All seven vampire clans had their own relics.
Aside from the Thorn Clan's relic, "Fallen Virtue," which had been lost, all the relics were in the hands of their respective clan dukes. They also held special significance for the vampires of each clan. For instance, although Grand Duchess Triss was the Blood Eagle Clan's true leader, Murphy could still be considered the duke's representative as long as he carried Necessary Evil.
For the past thousand years, tales of vampire relics had been a perennial "treasure topic" on the continent. Plenty of bored busybodies with nothing better to do argued over which vampire relic was the weakest. The strongest one was beyond dispute: the Blood Pact relic, the sacred spear Eternal Silence, held by the Revered Lord Pa Ying.
It was a weapon that made even the vampire dukes feel as though it were at their backs.
"Eternal Silence" was hardly a pleasant phrase in vampire legend. To the vampires of the Midnight Bloodline, the weapon represented nothing good. It was the other side of the "Millennium Lord" Pa Ying as seen by vampires.
Brutal, cold, and utterly rational judgment.
Many treasure hunters also spent day after day exploring every ruin in the frozen northern sea, hoping to find the relic lost by the Thorn Clan eight hundred years ago, when the Ancient One Oksana died.
Legend claimed that the battle gauntlet known as "Fallen Virtue" granted its wielder unparalleled power, enough to catapult them to the top in a single leap.
But as one of the vampire lords who owned a relic, Murphy could tell all those clueless fools spreading rumors that the vampire relics weren't as powerful as the legends claimed.
They were certainly formidable, indisputably among the finest divine weapons on the continent. But how much power they