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Hey all!

Tinkering with some fluff for a gaggle of mercs for maybe playing Fantasy (or just Mordheim (or maybe just collecting dust on my shelf)) that I'm thinking of making.
This is primarily a modelling project, so worry not about rules etc.!

Having read a lot of Kentarou Miura's Berserk, I really got into the idea of properly bleak, human mercenaries. Poking about online, I found an old fluff book on the Empire, and kinda settled on Sylvania. The colour scheme is pretty cool (do I use ivory, black and red too often? ), and I like the creepiness of human tithes, tyrannical aristocrats, superstitious peasants and misty marshes full of man-eating nasties.

SO! My question!
With the way the timeline of the new Old World setting looks to be shaping up, what does Sylvania look like?
Now, I figure you're already typing "We just don't know, McBogus, you witty, handsome rogue, you.", but I'm kinda just looking for approximations, for the time being. I saw a few comments in the N&R thread about the Vampire Wars, which makes me think that the Von Carsteins should have just been pushed out of Sylvania, and their presence pretty small, though the impact of their rule still pretty evident. If this is the case, then surely an Empire militia in the area would make some sense?

Any other points about Sylvania at this epoch in history (or even in general) would be really appreciated! I'm pretty unfamiliar with the WHFB universe, beyond the Total War games. Seems like I should avoid any black powder weapons, and try to include plenty of garlic, but otherwise if you have any other fun tidbits of fluff about humans in Sylvania who aren't pals with Crypt Ghouls and down with fighting for Vampires, lemme know!

Cheers for looking!

Look up WFRP stuff and also Vampireslayer has a lot in Sylvania.

The image you posted is taken from a WD article describing Sylvania (Old Weirde's Inculabulum, can't remember the nº). Has good illustrations.
The Von Carstein trilogy from BL is also useful.
The Storm of Chaos supplement has a thematic Sylvania list, it should give you an idea of what a Sylvanian army looks like.

 Llamahead wrote:
Look up WFRP stuff and also Vampireslayer has a lot in Sylvania.

Nights Dark Masters is on Scribd and has a chapter starting on pg 84 Native Soil: A guide to Sylvania.

 Eldarain wrote:

 Llamahead wrote:
Look up WFRP stuff and also Vampireslayer has a lot in Sylvania.

Nights Dark Masters is on Scribd and has a chapter starting on pg 84 Native Soil: A guide to Sylvania.

Managed to track down a version of Night's Dark Masters that I can read! This is great! Thanks to the both of you for the suggestion!

Anyone got any ideas as to what Sylvania might look like in the time period the Old World re-boot seems to be set in?

It appears to be set somewhere between 2200-2300. So the Vampire Wars have recently ended and the Age of Three Emperors is almost at an end with Magnus coming to power.

So Sylvania has been through the undead wringer at this point. With Mannfred not yet resurrected and Sylvania annexed by Stirland I think it would be rather plausible that your warband would fit.

 Eldarain wrote:
It appears to be set somewhere between 2200-2300. So the Vampire Wars have recently ended and the Age of Three Emperors is almost at an end with Magnus coming to power.

So Sylvania has been through the undead wringer at this point. With Mannfred not yet resurrected and Sylvania annexed by Stirland I think it would be rather plausible that your warband would fit.

Awesome! I was hoping that might be the case! Cheers for the input!

https://www.tabletopwelt.de/index.php?/topic/153025-blutnebel-um-steinbachthal/&page=71

maybe some Inspiration for you from a german forum where dizzyfinger did a Sylvania themed army building project. Talented chap, that dizzyfinger-guy.

I always wondered why the last VC book never allowed for a more human based thematic Sylvanian army. Vampires openly leading Sylvanian human nobility isn't unheard of...

Moscha wrote:https://www.tabletopwelt.de/index.php?/topic/153025-blutnebel-um-steinbachthal/&page=71

maybe some Inspiration for you from a german forum where dizzyfinger did a Sylvania themed army building project. Talented chap, that dizzyfinger-guy.

Vielen Dank! Das ist sehr faszinierend!

GrosseSax wrote:I always wondered why the last VC book never allowed for a more human based thematic Sylvanian army. Vampires openly leading Sylvanian human nobility isn't unheard of...

It'd at least make for some fun proxies!
Tbh, I'm kinda tempted to try and score a little foot knight, and have him as a noble who went away to Khemri or Araby, but got turned into a Vampire after some skirmish in the desert. He came home in Disgrace to Sylvania, and struggles to resist his vampiric urges, and continue to be a noble knight, but never removes his armor or eats in public, as part of a "vow".

Blood dragons you mean Poser?