Frederick van Hal (450 points)
+ 100 points Liber Mortis
+ 75 points Staff of Raising


Your army may include Frederick van Hal. He is a Necromancer lord and may lead the army if you wish, though he does not have to. If you choose to use him to lead the army then he replaces the general described in the main army list.

It all began with the infamous Liber Mortis of the necromancer frederick van Hal, better known to later generations as Vanhal.
Vanhal was a necromancer in the time of the Great Plague and he compiled his masterpiece from Kadon's translation of the Nine Books of Nagash.
Not content with this flawed translation of the Great Necromancer's mad utterances, Vanhal made many pilgrimages to the Kingdom of the Dead. Protected by the most potent of sorceries he communed with the inhabitants of the tomb-cities and probed the darkest secrets of the ancient times. He consulted with howling deamons on Geheimnisnacht and sifted nuggets of truth from their lies. For even the deamons of chaos remember Nagash's infamous deeds. It is to the Liber Mortis that we owe our partial and incomplete knowledge of the history of the Great Necromancer and the ancient land he once ruled and destroyed.

It was in 1111 that the dead first walked in Sylvania. Rotten corpses, marked with the black blotches of the plague, refused to stay in their graves. Dead fathers came back to claim their children. Even Ghouls fled from overflowing cemeteries and charnel houses whose inhabitants would not stay at peace.

Soon armies of the decomposing corpses shambled about the land needing only a will to guide them. They found it in the form of Frederick van Hal, whose name would become corrupted by later generations to Vanhal. He bound the great Undead host to his will and conquered the land that would later become known as Sylvania. He build his keep at Vanhaldenschlosse, the ruined site of which is still shunned to this day.

In the time of the Death, the Empire writhed under the furry talons of Skaven oppression and only the evil ratmen contained the expension of Vanhal's necromantic domain. The Skaven and the Undead expended their strength in a long and futile war that was eventually to cause the downfall of both. Vanhal was assassinated by his ambitious apprentice Lothar von Diehl who was himself driven out of Vanhaldenschlosse by a band of knights apparently led by his master's ghost. After von Diehl's disappearance, lacking a guilding intelligence, the Undead armies wandered the land aimlessly, slaughtering the living, but being destroyed piecemeal by their human, Skaven and Orc opponents.

weapons/armour : Frederick van Hal is armed with a sword. He may ride a Skeleton Steed (+2 points).

magic items : Frederick may take up to four magic items in total. Two of these will always be the Liber Mortis and the Staff of Raising.


Liber Mortis
Liber Mortis is a magical book which holds the secrets of undead, how to raise, but also how to destroy undead.
Liber Mortis may increase Fredericks magic level by 1, so he will have a magic level of 5. In addition the liber Mortis causes terror, because of his fearsome reputation. (Frederick van Hal only)

Staff of Raising
When Frederick was experimenting in a graveyard with his liber mortis and magical staff he discovered something. He could raise extra skeletons with his staff which he enchanted with even to him with unknown powers.
If the bearer is summoning skeletons or zombies with any raise spell, you may add a D6 to the result. (Undead Necromancer, Liche or Vampire only)


Special Rules
If Frederick van Hal is leading the army then you may buy Vampires for 25 points less then the normal cost. So a Vampire count isn't 200 points but 175 points and a Vampire lord isn't 375 points but 350 points.