Archervon Hold is a large Titan fortress located in Norway where it is controlled by the forces of the Thunderlands of Valhalla of whom protect and use the large number of Warp Portals beneath the Hold to protect Scandinavia from Chaos and to further their ambitions.
Tyr would be forced to defend Archervon Hold against an onslaught of demons attacking it from the Warp Portal during an event known as the First Archervon Warp Invasion and during this conflict he was forced to deactivate one of the portals after it became clear that they could not hold out against the endless armies of demons flowing through. Tyr would be betrayed from within by his grandson Gyrd of whom became corupted by Chaos while fighting in Norway and returned to Archervon and reactivated the Warp Portal to the fade initiating the Second Archervon Warp Invasion, and during the fighting they were able to once again close the warp portal but Gyrd escaped through it before it closed.
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Early History[]
Rise of the Sanguin Bloodline[]
Main Articles : Sanguin Bloodline, The Great Migration
A Son and Daughter I never thought I would take a progeny. Never thought for one second that I would turn another person into this creature we are now. Looking at you and your sister so close to death I knew I had to save you. Even if by saving you I doomed you both. |
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Having been given permission to leave Greece by Angelica Neferata it was Godrick, and his most loyal commanders Vincent Godfrey, and Romanos Threspotus that would leave joined by their entire bloodlines. Leaving Greece they travelled by river making there way northward, and travelling through Croatia they spent time in each of the kingdoms that they found. It was in Westros that they eventually found themselves and making a home in the ancient city of Lorderon they would spend several decades in the city. During their time there it was a divergence that begin to occur between the three Vampire Lords. Godrick begin to feel a pull towards the north as he had become obsessed with the ancient rumors of that northern land. For Vincent, and Romanos they begin to feel a pull towards the peace that felt a promice in the Valley of Lucerne which was an isolated and seemingly ungoverned land. This divide would eventually cause the three to split as Godrick travelled northward heading towards Norway, while Romanos and Vincent travelled to the Valley of Lucerne. Coming to Denmark[]traveled northward where he stayed for some time in Denmark. Living there for decades he was present as the flow of refugees started flowing in as a response to the Rise of the Andals and the exodus of the Vandal, and Goth people from Norway and Swedan. Seeing this and wanting to do something about what was going on he would travel into Swedan where following the flow of information in southern Swedan he eventually found his way into Northern Swedan where he would enter the court of the northern Vandal nation known as the Kingdom of Oland. Fighting with the Vandals[]Main Article : Fall of Oland
Entering the Kingdom of Oland he would discover the truth behind the stories being told in southern Swedan as he discovered the lands were being assaulted by the forces of Chaos who had taken control of the Andals, and the Andal nation known as the Empire of Kvenland. In this position he would enter the court of Oland where he became a powerful adviser to King Ulfrik Oland of whom he was honest with about being a Vampire and in this manner Ulfrik would begin to reveal the truth behind the situation with Kvenland. Describing to Godrick how months priot to Godrick's arrival the Andals of Kvenland had sent priests to his city trying to convert them to the worship of Chaos Gods and when he rejected this the Andals begin to be openly hostile. Wanting to resist the forces of Chaos due to his memory of Nagash, and everything evil in his life having been caused by the Chaos worshiping Nagash he would swear himself to the service of Ulfrik. Growing to trust Godrick it would be Ulfrik that would give command of a small group of Oland knights and using these forces Godrick would deliver several victories which led to his promotion by Ulfrik to the command of a significant portion of the Oland army to Godrick of whom fought with immense skill against the Andals delivering them two major defeats during his command.
