Good evening friends,neighbors,my people,you all know who you are.Tonight,we shall discuss thouse drafty webs we weave called faith.We have many names for faith.I do not speak of it in the religious sense,oh no.The faith I speak of,swims deeper than that lie.The faith I speak of,is the kind of web that binds good friends together,and fills their minds and hearts with joy.It is a rare thing,this kind of web,and it is easily destroyed,and yet,sometimes,it's strands are stronger than diamonds.Sometimes,though like the snow leopard,it is the rarest kind of web we weave,for to be that strong two people must be able to recognize the hell we create for ourselves,and then they must be able to hold onto each other,and move through the darkness of lies till they reach the light of truth.Ahh and here I said I wasn't going to speak of religion,so just to clarify my meaning,by hell,I do not mean the hell that the bible speaks of,oh no.I mean the hell that we create for ourselves,when we inflict pain on others,just to boost our own sense of worth.That kind of self worth,goes by many names, but it's true name is vanity,and vanity friends,is an insane twisted monster that crawls from the dark depths of a beings soul,that place we all know exists,and that to a degree,we all despise,and then overtakes it's better nature till it consumes it,and fills it with darkness,sometimes to the point that very little light exists,and sometimes,it consumes all the light,leaving the being an evil,vile beast that knows only sadness,misery and pain,and longs only to destroy others.I have known many beings,that have let vanity consume them,and recently my faith in humanity faultered,and I considered giving up,throwing all knoledge,and reason to the winds of fate,and leaping into the fires of folly,but then,as I stood at the crossroads of faith.As the fog of despair closed in on me,I looked around,and saw a being coming towards me.The being got closer,and closer,and closer,and I saw that the being was a woman.The woman got closer,until we stood next to each other.She was truly beautiful,the living embodiment of beauty really,and her eyes were kind.She spoke to me,and her voice was like music,and it spoke only the truth.She spoke of sadness in the false reality,and then reminded me that though evil is always there,good too,is always there,and that it is up to us,to choose which path to follow,and thus,I should not depair,because I have chosen the path to the truths of all things,and that is good,and thus,all is gravy.We spoke more,and as I looked into her eyes,I saw the mountains,and the fields of beautiful flowers,and the deserts,and jungles,and the grass after a spring rain,and it was all beautiful,and in that moment,that woman restored my faith in humanity,not completely,oh no,but she restored it enough to allow me to go on for awhile longer,and for that,I am grateful.I thanked her over and over and over again,and then,the fog of lies vanished,and the path to the truths of all things was visable again,and so,the lady and I parted,and though we went seperate ways,we both knew we would meet again,and that we had both made a friend,and that was good.This woman is listening tonight,and once again,I thank you dear lady.You are beautiful,and wonderful,and I am glad to call you friend.Before I end tonights broadcast,I once again return to the monster called vanity,and I say to you,the masses,do not let vanity consume you.It is a monster.A cancer of the soul that will consume you,and destroy the light that lives inside you,till only darkness remains.We all have a dark side.We all have that beast called vanity inside us,but when it roars and tries to climb out of the dark depths of our souls,we must drive it back down where it can do no harm.If we do not control it,it will control us,and thus,we will be damned.Till we talk again.Good night friends,and when you dream,dream well.
Good evening friends.It's so good to be with you again,on this lovely winter night,and though i'm taping this at 11:30 in the afternoon,it's best that I do it now,so i'm not missed at the asylum tonight.They always have a wonderful party on thanksgiving,and i'd like to attend it,so I do hope you'll forgive me.Well,we come again to thanksgiving,and what have we done this year hmm?Have we learned from our mistakes,or are we still pretenders to the throne of truth?Thouse people that add a million people to their facebook accounts,then only say hello to a few of them on their birthdays,have learned nothing.They are,and probably will always be pretenders,smiling at others through the looking glass of the false reality,while running marathons of lies around the truth,and the truth my friends,is that,very few beings actually care about all the other beings,that grace their existence on a daily basis.Oh they pretend they care.They bake cookies from time to time and on rare occaisions,they even call to say,howdy,but rarely do they leap into the fires of truth and dance among the flames.Are they fools?Some are.Others are just ignorant.The ignorant think there'll always be time,and thus,they ignore the majority of thouse they call friend,in favor of their foolish dance.Sadly,most human beings are still trapped in the dark ages of thought,and thus,most of them will never truly understand the truths of all things,one of thouse truths being that,friendship is the only thing,that truly matters in life.Life is short friends,and when a person is gone,they are gone forever.I recently made a mistake with a friend,and I realize now that it matters not what our views on certain subjects are.The only thing that matters,is our friendship,and thus,I say to you my friend,I pray you can forgive me,for unlike the majority of beings in the false reality,I do not run marathons around the truth.I understand how short life is,and how fast it goes by,and I value friendships whereever I find them,and though most beings that hear my words tonight shall give them no thought,and go on the way they've always gone on,and still embrace ignorance,I shall endeavor to hold friendship in the highest regard.So on this thanksgiving ponder on thouse you call friends,and ask yourselves,how much do you really care about them,and if you find that you have been running marathons of lies,stop running.Walk awhile.Stop and smell the sweet roses of friendship,for like the roses,soon,thouse we call friends will soon wither and die,leaving us with only memories of what once was,and thus,perhaps,if you can realize that,you'll become better friends.Till we talk again.Be safe and well on the morrow,and happy thangsgiving.
