Frustrating Fate

There was never any doubt about your fate, no. Since the Appriser lassie in the Nocturnal Court tasted a drop of your blood, was obvious that you would be adopted by some vampire family to be turned into one of us. Only question was, “which family?”.

The remaining bag with your blood was separated in small drops and sent to the Noble Families with open positions to claim new vampires by adoption. As our laws demand.

Sintra, the Appriser who first classified the blood-seeds dormant in your human blood delayed the procedure as much as possible, so her own family could get the privileged information. She is a Olliver, therefore the Ollivers got the advantage being the first to claim you for themselves.

You should have been adopted by them, but they were in a tricky position. Too many debts, too little resource to get by in the short term. They opened secret negotiations with a few other families they had particularly good relations with.

One of those families was in debt with us, and they used the opportunity to settle that.

I understand why you get the opposite impression. From your point of view looks like you are weaker than any other children of night recently turned into vampire. You lack any useful vampiric power, still. Nine years after your transformation.

We knew that would be the case, by the crossing between your Map of Seeds and your Personality Polygon. Rest assured, we made the investment in you for sound reason.

The most valuable Blood Seed by far is named Holly Seed, if has no direct use in combat but allows the use of technology left by our kin for the Creator Race. Have a Cleric in the family is a huge advantage. Second most powerful seed can arguably be the Warlock Seed, it allows the use of a practically infinite number of powers, that can be placed in hermetic writing on practically any surface. The Alchemist Seed allow the creation of elixirs and bioweapons, and counter measures against such bioweapons. Both powers are immensely effective in combat, but they demand preparation and learn how to use their potential takes a considerable time. The Artifex Seed allow the creation of any material from vampire blood, and it open the possibility to make machines that violate several of the usual laws of physics.

You have all those seeds, in some of their most powerful variants. Of course you had to be adopted by some family.

However, all those powers in your blood need an exceptionally long time to grow, and then a long time of study and practice, before they can become useful. Most children of the night are blessed with a variety of seeds that mature at different speeds, some more aligned to their personality than others make easier the adaptation to their new existence.

Your case is extreme. You have huge potential, but nothing easy or fast. All your blood seeds require hard work and patience.

Even the Blood-Thrall Master seed, that is present in 4 of 5 vampires, usually ready to be developed, in your case is locked behind the Alchemist Seed, and you cannot start that development before you achieve basic mastery over the Holly Seed and the Warlock one.

In consequence, you must accept the fact that you will remain about as weak as someone who as turned into a vampire six days ago. This situation should change only 200, 300 years from now. When your Warlock Seed reach enough maturation. Before that, between 100 and 200 years from now you will earn your confirmation as Vampire Cleric, and stablish contact with the Interdimensional Network of the Creators. It opens the mind of any vampire, is a fascinating world, many planets in distant galaxies can be contact and are open for commerce with us. However, as I already mentioned, that power is useless in combat.

You are not the sort of vampire with vocation to fight any duels, we should never send you to de frontlines in any war. You are an important resource for our family, but not as a warrior. Vampires with your profile are only send to combat under the most extreme and desperate circumstances.

What is sad!

Because I know how much you like to be where things are more intense. Given the chance you would put your immortal existence at risk and play against unfavourable odds every night and twice on Sundays.

Sadly, that cannot be allowed. What you want the most as a vampire, the intense emotions, we must deny you that. Given your powers, any vampiric family would.

The vampiric condition has many advantages over the human condition, but neither is above frustrations like that. Sometimes we are just not meant to be the person we would choose to be, if we had the chance.

When that happen, we must shallow our feelings. So we can learn how to play the cards we have.

Takes time.