Fun fact! Sylvania was once part of stirland! The only reason the whole province isn't a nightmarish undead nest is because even the %$&@ing vampires wouldn't go there.
Being a peasant in Sylvania is often preferential to being a peasant in most of the Empire. Taxes are pretty low and you only occasionally get executed for your lords amusement, all without an inquisitorial official threatening to burn your village to the ground for some perceived slight.
“My emperor, the vampires have invaded the empire and taken control of a province!” “By sigmar, amass the armies and prepare to take it back!” “It was stirland tho” “Ah” *Sheathes sword* “We will get it back once the vamps realize what little value there is”
The hot beer is from the actual lore, which is hilarious. According to one of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay books, Stirlanders like to take red hot firepokers and plunge them into their beer tankards to warm it up.
The most impressive thing to come from Stirland is a militia group so renown that they stopped 'Stirland's Revenge' from being a euphemism for the nuclear diarrhea outsiders get from Stirland cuisine.
The dwarf in this video arriving to his Hold: -I have been wronged!! -What happened, Brother? -I was...I was served...Boiled BEER -By Grimnir!! THEY SHALL PAY FOR THIS!! Fetch the Book of Grudges! This cannot go unanswered!
Perhaps Karl Franz's greatest act of diplomacy was maintaining an alliance with the dwarfs after this unspeakable grudge was issued. He had to let the High King burn part of Stirland to the ground, but most of the empire agrees that nothing of any real value was lost. And the rest think he should've asked the grudgebearer to burn the rest of it too.
nononono not even the dwarfs wanted to return to that place to settle this special grudges. not even fucking demons of chaos DARE to step into this country. they would get killed in minutes with this special beer. its the perfect defense mechanism..but at what cost.
Now I understand why Gotrek (Gotrek and Felix novel series) almost choke that Stirland innkeeper when he ordered a beer at the bar ! It was hot boiling beer !
Dwarves will start a grudge over just about anything. In the lore, Dwarves never ride horses. Simply implying that a dwarf is scared of horseback riding will create a grudge.
The Empire: "we don't like Stirland" Vlad: "so you don't mind if we take it then" The Empire: "be our guest" Faction Destroyed Stirland The Empire: "HOW DARE YOU DESTROY STIRLAND YOU BLOOD SUCKING MONSTERS!!!" Vlad: "but you said..." SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!!!
@@whiteeye3453 look, you just held a bunch of words hostage, so it makes no sense, but I'm gonna assume that you're don't get OP'S comment, so let me explain. If Karl Franz declares war on Stirland(with intentions remade it for a better), he'll be seen as aggressor, his reliability ratings drop and everyone will hate him for being warmongering monster and declare war. So, by letting Vlad burn down that hellhole, Franz can retake it while he's conquering Sylvania WITHOUT hurting his reliability and getting 2 empire States for price of one, removes vampire threat,etc. TL,DR: let vampires conquer Stirland, retake along the way to destroy them
Boilled beer is actually, kinda a real thing. Its an old pub fare that's not common to find nowadays. Its not called boilled beer though but mulled beer/ale. Its basically the same as mulled wine, which in Bretonia, is probably a crime.
@@13gan my dad once told me vikings would stick a hot poker in their wine, though to be fair i think some mead and wine were meant to be served hot like that, also in fiarness it wasnt boiled rather it was a hot poker stuck in side it
I only accepted because everyone else refused and I needed to stop the Vampire Counts from expanding anymore then they already had. I suppose I could have waited for them to take Stirland but... well...
Stirland ask military access from the Moot : "OK, but it'll cost ya !" Stirland cannot build a bridge because halflings keep deconstucting it : "Let us cross, our allies need help ! -Sure... but it'll cost ya !" Stirland goes to the council : "I swear it !! YOU will let us pass your land unimpeded ! OR I WILL BURN IT TO THE GROUND !!!!! YOUR CITIES, YOUR PEOPLE, ALL BUUUUUURNED IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME WHAT I ALREADY PAID YOU FOR !!!!!!!!!!! MAKE. YOUR. CHOICE... -... How much you pay us for it ?" Stirland proceeds to genocide the Halflings ... Until Ogres join the party... Without paying. Suffice to say, ogres had a very bad day, and Stirland and the Moot are back to being friends again !
