Post by ur-Shulgi on Mar 17, 2011 10:15:46 GMT -5
ur-Shulgi
|Full Name|
ur-Shulgi
|Nicknames / Aliases|
The Shepard
|Age|
Indeterminate, though ur-Sulgi’s body suggest that it became a vampire at a young age. A translation of the Parables of Blood relates ur-Shulgi’s creation as a vampire to “the night when the stones spoke and the skies cried blood rain.”
|Gender|
Indeterminate
|Sexuality|
Indeterminate
|Species|
Methuselah
|Password for that species|
I won't angle
|Height|
4'8"
|Weight|
107 lbs
|Eye Colour|
none
|Hair Colour|
none
|Appearance|
Time has not been kind to Ur-Shulgi, nor have the ravages of the beast within it or the numerous enemies it has challenged. It looks like nothing so much as a scarred, burnt child, a young god born from fire and violence. Its skin, obsidian-black with age, displays a lattice of scars, some of which weep blood when the Methuselah becomes agitated. Here and there, bits of bone and sinew protrude from beneath its skin, as if its body has been flayed. Additionally, Ur-Shulgi's eyes have been either gouged or burnt away, though it claims to be able to see without hindrance. When it deigns to clothe itself, Ur-Shulgi wears unadorned, light-colored caftans and robes, often with a bone or amber necklace. Its voice seems to billow up from the depths of a dry desert well (surprisingly to some, Ur-Shulgi is perfectly fluent in any modern language in which it is addressed). Ur-Shulgi normally remains motionless when conversing with its childer or other "Kindred," unless it wishes to make a rhetorical point through a cat-like flash of violence. If it absolutely has to shift position to do anything other than kill, it does not move so much as flicker from point to point.
|Face Claim|
none
|Personality|
As the second childe of the original vampire, ur-Shulgi is one of the oldest creatures on the face of the planet, though it do not think of itself in such simplistic. In fact, most of ur-Shulgi's thought processes are completely incomprehensible to anyone not of its age and power stratum. To outside observers, it is violence given a physical body, the vengeance of the First upon all those who would oppose his will. It remember the glory of the Second City and the old gods who walked there before the Great Flood. This "Jesus" is an upstart whose faith has corrupted the line of Cinites, and ur-Shulgi must either show all those who worship him the error of their ways, or purge them from among the Blood.
|Likes|
- Blood; this is not so much a like as it is a necessity of existence
- Magic; ur-Shulgi is curious of the power of the mages from both the Horde and the Host. Perhaps consuming enough of them will grant it access to their secrets.
|Dislikes|
- The Horde; they are mortal usurpers of the power and rule that belongs to the Cinites.
- Heretics; that is, vampires that give worship to false gods such as ‘Jesus’ or now even this new god 'Gog of Magog'
- The word ‘vampire’; this word has become a vulgar description of ur-Shulgi's kind. It prefers cinite and will suffer no usage of "vampire" in its presence.
- There are rumors that ur-Shulgi hates everything, even the vampire existence. The truth is that ur-Shulgi is no longer connected to the primitive human mind and so is indifferent about many things.
|Personal Weaknesses|
- The millennia-long sleep means that ur-Shulgi finds this new world completely alien. Its mind cannot adjust to the modern day.
- Completely detached and distant from humanity. While ur-Shulgi does not see this as a weakness, the power that the beast has over it could defy that statement.
- ABSOLUTELY cannot pass for a human
- Prone to biblical fits of violence.
- Its age makes it more susceptible to sunlight; final death would come almost instantly in before the light of dawn.
- Is driven away not so much by religous items at by Faith
- What would be megalomania in a god?
|Personal Strengths|
- Can go without drinking blood for long periods of time
- Surprisingly to some, ur-Shulgi is perfectly fluent in any modern language in which it is addressed.
