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Konrad von Carstein

2023-02-14T08:05:22Z

2605:BA00:6208:64B:1864:181D:3558:453D: /* Rulership */

[[Image:M1182220 99060207171 VCKonradVonCarsteinMain 873x627.jpg|right|thumb|400px|...and that's what you would call a murder machine.]]
{{topquote|Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.|Joseph Stalin}}

{{topquote|We've had '''vicious''' kings, and we've had '''idiot''' kings. But I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a '''vicious idiot for a king!'''|Tyrion Lannister}}

''[[Stupid Evil|"FUCK LOGIC, I'M A VAMPIRE!"]]''

Once upon a time there was a dude. He wasn't very smart...or rational...or stable (for example he [[Grimdark|bricked his mother up into a tower to die for the "crime" of giving birth to him without his consent]]). One day, [[Vlad von Carstein]] and [[Isabella von Carstein]] decided that this crazy muthafuckuh deserved to be given ungodly strength and near immortality via vampirism....possibly as a joke. They then doted on him, and stuck him with another adult male named [[Mannfred von Carstein|Mannfred]] and a few other not as important vampires in a children's playroom before leaving to conquer the world starting with [[the Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|the Germans]]. Anyway, thus Konrad von Carstein was born! Having no idea what the fuck [[magic]] was, let alone any inkling of its control, Konrad relied heavily on [[necromancer]]s to control his thousands upon thousands of mindless servants, and everything was great! He got to pillage, and slap children around to his heart's content, get a reputation spread near and far as well as becoming known as the "Red Fury" which he thought was pretty neat, plus he was considered Vlad's right-hand man while he was gone and was able to scare the FUCK out of the empire with such incidents as that one time he scaled a castle wall by himself, then killed everyone inside and pissed in their skulls during a siege. Then mama and papa vamp were killed by feral rampaging popes when Vlad got robbed of his magical ring of neverdieness / overpowerosity and was impaled on a twig, and a thousand+ way civil war started between all the von Carsteins for who gets to be in charge Vlad's death The chief contenders - his 'brothers' Fritz, Pieter, and Hans - all came to unholy ends; Fritz was killed while attacking Middenheim, Konrad killed Hans in a duel over who was the toughest then burned his remains, and Pieter was slain in his coffin by Helmut van Hal - a descendant of the infamous Necromancer Vanhel. As for Konrad's other 'brother' Mannfred he decided to go backpack across [[Tomb Kings|Nehekhara]] rather than face Konrad (though before he did he left an allied vampire named Jon Skellan to stoke Konrad's paranoia - smart choice really).

==Rulership==
As a commanding officer, Konrad was an ASSHOLE. He killed necromancers for making fun of his lack of magical talent (it's like a small dick in the Undead world) and put them on huge fucking spikes Vlad Tepes style. He'd also spend his time having towns destroyed because he didn't like how they smelled or ordering his living troops to use alley cats for crossbow practice (this is canon, by the way). After meeting Walach, the promise of glory and victory in battle made up for Konrad's lack of honor and secured the allegiance of the Blood Knights. Because he had no talent at sorcery, Konrad changed his tack on necromancers and cajoled, bribed and bullied a large number of necromancers into serving him (if they made jokes about him, he probably took it out on enemies in battle and captives).

He was paranoid of his advisors, members of his personal guard, and his brothers all the while listening to the "advice" of severed heads he kept in his basement along with flocks of birds that he fed in the rooftops with the roasted flesh of whoever displeased him. Two acts of impulsive madness that damaged his campaign included his murder of Hans von Carstein in a duel and his attempted murder of Jerek von Carstein which led to his eventual desertion of the vampire counts and assistance to the empire in the defeat of both Konrad and later Mannfred.

The undead horde they raised was so immense and the Blood Knights added so much hitting power it was able to triumph against any force sent against it, despite Konrad's insanity and his ineptitude as a general. He even attacked the Dwarfs, and when the Dwarf King challenged Konrad, he got Walach Harkon to accept the challenge as his champion, leading to the Dwarf King's death (and creating the second big grudge against vampires since Neferata). After several attempted invasions of The Empire, Konrad's advance was finally halted at the Battle of Four Armies in 2100 IC by a combined force from Altdorf, Talabheim and Marienburg (the battle is remembered mainly for the fates of the Imperial leadership, all of whom were contenders for the Imperial throne: the Count of Altdorf and the Ottilia of Talabheim had each other assassinated during the heat of battle, while Helmut, Count of Marienburg, was slain by Konrad).

However, the undeniable disadvantage of being dead did not stop Helmut from contending for the imperial throne and after the battle, he journeyed to Altdorf to ascend to the imperial throne. It was only when his extreme lethargy, pallid skin, and disgusting odor developed into full decomposition that the people of the Empire figured out he was actually a zombie under the control of Konrad! The necromancers controlling Helmut fled as soon as they were found out. Konrad chucked a massive tantrum when he learned his plan failed, which involved raiding nearby towns. Konrad's ploy to become emperor may have succeeded if the magic binding Helmut to Konrad's will had been more complex and thus able to sustain Helmut's decomposing body better, though the lack of speech and bodily functions would still be a giveaway.