The woman that the kindred call our lady of the dragon is one of the most interesting and one of the most dangerous vampires that has ever lived.She predates vlad dracul and is rumored to be the first child of the child of the tzimisce antideluvian,and that's why the vampires of romainia and of the ordo dracul revere and fear her.This story begins in the year 1390,with the birth of the woman that would become our lady of the dragon.No one knows her real name,and no one knows where she grew up,though most vampire scholars believe she was born to peasant farmers,and grew up in one of the towns close to bucharest.Many vampire scholars point out the fact that there's no proof that she was born in 1390,and that it's only accepted as the year of her birth because several nosferatu that claim to know her say she told them that that was the year of her birthnot alloweding on.Almost nothing is known about our lady of the dragons life before her embrace,but if the nosferatu are telling the truth,in the year 1403,when our lady of the dragon was 13 years old,her parents arranged a marriage to a thirteen year old boy from a noble family in bucharest.Normally,she would have been married to the child of another peasant family,but our lady of the dragon is a beautiful woman.Stunning.A goddess really,and she's so beautiful that word of her beauty spread through the country towns,and reached the noble familes in the capitol,and they contacted her family,which led to the marrage.The last name of the family that our lady of the dragon married into was cunescu and her husbands name was rurik.For awhile,everything went well.The money that the cunescu family gave to the parents of our lady of the dragon allowed them to buy more grain,and a few more animals and the lives of her family got better,and the nosferatu say that our lady told them that rurik was tall,and thin,and he had long black hair and dark brown eyes,and that he was kind,and she and rurik soon fell in love,and though they spent long hours together in the evening,their days were spent going about the business of life.While rurik worked in his fathers metal shop,our lady tended to the chores around the house,and one of thouse chores was going to the well everyday to get water,and due to her beauty,she was the talk of the town,and many young men began to gather at the well to watch her as she got the water.Our lady didn't mind.She liked the attention,and sometimes she smiled at the men,but what she didn't know was that,along with the men,someone else was watching her.Someone that would change our ladys life forever.A month after our ladys wedding,she left her house early in the day,as she always did,and walked to the well.She filled her bucket with water,and began walking home.Along the way,she saw a tall thin middle aged man with short grey hair and grey eyes walking down the road ahead of her.He was well dressed,wearing the clothes of a nobleman.The man seemed to be in pain,and when he fell to the ground,our lady walked over to him,and gave him some water.The man thanked her,and stood up,but as our lady turned to pick up the bucket,the man grabbed her.Though our lady fought to get away,the man was too strong for her.The man dragged our lady into the forest to a black carrage.He opened the door of the carrage,threw her into it,then closed the door and locked it.Our lady looked around for a handle on the carrage door,but there was none.The man then walked to the front of the carrage,climbed into the seat,grabbed the reigns,and moved them up and down across the horses backs which got them moving.The carrage moved through the country the rest of the day,and into the night,and then went up into the mountains.It arrived at a castle in the middle of the night.The man stopped the horses,climbed down to the ground,walked to the door of the carrage,and opened it,which was what our lady was waiting for.She lept from the carrage and began running.She didn't get far.As she ran,she heard the sound of heavy breathing,and she knew she was being chased by a few big dogs.She ran on,but she began getting tired,and after awhile,she could run no longer.She fell to the ground,and turned around to see ten big black wolves.The wolves surrounded her,and began closing in on her.When the wolves got to within a few inches,they prepared to attack her,but as they moved toward her,a loud voice said "STOP!"Our lady looked toward the voice and saw the man that had grabbed her standing a few feet away.The man spoke again."You can come with me,or stay here with them.""The choice is yours."Our lady stood up,and went with the man.The man led our lady to the castle.He led her into it,and she was amazed at what she saw.It was beautifully decorated.Persian rugs and many kinds of weapons and paintings hung on the walls.There was chandeliers made of gold hanging from the ceilings,and vases and white marble sculptures of naked men and women standing on pedestals all around the room.A staircase of polished stone with a bronze guard rail went up from the first floor.Our lady had never seen such things,and as she stood there,she heard a voice."Good evening."Our lady looked around and saw a tall man,in a red robe standing by the stairs.He was handsome,tall,thin,and he had shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes.He smiled at our lady and walked over to her.When he spoke,his voice was pleasant and it seemed kind."Forgive my servant.""He was acting on my orders.""Why did you bring me here?"Our lady asked."I brought you here,because in all the years that I've lived,I've never seen a woman,as beautiful as you are,and to let you languish in the life you were living would be a sin."Our lady was confused,but also curious."My lord"said our lady,"I am a married woman.""I know"said the man."But you deserve so much more,than your husband can give you,and thus,from now on,you will live here,and I will give you everything.""I will feed you.""I will give you beautiful clothes to wear,and wonderful perfumes to put on your skin,and I will give you the most beautiful jewels in the world.""I will also educate you.""All this I will give you,and when you are ready,I will give you a special gift.""However,you must choose.""You can live here,and experience wonderous things,or you can refuse my gifts,and if you refuse,I will kill you quickly.""Choose.""Now."Our lady