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** '''Blood Chastain''', or ''Shepherds'', can [[{{Familiar}}speak to and bond certain kinds of animals]], most often bats, rats, crows or wolves. The best can also [[VoluntaryShapeshifter shapeshift directly into animal forms]]. Their symbol shows two black wolves beneath twin moons.
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** '''Blood Chastain''', or ''Shepherds'', can [[{{Familiar}}speak [[{{Familiar}} speak to and bond certain kinds of animals]], most often bats, rats, crows or wolves. The best can also [[VoluntaryShapeshifter shapeshift directly into animal forms]]. Their symbol shows two black wolves beneath twin moons.
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* ProudWarriorRace: The highlander clans of Ossway count among the toughest warriors in the Empire, with an incredibly ferocious, martial culture and endemic warfare between clans even in times of peace. The high prevalence of duskdancers among their number, as well as their religious dispute with the rest of the realm, only serves to entrench their already fierce indepence. As the saying goes:
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* ProudWarriorRace: The highlander clans of Ossway count among the toughest warriors in the Empire, with an incredibly ferocious, martial culture and endemic warfare between clans even in times of peace. The high prevalence of duskdancers [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent duskdancers]] among their number, as well as their religious dispute with the rest of the realm, only serves to entrench their already fierce indepence. As the saying goes:
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-->''"We war with our kinfolk, until,''"
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-->''"We war with the world.''"
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-->''"We war with the world.''"
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-->''"I war with my sister, until,
We war with our kinfolk, until,
We war with the Highlands, until,
We war with the world.''"
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We war with the Highlands, until,
We war with the world.''"
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-->''"I war with my sister, until,
Weuntil,''"
-->''"We war with our kinfolk,until,
Weuntil,''"
-->''"We war with the Highlands,until,
Weuntil,''"
-->''"We war with the world.''"
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-->''"We war with the Highlands,
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-->''"We war with the world.''"
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* ProudWarriorRace: The highlander clans of Ossway count among the toughest warriors in the Empire, with an incredibly ferocious, martial culture and endemic warfare between clans even in times of peace. The high prevalence of duskdancers among their number, as well as their religious dispute with the rest of the realm, only serves to entrench their already fierce indepence. As the saying goes:
-->''"I war with my sister, until,
We war with our kinfolk, until,
We war with the Highlands, until,
We war with the world.''"
-->''"I war with my sister, until,
We war with our kinfolk, until,
We war with the Highlands, until,
We war with the world.''"
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* CharmPerson: All ''highblood'' vampires radiate some kind of a dark aura, a sensory pressure which either draws or repels every mortal around them, without exception, like wolves walking among flocks of sheep. Most bloodlines can further channel this supernatural charisma buff into some kind of [[MoreThanMindControl mind control]], and all of them can command their ''wretched'' cousins to some degree. The vampires' ''paleblood'' offspring also inherit this power, though their is much more subdued.
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* DepravedBisexual: Whether vampires start out as straight, gay or anything in between, they all eventually tend to fall into this trope. As one of them puts it, after years of immortality, all the differences sink into eternity in their perception, physical beauty being the only deciding feature when it comes to lovers.
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* VampireHunter: The Silversaints of the Ordo Argent are sworn to hunt creatures of darkness across the Empire, with vampires constituting their primary and most common quarry, though they are also mentioned to have hunted [[WickedWitch witches]], [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[FairFolk faekin]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent duskdancers]].
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* VampireHunter: The Silversaints of the Ordo Argent are sworn to hunt creatures of darkness across the Empire, with vampires constituting their primary and most common quarry, though they are also mentioned to have hunted [[WickedWitch witches]], [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[FairFolk faekin]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent duskdancers]].
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* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: Blood Esani vampires dedicate themselves to consuming others of their kind in order to "save their souls from damnation." It helps that the process of draining another vampire allows the Esani to steal all their accumulated strength and access powers belonging to other bloodlines, making the Faithful some of the strongest beings in the world. The process does have a flipside, however - consuming too many souls will eventually lead to most Esani developing some form of insanity, usually a multiple personality disorder, as the burden of carrying so many cursed souls takes its toll on the Faithful.]]
