![]() At times, the mud itself seems to be a living thing, clawing at the legs of the weak and dragging them to a suffocating death. Grubbing what existence they can from the infertile land, the peasantry live in small communities of inter-related families, and never venture far from their crude hovels.There are few stone roads here rutted, half-flooded tracks and paths link most villages, all but impossible to navigate except in the relatively dry summer months. The scattered villages and hamlets of Sylvania are even more isolated and parochial than other settlements of the Empire. Under the Dark Yoke of the Vampire Counts They muster their forces in secret, building armies of the dead from bodies and bones, waiting for any sign of weakness in the Empire. The surviving von Carsteins still plot and scheme, dreaming of immortal power. In crumbling castles, towering mausoleums and forgotten keeps dwell Vlad’s vampiric progeny. ![]() Sylvania is nominally part of Stirland now, though Vlad’s bloody legacy holds Sylvania in its infernal grip the dread realm is still home to brooding malice and evil powers. Long before Vlad von Carstein unleashed his Undead armies upon the Empire, Sylvania had been home to Crypt Ghouls, Necromancers and Chaos worshippers. Sparsely populated, Sylvania has long proved a refuge for men intent on dark deeds and secretive studies, as well as evil creatures hunted by the forces of the Emperor. Ever since, it has been a loathed and feared province, avoided by the other people of the Empire. When warpstone shards fell upon the lands in 1111 IC, Sylvania’s fell reputation was sealed, as the dead erupted from their graves and laid siege to the villages and towns. It is a depressing, dismal realm settled in the time of Sigmar by dissident, evil men dispossessed by the Emperor’s unification of the peoples of the Empire. Desolate moorlands and sluggish rivers of clotted blood punctuate the yellow-leafed woods, wind-swept and storm shrouded by dark clouds that seep down from the Worlds Edge Mountains on an almost daily basis. Close to uninhabitable, Sylvania’s forests are dingy copses of twisted, half-rotted trees that claw what nourishment they can from the bone-strewn soil. Under the shadow of the Vampires, its populace has become a terrified, superstitious people. Overviewįrom the Spider Haunts to the Bane of Troth, Corpse Run to the Necromanse, Sylvania is a realm steeped in dark legend. Though technically a part of the Imperial province of Stirland, it is in fact the independent domain of the Vampire Counts. ![]() Sylvania is a dark and haunted region of the Old World. Come Loremasters, for today we speak of the blighted cursed land on the eastern edge of The Empire – Sylvania, home of the Vampire Counts. ![]()
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