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Godfather [[Gideon (A Bloody And Public Domaine)|Gideon]] and Godfather [[Auteur]] are at the stop of the [[Shadow Spire]], with [[Loa]] circling it, | [[Godparent (rank)|Godfather]] [[Gideon (A Bloody And Public Domaine)|Gideon]] and Godfather [[Auteur]] are at the stop of the [[Shadow Spire]], with [[Loa]] circling it, listening to a recording of Godfather [[Morlock]]'s personal testimony on a phonograph. | ||
Morlock admits to being fascinated in the role [[Vlad III|Vlad Tepes]] | Morlock admits to being fascinated in the brief role [[Vlad III|Vlad Tepes]] played in the war, deciding to examine his body to analyze a specimen that experiences multiple branches of history. The normal history of his life has only a tangential impact on the war, the massacre at [[Tirgoviste|Targoviste]] caused the [[Celestis]] to take note of him. But his future life has multiple strands, being resurrected by [[Mal'akh]] worshipers, or people believing in Stoker's novel and so him becoming [[Dracula]], and one thread, more interesting than the others, a woman in a black dress, the mother of monsters, [[Lilith (A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)|Lilith]]. Dracula survives, builds an empire, and vampirism even becomes fashionable. Indeed, in this timeline there was a fleet of organic timeships, blocking the timeline of a Dracula who didn't ever die. | ||
Auteur is writing a story, an epistolary novel, which he claims is all true. Though, only true once he has written it. Gideon reflects that he risks the wrath of other faction members by associating with his old friend, a prisoner here in the Shadow Spire. But Gideon humours Auteur, even if he can't believe that the Enemy is Dracula. | Auteur is writing a story, an epistolary novel, which he claims is all true. Though, only true once he has written it. Gideon reflects that he risks the wrath of other faction members by associating with his old friend, a prisoner here in the Shadow Spire. But Gideon humours Auteur, even if he can't believe that the Enemy is Dracula. | ||
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Mina Harker's Journal | Mina Harker's Journal | ||
:The Count told Mina that others would die if she did not go to him that night. So she headed to a Bedfordshire mine, | :The Count told Mina that others would die if she did not go to him that night. So she headed to a Bedfordshire mine, even as she hungered, even as the wounds on her neck and her symptoms worsened. A mine built by invaders who found something, a new kind of History, that annihilated them. Dracula has been told by Lilith that this History is his to take, to found an Empire where the sun would never rise. | ||
Gideon objects, a timeline where Dracula was resurrected by a higher power and rewrites history to become the Enemy? Why would Auteur write about this one, especially since they know for certain the Enemy isn't related to the [[Yssgaroth]]. Auteur hands him a section from the cultists' bible. | Gideon objects, a timeline where Dracula was resurrected by a higher power and rewrites history to become the Enemy? Why would Auteur write about this one, especially since they know for certain the Enemy isn't related to the [[Yssgaroth]]. Auteur hands him a section from the cultists' bible. | ||
The Dragon Scriptures, The Master’s Gospel, Chapter Four, verses One to Twenty-Three | The Dragon Scriptures, The Master’s Gospel, Chapter Four, verses One to Twenty-Three | ||
:On the trip towards England Dracula spoke with Lilith and she showed him the [[Spiral Politic|Spiral]] and History and the Forefathers behind the Very Fabric, craving her touch. She says to Dracula that he is not Yssgaroth, but more, refined, no longer taint, he is... | :On the trip towards England Dracula spoke with Lilith and she showed him the [[Spiral Politic|Spiral]] and History and the Forefathers behind the [[Very Fabric of Time and Space|Very Fabric]], craving her touch. She says to Dracula that he is not Yssgaroth, but more, refined, no longer taint, he is... | ||
Gideon asks what he is, but Auteur hasn't written it yet. He admits there's some degree of creative license involved, he isn't saying word for word what the loa are telling him. Gideon is frustrated with the man who considers himself the author of the Spiral Politic, but sighs and continues. | Gideon asks what he is, but Auteur hasn't written it yet. He admits there's some degree of creative license involved, he isn't saying word for word what the loa are telling him. Gideon is frustrated with the man who considers himself the author of the Spiral Politic, but sighs and continues. | ||
