Lords of Darkness (WHF CK2-Ish Quest)

[Alucard Vampiry]

The great deceiver laughed in his realm, the sounds of it echoing across the immaterial realm, for why would he not.

A new minor - for now - player has appeared in the great game for a universe he didn't pay much thought off, he is hiding from the great powers of his homeworld but he could already see the future reveal itself to him.

Brettonia would fall to the new player and all the nobles would be executed and the experienced and powerful of them raised as wight kings, to be the generals of his armies for all eternity. But it would take time, so he decided to help him… before he was/is/would be even born!!! HAHAHAHAHA

Accelerate the plans of his progenitor and the first vampire war, a few beastmen herds send towards Brettonia, accelerating the second vampire war, you know the works after all change is and would always be very good.

He even manipulated the servants of that lazy fatso for generations so they would arrive at Brettonia, without their patron even knowing… or maybe he did but it did not matter.

Now he was/is/would be manipulating a champion of the skull fetishist in a future/past/present campaign that would leave Kislev in ruins and the fractured empire of the guy who thought himself the greatest (his screams are still very satisfying) in ruins after barely winning against them.

Truly he was/is/will forever be glorious.

But this is not all he is/was focusing on the homeworld of the new player. The elves would get a nasty surprise, and his little horned brother will start moving his followers across the planet in a fight against the lizards. The self-titled chaos gods of law and order will start moving as well, not that they would continue to exist in all potential - and not so potential - realities he saw and engineered they had never won.

85% of these defeats are caused by the new player.

Things were moving nicely on the other multiverse as well...

The imperium of the true anathema is finally starting to truly crack and he isn't even dead yet!!! Really shows how far they had fallen, the aeldari are starting their gambit which will horribly fail but you will not say that to them.

Sooo wondrous change will happen in so little time, just like you want it.

Hmmm now that you think you may be/possibly/could send Magnus to them?

But now you will focus on those pesky forerunners and federation – mainly the later they think they can outwit him with their so-called 'time department' not even noticing that he already controls 99% of all time departments across all timelines both possible and impossible they are in for a rude awakening.

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Gm note: all this happens by Tzeentch's point of view so do not trust everything that appears here. But there were a couple of things that are true.

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

Spoiler: Strigoi

Strigoi

In the past they were lost, newly transformed vampires who banded together to simply survive the world. They were the children of the mighty ghoul king Ushoran, and they were a dying breed.

Shunned by both mortals and immortals, they had nowhere to go except the fallen kingdom of Strigos and even them not many make the travel to the badlands.

The world think that they are monsters who live with the simple impulse to kill, but that is not true sure the ones who attack are simply the ones who entered a frenzy for blood after not feeding for a long or retaliation against persecution.

They could be so much more but they never had the chance and never would have… or so they thought.

Emissaries of an vampire lord of the Von Carsteins had contacted them, at first they were cautious and demanded that the vampire lord should meet them first.

They did not know that he was already there hidden in the shadows, and they had never noticed him, he revealed himself and they talked and talked.

He did not hate them or saw them as abominations against the immortals, he accepted them and they would forever be grateful for that.

HAIL ALEKSANDER!!!

Spoiler: Lahmian

Lahmian

They were outcasts of their bloodline those who did not blindly follow the ambitions of an insane vampire, who daily killed others for the crime of being more beautiful and intelligent than her.

So they had left, of course Neferata could never take this blow to her pride and ordered her agents to kill all of them, she thinks they did but the truth is that a few members of their coven had sacrificed themselves so they could survive and allowed the agents of Neferata to kill them so they could survive.

It worked, and now they wandered aimlessly around the world, their coven was entirely made of vampire women who were either the original deserters of their bloodline or women who were transformed by them and carried their principles.

Then they met him, their beautiful and caring lord. To this day they do not know what had attracted them to him, maybe it was his charm or his caring nature towards them, they do not know why they followed him in the first place but the ones who know about their past are assured that his leadership is a vast improvement.

