Abraham

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Priesthood and the founding of the Blood Clan

Abraham served as a priest in Lino City, where he possessed a mansion, servants, and authority over the church's interior. His pursuit of status included offering his wife and daughter to senior churchmen. Long afterward, memories of those humiliations continued to disturb him 67 77 324.

After vampire bats bit him, Abraham became increasingly attracted to blood. He removed his cross, struggled with the temptation to bite a nun, and descended into the cellar where he had imprisoned and tortured a servant for failing to rescue him. The smell of blood overwhelmed his restraint 67 71.

Initially uncertain whether he matched the Church's definition of a vampire, Abraham sought its advanced research while avoiding strongly religious locations. Once he discovered that he could create thralls, he decided to turn influential clerics into allies. He overpowered Bishop Good and fed him his blood, and also intended to convert Archbishop Duoxia 69 77.

Abraham named the new species the Blood Clan and proclaimed himself its progenitor. Despite his ambitions, he understood its vulnerabilities and ordered his descendants to remain hidden. Vampires who openly killed and fed in Lino City's slums threatened that strategy 79.

Service to Norton and the first betrayal

Norton crushed Lino City's vampires beneath his magnetic pressure, forcing Abraham to acknowledge him as the true progenitor. Abraham became an efficient attendant, handling Norton's affairs for two years before accompanying him out of the city. During their flight, he advised against sheltering in the Boya Empire because of the approaching war 88 100 104.

Abraham hoped to secure control of the Blood Clan by distracting Norton with pleasure. Instead, Elizabeth's emergence as another first-generation vampire undermined his position. Norton deliberately developed her bloodline alongside Abraham's, preventing his descendants from monopolizing the clan 121 123.

The clan-wide evolution accompanying Norton's advancement intensified Abraham's fears: his own existence appeared inseparable from a superior who might eventually discard him. He planned to immobilize Norton with a wooden stake and silver cross, seal away the bat progenitors who had transformed him, and kill Elizabeth 128 151.

Abraham eventually cooperated with the Church to keep Norton sealed. Through Duoxia, the New Faith offered to stop hunting Abraham and Elizabeth if the Blood Court collapsed and Norton's existence disappeared from history. Abraham and Elizabeth nevertheless assembled the vampires for a final rescue attempt; rebellions disrupted it, and the subsequent War to Subjugate the Unclean scattered the Blood Clan 183 197.

Norton's revival and Abraham's secret advancement

When Norton revived, Abraham outwardly celebrated while inwardly raging against the descendants responsible. He returned to elaborate flattery, only to be nearly killed by a kick that also suppressed his regeneration. Norton ultimately spared him and appointed him divine emissary 196 198.

Abraham then identified Norton's holy water as a possible route beyond first-generation vampirism. He secretly drank it over several years, advanced to a True Ancestor-level form, and attempted to conceal his mutations. Norton exposed the theft but spared him again, authorizing him to lead the Blood Progenitors in the Taotie Blood Feast against those who refused worship 210 239.

His ambition survived both advancement and prosperity. While enjoying wealth under Norton, Abraham secretly supplied Duoxia and the Northern Continent with intelligence. Norton openly acknowledged this disloyalty and encouraged further attempts, hoping that Abraham might discover a way around existence-level restrictions that would also benefit Norton's research 249 260 264 273.

Rebellion and the Godfall War

As Norton's conduct grew more terrifying, Abraham's reasons for rebellion changed. He began to see sealing Norton as necessary for the Garden of Eden's inhabitants, rather than merely a means of taking power. His attachment to Norton also deepened: he admitted that he might no longer be able to kill him, even if the opportunity arose 285 295.

Overhearing Norton speak about his foreign soul, Abraham concluded that Jonah's authority over souls could threaten him. He prepared a final testament analyzing Norton's history, psychology, and apparent weaknesses, using a book bearing God's portrait to obstruct surveillance. He did so despite fearing that Norton's destruction might also kill him 311 317 324.

During the war, Abraham discovered how drastically he had underestimated Norton's strength. As Jonah forced souls into Norton, he realized that Norton's apparent mental illness—and the pressure that had driven him into rebellion—had been deliberately cultivated to enable another advancement. Once Norton released him, Abraham immediately recast his betrayal as faithful participation in the plan 328 339 342.

Rule of the Southern Continent

After Norton's disappearance, Abraham feared being tried in his place. He publicly repudiated the Pale God and took charge of rebuilding the devastated Southern Continent. In Maria's tenth regnal year, he founded the Royal Museum and recruited exceptional talent from across the world 346 348.

His rule became intensely centralized and demanding. Unlike Norton, Abraham could not monitor the entire continent, allowing officials to conceal failures behind falsified reports and staged public approval. Increasingly isolated, he came to distrust servants, advisers, passersby, and even Elizabeth 349.

A nationwide purge in Maria's thirty-third year failed to dismantle this system: popular denunciations produced fresh extortion, violence, and bureaucratic collusion. Abraham withdrew to an island villa on Lake Pal in the fortieth year. In the forty-third year, an assassin used a silver siege bolt to pierce his chest and pin his body to a wall 349.

