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"When the darkness falls our time is at hand. We are the rulers of the Night. We are the predators of the shadows. Come hither and we will show you the true meaning of terror!"
~ Konrad von Carstein

Konrad Von Carstein, also known as Konrad the Butcher and Konrad the Beast, was a member of the Von Carstein's bloodline of the Vampire Counts from Warhammer. Infamous for his cruelty, pettiness, depravity and total madness. He is the youngest son of Vlad Von Carstein. He is the main antagonist of Dominion, the second part in a trilogy of books that encompass the Vampire Wars.

Biography[]

One of the last humans to be embraced by the Von Carstein family, his violent and herratic behaviour were considered at first an advantage by Count Vlad. Perhaps Konrad's lack of pragmatism and tenous grasp on rality amused Vlad and assured him that Konrad would never be a threat to his rule, unlike his other son Mannfred who is a diabolical and cunning schemer.

Once receiving the Blood Kiss that made him a full-fledged vampire, Konrad made no attempt to hide his new supernatural powers, and killed openly his friends and subjects as well as rats, cats, cows, wandering peasants and anything else with a bloodstream that came too close. Konrad appointed himself as something of a berserk enforcer for Vlad, brutally executing anyone who displeased his father. This, naturally, also included anyone who displeased Konrad. Over time, this encompassed many victims, including enemy generals, priests of all faiths, people with a squint, and several Necromancers who mocked Konrad's poor magical skills.

The Vampire Wars[]

After Vlad von Carstein was killed by Grand Theogonist od the Empire, Wilhelm III, at the siege of Altdorf, the surviving vampires fled back to Sylvania. Five vampires claimed to be the heir of Vlad: Fritz, Hans, Pieter, Konrad and Mannfred von Carstein. For more than forty years afterwards, the Vampires of the von Carstein line have fought a vicious competition, giving the Empire vital time to recover from the desolation brought about by Vlad's undead invasion. In time, Fritz von Carstein was killed on the field of battle while foolishly attempting to besiege the mile-high fortress-city of Middenheim. Hans von Carstein perished when Konrad instigated a quarrel with him over who was the strongest among them. Pieter was slain in his coffin by a vengeful Witch Hunter. It is said that Mannfred von Carstein had also aided in his death. After Pieter's death, Mannfred von Carstein disappeared from Sylvania, leaving Konrad as the new undisputed ruler of all Sylvania and the Vampire Counts. In time, Konrad had purposefully started the Second Vampire War.

Whilst Vlad von Carstein was a patient and clever tactician, Konrad von Carstein was simply a mad butcher; reckless, merciless and insanely violent. Lacking the necromantic skills of his predecessor, Konrad was forced to enslave any magicians he could capture and forced them to do his bidding as powerful Necromancers. Once more, the Vampire Counts of Sylvania rampaged across the lands of the Empire, bloodthirsty in their advance and showing no mercy. Indeed, Konrad is beyond bloodthirsty, even among his fellow vampires. Whilst Vlad was a gentleman and offered his opponents a choice between servitude in life or death, Konrad offered them a choice between dying quickly or dying slowly. Whilst Vlad's ambition was to rule as the Vampire Emperor of the Empire, Konrad's motive was to simply indulge himself in bloody violence and debauchery.

His warmongering nature took his undead army far to the south, where he came into contact with the vampire knights of the Blood Dragon bloodline. With these knights folding into his ranks, Konrad was able to destroy all those who would dare to oppose him, despite Konrad's mediocre strategic planning, irrational wrath and grave tactical errors. At Kleiberstorf, however, Konrad faced a powerful imperial army from Averland that contained a massive battery of long-range artillery. When battle commenced, the imperial artillery rain down barrage after barrage against the slow-moving Sylvanian army. In desperation, Konrad both threatened, bribed and pleaded with his Necromancers to keep his undead army moving forward. He offered power and riches to his captive wizards and they accepted, combining their powers to unleash a scourging wind on the Averland army. Dark magic swept across the Imperial ranks, and in short time, the Imperial soldiers began to feel their souls being clawed from ethereal hands. Panic began to spread as the unnatural hurricane began to slay more and more soldiers.

