The All Night Society

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” – Ellen Glasgow There’s an irony in immortality. When you’re set to live forever, you become even more afraid of the things that can kill you. For Kindred, that means being forever-paranoid about the four things most likely to do you in: sunlight, fire, hunger, and other vampires. This is why Kindred tend to be creatures with strict routi...

“That is will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson It’s hard to say Emily was wrong; immortality comes with burdens aplenty and none live so free as the mortals ignorant to the monsters that live by night. Never forget: the Kindred are cursed. They feed on the living, burn in the sun, and wrestle for eternity with an alien predator that lives in their soul. Only the mos...

“Every thing must have a beginning, and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.” – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Ms. Shelley was talking about a different kind of monster when she put that phrase to paper, but any Kindred with an ounce of self-awareness will tell you the same. Immortality doesn’t change who you are; it boils down your mortal neurosis. You want to know who a vampi...