Greetings all,

I have heard it argued that a vampire does not have free will, that he
is a slave to his sire, bound to him in Blood to do his bidding. I tell
you now that this is nonsense, yet I am no free agent, I sold my soul
for the powers I posses. I have dwelled in the city of my people for
longer than any other vampire who does not currently reside in Torpor,
so forgive my arrogance if I claim to know the nature of what it is to
be one of the accursed unliving.

At the moment of the Embrace, the soul is trapped, perhaps even banished
from the body, and with it goes all things good and decent. In its stead
sits the demon inherent within all Consanguine, the individuals own
malice, hatred, cruelty, brutality and malevolence made corporeal. This
terrible demonic presence craves, nay demands the blood of the living
for its satiation, and I care not whether I gorge myself on the blood of
the innocent of those tainted with the wickedness of iniquity. So do the
intent of my actions betray me to be a nihilist? I hold to no ethos
while I am slaughtering for my own petty needs, I do it because it is a
necessity of my nature to do so.
Yet I do not delude myself with this philosophy. I may not hold to an
ethos of evil, yet I cannot deny my nature. I am one of the accursed
undead, an unliving vampire, there can be no sugar coating to this. I
was born in the likeness of corruption and evil, and I can be nothing
beyond this, my power, the power of my people is terrible, and it is
demonic in origin.

To those who would judge all vampires to be evil, simply because they
are undead, I can only wholeheartedly agree with you, we can be nothing
else. To those miserable creatures who claim their good deeds and
actions give them impunity from what they have become, I tell you that
you delude no one, except perhaps most sadly of all yourselves. You
should exalt in your nature, you all paid the ultimate price for it. The
fact that you deny what you have become simply sullies the glorious
choice you made.

E. C.

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Variach, in the year 136 MA.