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* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: Blood Esani Esana vampires dedicate themselves to consuming others of their kind in order to "save their souls from damnation." It helps that the process of draining another vampire allows the Esani Esana to steal all their accumulated strength and access powers belonging to other bloodlines, making the Faithful some of the strongest beings in the world. The process does have a flipside, however - consuming too many souls will eventually lead to most Esani Esana developing some form of insanity, usually a multiple personality disorder, as the burden of carrying so many cursed souls takes its toll on the Faithful.]]
** [[spoiler:The vampires of the Blood Esana take this to another level entirely. Founded by one of the first five vampires in history, Illia, who after centuries of existence came to believe her own existence a curse and sought salvation through the One Faith. Believing the souls of every vampire damned to Hell, Illia and her followers developed what they thought a remedy - drinking other vampires to death, devouring their souls and preserving them within their own bodies, forestalling their damnation with the intent of awaiting Judgement Day, when God would cleanse them of their taint and usher them into Heaven. As such, the Esana practiced MonstrousCannibalism to the point where all the other feuding bloodlines banded together to annihilate them. And though driven to the brink of extinction, the remaining Esana continue their hunts all the way to the present.]]
* MonstrousCannibalism: All vampires qualify to some degree, preying primarily upon humans, though they only rarely eat the flesh of their drained victims. [[spoiler:Blood Esana take this to another level, however, being vampires who feed on other vampires for practical and [[ReligiousVampire religious]] reasons. Other vampires view these cousins the same way humans view ordinary vampires.]]
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* VampireMonarch: Fabién Voss, the eldest of Blood Voss and possibly the eldest vampire in existence. After initiating the first undead rising which overran Talhost, he styled himself the Forever King and began conquering the rest of the Empire. [[spoiler: Following his demise at Gabriel's hands, Margot Chastain claims his throne and styles herself Empress of Wolves and Men.]]
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* VampireMonarch: Fabién Voss, the eldest of Blood Voss and possibly the eldest vampire in existence. After initiating the first undead rising which overran Talhost, he styled himself the Forever King and began conquering the rest of the Empire. [[spoiler: Following his demise at Gabriel's hands, Margot Chastain claims tries to claim his throne and styles herself Empress of Wolves and Men.]]
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** [[spoiler: '''Blood Esana''', or ''Faithful'', are less a Blood and more of a cult, composed of those vampires who come to view their undead status as [[RedemptionQuest a curse to be redeemed from]]. To do so, they hunt and drain other vampires, so as to imbibe their souls and stave them from damnation in Hell, which also grants them access to the powers of other bloodlines, as well as [[BloodMagic sanguimancy]].]]
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** [[spoiler: '''Blood Esana''', or ''Faithful'', are less a Blood and more of a cult, composed of those vampires who come to view their undead status as [[RedemptionQuest a curse to be redeemed from]]. To do so, they hunt and drain other vampires, so as to imbibe their souls and stave them from damnation in Hell, which also grants them access to the powers of other bloodlines, as well as their own [[BloodMagic sanguimancy]].]]
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* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: Blood Esani vampires dedicate themselves to consuming others of their kind in order to "save their souls from damnation." It helps that the process of draining another vampire allows the Esani to steal all their accumulated strength and access powers belonging to other bloodlines, making the Faithful some of the strongest beings in the world. The process does have a flipside, however - consuming too many souls will eventually lead to most Esani developing some form of insanity, usually a multiple personality disorder, as the burden of carrying so many cursed souls takes its toll on the Faithful.]]
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* OminousKnocking: Fabién Voss knocks three times after he tracks down Gabriel at his home. And worse, he is confident the Silversaint will answer, seeing as his daughter Patience is currently grasped in his hands. Things only go downhill from there
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* OminousKnocking: Fabién Voss knocks three times after times [[spoiler:after he tracks down Gabriel at his home. And worse, he is confident the Silversaint will answer, seeing as his daughter Patience is currently grasped in his hands. Things only go downhill from therethere...]]
