Vampire Politics
When I first found myself in the world Outside after having escaped the laboratory that had made up my entire existence for as long as I could recall, I quickly learned that I was different from other people. Research brought me to the conclusion that perhaps I was a vampire, or at least something close to how they are usually described in literature.
My solitary exploration, however, was suddenly cut short, and I found myself in the house of Vincent Marsellus, a man who claimed that he was a real vampire and that I was not. That I seemed to be caught somewhere on the threshold between vampirism and humanity, a hybrid, a half-breed. He told me about vampires, that there were several of them even in this city alone, and before long I saw for myself that he was right, because he introduced me to one, Lyon, who left me redefining my conception of the word “old”.
Soon after, I met others yet and learned that living alone in the midst of human society is not the norm among vampires. Most vampires live in groups, clans, under a single leader. Vincent described these groups as oppressive, and when more or less abducted to meet the leader of a very influential clan, Count Theodor von Teufelstein, I found that they in turn viewed Vincent and Lyon as strange outsiders refusing to unite with their own kind. I was asked to join Teufelstein's clan, but I turned down the offer as I was quite content to live with Vincent and rather preferred his ways to my impression of the clan's. Later I learned that members of Teufelstein's group were trying to assassinate Lyon, unsuccessfully. But the leader of those sent to dispose of him, Daniel, was later expelled from the clan, saved by the vampire Kaoru who would later turn out to be the man who raised me when I was a child. Kaoru also was the leader of a small group of vampires living independently in the very same city, and whom Chrome, the vampire who was used in making me what I am, seemed to join a while later. I should perhaps here add that Daniel turned a young man, Christian, into a vampire to take his place in Teufelstein's clan, in effect saving my friend Joss from him.
Recently Kaoru, Chrome, Daniel, Christian and another vampire, Morgan (an affiliate of Lyon and Vincent) together travelled to the other side of the world in order to undertake diplomatic negotiations with an institution known as the Council, a group of ancient and powerful vampires somehow influencing all vampire clans in the Western world, and brought back with them Mathew, a member of the Council who turned out to enjoy a close relationship with Lyon.
Yes, the escalation has been enormous. If you are confused, I blame you not.
The lines between the groups seem to have blurred, and the relations between the various groups and individuals are not what I thought at first. What they all seem to agree on, apparently, is the fact that I am different from all of them and will eventually have an influence on … something. A greater whole. And I myself am not certain what to make of it.
My solitary exploration, however, was suddenly cut short, and I found myself in the house of Vincent Marsellus, a man who claimed that he was a real vampire and that I was not. That I seemed to be caught somewhere on the threshold between vampirism and humanity, a hybrid, a half-breed. He told me about vampires, that there were several of them even in this city alone, and before long I saw for myself that he was right, because he introduced me to one, Lyon, who left me redefining my conception of the word “old”.
Soon after, I met others yet and learned that living alone in the midst of human society is not the norm among vampires. Most vampires live in groups, clans, under a single leader. Vincent described these groups as oppressive, and when more or less abducted to meet the leader of a very influential clan, Count Theodor von Teufelstein, I found that they in turn viewed Vincent and Lyon as strange outsiders refusing to unite with their own kind. I was asked to join Teufelstein's clan, but I turned down the offer as I was quite content to live with Vincent and rather preferred his ways to my impression of the clan's. Later I learned that members of Teufelstein's group were trying to assassinate Lyon, unsuccessfully. But the leader of those sent to dispose of him, Daniel, was later expelled from the clan, saved by the vampire Kaoru who would later turn out to be the man who raised me when I was a child. Kaoru also was the leader of a small group of vampires living independently in the very same city, and whom Chrome, the vampire who was used in making me what I am, seemed to join a while later. I should perhaps here add that Daniel turned a young man, Christian, into a vampire to take his place in Teufelstein's clan, in effect saving my friend Joss from him.
Recently Kaoru, Chrome, Daniel, Christian and another vampire, Morgan (an affiliate of Lyon and Vincent) together travelled to the other side of the world in order to undertake diplomatic negotiations with an institution known as the Council, a group of ancient and powerful vampires somehow influencing all vampire clans in the Western world, and brought back with them Mathew, a member of the Council who turned out to enjoy a close relationship with Lyon.
Yes, the escalation has been enormous. If you are confused, I blame you not.
The lines between the groups seem to have blurred, and the relations between the various groups and individuals are not what I thought at first. What they all seem to agree on, apparently, is the fact that I am different from all of them and will eventually have an influence on … something. A greater whole. And I myself am not certain what to make of it.