It definitely isn't because they like him romantically or anything like that.

Spoiler: Necrach

Necrarchs

Before meeting the Blessed Father, in our arrogance and pride we thought that we were the masters of the art of magic.

We were wrong.

The Father of The Night, blessed be his name, had arrived at the location of our coven and he gave us a simple challenge: fight against him in a pure magical duel, if he wins they shall serve him for eternity but if he loses he shall serve them.

They accepted and one by one they went against him and one by one they felled, even the leader of the coven Dracklius who considered himself one of the greatest magicians alive was utterly destroyed in the magical confront he had against the one.

They shall now serve the god of knowledge Aleksander for all eternity, and as they felt a pull in their souls the only thing they could think, was how a god had taken the form of vampire and how that would affect the vampiric world once this knowledge was revealed.

Results of The Interlude:

1. Gain the follow quantity of vampires: 100 (Strigoi), 50 (Lahmian), 85 (Necrach).

2. Gains Titles: Blessed Father, Father of The Night
2a. Gain The Trait: Father of The Night: You have an uncanny ability in the matters of diplomacy involving the aristocracy of the night. +5 Diplomacy in diplomatic actions with vampires

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Spoiler: The Ramblings of a GM

If you gonna say that l just gave the mc a harem, l will simply say that you are wrong.

For he already had a harem.

The female members of your church and the Illuminati as well *BLAM* This 'Illuminati' does not exist carry on.

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

Spoiler: Savior

They did not understand why they were hated by the world. They were banished by their nations and they did not know why, they weren't the first and definitely not the last that this event has occurred, to their rudimentary knowledge the nations across the world did this because of various reasons.

Some were either because the nation could only support so many people and banished (or in extreme cases culled) people of their nation so they wouldn't collapse, another reason was that there was a deal about a certain number of persons being traded from a nation to another - the nations they were 'sold' to would care for them but they would live as they lived and fight what they fought, others did it simply because they could.

They never truly had a choice and likely never will, these pilgrims now search a new home many do not survive the travels being killed by bandits, monsters, or something worse. Many of these pilgrims condemn their souls to the abyss that is chaos because, to them, how could anything be worse to what they experienced.

Many cults seen in the world dedicated to chaos are mainly composed of these fallen pilgrims.

The fate of a group of exiled villagers would have likely been the same if they were not contacted by a group of diplomats in the service of the god of knowledge.

They accepted the offer, and were, surprisingly, delivered to Mousillon unharmed and with all their members alive.

After seeing the quality of life that the normal man and woman had in what they saw as a literal paradise and being said that their residences were already built and were waiting for them, they were praising the name of their savior…

Aleksander von Carstein, the god of knowledge would have their eternal loyalty.

They also had a particular person, Jeanne a girl who had just entered adulthood is already a great believer and has shown to be surprisingly good at leadership and the art of war, she was among the first members the holy judges...

Results of the interlude:

1. Gain +100 pops

2. Gain a hero unit of the holy judges: Jeanne

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Spoiler: The Ramblings of GM Part 2

Further characterization of your human hero unit will come on the interlude "holy judges".

Also, she may be completely and insanely fanatical when the matter is about the MC, he is quite literally her entire existence, why did this happen? Well l personally blame the dice but you can blame anything else, except me who is just an unfortunate victim in this affair.

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

Spoiler: Emperor of The Dead

The art of necromancy is banned and shunned on the entirety of the world, the ones who practice it being seen as dangerous individuals who need to be put down at best.

Cabals of necromancers exist in various places in the world, while the majority of them are in the service of the von carsteins there are still some who are independent from them.

These cabals practice the art of necromancy seeking immortality, great magical abilities or something else.

Ten of these cabal's were contacted by a particular individual.

A member of von carstein lineage of vampires but he, no it was very different from its kin, mortals who learn the art of magic have a sixth sense which allows them to passively look at the immaterial realm, this can be triggered when in the presence of an incredibly powerful magical being.

