He felt his knees buckle and fell on the cold dusty ground of the forest. In his anguish he sliced his wrists and his chest leaving his cold dead heart barren and his body exposed to the elements under the open skies. There he lay his Immortal blood seeping, oozing and mixing with the dry earth. He could feel the blanket of death covering him, a single blood tear rolling down his check. The blood almost drained from his beautiful pale week corpse. In the distance he heard the thunder rolling as lightning struck a tree nearby. He felt the heat and heard the dry branches and leaves crackling as the fires ignited. He was ready to burn and face true death.
AElder Halvdan's Story
As Halvdan walked away from the One he had loved, all those he had loved and all he had known to face the darkness alone, he stood in the realization of the void looking into the abyss.
And as he lay in deaths grip the rain began to fall. The rain came down, like an angel come down from above, and the rain came down to wash him away but it just wasn't enough... For on the wind he heard a voice whisper, calling to him in the deep dark of the night. There, there child you knew the night had its secret didn't you? You didn't think it was all a fairytale? You do believe in monsters I hope? Because YOU are one. Yes that's it, drink your fill, the new blood of the Dark Knights will tell you, YOU are one of us. still damned, still a Lycan Homo Psychic Vampire.
YOU Halvdan are the SUCCESSOR, YOU are Sultry AElder feeding on desire. YOUR Dark Knights HAS BEGUN!!!
YOUR BLOOD NOW RUNS IN Four CURSED LINES. YOU will lead the Savage GANGREL more beast than man; the subtle MEKHET who know all secrets; the Montrous NOSFERATU turning courage to fear, the Masterful VENTRUE enslaving all others and any other Kindred that fall beneath your spell.
Look at these streets, the alleys, the clubs, the homes they're yours now. You are a predator and this is your hunting ground. Every night you'll rise with a new hunger and seek out the prey that can slake it. You'll discover ways to lure the living, to take from them with ease. Their blood will make you fast and it will make you strong. It will give you the power over the minds of men and beasts and soon the blood in your veins will grow stronger, more potent and your powers will defy immagination.
You will gather in Covenants and Coteries, forging a deathless society and holding back the maddness of the beasts. You've died and there's no going back from death I'm afraid. You can't hide from the hunger inside you, from the blurred image in the mirror, from the dead cold silence of your unbeating heart. Hide from other things, from the sun, from the sight of the living but never from yourself.
Seek out others who share this curse. It will give you status and power. Enrich and refine your blood until it's your greatest weapon.
Curse God as he has cursed you. Remember the things you lost. Where you had love you'll find only lust. Where you had friends you'll find only rivals. Where you had peace you'll find only strife. Remember what it was to have a soul, because that is all that will keep the beast at bay for one more night.
Let the rest of eternity be YOUR DARK KNIGHT.
SO MOTE IT BE!