==Defeat==
No one liked him very much at all. First, the Blood Knights left because Konrad's ineptitude denied them the victories they craved and got too annoying, so they ended the alliance. Then one day his necromancers decided to fuck him over! During some big fucking battle that would decide the fate of the world and probably lead it into 10,000 years of darkness or some bullshit, the necromancers just quit fucking playing (Konrad it turns out was still giving them grief during his bouts of insanity, so eventually they just got fed up and left him), leaving Konrad all alone without his hero slots, controlling like 10,000,000,000,000 VP's worth of skeletons. His brains blew up on the inside a little bit from the stress of having to control so many models, and he wandered into a forest going [[Doomrider|"NahNahNahNahNah,"]] gnashing his teeth, and drooling all over himself. Apparently, while this was going on his undead army crumbled and the Empire was all, "Holy shit, I thought we were doomed! Good thing GW won't wipe the main race, let's get back to in-fighting!"

Thankfully for the Empire before Konrad could get some sense back into his head and take advantage of the Imperial in-fighting he happened to bump into some Dwarf hero named Grufbard and the Ostlander Helmard (son of the man whom Konrad killed and zombified). They took one look at his sorry ass and instantly realized that he was in the middle of some crazy-ass stupor. The dwarf then promptly tackled Konrad and held him down while Helmard proceeded to repeatedly stab Konrad with his dead father's Runefang.

What a chump way to go!

==Immediate Aftermath==
After Konrad died, the surviving von Carsteins went to ground. That is until Mannfred came home and started unfucking the von Carstein line by making nice with the necromancers, traveling the world again to assemble a huge force of skeletons BEFORE attacking the [[the Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)| Empire]] and giving them a chance to stop being dicks and unite, bringing the scared vamps who had fled to other bloodlines back with promises of candy and porn, and otherwise being not-Konrad. He still lost too, repeatedly, but at least he lived to fight another day which is more than can be said for his idiot brother.

[[Category:Warhammer Fantasy]]
[[Category: Vampire Counts]]

Strigoi

2023-02-14T07:50:37Z

2605:BA00:6208:64B:1864:181D:3558:453D: /* Relations */

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Strigoi is an old Romanian word derived from Latin referring to a supernatural creature, usually a vampire. In tabletop gaming context it refers the Strigoi Bloodline of [[Vampire Counts]] from [[Warhammer Fantasy]].

If the Von Carsteins are the Warhammer version of Bela Legosi, the Strigois are the Nosferatus, at least after Count Orlok hit the gym. They're hulking, bald (baring the occasional quill), taloned jagged fanged feral predators. Despite this they still retain considerable intelligence.
==History==
The Strigoi are mutant vampires descended from [[Ushoran]], the younger brother of bitch [[Queen Neferata]]. Old lore had it that she would bully him and deliberately didn't make him a vampire so she had someone to look down on, he in turn stole the partial recipe of her elixir of immortality and the result made him the bestial mutant vampire we know. New lore has it that she willingly made him a vampire and he served as a diplomat prior to being cursed as a more monstrous type of vampire. However, in both versions it ended with Ushoran leaving his sister to realize his ambitions and carve out his own kingdom.

After many years of wandering, Ushoran found Mourkain, a small vampire kingdom created by a barbarian shaman Kadon, who wore the Crown of Nagash and worshipped the Great Necromancer as a god. He easily couped Kadon and changed some of his laws, such as removing the worship of Nagash and restoring [[Abhorash|Abhorash's]] principle to feed only on criminals. Those reforms were pretty successful, and even non-vampires started to respect Ushoran as their leader. Meanwhile, his newly acquired fame insulted Neferata, and she became jealous. Extremely jealous.

She waged a war against Mourkain, and while Ushoran managed to eventually defeat her armies, the [[Greenskin|Greenskins]] knocked on the door and turned the unprepared kingdom into a literal wasteland. With the death of their King and the total annihilation of their country, most of the Strigoi degenerated, turned into a wild predators that prey in a dark and secret places, hunting on the hermits and Ghouls. But they still have memories about Mourkain, and they are slowly preparing to rise again and restore the empire....

== Strigany ==
If you're wandering what happened to the non-dead population of Mourkain, it fled to the north, in the lands of the future Empire, which proved to be a great mistake. Most of the human tribes already hated them as a Vampire slaves, and the hate only strengthened when they arrive to their land. Having nowhere to run (seriously, other choices are [[Nehekhara]] and [[Dark Lands]]), they stayed there.

Several thousand years have passed, and nothing really changed. Everyone hates them (with some exceptions like the [[Kislev|northern kislevites]]), and '''especially''' the Witch Hunters, who have little to no mercy to those people. They travel in caravans or small barges and call themselves Strigany (Warhammer Gypsies, huh...), have a little knowledge of fortune telling, and <s>overall are pretty good guys, even if some of them are extremely necrofiliac and still worship Vampires</s>{{BLAM|BLAM! THEY'RE STILL VAMPIRE SLAVES YOU IDIOT!}}

==Relations==

*'''[[Lahmian|Neferata's Fanclub]]''': Sir Witchunter the recent deaths in the province are due to freakish wildlife attacks theyre causing quite a ruckus i urge you to endeavor to rid civilized society of these beasts.