didn't waste any time."I choose to stay here my lord."The man smiled."Excellent."He said."My servant will show you to your room,and on the morrow,I will introduce you to a new world.""Oh,and if you try to leave the castle,my dogs will kill you.""Goodnight my dear lady."The man walked away,and the other man showed our lady to her room.For the next 14 years,our lady lived in the castle.She never learned her hosts name,though she learned the servants name was serel valescu,and that he always called her host,dracon.During the years our lady lived in the castle,she grew from a pretty girl,into a beautiful woman,with long cherry blonde hair,and beautiful grey eyes.Dracon gave her everything.He gave her beautiful clothes,and wonderful perfumes,and beautiful jewels,and he taught her the history of many cultures,and math,and how to write,and though she never truly developed a love for dracon,she did become comfortable with him,to the point of adoration,though she also missed her husband more and more as the years passed.In the year 1417,when our lady was 27 years old,she could stand it no more.She had to see rurik.In the years she'd lived in the castle,she learned everything about it.She knew every room,crack,and secret passage in the castle,and she knew that dracon slept during the day.She waited till serel was out tending to the horses and then she left her room.She walked through the hall to the staircase,then went to the first floor,then to the staircase that led to the dungeon.She went down the stairs till she reached it,then ran though it till she reached a certain candle holder that was attached to the wall.She pulled it down,and a part of the wall opened revealing a secret passage.She ran into it,and then ran through it,till she reached the outside of the castle.When she reached the outside of the castle,she stopped and looked around.She hadn't been outside the castle walls in years,and for a few seconds the sight of it was a shock to her,but she got over it quickly.Our lady knew the dogs must have been around,and she waited for the sound of their heavy breathing,but after a few minutes,she heard nothing.She walked a few feet and listened again.Again she heard nothing.She walked a few more feet and listened again,and again,she heard nothing.She started running down the road as fast as she could.She ran and ran and ran and she ran through the day and into the night.She reached the town,and then she ran to her house.She knocked on the door,and a servant named onya answered it.The two women instantly recognized each other,and our lady smiled and hugged her.Both women had been young when our lady married rurik and now,they had both grown up.Before onya could talk,our lady ran into the house and called ruriks name.Rurik,the servants,and ruriks mother,awoke,got out of bed,and ran to the room that our lady was in,and when they saw our lady,they were shocked.Rurik walked over to our lady,and hugged her,and then told her they'd thought she'd been killed by wolves in the forest,and that they would never see her again.Our lady told rurik she had so much to tell him,but then she saw the pregnant woman and the little boy and girl that stood a few feet away from her.The woman was short and she was beautiful.Her hair was long and black,and her eyes were brown.The children looked like a blend of rurik and the woman,and it was then that our lady understood what had happened.Thinking that our lady was dead,rurik had remarried,and had two children with the woman,and was now expecting a third.Our lady was hurt,and broken,and her mind was racing.Rurik had gone on without her,and the feeling of betrayal overwhelmed her.Before anyone could stop her,our lady ran from the house.She ran through the streets and it began to rain.Our lady didn't care.She ran and ran and ran,and then she turned a corner,and stopped.She'd run into a dead end alley.She turned around to find that she was not alone.Ten people stood in the alley,a few feet away from her.Seven of them were men,and three were women.They smiled at her,and our lady suddenly got a bad feeling about them.The man that was standing the closet to our lady spoke."Well,look what has transpired.""Dracons little girl has left the protection of the castle,and strayed into our meager lives.""That's a shame for her."The man closed his eyes,and when he opened them again they were bright green.The man opened his mouth and revealed his fangs,and it was then that our lady saw that all the people had bright green eyes and fangs.They growled at our lady,and they began walking toward her.As they reached her they stopped,and looked at something behind her.They all got a scared look on their faces,and a few seconds later,something attacked them.Our lady would later say the creatures looked like a blend of shadow and blood.It had no definite shape,but it seemed to be viscus.It was fast too.It moved past our lady and with a wave of it's tendral,sliced the man that was closet to our lady in half,then it hit him again,and cut off his head.It then moved to each vampire,and cuts them into pieces with it's tendrals.A few seconds later,they all turned into dust.The creature moved back toward our lady and then moved past her.She turned around and saw dracon standing there.He smiled at her,and spoke,and though he could have chastised her,his voice was kind."Now you know why I told you never to leave the safty of the castle,and why I let you leave.""Rurik has moved on,and so must you.""All things must pass.""We are all forgotton eventually.""It is a sad lesson,we must all someday learn,and so now you have learned it."Dracon picked our lady up.He walked to the carrage,opened the door,got into it with our lady,closed the door,and then serel took them back to the castle.The next night dracon called our lady into the main room.He led her to a golden throne and told her to sit in it,and she did.Then dracon began to talk.He told her that he had seen her shortly before her marriage when she was a child,and that his reason for bringing her to the castle was so that her beauty would never fade away.He put his back to her,and reminded her about the gift that he had told her he would give her when he thought she was ready for it.He turned around,and our lady saw his eyes.They were not the brown eyes she had seen for so many years.They were bright green.Most women would have been scared,but our lady is tougher than most women,and she was curious.Dracon smiled and revealed his fangs,and