Brachnar the Damned is a powerful Necrarch Vampire who waged war against Heinrich Kemmler during the War of Blood in 2415 IC.[1a][2a]
In the past Heinrich Kemmler had gathered a dozen lesser necromancers around him, but many were subverted by the Necrarch Vampire Brachnar the Damned who betraid him. After a series of wars across Estalia, Bretonnia, and the southern Reikland, Brachnar was defeated.[1a][2a]
Afterwards Kemmler ravaged northern Tilea and Bretonnia for almost twenty years, before being defeated by Bretonnian forces led by King Theobald II. During 2480 IC, fleeing from pursuit, he was ambushed by a resurrected Brachnar and reduced to a half-mad, wandering beggar.[1a][2a]