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{{quote|For too long, Xylvania has been the playground of Frontier warmongers and Tundran despots.<br>At last we will resume our rightful place in history as master of these inferior nations!|Kaiser Vlad (BW1, "Beachhead")|}}

|caption=The Kaiser as he appears in [[Battalion Wars 2|BW2]]

200 years ago, Vlad's ancestor, [[Lord Ferrok]] of the [[Iron Legion]], launched an offensive against the free nations of the world in his quest for global dominance. All but one nation, the [[Solar Empire]], fell to the supernatural might of the Legion. In the final days of the [[Lightning Wars]], Solar [[Empress Qa-Len]] ordered a tiny strike battalion to the Legion's stronghold, the Iron Tower.  Activating the [[Staff of Qa-Len]] directed an orbiting Solar satellite to expand its solar panels, focus the sun's rays, and fire the intense beam directly down onto the Iron Lord's tower. Most Legion forces were obliterated instantly, and the survivors were frozen in stone for centuries.

After Vlad's escape, the other nations quickly return to a life of peace. The Kaiser secretly continues his search for the [[Staff of Qa-Len]], and instigates another global war by supplying the [[Anglo Isles]] with faulty intel - intel that suggested that the [[Solar Empire]] plans to use their super-weapon against them. Anglo units attack, and Solar [[Admiral A-Qira]] soon launches his own war of retribution. It is not until the later stages of the game that the [[Xylvania]] military appears in force. The Tundran units were on the attack, and mobilized to destroy Vlad's fleet of [[Dreadnought]]s at the Novagrad Caves. Their next target is "Ice Station X", a seismic detection platform that has discovered the location of the ancient staff. With the Mining Spider drilling into a glacier to the north, the Tundran forces liberate Frontier and Solar POWs, re-forming the [[Alliance of Nations]]. As they assault the forces protecting the enormous machine, the single Tundran [[Battlestation]] fires the final shot of the war, destroying the Spider and any hope that the Kaiser had at claiming the Solar doomsday weapon.

Attempting a getaway, Vlad calls in an [[Air Transport]] to carry he and [[Kommandant Ubel]] to safety; however, Anglo [[Commander Pierce]] is able to quickly shoot it down. With nowhere else to go, Vlad and Ubel are forced to climb down into the fissure to escape from the Allies. Trapped behind a wall of boulders and rubble, the Kaiser orders Ubel to dig them out. He strikes a match, telling Ubel that "the torch of destiny still burns brightly for [[Xylvania]]", just before the light goes out.

*When Kaiser Vlad offers the chalice of red liquid to [[Tsar Gorgi]] in {{game|Battalion Wars|the first game}}, it is possible that the liquid is blood. This would further enforce the [[Xylvania]]ns' vampire-like appearance.