*'''[[Blood Dragon|Blood Dragons]]''': They hate the Strigoi and hunt them like animals, calling them a dishonorable fucks [[Derp|"Ironically Abhorash himself grew to hate the schemes of Neferata & fought to defend Strygos"]]

*'''[[The_Empire_(Warhammer_Fantasy)| Most Humans]]''': Strigoi whats that? all i heard of were bout them giant ugly monsters who ate Hans's cattle farm we had a famine that winter.

*'''[[Strigany|Strigany]]''': Strygos will rise again!! milord why are you chewing on that animal carcass?

==Named Characters==
NOTE: Characters unique to the Age Of Sigmar [[Flesh-eater Courts]] are not counted as Strigoi, and will not be listed since the term “Abhorrant” has replaced Strigoi as a signifier of Ghoul King allegiance.

* Ushoran
Progenitor of the Bloodline. Canon splits into what happened to him at Mourkain, some sources saying he simply died and others that he survived. It was generally thought the former was canon since it was in army books and the latter in [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]] supplements until his own book [[Ancient Blood]] was released, showing him saving some Strigany from a Nazi-like Gypsy purge and leading them to rebuild their empire. Although he was one of the dropped plots for [[End Times]], [[Josh Reynolds]] attempted to give fans closure on many things (before GW ordered him to stop and declare them fanfiction) with Ushoran actually gathering the loyalist Strigoi, before it all vanishes into the dark of the final battle. Despite that, Games Workshop made Josh’s story canon with Ushoran confirmed alive and surviving into [[Age Of Sigmar]] where the madness of the Bloodline finally claimed him as he delusionally believes himself to be ruling the rebuilt Mourkain when in reality he’s a wandering monster that infects everything around him with madness turning men into similarly-deluded Ghouls faster than if they had participated in cannibalism. Meanwhile, in [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] Ushoran simply rules some of his Bloodline who have returned to Nehekhara; although not present in the game, he is still the faction leader.

* [[Vorag Bloodytooth]]
Ushoran was the first Strigoi, but Vorag was the first Strigoi Ghoul King since Ushoran prefers mostly to live with the Strigany. He encountered Ghouls while fleeing the fall of Mourkain and a Von Carstein hunting party pursuing him for sport. His newfound friends slaughtered the Vampires before he set out to return to Mourkain. He destroyed every Greenskin in his path until finally being killed. Somehow all other Strigoi heard of him and seek to follow his example...or just luck into it like he did.

* [[Urzen The Unrelenting]]
Took Vorag’s basic idea, only with vengeance on his mind. As Mourkain’s top military advisor he learned not only how to conduct war, but also Ushoran’s spymaster ways. Urzen wants to destroy the Lahmians and does so in a manner far more befitting one than a Strigoi. Urzen is responsible for humanity’s effectiveness in fighting Vampires as he uses agents to teach them Vampire secrets, lead gifted warriors to magical items, and baits Witch Hunters to Lahmian covens. He’s stated to hate Lahmians exclusively, steering mankind away from other Bloodlines. He also still a little nuts, since he tries to instill military discipline into both Ghouls and Zombies in his fucking massive army via drills and parades.

* [[Gashnag The Black Prince]]
One of the offspring of Vorag, Gashnag is the single most successful post-Mourkain Strigoi. Ruling an unnamed kingdom in the Border Princes, Gashnag paid bards and spread rumors that he’s simply an amazing genius heroic nobleman that was cursed to look like a monster. His trusted human advisors know his true nature, and help keep the illusion. Whenever something threatens his kingdom he rides out under cover of darkness as well as the more literal cover of a black cloak to butcher the unsuspecting foes, returning to plant their heads on spikes in the town square then return to his castle.

* [[Mad Orlock]]
One of the big players of [[The Thousand Thrones]] supplement for WFRP. Strigoi interpreted prophesies about of a young boy named Karl who was supposedly Sigmar reborn to have involved Nagash turning Sigmar into a Vampire before he became a god. Orlock believes the Bloodlines have become too weak and mixed for any true Vampire hero to be born of being turned, so he decided to kidnap Karl and have all the Bloodlines infect him. He simply assumes each Bloodline will be present on (un)holy ground aside from the Blood Dragons who he figured would ignore the call , leading him to kidnap one. Soon he intends to turn Karl into the God Emperor Of Vampkind...or rather he would, if it weren’t for the truth of it. The Black Witch, an Undivided Chaos Champion who became a ghost, sent out a fake prophesy to all the Bloodlines. In reality she needs Karl, a Chaos mutant with a nonstop natural Jedi Mind Trick, to be brought to Kislev where she can possess him then feed on one of each of the Bloodlines to take over his body and bring about a Charisma-based End Times. The final layer of intrigue is that its all a plan by Nagash for his fourth resurrection.
Ignoring the idea that the disconnect between the wargame and RPG canons is too vast, then we have several options for Orlock’s ultimate fate; either he was killed, one of the other Vampires was killed, or Karl died or was convinced to banish the Black Witch to the void; its an option to have one of the Vampire prophesies true and given we know (or do we?) Sigmar wasn’t a Vampire then Orlock was for sure wrong. The ending options suggests successful parties may have one of the Vampires take an interest in them, possibly allow/force them to join that Bloodline.

* [[Nanosh]]
A Strigoi Ghoul King pirate. Secretly taken aboard the ship Unternehmung when the captain hired Strigany crewmen. When the ship rations “mysteriously” went rotten the Strigany lead a mutiny. The captain and those loyal to him were cooked and fed to the traitors until they became Ghouls, whereupon Nanosh went above deck and assumed captainship. They’ve become one of the most feared crews of pirates, raiding ships and towns at night for living meat instead of treasure or slaves.

