Foreword
I chose "World of Darkness" because this is the closer to this story. However this Fan Fiction is based on the "1000 years old vampire" game with influences from the World of Darkness Game.
In the game of the 1000 years old Vampire, the player imagines a supernatural creature and plays through its journey through the centuries by answering a series of prompts and making memories, that are eventually lost to the fog of time. The mechanics of the game are simple and include skills, resources and characters and they are not important to understand and follow this story.
For this story, I chose to use the "Journaling game" method of the game. The various events are presented from first person view in small paragraphs in the chronological order that they happen. There are few indications about which memories are lost as time passses in the story itself; however, most of the events you would read about have been forgotten by Sir Walder at the end of his long life.
In Sir Walder's Journey, my character is not a vampire in the traditional sense; he is a person that uses the blood of others to sustain his unaging body but doesn't drink it, instead, he bathes in it in an elaborate ritual. While the ritual makes Sir Walder immune to normal diseases and the ravages of time, it doesn't confer true immortality as violence can end his unnaturally extended life. The ritual makes sir Walder significantly more powerful than a normal person but not an unstoppable force. For all its benefits, the ritual has an important drawback: The slow erosion of memories. This is the main theme of the game after all.
Another deviation from the format (or title) of the 1000 years old vampire is that I chose to contain the life of my character in a smaller timeframe. The jumps between events are not centuries but decades and this makes the loss of memories more horrific. Sir Walder doesn't just forget a person he met 4 centuries ago, he may forget someone that he met just a couple of decades ago.
Sir Walder can (and does) make a journal to keep his memories, but once a journal is lost or destroyed, the memories within are lost as well.
It is not explicitly stated in the journal entries chronicled in this story, but Sir Walder forgets his original name midway in his story. The memories retained at the end of story are shown in the last part of this story.
Characters are mentioned at the end of each section. Mortals are mundane humans (or animals) whille "Immortal" refers to any kind of long-lived unaging supernatural creature.