it and all.

Regardless of that, the idea of Vilich becoming trapped in his own body and unable to do anything while Tommen takes control is satisfying, I don't know why but Vilich is super hateable as a character and I like seeing him get comeuppance for being a massive piece of shit throughout his lore

[OldReaver]

For those who don't know, both Vilitch and Kairos can both attack with the teleport stance and it triggers as an ambush. Making it very hard to get near the Great Bastion as he will just jump on an army getting to close and killing them.

[bradypus]

I don't care what anyone say about the end time. I find it hilariously poetic that Thorim manage to get the upper hand and reverse uno Vilitch like the end of a 90's nerd turn villain flick where the jock gives him a wedgie before the credits starts rolling.

...I mean it does open up some questions about their characters motivation. If Thorim had conscience all along, why did he let his brother do this to him? Was there, deep inside him, the feeling of regret for all the abuse he gave to his brother? Did he learn to admire his leadership now that he has power? Is there a small glimpse of brotherly love inside his husk of a body? Did he start to regain control because he didn't want his brother to be used by tzeentch? Does Vilitch feel the same way now that their roles are reversed?

...Or the writers just pulled that bit out of their butt cause monkey paw logic is always funny so let's do it again this late in the story.

[ThatOneREDScout]

I love the spawnify. Just dumping random chaos spawn in armies that are completely loyal to the army, thus most likely making fighting the army harder on you, and giving you absolutely no benefit what so ever is so perfectly a tzeentch move that if giving your enemies chaos spawn was a bug, I hope they never remove it.

[flaviomonteiro]

Yes! The Vilitch People joke made it! We did it brothers... We did it!