Hello everyone, as an internal need, I want to share my thought about a character I thought about, which would complement the existing characters in the game. Calen is a male Highelf, with mixed play styles with strong magic tendencies. I would like to see him as a DLC for the game. Rather than map packs which would separate the community, everyone could at least enjoy when the new character joins the party. Calen has a Melee/Range, Only Melee, and Sorcerer profession. I wrote a story introduction, about his three professions and a short text about his behavior towards the other characters. Everyone who enjoyed or donât can leave a comment, tell me if they would like to have it as well in the game.
You might say: âwell an elf⌠not againâ but since the introduction of that many High elven technology, nothing makes more sense than introducing an High elf. I would like, if somebody comment on this âarticleâ I would like you to give a argument based response, rather than just a simple âdonâtâ . I hope you value that.
Story introduction
Calen DelâAdor â Loremaster Aspirant of the Highelves
While the Old world crumbles, every Regions is impacted by the Vermintide and hordes of chaos warriors marching through all empire Regions, other parts of the world seem not be spared.
The Prince of the Elfs is not receiving any response from far colonies, Druchii arm themselves for a dark crusade against their relatives, Chaos Norseman are plundering the northeast part of Ulthuan. While his brother Teclis forced him to make contact to the Empire of Men, Tyrion himself tried to work on the problems of their kingdom by his own. Creaking his teeth, he received or â even worse - not received response from the bad situation in elven cities on daily basis. Some of them were attacked not from a wandering army but something from the underground. Spies from the Empire send him reports about the giant rat men able to destroy Ăberreik from the inside. Teclis might be right on the assumption that these beasts might also haunting the high elven cities, Tyrion admitted. Even more surprised is the king about the coordination of the recent north men attacks in the north of Ulthuan. Are these events related? He needed to find out. In a silent moment in his office, he thought about what he needs to do. He might send a message to the Human king, Karl Franz, in order to ask him for information about the Vermintide, about the events of Ăberreik, and what is recently happening in Helmgart.
But⌠this might sound pitiful, weak, and why by the Cadai should a highborn race like the High elves ask the dirty undeveloped humans? In this moment his eyes skimmed over a message of a puzzle High priest who was feeling the activity of the Bridges of Shadow. The text was hasty written, confusing. Some parts werenât even readable. But some lines were pretty clear: âThese Bridges were not used since centuries, in a time, when elves were ruling the old world. No one dared to use them neither they got the knowledge to do soâŚâ. He was skimmed further through the text until his eyes stopped ââŚThey were used in the areas where today the Empire City Helmgart existsâŚâ Tyrion smiled⌠he found a trace, and this trace was basically his territory. Time to get to the bottom of it.
The next day Calen, one of Hoethâs highest Loremaster aspirants was appointed to Tyrions office. Calen is average tall Highelf Warrior, branded by War but also by his addiction to knowledge. While Calen still didnât know what was going on, Tyrion eyes laid motionless on the aspirant. Without any greetings, Tyrion stood up, wandered behind Calen and did not waste another view on him.
Calenâs eyes were lit by fury. Recently his wife was killed by attacks of chaos warriorâs raiders in Cothique in north east Ulthuan. He swears by Isha, that he will revenge her death. Silently he hoped, Tyrion was sending him back there, in order to either find his revenge, or a suitable death.
âYou heard about giant rat men?â, were Tyrions first words after a while.
Calen was lifting a brow. Confused he replied his prince. âYes I heard stories of them. Chattering is going on. People say they might be the reason we do not get any response of our coloniesâ
âThen let it be chattering. We are here to do something about it.â
âwhat does it mean?â
âRecently our mages weâre feeling the Bridge of Shadow system in the Old world. I want you to have a look on it. Shut it down and kill everyone who is related to it, when itâs not helpful for the survival of our race. But if it is⌠find out more make friends with the users.â
âYou are sending me into the Old world?â, Calen voice stammered. âIf I can speak freely, why do you do this?!â, Calen nearly couldnât hold his frustration and anger back.