The vampire was a wall all-consuming darkness with fetches of light inside, its face was hidden but some managed to look into it. Some become little than fanatics while others became gibberish wrecks who committed suicide mere moments after meeting with him.

They left inscriptions written in their own blood before dying, the title "Emperor of The Dead" being repeated over and ove.

The cabals immediately join in part of fear, admiration, and morbid curiosity.

Results of The Interlude:

1. Gain 100 necromancers.

2. Gain title Emperor of The Dead. ????

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

Spoiler: Holy Judges

Aleksander POV

When Aleksander ordered the creation of the organization known as the holy judges, he alredy planned fifty different ways to utterly destroy it from both within and without.

The Holy Judges a force serving the church as its chamber militant, it is good that he holds total control over the church, but this could not always be and so he made contingencies in case he could not communicate anymore with his worshippers, and the church grew into becoming an organization just like the imperial witch hunters.

Time would tell if these would ever be used, he dearly hoped that the things that may led to these contingencies being enacted will not happen.

Now if only he could guess why Jeanne is staring at him with depraved flustered eyes.

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Jeanne POV

Many had asked her why did she would dedicat everything to the god of knowledge, the only thing she would say to them was always 'why I shouldn't?'.

Her life had been miserable in the past, her family did not have much and she watched many times as her family members died from starvation.

Only her mother remained, until she too had passed away. Years passed and she was grown woman but the scars still remained, she was - and still is - considered a beautiful woman but she never put any thought into finding love.

And then she along with the others were banished from their home, she doesn't know why and never will bother to know either.

But she must give thanks to them, because if she had never been banished she would had never met her caring master, she will serve him for eternity.

Jeanne knew sadness and despair, and now she knew True Love and Happiness.

Results of The Interlude:

1. Church of Knowledge, chamber militant created

2. Aleksander Harem Expands- Wait What!?

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

A House Divided​

The castle of Lyonesse and the isle it resided had seen better days, the putrid servants of the plague god Nurgle had claimed the island and the castle for themselves after a prolonged siege which lasted years.

The influence of the plague god's touch could already be seen as the vegetation of the island was corrupted and transformed into something else entirely. Effects include pus exiting from the leaves and bark, faces of lost souls being seen in them, as well of the fact that if you were in their presence there was the highly likely chance of it devouring your body and soul.

The water surrounding the isle had a black ink like substance which is extremely corrosive melting stone, steel, flesh, and bone in seconds.

Truly it is a place for the damned to gather.

But this is not all the chaos lord of the warband, a being who may have been once a man now with a bloated body and rusted armour which is fused with him, declared that a special child of their god would enter the world of mortals if only they followed the necessary rituals for him to enter their plane. The being is known as Ku'Gath a favoured greater daemon of Nurgle, if he enters the mortal plane than none will stop him as he remakes all into his god unholy design.

This can not be allowed to happen at all costs, the ritual must be stopped, and a being who was once a man then a son of the night and now a god took precautions to stop the fell ritual to be enacted. Using his agents who lived in the shadows of all he sent forward them to the location of the ritual and personally ordered them to stop it at all costs.

And so they set out with the only purpose in their indoctrinated minds to stop the ritual and nothing more, for their ideology is complete subversion to their god wishes nothing more nothing less. First they gathered a few specialized tools along with other things and so began the operation.

First they targeted the sorcerers, with special ranged weapons which had a type of explosive ammunition, which proved easy even with their guard which consisted of several aspiring chosen of Nurgle. Then they unleashed the most unpredictable of weapons, it wasn't easy to get an entire warband but they managed it. A orc warband was unleashed upon the norscans, a savage green tide meeting a fell green tide as the two forces clashed. The orcs would not win of that the agents are certain but this does not mean that they did not enjoy it.

The orc race only objective is of course to fight battles and wars, with one of their dreams even being to find an eternal battle where the warriors of both sides would fight for eternity.

This managed to distract the warband long enough for the agents to infiltrate the food supplies of the warband, a special venom which drove men mad with rage with only a single spill. They were adding whole bottles. The warband will probably not even notice it.