Following a third defeat of the Andals by the army of Godrick the leader of the Andals in the form of Jannok would travel to the front with two of her children in the form of Dannok, and Valenia at the head of a massive army nearly two hundred thousand strong. The Vandal forces were no more then thirty thousand and exhausted from the constant fighting there moral was destroyed by the coming of this massive army, but Godrick was able to maintain some semblance of order during this time keeping the front from completely collapsing. Following the arrival of this massive army three of the petty kingdoms south of Oland would send forces northward now seeing the threat to themselves augmenting the forces of Oland to nearly sixty thousand but their numbers were still nothing compared to the numbers of the Andals. Jannok would split her forces into two attacking Oland from two opposite sides of the country forcing Godrick to split his army into two with himself leading the smaller army of twenty thousand and King Ulfrik leading the larger army against Dannok. A Son[]Eric Oland would be within the capital of Oland when his father suffered a devastating defeat against the forces of the Andals in the north and with the Oland army crushed and no longer able to defend the capital the Andals overran the defenses sacking the city and the palace where Eric had lived his entire life. Despite finally fighting against the Andals leading the towns defense during its final hour he would be defeated by the overwhelming numbers of Andals and lay mortally wounded beside his murdered sister and mother, and it was in this position where he was discovered by Godrick of whom had promised Eric's father he woulds save his son, and did this by turning the mortally wounded Eric into a Vampire. Hearts and Minds[]While her family was gone Rowena was the regent of the Andals and she would become the target of both sides of the Titan conflict when Odin sent his daughter Siggi and on his command she would travel into the lands of the Andals where she would become the voice of reason for the "Daughter of Flemeth" Jannok's daughter Rowena of whom was also being targeted by a Chaos agent, but Siggi would win in this battle allowing Rowena to remain uncorrected. With Rowena uncorupted she would spend the time as regent silently sending resources and support to the Kingdom of The End of Jannok[]
Following the destruction of the Vandal Kingdom of Oland the lands of Swedan were basically open to the Invasion of the Andals, but for Jannok her role in the killings was too much and she was emotionally devastated by what she had caused including most painful of all being the complete moral loss of her son, and the increasingly declining morality of her daughter Valenia while they had been fighting. Returning to the capital of the Andals following the defeat of the Kingdom of Oland it was Jannok that would come to speak to her daughter Rowena of whom she sensed still retained her morality, and together after this discsussion it was Rowena that introduced her mother to Siggi. begin making plans to change the Andals back to their non-Chaos leaning religions. Supported by her two daughters Jannok would believe she had secretly put this plan in place, but shortly before it was to move forward she would be confronted in the Palace grounds of her kingdom by Flemeth and her son, and following a battle between the group it would Flemeth that took Jannok away leaving Dannok in command of the Andals, while Valenia, and Rowena would flee southward Last Stand of Upsal[]Main Article : Fall of Upsal
The Kingdom of Upsal had been one of the three petty kingdoms which has sent aid to Oland during the invasion of the forces of the Andals, and thus the people of Upsal were aware of the consequences of the defeat of Oland, and in this way many in Upsal had begun fleeing southward including the Upsal royal family and most of the nobility leaving the army severly depleted, and thus allowing the Andals to move basically wherever they chose. The capital of the Kigndom of Upsal was the town of Upsal and it was here where Eric, and Godrick arrived and arriving there they discovered the town was preparing to fight in what amounted to a terrible last stand as they were horribly outnumbered by the coming Andals but Prince Leopold Dorginvin was unwilling to abandon the capital. A Daughter[]
Travelling southward following the meeting with Jannok it was Eric, and Godrick that would come upon the village of Nora Vonhesha and staying there for the night before making there way the final way to the capital of the larger southern petty Kingdom of Tonsul. Staying the night he and Eric would be within the village when it was assaulted by a vanguard force from the forces of the Andals of whom were still busy ransacking Oland but small groups were not moving southward. Filled with hatred over the deaths of his family Eric would refuse to retreat and Godrick was unwilling to leave him so the two would remain and fight alongside the Vandal defenders which led to them destroying the Andal force but following the battle Nora would be found dying and Godrick would take pity on her turning her into vampire and taking her with himself and Eric following this going southward. Denmark Civil War[]Main Article : Denmark Civil War
As the non-Chaos aligned Germans begin fleeing Norway, and Swedan the main route of their escape outside of those who could find boats was through Denmark where the Imperium of Germania put in place a directive that the province of Denmark was to assist in their retreat and assist in them moving south where the goal was to overwhelm Central Europe with large amounts of Germans. This flow of Germans southward would continue for some time unopposed as thousands upon thousands of Germans escaped the Chaos Proselytism and made their way through Denmark, but the flow would grind to a halt when Flemeth entered the region of Denmark and targeted House Glusburg the most powerful of the merchant families of Copenhagen for corruption. Entering Copenhagen Flemeth would find little moral problems with the family especially its lord in the form of Alf Glusburg of whom was a fanatic when it came to resisting Chaos and was closely supported by several Sigmar Priests of whom kept Flemeth from ever really being able to get close to Alf. Unable to corrupt the leadership of House Glusburg she prepared to move on when the return of Isabel Glusburg, and her brother Theis Glusburg led to Flemeth taking another road when she was able to get close to the two siblings. Playing on their weakenesses she would fully corrupt both of them leading to their secret "'suicides" of which following this Isabel became a "Daughter of Flemeth" while Theis became one of the Dark Men.