our lady got more curious.Dracon told our lady that he was a vampire,and that he was very old.He told her that the gift he would give her,was immortality,but then told her,that he would give her the dark gift,only if she wanted it,and if she didn't want it,he would kill her quickly,to preserve her beauty forever.Our lady didn't hesitate.She told dracon that she wanted the dark gift.Dracon told our lady to stand up,and she did.He walked over to her.He put his right arm around her body,and with his left hand,her pulled her head back.He bit into her neck,and began to drink her blood.Our lady would later say that the sensation she felt at that moment,was the most magnificent thing she'd ever felt.Dracon drank till there was no blood left in our ladys body.He laid our lady on the floor,closed the wounds in her neck with his toungue,bit into his wrist,then put his wrist to our ladys mouth.Our lady began to drink dracons blood.She drank and drank,and drank,and then dracon said"enough".He pulled his wrist away from our ladys mouth,and sealed the wounds with his toungue.From that night,our lady was a vampire,and in the nights that followed,dracon told her all about the clan they came from,the tzimisce clan,and about their powers and weaknesses,and about the other clans of vampires.He told her the history of the vampire race,and explained that a vampires power was determined by its generation,and that,because he was the child of a third generation vampire,and she was his child,they were two of the most powerful vampires in the world.He told her about the anarch revolt,and that though he was powerful enough to keep the anarchs from breaching the walls of the castle,he could not protect her outside it's walls,but that his sire had taught him powers that the majority of vampires in the world,didn't know about.He then said that he would teach her everything he knew.Our lady listened,and learned,and over the next three centuries,dracon taught her the powers of the tzimisce clan,and powers that only he and a few old vampires knew.Anarch forces always gathered in the towns around the castle,but they never dared to attack it,and when the news about the convention of thorns that would end the anarch revolt reached the castle,dracon and our lady were relieved.They were proturbed when dracons nosferatu friend told him that the elders of the ventrue and the toreador clans had demanded that the leaders of the revolt be delivered to them,and destroyed,and that the lasombra and tzimisce clans,had announced that they were going to form a sect called the sabbat,which was the opposite of the sect called the camarilla,that the elders of the ventrue,toreador,and brujah clans had created.They had no love for the anarchs,but they thought that the elders of the camarilla should have kept their mouths shut,and that this would lead to more problems in the future.Shortly after the convention of thorns,dracon and our lady were summoned by the elders of the tzimisce clan,to discuss the split that had formed in the tzimisce clan,and they learned that thousands of young tzimisce had begun praticing a vampiric power called vicissitude,which could mold flesh and bone into anything the mind desired.The elders including dracon,though this was a perversion,and a decision was made to separate themselves,and their children from the younger tzimisce.From that time on,there would always be two kinds of tzimisce.The old clan,that praticed the disciplines,animalism,auspex,and dominate,and the new clan that praticed the disciplines auspex,animalism,and vicissitude,and the two clans would never coexist in peace again.In the years after the anarch revolt,dracon and our lady began traveling all around the world,and our lady experienced other lands,and cultures.They were careful to avoid vampires that were members of the camarilla,and the packs of sabbat and anarchs that roamed across europe.They spent many nights,talking in the havens of friends that had either traveled to the new world,or had friends that had gone there,and they were both excited and proturbed at the stories they heard,about the native people,and that there were native vampires in the new world too,that were old and very powerful,and that the land was full of werewolves and other powerful beings.In 1800,they went to sweden,and stayed there for a year.They loved sweden,and would sit outside on cold winter nights and talk about how beautiful the country was and how it reminded them of home.They returned to romainia in 1801,and stayed there till 1810,when the news of the lewis and clark expedition reached romainia.Our lady was anxious to see the new territory and she thought dracon was too,but one night he called her into the main room.There was a sadness in his eyes and she sat at his feet.The old vampire smiled at her.He touched her face and spoke."My dear child,I love you,not as a mentor or as a father,but as a man loves a woman,though I know you have never loved me the same way.""You care about me,but your mind and heart will always belong to another.""I gave you the greatest gift I could give you,but it came at the cost of your happiness,and for that I am truly sorry.""Some things must be paid for with the heaviest of prices.""I have lived a long time,and I have seen and done many things,but now,I no longer get sustenance from the blood of mortals.""It eventually happens to our kind,when they reach an advanced age,and I have felt it coming for awhile,but I didn't want to leave you till you had finished your training,and now you have,and thus,it is time for me to go.""Go?""Go where?"Our lady asked."I must sleep the sleep of ages,but do not fear my child.""I have taught you everything I know,and now you must make your way in the world.""When we met,you were a baby bird,and through the years I have given you knoledge,and now,you must fly on your own,as all birds must someday do.""The castle is now yours,and wherever you go,it will always be here for you.""On the morrow,I will not be with you,and we will not meet again for a long time,but always remember that I love you,and I always will."Our ladys eyes filled with tears of blood,and dracon stood up.Our lady stood up,and hugged dracon,and he hugged her back,and kissed her on her lips,and gently touched her cheek.Then he spoke to her one last time."Fare well my child,and when you dream,dream well."Dracon let go of our lady and walked away.The next night,when our lady awoke,she looked for dracon.She looked all over