Eventually the growing reports of the dark magicians caused the Grand Theogonist Jurgen VI to call for a crusade against the province, but in the Time of the Three Emperors - none of the claimants were willing to respond. Shunned and increasingly cut off from the rest of the Empire, the province became a haven for renegade sorcerers who sough a place to practice their dark arts. The other nobles of the land were as bad or worse - bandits and cowards. The province rulers, the van Draks were considered weak and thin blooded and noted as being the only Great House not to send at least one son on the crusade against Araby. In 1681 IC during the Night of the Restless Dead, Sylvania was little affected being more familiar with the dead and in some cases necromancy was used to defeat the risen dead with corpses battling each other in the streets. It is form this period that the inhabitants began to bury their dead face down, reasoning that they would burrow deeper rather than out of their grave. Sylvania never recovered from the combination of the warpstone meteors, the Black Plague and the walking dead with mutation and disease continuing to ravage the people and the land.
The dead were now without focus and reverted to roaming the land, salughtering the living where they found them but also being destroyed by the survivors. The brutal war between the dead and the ratmen drained both and Vanhal himself was assassinated by his apprentice Lothar van Diehl but the ghost of the necromancer in turn drove him out of his stronghold. Frederick van Hal who took command of the walking dead, conquering the province and building a great fortress at vanhaldenschlosse and quickly clashing with the Skaven who had taken control over much of the Empire. When warpstone shards fell upon the lands in 1111 IC, Sylvania's fell reputation was sealed, as the dead erupted from their graves and laid siege to the villages and towns. Ever since 1111 IC, it has been a loathed and feared province, avoided by the other people of the Empire
It is a depressing, dismal realm settled in the time of Sigmar by dissident, evil men dispossessed by the Emperor's unification of the peoples of the Empire.
Desolate moorlands and sluggish rivers of clotted blood punctuate the yellow-leafed woods, wind-swept and storm shrouded by dark clouds that seep down from the Worlds Edge Mountains on an almost daily basis. Close to uninhabitable, Sylvania's forests are dingy copses of twisted, half-rotted trees that claw what nourishment they can from the bone-strewn soil. Under the shadow of the Vampires, its populace has become a terrified, superstitious people. From the Spider Haunts to the Bane of Troth, Corpse Run to the Necromanse, Sylvania is a realm steeped in dark legend.
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