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First Archervon Warp Invasion[]
Main Article : First Archervon Warp Invasion
Tyr would be forced to defend Archervon Hold against an onslaught of demons attacking it from the Warp Portal during an event known as the First Archervon Warp Invasion and during this conflict he was forced to deactivate one of the portals after it became clear that they could not hold out against the endless armies of demons flowing through.
Second Archervon Warp Invasion[]
Main Article : Second Archervon Warp Invasion
Tyr would be betrayed from within by his grandson Gyrd of whom became corupted by Chaos while fighting in Norway and returned to Archervon and reactivated the Warp Portal to the fade initiating the Second Archervon Warp Invasion, and during the fighting they were able to once again close the warp portal but Gyrd escaped through it before it closed.
Vengeance of the Survivors[]
Main Article : The Burned Flower Campaign
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Tyr would discover that Arthas Menathil was coming for the sword Frostmourne and realizing that if he got the sword he could become too powerful to stop he traveled to the Dutchy of Narke where he met with Ostgar Atlisdottir of whom he attempted to convinse to resist Arthas menathil when he did arrive but found to his horror that Ostgar was both extremely intelligent and also a sexual monster who held a harram of women as basically sexual slaves. With the change of resisting Arthas at Narke gone he traveled to the Dutchy of Messlingen where he met with Duke Beiner Hrutsson and was able to convinse the Duke to resist Arthas Menathil and thus protect the Vault that was within the Dutchy of Messlingen. Tyr would finally travel to the Dutchy of Daggson where he met with Duke Arnfinn Dagsson who he was also able to convince to resist Arthas menathil when he eventually made it into the area and following this he returned to Archervon Hold where he met with his sons in order to try and put together a plan to get into the Vault of Medizin. After long discussion they decided on putting into action a plot bringing a group of Magi Blanks from across Germania to Swedan where he planned to use the blanks to get inside the Vault of Medizin before Arthas could. The Vault of Medizin had been co created by Tyr generations previous and thus he knew it was defended by a clan of Dwarves who assisted by Magi resistance Stone Giants was meant to be unable to be defeated by Titans, or Demons and thus begin his plan to bring in the one thing the vault could not defend against in the form of Blanks.
Tyr would send several of his children to the lands of Germania where they were able to find many blanks using Pendants of Pariah, and using the criteria of working against Arthas they narrowed this down to eight blanks who were effected very negatively by the actions of Arthas Menathil's invasion of Germania. Journey of Visimar[]Main Article : Killing of Cenuz Clawkeeper
It was Visimar Boggison that would in his vengeance towards Arthas and with nothing left at home following the Hannover Civil War travel northward in his own quest to destroy Arthas for destroying everything he had ever known and loved. Visimar travels down the road resisting the pull to reenter the fade and instead stops at a small village where he wants to pray at a Sigmar Temple and arriving at the village he is noticed immediately as he is heavily armed and before he is even able to get off his horse he is approached by several villagers who ask him whether he was sent by Lord Liebhard Kruspe who is the Magnate of the area, but Visimar tells that he is not. Speaking with the villagers stops when the priest of the temple comes outside and sends the villagers away, and then quickly takes Visimar inside the temple where he finds a group of warrior priests inside and also several female warriors he recognizes as priestess of Shallya. Trying to find out what is happening he is told by Priest Sieger Keilberth, Witch Hunter Dietger Bodeker, and Priestess of Shallya Mathilde Sperber that they are here to battle a monster that has made its home within the forests surrounding the village and killed several villagers. He learns that previous to their arrival they have learned that Lord Liebhard had entered the cave and against the advise of his men took them inside and tried to kill the creature but was killed and his men abandoned him returning to Castle Kruspe to alert Liebhard's son of his fathers death. Seeing his armor and the priestess senses a strange power from him they ask him to help them and he agrees believing this a deed he cannot ignore, and with the plan to attack the monster during the night before it can attack the village again he takes up their offer of sleep and goes to sleep resting before the fight to come.
