Andre’s Reviews > Ancient Bloodlines > Status Update

While the last entry on the partially real and partially "fake" ancient egyptian vampire book ("fake" because an anicent vampire wrote parts of it in the 19th century) is interesting but the whole loosing memory because of a curse thing seems a tad too obvious not to be widely known. Sure it can be cure by e.g. further studying the book but how many would there be driven enough to go this far?

As interesting as the story of the Bak-Ra and their status as fallen kings who lost their memory is, I wonder why we never get told about the many other families.

These Usiri vampires and their Hypnagogia power of stealing and manipulating memories are also interesting. However just like among the En the vampires were all whiter than white, here they seem to overdo it as one of the two egyptians is rather looking like statue instead of bronze.

While you can argue why these Edimmu are in this book to begin with at least they are connected to the two bloodlines. Plus they look interesting. Each is basically 7 spirits in one vampire body and by reshaping and reorganizing skin and flesh can harden their bodies, make them stronger or stretch them or make weapons out of their muscles. A muscle whip must look pretty disgusting.

The bloodline of the En that have a symbiotic relationship with the demonic Alu sounds interesting, albeit you could argue whether they are truly a bloodline in every sense, but considered what the gifts of the Alu allow the En to do (e.g. staving of torpor and thereby not losing power and memory when they are smart) you have to wonder why these En do not lod over all other vampires.

While the Mérges Sorcery at first sounded very similar to the poisonous discipline of a bloodline from World War I but its effect are more widespread. The poison of this sorcery doesn't just cause death, but also torture, craziness, being gullible, can be used to cleanse somethinge of poison, induce rage or master it (makes sense considered that these vampires turn their own rage into poison) and invoke vices.

To master Mérges Sorcery, an Iltani must never let go of his hatred. Instead, he must fuel it, control it, and transform it through his Beast... To an Iltani, anger is fuel, but because he never ceases to carry corrosive emotions within himself, his own hatred slowly begins to eat away at his Humanity.

About Babylon ruled from the shadows by the Damned...In those nights, demons and desert whispered their secrets to Kindred, and they were host to many strange powers.

Despite having said already that these hunters do not kill indescriminately but with precision so not to harm bystanders they apparently had to say that none of them has ever become a suicide bomber...
And I still wonder why they are in here when they have no connection to the two bloodlines.
PS. "Satan" is the christian name, for Islam it would be "Iblis" or "Shaitan."

Even were one of these holy killers to develop such skills, her fellows would almost certainly destroy her as one of the enemy.
"Her?" The members of this organization of hunters are drawn from the lands where Islam is strong so I have my doubts that it has many women among them. So why is "her" in here? Is that common in english to refer to the feminine when something is unspecific?