Though his death signaled the end of the grueling conflict in 2051 IC, the lands of Sylvania has been forever cursed with the powers of the Undead, becoming the breeding grounds for a multitude of Necromancers, Vampires, and other dark creatures.[2d] As the years go by, the land will forever be shunned by the other Imperial provinces, and every other century, another one of Vlad's own blood-line would rise up and challenge the Empire in hopes of fulfilling that which Vlad could not.