Editing Vlad von Carstein (section)

=== As Lord Ankhat ===
In Lahmia, the man who was yet Vlad von Cartstein was a noble named Ankhat. He was born to an ancient and sacred bloodline, on par with W'soran's. Although he is shorter than the average Nehekharan man in height (but definitely taller than humans from the Empire), he was cunning and perceptive, yet both trait were hindered by his well known impatience. He was also a well known hunter, known for training and breeding hawks, hounds and steeds for hunting. He was part of Lamashizzar's cabal where they strive to achieve power over the Nehekharans through immortality by learning and mastering Nagash's dark art directly from one of his stolen books, and from interrogating one of his captured lieutenants, [[Arkhan the Black]].

Like many of the majority of the cabal members, Anhkat was so sick and tired of Lamashizzar's incompetence in the dark arts that he jumped ship and followed [[Neferata]] when she revealed her mastery of the dark arts. After Lamashizzar was assassinated by [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan]] and [[Neferata]] took over the throne, Ankhat became her noble attendant.

To [[Neferata]], Ankhat was a reliable servant, a man who gets the job done. For example, to covered up the news where [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan]] assassinated Lamashizzar, Ankhat made up a story where a priest of Sokth (Nehekharan god of thieves and scorpion) exacted vengeance upon the ruler of Lahmia for mistreating the refugees from Mahrak by assassinated the queen and the king with a poison needle and killed some of the female servants in the female palace along the way. In reality, it was but [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan]] tried to resurrect neffy with dark magic, then went straight to kill the king, only to be decapitated by his champion [[Abhorash]]. As for the dead female servants, they were killed by Neferata upon her first awakening as a vampire (and Abhorash was in Neferata's pocket at the time, so he wouldn't spill the beans).

The story of [[Neferata]]'s resurrection was covered up as a miracle instead, to prove she has the divine bloodline flowing in her vein, allowing her reappearance to be accepted by the public. Under Neffy's order, Ankhat had secretly arranged the corpse of [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan]] to be buried in a nameless grave on the outskirts of Lahmia (despite [[Abhorash]]'s suggestion for cremation).

After Ankhat became a vampire, his charisma and his other attribute received a major boost, so much that his charisma is comparable to [[Neferata]]'s vampiric beauty. Still, Anhkhat remained royal to [[Neferata]], perhaps even as close to her as '''Naamia''', Neffy's Cathayan concubine friend. Also despite being royal, Ankhat was still shocked at [[Neferata]] wanting to open an academy for the Nehekharan kings children, especially wanting to save Queen Rastraian from her pregnancy just so [[Neferata]] could perform wife husbandry on the Rastraian's son Alcadizzar. Ankhat rejected the idea, since he and other members knew it would risk uniting the other cities against Lahmia in a war that Lahmia would lose.

As Alcadizzar grew, Ankhat repeatedly warned Neferata to give Alcadizzar back to his father and kingdom or else the brat will be the cause to Lahmia's downfall. Each time, and often angrily, Neferata rejected Ankhat's warnings.

When Alcadizzar finally escaped, [[Neferata]] vengefully ordered the cabal (especially Ushoran because he is a spy master) to search for him. Lahmia was turned into a roach hotel in such a short time most of the members decided abandon the sinking ship, except this time they were on their own since the only ways out were to serve Nagash or leave Nehekhara. Ankhat wished to leave Lahmia and explore the world with his immortality, but he had no power to do so and knew Neferata and her vampire servants could hunt him down, and so he remained. Ankhat had his own vampire agent to observe both W'soran and Ushoran's every movement to ensure they remained loyal, which the first was staked and imprisoned for tried to summoning Nagash and the second was caught just before he get away. 

When Alcadizzar led a coalition army from other great cities and his own desert tribes to raze Lahmia, [[Neferata]] gathered every vampire she knew to fight back. Due to his strategic skill, Ankhat was in charge of the Lahmian living troops. Since Lahmian armies were inexperienced and weak, Ankhat had to personally take the fight to the frontline with his inhuman strength and agility.

Despite not achieving the same martial mastery as Abhorash, Ankhat's vampiric nature gave him a supernatural advantage against the living. Every warriors, be it Nehekharans or Northlanders, faced the same fate when they challenged him and he made short work of them, sometimes even killing them with his bare hands, or he just terrified them with his Vampiric appearence.

Despite doing well himself, his army did not and thus his line crumbled. Worst came when [[Neferata]] fell in a duel against Alcadizzar and Ankhat had to ordered every soldiers to her. Abhorash however came at the right time, killing the livings like flies and allowing every other vampires evacuate to the palace. When [[Neferata]] said she wanted to die with Lahmia, Ankhat was like "fuck ya, I ain't gonna die by these sons of bitches, I'm going to the north to be worshiped like a fucking god by those white skinned northman" and reminded her that they are fucking immortal, have all the time in the world, and that he should've explored the world a long time ago, rather than staying Lahmia, a place he had intended to never return to. After that, Ankhat changed his name and left without a sound just before [[Neferata]] could leave him with a farewell.

Although everyone (the reader) assumed he would immediately fuck off to the old world and taking on the identity of Vashanesh or other personas, and eventually met the resurrected Nagash in order to get his signature Von Carstein ring, but no. It was revealed in ''Master of Death'' that the very first thing he did after escaped his Nehekharan pursuer was to travel to [[Cathay]]. Using knowledge of magic scrolls he had pillaged off W'soran's stash, he self taught himself a wizard and assumed the persona of an immortal sorcerer prince who helped the Dragon Emperor to drive back the Hungs from breaching the great bastion. He apparently did not changed his name (or "discarded subtlety entirely" as W'soran would put) probably because he has not yet wanting to gave up his old identity yet. He was forced to exiled to the sea after he was found out to be a vampire by a courtesan of a [[Tzeentch|secret society]] (being a vampire is considered a crime apparently, a lesson the Cathayan had learned from the last accident from the traitorous [[Jade-Blooded|Prince Xian Ha Feng]]). This forced him to fight a retreating battle at the Port of Dogs which was so devastated, it nearly wreck the entire damn place. With only his ship and a handful of Cathayan sailors, he became the first vampire [[pirate]] in the setting (way before that [[Luthor Harkon|insane pirate king made his debut]]) and began doing pirate stuffs like raiding random ports and trading with Norscans. W'soran managed to easily located his ship with his Terrorgheist and wanted him to offer him a proposition to serve Nagash. Like any sane man who actually understand what or who Nagash is, Ankhat obviously refused and used his magic to burn W'soran. Realizing it would be a mutual destruction if they were to fight, W'soran gave up on him but would ask for the location of Abhorash and Neferata in exchange. It is unknown for how long it takes for him to eventually found his way to the old world and become Vlad von Carstein as timeline demands.