* Karkanoth
A [[Nosantra]], more specifically a Ghoul King who betrayed the Strigoi to become one of the few lieutenants of [[Mannfred von Carstein]] to survive his first defeat. Introduced in End Times.

* Druthor
Another Strigoi expatriate, this time in service to [[Krell]] in End Times. Formerly “ruled” the “kingdom” of Grimbarrow, a forgotten charnel pit for a forgotten dead populace. Has a Terrorgheist. The Bloodbeasts are three [[Varghulf]] who began following him as he raided sites to sate his thirst, and he kept them as pets on chain leashes until needed. The Graveclaws are his Ghouls, who were the residents of Grimbarrow before Druthor came that began worshiping him as a god.

* Anhurit
A female Strigoi from a WFRP supplement blurb intended to show how Vampires see the world. She waits for a grave robber to dig up a serial killer’s body while she sits hidden in the shadows and watches the Death magic interact with the environment as well as the invisible ghosts, those who know they’re dead and those that don’t (like said murderer trying to stab him over and over). Once the corpse is exhumed and the robber claims the corpse’s ring Anhurit jumps into the grave and cuts off the hands of the corpse with her claws. After the grave robber shits himself she tells him he is spared because he’s a good digger and leaves. We don’t know what she needed the hands for.

* Yudas The Shadow King
Terrorized Wissenland, butchering women because in his madness he thought they were his cheating wife.

==Gallery==
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==D&D Strigoi==
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Strigoi were added to [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] in [[Van Richten's Guide]] to [[Ravenloft]]. They used to be common [[stirge]]s, but were transformed by magic into humanoid stirges. With the increased size came formidable new strength and a monstrously augmented appetite; a strigoi doesn't simply suck blood like its lesser kin, but instead liquifies the entirety of the bodily contents - blood, bones, tissue, organs, everything - and then sucks it out like a giant tick, leaving behind nothing but a hollow, deflated skin. Which might rise as a [[boneless]].

[[Category: Monsters]]

Marshes of Madness

2023-02-14T07:47:13Z

2605:BA00:6208:64B:1864:181D:3558:453D:

The Marshes of Madness, is the name used for a small, but virulent swamp to the east of the [[Badlands]] and southwest of the [[Dark Lands]], that was once populated by a human tribe called the Lodringen.

== History ==

The Lodringen were a relatively unremarkable group at first, but things changed when Kadon, the tribe shaman and son of the current chieftain, found [[Nagash|Nagash's]] Crown of Sorcery in the hands of the corpse of Alcadizaar when it washed up on the shore of a river. The moment Kadon placed the crown on his head on a whim he suddenly found his mind filled with occult knowledge, something which he quickly put to use by using it to reanimate the corpses of the dead to serve the living. Kadon then took control of his tribe.

His first order of business was to order the building of a massive tomb for the body of Alcadizaar which would later on also serve as Kadon's palace and a place of burial for the Lodringen. Later after instituting the worship of [[Nagash]] Kadon would proceed to build a city around the tomb and name it Mourkhain (or Morgheim as it's known in [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|the Empire]]), something which in the native language meant "the place of death". From there he used his new knowledge of Necromancy and the covert assistance of the [[Vampire Counts|vampire]] [[Ushoran]] to carve a small empire out of the [[Badlands]] called Strygos and made Mourkhain its capital. Eventually, Ushoran got bored of being second in command and decided to overthrow Kadon in a violent coup. Once that was settled, Ushoran promptly started sending out invitations to other vampires to come to live with him, something which most of them ended up accepting since they had no better alternatives. Over the next 8 centuries, the kingdom would become relatively successful under the vampire's rule. A lot of this was thanks to having untiring zombie laborers to do the menial work, near-zero crime due to the vamps feeding only on criminals, and relatively active trade with other humans and the local [[Dawi|dwarves]] (you know when they weren't going to war with them).

Then [[Neferata]], the queen of the [[Lahmian]] bloodline, caught wind of the place. Being the massive narcissist she is, she decided that no vampire was allowed to build an empire that she wasn't in charge of. To avenge this affront to her ego she cajoled some local humans into attacking the kingdom in -200IC. Although the forces of Strygos successfully fought the barbarians off the distraction allowed a huge horde of [[Orcs & Goblins|'''ORCS''']] to blindside them and they proceeded to wreck the place. Now it's a ruined wasteland where most of [[strigoi]] and strigany (Warhammer's Romani expies) come from.

It is also a sacred place for greenskins, especially the so-called Tree of Beards - a willow tree where orcs and goblins hang severed Dwarf heads.

== Gallery ==

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Ulric

2023-02-14T05:21:38Z

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'''Ulric''' is the god of winter, battle, and [[Leman Russ|wolves]] in the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] world. He is the second most popular god in the [[Empire]] (just behind [[Sigmar]]), and is mainly worshiped in the northern provinces of the Empire (that is, Nordland, Ostland and Middenland). He is part of the Cult of the Old Gods.