the castle but she never found him,and then she knew,that her sire was gone.She knew not where,but she hoped that one day,she would see him again.Our lady began traveling again.In 1830,she visited the western united states,and she later told some nosferatu friends that she liked it there.She said there was a raw beauty to the west,and she traveled back and forth between the east and west and was appalled by the institution of slavery,though she did nothing to stop it.When the civil war began,our lady went to canada,and stayed there till the civil war ended,and then she returned to the west,but she would later say that though she never lost her love of the west,something had changed in the years that she was gone.The raw beauty she loved,had begun to erode due to the stupidity of vain mortals,that destroyed the lands in search of gold,and the native peoples that had lived there for thousands of years,and she felt that the magic that had attracted her so many years eariler,was gone.Our lady left the united states in 1870,and returned to europe.She traveled around europe for the next thirty years,then returned to romainia,and to the castle she had shared with her sire.She stayed there for ten years,and in that time,she spent time with only a few vampires,mostly nosferatu.She would later say that out of all the clans,she liked the nosferatu the most,because their ugliness made them truly beautiful,and that only they understood what true beauty was.In 1914,when world war one started,our lady retreated to her castle to wait out the war.She cared nothing for it,and it must be noted that mortal regiments of the central powers,would not go near her castle.They few times they tried the weather turned bad,and many nosferatu scholars would later write that a sense of dread filled their minds,and the combination of the dread and the bad weather,scared the shit out of all of them,so they avoided the place.In the modern nights vampires all over the world talk in whispers about thouse nights,and say that the sense of dread that scared the mortals and the bad weather,was due to the dark powers that dracon taught our lady,but no one knows for sure if this is true,and the few vampires that are friends of our lady,never talk about it,so this remains speculation.After the war,our lady began traveling through europe,and she became proturbed by the growing prejudice towards the jews and other groups of people in germany,and she told some of her friends that she knew it would lead to war.She left europe in 1920,and went to new york city,and stayed there for the entire decade.She would later say that she enjoyed the roaring twenties,and that she had befriended louis armstrong and that she would spend a lot of time with him,and they would talk and dance and she would listen to him play the trumpet.In 1930,she returned to europe,and again became proturbed by growing prejudice,and when adolf hitler became chancellor of germany in 1933,and began closing jewish stores and burning books,our lady told a few friends,hitler is truly evil,and he will plunge the world into war very soon.In 1939,when germany invaded poland and world war two began,our lady again retreated to her castle,and a year later,on the night of November 23rd,when news reached the castle that romaina had joined the axis powers(I heard this from a nosferatu friend of mine that is a friend of our lady of the dragon and was in the castle that night)our lady flew into a rage,and vowed that no nazi would ever set foot inside the castle.The nazis entered romainia and began deporting jews and groups of other people that they deemed unworthy of life to concentration camps and the vampires of europe began to meet in large groups to discuss what to do.Our lady,mad that the world had not stopped hitler,and knowing the threat the nazis posed to the mortal herds that gave her and every vampire sustenence,also met with some vampires,and discussed what to do.She pondered on what to do for eight months,till the night of July 7th,when a platoon of nazis entered the towns near her castle and began rounding up people.Half of them went to her castle,and demanded she open the gates for them.Serel had been dracons ghoul for centuries,and he now served our lady.Our lady told him to open the gates for the nazis,invite them in,wait till they were on the castle grounds,then close the gates,and lock them.Serel went to the gates.He opened them,invited the nazis onto the castle grounds,waited till every nazi had entered the castle grounds,and then he closed the gates and locked them.He ran to the castle and entered it through a secret door,leaving the nazis to wonder why no one had come out to greet them.My nosferatu friend told me what happened next.He said the night sky got darker than it had been,and storm clouds filled the sky over the castle.Lightning began to strike close to the nazi platoon,and the number of bolts grew in number.The rain started to fall.Then,a bolt of lightning more powerful than the others struck the entire platoon,and when it was gone,all that was left of the platoon was piles of ashes.Even the tanks were melted wrecks.A few seconds later,another bolt of lightening struck the platoon,and when it was gone,nothing of the platoon remained.The entire time this was happening,our lady sat in a chair in the big room of the castle,looking at my friend and the other vampires that were there,and smiling.When the platoon didn't report back to their superiors,another platoon was sent to the castle.It too,met the fate of the former platoon,and when it failed to report back to the german high command,a third platoon was sent.It failed to report back to the german high command,and none of the soldiers or the tanks were ever seen again.After that hitler and the german high command began to think that some great evil lived in the castle,and he never sent soldiers to the castle again.Our lady then began holding meetings in the castle.She invited vampires from all over europe to discuss the nazi problem,and it didn't matter whether they were from the camarilla,sabbat,or anarch factions.Every faction knew the danger the nazis posed to their survival,so they put their differences aside and agreed to work together to destroy the nazis,and destroy they did.From 1941 on,while mortal armies fought a war against the axis powers,vampires all over the world fought a secret war against the vampires that had joined the third reich,and at the same time they aided the mortal