- Through centuries of unlife, ur-Shulgi has learned to communicate through the ‘blood’ of vampires, thus making it so it can convey messages regardless of distance
- ur-Shulgi has the ability to enter dreams, though while there, it cannot alter or control them, this does allow it to view what another dreams about.
|Fears|
- Deep within ur-Shulgi, there would be centuries worth of fear, however they have been buried beneath a state of detachment.
- One true fear: to have its humanity, and thus the irrational human mind, returned to it.
|Goals|
- Serve the will of the First
- Act as the herald and loremaster for its sire.
- Destroy the practice of worshipping the humans' "Jesus".
- Learn the secrets of the mages for itself.
|Secrets|
- Upon awakening, ur-Shulgi summoned and destroyed three of its original childer
- Finds little to no satisfaction in consuming the blood of mortals
- Is only truly sated by the blood of other vampires
|Family|
As one of the first vampires, ur-Shulgi has no living family, nor does it recall its living days. It is possible that mortal descendants exist, thought ur-Shulgi holds no care to that. During the centuries prior to entering the great sleep, ur-Shulgi created many vampires to serve it. If any still live, that has yet to be seen, though they would have surely heard the call of their master upon its awakening. What follows are a few of the more notable childer.
Jamal ~ ? ? ~ whereabouts unknown
Talaq ~ ? ? ~ whereabouts unknown
Ismail ~ ? ?~ whereabouts unknown
|Connection to Horde|
ur-Shulgi was once the Supreme High Lord of the Horde in the times of the Mage Wars before the Great Flood washed the Earth clean. All records of these times were destroyed along with the Second City. Now it is considered an enemy despite the common enemy in the Host.
|Connection to Host|
None. Would most likely be considered an enemy despite the common enemy in the Horde.
|History|
In certain fragments of the Book of Nod, primarily those recovered in the Middle East, passages appear that speak of the old gods - those worshipped by the mortals who dwelt in the Second City before the Great Flood. Some of these names are familiar to the Cinite scholar of the modern nights: Ashur, Kel-nach, Enkidu, Rashadii. Some have no direct correlation to any other record of their history: Mancheaka, Nar-Sheptha, Sha'hiri and ur-Shulgi. This last name appears in four separate passages, and Cinite scholars infer from its context that it is an avatar and childer of the First vampire, creator of the Curse of Blood.
In a valley in the Zagros Mountains, on the border of modern-day Iran and Iraq, an intrepid explorer with substantial powers of supernatural perception might find a small cave, recently opened by a Horde Infinite squad. The squad's truck is still parked there, in fact. The squad's commander assumes that his men went AWOL, and he has made no particular effort to find them - which is probably best for him, as the soldiers are in no condition to defend their reputations or anything else.
Should the intrepid explorer enter the cave, however, he would find those soldiers' bodies arrayed on the ground, unmarked save for flecks of blood on their lips and expressions of... surprise... on their faces. Their weapons still lie by their sides, except for the handful of grenades they expended in opening the cave. An autopsy - if the hypothetical explorer had the skill and inclination to perform one - would reveal that their internal organs ruptured from fluid pressure. The corpses would be well-preserved for such an exploration, for no blood whatsoever remains within them.
Further exploration into the cave would reveal five simple stone crypts of the approximate size of bank vaults. Three are closed, their heavy lids secured in place by gravity and stronger forces. One gapes half-open, as if awaiting the deposit of whatever precious item it was intended to contain. The last is shattered beyond repair, presumably from the inside, judging from the half-dozen fist-sized stone shards scattered on the slabs before it.
In Petra, Jordan, there is a much larger cave complex in the desert sandstone. An individual who knows the proper routes might make his way to a large unlit chamber half a mile beneath the surface of the earth. Thousands of niches - most of which are empty - have been carved into the walls of this chamber. A few contain wax-sealed earthen jars bearing freshly-inscribed words in a language that has not been uttered by any living tongue for millennia. Were the observer capable of translating this language, the words on the jars would be resolved into names. A scholar of the Children of Nod would recognize many of them. The company is quite distinguished: Jamal, Talaq, Ismail. The jars, if they were to be opened by one with sufficient magical power, would be found to contain the heart's blood of those whose names the vessels bear.
