Blackwell Manor, New England – Autumn, 1893Fog slithered between the bare trees, cloaking the grounds of the Blackwell estate in a thick, suffocating silence. The wind whispered through brittle leaves, and in the tallest tower of the manor, candlelight flickered behind the dusty stained glass, casting quivering shadows across the stone walls.That night, Alaric Blackwell — the founding patriarch of the family — would write history in blood.He sat slumped in a carved wooden chair, his eyes fixed on the altar before him. A brittle parchment lay open across the blackened surface, etched with ancient symbols in red ink — or what looked disturbingly like dried blood.Standing beside him was a man cloaked in shadow. His hair was long and gray, his eyes an unnatural shade of green-yellow. He was known only as Malachai, a fallen cleric excommunicated from the colonial church after being accused of heresy and witchcraft. Since then, he had served somethi
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