Bloody Sword/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.

## Crimson Sword

* Sprite
* Costume

## Story Details

### Connected Characters

Quinlan Duncan (nephew)
Count's Banquet
The Embrace
Misfit

### Connected Locations

Stonebell Castle

**Bloody Sword -** one of the first vampires. He faded from the sight of the clans after the incident with the tome. Now the Count’s Banquet has brought him to Stonbell Castle as he seeks a method to erase certain memories.

## Personality

Cold and collected hiding behind picture of a gentleman. His priority are vampires, for them he collaborated with the church with the intention to capture the Tome and master the techniques used to create vampires. He has supposedly killed his siblings, according to Quinlan, his "nephew" but the reason is unknown.

## 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, Jack 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.

After the Count's appearance in Neuntoter with a new castle and announcement of the moonlit banquet with supposed reappearance of the Tome of Prophecies, Crimson Sword has infiltrated the castle with the intention to awaken the Count's memories to seek his aid in creating method to erase "certain memories", but in the end, even the Count doesn't know how to erase the memories of vampires. Crimson Sword is afraid of a clergyman as he can "awake the beast within him."

## References

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