A flurry of rumors sweeps through the Aristocracy.
As stories proliferate throughout the Aristocracy's ranks, the eldest of the cinites feel a call from the caves beneath Petra. Jamal was the first to heed it. The elders, when asked what has become of the Jamal, merely shakes their heads. They alone of the unliving elders of the Children of Nod understand the truth - there is no more need for a false prophet. The First has sent his herald, ur-Shulgi, the Shepard, to announce his return in fire and blood and stone. Ur-Shulgi, who destroyer the deceitful leader of the Aristocracy; ur-Shulgi, who rent the rogue Talaq in half with but a thought; ur-Shulgi, who threatened to destroy the flaccid "Horde Vampires" to the last if they chose not to heed their sire's call and rejoin the Aristocracy.
In the recent nights, ur-Shulgi has begun to invade some of dreams of the yonger cinites in order to determine where their true loyalties lie in regards to the Horde or Aristocracy. Due to these "encounters", several elder members of the Children of Nod have mysteriously vanished. Because of the purge of ur-Shulgi and its strict interpretation of the role of the Cinites, there is now a greater schism between the Princes and Vassals of the Horde and the rest of the Aristocracy.
Continued history worked into the RP Sample below
|RP Sample|
Return-Path: <localuser@sb50-a7.black-veil.il>
From: Anonymous <anonymous@black-veil.il>
Reply-To: anonymous@black-veil.il
Organization: Horde
X-Accept-Language: en
To: <recipient list suppressed>
Subject: [BROKEN STONE] 308A
I had the right authentication and your PGP keys. Here is where I establish my bona fides as a vampire, not as a piece of technology. My name is Sarah Schneier and I hold the position of Vassal among the newly freed vampires, and yes, this is important enough to require me to expose myself.
The Princes have passed the order down for me to get the word out to all. You have to know what's on the Throne of the Aristocracy. On 08 November, we opened the Vault of the Pillars. The records there confirmed our suspicions as to the identity and nature of the new Ancient.
You already know about the Mage Wars, and about the Second City, and the parables of how the First made the warriors to serve as the world's first police, and how the Host were made as demon hunters because the Ancestor did not trust Horde.
The problem, at least before the Host came along, was that the Horde and all their cultist followers were too disorganized for the cinites and the First to strike at. It was like trying to fight a swarm of wasps. So the First gave them something to unify them. He found someone who was born with a soul already destined for corruption - a ten-year-old shepherd - and sired that child into the Children of Nod. Then the First took his childe to the pit that the Host said had spawned the Horde and he threw that shepherd into it. And the blood of the First and the power of that soul turned that child into the leader that the Horde needed.
When the Horde assaulted the Second City en masse, the First was off on one of his mysterious disappearances. He made it back just in time to stop his childe and tear the demon out of the body that it rode, and when the battle was over he claimed that he had found the child dying on the battlefield and tha siring it was the only way to save that innocent victim. Then he watched the child to make sure that it was safe to have around.
I guess he did not watch long enough. Some sort of spiritual seed stayed in the child, and that soul was never truly clean anyway, no matter what the First did. And it woke up last year, and now it is the Eldest. It is not Horde, and it is not possessed, and we do not think it is not working with or for anything infernal, but it is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and it is not one of the Children any more, not really. It is something more, and it is something less.
Every scroll and tablet we found in the Vault of the Pillars, every test we can perform without arousing its suspicion, everything we have points to ur-Shulgi as that child. It is close enough to 100% certainty that Alpha ord--
Power out, generators are up. It knows already, and it's moving. File attachments have all data that is in our hands as of tonight, and the mirror sites will contain it for download as long as they stay up. You have all that we have. Use it.
Go with God, and may He be --mer^S^Csend^Cquit
<< End of transmission >>
It has been confirmed that Sarah Schneier was recently destroyed by ur-Shulgi. The accuracy of the above data is left up to the reader, but consider yourself to have been warned. The Eldest is watching.
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