So, I was reading Night's Dark Masters, the 2e Vampires-and-stuff supplement for the RPG, and Genevieve Dieudonne is just there, in the middle of the Lahmian section. 'She is a vampire, in public,' it says. 'The Lahmians are secretly helping her out specifically to make vampires more palatable to the Imperial Populace, because everybody knows she's a vampire but she's also a hero.' This kind of confused me, because every time she's brought up in this thread, as far as I can recall, it's been with somebody throwing in that it's been so long since she was in any published books that she's probably non-canon.
But the edition we're using has her? The Warhammer 2e writers seem to know which side of that line they fall on. (Tone is difficult to convey. This is intended to be more an uncertain 'Um, I found this thing, which suggests this' than a confident 'Ah Hah, you fools! I've shown you all!').
Of course, I can't speak for BoneyM's conception of the lore as the quest is using it. In addition, the book's canon is set some fifty years in the future, in which time a lot of hypothetical Vampire-chic campaigns could have been started by the Lahmians even before she made her appearance, I guess. However, I feel that it should be notable that for all that everybody tried to kill her, they had to employ political machinations and unsanctioned lynch mobs rather than declaring the Emperor incompetent for letting a vampire walk around. It seems like that would be a pretty big thing to just ignore.
So, I guess that just leaves us trying to math out how many Great Deeds saving an Emperor costs. Ten would be five Baronies?
