The First People
Namtaru , Spreader of Plagues
“ Shut up !” the man screamed , already losing his grip on self-control . “ How do you even know any of that ?”
“ Because I am you . I am a reflection of everything you wanted to be before your family held you back from your dreams . Now you are alone , traipsing through the desert , following random strangers to get your kicks when you ’ d rather be home in April ’ s arms .”
“ I never said my wife ’ s name ,” the man said with a shaking voice .
Rodrigo turned around , baring his fangs with a sly smile . “ You didn ’ t have to . Like I said , I am you .”
The man dropped his gun and tried to escape , but Rodrigo was much faster . He knocked the man out with a rock to the back of his head . The goblet still needed to be filled with blood , after all .
A Truth You Can Trust
Everything you ’ re about to hear is the truth , unless it ’ s a lie . Only I know which is which , unless I was also lied to . Then we ’ re both up a creek . You ’ d better stop struggling and listen up , or I ’ ll tighten your bindings even more .
You ’ ve heard of the Baali , the demons and devils of the Kindred world , the antichrist split up into a million pieces . But you only think you know what we ’ re all about . I ’ m going to tell you how it really went down , and then you tell me whether you think the world is truly as you see it . If you interrupt me , you won ’ t like the outcome .
The First People
God is perfect , right ? The man in the sky made the world in six days , then had to take a long nap . But that ’ s just the story . Have you ever thought about the things that came before humans ? The Baali call them the First People . It took six days to perfect the specimen you see before you , but there were many botched creations prior to humanity . Their remains became part of the Earth , buried deep within the ground to hide God ’ s mistakes from the masses who worshipped him .
The story of the Baali begins with a pair of brothers . Caine and Abel ? Ha ! That story ’ s been told ad nauseum . It should be abandoned for how boring it is . No , we go back to the brothers Nergal and Moloch . Caine and Abel had already happened and Caine ’ s curse had taken thousands into the Embrace before these brothers were even born . Still , their choices would go on to found the Baali , and set in motion wars and other atrocities .
Nergal and Moloch were Embraced in their early adulthood and traveled the night in search of lost relics . They had an undying love of mysticism and the occult , leading them to excavate tombs and unearth the resting places of long-forgotten entities … the kinds of entities the world was better off never experiencing . They discovered the burial grounds of the First People , but more surprising was they weren ’ t dead . God had buried them alive , but had never given them the ability to die — a gift so many people today misunderstand .
While the brothers were greeted with only pleasant smiles and arms extended in brotherhood , Nergal was a power-hungry Cainite . He went about devouring the blood of the First People , one by one . Moloch had no choice but to join in or be pulled apart by the ones Nergal ignored during his feast . What was created that day were a pair of brothers who were now the two most powerful vampires the world had ever seen . You see , drinking the blood of these prototypes gave Nergal and Moloch a command over the True Names of other creatures in God ’ s creation , specifically some long-lost demons that slept just beyond the veil that separates our world from a thousand others .
Namtaru , Spreader of Plagues
Don ’ t die on me yet . That ’ s not the end of the story , and you ’ ll like this part . So , Nergal was an egotistical man with dreams of ruling the world . His body , and his brother ’ s , had been altered on a spiritual level by the blood of the First People , which attracted disease and vermin to them . The overriding theory among the Baali I ’ ve debated this with is that since the First People were God ’ s literal refuse , they
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