âThis is an order. I have a theory, if I am right, you will find outâŚâ
In the name of Isha! Calen anger was kept inside his body. Neither he wanted to be in the Old world, nor does it serve the Love to his wife. Maybe he dies without a purpose.
Calen was send with help of high elven mages to the bridge which was recently used the most. After he walked over the Bridge of Shadow, he ended up in a ruined manling keep. The place manlings would call âTaal Hornâs keepâ. Right after his arrival he noticed a spell preparing mage left to him. The shocked mage tried to cast some hastily casted spells, Calen just pushed her against a wall with his magical force, were she lost consciousness.
He stepped the stairs up and was attacked by a blunt of an old man. He parried the attack by his sword and hit him with the handle of his sword. The old man, hearing on the Name Lohner, fell to the ground and lost the blunt.
âWhat happens here?â, His eyes wandered around the room.
He saw documents, magical runes, Chaos Symbols as well as Skaven Symbols. Information about Skaven and the chaos warriors. Troop information. Now he knew what Tyrion meant. The Hope of finding a solution. Whatever this is, it will serve a purpose. Calen started to smile.
The old man picked himself up.
Lohner lifted his voice âWell welcome stranger, May IâŚâ, he set his back right with a short painful yelp. ââŚhelp you?â
â I act in the name of Kingdom of Lothern. You are not allowed to use this technology.â He pointed with his staff in the direction of the Bridge of Shadows. âbeside he was curiously examine the mission preparations of Lohnerâ âŚand normally you would find death.â
âWe thought that since nobody was using it anymore in the firstplaceâŚâ, Lohner argued hastly.
âHold your tonque, manling. Now there are more problems than this. Tell me everything you know about this ratmen, and I may help you and your pitiful empire.
âSo then⌠I welcome you to the fight against the VermintideâŚâ
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Hopefully, I didnât made any lore mistakes about Warhammer or Vermintide 
, please tell me then. If you liked this introduction please continue about the gameplay elements, Calen would introduce to the existing game. Eventhough he is exotic to this foreign world, he is as deadly and dangerous as the other 5 chracters. Now follows the 3 professions I thought about. Note that I donât use a wording like " I would be cood if" or âcould helpful thatâ rather than what I would expecting of a new character. Please share your thoughts
Lothern Sea Guard:
Calen ones served as a Captain of the base troops of Elven Empire. He can remember the tactics and fighting style he taught them, in order to rule in close and ranged combat. The Lothern Sea guards are mixed range and melee soldiers, they mostly use bows, shields and spears to fight their enemy.
Calen fights in medium heavy armor, can use sword, spears and shields. Unlike the other professions of Calen, this is profession is mostly focused on Range and melee damage rather than magic.
Weapons: Melee Spears, Swords, clubs (always with shield)
Distance: Bows, Eagle Claw Crossbow
Passive ability: Logistics
In this form, the elf has a very useful ability for himself and his team mates. The passive talent âlogisticsâ allows to share every ammo involving ability effect among all players in the team. A permanent ammo regeneration of Kerillian, a Headshot resource gaining ability of Kruber, drop of extra ammo of Bardin is all shared among all players in the game. And Generally, all found ammo is given to all team mates.
Active skill: shield dome
His active skill allows him to throw a magical ankh. This ankh creates a shield dome which is semi permeable shield barrier. Attacks and shots can leave the barrier in order to attack enemies which are outside the shield. Unfortunately, this will hurt the barrier as well, and it faster collapses. Everything inside the barrier stays inside, but players and throwable objects can leave and enter it as they want. Which means that enemies can be caught by the ankh as well. Even big bosses can be caught by the barrier. â The enemies then are trying to destroy it from the inside. All players can still do damage towards the encapsulated enemy, but this will also damage the shield dome and make it collapse faster.
Sword master of Hoeth
The second profession of Calen is the sword master. Sword masters train with their weapon for centuries and be one of the best sword fighters inside the Warhammer World. Calen wears heavy armor with this profession, intensively melee focused, but unable to use a range weapon. He uses a two-handed weapons as main hand weapon, and dual wielded swords as secondary option. He uses different weapon enhancements, like fire magic, lighting or arcane damage. Which were used as sockets inside the weapons.