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: The ''duskdancers'' are, by Silversaint accounts, similar to werewolves from common myth - humans cursed via bite to assume a bestial, feral form between dusk and dawn. In reality, they are far more akin to a human tribe than the vampires they are compared to. Refering to themselves as ''wealdlings'', their curse is in fact purely hereditary, and its bearers control whether they wish to shift shape, albeit they can only do so during sunrise or sunset. Repeated shapechanging does, however, take a toll on the ''wealdling'', as their forms gradually begin to merge more and more. Though their bites are not cursed, they certainly ''are'' enchanted, being one of the few things which can scar a ''paleblood'' and tear even the iron hide of a Voss vampire. Three distinct bloodlines are known to exist, primarily in Ossway - the cat-kin ''leófuil'', the wolf-kin ''velfuil'' and bear-kin ''úrfuil''. Little love is lost between them.
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* TheQuest: A large part of Gabriel' retelling revolves around his part in a quest seeking the Holy Grail, the ancient artifact thought to be mankind's last hope at defeating the Dead for good. [[spoiler:Then most of the Company of the Grail is killed off midway through the first novel and the story becomes a race to arrive at his original destination with the Grail intact.]]
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* TheQuest: A large part of Gabriel' Gabriel's retelling revolves around his part in a quest seeking the Holy Grail, the ancient artifact thought to be mankind's last hope at defeating the Dead for good. [[spoiler:Then most of the Company of the Grail is killed off midway through the first novel and the story becomes a race to arrive at his original destination with the Grail intact.]]
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* OminousKnocking: Fabién Voss knocks three times after he tracks down Gabriel at his home. And worse, he is confident the Silversaint will answer, seeing as his daughter Patience is currently grasped in his hands. Things only go downhill from there
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** [[TheHeavy Danton Voss]]: '''The Beast of Vellenne'''
** [[DarkActionGirl Laure Voss]]: '''The Wraith in Red'''
** [[TheBaroness Margot Chastain]]: [[spoiler:'''The Empress of Wolves and Men''']]
** [[DarkActionGirl Laure Voss]]: '''The Wraith in Red'''
** [[TheBaroness Margot Chastain]]: [[spoiler:'''The Empress of Wolves and Men''']]
* ReligiousVampire: [[spoiler: Blood Esana, the ''Faithful'' (or alternatively, Esani, the Faith''less'') are less of a vampiric breed at all, but rather a strange, religious sect of vampires who find converts not among mortals, but among other coldbloods. The Esana believe their undead state to be a curse, a damnation by God who has consigned them to Hell, along with the rest of their Dead kin. To avoid this fate, they believe they are charged with [[RedemptionQuest collecting the souls of their kin]], protecting them within their bodies till Judgement Day arrives for God to cleanse them of their taint. Other vampires rarely appreciate their ministrations, mostly because this involves the Esana draining other vampires to ash. The fact that this twisted form of cannibalism [[CannibalismSuperpower allows even fledgling Esana to grow exponentially in power]] only compounds the fear and loathing all other Bloods have for the Faithful.]]
** All palebloods eventually succumb to the sangiré, literally called the Red Thirst, a gradual rising of their bloodthrist which eventually leads to either madness or corruption. [[Literature/BloodAngels Much like another group of vampiric warriors.]]
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** '''Blood Dyvok''', or ''Untamed'', are gifted with [[TheBrute strength even other vampires find unholy]], beng capable of [[TheJuggernaut punching through fortress walls]], shaking the earth with their steps and tearing even other coldbloods apart with disgusting ease. Their symbol shows a white bear on a broken shield.
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** '''Blood Dyvok''', or ''Untamed'', are gifted with [[TheBrute strength even other vampires find unholy]], beng capable of [[TheJuggernaut punching through fortress walls]], shaking the earth with their steps and tearing even other coldbloods apart with disgusting ease. Their symbol shows a white bear on a broken shield.shield.
** [[spoiler: '''Blood Esana''', or ''Faithful'', are less a Blood and more of a cult, composed of those vampires who come to view their undead status as [[RedemptionQuest a curse to be redeemed from]]. To do so, they hunt and drain other vampires, so as to imbibe their souls and stave them from damnation in Hell, which also grants them access to the powers of other bloodlines, as well as [[BloodMagic sanguimancy]].]]
** [[spoiler: '''Blood Esana''', or ''Faithful'', are less a Blood and more of a cult, composed of those vampires who come to view their undead status as [[RedemptionQuest a curse to be redeemed from]]. To do so, they hunt and drain other vampires, so as to imbibe their souls and stave them from damnation in Hell, which also grants them access to the powers of other bloodlines, as well as [[BloodMagic sanguimancy]].]]
