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Warhammer Grey Mountains

Location of Blood Keep in the south-east of the map

Several days’ journey east of Karak Azgaraz across the highlands lay the ruins of Blood Keep, the former fortress of the Imperial knightly order of the Knights of the Blood Dragon.[1a]

History[]

Seven centuries ago, the Vampire lord Walach Harkon challenged this Order and those he did not slay, he cursed with vampirism.[1a]

Many decades later, the corruption of the Ordo Draconis was discovered by the Witch Hunter Gunther Van Hal. He rallied an army sent from Wissenland and Reikland, supported by no less thanfour entire templar orders, and together, they besieged Blood Keep. For three years the siege raged before the walls were finally breached, the Vampires slaughtered, and the fortress smashed to rubble. The Empire believed the darkness had passed. But many of the Vampires survived the destruction of the keep and took its spirit and ideas with them out into the world. Some walked the world alone, whilst others formed their own orders and carried on the traditions of Walach—or their own variation upon them.[2a][3a]

Around the 21st century IC, in the 25th Kaldezeit of an imprecise year, the Imperial garrison of Blood Keep sent a contingent of fifty Reikland pike to the Helmgart to bolster its army against a Greenskins' army, along with a regiment of Tilean crossbows.[4a]

Yet today, on nights when Morrslieb leers full in a starless sky, something creeps from the dark to feast on prospectors in remote mining camps, leaving their corpses white and drained. Rumours abound that a scarlet-armoured knight rides abroad shrouded by dusk's shadow, mounted on a skeletal steed in crimson barding, his shield emblazoned with the emblem of a dragon. Some whisper that the walls of Blood Keep are once more guarded, though now with skeletal sentries and the shades of the damned.[1a]

The Dwarf King Thuringar would see this damned castle toppled stone by stone, but he cannot spare the warriors. Meanwhile, the curse of the Blood Knights continues to haunt the Grey Mountains.[1a]

Sources[]

  • 1: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition: Book of Grudges (RPG)
    • 1a: pg. 19
  • 2: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition: Night's Dark Masters (RPG)
    • 2a: pg. 45
  • 3: Warhammer Armies: Vampire Counts (8th Edition)
    • 3a: pg. 45
  • 4: Fanatic Magazine 4
    • 4a: pg. 68
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