While fire is very useful against unarmored targets, lighting is best used against armored. Arcane is just a mixture of both. All are impacting the enemy slightly different where lighting and fire damage is more direct but arcane works like damage over time effect. There could be only one effect activated at once. It is chosen by the talent tree.
Weapons: two handed: Master sword, Pheonix Guard Helbard, White Lion Axe
Dual wielding: master swords, daggers, Highelven Khopeshs
Passive ability: Controlled Anger
The sword master has the passive ability that he wields his swords faster and moves faster as he deals more damage and kills. Also the magical power is impacted by this ability and enlarges the area (attack distance) in which they impact the enemy. Periods in which he is not attacking or takes damage will reduce the effect.
Active ability: Reflection
Reflect all incoming damage for 3 seconds. This is obviously helpful for enemy hordes. Some damage like the damage of the ratling gunner or a throwback of rat ogre canât be reflected but will be avoided by 100% of its damage.
Lore master of Hoeth
While Calen spend years inside the rows of the sword masters, he eventually was elected to serve as a Lore master of Hoeth. They can be interpreted as battle mages with a strong tendency towards sword fighting. Even though they do not manage all winds of magic perfectly, they are devastating on battlefields. Calen choose the path of the Light magic, but he is still ruling with one handed sword.
Calen can perform several lighting attacks, like bolts which can hit multiple targets or thunderstorms keeping on the battlefield. Basically, they feel similar to what Sienna does, but the effect of the magic is a bit different since the lighting can jump between close-by enemies. With higher gear levels, this effect is enhanced.
The biggest difference between him and Sienna is the way how he cools his winds of magic. The casted magic will fill its overheat meter, and will eventually kill him, but unlike Sienna his Winds wonât cool down. He needs to either block damage or attack with his sword to discharge the electrical power. The cool thing: in both cases the effects are improved the higher his winds of magic are, means more block levels and increased damage.
Possible weapons:
melee: one handed swords, daggers, High elven Khopesh (a magical shield casted by himself is used when he parries).
cast: chain lighting, storm beam, ball-lighting, storm (area of effect)
Passive ability: Knowledge assembler:
Has an additional slot for a health potion, which can also be used to collect a second tome. Additional, he is able to reduce the effect of grimoires by 10%
Active ability: Thunder:
likewise, the chaos storm, the mage performs a hurricane, which intakes smaller enemies and throws them away and will perform considerable damage on greater enemies, the player can control the direction of the hurricane, additionally, he increases the lifetime and size of the hurricane by performing more lighting magic on the hurricane. Be careful, the greater it is the harder it changes its direction. Also, if he or Sienna is casting towards enemies inside the hurricane, they will perform damage on every enemy inside of it. Be careful, friendly players will be taken with the hurricane. On higher difficulties it even will perform considerable damage towards them.
Character/social behaviour
Last but not Least we can talk about Calenâs Character.
Calen is middle sized male High elf. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. Eventhough he has like other High elves this âelven eleganceâ, anger and hate is storming out of him. Maybe he is not as funny as the other existing characters. When he is funny, he is most times more an a**hole.
He is a grim arrogant character, who thinks that the High elven Race is superior in any means towards the others. He will often comment on the primitive society/buildings of the humans or dwarfs. He admires Salzpyres knowledge about the Skaven, but he is sees neither him nor Kruber or Sienna as equal. Sienna likes his knowledge about the magic, but she is nerved by his haughtiness. He doesnât like the dwarf Bardin since of hereditary hate between the races. Anyhow he has to admit that he has at least a decent grown culture. He views Kerillian like other Wood elves as primitive and strange, even though he is remembered to his wife when he talks to her. Kerillian is not really mirroring this behavior.
Fin
Here it is. Everyone is asking for new characters, i made up my own. As written above , what do you think? Do you have different ideas? share them, but make them atleast related to this character. If the Devs would like to answer , I would see that aswell. If this wonât fit in the plans of them, I would like to start modding it, as long it is possible to do so. 
Sources: used images were used from Warhammer Wiki , I do not own this content.
