| “ | Absalom is believed to be the patron god of vampires. While no one really knows the specifics of his origins we do, however, know this: he was the first of his kind to ascend to godhood. If you believe in the legends that were around during the Dark Ages, he was said to have been created by the Devil. Born as the perfect vampire and an absolute true killing machine. Because just like the Great White Shark...he's never had to evolve. If Alucard is the 'Messiah' then Absalom would be the 'Lord'. | „ |
| ~ Ivan Romanov |
| “ | The Blood God's coming and after tonight you people are fuckin' history. He's a hurricane, an act of God. Anyone caught in his path will instantly be turned. Everyone you've ever known, everyone you've ever fucking loved. It won't matter who's pureblood and who's not. | „ |
| ~ Deacon |
Absalom, known as the Blood God, is an immensely powerful and ancient vampire god.
Overview[]
He is the patron deity of vampires and is an important figure in vampire lore as he is believed to have lead to the creation of Dracula, the so-called father of all vampires. Absalom can only be summoned through a special ritual that requires the blood of the "Virgin and the Father". The father being the blood of Dracula himself, but it may also apply to one who carries the blood of the vampire king.
History[]
Background[]
Absalom is believed to be the first vampire in history to reach the status of Godhood. According to legend, he was an ancient war lord and came to power in the early seasons of the fifth century and possessed a lust for war and bloodshed so great he eventually resorted to killing on his own kind. Even thousands of years later, people still whisper the legends of his decadent, savage feasts and his bathing in warm human blood. Absalom wanted his reign to be forever lasting with only him as the sole monarch that lay upon a throne of blood and bone. To do this he began to dabble into the occult and demonic before he received word from an ancient witch named Thessaly of a great power that lurks within what would be known as Eastern Europe. Once arriving, Thessaly informed the war lord that what he seeks will draw him there sensing his intentions.
Eventually, Absalom indeed felt a strange pull to a place within eastern Europe; the Carpathian mountains. Something called to him, too alluring for the war lord to ignore. Most of his troops would die from the treacherous journey up to the mountains, with many dying of starvation, hypothermia, and even several werewolves, many of whom were attempting to prevent Absalom's party from reaching the mountain tops at the behest of Ecclesia, an Order of mages who watch over the mountains. But Absalom pressed forward, fueled by his ambition and ventured deeper into the Carpathians.
Upon reaching the entrance of a large cave and stepping forth, Absalom came into contact with the voice that lured him into the mountains. It identified itself as Kupala, an ancient and powerful demon that was imprisoned within the earth by a group of shamans and mages from Ecclesia as it was repelled by Sparda. Aware of Absalom's intentions, Kupala proposed a pact; in return for bestowing Absalom with frightening demonic power the war lord would break Kupala's ancient chains, a proposition that Absalom accepted. Imbued with power that was beyond the reach of even the strongest of vampiric sorcerers, Absalom became the dreaded Blood God and began his quest for absolute dominion over Europe and then the world as a whole.
Defeat[]
Absalom being alluded to by Carmilla
Absalom would resurrect his fallen soldiers into powerful vampires but the Blood God and his army were fiercely resisted by the werewolves and their allies the Order of Ecclesia. Great werewolf champions fought against the fiercest vampiric demons of Absalom while the mightiest mages of Ecclesia attempted to subdue Kupala's influence. Even the Supreme Tribe Elder of werewolf society Caspian lent his aid while taking the fight to Absalom. But even with Caspian's enormous power, he too struggled against the obscene might of Absalom.
The mages of Ecclesia noticed that Kupala was nearly manifesting from the peak of the Carpathian mountains and in a bid to prevent the demon from reaching the human world, they performed the ultimate sacrifice by pouring the lionshare of their power fueled with spiritual energies of the Munin Howl courtesy of Caspian and his tribe to create a binding spell that sent Kupala tumbling and buried beneath the recesses of the Earth. The output of the spell was so great it even affected Absalom, providing enough time for the vampire to be incapacitated with a holy cross. This gave one of the soldiers from Ecclesia the opportunity to decapitate him and ending his heinous reign once and for all. But the wolves and surviving members of Ecclesia knew that Absalom would not be so easily bested and thus ordered his remains to be burned and his items to be buried. Centuries passed, and the items belonging to Absalom were discovered and placed in the British Museum in London. The legends of Absalom were completely erased with many people dismissing him as a myth, but not for the vampires.
