Empire of the Night

Vlad von Carstein, known in his former life as Vashanesh of Nehekhara, was the first Vampire Count of what was formerly Sylvania now known as the Empire of the Night, and the founder of the Von Carstein bloodline. He was dreaded by many as the monster that has brought the darkness upon the lands of Sylvania after his marriage with Isabella von Drak, daughter of the late Imperial Count Otto von Drak. His bid for power, and the desire to rule the whole Mon Empire as his own has ensured the total collapse of the Imperial province of Sylvania, as well as to herald the beginning of the first of the Vampire Wars.
Though his death signaled the end of the grueling conflict, the lands of Sylvania have been forever cursed with the powers of the undead, becoming breeding grounds for a multitude of necromancers, vampires, and other dark creatures. As the years went by, the land was forever shunned by the other Imperial provinces, and every century or two another one of Vlad's own bloodline would rise up and challenge the Empire in hopes of achieving that which Vlad could not.
Currently in power, Manfred von Carstein, known in his younger years as Mannfred the Acolyte, is the most cunning and magically gifted Vampire of all of the von Carstein bloodline. Mannfred claims the hereditary title as the Vampire Count of the Empire of the Night, a title that is only given to the first of his bloodline. Imbued with staggering magical power, Mannfred von Carstein has managed, through sheer ambition and willpower, to accumulate all the spells from the Lore of the Vampires and the Lore of Necromancy after spending the better part of a century collecting the forbidden knowledge from the sand-encrusted libraries of ancient Nehekhara. Like many of his vampiric kind, Mannfred has led the armies of the Empire of the Night to war on many occasions, his mastery of the necromantic arts sustaining his army far beyond their normal potential.

Type

Geopolitical, Empire