Earl Sharron of Sico needed the blessing of Midnight to keep her alive. It sounded utterly ridiculous, but considering that turning oneself into a vampire to escape death was hardly uncommon on this continent, it wasn't hard to understand why she and her followers had made that decision.
For example, when a certain Blood Eagle duke beside Murphy had fallen on hard times, he had even sold "Embraces" to earn drinking money.
Of course, in Triss's situation back then, even an Embrace couldn't grant others the true power of Midnight. It could only turn them into vampires so they would no longer suffer from illness and death.
The most typical examples were "Plague Rat King" Zweig, who had previously died at Murphy's hands, and Murphy himself, who was right here.
They had both received Embraces under the guise of "accidents." They had no official vampire status and weren't recognized by the Bloodline Clans. If other vampires were nobles of Midnight, then Murphy and Zweig, in those circumstances, could at most be called "undocumented residents of Midnight."
But little Countess Sharron's complicated situation clearly couldn't be resolved by something as simple as replacing her blood with the Blood of Sin.
The remnants of the psionic plague in her body alone required a vampire to use a very special method to "purify" her.
"You need to 'cleanse' all the blood in Countess Sharron's body. This won't be over in a moment."
In the psionic chamber, Triss reminded Murphy:
"I'll teach you the exact method, but it'll consume some of your blood. And with her as weak as she is now, on the verge of death at any moment, if you want her to recover quickly, you'll probably have to give Sharron at least half your blood and a small portion of your