The following is a list of historic events related to Vampires, both Sylvanian and abroad. Dates are given according to the Imperial Calendar. Entries are frequently based on unreliable sources, such as the accounts of necromancers, heretics, adventurers, and other undesirables, especially those pre-dating the founding of the Empire. They are approximate and provided as a rough guide only.[1b]
- –1950 IC -- Nagash rules Khemri and distils the Elixir of Life from Human blood.[1a]
- –1650 -- After a hundred years of war with the priest kings, Nagash flees north. His works are destroyed, except for those that are saved by Neferatem of Lahmia under the influence of High Priest W'soran.[1a]
- –1590 -- A rebellion in Lahmia is brutally quashed. Neferatem becomes known as Neferata.[1a]
- –1200 -- King Alcadizaar the Conqueror besieges Lahmia and drives out the Vampires. They return for a time at the head of Nagash's army before scattering.[1a]
- –1147 -- Kadon finds Nagash's crown in the frozen grip of a dead man floating in the Blind River, and under its influence, Kadon creates Strigos.[1a]
- –1020 -- Strigos falls to the Orcs. Mourkain is razed and its people scattered, butchered, or enslaved.[1a]
- –600 -- Vorag Bloodytooth unites the scattered tribes of Ghouls that lurk below Cripple Peak and becomes the first Ghoul King. His army almost destroys the Red Cloud Goblin tribe. The survivors are enslaved and forced to build the Fortress of Vorag, east of the Plain of Bones. Vorag turns next to the Grey Hag tribe, who retreat into their mountain lair. Vorag is hit by a bolt thrower during the siege and is killed. His Fortress is forgotten and falls into ruins.[1a]
- –40 -- Nagash is reborn again.[1a]
- 876 -- Norse raiders bound for Lustria capture an Imperial merchant ship, unwittingly taking on board the Vampire Luthor Harkon's body. When the ship arrives, the crew have all been enslaved or made Undead. Luthor creates an empire in southern Lustria, the Vampire Coast.[1a]
- 1116 -- Vanhel raises an army made of dead plague victims with the aid of the mysterious Prince Vladimir and fights off the Skaven.[1a]
- 1454 -- The Red Duke, of Abhorash's line, terrorises Aquitaine. He is defeated at the Battle of Ceren Fields, pierced by the king's own lance.[1a]
- 1681 -- The Night of the Restless Dead. In the aftermath, Sylvania gains its independence from Stirland.[1a]
- 1750 -- Nourgul the Necrarch razes all the land between the Irrana Mountains and the Southern Sea in what the Estalians call the War of Blood. After a month-long siege of Magritta, he enters the temple of Myrmidia to steal the Tome of Wisdom. His ashes are later found beside it.[1a]
- 1797 -- Vlad von Carstein marries Isabella von Drak and becomes Count of Sylvania.[1a]
- 1932 -- The Red Duke rises again and kills the Duke of Aquitaine. He is defeated once more and flees into the Forest of Chalons. None know if he dwells there still.[1a]
- 1999 -- The minions of Vlad von Carstein enter Mordheim to collect the Warpstone that fell there. Vlad plans to use the Warpstone to aid him in summoning a legion of the Undead.[1a]
- 2010 -- On Geheimnisnacht (the night of the Day of Mystery), Vlad von Carstein raises an army of the dead, and the Wars of the Vampire Counts begin. He devastates Ostermark, and his armies rampage between Stirland and the northern border.[1a]
- 2025 -- The grand master of the Knights of the White Wolf slays Vlad von Carstein.[1a]
- 2026 -- Vlad von Carstein returns and slays the grand master of the Knights of the White Wolf.[1a]
- 2051 -- Vlad von Carstein is slain at the Siege of Altdorf. Isabella von Carstein commits suicide in her grief. The remaining Vampire counts bicker over who is to be the next Count of Sylvania.[1a]
- 2056 -- A string of deaths amongst the nobles of Nuln is blamed on the Undead, creating a Vampire panic that results in the beheadings of several innocents.[1a]
- 2057 -- Fritz and Pieter von Carstein, two of Vlad's get, besiege Middenheim and Nuln, respectively, in attempts to prove themselves. A silver-tipped arrow ends Fritz before he can cause much harm to the City of the Wolf. Pieter is more successful, butchering many before he is slain by a descendant of Vanhel the Necromancer, Helmut van Hel, who seeks to redress his forefather's sins.[1a]
- 2100 -- Konrad von Carstein, ruler of Sylvania, is stopped at the Battle of the Four Armies.
- 2121 -- Konrad von Carstein is defeated at the Battle of Grim Moor.
- 2132 -- Mannfred von Carstein attacks the Empire, almost captures Altdorf in the Winter War, and is forced to retreat back to Sylvania.
- 2145 -- The Wars of the Vampire Counts are finally ended when Mannfred von Carstein is defeated at Hel Fenn.
- 2158 -- Gottlieb the Stern leads the Cleansing of Sylvania, hoping to prevent the Von Carsteins from ever returning.
- 2503 -- Mannfred von Carstein is resurrected.
- 2522 -- The Storm of Chaos. Mannfred von Carstein's army breaks Archaon's horde and then returns to Sylvania.
Canon Conflicts
As of the End Times, the Storm of Chaos is no longer canon.