Lothar Rothmanns - Mordheim Diary Entry #1

Lothar Rothmanns was a veteran of the Empire army having fought in many battles and witnessing many horrors over many years. But the screams he heard coming from the inn as he and his band of witch hunters scurried away like so many sewer rats would scar his soul for the remainder of his life.

They were supposed to be protecting those people.................... and they had utterly failed them. 

The screams cut through his warrior soul, and he fancied that he could even hear flesh being rent from bone, although that was almost certainly his tortured imagination lending colour to his guilt. But that young mother of the mewling infant could have been no more than 17 summers old. What dark fate had befallen her and her swaddling babe now that her protectors had fled?

To his shame the horrors of the undead and the armoured devil leading them had unmanned him, and his hoarsely shouted order to withdraw had cut the clammy night air.

Once distance had been put between him and the eldritch dead his fear had turned to anger at the abject failure they had been guilty of. He raged, and raged, and his anger was wrathful indeed, blackly reflecting his family name. He dismissed all but the ogre bodyguard, brother Odo, the hurt at the failure in the brute’s eyes softening his enraged heart. It was a miracle the beast had survived being cut down by the undead fiend’s great sword in any case. Maybe he was indeed favoured by Sigmar?

Sending the warband on their way with curses and imprecations unworthy of a servant of Sigmar he and the hulking giant had made their way from the cursed city to the relative sanctuary of a rural tavern at a popular crossroads.

There he met the first of his new recruits - Sister Jaklyn, recently of The Sisterhood of the Monthly Anguish. She would serve as a warrior priestess of Sigmar and her faith and strength would stand as the keystone for the new band he would form with vengeance in mind for the vampiric fiend who had fallen upon the innocent soules back at the inn...................................