Count's Banquet/Lore

This article contains information on a **Bloodline Character**.This character is part of an alternate universe within Identity V called The Bloodline, which is not connected to the game's main storyline.

## The Count

* Count (Event)
* Count (Costume)
* Lost Soul

## Story Details

### Connected Characters

Quinlan Duncan
The Embrace
Flavorful Spirits
Helen Duncan (Physician)
Conviction (Servant)
Bloody Sword
Lady in the Mirror

### Connected Locations

Stonebell Castle

**The Count**, once an elder of the vampire clan who was tasked with guarding the tome, vanished along with the castle after the incident with the tome. No one knows where he went. Now, along with the appearance of the Tome of Prophecies, he has appeared in Neuntoter with a new castle.

## Personality

Calm, collected and rational. Always guided by logic, he wants peace between the clans. The Count is tired of constant fighting, which is why he was a hermit for some time. He has goodness in him, but he will not hesitate to sacrifice others for higher purposes.

## Background

Across centuries, The Embrace hid from the church whilst expanding the vampiric bloodline. He handed the tome over to the bloodlines for them to keep, while he went into seclusion. Around the 17th century, the church and bloodlines reached a truce to not attack each other. Meanwhile, because the vampiric Lady in the Mirror committed too many atrocities, she was killed and deprived of her physical body to deter future offenders. Her soul remained trapped in the mirror, becoming a demon spirit within the mirror.

Count inherited the castle of the Lady in the Mirror and took care of the Tome as the Count. However the prolonged bloodshed and hatred tired him, and he ultimately sealed the tome, and experienced solitude for around a hundred years. When he heard the story of the bloodline’s Crimson Bride, he organized the banquet on a whim. Although the banquet was successful, it also led the Nordic tribes to fight within themselves, the sinners to depart from the church - human nature was fully exposed, and the tome was taken away by The Embrace, who had just reappeared.

Disheartened, the Count became a hermit, temporarily staying with a good friend, Flavourful Spirits.

However, because the tome was damaged during the banquet, it became unstable, calling off the truce. Part of the lower echelons in the bloodlines lost their protection. For this, Bloody Sword collaborated with the church, along with Misfit to target the bloodline's ancestor, The Embrace, so that they can capture the Tome and master the techniques used to create vampires.

The three parties ultimately returned to the castle and commenced a fierce battle. The Embrace and the tome appeared to have been sealed in the coffin by Bloody Sword. In reality, he had disappeared without a trace. Since Bloody Sword had recovered the techniques he wanted and thought that he had sealed The Embrace, Bloody Sword became the new target of the church. Meanwhile, the church had thoroughly scrapped the truce with the bloodline and commenced a battle with the vampires.

Together, Flavorful Spirits and the Count attempted to find a way for vampires and humans to coexist. The church betrayer, the Reservist, infiltrated the church and witnessed the church try to create a new, alien creature. This led her to have an epiphany of how the bloodline even came to be in the first place. However, no one knows how the future will be like.

At some point in time he saved Quinlan from the witches and took care of him for some time. He also saved the scholar Conviction and turned him into a vampire with the Embrace.

## References

1. ↑ Halloween/2022
2. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LFD6ENfccCaFnC0bMA2\_\_dFqD37IhPfI\_DdX1bnQchM/edit