On the next day, several norscan warriors went insane with such rage that they started attacking anyone on their line of sight not bothering if they were ally and when there was no one on their line of sight they started hurting themselves which did nothing as their god's numerous 'blessings' tried to keep them alive.

Many of the afflicted by this 'red rage' where to be part of the ritual and they were now dead. The ritual could not be carried out as the method had to be very specific and precise and the ones who were specific and precise are now dead, or insane (well more than normal).

This event caused a unease to settle in the warband with a minority even wanting to desert from it, fortunately for the norscan leader a common enemy to unite his warband against had just appeared after they finished exterminating the orcs, the environment of the isle helped them in this endeavour, the foolishly duke of Lyonesse has come to reclaim his land which belonged to his family for generations.

The agents used the resulting clash between the two forces to escape the nurglic territory. After having all of the members of the operation team screened for corruption, the operation was declared a success.

OOC: The chaos lord got a good roll to keep his forces together the DC was 70 and he rolled plus the diplomatic bonuses a 74, and after the duke appeared everything went smoothly. The result of the battle will be shown in the rumor mill. Also another thing to add, future interludes will now involve other charecters that arent from your faction not just your actions, they will not be related to turn actions.

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

The Blade of God​

Many knew that there were prices to pay in one's life when they desired power especially when it regards magic. The creature who had become a god is very aware of this. The god who disguised himself as a creature of the night wanted to summon a entity known as the Dread Animator.

The entity known as the Dread Animator is old records and rumors of its appearance and existence date even back to the founding of Brettonia, necromancers of the old ages summoned it for power in exchange of a undisclosed price that the summoner paid.

Information regarding the price could not be found anywhere, no matter how far they looked for it.

But this did not matter, and so materials to invoke the entity were gathered, and after that the ritual began six necromancers along with their master were gathered in the room, the necromancers would summon the entity while the latter would bargain with it. The necromancers started chatting in a language not known to mortal man, they called for it to come for the plane of the mortals and it answered their call.

Upon the center of the ritual circle reality started to bend and break as a tear to the planes of spirits and gods opened, the necromancers dared themselves not to look upon it as they knew that staring directly at it for if they did, they would become raving madmen or something worse. Their lord did not stop himself and gazed upon it, with what appeared to be the face of one who would look at their home after being away for a long time.

From the tear came a mass of shadows with a billion billion eyes and mouths, it looked upon their lord and it momentarily flinched thought it did so fast that none of the mortals present noticed it.

It then spoke, and its voice actually started hurting the necromancers making the ears of them bleed obviously the creature's voice was not meant to be heard by mortals. The most perturbing fact was that their lord appeared to be understanding it.

They start speaking towards each other in the language of the other plane, they seemed to reach a agreement, and the creature morphed into a daemonic blade of living shadow, their lord then grabbed the blade and declared the endeavour a success.

Aleksander gains: The Sword of Darkness:
- Grants +10 to martial, +8 to magic and +100 to personal combat skill
- Special Effect - The Last Breath a target hit by this will start having their air flow stopped by the swords magic, the effect can be broken only by a high level curse break. -20 to combat rolls for a enemy hit by the blade

OOC: That is a really good sword. As for what the Dread Animator actually is, well it is a greater spirit tied with the aspect of necromancy.

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

The Future of Warfare​

Jason is very nervous right now, after all it is not every time that you meet a living god that you and all your people worship. He still remembers how awful it was back in the old days of their home, how the chance of starving and dying was much greater than now.

Now things were very different from then, children laughing as their parents watched, Hygiene and other things that he didn't actually bother to understand keep the plagues and diseases at bay, food was no longer scarce, and he and his family had actual beds and homes which kept the chill of the night away from them.

Thinking about his family made Jason think about them-

"JASON STOP STARRING AT THE FUCKING AIR!!!" - His boss shouted at him, shattering his dream which may or may not have involved his wife.

