This is a campaign I am running using Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound and the Champions of Death book.
The background is that they are a group of Vampires in the Court of Blood (and their mortal and undead minions!). They all ostensibly serve Neferata, the Mortarch of Blood. The Vampires in the group were nobility that originally held titles and land in Neferatia.
During the Age of Chaos their lands were invaded by a Horde of Khorne Daemons and Bloodbound. Their lands were overrun and lost. For a time lived as refugees in Nulhamia - the capital of Neferatia - as guests of other vampire lords, but quickly wore out your welcome and were getting pressured more and more to go and take back their ancestral lands!
Eventually they were given leave to travel to Ulgu, Realm of Shadow, where they were to rebuild, conquer new land and raise an army to eventually aid Neferata in taking back their lands.
Passing through a Realmgate near Shadowvell, brought them to Ghyran and they discovered a short march of a day or two would bring them to another realmgate that would deliver them to Ulgu, on Cape Tenerax, near Misthåven.
Upon arriving in Ulgu, they found an old dilapidated keep, just a days march from the realm gate. The small fortress had been built during the age of myth, but long since abandoned by its original builders. At the time they discovered it, it was inhabited by a small pack of skaven. The skaven were cleared out, some minimal repairs were made to make it somewhat livable and moderately defensible.
It is a rather shabby looking place that most passersby would still think abandoned - and quite possibly HAUNTED - as many in the region do!
And there they have remained for a century or more. Occasionally murdering lightly protected merchant caravans, stealing their stuff and taking any survivors as prisoners to drain at their leisure back at their keep. From time to time they would travel into Misthåven to trade their stolen wares and acquire anything else they needed.
Their life of leisure ended when Lady Mereneth arrived to inform them that Neferata was calling her banners and they and the "army" they'd promised to build were to return to Neferatia in the Realm of Shyish!
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
MAIN CHARACTERS
Lady Esmerelda
Nick is playing Lady Esmerelda (she/her) - a Vampire Lord.
Sir Raven the Dour
Orion is playing Sir Raven the Dour (They/them) a Blood Knight (also a Vampire)
Sir Renmold of Sylum Field
Finnegan is playing Sir Renmold of Sylum Field (they/them) a Grave Guard Wight (essentially an animated suit of armour with a skeleton inside).
Original Post:
Harald the Spirit Torment
Amanda was away during session zero and so before Session One made up a Spirit Torment character.
The Spirit Torment has been a hanger on since the days when the vampires lived in Shyish. Between jobs (hunting down runaway souls for Nagash) Harald would haunt the vampires castle. One day he returned to find the vampires decamped and Khorne worshippers in occupation of the castle! So Harald tracked the vampires all the way to Ulgu... because... he's a Spirit Torment, that's kind of just what they DO... and has been hanging out with them since, hoping Nagash doesn't notice...
SUPPORTING CAST
The Familiars
they once has a familiar named Guillermo, probably back in Shyish. He died. They've since replaced him with others... many others... But because they couldn't be bothered to remember new names, they just renaming their new familiars simply changing the first letter of their name, and working their way through the alphabet. They have gone through the alphabet several times...
The two current Familars are two Duardin name Nuillermo and Muillermo. Sometimes they are referred to as Nizmo and Mizmo, by certain vampires that can still never remember their names.
Both of them died on the march in Ghyran when the group was ambushed by angry Sylvaneth in Episode Three.
The Undead Minions
Accompanying the group is a small collection of Deathrattle Skeletons and Deadwalker Zombies, raised from time to time over the centuries as older ones wore out or crumbled into dust to guard their hold or to act as servants.
Most of the initial retinue of Zombies and Skeletons were destroyed on the march in Ghyran when the group was ambushed by angry Sylvaneth in Episode Three...
EPISODES
Episode Zero
There isn't a post about it... but we did have an Session Zero during which most of the characters were made and the campaign was introduced with Lady Mereneth stepping out of the shadows in the middle of a house meeting and announcing that Neferata was calling her banners and expected the group to return to Shyish at once with the army they'd been claiming they'd been working on raising these past few centuries...
Episode One
In which the characters pack up what they can and leave their keep in Ulgu - the Realm of Shadows - and march to the first in a series of realmgates that will hopefully lead them back to Shyish - the Realm of DEATH! They find a fortification at the Realmgate garriosoned by a troop of Duardin. All the defenders are slaughter and the retinue marches through to Ghyran - the Realm of Life!
Read more about it here: Episode One
Episode Two
In Ghyran they had difficulty determining which way they needed to travel to the Realmgate back to Shyish. When last they passed this way it was open and marsh... now an entire JUNGLE had grown up around the realmgate they had passed through. They located a track that led to a small community where they proceeded to murder a nightwatchman and abduct a second one that they forced to join their retinue and lead them to the Realmgate back to Shyish. After about a days march, they encountered a trio of Dryads standing in their path. When they did not move away, they were utterly destroyed... and then the jungle all around them came to life!
Read more about it here: Episode Two
Episode Three
Still in Ghyran, the group was ambushed by an angry mob of Sylvaneth bent on vengeance for the three Dryads slain in Episode Two. All of their Zomibes and Skeletons and mortal servants were utterly destroyed in the ensuing conflict. Sir Raven was gravely injured. They escaped with their lives and little else - as they no longer had servants to carry all of Lady Esmerelda's extra gowns. The Episode ended with the group escaping the forest, but entering a foetid marsh tainted by the foulness of the Plague Lord, Nurgle, the Chaos God of Disease, Decay, Death and Destruction!
Read more about it here: Episode Three
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