Since remembering the death of Liam Odrell in his dream world it was Visimar who was consistently no longer able to control his dreaming and he found himself entering the fade and dreaming in the fade even while awake and it was while riding northward that Visimar was startled from his daydreaming by the sight of several armed horsemen in front of him. Visimar who has been startled from his daydreaming by the armed horsemen in front of him, and after brief conversation the men force him to pay them money to pass, and not wanting violence he pays them but unfortunately they see his purse of gold and try to get more money from him. After telling them what he is doing they laugh at his stupidity in trying to to kill Arthas and enraged by this he kills the leader instigating a fight from them and while he kills all the bandits during the fighting he takes a bad sword wound and falls unconscious in the middle of the road. Visimar would wake to find himself in a bed and hears a women singing quietly while she cradles a baby. Attempting to rise he finds himself tied to the bed, and grunting the women notices him, and quietly puts the baby in a bed before grabbing something from a table and coming over to him and whispering sleep before covering his mouth and nose causing him to sleep from the substance. Visimar once again waking and this time he does not hear the singing of the women instead is met by the stare of a heavily armored man of whom he engages in conversation discover the man is a hedge knight for a Bavarian lord and that he and his wife had found him on the road dying and had saved him but were unwilling to release him from his bonds due to the violence in the area as of late. Skirmish at Onemsson Estate[]Main Article : Skirmish at Onemsson Estate
Visimar continues to attempt to recover under the watchful guard of the man who has revealed himself as Starolf Onemsson and his wife Adelheid Onemsson and it is while recovering that he gets to know the two better, and they form a friendship over the days that follow but are still unwilling to let him go considering the state they found him in. After several days Visimar is able to get himself loose during the night but continues to rest in the bed and does not say anything as he rests for the entire next day. During Visimar's time at the Enemsson Estate it was Archavon that was still watching over Visimar but his proximity brought in Chaos influence who watched Archavon watching the family and the demon titan Ragoth would corrupt a local bandit and had the bandit gather a group to attack the estate. Waking up in the morning he is woken to the sounds of yelling as he finds the women on the ground with a man attacking her while the husband is wrestling with another man, and a third man enters the room making his way towards the children room. Having nearly fully recovered from his wounds he gets up and using the knife he had hidden in his bed he stabs the man attacking the wife through the neck before stabbing the man wrestling the husband, and then getting him to his feet before the two together kill the third man who attempted to get into the children's room. As the sounds of screaming from within alert the final man of the bandit group the final bandit launches a torch at the house igniting it in flames, but together Visimar, the husband and wife are able to get the children out of the house, and leaving the burning home Visimar engages the final man in a duel killing him as well. Visimar after this rushes to try and put out the fire, but is confused when the family does nothing to help, and after realizing he cannot stop the fire he turns back and sees the family laughing at him.
Getting mad that they are laughing at him he understands when the women whistles and bird flies to her shoulder and after its arrival she begins chanting but at her chanting she begins crying out in pain. As she chants Visimar feels himself become something different and it becomes just himself and Adelheld in the clearing, and trying to understand what is happening they are joined in the clearing by another in the form of a man who calls himself Archavon and the man explains what Visimar is. After recovering she looks to Visimar and tells him that when she begin trying to use her Magi Visimar became like a dark hole that tried to suck her in and then she was sucked into that that dark version of reality where Archavon was waiting for them. Having discovered the location of her brother Adelheld plans to travel south and find her brother and Visimar is torn between going with them and getting his vengeance but the anger is too strong and he tearfully says goodbye to the family who has saved his life, but agrees that when he gets his vengeance he will find them again. Finding Isabella[]
Isabella Rasmussen had become hateful towards Arthas following her role in his escape from Denmark when she had used her Pariah gene to enter the Fade and pull Arthas in as well and believing her power was more then his she was tricked by Arthas into believing that his goals were true and thus she convinced her father to work for the escape of Arthas. Following this Arthas had in an act of malice returned to Denmark in the Fade through the help of Elu-Kael Thuzad and had taunted Isabella that his goals were violent in nature and that he would return to Denmark and kill her and everyone she loved as punishment for her stupidity and after she was beaten horribly when she tried to fight him she fled the fade returning to Denmark. Having experienced this and realizing she had caused something horrible through her actions she became obsessed with getting revenge on Arthas and it was in this obsession that she formed the Knights of Isabella of whom were sworn to her and of whom she had formed for her eventual goal of attacking and killing Arthas. Isabella Rasmussen would be drawn out of Aalheld and her family by the call of a nearbye Pariah in the form of Visimar Boggison of whom was able to convince Isabella to meet with him, and during this meeting she came to agree that she had to join him to stop Arthas. Leaving her husband in the night it was Isabella Rasmussen who followed the words of Visimar Boggison she would flee Aalheld and join with the force of Visimar as they made there way into Swedan to deal with Arthas and following Visimar she learned more about the true depths of her powers and what her potential could be. Finding Astrid[]Main Article : Rescue of Astrid
