Several days’ journey east across the highlands lay the ruins of Blood Keep, the former fortress of the Knights of the Blood Dragon. Seven centuries ago, the Vampire lord Walach Harkon challenged this knightly order and those he did not slay, he cursed with vampirism. Eventually, an army from Wissenland destroyed this lair of blood-drinking knights. The Dwarf King Thuringar would see this damned castle toppled stone by stone, but he cannot spare the warriors. Meanwhile, the curse of the Blood Knights continues to haunt the Grey Mountains.