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How Does 'Empire Of The Vampire' End?
Reaching the Empire of the Vampire finale was epic but left me with a few questions. What’s the final fate of Gabriel de León and his world?
2025-06-26 15:52:17
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Jafar Yusuf
For those who are curious about the ending of the Crimson Grail conflict and how Gabriel de León fares in the story, I will summarize it for you. Please note, however, that there will be some spoilers in the process. In the end, the conflict is resolved and the eternal night averted, but not without much cost to Gabriel. It makes for a fitting and bittersweet ending to his story arc, and it is more than worthy of the grimdark that it is. On a completely different note, I just finished reading ‘Vampire Ruler’s Strong Bride’ and I have to say that this book is essentially the opposite of what I just read. Instead of a strong vampire fighting to control a human bride against her will, this book features a human woman who is forcibly married to the vampire ruler of a territory. However, this woman is not about to become a passive consort to her husband, and as the story progresses, she actually turns the tables on him and engages in a battle of wits against her husband as she secretly plots to bring down his entire court from within. Her husband is equally determined to break her spirit, and the two of them engage in a struggle for power that is quite tense and impressive.
2026-08-01
Ivan
The ending of ‘Empire of the Vampire’ is as brutal and emotional as it is brilliant. The last silversaint, Gabriel de León, sets out to find the Grail and in the end manages to reach it. His journey ends with a fight against the vampire queen in which he sacrifices everything. But he does find salvation for the last remaining spark of hope. The ending shows how Gabriel, the last silversaint and saint, turns into a vampire in the end, using the very darkness he fought for so long to try and extinguish in order to save humanity from itself. He is the hunter turned into the hunted, the saint turns sinner. The ending is extremely promising for a war-ridden sequel, and the moral ambiguity of it all is sublime. It’s no clear heroes against evil villains, just a lot of survivors fighting to stay alive in a world that’s literally drowning in blood.
2025-06-28
Claire
The ending was fantastic as well. The whole book Gabriel had been talking about purity and sacrifice, and in the end he becomes the worst thing he hates. The battle with the Queen is not all action and drama as one would expect, but rather a few quiet moments where Gabriel outwits her and then dies. Jay Kristoff writes the transformation scene to Gabriel’s new vampire state with such mourning of Gabriel’s humanity that it brought tears to my eyes. His last human breath is a whispered Dior.
After that, it just gets worse. The vampire Gabriel created is indeed still human and retains his memories, but appears to lack his morality and will likely use his newfound powers to hunt down other vampires – or attempt to be their judge, trying to find some sort of balance between the two. And as for the Grail, it’s unclear whether it was destroyed, or perhaps hidden away for safekeeping. Perhaps some future adventurer will come along and be tempted to use it for their own ends. We do get a glimpse of a possible savior (or victim) for a future book: a silver-eyed child who may be immune to the vampirism that has afflicted so many.
After that, it just gets worse. The vampire Gabriel created is indeed still human and retains his memories, but appears to lack his morality and will likely use his newfound powers to hunt down other vampires – or attempt to be their judge, trying to find some sort of balance between the two. And as for the Grail, it’s unclear whether it was destroyed, or perhaps hidden away for safekeeping. Perhaps some future adventurer will come along and be tempted to use it for their own ends. We do get a glimpse of a possible savior (or victim) for a future book: a silver-eyed child who may be immune to the vampirism that has afflicted so many.
2025-07-01
Stella
So, for interested readers, I will elaborate on the finale of ‘Empire of the Vampire’. In it, Gabriel tries to save himself from despair by going for the Grail, but in the end he finds out that the Grail is not a weapon to use against the first vampire, but a prison for it. So, he decides to go the other way and becomes a vampire in order to fight the queen. This is not your typical losing of the soul to becoming a mindless monster. Instead, Gabriel finds a way to use his new damnation to fight against Queen Vampire.
It’s also worth noting that Dior’s death was incredibly painful for Gabriel in that she believed he had betrayed her, and his subsequent guilt caused him to go into undeath. The fall of the queen is also profoundly human. She is not some mindless beast, but a tragic, fallen saint. Her history is mirrored in that of Gabriel and thus one wonders if history is doomed to repeat itself. In terms of the writing, every stroke of a sword, every drop of blood is felt with vivid, unflinching prose. One is left with the very real and challenging questions of whether or not Gabriel is even still a hero, or if he’s become the villain in someone else’s story. The only ‘sequel bait’ are the hints of a mysterious, silver eyed child who may hold the key to unlocking the cycle of violence.
What is most impressive about this is how it ends up, refusing to be wrapped up in neat little bows for the reader. The world is left in a very broken place, and the war is most definitely not over. It’s been ended with respect, to the author and reader’s intelligence, and leaves a lot to the imagination, which is how you successfully end a grimdark of this nature with a character of this sort and have it touch upon heart.
It’s also worth noting that Dior’s death was incredibly painful for Gabriel in that she believed he had betrayed her, and his subsequent guilt caused him to go into undeath. The fall of the queen is also profoundly human. She is not some mindless beast, but a tragic, fallen saint. Her history is mirrored in that of Gabriel and thus one wonders if history is doomed to repeat itself. In terms of the writing, every stroke of a sword, every drop of blood is felt with vivid, unflinching prose. One is left with the very real and challenging questions of whether or not Gabriel is even still a hero, or if he’s become the villain in someone else’s story. The only ‘sequel bait’ are the hints of a mysterious, silver eyed child who may hold the key to unlocking the cycle of violence.
What is most impressive about this is how it ends up, refusing to be wrapped up in neat little bows for the reader. The world is left in a very broken place, and the war is most definitely not over. It’s been ended with respect, to the author and reader’s intelligence, and leaves a lot to the imagination, which is how you successfully end a grimdark of this nature with a character of this sort and have it touch upon heart.
2025-07-01
Kathy Laue
This story concludes in a number of significant ways for Gabriel and the search for the Holy Grail. The endless night is faced by the protagonist and in many ways his personal history is fully cleared up, showing his failures as well as his successes. The alliances that have been made throughout the book are stretched to the breaking point and some of them are left in tatters. The future of the empire is left somewhat up in the air, but there is a glimmer of hope in the most unexpected place. The framing device of the old vampire hunter recounting the story of Gabriel to a group of police recruits is brought up to date in a most profound way. As for the ending of the book itself, it is a complete story but with so much more to come in the next volume. As you finish the book you are left to ponder the cost of Gabriel’s quest for vengeance and to wonder if he can find redemption.
2026-07-30
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