| Khayman's Memoirs |
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| I had heard of cities unscathed by the plague at this time and thus sought them out thinking that surely there must be an explanation for it all. Upon moving to Maara-El-Nooman I soon found out why, as I happened upon a seemingly mad Kindred living amongst the sewers of the fair city his name was Anaoshdi. Horribly disfigured in his creation apparently his open wounds had let his blood filter into the water and in essence had made the city into ghouls. I laughed at this for once one of our kind had done something saintly wihtout even knowing. In return for his service to these people I cured is wounds using the power of Obeah and for many years after he and I talked of the world. Anaoshdi was of the Samedi and through him I was allowed to learn Thanatosis < powers of decay>, and told of Gehenna and the formation of the Camarilla. When I left him it was nearly 1,650 A.D. by my recollection and he gave me the orb of illusion as a parting gift, at that time I did not know of its prophetic power. I returned to Italy once more thinking that my troubles with the Giovanni would be over, my hidden treasures and secretly stored items, including Cappadocious, had made me very wealthy by this time. Having forgotten of material wealth in Maara-El-Nooman it had compounded with interest in banks throughout the world and over several hundred years made me very wealthy indeed. It was in 1,680 A.D. that I spoke with Copernicus because his mapping of the solar system geometrically amazed me, the possibilities of other worlds was alien until then! As I continued my travels I landed in the port city of Lisbon, Portugal where I found another Kindred, Nikolai Tarsis. A cultist in life he had found out how to speak with demons through the dark gift. Isolated on the island he had gone unnoticed by any other Kindred, how I felt him I do not know. Nikolai feared his own clan for they were monsters to him, and coming from Nikolai they must have been surely evil. He taught me the arts of Daimonion <demon control> and Viscissitude <flesh craft> over several years. One day however I came home to find him in the clutches of several Kindred (Tzimisce) who were torturing Nikolai. My rage grew once more and as I slaughtered them I created another tremor upon the face of the Earth killing 30,000 mortals in Lisbon. This was the first time I ever drank from a Kindred as I diablerized the Tzimisce into myself, but it was to late however Nikolai was gone! I took his vast wealth and transfered it into my accounts making me into what would be one of the wealthiest men "alive." I also took his Demonsbane Ax with me as a relic, little did I know that now I would not only be hunted by the Giovanni but by the Tzimisce as well. It was in 1,811 A.D. before I felt the stirring of one of the "true" Antideluvians as younger Kindred referred to them. It was near New Madrid as far as I could tell that his power surfaced creating an 8.7 earthquake on the richter scale. By the time I arrived I found nothing. It was then that I fell in love with a young woman a writer by the name of Mary Shelley and romanced her as mortals would. Yet to be truly near to her I opened my mind to her and let her know everything. Her mind snapped at the aspects and I was forced to dominate her to make her forget, forget me and my memories. In 1,816 A.D. however she wrote Frankenstein which I assumed was memories of ghouls, Visissitude and Necormancy... After I left her I traveled the world and bought several properties, placed money in vast amounts into banks and other profitable ventures. Finally making my way to Japan it was there my past finally caught up to me as an old Giovanni found me. In our struggle we managed to create an earthquake registering 8.3 on the richter scale and killing 200,000 Japanese in the city of Yokohama. I left Japan the victor, but felt as if I had lost my humanity there. Going to America I was tired and went to sleep once more. I had already seen the automobile and aircraft come into the world of man and by then felt world weary. I awoke in what would be 1998 and was astounded once more by human civilization advancement, within 100 years huge cities had been made and automobiles, weaponry, and science had made vast improvements. The vast wealth I had in the banking institutions had been hit hard by what I was told to be a depression. However since then the stocks I held still had more than quadrupled their value and the interest on all of my accounts had increased my wealth to where I would "never have to worry about money again!" Through investments I had now apparently acquired several research facilities and many other stores (i.e. Woolworth's, JCPenny's, McDonalds, IBM, Microsoft) if not in whole then in great amounts as my bankers told me. With my awakening I decided to end my sorrow and took a wife once more, Cassandra Darkchild, and befriended many other Kindred, Demitrius Asmadi, Aeleous Kindred, and Juniper Jester to name a few. I also made enemies with my returnand the start of the clan wars, Rhyss Kasseri and Gorgo Nightstalker the betrayer. In order to spare my family and friends I allowed them to kill me and scatter my ashes to the four winds. However not even final death would have me as my body pulled itself back together <Viscissitude level 10> my soul ripped from blessed limbo back to the world of the living! Upon my resurrection I found my nemesis Rhyss to have vanished as well as the betrayer Gorgo... Alas ny family and friends had been scattered as well. I wandered the realms of the world and at last found my beloved Cassandra, and Demitrius , now the head of my Tremere Conclave once more. Juniper lived as well but alas her sire Aeleous has departed so I took her into my fold of childer. Since my blood does not bond I have allowed Demitrius to place a curse on my blood that whoever tastes my blood shall be linked to me when I die and pass from the world of life as well. I have made a new daughter, Raven, who has rescently wed into another Kindred family making the tie between clan Akhayee and the Tremere even stronger. The orb of ilusion has shown me a dark path which I now follow, one which requires the opening of hells gates to save what I can of humanity. In this venture I have allied with Jaden to see this task done. However many have allied against us in this endeavor, Alex Darkcrest, Armand, Adrian and many of their followers have deemed us mad. Recently given the title of Valiant in the Realm of Starthra, I have been forced however to move my citadel guarding its Northern Pass as well as the lands which I ruled over into the Realm of Terra Sol. I have done this in order to allow my family to thrive instead of fade from existence as Starthra seemed to be doing. |
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