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Grief-stricken over his wife's death, vampire Elliott Sinclair must rouse himself to command his people's defence against a mysterious enemy, only to discover that he and his clan are pawns in a deadly game between two ancient undead.
This is a novel for White Wolf's World of Darkness game Vampire the Masquerade.
This is a story about how Jyhad works at all levels of the vampire society. It was a pretty good book. It's mainly about Elliott Sinclair a Toreador vampire who steps in to fill a vacuum of power when the Prince is incapacitated. He tries to keep things from getting out of hand while 2 very ancient and powerful vampires (mostly unseen and unknown) are pulling strings and orchastrating things to their liking. The little folk quit often get ground up between beings of that power. ( )
My only foray into White Wolf's World of Darkness. A very enjoyable foray it is too. The vampires are well writen and it has that roleplaying feel to it, that Dragonlance originally managed, but many others fail to do.
After re-read For fans of White Wolf's WoD games (including the PC game Vampire the Masquerade) this is a must read. Strictly cannon in terms of the vampires abilities and powers it well imagines how their society works and integrates with the human's (kine cf cattle) arround them.
Elliot Sinclair is a Toreador Primogen (Leutenant) but since unexplained the death of his companion many years back he has remained reclusive in the Sarasota's Kindred community. However he attends a play starring the regions Prince Roger Phillips and is dismayed to find that the Prince has succombed to an unusual form of madness - Kindred not often getting ill. Elliot is partly cajoled into taking temporary charge and realises that a full campaign has been launched against his clan.
The alternative POV is a young cataif (clanless) vampire called Dan Murdoch, surviving on the dregs of the same area of town. He meets a mysterious women who promises him special powers as a result of his investigating some suspicious characters.
The two plots interweave and vampire politics come into play, until the sudden and dramatic conclusion. I particularly enjoy the moral casting of the vampires - how they interact and feel about he humans they need to survive, which is as varied as any real fiction. The action is fast pacedthe characters likable and belivable with surprising depth for the genre.
Vampire fans should read it, others it's a better than average introduction in White Wolf's world, but not necessarily typical of urban fantasy. ( )
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When sorrows come they come not single spies, But in battalions
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwaned is the most terrible poverty
If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds
The chess-board is the world; the pieces ae the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of nature. the player on the other side is hidden from us
You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid aiman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.
To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
People must help one another ; it is nature's law.
Whoever is delighted in solitude is eitehr a wild beast or a god.
What is wrong with a revolution is that it is natural. It is as natural as natural selection, as devastating as natural selection, and as horrible.
We have suffered the inevitable consequences of a combination of unpreparedness and feeble counsel.
Happy is the hare at the morning, for she cannot read the Hunter's waking thoughts.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies.
Beware of false prophet s, which come to you in sheep's clothing , but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace easoned judgement.
Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, bu let wasps and hornets break through.
Better it is that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay
Perish the universe provided I have my revenge
Logic, n. the arto f thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human understanding - Devil's Dictionary
I'm not frightened of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.
Suspicions amoungst thoughts are like bats amoungst birds, they ever fly by twilight
Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange unnatural
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, decieving and being decived.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
It is well that war is so terrible else we would grow too fond of it.
He travels fastest who travels alone.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Life's to short for chess.
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. - Matthew Arnold "Dover beach".
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The marble facade of the Sarasota Performing Arts Center shone ghostly white in the starlight.
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This is a story about how Jyhad works at all levels of the vampire society. It was a pretty good book. It's mainly about Elliott Sinclair a Toreador vampire who steps in to fill a vacuum of power when the Prince is incapacitated. He tries to keep things from getting out of hand while 2 very ancient and powerful vampires (mostly unseen and unknown) are pulling strings and orchastrating things to their liking. The little folk quit often get ground up between beings of that power. (