Originally, Ulric was the most important of the gods of the pre-unification. At least every Imperial tribe worshiped Ulric in some aspect, with the Teutogens being his most ardent followers (a trend which continues to this day, as the descendants of the Teutogens now rule Middenland and the office of Ar-Ulric is open only to those of pure Teutogen ancestry). Sigmar himself was perhaps the most deeply devout of Ulric's mortal followers. Hence, it goes without saying, that if he were alive to see how the Cult of Ulric has been marginalized and ridiculed by the Sigmarites, he would likely launch into an apocalyptic blood rage that would wipe out the Old World and impress [[Khorne]] Himself. Assuming they didn't actually become the same being for the good of Order. One might say Sigmar was basically a Warrior-Priest of Ulric.

The moment the Empire switched to Sigmar-worship, they became the punching bag of everyone else instead of doing the punching. Worship of Sigmar is great for ensuring your warriors are honorable and disciplined, but Ulric was the source of Sigmar’s strength and ass-kicking. Woops!

==Commandments==
Bravery, self-reliance and strength are the greatest virtues. Underhandedness of any kind is dishonorable and at odds with Ulric's nature of directness and honor. Obey your military superiors and never refuse an order unless doing so would break another of Ulric's tenets. Never refuse a direct challenge. Modern weapons, such as gunpowder weapons, artillery, crossbows and fire-bombs, because they do not rely any physical strength are shunned. Followers of Ulric must never allow one of the fires of a shrine or temple to go out. Oppose [[Chaos]] wherever you see it. Never flee a fight unless facing overwhelming odds and the greater good would be served by such a flight.

His portfolio is very similar to [[Sigmar]]'s (though the Ulrican doctrines focus more on the physical aspects of battle than Sigmarite ideals, which tend to encompass the spiritual and mental portions of warriorhood), and so the churches do have various disputes, especially over the election of a new Emperor; the main sticking point is that the cult of Ulric only has one vote compared to the cult of Sigmar's three.

Given the Ulrican slant towards forthrightness in battle and life and disdain for cowardice, followers of Ulric distrust the followers of Ranald, the god of thievery and luck.

In Kislev, there exists much suspicion between the followers of the Winter Wolf and those who place their faith in the Sun God [[Dazh]]. This is primarily due to the fact that Kislev gets the worst winters in the world, second only to Norsca, and they don't need some silly southerners telling them how nice that is. FUCK. Of course, embracing Ulric would solve that problem for Kislev, but since this has "Warhammer" in the name, [[Heresy|common sense]] can go fuck itself. If anyone suggested worshipping the god of winter for protection from winter’s danger, they’d be in deep shit for not being a moron.

==Priests==
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==Knightly Orders==
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*[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Knightly_Orders_of_the_Empire#Knights_of_the_White_Wolf|'''The Knights of the White Wolf'''] - The Knights of the White Wolf are the most ancient and largest of the knightly orders. Their wolfskin cloaks, coupled with their long wild hair & beards give them a barbaric appearance similar to those of the first worshippers of Ulric, but in truth they are a highly disciplined order who's presence inspires both courage and savagery.

==The End Times==
Ulric is fighting the chaos gods during the end times, holding them back so that [[Archaon]] and his chaos forces can't take Middenheim. Unfortunately, [[Teclis]] being the typical [[Eldrad|selfish-elf-dick-archetype]] stole his flame to power up/revive his bro and thus killed Ulric (because risking Chaos winning is totally worth giving your brother a little longer to live and, by the way, risking Chaos getting said brother's soul if Chaos wins). With Ulric's absence and Boris Todbringer murdered by a bunch of stupid [[Beastmen]], whom Boris decided to take some quick vengeance on, Middenheim finally fell. Although Ulric was able to buff the new supreme patriarch Gregor Martak with the power to kill Malagor the Dark Omen, he still gets slammed and then uses his remaining power to possess a knight named Wendel Volker.

Ulric knew Teclis was the one that stole his flame and confronts him later on with Wendel's body and the Emperor on his side, which Teclis responded
to by saying [[Eldrad|he would steal his flame even a thousand times if he were able to travel back in time because the age of the gods is over and it is time for the incarnate of winds to take charge.]] Well fuck you Teclis, you pointy-eared piece of shit, you are no better an elf than [[Malekith]] or your brother. It can be inferred Teclis believed Chaos would be beaten back by said incarnates instead of relying on the, y'know, ''guarantee'' that the gods actually holding back Chaos would...hold back Chaos. He just wanted an excuse to resurrect his brother and use wishful thinking (spoiler: he was wrong). To say nothing of the fact he believed the incarnates would hold back Chaos after he just witnessed a city fall specifically because of his reliance on incarnates.

Like all elves outside of Tolkien, the fucktard thought he could have his cake (his brother) and eat it (stop Chaos from full victory). And like all elves, he didn’t care how many people died or worse because of it even if he had succeeded (he failed miserably). Even though a lot of those were his own people.

Then again, if the gods couldn’t protect themselves from a mortal...

Interestingly, it was discovered by Archaon that the flame of Ulric was housed on top of a device of the Old Ones, and just like every Old One artifact, it is warp-related machinery that has the power to create a chaos rift if properly tended. This might have raised some interesting question about Ulric's origin.

Even so, the weakening of Ulric with the loss of his flame makes no sense by Warhammer’s own Warp. That people spent like, forever believing him to be a god and so on, the fires should be irrelevant to his power no matter what their original purpose was. Acting as an Ulric-controlled Warp rift to more easily strengthen and and shield his faithful would make sense, but instead Games Workshop ignored how gods and the Warp have always worked. But only for Ulric and only in the End Times.