resistances in all the countries of europe that germany had occupied.On January 1st,1942,our lady left the castle,and began traveling around europe,and at the same time,many vampires that had joined the nazi party vanished.None of them were ever seen or heard from again,and though,the vampire race has no proof that it was our lady of the dragon that had killed them,deep down we all know it was her.Soon after nazi vampires started vanishing,something disturbing happened.Vampires all around the world,that supported the nazi cause began voicing their displeasure about the actions of our lady,and at a vampire convention that was held in a nosferatu city under new york city on October 13th 1943,all the vampires that believed in the nazi cause began screaming that our lady of the dragon must be destroyed for her actions,which pissed off the vampires that hated the nazis,and a big fight erupted.When the nazi lovers threatened to call a blood hunt on our lady,a 7th generation malkavian named john omillon stood up and screamed,"SHE DID IT,AND I'M GLAD SHE DID IT!""THE NAZIS ARE SCUM AND THEY DESERVED TO DIE,AND I HAVE THREE THINGS TO SAY TO ANYONE THAT WANTS TO KILL OUR LADY OF THE DRAGON!""ONE,THE MALKAVIANS WILL STAND BY HER,AND THAT MEANS THAT ANYONE THAT FUCKS WITH HER,FUCKS WITH US,AND YOU DON'T WANNA FUCK WITH US!""TWO,EVEN WITHOUT OUR HELP,SHE'S POWERFUL ENOUGH TO DESTROY ANYONE THAT TRIES TO DESTROY HER,NO MATTER HOW MANY OF THEM THERE ARE,AND THREE,I DON'T KNOW WHO BROUGHT THE BLOOD FILLED DOUGHNUTS,BUT DAMN THEY ROCK,NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!"That silenced the nazi lovers for good.After that the vampires that believed in the nazi cause and that wanted to kill our lady never spoke about either subject in public again.The killing of nazi vampires continued till the end of the war,and after the war,as mortals hunted nazis that had escaped germany in the final days of world war two,so too,did our lady.Between 1945 and 1973 our lady killed so many nazi vampires that thouse she did not kill refused,and still refuse to go to romainia,not because they fear the ordo dracul,but because they fear her.In 1973 our lady returned to romainia,and used her connections with a few old vampires to slowly erode the communist government,and when it fell in 1989,she told my nosferatu friend that this would be a new beginning for her,and for her country.Since 1990,our lady has stayed in romainia,and the nosferatu say that on moonlit nights,she leaves the castle,in a white dress with no shoes,and that she walks through the towns and the forests,her bare feet touching the soil,of the country she loves. A few words on the ordo dracul-Our lady of the dragon never joined the ordo dracul,and for five hundred years they've sent their agents to her castle to extend an invitation of membership to her,and for five hundred years she's sent the agents back,disturbed.They all look scared,and they never speak again,and when questioned by the elders of the ordo dracul,all they do is look at them,with a look of terror in their eyes.The agents never recover,which leaves the elders perplexed,and in 1990 they met to discuss what to do.They decided that our lady of the dragon must have powers that are truly terrible,and that the best thing to do is to leave her alone,so they stopped sending agents to her castle,though they continue to ponder on her and to watch her castle.
The vampire known as our lady of ashes is as mysterious as she is beautiful.No one knows her real name,and many vampires believe she's dead.She first appeared in the vampiric community in england in the year 1421,at a gathering of vampires in london that was owned by a 7th generation ventrue named charles errol.She wasn't invited and no one knew how she got past the brujah that were guarding the door.She never spoke to anyone.She walked around watching everyone at the party.The anarch revolt was raging at the time,and everyone began to suspect that she was an anarch spy,sent to gather information about the elders,but for some reason,no one seemed to have the ability to ask her to leave.They couldn't even muster up the willpower to walk over to her and talk to her.All they could do was talk to each other,and though they should have been scared,they weren't.They would later say that the woman gave them a good feeling,and it was as if they were in the presence of an angel.The woman walked around for ten minutes,and then,she was gone.No one could remember her leaving the house.The next night charles went to the prince of london.mythras,and told him what had happened,though mythras already knew,due to his nosferatu contacts,and asked him for help.Charles was sure the woman was an anarch spy,and that the anarchs were planning to assassinate him.Mythras told him to get out of the city for awhile,and that he would look into the matter.He told his nosferatu contacts to discover the identity of the woman,and gather as much information on her as they could,but month after month passed,and the nosferatu discovered nothing,which worried mythras.Hee hee hee hee hee,oh thouse ventrue.They scare so easily,but on with the story.1422 came and went without a sighting of the woman,but in 1423 she was seen by a seventh generation toreador named isobelle cather.Travelling anywhere for elders during the time of the anarch revolt was dangerous,and elders rarely left the safety of their havens,but isobelle was a member of the council of london,and thus,when mythras called a meeting,for any reason,isobelle had to go.Isobelle was riding through the streets of london in her carrage,when she saw a beautiful woman in a black dress standing on a street corner.It was raining,as it often does in london,and the woman had an umbrella.Isobelle looked out the window of the carrage,and saw the woman,but at first,she didn't think anything about it,and looked at the papers she would need at the meeting,but as the carrage got closer to the woman,isobelle noticed that many people had walked past the woman,but the woman never moved.Isobelle thought she might be waiting for someone,and again,she looked away,but as the carrage reached the place that the woman was standing,isobelle looked out the window and saw the woman looking at her.Isobelle instantly got a good feeling,like she was in the presence of greatness,and it bothered her.She knew the woman was a vampire,but she also knew that vampires give off an eerie feeling,that disturbs people.Not a good feeling