The preface to this book is very cool. I know that this book is totallyfictional, and is in no way real, but the preface makes the book sound like itwas written from ancient scrolls and manuscripts that were uncovered through hisjournies. The preface describes how he was able to get all of the material towrite the book. It is incredibly detailed and extreamly vague at the same timeif that is possible.
With all of the history and this mans travels in thepreface, it seems like the book is written from fact and really gives the book anice read to it. Chapter Two: The Chronicals of Caine This is the begining ofCaine’s adventure, this story was written in a biblical type of story line. Thediffrence from the bible and this book is that instead of focusing on the light,it focuses on the darker side. Instead of god, this book more or less deals andtalks of the devil.
Caine in this story, just as in the bible, starts off bysacrificing his most prised possetion to god, in this case it happens to be hisbrother Able. He thinks this to be a fitting sacrifice because he was told tosacrifice that which was most dear to him. Insted of the praise that he thoughthe would recieve, he was cursed by the god he loved so much. He was cursed intothe land of NOD.
The land of nothing, the land of balckness. Caine, in this newworld, was completely helpless, until he came upon a woman named Lilith. Lilithwas able to help him and give him comfort. In doing so, she fell in love withCaine.
Caine, later, was vistited by the archangels of god. First was thearchangel Michel. Micheal offered himforgiveness, Caine’s responce was “Ishall not be forgiven by god but by my own strength. ” With this responceCaine was further cursed. God set onto him the curse that “For ever morefire shall bite you and take thy flesh openly. ” Making him even moreeffected by fire than normal mortals.
The next archangel to come was Rapheal. Again, Caine was offered forgiveness, again he refused, and again he was cursed. God set upon him the curse “Forever more, the suns rays shall burn theelike fire. ” This made him fear the light and even more embrace thedarkness. After that, The archangel Uriel came to him.
Again he was offeredforgiveness, and again he refused. His curse this time was “You shall drinkonly blood and eat ashes only. And you shall live forever more undead, neverdying. ” With this, he was cursed to live the rest of his life as, what nowis refered to as a Vampire. Lastley, he was joined again by and archangel. Hewas offered forgivness, he refused, and he was cursed again.
“Your childrenshall bear your same curse, and in them you will plant your dark seed. “With this his entire blood line was cursed to live out his same life. Caine wastotally devistated now, cursed to the brink, he pleeded with Lilith to teach himthe ways that she lived in this void so long. She taught him her secrets,Awakening the inner beast in him. With these new powers, Caine was able tofurther his powers with his own learning and experimenting. He learned thesecrets of the darkness.
With these powers he was able to leave NOD and returnback to his own world. Leaving Lilith behind in her NOD. Being new to the worldand very tired from the energy it took to get him there he needed blood to heal. He happend upon an old cron, that was more than willing to let him feed.
He fedon her for three days, and on the third she mixed a potion that she said wouldfully recover his wounds. Instead, it was a blood bind to the cron. Forever morethe cron could control Caine, and in that Caine would control anyone that drankof his blood. He then came back to the crone, and described to her a dream thathe pretended to have about his children coming back on him and trying to killhim, so the cron taught him how to kill a vampire, a wooden stake straight tothe heart. With this, Caine turns on the crone and shoves the wooden stakethrough her heart killing her.
Caine then goes back to the first city and ismade ruler, he gets bored after a while and wants company, so he bites Enche andis made his first son, Enche wishes to have brother and sister and so he isgiven them. And this is were it gets confusing. . . Chapter Two: The Chronicle ofShadows This is a very lengthy descusion of how and why the children of Caineoperate.
As his curse had earlier stated, Caine’s childeren were doomed toconstantly fight amunst them selves. Caine makes himself Ten more childern,making thirteen in all. These thirteen children of Caine seperate and make theirown children. These, Caine’s children and Caine’s children’s Children, createthier own clans in order to fight each other. It Describes each of the thirteenChildrens clans.
The clan names are as follows: Progeny, Canaille, Moon Beasts(Werewolves), WildOnes (Kamakazie Vampires), Bruhaj, Gangrel, Malvak, Nosferatu,Trendor, Venture, Saulot, Diablerie, Jyhad. Progeny are the ones that rules theland of enoche, the human city. Canaille are the ones that protected the humansfrom other vampires in return the humans hide and helped these vampires. MoonBeasts (Werewolves) are the vampires that, on full moons, change to wolvishmonsters and hunt the land for anything that move. The Wild Ones, the warriorclan, they are the most beautiful, yet most deadly. Bruhaj, they are a selfseving clan.
They can beat on each other but if you cross any of them, you getthe entire clan’s wrath. Gangrel will attack anything that moves just for thefun of it. Malvak are the choas bringers. They seek out any way to causedisruption. Nosferatu are the masters of the night.
They hide in the shadows, bythe time you see them your blood is already splattered on the walls. Trendor arenot fighters, They seek the more beautiful things and the more intellectualthings. Venture These are more or less the police for vampires. Saulot is a clanbased around the worship of their original father, Caine.
Diableria are focusedon pholosify and on the words of scollors. Jyhad is a clan that absolutelynothing is know for sertain about, but they are the focus of multipule myths. Each of the children and thier children fought the other of the thirteen clansuntil they die. Among these clans they were also hunted by humans that came toknow of the Vampires.
These children got to a point that Caine had to dosomething because he could not stand the fighting anymore. He came out with alist of rules for the Vampires to live by. The clans did not much like theserules and again Caine’s curse lived up to the words. Because of the rules he hadall of his children and thier children out for his blood. Caine went into hidingand was never seen from again.
Some of his children thought that he was hiding,some thought that he made a deal with the demons he controlled and went to rulethe underworld. But where ever he did go, he was never seen from again, whichall of them had stories of where he went. Chapter Three: The Chronicals ofSecrets This chapter describes what is profisised to happen, when, where and howCaine is to come back to the world of the real. It describes blood red moons,and pure black suns. The earth opening up and all the under demons of everyonesworst nightmares magnified comming forth to rule and kill the planet.
It is allthe fears and all of the hopes of Caine’s Children. It is said that Caine willcome back and rule the world and rule with an iron fist. He is said to rule in away that makes all of his followers so impure and ungodly that the stench of itreached to the high heavens and god himself chokes on the vapor. Did I mention Ilove this book? It also goes into some rules and lifestyles of vampires. Thetopic of love is mentioned by Caine and is siad that no vampire should endulgein love because it is not a thing that cursed creatures such as them should havein their non-lives.
