Earl Yorke

Vampires exist in this world, most dwelling together in various, somewhat isolated, clans. Though most clans adhere to their own separate systems of belief and religion, they are all united under one god, and realize that He is every bit as powerful as the god worshiped by their mortal victims.

Just as God Himself sent a messiah to the faithful people of the world at one time, the Kindred god will eventually send his own divine son to carry out his will on Earth. Each clan understands this, having read the prophesies of the Dark Messiah as recalled in their ancient scriptures by the early Vampire prophets of Kindred origin. Their god revealed to them that the Dark Messiah would come to them in the twentieth century, and that he would be born with one very distinguishing quality: eyes that changed color depending on his mood. The grandfather of this Dark Messiah would oversee the daunting task of preparing him for his great future, as mentor and guardian. A wise and noble Vampire, he would school the young Messiah in the ways of leadership, and – most importantly – mold him into a powerful being whose only purpose on this planet is to defile what God has created in every way possible as he slowly works his way closer to the most sacred, and untouched of holy places: Eden. This is Lucifer’s desire, acknowledged by all Kindred.

One night, in the Autumn of 1940, the desperate shrieks of a young girl rise up from deep within the Vaughn Woods of South Berwick, Maine, and Rollinsford, New Hampshire. There, a Kindred clan under the leadership of an ancient, and wise Vampire known as Nage watches in confusion and excitement as their master strolls tranquilly toward his son’s dwelling, where the agonized screams seem to be originating. He knows quite well what is going on, having been graced with divine enlightenment as to the details of his own honorable designation, and that of his grandson who, even in the innocence of infancy, reveals his cruel and demented nature. Nage acknowledges the truth that Ezeth, the Dark Messiah has been born.

Nage’s hidden horror on that night does not end, for he finds himself unable to properly educate his protege. Ezeth’s arrogant egotism, and need to satisfy an unsatiable fetish for tortuous murder are beginning to blind him to the necessity of his grandfather’s teachings. He flaunts his disregard for the clan’s laws, specifically Nage’s own decree that mortals his people feed upon are never to be denied the transformation into an immortal afterwards. Ezeth’s delusions of self immaculateness leave him with the skewed understanding that he is being held back. Nage, realizing that he no longer has any control over Ezeth, is immediately joined with the harrowing truth that his days are numbered.

Ezeth swiftly eliminates his grandfather and assumes leadership in a fit of burning rage after circumstances effected by his mentor allow a teenage boy to escape his clutches with the one thing that Ezeth could not allow any mortal to have: his immortal embrace. What follows is a struggle that pits Vampire against Vampire across a time line that lasts more than half a century. Ezeth’s rule is strong, held firmly by the fear that he drives into his followers through acts of remorseless cruelty resulting from the insanity that has come to dominate him. This allows him to focus all of his attention to the plotting of his perfect revenge upon an adversary who violently ravages his clan, and dispatches his followers… a Vampire known only as J… the Vampire that Ezeth himself unintentionally sired on the night that he took the clan from his grandfather.

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