Continuing with the Vampire Wars series... The death of Vlad did not bring an end to the terror; instead, it paved the way for another dark figure to rise to power. Konrad Von Carstein, one of the most violent and unpredictable vampires in history, would soon plunge the Empire into another nightmarish conflict-the Second Vampire War. Special thanks to Skrubasauras for his amazing narration for this episode. Skrubs has done many of the iconic episodes on this channel and he is currently doing the Vampire War series, we hope you are enjoying his work on these videos. Let us know what you thought of Konrad and the Second Vampire War in the comments below! As always, thank you all for your continued support. We will keep exploring the many tales and stories from Warhammer. Stay tuned for more from the Vampire Wars series!
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@@velentrprobably shift manager or teacher or they took the name from a different Ip and changed it they borrowed a lot of names and stuff from Michael moor cock and other peoples works
Killing the cats was definitely a bit much, but to play Vampires Advocate they're small, skittish, and can move pretty quick. Overall they'd probably make decent targets for practice. If you can hit a cat you can probably hit damn near anything else.
Fun fact, cats spread disease and defecate on sources of food, like vegetables, and in gardens. They aren't great pets. They are a nuisance more than anything. Also the Skaven thanked him for it as they hate cats probably lmfao.
I think that he put his own mother on trial for not getting his consent to be birthed even the other Vampires are like "dude, not even the dumbest of peasants would have come up with that"
@@justwannabehappy6735 You are most certainly incorrect. Despite what fanboys proclaim, Konrad was more than capable of killing him in melee. If he was confronted to any physical duel, Konrad would've torn him apart. Ps. He didn't destroy himself, he was betrayed by his servants. Edit: Yes, magic could easily undo him, but that doesn't matter, because he made efforts to have protective wards so magic couldn't be used against himself.
This sounds like an assumption. Manfred was actually being cohersed/puppeteered by nagash. Konrad didn't even gain nagshes eye. Mannfred had it all. He had the leadership of Vlad and the martial skill of Konrad. While you can argue he wasn't as proficient as the others he still had both. The main reason he was superior? He was a master of the dark arts. He was head and shoulders above the rest in shyish magic. The same magic that made nagash great. So its pretty obvious why mannfred was the greatest vampire of his time, he had nagash backing him.
@@justwannabehappy6735Mannfred was better. Konrad was just a shoe in while manfred was off doing nagashes bidding. His real obstacle was to obtain the ring of immortality, something way more scary than konrads swordplay. Even his minions saw him as a bad leader and wanted him off the throne. Takes alot more then melee skill to be a top dog vampire. He was a beatstick at best.
13:10 fantastic zombie animations 13:23 This is an amazing looking Empire artilly line with smoke and atmosphere. 19:05 I DIDN'T KNOW KONRAD VONBCARSIEN KNEW WALCH HARKON, THE FAMOUS BLOOD DRAGON 😱 24:20 Konrad betrayed by his necromancers and blood knights due to his cruelty to them. This is what vampire and other undead leaders must treat their undead and living subjects fairly and nicely, in a way the undead leader or leaders would want to be treated. This is a story why empathy is important.
Thank you so much to the whole team for all the time and work put into making this video! It’s deeply appreciated and I enjoyed this video quite a bit, now that I’ve finally had time to watch it. I’m starting to work my way through all of your warhammer fantasy videos. I do have a lore question that I’d like you to ask. So I noticed all of the Vlad’s successors have the surname Von Carstein, which at first absolutely makes sense but it makes a lot less sense when you know he’s a vampire. So are all vampires that reach a certain level of power within the Von Carstein bloodline able to claim the surname. Or were all of them in some way biologically related to Vlad or his wife?
Great video guys! I am always down for more lore! Is nobody gonna talk about that awesome Dwarf Lord mod? Really? Ok.... If somebody knows what mod that is, please do tell.Great video guys! I am always down for more lore! Is nobody gonna talk about that awesome Dwarf Lord mod? Really? Ok.... If somebody knows what mod that is, please do tell.
@@sambarker404 hahaha 😂👌 is that the name of a Cartoon? I often have to watch a couple of those because of my nephew. Haha Cheers man! Hope you enjoy the episode!
I love the vampire counts they are my favourite faction. But damn Konrad was just a hammer and atleast for me an insult to the vampire counts, no elegance no goal just death and chaos, the fool would of been loved by Khorne if he had a soul.Though now I understand the nightlords from wh40k a bit more.