Another notable feature about Ulric is that when he possessed people like Gregor Martak and Wendel Volker, it made their hair turn white and their eyes become the color of amber, like wolves. Both of them also gained the ability to cast ice related magic, having omnipresence to their surroundings as well as lower the surrounding temperature like a true wolf-god of winter. Also, he technically isn't really dead, otherwise he couldn't possess anyone. His body is kaput but he's a god, he can fix that or make a new one and since the gods exist in the Warp which is only as real as you believe...exactly. Teclis isn't quite smart enough to realize he pissed off the strongest gods in the setting. Or that humans might decide that killing off his species in retribution sounds fair.

[[Age of Sigmar|Or, at least, that could have been the case if the Old World didn't suddenly get eaten by a Chaos rift, sealing the fate of everything save Sigmar and Archaon]].

==Crossover==
[[Leman Russ|Does Ulric's portfolio of beliefs sound kinda familiar?]]

<s>[[Khorne|...No, really, does it?]]</s> {{BLAM|'''*BLAM!*'''}}

==Gallery==
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==See Also==
* [http://warhammerfb.wikia.com/wiki/Ulric Ulric's Warhammerfb.wiki page]

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Ulric

2023-02-14T05:19:05Z

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'''Ulric''' is the god of winter, battle, and [[Leman Russ|wolves]] in the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] world. He is the second most popular god in the [[Empire]] (just behind [[Sigmar]]), and is mainly worshiped in the northern provinces of the Empire (that is, Nordland, Ostland and Middenland). He is part of the Cult of the Old Gods.

Originally, Ulric was the most important of the gods of the pre-unification. At least every Imperial tribe worshiped Ulric in some aspect, with the Teutogens being his most ardent followers (a trend which continues to this day, as the descendants of the Teutogens now rule Middenland and the office of Ar-Ulric is open only to those of pure Teutogen ancestry). Sigmar himself was perhaps the most deeply devout of Ulric's mortal followers. Hence, it goes without saying, that if he were alive to see how the Cult of Ulric has been marginalized and ridiculed by the Sigmarites, he would likely launch into an apocalyptic blood rage that would wipe out the Old World and impress [[Khorne]] Himself. Assuming they didn't actually become the same being for the good of Order. One might say Sigmar was basically a Warrior-Priest of Ulric.

The moment the Empire switched to Sigmar-worship, they became the punching bag of everyone else instead of doing the punching. Worship of Sigmar is great for ensuring your warriors are honorable and disciplined, but Ulric was the source of Sigmar’s strength and ass-kicking. Woops!

==Commandments==
Bravery, self-reliance and strength are the greatest virtues. Underhandedness of any kind is dishonorable and at odds with Ulric's nature of directness and honor. Obey your military superiors and never refuse an order unless doing so would break another of Ulric's tenets. Never refuse a direct challenge. Modern weapons, such as gunpowder weapons, artillery, crossbows and fire-bombs, because they do not rely any physical strength are shunned. Followers of Ulric must never allow one of the fires of a shrine or temple to go out. Oppose [[Chaos]] wherever you see it. Never flee a fight unless facing overwhelming odds and the greater good would be served by such a flight.

His portfolio is very similar to [[Sigmar]]'s (though the Ulrican doctrines focus more on the physical aspects of battle than Sigmarite ideals, which tend to encompass the spiritual and mental portions of warriorhood), and so the churches do have various disputes, especially over the election of a new Emperor; the main sticking point is that the cult of Ulric only has one vote compared to the cult of Sigmar's three.

Given the Ulrican slant towards forthrightness in battle and life and disdain for cowardice, followers of Ulric distrust the followers of Ranald, the god of thievery and luck.

In Kislev, there exists much suspicion between the followers of the Winter Wolf and those who place their faith in the Sun God [[Dazh]]. This is primarily due to the fact that Kislev gets the worst winters in the world, second only to Norsca, and they don't need some silly southerners telling them how nice that is. FUCK. Of course, embracing Ulric would solve that problem for Kislev, but since this has "Warhammer" in the name, [[Heresy|common sense]] can go fuck itself. If anyone suggested worshipping the god of winter for protection from winter’s danger, they’d be in deep shit for not being a moron.

==Priests==
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==Knightly Orders==
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*'''The Knights of the White Wolf''' - The Knights of the White Wolf are the most ancient and largest of the knightly orders. Their wolfskin cloaks, coupled with their long wild hair & beards give them a barbaric appearance similar to those of the first worshippers of Ulric, but in truth they are a highly disciplined order who's presence inspires both courage and savagery.

==The End Times==
Ulric is fighting the chaos gods during the end times, holding them back so that [[Archaon]] and his chaos forces can't take Middenheim. Unfortunately, [[Teclis]] being the typical [[Eldrad|selfish-elf-dick-archetype]] stole his flame to power up/revive his bro and thus killed Ulric (because risking Chaos winning is totally worth giving your brother a little longer to live and, by the way, risking Chaos getting said brother's soul if Chaos wins). With Ulric's absence and Boris Todbringer murdered by a bunch of stupid [[Beastmen]], whom Boris decided to take some quick vengeance on, Middenheim finally fell. Although Ulric was able to buff the new supreme patriarch Gregor Martak with the power to kill Malagor the Dark Omen, he still gets slammed and then uses his remaining power to possess a knight named Wendel Volker.

