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The lands are broken, their populations enslaved, hunted for sport or infected with unholy plague. Ancient portals known as realmgates stand defiled by the armies of the Dark Gods, preventing the forces of order from moving freely between the realms.
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Erikan Crowfiend - The son of the infamous Cannibal Knight of Mousillon, who later left the order to serve Mallobaude during the Bretonnian Civil War.For five centuries, Chaos has tormented the Mortal Realms.Anark von Carstein - The brutal Grand Master of the order during the events of the End Times.He stood down from his post after turning into a monstrous Varghulf. Albrecht Nictus - The first Grand Master of the Order and cousin to Isabella von Carstein.The handful of templars who had arrived at the Dead and Buried with Vlad were the largest formation that remained. All in all, this had taken a heavy toll on the knights of Drakenhof. Loyal to all vampires of the von Carstein line, they had many times been pressed into battle by Vlad and Mannfred, and they were given the most dangerous and difficult missions simply because no other body of troops could be trusted to see them through. Dead and BuriedĪ once-great order of knights, the Drakenhof Templars' numbers had been greatly thinned since Nagash's return. Though Mannfred would never have admitted it, he was greatly reliant on the Drakenhof Templars in the battle beneath Mad Dog Pass, as they were the only troops he could rely on to act autonomously – all others were slaved to his will. The rest of the vampire knights – four brotherhoods in all – followed Mannfred south beneath the Drakenhof banner. Only one brotherhood of Templars had accompanied Arkhan the Black. Led by their Grand Master, Anark, the Templars spent much of the battle attempting to hack their way into meeting Bretonnia's own knights. The bodyguard that fought with Arkhan at La Maisontaal was composed entirely of vampires Mannfred did not consider worthy of the von Carstein name. The last few members either fell in defence of the Dead and Buried Inn against Nurgle's daemons, or were sent by Vlad to escort Duke Jerrod to Bretonnia's last stand when he and his knights left Athel Loren. Īfter constant combat for several years during the End Times the majority of the order was destroyed. They later assisted in the Siege of Averheim, after the Bretonnians sent a messenger to Nagash's court, though due to the hesitation of Nagash and the other Mortarchs, they arrived too late. After the collapse of the Bastion they rode with him to aid in lifting the Siege of Altdorf. They served Vlad during his campaign in the north to covertly help the Imperial forces hold the Auric Bastion against the Chaos hordes. When Vlad von Carstein was resurrected by Nagash during the early years of the End Times, most of the Order abandoned Mannfred von Carstein, and returned to Vlad's service, helping him legitimise his claim over Sylvania once more. There were several iterations of the order, for Vlad and his heirs were ever imitators of human tradition. Needless to say, they failed, and Konrad von Carstein tore the last grand master apart hundreds of years ago. They had the noble goal of driving the darkness out of Sylvania. Founded long before Otto von Drak they were usurped by Vlad von Carstein and transformed into brutal Blood Knights. The original Drakenhof Templars were a genuine knightly order. A Drakenhof Templar during the End Times.