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Necromancy Discoveries and the Death of Claudius
During the 17th century, some Giovanni studies turned up references to a book called Khazar's Diary, which supposedly had substantiating information on invoking the Endless Night. Augustus knew that there was a copy in the library at the Cappadocian mountain temple of Erciyes. He sent Claudius after it.
Despite a rigorous search, Claudius and his people could not find the book. Frustrated, Claudius ordered the temple burned after thay had salvaged everything they could.
Around this time, a wandering monk/vampire called the Capuchin, who had some ties to the Church, made a deal with Augustus: In exchange for access to all the forbidden texts in the Vatican library, the Capuchin would receive instruction in the Discipline of Necromancy. The great discovery that came from this deal was that many of the old texts Augustus got from the Vatican had their authors bound to them as wraiths. They shared their knowledge of Black Magic with Augustus, which enabled the Clan to make some great leaps in Necormancy. Of course, a lot of what we heard was useless or even false, but the advances we made we quite beneficial to Augustus' cause.
One night, the Capuchin came with an excerpt of Japheth Cappadocius' journal relating to the Embrace of Augustus. Apparently there had been a bit of Cappadocius' blood left over. Japheth and Constancia kept that blood and sealed it in a jar with beeswax and left it in the Erciyes temple.
Augustus was none too pleased about Claudius' having burned the temple to the ground with Cappadocius' blood in it. Augustus had always sworn that, the night he diablerized Cappadocius, a little bit of his soul got away. If there had ever been an opportunity to finish the job, that bottle of blood would have been it. Needless to say, Claudius didn't make it through the night. Legend has it that Augustus didn't drink Claudius' soul, instead giving it to the Capuchin.
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