Ulric knew Teclis was the one that stole his flame and confronts him later on with Wendel's body and the Emperor on his side, which Teclis responded
to by saying [[Eldrad|he would steal his flame even a thousand times if he were able to travel back in time because the age of the gods is over and it is time for the incarnate of winds to take charge.]] Well fuck you Teclis, you pointy-eared piece of shit, you are no better an elf than [[Malekith]] or your brother. It can be inferred Teclis believed Chaos would be beaten back by said incarnates instead of relying on the, y'know, ''guarantee'' that the gods actually holding back Chaos would...hold back Chaos. He just wanted an excuse to resurrect his brother and use wishful thinking (spoiler: he was wrong). To say nothing of the fact he believed the incarnates would hold back Chaos after he just witnessed a city fall specifically because of his reliance on incarnates.

Like all elves outside of Tolkien, the fucktard thought he could have his cake (his brother) and eat it (stop Chaos from full victory). And like all elves, he didn’t care how many people died or worse because of it even if he had succeeded (he failed miserably). Even though a lot of those were his own people.

Then again, if the gods couldn’t protect themselves from a mortal...

Interestingly, it was discovered by Archaon that the flame of Ulric was housed on top of a device of the Old Ones, and just like every Old One artifact, it is warp-related machinery that has the power to create a chaos rift if properly tended. This might have raised some interesting question about Ulric's origin.

Even so, the weakening of Ulric with the loss of his flame makes no sense by Warhammer’s own Warp. That people spent like, forever believing him to be a god and so on, the fires should be irrelevant to his power no matter what their original purpose was. Acting as an Ulric-controlled Warp rift to more easily strengthen and and shield his faithful would make sense, but instead Games Workshop ignored how gods and the Warp have always worked. But only for Ulric and only in the End Times.

Another notable feature about Ulric is that when he possessed people like Gregor Martak and Wendel Volker, it made their hair turn white and their eyes become the color of amber, like wolves. Both of them also gained the ability to cast ice related magic, having omnipresence to their surroundings as well as lower the surrounding temperature like a true wolf-god of winter. Also, he technically isn't really dead, otherwise he couldn't possess anyone. His body is kaput but he's a god, he can fix that or make a new one and since the gods exist in the Warp which is only as real as you believe...exactly. Teclis isn't quite smart enough to realize he pissed off the strongest gods in the setting. Or that humans might decide that killing off his species in retribution sounds fair.

[[Age of Sigmar|Or, at least, that could have been the case if the Old World didn't suddenly get eaten by a Chaos rift, sealing the fate of everything save Sigmar and Archaon]].

==Crossover==
[[Leman Russ|Does Ulric's portfolio of beliefs sound kinda familiar?]]

<s>[[Khorne|...No, really, does it?]]</s> {{BLAM|'''*BLAM!*'''}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Ulric 1e.jpg
Ulric symbol.png|Symbol of the Cult of Ulric.
Ulric priest.png
Priest of Ulric.png
</gallery>

==See Also==
* [http://warhammerfb.wikia.com/wiki/Ulric Ulric's Warhammerfb.wiki page]

{{Empire-Gods}}

Ulric

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[[File:Ulric woodcut.jpg|right|300px]]
'''Ulric''' is the god of winter, battle, and [[Leman Russ|wolves]] in the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] world. He is the second most popular god in the [[Empire]] (just behind [[Sigmar]]), and is mainly worshiped in the northern provinces of the Empire (that is, Nordland, Ostland and Middenland). He is part of the Cult of the Old Gods.

Originally, Ulric was the most important of the gods of the pre-unification. At least every Imperial tribe worshiped Ulric in some aspect, with the Teutogens being his most ardent followers (a trend which continues to this day, as the descendants of the Teutogens now rule Middenland and the office of Ar-Ulric is open only to those of pure Teutogen ancestry). Sigmar himself was perhaps the most deeply devout of Ulric's mortal followers. Hence, it goes without saying, that if he were alive to see how the Cult of Ulric has been marginalized and ridiculed by the Sigmarites, he would likely launch into an apocalyptic blood rage that would wipe out the Old World and impress [[Khorne]] Himself. Assuming they didn't actually become the same being for the good of Order. One might say Sigmar was basically a Warrior-Priest of Ulric.

The moment the Empire switched to Sigmar-worship, they became the punching bag of everyone else instead of doing the punching. Worship of Sigmar is great for ensuring your warriors are honorable and disciplined, but Ulric was the source of Sigmar’s strength and ass-kicking. Woops!

==Commandments==
Bravery, self-reliance and strength are the greatest virtues. Underhandedness of any kind is dishonorable and at odds with Ulric's nature of directness and honor. Obey your military superiors and never refuse an order unless doing so would break another of Ulric's tenets. Never refuse a direct challenge. Modern weapons, such as gunpowder weapons, artillery, crossbows and fire-bombs, because they do not rely any physical strength are shunned. Followers of Ulric must never allow one of the fires of a shrine or temple to go out. Oppose [[Chaos]] wherever you see it. Never flee a fight unless facing overwhelming odds and the greater good would be served by such a flight.

