After the 4th Dark Crusade

After the end of the 4th Dark Crusade, Maleroth was conquered by Esenor, Trajanor and the Orinsulans. While the orcs bent the knee the moment the Dark Fortress fell, the vampires were stubborn and resisted. Emperor Eleric II, Queen Julia and Queen Hedge agreed that they must be taken care off.   Armies, Bounty Hunters and Religious Groups were sent out to find and slaughter every vampire they could find and kill them the moment they see them, or burn them in large pyres. Majority of these vampires were soldiers, generals, lords and ladies that served the dark lord.   Though most have been put to the sword and their heads up spikes, it is believed that not all were taken into account. Nowadays, vampire hunting was delegated instead to The Red Company.

In the midst of the 75th Anniversary of Lord Erevas' Death going on in the Empire of Esenor, Emperor Eleric II was poisoned by a vampire group containing loyalists of the dead dark lord. Prior to them being identified, the crowned Empress Adawyn did all in her power to hunt them down. Finally, they were burnt at the stake in Revenlor infront of a cheering crowd of thousands.

Kingdom of Novarod was enduring a long famine due to their realm not possessing any arable land and its trade relations with neighboring nations severed. Having no other option left, King Yurikov Vodansk offered to trade with the Esenorians. Empress Adawyn deemed it wasn't enough; instead she offered that Novarod becomes a vassal of the Empire in exchange for food. The King agreed, thus Novarod's lands were now subjects of the Empress. However, such a decision did not sit well with some Novarodians; claiming that they would rather starve than be servants to the nation that they despised.   When the event was detailed, the letters were mistranslated causing the rest of Tirrim, especially the Kingdom of Trajanor, is up to no good once again. They nicknamed the Empress as 'The Usurpatrix'