Chapter 11

As Simon, studied in his castle he has come to call his home. Not studying as most would never that, he studied;

his diciplines, history, mortal ways, the Occult, his enemies, the pages from the book of Nod, as well as himself.

He from what he calls day one. The day he finished his castle. Has collected vast resources for his studies, Never once having to leave the safty of his castle. For fear of the other vampires that would so desire to kill him for what he posesses. No Using temporis alone, he reached back in time and took the books, scrolls, papers, that were forgotten. Using those he went about the way of his bloodline, The art of knowing everything. This took him many years but books never took himself more than one night to finish, he found that with his temporis he did not have to truely sleep, he could fold time to run nights back to back to do as he desired.

Fom his collection of resources, his favorite being the scrolls send from one clan leader to another or elder to elder, His ways of stealing information second only to the clan of Nos, For he learned from a scoll that they know of him as well as his library he has tried to keep secret. But he does not fear them, for they are like him in so many ways. They desire the knowledge that will serve them best. So one night he wrote out a scroll. Simply using Temporis he placed that scroll in the center of a coven of Nos. Not letting them see himself nor wasting time to see them. The scroll simply read as.

Nosferatu,

~I seek a meeting with you and your elders. Not for greed nor to eliminate you as a enemy. But to speak to you in my home or yours. For we each have knowledge, in pieces. but together we may have knowlege in full. I will await three nights from now no later a responce from the eldest to represent your words upon a possible meeting. This meeting will be held under the rules and guidelines of sanctuary or as other kindred call it. Asalium!, You the Nos, elder will be in charge of the list of those worthy to bring, as well as one bodyguard who exempt from the rules to defend you or one of your clan, if you deem fit. But I will tell you thins, I know how you all send knowledge and if I find one scrap of knowledge in thiese passings of to the location of my caste I will hunt down all parties involved and decorate my castle walls with the limbs and blood.~

Simon, Truely did not wait more than an hour before he went and looked and found a answer to his scroll. They had agreed. But their note was not from who he would expect. It was from the clan founder himself. He agreed to come and with but two of his most loyal clansmen both Elders as well as Princes of respecitable cities. They in their note said they would be here on the third day. As well in the note the clan founder said he would bring a present but did not say what it was. But said it was Caine's own words that what he brings remains in the posession of only the True Brujah for only they have been taught the ways to read it corectly. To see past the lies and the misleadings to truely learn.

On the third day the man arived just an hour after the sun went down Off of his lands, For they did not know that where he made his castle and the lands around his castle is a place the sun never shines. Nor will they know why. For no vampire espically the Founders or elders will ever nor do they ever wish to know of a vampire using the Dark Thaumaturgical ways. So the secret to his solar shield will remain his for eternity.

The clan founder entered first alone carrying a scroll case. After the plesant formalities and the arival of his two deciples he handed Simon the case that contained fifty pages from the book of nod. They said how they acquired them from the killers of those five of his blood line, to make sure that caine's word would be followed to keep the undeservig as well as the power hungry from learning the hidden knowledge written upon the pages. So after two hours they began. Simon listning for the first ten nights never saying a word. As he just took in what was being said. Having the respect for his elders enough to always let them speak first and let them state how the world is in their eyes. Once the three nos had finished, He himself spoke for a full year. reading from book after book. As well as giving the founder one book in perticular. The book he gave them was the logings of all of the Nosferatu scrolls and letters he acquired though time. But the most important knowledge he did in secret with the founder. He tolds this man the greatest of all secrets. One thing he was never suspost to say, But he trusted the founder for he is blood bound to caine. As his blood is so potent he knew this man would never reveil the secrets he passed. Simon told only verbally all of the knowledge he has pulled from the pages of Nod. As well as made a agreement in blood. For the clan Nosferatu to always bring to him the pages of Nod when ever they come across them. This has been passed down the lines to even the thinest of blooded Nos. Simon has now 80% of the book of Nod in his posession from this agrement.

Once the meeting was concluded The two elders respectfully left with the book. and the knowledge they seeked out. But the founder did not. The founder did what he came to do and made one last request. His request was of course granted. For how could a youger vampire decline the request of an Ancient. So from that day forth the founder has been asleep in the confines of Simons castle deep in the basement below his treasury. Resting in torpor Safetly guarded by time as well as Siberian.

Simon never forgot the man how could he when simon slept he could clearly hear and see the dreams of the founder. As can all vampires who stay in his castle with the ability and age of a Methuselah. Unbenownst to Simon, He was actually still learning as well as sharing knowledge with the sleeping Ancient. For the ancient through his blood even in his sleep was able to learn from his clansmen, While passing and learning from Simon. Learning enough that the Ancient knows the minumum requirements for Temporis if not the first level of the most secret dicipline of the vampire race. but Simon does not worry with that for Trhough the man Simon has learned in trade for Temporis. Fortitude, Obfuscate, Animalism, and Mortis. Always a even trade with one who is being protected. As well as knowing when pages of Nod are found. so that he may go personally and retrieve them. this went on for many decades. But one night in Simons dreams he did not see the man dreaming, He only Felt the man The man had been in torpor for so long he has finally lost all reality of his situation. and given up on his unlife. The only thing the man sees now or does simon when he sleeps is the passage of time and the ramblings of Gehenna. But from this man or from one older and stronger conection to him through the sleeping founder. He learned over night to completly master Obeath as well as Temporis. Not through blood nor training, But from someone just programing his own mind as well as implanting in their own desires. This is the night that he fully lost all of his compassion as well as what humanity he had left to his person. The night he took up a second path. A path not followed by any other kindred. The path of Caine.

It took him a few years to sort out what he had learned from that one nights sleep. but once he did he nolonger felt that he could stay in his castle for his castle was now a gateway. A gateway to the nexus. Or so he thought, for only the dead as well as the most powerfull Werewolves could travel freely among the Wraiths. He learned the knowledge he never desired to know that all of the Founders, and the Andulivians are now either dead or asleep. He had knew it to be rurmor before, but now he knows it for fact. Due to this he from the night of that dream became among the few of what is called unbeholden. He did not feel the speaking of his sire nor of his superiors naging within his blood for him to follow any specific way of unlife. He was completly free of them, so he thought. For later learning brought to his attention that to truely be unbeholden meant that the dead founder may speak or control you slightly. Choosing for you what is most important to them. that is how he learned his mastery of Obeath as well as Temporis. He learned it through the link he will forever share with his two sires. His place in Gehenna is set in stone where all others still have the right to choose, Their own fate.

Chapter 12 coming soon