"Hi boss"

"DON'T 'Hi boss' ME YOU MAGGOT!!!" - His boss Crag shouted at him again, repeating his previous with a whining sound. "Now are the prototypes ready for testing"

He nods, and his boss nods as well and says to him to not screw this up or else…

Frankly his boss is worrying for nothing, after all what is the worst that can happen?

*10 Minutes Later*

The test began after the arrival of their god, if there is one word which can be said about was majestic. It demanded obedience and loyalty, this coupled with his natural charisma which made him the center of attention wherever he went so that Jason and his friends simply could not look anywhere but him while they kneeled.

The latter was much more of a natural response than anything else. No wonder half of the women in Mousillon wanted to sleep with him, at least he thinks it's half.

He was followed by guards that are purely ceremonial, after all the only being in his opinion that would dare fight another god was another god.

If a mortal dared to do that they would instantly die.

"Begin the test" - God says as the testing and research team are broken from the stupor as they quickly begin the testing session.

The long barreled weapons are shown and the damage which they bring, before the official end of the testing run God rises from his chair and grabs one of the weapons which sat on the desk.

"While these are great weapons, I see problems:

1) the distribution of the weapons and the ammunition can take time if supply lines are not made.

2) The demand of the ammunition and weapons can exceed the amount produced though to be fair any weapon has that particular problem.

3) There are races and beings such as vampires that can easily evade them, but using them against mass infantry can cause severe enemy casualties after all they can't evade a proper firing line firing thousands of bullets."

God continues to say both pros and cons of the new weapons. "In short while these are great weapons there are many pros and cons, but I have a plan to rectify some of these problems"

Aleksander analyzed these weapons and saw the possibilities of it and so he got a taste of…

Ambition

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Rewards:

Aleksander gains a trait: Ambitious: You possess a great ambition to see your enemies destroyed and conquer or assimilate new lands to your control. +2 To All Stats, +3 To Personal Combat

Unlocks Project: The Future of War.

Unlocks new research.

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

Father of Dragons​

Dragons, ancient beasts that stood upon the world before even the ancient old ones arrived in it. They are ancient and proud, but divided into multiple sub-species that inhabit the world of mortals, revered and feared by all except gods.

Some of them decide to spend their time in isolation not caring for the plight of the other races only coming out to garner a hoard of treasure, while others have a relationship with them becoming mounts and close friends.

The latter is by itself very difficult. Dragons are very prideful beings and letting themselves become a mount of a member of another race is very difficult. Even the haughty elves act humbly when in their presence.

They are ancient, proud, and terrifying. A single grown dragon has the capability to destroy an entire army by itself, that is why they are respected and feared. And they know it. No one wants to be in the face of the fury of a dragon, and so many pay tributes to them in the hopes of the mighty beasts not attacking them and destroying their kingdoms and empires.

Dragons are different to every race some of them are viewed as benevolent and wise beings while others are seen as bringers of disasters when they appear. There are also seen as incarnations of greed thanks to their tendencies of hoarding gold and other treasures. Which is why many foolish adventurers hoard their treasure hoards to steal their treasure from them.

Which in 98% of cases always ends in fiery death while the other 2% end in severe injuries that without the help of healing mages the inflicted can never recover from.

Not many things can surprise a dragon, which has them very surprised when all of them from the hatchlings to the mighty ancients of their race feel a shift in their very beings. A monumental change has occurred and everything shall never be the same.

Mortal and divine seers across the entire world feel the future events of a universe that should have been be destroyed, the future that should have been is undone and all either rejoice or roar in fury and denial of a timeline where they were gods… and in the realm of the gods, Change laughter's as it sees millennia of careful manipulations and plots from a hundred different gods of a thousand different races and alignments being undone.

Before change couldn't move to create a different outcome that it wanted, less rage, decay, and pleasure attacked it but now the newborn god changed everything and it couldn't be more happy that schemes finally paid off.

How do you change a fate of a universe that is fated to be destroyed? Simple you add something that doesn't exist in the currents of fate and see everything burn down.

