Preface
This is going to be a game-driven writeup of the outcomes of the games of Mordheim I'll be playing in a newly started campaign. I'm running an Undead warband where the vampire is Helena von Carstein, a child vampire that I have as the general of my Warhammer army. I'm also playing with an altered version of her in the TVC2 RP here on CN. Either way her story begins with being sent off to fight in Mordheim so I am building this part of her background in detail as we play through our campaign.
The story will be built up around the games I play from the POV of this character with some interludes of storytelling between game sessions to build the progression and cover events. I can't promise that every installment is going to be super-exciting as I'm known for playing defensively with the vampire, but that's all in character as far as I see it; vampires have time on their side so they're not against running away to fight another day. They're not in a hurry and you don't get to live for hundreds of years if you're rushing!
The warband
This thread is not supposed to be a progress log of the warband other than Helena herself but for the sake of clarity I will list the members to give some more context during the writeups.
The warband has the following notable members:
Helena von Carstein (vampire)
Newly turned and considered to be flawed due to her much too young age. She's under the command of Herr Schtiller, the necromancer, although she is the leader game-wise. For a physical description you can read it in the spoiler box below and have a look at my avatar (disregard the S:t Lucy crown, please).
Helena was sired into undeath during her childhood at the age of 7 and has retained the physical characteristics from that time. She is of average size for that age at just under 4 feet tall and around 50lbs. She has long and straight platinum-blonde hair reaching her waist, pallid white skin and contrasting yellow eyes. She is dressed well like the nobleman’s daughter she once was, wearing formal attire dresses with high-collared shirts. She dresses primarily in ivory or otherwise off-white coloured clothes; the colours of her original family was a dark shade of blue but upon joining the Sylvanian court she was given her own. She doesn't usually wear any head wear.
Herben Schtiller (necromancer)
The commander of the operation, but for how long will a vampire tolerate a human's leadership?
Karl Schultz (dreg)
Kurt Rustle (dreg)
Walter Fritz (dreg)
These are a group of rather unremarkable human warriors. They're most useful as servants and errand-runners during the day when Helena is resting.
Graveclaw (ogre bodyguard)*
Graveclaw is a powerful ogre who's sent with the warband to make up for Helena's shortcomings. He is armed with a great club made from the bone of some even bigger beast.
And then there is an assortment of henchmen that can be either ghouls, zombies or dire wolves. At the time of writing there are only ghouls.
*:@Ghouly, this one is merely named in tribute to your TVC character, it's not supposed to actually be him. :)
And just for fun I will be keeping a short log on how Helena develops her in-game stats and abilities over the course of the campaign. I will be keeping them inside spoiler blocks at the start of a new game or at the end of an interlude.
Brief background
This is a quick summary of events leading up to the warband's arrival at Mordheim. The details of this might be explored later but for now they will be kept short.
In the year 2000 the last of the Sylvanian noblehouses fell under the curse of vampirism brought by the ruling count Vlad von Carstein. One of these families had a young daughter at the age of seven. This was Helena, and when her father and mother proposed to the count to let them bring their child into undeath they were strongly rejected. Child vampires were strictly forbidden to be created as they would be forever unable to reach their full potential, both mentally and physically. The count ordered them to wait until Helena had reached adulthood before turning her, but her father disregarded this completely when he drained her of blood on the very same night he returned back to their home. This angered count Carstein greatly and he had both Helena's parents executed for her father's disobediance. However, he spared Helena's life. For the moment, at least.
Just recently, a meteor had descended from the sky and destroyed the city of Mordheim in the north. Reports told of vast amounts of wyrdstone waiting to be collected by those swift enough to claim it. The count readied dozens of his agents to travel to Mordheim to gather as much wyrdstone as possible, and with these Helena would be included. Despite her flawed creation she could still serve a purpose; she would either succeed or die in her attempts. Both outcomes suited the count's plans.
Under the watchful eye of Herben Schtiller, one of the count's trusted necromancers, Helena would be part of one of the warbands sent to fight in the ruined city. She was given basic training and had some equipment made for her; an investment the count thought unlikely to give any rewards but he believed in giving all of his agents, including Helena, at least a fair chance. The count granted them a group of human servants to cater to their needs and also entrusted them with the control of the monstrous Graveclaw who would serve as their bodyguard. The warband arrived at Mordheim in the dead of night; it was the start of what would be a long and bloody struggle inside the city of the damned, but what no one could foretell was the effect that the massed amount of wyrdstone would have on the young vampire.
Finally
I'll be trying to keep each writeup brief and concise. I want to be able to type them up in 15-20 minutes and not write 2-3 full blown stories after each game night. Let me know what you think of the style of writing and if it feels too short to make it interesting.
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