Now, are the von Carsteins an aristocratic family or a title? If so, how are the vampire lords mentioned in the video related to Vlad? Are they his children with Elizabeth, or are they his younger siblings?
Von Carstein is a family name of sorts, but not one passed through birth in the usual sense, and the other vampires with that name are not conventionally related to Vlad. In the original Warhammer lore, Vlad von Carstein was a vampire long before he arrived in Sylvania and first met a (then still mortal) Isabella Von Drak, whom he married (whereupon she became Isabella von Carstein) and originally lived with her as man and wife while she was still mortal. Their marriage was an unexpectedly positive relationship within the Warhammer fiction. Vlad absolutely adored Isabella and she reciprocated his feelings entirely. He trusted her more than anyone else and indeed it was said that she alone could calm his rages. As the years passed she repeatedly asked him to make her a vampire so they would never be parted, but he always refused, saying that it was a terrible curse he didn't want her to have to bear. It was only after she fell sick and all conventional efforts to heal her failed that Vlad reluctantly gave in to her entreaties and turned her into a vampire, since he understood the horror inherent in existence as a vampire - and so as a slave to your own thirst for blood - all too well and did not want to condemn her to such a dark existence lightly. Warhammer lore is a bit vague on the subject, but it is generally agreed that Warhammer vampires are not capable of either bearing or fathering children (no dhampirs in the Warhammer setting), so Vlad and Isabella have no direct issue. The Von Carstein bloodline instead refers to humans that were turned into vampires either by Vlad or by one of the vampires turned by Vlad (like Isabella herself). If a given vampire is close enough (in terms of degrees of separation between the vampire who turned them and Vlad) to Vlad then they have the right to use the von Carstein name and are considered members of the strange, extended Undead 'family'. The same goes for the other vampiric bloodlines of Warhammer lore. If a given vampire is too far removed from Vlad - say if a vampire was turned by someone who was five or six degree of separation away from Vlad himself - then that vampire, while sharing the same blood curse as Vlad, would not typically be permitted to call themselves a von Carstein.
Hi. Which book series is that? I get a bit lost trying to workout which are books, and which are tomes when people refer to them. Really enjoying a lot of the Warhammer fiction at the moment
@sambarker404 It sure can be confusing! So choyer is covering a book trilogy called vampire wars. Three books that basically covers the rise and fall of 3 vampires which i wont spoil. Konrad shows up in the second book and narrative wise, easily the worst of the three vampires. He acomplishes very little compared to his betters, cant use a wisp of magic and is tragically insane. Hes still however an interesting character, he just makes a poor "the main character" Hope you enjoy the series! Should be one more to go!
@@ARandomNerd88lol like sitting in my castle being abit better at melee than everyone and being brain dead? Yes such a multifaceted/interesting main character.
Fun fact. Vlad was said to have turned Konrad into a vampire because he was amused by him. I am not even joking. Konrad was the closest thing Vlad had for a court jester. An angry dog attacking everyone around him/big bad strong but dumb son/barbarian to send when he needs someone to die in the loudest and most exagerated manner possible.
The Warhammer lore of the wars of the vampire counts that these videos cover dates back decades (first emerging around 1990 if I remember correctly). It was part of the background for a wargame setting rather than singular, novel type narrative, though if you want a more literary presentation of these stories you can always read the Vampire Wars; The Von Carstein Trilogy by Steven Saville, which covers events from all three vampire wars in a series of gothic horror novels individually titled Inheritance, Dominion, and Retribution. As for the notion that the tale is 'woke', I have no clue where you get that idea from. The lore of the Vampire Counts is all loosely based on old Hammer House of horror movies and more broadly on the tropes of gothic and vampire fiction that date all the way back to Bram Stoker. How any of that can be called 'woke' is beyond me.
Continuing with the Vampire Wars series... The death of Vlad did not bring an end to the terror; instead, it paved the way for another dark figure to rise to power. Konrad Von Carstein, one of the most violent and unpredictable vampires in history, would soon plunge the Empire into another nightmarish conflict-the Second Vampire War.
Special thanks to Skrubasauras for his amazing narration for this episode. Skrubs has done many of the iconic episodes on this channel and he is currently doing the Vampire War series, we hope you are enjoying his work on these videos.
