Kaiser Vlad

Kaiser Vlad
Species	Human(?)
Affiliation	Xylvania
Hair color	White
Eye color	Red
Base	The Vladstag
Voiced by	Wolf Kahler
Debut	Battalion Wars

Kaiser Vlad is the iron-fisted Emperor of Xylvania, with his eyes set on re-establishing the worldwide Xylvanian Empire of long ago. To this end, he is supreme commander of the Xylvanian armed forces.

Background

Inciting War

Thirty years ago, Kaiser Vlad was personally responsible for inciting war between the Tundran Territories and the Western Frontier. By planting information about the Frontier possessing a superweapon, Tsar Gorgi invaded the Frontier to determine its location. This was a simple ploy to allow Vlad to continue his life long goal of finding the Staff of Qa-Len. When Tundra was defeated and a shaky peace between the two nations was achieved, Kaiser fled to Xylvania.

Battalion Wars

When the Frontier and Tundra were locked in stalemate, Vlad tempted Tsar Gorgi into partnership with the prospect of giving Tundra the edge needed to finally overcome their enemies. Gorgi accepted and permitted Xylvania to move into many of their strategic locations, like the Dune Sea.

Shortly thereafter, however, once Xylvania was firmly entrenched inside Tundra's territories, Vlad double-crossed Tundra and led a surprise assault on both superpowers. Vlad's forces devastated Tundra from within and seized control of their assets, redirecting them to increasing Xylvania's war machine exponentially. Soon, Vlad's armies became the dominant force in the world.

Rather than focusing his power on simply defeating the Western Frontier, however, Vlad, mad with power and obsessed with settling historical rivalries, Vlad opened up a third theater of war against the Solar Empire, choosing to take on three world powers at once (Frontier, Solar Empire, and the nearly-defeated and now Frontier-allied Tundra). This critical mistake gave the allies the opportunity to defeat the new mega-power.

The Xylvanian forces proved unable to hold up the fight on three fronts and were pushed back to their own borders. This caused panic among his top lieutenants, Ubel and Ingrid, who resorted to stealing Vlad's sword and using it to resurrect the old Iron Legion, the over-powered super-army from Xylvania's past. This new force, however, proved impossible to control, and led to the demolition of Vlad's defense forces. Later, when the Iron Legion was broken, there was nothing to stop the allies from pushing into Vlad's headquarters. There at the Battle of the Vladstag, Vlad's final fortress fell. When Marshal Nova attempted to revenge himself upon Ubel, Vlad intervened and saved his lieutenant. When the Frontier arrived, he escaped in a helicopter, leaving his lieutenant at the hands of his enemies.

Battalion Wars 2

Notice: This Section Requires Editting, and It's Author Imprisoned in a Tundran Gulag for Crimes Against Grammar

With Xylvania's forces crushed in the previous war, Kaiser returned to his deceptive dealings in the past. As he did with Gorgi in the past, he planted information with the Anglo Isles about the Solar Empire possessing a superweapon. It was an unusual ploy to draw out the now re-energized Tundran army out of their land when the Solar Empire counter-attacked the Anglos. This ploy did not go unnoticed by General Herman, who quickly determined that the Kaiser was behind it.

While Marshal Nova was distracted overseas, Kaiser instructed his troops to begin the invasion of Xylvania. Carrying out his hatred of the Solar Empire again, Kaiser Vlad poisoned Admiral A-Qira after his humiliating defeat at the Anglo Isles. Kaiser then turned his attention to Tundra where he freed Ubel, who had long been stationed in the Tundran gulag for his crimes.

Kaiser turned his attention directly to attending to his Mining Spider in order to seize the Staff of Qa-Len, leaving Ubel to command the Xylvanian forces in battle against Marshal Nova and his allies. Ubel continued to be defeated, but his efforts bought enough time for the Kaiser to at last find the Staff. With his forces defeated and on the brink of defeat, he turned the Staff on his enemies. His attempts to escape were thwarted by Commander Pierce. Unable to make an escape that way, he and Ubel fled to the recesses of the mine. The resulting destruction of the Staff caused Vlad and Ubel to be buried alive. While Vlad left Ubel to dig them out, the Kaiser swore that he would return again to get his revenge.

Trivia

• Vlad's early concept was changed a bit in early production. His early plan for world conquest involved using genetic engineering to create super soldiers who breathed chemical gas who would sweep the world. This was later taken out of the story.