Although the Sylvanians distrusted him due to being a foreigner who had eccentric habits such as only coming out at night and dining alone, he gained popularity by purging the nobles that were incompetent or Chaos worshippers and ridding the land of bandits and outlaws. This continued village to village, until the worship of Sigmar was all but gone from the realm barring peasant shrines. Vlad immediately dismissed Victor Guttman, and repurposed the von Drak chapel. Leopold's body was also found, having mysteriously fallen off the highest tower at the von Drak estate around the same time making Isabella the last von Drak. Otto accepted out of desperation and his put-upon priest of Sigmar, Victor Guttman, married them that night with Otto dead by morning. He said his name was Vlad von Carstein, and after giving his self-introduction asked to marry Isabella. Not long after this, a man claiming to be a member of distant Empire nobility (with an accent that those of the court believed to be of Kislev origin) appeared and presented himself to Otto.

Rather then use his remaining time to repent for all his actions Otto instead spent his time shunning the administrations of priests and cursing his misfortune, claiming famously he would rather marry Isabella von Drak to a Daemon than let his brother Leopold succeed him (or let the disgusting pervert marry Isabella). Even worse Otto deemed all eligible Sylvanian nobles unworthy of her with the exception of a single man who ended up committing suicide rather than being forced into marrying into that crazy family, and her flouting of cultural norms and Sylvania's bad rep abroad meant no foreign suitors wanted her.ДЄs OttoвЂ™s lay on his deathbed his life slowly slipping away from him Isabella ever the dutiful daughter stayed by his side. Otto proved unable to have any other children, which caused a problem since law dictated only males could inherit Otto's position and he couldn't or wouldn't change the law so Isabella could be his heir. Isabella was a very beautiful woman, and a tomboy in her interests though she rocked the traditional dresses she spurned the traditional hobbies of women (sewing, singing, cooking) because she liked traditional men's hobbies better (hunting, falconry, swordplay).

Not exactly a sweet guy if you got to know him either, the only person he didn't dislike was his only child, his daughter Isabella von Drak.

The Elector Count of the region was a man named Otto von Drak, a magic-less descendant of dark wizards known for being a batshit insane asshole who thought he was Sigmar reborn and would cheer himself up after a hard day of drinking and grousing about how shitty his homeland and everyone in it with having random servants and peasants tortured to death and impaled. Sylvania was known for two things: decadent nobility that bordered on Slaaneshi debauchery and peasantry so oppressed that even Bretonnian peasants would order them around with noses in the air (as befitting the French).

A long time ago, in the Empire there was a land called Sylvania.

Vlad von carstein end times