But this came at a cost.

Change could act differently but so could Rage, Decay, Excess, and other godly beings of this universe could move differently as well, it already has seen a Phoenix King and its brothers and sisters rejoicing and plotting a new course for their race, a entity clad in gold thinking itself what it isn't truly is as it too plots for the destiny of a decaying empire.

But that's fine it had already foreseen this but it didn't mind it was plotting as well and that's the thing it is Change but it is also Scheme and every single being from mortal to divine in this universe is scheming.

Well it welcomes/rejects the feast with open/closed arms, its siblings notice this and are enraged. Decay, who is static the true enemy of Change, fury is felt across his followers, after all the future of the multiverse was always in a static time it would never change no matter what the mortals and their gods planned and acted.

This suited him perfectly but now everything changes and it could only roar in denial as its hears the laughter from its sworn in his crystal fortress.

The currents of fate of this universe shall affect its resident multiverse but it is only a possibility, that may or may not happen. Change is aware of this, but it is just a possibility.

Nothing more nothing less.

Upon his underground castle upon the cursed dukedom of Mousilion a dark god looks upon the new addition of his forces, 10 carmine dragon hatchlings stare at him curiously.

He tends to them like a father would his very own children, the hatchlings simply melt under his fatherly care, he couldn't notice how big they are compared to what the books about dragons said. Maybe pouring his 'divine energy' into the eggs made so that this was the result instead of what is commonly seen?

Who knows, but he doesn't care about that now, he has to handle the ten winged hatchlings in his care.

If the god looked at a mirror now he would see that his previous red human eyes have become slithered and carmine like the dragons he was holding.

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Aleksander Gains Trait: Father of Dragons: 'There he saw a mighty dragon who seemed to change color as he blinked but never in appearance, he was surrounded by dozens of other dragons of various colors and appearances and he looked at them like a father would his very own children'. +5 Diplomacy with dragons, ????

Aleksander gains godly domain: Dragons (Lesser)

Gain 10 unusually large carmine dragon hatchlings.

OOC: Finally done with all the interludes, now back to normal updates.

 

[Alucard Vampiry]

Breetonia:

- Fall of a King: The King Breetonia Has Fallen, struck down by the beastman leader himself, the war is now on hold as the new king is to be selected by the fay enchantress as it is in the tradition of the kingdom. Suffice to say many dukes hope that they are chosen as the new king.

- Norscan Charge Upon Breetonia: The nurglite norscan who invaded Breetonia using Lyonesse as a beachhead have finally started the invasion of deeper parts of its territory bringing rot and decay in its wake, the rot tide as they have been named is seemly unstoppable.

- The Green Tide: The Orcs of the new waaagh of the Irana Massif Orcal mountains have been gaining victory upon victory and have already conquered the border regions of Carcassonne and Quenelles respectively.

- Draconic Migration: Great Waves of draconic beings are migrating towards Breetonia and no one knows why, the first wave shall arrive in two years, the second wave in five, and the third wave in seven years if nothing else happens. Strangely enough their direction goes to a single direction. Mousillon.

Empires of Man:

- Victory for the dead: The Undead have scored a great victory, by successfully killing the heirless ottlian emperor the realm was thrown into a civil war as the brothers of the dead emperor fight themselves for control of the empire.

- Victory For The Wolves: The wolf emperor of middenland has scored victory after victory and brought time for his allies to regroup their forces, thanks to this the emperor has become much popular the faithful of ulric are on the rise and the followers of sigmar worries about the situation.

Tilea:

- 'Unifer': An Ambitious warlord seeks to unify all of Tilea into a single empire naturally he is severely opposed but they are fighting against him, themselves, and a few dozen rebels.

- Necromancers: The masters of the undead have been spotted somewhere around Tilea, though no one knows where they are.

Estalia:

- Orc Tide Ravishes Estalia: Orcs coming from the mountains have been attacking the city states which border it, several of them have banded together for survival in an alliance that will only last until the threat is defeated.