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'''Blood Keep''' is a ruined fortress which lies in the [[Grey Mountains]], which separate [[Bretonnia]] from [[the Empire]]. The ruins lie to the southeast of the city of [[Nuln]], and can be reached only by a lonely mountain trail. Before its destruction it was the fortress monastery of the knights of ''the Order of the Blood Dragon''. The fortress guarded the mountain pass to Bretonnia, and the order's knights were pledged to the protection of the people of the surrounding area.
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'''Blood Keep''' was a ruined fortress which lay in the [[Grey Mountains]], which separate [[Bretonnia]] from [[the Empire]]. The ruins lay to the west of the city of [[Nuln]], and could be reached only by a lonely mountain trail. Before its destruction it was the fortress monastery of the knights of the '''Order of the Blood Dragon'''. The fortress guarded the mountain pass to Bretonnia, and the order's knights were pledged to the protection of the people of the surrounding area.
  
The fall of the order came when the vampire Walach of the House of Harkon travelled to the keep. Entering the gates, he issued a challenge to the entire order garrisoned there to single combat. The knights were obliged to accept, and in any case certain that an entire order of knights against one man could have only one conclusion. But, one by one, each knight fell to Harkon. He spared those he found worthy opponents, giving them some of his blood and cursing them to the immortality of vampirism.
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When the [[vampire]] [[Walach]] of the [[House of Harkon]] defeated the entire Order single-handed, in the order's own keep, the order fell to vampirism, and became the [[Blood Dragon]]s. The living people of the area, long protected by the knights, now became the prey of the fallen Order. When the truth was uncovered, the keep was put under a lengthy siege by an Imperial army. At the end of the siege the order was destroyed as an organization, although a number of the knights survived.
 
 
With [[Blood Dragons|a new order of vampiric knights]] under Walach Harkon, the living people of the area suffered the long years of a reign of terror, until the [[witch hunter]] [[Gunther van Hel]] revealed the truth, leading to a lengthy siege of the order's keep by an imperial army and the eventual destruction of the order.
 
  
 
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*Warhammer Armies Vampire Counts, 7th edition, p. 46
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*[[Warhammer Armies Vampire Counts (7th Edition)]], pg. 46
  
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Blood Keep was a ruined fortress which lay in the Grey Mountains, which separate Bretonnia from the Empire. The ruins lay to the west of the city of Nuln, and could be reached only by a lonely mountain trail. Before its destruction it was the fortress monastery of the knights of the Order of the Blood Dragon. The fortress guarded the mountain pass to Bretonnia, and the order's knights were pledged to the protection of the people of the surrounding area.

When the vampire Walach of the House of Harkon defeated the entire Order single-handed, in the order's own keep, the order fell to vampirism, and became the Blood Dragons. The living people of the area, long protected by the knights, now became the prey of the fallen Order. When the truth was uncovered, the keep was put under a lengthy siege by an Imperial army. At the end of the siege the order was destroyed as an organization, although a number of the knights survived.

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