It is believed that Absalom was intended to be the dark soldier and original "Son of the Devil" that Satan desired in order to spread destruction and mayhem across the lands. However, Kupala noticed that Absalom was too unstable and thus abandoned him as per Satan's demand with the Devil personally searching for a more promising mortal. He later moved his interest towards Vlad Tepes, the man who would later become known as Dracula. According to some demonic scholars, Satan had used the blood of Absalom to create the Vampire King before his execution at the hands of the Ottomans. Nonetheless, the legend of Absalom was passed around through vampiric society, with some vampires worshipping him as their patron god, however others only look at him in contempt as they believe him to be an ancient vampire that only elevated himself to the status of a god and is not actually a deity.
Failed Resurrections[]
Despite his defeat, Absalom's essence still lingered within the spiritual veil that overlapped between the mortal and immaterial world. He was revealed to have contacted the fae witch, Morgan Le Fay in attempt to bring down the kingdom of Arthur Pendragon and reclaim the lands rightfully stolen from the fae. Morgan was approached by a 'dark king of blood' who was Absalom himself. Morgan offered her life to the Blood God in exchange for greater power to which Absalom agreed. He had her drink his blood and in the process was sired by Absalom to become a vampire and the first ever Vampire Queen. Her newly bestowed vampiric abilities coupled with her magical talents made Morgan a dangerously powerful threat, essentially something akin to a vampiric demigoddess, all the while plotting against Arthur and Guinevere, for having killed Mordred and expelling her from the court. The newly risen vampiric Morgan would then plan and using Mordred's body as a vessel for Absalom under the Blood God's guidance.
Morgan raised an army of vampires, ones which she ordered to use Absalom's items of power once thought to be lost to time, that would also come to aid Vortigern in his quest to take Arthur and attain absolute sovereignty over Britain, all while she took refuge in an ancient tower where she tapped into the darkest of magic to peel away the veil that lay between the material and spiritual plane in an attempt to have Absalom cross over and take physical form through Mordred whose body she took after being slain by Arthur. She was confronted and defeated by Arthur who stabbed her through the heart, burying his sword deep into her and right into the sacrificial altar. The blowback was so immense it destroyed the tower and seemingly Morgan, thus botching Absalom's attempt to regain physical form within the material world.
Despite his defeat, the activities regarding Absalom's resurrection was stained within the lands of Great Britain and as such would be used thousands of years later in the modern day by the Scarlet Brood in London. A few thousand years later, Absalom was the catalyst behind Dracula's descent into madness and rage, coaxing the vampire king into destroying humanity by collecting their entire supply of blood as a way to resurrect the Blood God. He did this by influencing the fanatical church leaders into capturing and killing Vlad Tepes' wife and son before further corrupting the vampire count himself. All the while, he had Dracula order his generals to search for the instruments that would lead to his impending resurrection. However, he was defeated by the combined might of Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, and the Legendary Dark Knight himself, Sparda. Absalom's defeat at the hands of those three, specifically by the tools it required to defeat him led him to develop a fear of the fabled Yamato which was used to sever his connection to the material plane.
Impending Return[]
During an unknown period of time, Absalom had been guiding Hector van Neck and his coven of vampires known as the Scarlet Brood into finding and using the necessary items to properly resurrect him. The items in question were once materials of possession belonging to him during his time as a Hungarian warlord and they consisted of a crown, a ring, a sword, and his own skull. The Scarlet Brood would perform the ritual by having five young virgin women be murdered on sacrificial alters that would each form five points of a star. Secondly, four pure blooded vampires, Nosferatu, would be sacrificed and their blood soaks the artifacts forming a cross-shaped pattern that intersected with the star. Lastly, the "blood of the father" would be spilled in the center point, in this case, it would be the Big Ben clock tower, and the father would be Dracula himself. The blood spilled by the virgin women and the four Nosferatu would trail through constructed pathways reaching the tower and upon reaching and mixing with the blood of Dracula would signal the rise of Absalom.