Rose Among Black Thorns

Act I: Prologue

A millennium has passed since Lord Kain set his capital in the ruins of The Pillars of Nosgoth and he began his conquest of the world. His first act was to recruit a cadre. Dipping into the underworld, and snared six souls and thus birthed his lieutenants of which I, Raziel was one. We then prowled the twilight of purgatory building six legions, of vampires to pillage Nosgoth.

The destruction of the major human kingdoms was inevitable. Within a hundred years, humanity had been thoroughly domesticated. To be sure, there remained some feral humans scattered across the hinterlands, clinging to their hopeless holy was to rid Nosgoth of the vampire scourge: they were tolerated. They made existence for the fledglings' more challenging.

After the taming of the humans, our real work began; shaping Nosgoth to our will. Around the Pillars, slaves constructed a shrine worthy of our new age, worthy of our new renaissance. Huge furnaces were built to belch smoke into the sky, shielding the land from the poisonous effects of the sun. Never had the world known a time of such beauty. However, we grew bored.

We allowed the remains of the legions, the lesser vampires, to have their intrigues. They provided amusement and spice to an increasingly uninspired court. As faction fell against faction we bet upon the outcome. We helped and foiled our plots at our whim. We were the council and Lord Kain, our only master.

During our little amusement a women of sun golden hair sapphire blue eyes entered the Sanctuary. She glowed brightly around her body. The woman gracefully walked towards our, Lord; as she looked upon us. The woman had stopped in front of our Lord, as he sat in his throne. Kain sat holding his Soul Reaver like a staff our, Lord looked upon the golden haired goddess; as he got up from his throne placing the Reaver aside. We all watched as our, Lord circled the goddess; as one of his cloven hands gently intertwined into her strands of fine yellow hair.

Our theory was that she would be a blood sacrifice but, we were wrong; she finally looked upon Kain as he stopped in full circle in front of her. Inspecting some qualities he was looking for something, for that I cannot say; the goddess looked at our, Lord; as he backed away grinning a sultry smile. One that none of which me and my brethren have not seen before. We were signaled to leave he throne room as I walked out last all I could see was the dropping of the goddess' dress and my Lord's hands around her waist drinking from her, as the granite doors shut leaving me in the outskirts of what was about to unfold in that chamber. I averted my eyes from the door; as I found that my Lords 4 fledgling daughters were standing in front of me. Galis, Thea, Hecate, and Misa were indeed special born from the wombs of 4 very special vampire hosts. Only the strongest vampire females were chosen throughout the years to carry Kain's essence. The process to create such broods was time consuming and required the ancient magic's from the very first vampires. The text was encoded stated 'The Goddess Cosmos will endow thy vessel with the power of creation; then and there shall thy vessel will be blessed…' Kain indeed found a way to create such children but, now the goddess herself gave my Lord her body for what reasons are unclear…