that puts people at ease.The woman was beautiful.She wasn't tall,but she was eye level with most people,and she was thin.Her hair was long,and brown,and she had beautiful grey eyes,with some blue in them.The carrage passed the woman,and isobelle looked out the carrage window to look at the woman again,but the woman was gone,leaving isobelle feeling like she was strangely blessed.She went to the meeting and when it was over,she told mythras what had happened.Mythras wasn't happy.He was sure this was some kind of anarch trick to get him,and all the elders to lower their guard,and he began to ponder on the woman,and of a way to be rid of her forever.Again,mythras told his nosferatu contacts to discover the identity of the woman,and gather as much information as they could about her,but she wasn't seen again for the rest of the year,and all of 1424.Just as mythras got used to the idea that the woman was gone,she was seen again,by a 6th generation toreador named clare brendel.Clare was sitting in her haven,mourning the loss of her lover,another 6th generation toreador named james swenson,and his child,eric sigmunsen.Both had been killed in an anarch ambush,and clare was so sad that she was considering walking into the sunlight and ending her life.As she pondered on doing that,she looked up and saw a woman standing in front of her.She knew from the womans features that it was the mysterious woman that had been seen by several vampires and that the prince of london was looking for,but instead of running from the room,to report the sighting,she stayed where she was.The woman smiled at clare,and touched her blood stained face.She wiped clares tears of blood away and clare suddenly felt a sense of peace,that she would later say she'd hadn't felt since she was a child.She touched the womans hands and the sense of peace filled her entire body.The woman never spoke.She just looked into clares eyes and smiled,and after a few minutes she walked away.Clare never saw the woman again,and shortly after clare reported seeing the woman to mythras,she went to the east to study with a powerful malkavian that was a golconda master,in the hopes that she too,could attain golconda,and though she hasn't been seen in centuries,if she was lucky,she might have achieved her goal.One persons good fourtune however,is anothers bad cookies,and when mythras heard what had happened,he flew into a rage.The elders were losing the war,and now he had this vampire spreading joy throughout his kingdom.He decided that the woman had to be stopped,before she began turning more vampires from the path of the predator,so he called a meeting of elders in london,and after a long discussion,he produced proof,that the woman was a powerful malkavian anarch,and that she had the power to affect the way vampires thought,and could even change their way of thinking perminently,and that her goal was to turn enough powerful vampires into kind,loving,sheep,that would lose the will to fight,thus they'd either flee from the anarchs or get killed by them,thus giving the anarchs the victory over the elders that they so desired.The elders must have known the evidence was false,but they didn't dare protest.Mythras was a 4th generation vampire,a methuselah,and he was extreamly powerful,so when mythras called for a bloodhunt,all the elders agreed with him.Word about the bloodhunt spread quickly,and many vampires hoped they'd be the ones to diablerize the woman,but she was not seen again for the rest of that year.The war raged on,and for the next two years,the woman was not seen by any vampires in london.Reports that the woman had been seen by other vampires in other parts of europe came into london,and though mythras and may elders weren't sure they were true,in thouse two years,thirty elders from all over europe,told their friends and princes,that the woman had helped them find a peace,they lost they would never find,and then,they packed up their things,and vanished,never to be seen again,which made the elders still fighting the war,very nervous.Mythras was further proturbed when he awoke one day,to find another vampire sitting in the corner of his room.His instinct told him the vampire was older and more powerful than he was,and he would later say that he somehow knew the vampire was a malkavian.The vampire stayed in the shadows,but his frame was thin,and he seemed to be tall.He spoke,and his voice had a chilling tone.He said,"Blessed be the truthbringers,for they and thouse that heed their message,will find enlightenment,and thouse that do not heed their message will be haunted by it,till the day comes when that truth will no longer be like the wind,and it will become a scythe,and all that do not heed its message will become like wheat before it,and they shall be cut down by it,and destroyed by it,and they shall be damned forever."Mythras blinked,and the malkavian was gone,and he knew that to destroy the woman,and all like her,was a fools jest.Power and greed are monsters though,and they can make people do terrible things,and thus,mythras did nothing,and as the war went on,so too,did the bloodhunt.The woman would be seen again,in the year 1428,and this time it was by an anarch,a 7th generation lasombra named john torrey.John would later say that while standing on the balcony in his sires haven one night,he realized that someone had walked onto the balcony in back of him.He turned around and saw a beautiful woman.She smiled at him,and touched his face,and when she did that,john got a feeling of peace that he hadn't felt in a long time.John blinked,and the woman was gone,but the sighting of the woman,and the peace he'd felt in her presence would change johns life forever.He secretly contacted elders around the world,though his nosferatu contacts,and told them that he no longer wanted to fight against them,and that he wanted to join them in their fight against the anarchs.To prove he wasn't lying,he began giving the elders information about the anarchs,and their battle plans,and due to his actions,many elders were able to turn what should have been anarch victories,into defeats,which hurt the morale of many anarchs,and began to erode the foundations that held them,and their cause together.The woman was not seen again in 1428,but in January of 1429,elders all over the world began getting reports from their nosferatu contacts in their domains,that they'd seen the woman in the presence of malkavians.Everytime the woman was seen,it was with a