Fort Oberstyre

Fort Oberstyre was fomerly a small Imperial fortified castle created during the time of the great Vampire Wars that has engulfed the Empire in a terrifying war against the armies of the Undead lead by the dreaded Vampire Counts of Sylvannia. When Vlad von Carstein was defeated at Siege of Altdorf in 2051 IC, the Count of Stirland ordered the building of a castle to monitor the western roads that leads into Sylvania to prevent further attacks from the armies of the Undead. It took twenty-three years to build Fort Oberstyre, but it was worth it, for the castle became the very pinnacle of military architecture in the impoverish region it occupies. The architects of the castle made the outer walls of the castle was angled, to ensure it could withstand rocks as well as cannonballs, and with a surrond moat that seemed insurmountable. It could accommodate a garrison of three thousand men, and a score gun batteries guards each crucial point. But infighting during this time has emptied the coffers of Stirland, and in 2088 IC, the garrison numbered only seven hundred strong, with several of its cannon batteries having been reshiped to a different city, and parts of the outer walls have crumbled down. When Konrad von Carstien attacked in 2094 IC, Fort Oberstyre held on for less than two hours. When the siege commenced, Korad von Carstein leaped over the moat and climbed the gatehouse in order to open the drawbridge for his Ghosts and Skeletal Warriors to finally breach the castles defences. Within moments, the castle fell and its inhabitants once more rose and aided Konrad in his unholy crusade against the Imperials. After the destruction of the Konrad von Carstein at the Battle of the Black Moor however, Fort Oberstyre was renovated and the Count of Stirland installed a fresh garrison of troops despite the huge sums of wealth it removed from the coffers of his treasury. As to ridicule these efforts, Mannfred von Carstien took the fortress in one night. At sunset before the attack, the Vampire invoked the terrifying spell that invoked spectral spirits to rise and claim the lives of the garrisoning troops, with those few survivors having fled or surrendered before the first ray of sunshine had shoned the next day. Since then, Fort Oberstyre had several attempts to be recaptured and returned to Imperial rule, but the Priests of Morr were powerless to exorcise the spirits who rule the scene, and every now and again the spirits would return and attack those that defile their sleep. Entire garrisons would rather have thrown themselves from the ramparts of the castle, rather than spend another night of horror in its haunted rooms, and ever since than, the location remains a serious risk for those weary travelers looking to seek shelter after a thunderous storm. ==Source==
 * Warhammer Armies: Vampire Count (8th Edition) pg 13