title: The Lore of Lauder
author: Burgess, Parker
description: Paul is as much myth as he is man. He, along with a handful of others like him, walk among men but they are not men. They are immortals and they fancy themselves gods.People, corporations, and nations are just pawns for them to manipulate in their own sinister game of chess. To what end, none may know.Paul Lauder ruled over the New World – the Americas – and all the islands surrounding them. At his word nations grew and civilizations fell. Some prosper, some languish in poverty. While he, like his fellows, profit immensely from the successes and as well as the failures.Worldly riches weren’t the only commodity these immortals require of us. As they are driven by their hunger for power, so also are they driven by their thirst for blood.To appease his own conscience, Paul seeks his sustenance from the dregs of society – murderers, robbers, drug dealers and the like having no regard for the rule of law. But the world Paul has built for himself is about to be destroyed by blood from a different source.When he discovers that he may have progeny borne of a marriage centuries ago, events are set in motion that will forever change the Ruler of the Americas. His descendants possess documents that, if made public, threaten to expose the shadow world of which he is a part.Should Paul throw caution to the wind for the sake of meeting his great, great, granddaughter? Or is it better to play it safe, destroy the documents and continue life as he has for hundreds of years? Even if he did choose to bury his past and renounce his flesh and blood, what of the Third Blood that will most certainly change everything?Born and raised in the Highlands of Scotland, he lived the life of a shepherd. He knew of the Lord William Naismythe that ruled over his village and the people that lived there. He didn’t know the truth about this man, as many in village did. The discovery of what William Naismythe was would come all too late.Paul married Kathrine McInnis as a young man with hopes of having a family. He had no other desires than to live out his life as a shepherd. It was a happy life. He and his wife tried time after time to have children. She miscarried, or had infants that didn’t live pass the first week. He wouldn't give up hope.It was the month of April, 1746. He was twenty years old. He was forced by Lord William to join Prince Charles Stuart at Culloden. Here a decisive battle was fought. It ended well for Britain but was a disaster for the Scottish Highlanders and the prince with poor judgment.Young Paul was wounded and sure to die, but William found him. Lord William and Henry Clouitier, the dark lord of France bound his wounds and carried him to safety. It took months and much care to bring him back from the brink of death. Paul was told his village had been destroyed and the people that lived there including his family had all been murdered by the British.Months later after his wounds had healed; he was brought into the world of the darkness in a ceremony of blood. The changes that took place in him would keep him young till the end of time as the world would know it. He became a murderer but so much more.The year was 1998. He stumbled upon a website one evening that threw his world into chaos and his life into despair. He had family. He knew he should leave well enough alone, but he had to know more. He began chatting with them and was told of several diaries or journals written by the wife he had thought had died so long ago. They opened up a journey to his past. One that couldn't be closed.This is the beginning of a series titled The Lore of Lauder.From deaths door to a new life. Through trials and woes. He fights for his America, and his family.