Let us know what you thought of Konrad and the Second Vampire War in the comments below! As always, thank you all for your continued support. We will keep exploring the many tales and stories from Warhammer. Stay tuned for more from the Vampire Wars series!
And amazing narration it is, once more.
Madness? Madness? Would a mad man invade the empire with no plan? If I had no plan, how can they plan to stop me?
By having a plan
Round begin!
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Currently sick and bound to my bed most times, listened to part 1 when it started, now I got more material to help me recover, thanks a bunch mate :D
Hope you get better soon my friend! Glad to hear these series are keeping you entertained while you recover :D
@@TheBookofChoyer Thanks for the well wishes :D
You are the only channel keeping me stay as a old world/fantasy fan and I thank you
You know a character is unhinged when their name is Konrad.
Ugh... Berserk, too!!!
And we have Slan and Slaanesh, too!
Putin-vlad-vladimir-Konrad. Those names=nasty people.
I'm wondering if someone at GW bore a grudge against an old teacher, former shift manager or drill sergeant named Konrad 🤔
@@velentrprobably shift manager or teacher or they took the name from a different Ip and changed it they borrowed a lot of names and stuff from Michael moor cock and other peoples works
And the antagonist in spec ops the line was named Konrad
Vampire war 2 electric boogaloo
lol. The warhammer/always sunny mash-up we didn’t know we needed.
😂
I know this reference thanks to my kids haha
Thank you BoC for making every day a tiny bit better.
So glad to hear you enjoyed this one! Thanks for your kind words good sir!! 🙌
think GW has something against people named konrad
Killing the cats was definitely a bit much, but to play Vampires Advocate they're small, skittish, and can move pretty quick. Overall they'd probably make decent targets for practice. If you can hit a cat you can probably hit damn near anything else.
Fun fact, cats spread disease and defecate on sources of food, like vegetables, and in gardens. They aren't great pets. They are a nuisance more than anything.
Also the Skaven thanked him for it as they hate cats probably lmfao.
This channel gets criminally low viewership. It's like the baldemort of fantasy
100% easy the best fantasy lore one going its on permanently rotation for me
I think that he put his own mother on trial for not getting his consent to be birthed even the other Vampires are like "dude, not even the dumbest of peasants would have come up with that"
Where’s Buffy when you need her?
We need him in Total Warhammer 3. ASAP.
The mod has existed for a while. Pick it up! The ingame footage is from having that mod.
Manfred was so scared of Konrad that he went into hiding
@@justwannabehappy6735 You are most certainly incorrect. Despite what fanboys proclaim, Konrad was more than capable of killing him in melee. If he was confronted to any physical duel, Konrad would've torn him apart. Ps. He didn't destroy himself, he was betrayed by his servants.
Edit: Yes, magic could easily undo him, but that doesn't matter, because he made efforts to have protective wards so magic couldn't be used against himself.
This sounds like an assumption. Manfred was actually being cohersed/puppeteered by nagash. Konrad didn't even gain nagshes eye.
Mannfred had it all. He had the leadership of Vlad and the martial skill of Konrad. While you can argue he wasn't as proficient as the others he still had both. The main reason he was superior? He was a master of the dark arts. He was head and shoulders above the rest in shyish magic. The same magic that made nagash great.
So its pretty obvious why mannfred was the greatest vampire of his time, he had nagash backing him.
@@justwannabehappy6735Mannfred was better. Konrad was just a shoe in while manfred was off doing nagashes bidding. His real obstacle was to obtain the ring of immortality, something way more scary than konrads swordplay.
Even his minions saw him as a bad leader and wanted him off the throne. Takes alot more then melee skill to be a top dog vampire. He was a beatstick at best.
@@jakea3950You're full of it.
@@ARandomNerd88The truth sometimes hurts mate.
13:10 fantastic zombie animations
13:23 This is an amazing looking Empire artilly line with smoke and atmosphere.
19:05 I DIDN'T KNOW KONRAD VONBCARSIEN KNEW WALCH HARKON, THE FAMOUS BLOOD DRAGON 😱
24:20 Konrad betrayed by his necromancers and blood knights due to his cruelty to them. This is what vampire and other undead leaders must treat their undead and living subjects fairly and nicely, in a way the undead leader or leaders would want to be treated. This is a story why empathy is important.
This is my favourite lore channel! Thank you for making these videos!
Great video as ever, please do Count Noctilus and his dreadfleet as well.