Look up Sigmar's Heirs, WHFRP. It's part of the Storm of Chaos timeline, not the retconned nuHammer ET garbage, and has a ton of lore about Imperial day-to-day life.
Fun fact! Sylvania was once part of stirland! The only reason the whole province isn't a nightmarish undead nest is because even the %$&@ing vampires wouldn't go there.
@@deathkorpstrooper8228 it could still be, technically, but Sylvania is a rather special case, so even tax collectors rarely visit, and when they do, they bring a detachment of troops.
@@deathkorpstrooper8228 Sylvania was abolished as an Imperial state after the Third Vampire War, de jure annexed into Stirland. But since no officials in Stirland would ever go willingly into Sylvania without heavy protection, even while Manfred was temporarily dead and the vampires were laying low, it was in name only. It was then used as a dumping ground for impoverished nobles, useless scions, and bastards, who were so horrible and incompetent in ruling that they made Sylvanians look back the Von Carstein years as good ones.
They don't exist. See, them existing would imply someone stayed in Stirland long enough to build a nuke there, which is impossible. Much more likely, the alleged "ratmen" who built a "nuke" were in fact a fish head pie, that the Halflings crammed so full of fish heads that they accidentally caused nuclear fusion to occur. Gelt agrees with this theory, and in so doing, also claims to have discovered and invented a theory of nuclear fusion.
Wait a minute... Those innkeepers... What a bunch of frauds !! These are no Halflings meals ! I saw those meal on Gromhub !!!!! And it was cheaper !!! Shame on them !!!
I dint notice that i had warframe menu of Orphix Venom in the background the music fitted so redicilously well when the dwarf spoke his story. i was truly sucked in the story that was told
Even Hochland has more exciting things going on than Stirland, they've got semi-regular beastmen raids, dangerous (probably) haunted dark woods covering most of the province, would be bandit warlords hold up in forts scattered about the central hills reeking reliable havoc, crime rings aplenty while being sandwiched between great mountains rich in minerals which are home to both cool dwarves they (the Hochlanders) trade and drink with and vile orc bands that menace and raid occasionally, and lastly they're arguably at the near nexus of Empire wide political intrigue and scheming both religiously (namely the whole Sigmarites vs Ulricans thing) and ofcourse secular shenanigans. (staving of civil wars, managing squabling nobles, and keeping good'ole provincial *"one-ups-manship"* in check)
From a forum game, Mathilde Weber is the only good Stirlander basically. Because of the inverse logic of everyone hating stirland, her being a Gray wizard made her a functioning human being instead of an edgelord you'd expect a dark and brooding wizard would be. And in her messing up the timeline: 1. Managed to have Castle Drakenhof bombarded by the Humans, Dwarves, and Elves in the biggest gathering of artillery in history, with a dwarf-level grudge, after the vampires killed the count she was serving, who was basically van helsing in his retirment years (the original count was assasinated and the one she served was a former witch hunter). 2. Managed to help reclaim Karak Eight Peaks and almost got possessed by Gork and Mork at the same time (by interrupting an ork ritual to separate Gork and Mork into two gods, by being both brutal and Cunning with Ulgu magic, she accidentally embodied them. Managed to throw it off with the help of Renald.) 3. Managed to fenagle an agreement to work on fixing the waystones with the good will she has with dwarves, bringing in Laralorn since they are not part of the High elf Grudge, and all the favors in the eight colleges the players could get. Basically, all the good in Stirland went into her. I can link to the tv tropes and the forum pages, I just did not want to spam links inpolitely, but she'd be worth being a hero in a Total War Mod. The quest/game is called Divided Loyalties. Its worth a read, as its four years of work and still going.
Hey look on the bright side, the only people that will visit is the vastly endless vampire tides that will take our problems away! unless karl gets salty that the vampires is stealing his raiding grounds...