With Archavon now working with Visimar he takes him and his expanding group to the outskirts of a small Swedish village inside the Dutchy of Vastervik where he tells Visimar this is the home of a group called the Cult of Astrid formed in worship to Astrid Skididottir a blank like Visimar and he can gain her loyalty and help in his quest moving north. Going into the village Visimar discovers that the villagers do in fact worship Astrid and have become driven to Chaos by a recent change in their lady Astrid and realizing that this is what the demons have been doing they are able to trick the cultists into giving away the location of the lady who is located in a ruined tower south of the village. After killing the demons holding Astrid Skididottir hostage it is Archavon who is forced to leave them as he is attracting the demons to Visimar and Astrid but directs them towards Archervon Hold where he will wait for them. Instead of going directly to Archervon Hold it is Visimar who agrees with Astrid that they can do more good while they are here by confronting her brother who is a major booster of Chaos in the area and by destroying him they can weaken the hold of chaos in the area. Having been released from her imprisonment she returned to her cult and alongside Visimar she and the group now joined by the Cultists returned to Vastervik where they confronted her brother Kodran at the Duel at Vastervik. Journey of Janus[]Janus would listen to the words of his sister Aristea of whom he was all but a fanatical supporter of at this point and followed her as she raised an army to follow after Arthas Menathil, and journeying with her they traveled north east and sail from Western Prussia and then enter Swedan and bring the fight to Arthas. Leaving Gotska[]Torovon would be sent by his father to locate a Pariah who was located at the island of Gotska having just recently invaded the island and took it from the control of the previous Chaos aligned forces, and meeting with the leadership of the now Germania controlled island he found Janus Frandsen the Pariah was the most trusted commander of the islands leader Aristea Frandsen. Journey of Galindus[]
Emalon would be sent into Germania in order to gain the service of blanks for the use of his father in forming the Party of the Pariah and Emalon was drawn towards a pariah in the province of Wissenland named Mads Busk. Mads would be approached by Emalon while he was living in his forest exile and Emalon was able to bring Mads to the idea of getting revenge on Arthas by revealing to him that Mads sister had perished during Arthas's assault northward, and with Mads agreeing he would show Mads the powers of his Pariah gene spending several weeks with him in the forests. Finishing his training it was Emalon who sent him north to wait for him in northern Slovakia while he went to meet with a noble in Slovakia named Galindus Vapnisson, of whom was the next Pariah he was trying to recruit. Following the birth of their son Volham Vapnisson II. Galindus's pariah inspired nightmares would become worse and alongside this he was visited by Emalon a child of Tyr who begin to whisper to Galindus to end his fathers prison of an existence and while at first he was able to use his abilities to stop Emalon from truly reaching him in the fade Emalon was too powerful and pushed past Galindus defenses and the two spoke inside the fade where Emalon did not reveal the truth of what was happening to him but was able to convince him that he needed to go north. Having been convinced and despite growing into love with Natalie he would leave her as regent of Kosice and travel northward with a troop of his men to find and give his father peace. As he traveled north it was Mads Busk who met him on the road and after discovering who he was he was shocked as Mads was believed dead years previous but as he questioned whether Mads was lying the two met in the Fade and realizing that the two shared the same abilities he would come to trust mads and agreed to let mads come with him. Entering Hammarstrand[]Galindus Vapnisson would enter the city of Hammarstrand where he infiltrated the city alongside his companions through the caverns and while traveling in the caverns he was seen by Ludwina of whom seeing him in his white armor became entranced by him following him after he became lost from his companions and she would be there when he was discovered by the House Atlisdottir palace guards and her words kept him from being imprisoned after she lied about why he was there. Following Ludwina conspiring with Galindus the two would arrange a complicated escape plan for Ludwina and several people who Ludwina had as friends, and also during this time of planning and conspiring they would begin to work on Galindus's goal of ending his father of whom was present within the walls of Hammarstrand. Assaulting the Vault Assaulting the Vault[] |