Fantastic video and fantastic work! It's a pleasure to see them. I thank you
My favorite stories from Warhammer, Vampire Wars. Konrad's my boy.
Love Mannfred running off till Konrad died. Loved the necromancers biding their time for their betrayal. Interested to know their fate
Yaaaaaay another day another choyer
Awesome great work! Keep up the videos.
Thank you so much to the whole team for all the time and work put into making this video! It’s deeply appreciated and I enjoyed this video quite a bit, now that I’ve finally had time to watch it. I’m starting to work my way through all of your warhammer fantasy videos.
I do have a lore question that I’d like you to ask. So I noticed all of the Vlad’s successors have the surname Von Carstein, which at first absolutely makes sense but it makes a lot less sense when you know he’s a vampire. So are all vampires that reach a certain level of power within the Von Carstein bloodline able to claim the surname. Or were all of them in some way biologically related to Vlad or his wife?
Lets goooo book of choyer while playing total warhammer!!
And still easier to like than Mannfred
great video as alway love the series thanks
Great video guys! I am always down for more lore!
Is nobody gonna talk about that awesome Dwarf Lord mod? Really? Ok....
If somebody knows what mod that is, please do tell.Great video guys! I am always down for more lore!
Is nobody gonna talk about that awesome Dwarf Lord mod? Really? Ok....
If somebody knows what mod that is, please do tell.
Thanks for making this epic video
love your vids
Yay, my favourite character in Warhammer. Chad Von Carstein
Definite Chad.
Il watch this video 7 times in my sleep bett
Love the fantasy content. You’re the best.
Great series! Excited for VW 3
Great video! Very entertaining! Off topic, in your view what is the best Warhammer game on console?
Aggressively Prussian and east German named vampires
great work..keep the vamps coming..n mannfred!
Conrad was an extremely thirsty boy.
Konrad von Carstein for Nurgle?
Vamps are definitely the most interesting and exciting race in warhammer.
Yes!!!!!! You guys are my heros, so epic.
What unit is that dwarf with the brazier and the book on his back?
Ok, putting your own ma' on trial for birthing you without your consent is metal as fuck
Can you talk about wallach? I heard he is interesting but never actually learned much about him
Had the Necromancers not betrayed Conrad .....☠️☠️☠️
What is that dwarf lord model with the fire stick?
Do Manfred next!
Yess, Mannfred and the Third Vampire War is next in this series. 👌👀
I've been rereading the Sigmar novels. The character Marius Carsten, is he ancestor of the Von Carsteins?
Vamire war....bloody conflict, höhö
In the warhammer fantasy universe, is there such a thing as dwarven vampires or orc vampires? Just curious....
Old lore maybe but probably not considered canon anymore they used to have half races so there probably was a orc or dwarf vampires
Thx for the instalment, great product as always
Saving this for when my son is in bed and I can watch it on the TV with a whisky
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Changed my mind, watching it now. My son is watching puppy dog pals so I need something to help with the pain!
@@sambarker404 hahaha 😂👌 is that the name of a Cartoon? I often have to watch a couple of those because of my nephew. Haha Cheers man! Hope you enjoy the episode!
8:32 most normal antinatalist
Hope they add Konrad into Warhammer 3 eventually.
I love the vampire counts they are my favourite faction. But damn Konrad was just a hammer and atleast for me an insult to the vampire counts, no elegance no goal just death and chaos, the fool would of been loved by Khorne if he had a soul.Though now I understand the nightlords from wh40k a bit more.
Now, are the von Carsteins an aristocratic family or a title? If so, how are the vampire lords mentioned in the video related to Vlad? Are they his children with Elizabeth, or are they his younger siblings?