In a moment of rare intelligent clarity, Konrad saw that the moment was ripe for an attack and sent forth his elite force of Blood Knights into the fray. Faced with insubstantial terrors and armored Vampires, the Averland army broke and fled. Konrad, like the bloodthirsty monster he is, hunted down the fleeing Imperial soldiers for five days and five nights, ensuring that all those that participated in the battle were hunted down and killed to the last. In his overzealous pride and need to spill more blood, the Vampire Count had instigated a bloody war with the Dwarfs against the cautious advice of his few counselors. Attacking isolated villages and surface settlements at the foothills of the mountain stronghold of Zhufbar, the dwarf king of the hold itself had finally had enough and mustered a grand army to punish the Vampire once and for all. Seeing a new challenge, Konrad met the dwarfen army at the town of Nachthafen.

In the battle, the Dwarven Runesmiths countered the necromantic spells of Konrad's enslaved Necromancers with ease with their powerful runes. Robbed of their sustaining power, the Skeleton warriors and Zombies of Konrad's army crumbled where they fell, blasted apart by a barrage of cannons and mortar artillery. Konrad remained confident despite the setbacks and launched an all-out assault on the Dwafes' right flank. Leading the assault himself, Konrad drove directly into the group of Runesmiths whilst his Blood Knights smashed into the disciplined ranks of Dwarf warriors. Konrad slew the Runesmiths personally, drinking their spilled blood and giving his captive Necromancers the time they needed to resurrect the fallen. It was a hopeless battle, but the Dwarfs still fought stubbornly until the very end. Their own king had challenged the mad count to a duel, but instead, Konrad dispatched Walach Harkon, the Grand Master of the Blood Knights to fight as his champion. Though the duel was bitter close, the Grand Master finally killed the dwarf king and gorged himself on royal blood. Within the next hour, the Dwarfs were all dead.

During the period of the three emperors, Konrad was so unwaveringly vicious in his assaults that, confronted with a ruthless common enemy, the three claimants to the Imperial Throne had put aside their differences and combined their armies into one mighty force. At the Battle of the Four Armies, the three Imperial Grand Armies united their forces against the Undead army of Konrad just outside the fortress-city of Middenheim. This battle became infamously known for the great betrayal enacted by the three Imperial leaders. Emperor Lutwik and Empress Ottila IV vied to assassinate each other during the battle, a disgusting gesture that forced the other Imperial nobles to select another candidate to lead this new coalition. A conclave of the Elector Counts assembled themselves within Averheim where they decided that Helmut of Marienburg would be a prime candidate to be the new Emperor. Even as support for him grew within the council hall, Helmut began to act strange, struck dumb and vacant at a critical time. In an infamous event, Helmut's skin began to peel off and his eye suddenly popped out of his own skull. Even Helmut's son, Helmar, refused his father's claim to the throne once it was discovered that his father was killed and turned into a zombie under Konrad's control.

Death[]

With his plans of conquest being thwarted, Konrad threw into a rage and slaughtered his way from Averheim into the Howling Hills, putting to the torch every town and village that stood in his way. Finally, having had enough of Konrad's sadistic invasion, all of the remaining Elector Counts and Dwarf Lords joined forces once more upon the Battle of Grim Moor during the spring of 2121 IC. Arrogantly, Konrad once more attacked in a headlong charge against the fully-arrayed armies of all the Elector Counts and the Dwarf warriors under the legendary Dwarf hero Grufbad. Although his Blood Knights were able to endure the punishment, a strange event began to occur. In that instant, the regiments of the undead began to falter, with the dark magic that bound them together being seeped away. It finally dawned that Konrad's Necromancers had also had enough of Konrad's cruel leadership and betrayed him in that most critical moment. Seeing the battle as lost, the terrified Blood Knights fled the battlefield as well. In desperation, the magically inept Konrad tried to hold the undead army together with his spells, but the effort proved too much to bear and in an instant, what little of Konrad's mind and sanity had finally snapped.

In a mad fit, Konrad ran away from the battle as his undead army began to disintegrate, shouting maniacally at this most cruelest of jokes. As Konrad wandered the forest aimlessly, Grufbad captured Konrad and held him down while Elector Count Helmar impaled his father's killer with his Runefang, killing him for good. With Konrad's death, the Second Vampire War was finally over.

Personality[]

Konrad is considered Vlad's great mistake for good reasons. A sadistic, childish and insane vampire who relishes in murdering people around him both for food and fun. After murdering one of his siblings to become the ruler of Sylvania, Konrad starts a genocidal campaign against the Empire that nearly depopulates the province of Averland, while also massacring the dwarfs of Zhufbar. Konrad tended to overestimate his own skills to the point of killing anyone who pointed out his lack of necromantic skills and the need of enslaved necromancers to maintain his armies. Konrad also liked hosting banquets with hundreds of human women, including teenagers, presented to him so he can bleed them to death both for feasting and entertainment.

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