Vampire requiem ancient mysteries pdf

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Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 04, Andre rated it did not like it Shelves: games , good-idea-bad-execution , not-really-worth-reading , vampires , horror. This book was… mixed, at best.

I basically read it to see whether this could shed some light on the periods in history that were chosen for the bloodlines in the book " Ancient bloodlines " because in that book I really did not get why some of them were so significant to the vampires. And yeah, the short story at the introduction was overall good, but they usually are with these books according to my knowledge. Albeit I do wonder what time period it was referring to as the text seemed to have sugge This book was… mixed, at best.

Albeit I do wonder what time period it was referring to as the text seemed to have suggested s due to the date, but what was said about the temperature dropping once when that strange vampire was near would suggest a bloodline that came to be in the First World War according to "Ancient Bloodlines. I had some reservation early on in the section about historical storytelling as the book basically stated that it is good to write something that flies in the face of real world folklore and myth, let alone history, and have fun with it.

Well I have my limits in that regard. It must still fit local folklore and history. If not, I am not willing to suspend my disbelief, since the premise of such settings is that it could still happen within the known history.

The book basically says that in an historical setting in ancient Rome it's totally ok to propagating myths about generally deadly gladiatorial fights despite that barely happening because gladiators were too valuable.

In their eyes it would kill atmosphere. Which is nonsense in my eyes, as you can always introduce a highly valuable but instable gladiator that got away with a killing or two once in a while. The chapter on vampires entering and experiencing torpor was ok, but really dry, and I hoped the one about those ancients awakening would be better.

However there were some strange things occurring very quickly. It seemed like the authors did not really know history half as well as they claimed they did. For instance if that one vampire is "young enough" to know carts, chances are she knows "breeds" of dogs and cats so would not be surprised to see them bred into distinct shapes and noisy, foul smelling cities.

However on the other hand the examples about the social withdrawal of elder vampires would be a good storytelling material, not just for vampire stories but e. After all if you suffer from nightmares in a certain places or you are constantly chased by predators or small birds in a certain stretch of land, how would the outsider know that a vampire was causing it?

Also the different positions and examples regarding memory loss and dealing with it were amusing. However at this time the artwork was of lower quality and it would rise and fall constantly over the course of the book.

But on the other hand it did have solid and sound advice on tent pole moments in character history and storytelling in general. Just like Theban sorcery rituals of storing memories in your blood, being hidden while being in torpor possibly turning into air and experiencing the torpor without nightmares at the price of eating a human brain and the "coils of slumber" to somewhat control when you awake out of torpor and those devotions for elder vampires that harden your skin and heighten your strength, that let you turn into a statue, make you react instantly, rob memories or even temporarily shift your skills are pretty good.

However when the book got to the actual elder vampires that have awakened from torpor, there were some problems again that stuck out to me. Apart from the fact that the book never got more precise regarding skin-tone than "dark-skinned" but the artwork often didn't match the described characters.

For instance one was referred to as having piercing dark eyes that never cease moving , but the picture showed a guy with glowing yellow eyes in fact all of them have those and I wouldn't call that skin white as salt either. In another case the picture definitely did not fit skin that looks as if it was chiseled from a slab of granite, grayish off-white and coarse. In just another case the only case that was definitely not white, the rest were from the Mediterranean area or Western Europe the picture was supposed to show a girl with hips slender and her breasts barely budded.

Based on the picture I would say she is a woman in her mid to late 30s. Make-up or not, you cannot make a teenage girl of that apparent age look like a 30 something woman. The next two women after her were at least better but both aren't terribly original: 1 doomed mother, 2 dangerous whore. The other ancient vampires weren't interesting either and in fact once again the information about history is pretty screwed as well no announcing your fight or using lawsuits and demonstrations, or suicide bombs, aren't anything a French vampire from the earliest day of the empire wouldn't know.

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