Von Carstein is a family name of sorts, but not one passed through birth in the usual sense, and the other vampires with that name are not conventionally related to Vlad. In the original Warhammer lore, Vlad von Carstein was a vampire long before he arrived in Sylvania and first met a (then still mortal) Isabella Von Drak, whom he married (whereupon she became Isabella von Carstein) and originally lived with her as man and wife while she was still mortal. Their marriage was an unexpectedly positive relationship within the Warhammer fiction. Vlad absolutely adored Isabella and she reciprocated his feelings entirely. He trusted her more than anyone else and indeed it was said that she alone could calm his rages. As the years passed she repeatedly asked him to make her a vampire so they would never be parted, but he always refused, saying that it was a terrible curse he didn't want her to have to bear. It was only after she fell sick and all conventional efforts to heal her failed that Vlad reluctantly gave in to her entreaties and turned her into a vampire, since he understood the horror inherent in existence as a vampire - and so as a slave to your own thirst for blood - all too well and did not want to condemn her to such a dark existence lightly. Warhammer lore is a bit vague on the subject, but it is generally agreed that Warhammer vampires are not capable of either bearing or fathering children (no dhampirs in the Warhammer setting), so Vlad and Isabella have no direct issue. The Von Carstein bloodline instead refers to humans that were turned into vampires either by Vlad or by one of the vampires turned by Vlad (like Isabella herself). If a given vampire is close enough (in terms of degrees of separation between the vampire who turned them and Vlad) to Vlad then they have the right to use the von Carstein name and are considered members of the strange, extended Undead 'family'. The same goes for the other vampiric bloodlines of Warhammer lore. If a given vampire is too far removed from Vlad - say if a vampire was turned by someone who was five or six degree of separation away from Vlad himself - then that vampire, while sharing the same blood curse as Vlad, would not typically be permitted to call themselves a von Carstein.
@@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining.
@@konradcurze8942 It was my pleasure to help.
Vampire War 2: The Squeakquel
Are there any vampire that aren't bloodthirsty or crazy because it seems like a requirement
Aborash he’s not bloodthirsty
Can dwarfs become vampires in warhammer world?
what happened to my boi karl?
Ah Konrad, utterly as mad as a hare. Definitely the weaker part of the book series but still good.
Weak? Nope.
Hi. Which book series is that? I get a bit lost trying to workout which are books, and which are tomes when people refer to them. Really enjoying a lot of the Warhammer fiction at the moment
@sambarker404 It sure can be confusing! So choyer is covering a book trilogy called vampire wars. Three books that basically covers the rise and fall of 3 vampires which i wont spoil.
Konrad shows up in the second book and narrative wise, easily the worst of the three vampires. He acomplishes very little compared to his betters, cant use a wisp of magic and is tragically insane. Hes still however an interesting character, he just makes a poor "the main character"
Hope you enjoy the series! Should be one more to go!
@jakea3950 it's only a poor character narrative, if you have a weak imagination.
@@ARandomNerd88lol like sitting in my castle being abit better at melee than everyone and being brain dead? Yes such a multifaceted/interesting main character.
Konrad Von Karstein: Most based Vampire of all.
Fighting the Dwarfs is literally the definition of screw around, find out.
I thought it was Felix that killed Konrad after he killed his first love, or am I thinking of a different Konrad?
Felix did kill a Vampire named adolphus krieger, who turned Ulrika into a Vampire, right?
I’m sorry but konrad going after people is one thing but having all the cats killed is truly despicable. That’s so evil! 🤬
@@awesomehpt8938 Cats are evil, vicious little bastards.
What's next, dogs? This mf.
What a catastrophe!
BY SIGMAR A NEW VIDEO
Why am I watching vanpire wars 2
When I haven't watched 1
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Better than the stupid Nobel that had everything undone by one white wolf knight
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Fun fact. Vlad was said to have turned Konrad into a vampire because he was amused by him. I am not even joking. Konrad was the closest thing Vlad had for a court jester. An angry dog attacking everyone around him/big bad strong but dumb son/barbarian to send when he needs someone to die in the loudest and most exagerated manner possible.
OMG he was so woke, killing his own mom because she didn't have his permission giving birth to him. 😂
h
Too much Wokeness with no clear story line at all
The Warhammer lore of the wars of the vampire counts that these videos cover dates back decades (first emerging around 1990 if I remember correctly). It was part of the background for a wargame setting rather than singular, novel type narrative, though if you want a more literary presentation of these stories you can always read the Vampire Wars; The Von Carstein Trilogy by Steven Saville, which covers events from all three vampire wars in a series of gothic horror novels individually titled Inheritance, Dominion, and Retribution. As for the notion that the tale is 'woke', I have no clue where you get that idea from. The lore of the Vampire Counts is all loosely based on old Hammer House of horror movies and more broadly on the tropes of gothic and vampire fiction that date all the way back to Bram Stoker. How any of that can be called 'woke' is beyond me.
No piece of lore, 40k or fantasy, has ever disturbed me more than Konrad killing cats. I know officialy support all efforts to purge Sylvania >:[
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