different malkavian,and every malkavian seemed forever changed by the encounter.They no longer seemed insane,and they seemed to have found a kind of peace.When asked about it,they would say,that they'd been visited by the great lady of truth,or the lady of the golden light,or our lady of hope,that spread the truths of all things to all she encountered.This made the elders more nervous.If the mysterious woman could make malkavians sane,what else could she do they thought.Was it possible that she wasn't a vampire,but perhaps an angel,sent by god to spead his love through the race of cain.The malkavians,and many other vampires from other clans,began calling the woman,our lady of hope,and the elders,increased their efforts to find and destroy her.Their efforts were unsuccessful,and as 1429,turned into 1430,it became clear to the elders that the malkavians might be protecting the woman.They didn't dare destroy most malkavians,out of fear of what the rest of their clan might do,but they began to offer rewards of money and blood to any malkavian that would deliver the woman to them.The malkavian response was always hysterical laughter,which both angered and created fear among the elders,and for the next fifty years,more vampires spoke of their encounters with the mysterious woman,and more vampires began seeking golconda.In 1480,when the tide of the war began to turn against the anarchs,the elders began putting more pressure on their nosferatu contacts,in an effort to find the woman,so that they could destroy her,but again,they couldn't find her,and when she was seen,it was never for a long time,and then she vanished and left no trace of her presence.Even the auspex discipline failed to find her,but after the convention of thorns in 1493,which ended the war and led to the creation of the camarilla and the sabbat,elders from both factions,increased their efforts to find the woman,so that they could destroy her.The factions,including factions of anarchs,tried to find the woman for the next two centuries.They always failed,and the woman kept appearing to vampires,then vanishing for awhile,then appearing to vampires again,and repeating the process over and over and over again.Every vampire the woman appeared to began seeking golconda soon after she'd appeared to them,which drove vampires all over the world,nuts,but this is where the story takes a sad turn.In the year 1737,the mysterious woman made a fatal mistake.Much like the malkavian crazy jane had done years eariler,the mysterious woman began appearing at asylums,that were known to be havens for malkavians,and vampires from other clans,and when she appeared,she brought peace not only to the vampires,but to the mortals as well,which put the masquerade at risk.The elders of the camarilla met to discuss what they should do,and they all agreed that the woman must be found,and destroyed,before mortals discovered what was going on,so they began watching asylums all over the world,and planting spies inside them.When the prince of a province in spain was told by one of his nosferatu contacts that the woman had been seen in a small asylum in the country,a few miles from madrid,he immeaditly sent a hit squad made up of brujah to the asylum.When the brujah arrived at the asylum,they were met but a nosferatu that told them that the mysterious woman was inside the asylum,moving through the mortals and vampires and giving them peace.Some of the brujah in the squad were old enough to know how to make greek fire,and they put the substance into wooden balls with wicks.The brujah surrouned the asylum,and on a signal,they all threw their greek fire grenades against the walls and into the windows of the asylum,which caused a raging fire in a few minutes.Mortals,and vampires burned to death and their screams filled the night.After the fire the brujah walked through the asylum,and used auspex to try to discover if the woman had been there.They felt the womans presence,but could not find her psychic trail leading away from the asylum,which caused them to believe that the woman had been destroyed,and the fact that malkavians all over the world,seemed to go into a deep depression,that lasted for months,confirmed in the minds of the elders that the mysterious woman had been destroyed in the fire,and if she had never been seen again,that would have been the end of the story,but it wasn't the end of the story,oh no no no no no.A year later,the nosferatu began reporting to the kindred powers that be,that they had seen the woman with several malkavians,and vampires from other clans,and shortly after the visitations from the woman,the vampires began seeking golconda.The elders became proturbed,and many of them sent out bands of hunters,with orders to find the woman,and destroy her,but everytime the hunters found the place that the woman was seen,and used their auspex,they were overcome with feelings of peace,and many of them began seeking golconda shortly after that.It happened so much that the elders stopped sending out hunters and shortly after the elders stopped doing that,the malkavians gave the woman a new title.They changed the title from our lady of hope,to our lady of ashes,due to the nature of her supposed demise,but since that time,our lady of ashes has been seen by vampires all over the world,and every vampire that encounters her,tells all the vampires around them that she's given them peace,and soon after that they begin seeking golconda.The camarilla,sabbat,and even the anarchs consider our lady of ashes a threat to their way of life,and many in all three factions hate and fear her,and they've all vowed to destroy her if they can.Many among the factions still try to find her.All have failed.The 7th generation lasombra john torre,joined the camarilla after the convention of thorns and now lives in a penthouse in manhattan.He's hated,not because he encountered our lady of ashes,but because he joined the camarilla,which the majority of lasombra hate,and he's considered a trator to his clan,and they declared a bloodhunt on him in 1493.John now lives in a golden cage.He rarely leaves the safty of the penthouse,which is surrounded by powerful magic that protects him from intruders,and when he does leave the penthouse,he's accompanied by alot of powerful brujah.My opinion of our lady of ashes,is that she's a good thing.A beautiful light in a dark world.May she shine forver.Till we talk again friends.Be safe and well on the morrow,and when you dream,dream well.
