War in the Old World: Fluff Part 2

My finished Banshee Katerina. Highlighting is there, just impossible to see in the photo.

By the evening of the third day, Ivan Karamov was barely clinging to life. He wasn't sure if the ethereal carriage that appeared before him was a result of his delirium or not. The horses pulling it looked sickly, as if merely skin stretched thin over a skeletal frame.

The Vampire Countess Tatyana Zlobin was merely passing through. She had intended on consuming most of the inhabitants of Staraya upon her arrival, her thirst for blood was beginning to claw at the back of her mind again. But there was nothing there, just smoldering ruins, and the faint heart beat of a single, sad mortal.

Custom insisted that Ivan show this stranger hospitality, so he forced himself to prepare food and shelter for her. The Countess was moved by his attention, and by the story of his village and the despair Ivan felt. That night, before disappearing back into the mists, before sinking her teeth into Ivan's neck, the Countess Zlobin whispered a wish into his ear, a wish that what she would do could provide him recompense.


Painted and converted Vampire Ivan. I'm worried the eyebrows are too cartoony, but he looks good IRL

From that day forward, Ivan Karamov did not want for food or drink or sleep or anything else that could weaken a normal man. Ivan gained new strength, dark magic flowed through his body; the corpses of his home town of Staraya rose from the ground, curious necromancers gathered around him to learn from his dark power, and the spirits of the dead clung to his energies. Among the spirits was Katerina, a soul ripped from her body at the wrong time, cursed to forever torment the living with her despair.

Ivan mustered his forces. His dead home marched to battle in his name, he would bring rest to his unending torment by punishing the Chaotic forces that destroyed his life. Ivan Karamov became a member of the Vampire Counts, leading his shambling undead forces far into the North, where he will forever attempt to bring justice upon the evils that ruined him.