His portfolio is very similar to [[Sigmar]]'s (though the Ulrican doctrines focus more on the physical aspects of battle than Sigmarite ideals, which tend to encompass the spiritual and mental portions of warriorhood), and so the churches do have various disputes, especially over the election of a new Emperor; the main sticking point is that the cult of Ulric only has one vote compared to the cult of Sigmar's three.

Given the Ulrican slant towards forthrightness in battle and life and disdain for cowardice, followers of Ulric distrust the followers of Ranald, the god of thievery and luck.

In Kislev, there exists much suspicion between the followers of the Winter Wolf and those who place their faith in the Sun God [[Dazh]]. This is primarily due to the fact that Kislev gets the worst winters in the world, second only to Norsca, and they don't need some silly southerners telling them how nice that is. FUCK. Of course, embracing Ulric would solve that problem for Kislev, but since this has "Warhammer" in the name, [[Heresy|common sense]] can go fuck itself. If anyone suggested worshipping the god of winter for protection from winter’s danger, they’d be in deep shit for not being a moron.

==Priests==
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==Knightly Orders==
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*'''The Knights of the White Wolf''' - The Knights of the White Wolf are the most ancient and largest of the knightly orders. Their wolfskin cloaks, coupled with their long wild hair & beards give them a barbaric appearance similar to those of the first worshippers of Ulric, but in truth they are a highly disciplined order whose presence inspires both courage and savagery.

==The End Times==
Ulric is fighting the chaos gods during the end times, holding them back so that [[Archaon]] and his chaos forces can't take Middenheim. Unfortunately, [[Teclis]] being the typical [[Eldrad|selfish-elf-dick-archetype]] stole his flame to power up/revive his bro and thus killed Ulric (because risking Chaos winning is totally worth giving your brother a little longer to live and, by the way, risking Chaos getting said brother's soul if Chaos wins). With Ulric's absence and Boris Todbringer murdered by a bunch of stupid [[Beastmen]], whom Boris decided to take some quick vengeance on, Middenheim finally fell. Although Ulric was able to buff the new supreme patriarch Gregor Martak with the power to kill Malagor the Dark Omen, he still gets slammed and then uses his remaining power to possess a knight named Wendel Volker.

Ulric knew Teclis was the one that stole his flame and confronts him later on with Wendel's body and the Emperor on his side, which Teclis responded
to by saying [[Eldrad|he would steal his flame even a thousand times if he were able to travel back in time because the age of the gods is over and it is time for the incarnate of winds to take charge.]] Well fuck you Teclis, you pointy-eared piece of shit, you are no better an elf than [[Malekith]] or your brother. It can be inferred Teclis believed Chaos would be beaten back by said incarnates instead of relying on the, y'know, ''guarantee'' that the gods actually holding back Chaos would...hold back Chaos. He just wanted an excuse to resurrect his brother and use wishful thinking (spoiler: he was wrong). To say nothing of the fact he believed the incarnates would hold back Chaos after he just witnessed a city fall specifically because of his reliance on incarnates.

Like all elves outside of Tolkien, the fucktard thought he could have his cake (his brother) and eat it (stop Chaos from full victory). And like all elves, he didn’t care how many people died or worse because of it even if he had succeeded (he failed miserably). Even though a lot of those were his own people.

Then again, if the gods couldn’t protect themselves from a mortal...

Interestingly, it was discovered by Archaon that the flame of Ulric was housed on top of a device of the Old Ones, and just like every Old One artifact, it is warp-related machinery that has the power to create a chaos rift if properly tended. This might have raised some interesting question about Ulric's origin.

Even so, the weakening of Ulric with the loss of his flame makes no sense by Warhammer’s own Warp. That people spent like, forever believing him to be a god and so on, the fires should be irrelevant to his power no matter what their original purpose was. Acting as an Ulric-controlled Warp rift to more easily strengthen and and shield his faithful would make sense, but instead Games Workshop ignored how gods and the Warp have always worked. But only for Ulric and only in the End Times.

Another notable feature about Ulric is that when he possessed people like Gregor Martak and Wendel Volker, it made their hair turn white and their eyes become the color of amber, like wolves. Both of them also gained the ability to cast ice related magic, having omnipresence to their surroundings as well as lower the surrounding temperature like a true wolf-god of winter. Also, he technically isn't really dead, otherwise he couldn't possess anyone. His body is kaput but he's a god, he can fix that or make a new one and since the gods exist in the Warp which is only as real as you believe...exactly. Teclis isn't quite smart enough to realize he pissed off the strongest gods in the setting. Or that humans might decide that killing off his species in retribution sounds fair.

[[Age of Sigmar|Or, at least, that could have been the case if the Old World didn't suddenly get eaten by a Chaos rift, sealing the fate of everything save Sigmar and Archaon]].

==Crossover==
[[Leman Russ|Does Ulric's portfolio of beliefs sound kinda familiar?]]

<s>[[Khorne|...No, really, does it?]]</s> {{BLAM|'''*BLAM!*'''}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Ulric 1e.jpg
Ulric symbol.png|Symbol of the Cult of Ulric.
Ulric priest.png
Priest of Ulric.png
</gallery>

==See Also==
* [http://warhammerfb.wikia.com/wiki/Ulric Ulric's Warhammerfb.wiki page]

{{Empire-Gods}}