Overview
Two years past, shortly after the plague began, Brencis emerged from the shadows with his three vrakhir lieutenants. In a single night they slew the reigning knyaz, Skender Dragosti, and seized Vale Sangora.
When Brencis announced he would drink the people's blood — and ordered them to drink his — terror gripped the valley. But soon enough, folk grew accustomed to it.
Now Brencis holds sway across the valley, ruling from Greifberg Castle in Svartrau. He seldom leaves it, save to attend Blood Mass. He is old — there is no disguising it — yet while his frame may look to be falling apart, his power is undeniable… and his strength seems, somehow, still to be growing.