The people of the Empire believe the curse of the dreaded Vampire Counts is ended. Yet the plague of the undead persists in the form of Mannfred von Carstein, who has returned from the Lands of the Dead to exact his vengeance on the Empire and bathe it in the blood of war. Divided by internecine conflict, the rulers of the Empire must put aside their differences and unite to battle this threat from the new lord of Sylvania, or the land of men will be lost forever.