Cylostra Direfin

is a Legendary Lord unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer II with Curse of the Vampire Coast. In the campaign, she leads .
== Description ==
Cylostra Direfin is the vengeful spirit who commands the Lamprey, a cursed ship that oft appears in the raging tempests of the open sea. Many decades ago, Cylostra was the favourite court singer of Bretonnian royalty, a prima donna of considerable size and temper who never accepted anything less than getting her own way. Cylostra was a passenger on the Lamprey during an important diplomatic voyage to perform for the Phoenix King. The galleon went down in a vicious storm, drowning everyone on board. As the Lamprey sank down beneath the waves, her futile, pitch-perfect notes turned to shrill, gurgled screaming. Those who know the legend of the ‘Siren of the Storm’ flee in terror at the sight of her ghostly, barnacle-strewn galleon, for it is said that when it appears, her songs of death paralyse all unfortunate enough to hear them, right before her Undead crew – the Drowned – appear to drag them down into a watery grave.
== Attributes ==
==Spells==
Lore of the Deep
== Character Abilities ==
=== Active Abilities ===
* Song of Enthrallment
* Ghosts of the Past
==== Campaign only ====
* Beyond the Realm
* Sacrilege
* Avast Ye!
* All Hands Hoay!
=== Passive Abilities ===
* Arcane Conduit
* Crumbling
* Disintegrating
* Wounds
==== Campaign only ====
* Evasion
* Kiss of the Deep
=== Item Abilities ===
* The Bordeleaux Flabellum
== Unique Item ==
*The Bordeleaux Flabellum
== Mounts ==
*Rotting Leviathan
== Ship ==
*The Lamprey is Cylostra Direfin's personal ship.
== Campaign starting units ==
=== Eye of the Vortex & Mortal Empires ===
=== Immortal Empires ===
== Lord effects ==
* Enables magical attacks (Lord's army)
* Physical resistance: 5% (Lord's army)
== Character traits ==
=== Personal trait ===
 Siren of the Storm: Cylostra is a vengeful spirit intent on performing for the Phoenix King, willing to sink all of Ulthuan to achieve her undying goal.
* Enables magical attacks (Lord's army)
* Physical resistance: 5% (Lord's army)
=== Defeat trait ===
 Siren Extinguished: "Right, earplugs out lads - she's gone down to Stromfels' Chest, where she belongs, the harpy!"
* Winds of Magic power reserve change: +15% when increasing (Lord's army)
* Miscast base chance: -5%
==== Warhammer II Defeat trait ====
* Miscast base chance: -5%
* Winds of Magic starting amount: +15 (Lord's army)
* Enemy Winds of Magic starting amount: -10 (Lord's army)
== Talent Tree == 
*Cylostra's skill tree on TWWH Characters
*Skill Tree on TotalWarhammerPlanner 
== Strategy ==
== Gallery ==
Unknown lord full hidden.png|Prior to reveal, we had this silhouette of Cylostra Direfin
The Lamprey.png|Cylostra Direfin's ship, the Lamprey
Cst cylostra 0.png
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== Trivia ==
*Cylostra Direfin is the first original legendary lord character designed by Creative Assembly and implemented with permission from Games Workshop.https://www.vgr.com/cylostra-direfin-first-original-total/
*Cylostra Direfin's starting Damned Paladin is named Robert Barthelemy and has a helmet with antlers. This is most likely a reference to Robert Baratheon, a king and former knight in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Robert Baratheon's kingdom is the Stormlands, known for it's windswept, stormy weather just like Cylostra Direfin.
*Creative Assembly on Cylostra's sound design: "Cylostra was interesting as she was a new character. Finding the actress was a challenge as we had to find someone who could sound larger than life, be a complete diva, but also knock out those big operatic notes! We recorded her spellcasting and screams in different notes and linked this with the music system so that a different note is played depending on which key the music is being played in at the time. To make her sound undead she got a lot of reverb and delay on her voice. A fun fact is that everyone else in the game pronounces her surname as “dire-fin” in a very plain, English way, but she always says it in a more elegant, French style “dear-fan” Some of you may remember a British TV show from the 90s called Keeping Up Appearances where the main character was called Hyacinth Bucket but she always pronounces her surname in a more elegant, French-sounding way: 'bouquet'."https://www.totalwar.com/blog/bringing-the-undead-to-life-with-audio-in-total-war-warhammer-ii/
== References ==
Category:Curse of the Vampire Coast units
Category:Total War: Warhammer II legendary lords
Category:Vampire Coast spellcasters
Category:Original characters by Creative Assembly