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* OminousKnocking: Fabién Voss knocks three times after he tracks down Gabriel at his home. And worse, he is confident the Silversaint will answer, seeing as his daughter Patience is currently grasped in his hands. Things only go downhill from there
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** [[TheHeavy Danton Voss]]: '''The Beast of Vellenne'''
** [[DarkActionGirl Laure Voss]]: '''The Wraith in Red'''
** [[TheBaroness Margot Chastain]]: [[spoiler:'''The Empress of Wolves and Men''']]
** [[DarkActionGirl Laure Voss]]: '''The Wraith in Red'''
** [[TheBaroness Margot Chastain]]: [[spoiler:'''The Empress of Wolves and Men''']]
* ReligiousVampire: [[spoiler: Blood Esana, the ''Faithful'' (or alternatively, Esani, the Faith''less'') are less of a vampiric breed at all, but rather a strange, religious sect of vampires who find converts not among mortals, but among other coldbloods. The Esana believe their undead state to be a curse, a damnation by God who has consigned them to Hell, along with the rest of their Dead kin. To avoid this fate, they believe they are charged with [[RedemptionQuest collecting the souls of their kin]], protecting them within their bodies till Judgement Day arrives for God to cleanse them of their taint. Other vampires rarely appreciate their ministrations, mostly because this involves the Esana draining other vampires to ash. The fact that this twisted form of cannibalism [[CannibalismSuperpower allows even fledgling Esana to grow exponentially in power]] only compounds the fear and loathing all other Bloods have for the Faithful.]]
** All palebloods eventually succumb to the sangiré, literally called the Red Thirst, a gradual rising of their bloodthrist which eventually leads to either madness or corruption. [[Literature/BloodAngels Much like another group of vampiric warriors.]]
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** '''Blood Dyvok''', or ''Untamed'', are gifted with [[TheBrute strength even other vampires find unholy]], beng capable of [[TheJuggernaut punching through fortress walls]], shaking the earth with their steps and tearing even other coldbloods apart with disgusting ease. Their symbol shows a white bear on a broken shield.shield.
** [[spoiler: '''Blood Esana''', or ''Faithful'', are less a Blood and more of a cult, composed of those vampires who come to view their undead status as [[RedemptionQuest a curse to be redeemed from]]. To do so, they hunt and drain other vampires, so as to imbibe their souls and stave them from damnation in Hell, which also grants them access to the powers of other bloodlines, as well as [[BloodMagic sanguimancy]].]]
** [[spoiler: '''Blood Esana''', or ''Faithful'', are less a Blood and more of a cult, composed of those vampires who come to view their undead status as [[RedemptionQuest a curse to be redeemed from]]. To do so, they hunt and drain other vampires, so as to imbibe their souls and stave them from damnation in Hell, which also grants them access to the powers of other bloodlines, as well as [[BloodMagic sanguimancy]].]]
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''Empire of the Vampire'' is a DarkFantasy series by Jay Kristoff, author of the [[Literature/TheLotusWar ''The Lotus War Trilogy'']] and [[Literature/TheNevernightChronicle ''The Nevernight Chronicle'']]. The first book was released in September 2021, with a sequel, ''Empire of the Damned'', slated for February 2024. Very heavy on GothicHorror, [[FantasticCatholicism Fantastic Catholic imagery]] and all the associated VampireHunter tropes, the series is at the same time a love-letter to staples of the genre while also reinventing many of the classical elements into new and interesting combinations.
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''Empire of the Vampire'' is a DarkFantasy series by Jay Kristoff, author of the [[Literature/TheLotusWar ''The Lotus War Trilogy'']] and [[Literature/TheNevernightChronicle ''The Nevernight Chronicle'']]. The first book was released in September 2021, with a sequel, ''Empire of the Damned'', slated for published in February 2024. Very heavy on GothicHorror, [[FantasticCatholicism Fantastic Catholic imagery]] and all the associated VampireHunter tropes, the series is at the same time a love-letter to staples of the genre while also reinventing many of the classical elements into new and interesting combinations.
