The figure who had commissioned the book for the life of the young scribe fled the city and region. He would travel far and wide, from the uplands of Appenzell to the depths of the Egyptian deserts, across the sandy wastes and through tropical jungles. He would flee from his own actions always picking the sickly or weak or elderly on which to feed, leaving behind a string of individuals who shared his unique curse. What follows it the recount of a Childe's Childe. She would stop her search for a time with the clan before being driven by her triple curses on her way to find the essence of her lost love...
South America, 1575-1586
“The year was 1575, Iwonka lived a priest’s life within her birth village of Ninho da Serpente ("Snake's Nest"). It was nestled a stone’s throw south of Pico da Neblina (Fog Peak), the highest mountain in Brazil, in the Serra do Imeri, a section of the Guiana Highlands on the Brazil-Venezuela border. At the age of 11 her village was destroyed by enraged earthen elements, and she was one of two survivors.
The mark of scarred earth set upon her to burn as a curse for her life that she will find no peace in nature because of her Village's desecration of ancient burial grounds. She took her curse with her as she did the name of her destroyed village and became Iwonka Serpente.”
Egypt, Late 1500's
Amil Urizai often returned to the lands of those he resembled, because there he could walk through the masses or hide in the wilds for a time and be left alone. But being alone never stilled his thirst. While the sun burned, he was unable to send himself to his final rest and after over five hundred years of trying he simply chose to stop. It was not a matter of living with himself. That was rather impossible. But he could move like a restless hungry shadow from victim to victim. He selected those who were already at death's door, and he never stayed to witness the horror that his actions brought. If his deeds as judge and executioner made him the spawn of Satan in the eyes of the Church, so much the better.
Sometimes though his feedings would touch a soul and through fate or another cause his bite alone would not kill them. Once in a while one of these walking dead would figure out to bestow the curse on another. So his unknown and unmarked childer would spread and spawn from one to another, a loose web of hunters like himself. It was this way that an exotic, but once sickly, young man gained a new lease on “life” and was able to become the consort of someone very powerful. As with most things Amil touched, even those things he did not stay around to witness, the fate of that young man was to be tragic...
“It was at this time that (Iwonka), young and lost, followed the Mata Priest, the only other survivor, across the world to the deserts of Egypt and settled in Cairo where the Mata Priest found favor with the King and was given room and board within the walls of the palace. She studied there of the arts and of healing from the teachers of the palace. Her knowledge grew by leaps and bounds for she absorbed all and thirsted for more always.
The world was in a time of change and transition. Many travelers would stop in the palace and she was always the first to sit in the circles round the blazing fires to hear their stories and learn of their life’s path. It was through one of these fire side meetings that she met a young man named Arozal who, she found later, was the Queen's lover. Through no fault of theirs the two fell in love and soon after he trusted upon her the gift of bloodlust and eternal life in the form of vampirism. He kept her soul and the two made plans to leave the desert for Brazil. Through the Queen's wrath at discovering the two she banished Iwonka Serpente to the depths of the dungeons of the palace and killed Arozal by beheading, not the custom of the times but needed to tend to Arozal’s special condition.
This was the end of the thirteenth dynasty and soon Egypt was invaded by the Hyksos and Iwonka Serpente was released from her dungeons upon the lands. In her mourning she sought out Arozal’s spirit within the destroyed temple where he was murdered by the Queen’s authority. His spirit would not hear her through the deafness of injustice by which he died. She sought out and bartered for his life with a mystic necromancer offering her immortal life for the return of his love. She took part in the failed dark ritual witnessing the demise of the necromancer in the process. Arozal never came back to her, though his spirit was released from his confines to roam upon the earth. His anger with the Queen that ended him, dizzied him and he became lost on his way to his love, forced to walk the earth in his formless mist in frustration and fury. Iwonka’s immortality did not leave her. She was left cold, thrice cursed and incapable of love until she could find Arzol’s spirit upon the earth.
She traveled the seas, the lands, the mountains searching always for Arozal’s lost spirit and the return of emotion. Return of love. Growing ever sadder, ever sinking into the realization that the task befitted her was one that was near impossible to bring to fruition. She became hardened and chilled in her search, hiding her healing powers as she witnessed death and pain and never satisfaction from it to quench her. For hundreds of years she searched, never finding.”
Sometime past this tragic encounter Iwonka would meet up with another like her, Alonzo Ozsvar. While their paths were not destined to run parallel, they were destined to meet time and time again, as they both searched for something neither could find...
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