Editing Walach Harkon (section)

==The Legend==
Originally he was known as Walak of the Harkoni tribe and lived with his cousin Lutr in [[Tomb Kings|Nehekara]] back before the OG necromancer [[Nagash]] turned the place into a miserable wasteland. One day he and his cousin happened to catch the attention of the vampire [[Abhorash]] who was so impressed with the pair's raw martial skill that he turned them into vampires and started to train them personally. After the two cousins completed their training Abhorash decided that not putting their skills to use was a waste and so he went and gave them jobs in the city of Lahmia; Lutr was given command of the city's harbor guard and Walak was made master of the palace guard. Eventually the city would come under siege by an alliance of Nehekaran royalty following the revelation of Neferata and her court’s nature as vampires. Despite fighting a determined defence, the city fell and the surviving Vampires fled to Nagashizzar, where they joined Nagash's hosts as army commanders when he tried to exact revenge on Nehekhara and reconquer the kingdoms.

This invasion failed, however, and most of the Vampires except Nagash’s loyal agent [[W'soran]] fled to escape the Great Necromancer's wrath. Although they succeeded in not getting killed by the angry necromancer, the vampires did not manage to escape getting a curse placed on them that made them weak to sunlight, one which they still suffer from to this day. One year later, King [[Alcadizzar]], armed with a warpstone blade forged by the [[Skaven]], killed Nagash and successfully stopped him before he could perform a super undead resurrection spell and destroy the world. Unfortunately the cost of this victory was [[Alcadizzar]] dying from the power of the blade and Nehekara being turned into a wasteland. While this was happening and W'soran was making his escape with many of the works of Nagash, Abhorash and his followers were busy wandering aimlessly until another vampire [[Ushoran]] went and made himself king of his own little Vampire Kingdom called [[Marshes of Madness| Strygos]]. Wanting to make a sort of Vampire Utopia there, Ushoran invited many other vampires from all the different lineages to live in his land as his subjects. With Nehekhara now wrecked, and with no better alternatives in sight, Abhorash and company promptly accepted his offer and did their best to be productive citizens of the kingdom.

For roughly eight centuries, things went pretty swell, but then Neferata finally caught wind of what Ushoran had done and decided to throw a bitch fit over the revelation that there was a vampire kingdom she was not in charge of out there. In response to this slight, in -200 IC or thereabouts, she convinced a bunch of asshole barbarian humans to attack the kingdom and while Walak and the other vampires managed to chase them off the distraction allowed a horde of [[Orc|Orcs]] to flank the exhausted defenders and they promptly proceeded to wreck the place. Following this disaster, the surviving inhabitants of the kingdom both human and undead were left adrift and without purpose, until one day a major event happened that would change the course of Abhorash’s bloodline.

In 253 IC while traveling through the [[Worlds Edge Mountains]], Abhorash accidentally stumbled across the lair of an ancient red dragon who took exception to the invasion of his territory. Not one to back down from a fight Abhorash engaged the beast in solo combat and after a fierce fight, he slew it and drank its blood. To his astonishment, Abhorash discovered that after this last drink he no longer felt the need to consume blood anymore. Understandably, Abhorash immediately raced to tell the rest of the bloodline of his transformation and once he did so he charged them with seeking out and defeating the most worthy opponents they could find so that one day they would be skilled enough to face a dragon and be cured like he was. His lineage agreed to this and afterward, they changed their names and went their own separate ways.

In the newly renamed Walach Harkon's case, after many centuries of travel in 1887 IC his meandering path took him to a place called the Blood Keep, a bastion of [[the Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)| The Empire]] which guarded the area around the pass into [[Bretonnia]] and was manned by an order of knights. Feeling the need for a good fight after so long without one Walach knocked on the front gate and challenged the entire order to combat. Stupidly the Knights accepted the challenge and Walach promptly proceeded to kill their Grandmaster with his Crimson blade and beat the rest of the knights senseless before turning the stronger members of the Order into Vampires and the weaker ones into Wights. From that day, seven centuries ago till [[the End Times]], Walach Harkon was the undisputed Grandmaster of the newly renamed Order of the Blood Dragons, arguably the most feared cavalry in the Old World. To celebrate his new job, Walach had the Blood Dragons promptly turn on the people they had once defended. They fed on passing travellers and the people who lived near the Blood Keep, turned the local women into vampire brides who would bathe in blood to maintain their looks, and just generally made nuisances of themselves.

This turned out not to be such a good idea on their part though for Walach's actions were eventually uncovered. In response, the Witch Hunter Gunther van Hel gathered an entire Imperial army together and launched a massive siege on the Order's headquarters in an attempt to destroy them (the siege would last either 3 years or 20 years depending on the source). Although the Imperials eventually managed to break into the fortress in 1946 IC and kill Harkon's vampire wife Aurora and his favorite Vampire “son” Mikael, they failed to get the rest of the Blood Knights and Harkon who managed to escape. In the wake of this event, most of the original Blood knights were scattered and ended up traveling around [[the Old World]] fighting duels with random folks and acting as mercenaries.

Meanwhile, Walach would gather together a small company of new blood knights and, under the banner of his favorite fallen "son" Mikael, they would continue on their self-appointed mission to seek out the strongest possible opponents they could find. Eventually, this would lead to them being recruited by the psychopathic vampire [[Konrad von Carstein]] to help out in the Second Vampire War against the Empire where they would serve as elite shock cavalry. During the War, the Blood Knights proved how badass they were to the greater world by killing a whole bunch of Imperials and their allies, with Walach earning the ire of the [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfs]] at the battle of Nachthafen by killing King Barrin of Zhufbar and draining his blood. All told it was a pretty fun time for the Blood Knights but unfortunately, Konrad proved himself a total idiot by constantly belittling and putting down his necromancers and so when they inevitably betrayed him at the Battle of Grim Moor during the spring of 2121 IC, and Konrad fried his brain by trying to control his huge zombie army all by himself, the Blood Dragons wisely decided that they had enough of this shit and left him to die.

A few years after this, enough time passed that Walach and his accompanying blood knights decided that things had probably died down enough in the Empire that they could head back to the Order’s home without issue and so they did. They rebuilt their fortress, manned the walls with new wight guards, and then settled down to an un-life full of carousing with their new undead waifus and venturing out to fight any and all worthy opponents they could get their hands on, though this time the Blood Dragons tried to tone down the whole slaughter of innocents thing and act more like honorable (if bloodthirsty) knights so as to not draw as much attention to themselves.