Later passages depict him active after ten thousand years of dormancy; the supplied material does not explain the transition from the assassination to that reappearance. Reunited with Norton, Abraham sincerely regretted his earlier betrayal and credited his own disastrous experience of government with changing his judgment 363 367.

Divine service and interstellar warfare

Abraham's later service combined renewed devotion with persistent suspicion. Seeing the universe made him grateful that Norton had preserved his life long enough to witness it, but he continued to fear that apparently casual conversations concealed another elaborate trap 367 388 415.

He participated in Norton's staged persecution of the Pale Church, surrendering to rebels alongside Duoxia and Elizabeth. Norton subsequently restored all three to his chamber 431.

After receiving another blood-granted transformation, Abraham publicly proclaimed himself Norton's successor and led the Pale Church against the Human Federation. His enormous body overwhelmed an outpost's weapons and collided with Sinuo, a planet twice the size of the Garden of Eden. He later fought fleets at planetary scale 442 443 448.

His participation did not eliminate his moral unease. Watching humans die in a staged war against aberrants, Abraham felt ashamed of their deception and concluded that Norton had gone insane. By his latest appearance, he had become adept enough at recognizing Norton's conversational bait to evade it—though he still obeyed an order to roll out of the hall 459 472.

Appearance

• Early vampire form: Deathly pale skin, a gaunt build, blood-red eye whites, elongated batlike front teeth, and sharp, tough nails 78.
• Vampire Lord form: Gray leathery skin and short fur, a black mane down his back, a batlike skull, hooked black claws, and a full set of fangs. The text explicitly models this form on transformed Dracula from Van Helsing 127 128.
• True Ancestor mutations: Oily green eyes and uneven pointed teeth. He breaks off the new teeth himself to make the advancement less conspicuous to Norton 239.
• Human presentation: Favors elaborate court clothing, including black-and-red attire and, later, a classical court outfit with a white cravat 121 324.
• Later forms: Evolves into a dragonlike being over a hundred meters tall, then gains horns, steel-like skin, and two pairs of bat wings after another gift of Norton's blood 363 442.

Personality

Abraham is ambitious, status-conscious, and highly adaptable. His original desire is not simply to escape oppression but to possess the authority enjoyed by those above him. Even after reaching True Ancestor rank, Norton's ability to determine a continent's affairs with a casual remark inspires him to think, “I shall take his place!” 79 260.

Self-preservation usually governs his behavior. He conceals resentment behind exaggerated devotion, takes blame when Norton demands it, and continues flattering him even while mortally wounded. Norton regards this submission as the product of a lifetime spent accepting humiliation in exchange for power 198 285.

His relationship with security is contradictory. Freedom from Norton brings anxiety about eventual retaliation and human betrayal; submission reduces those worries to the single problem of keeping Norton pleased. Centuries of manipulation also leave him unable to trust genuine friendliness 198 367.

Abraham nevertheless develops empathy and self-awareness. The text attributes his earlier cruelty partly to oppression and humiliation, while later intellectual revivals encourage repeated reflection. His concern for Norton's victims becomes sincere, though it coexists with luxury, blood consumption, and continued complicity in coercive rule 264 295 408 416 459.

Abilities and Skills

Vampire Physiology

• Gains enhanced strength, speed, and toughness upon completing his transformation 77.
• Can regenerate his upper body from his lower body as a fully developed Vampire Lord 207.
• As a True Ancestor, can remain functional despite enormous holes through his chest and mouth, although damage to the latter prevents speech 339.
• Can breathe or go without breathing 328.
• Is not absolutely indestructible: pulverization, sufficiently powerful weapons, and Norton's suppression can overcome his recovery 198 207 323.

Bloodline Creation and Advancement

• Creates vampires by draining a victim and feeding them his blood, as demonstrated with Bishop Good 77.
• Descendants feel bloodline kinship and submission toward the higher-generation vampires who created them 123.
• Initially supplies the bloodline from which all existing clan vampires descend, until Norton expands Elizabeth's competing line 123.
• Advances through substances derived from Norton, including holy water and blood; advancement does not free him from Norton's control 239 442.

Transformation and Flight

• His initial Vampire Lord transformation emphasizes strength over Elizabeth's greater agility and speed 128.
• Later possesses functional flight and can transform into a huge monster when departing Norton's palace 311.
• As a True Ancestor, can assume the form of whichever tier he wishes, including a comparatively compact three-meter monster 408.
• After his final documented blood-granted transformation, can move through vacuum without flapping his wings and continue expanding far beyond his initial thousand-meter height 443.

Physical Combat

Administration and Intrigue

• Efficiently manages Norton's daily affairs, provisions, and service arrangements 100 121.
• Maintains clandestine intelligence exchanges with Duoxia and the Northern Continent 264.
• Recognizes that remaining useful—even through predictable betrayal—helps preserve his life under Norton 273 277.
• Lacks Norton's continent-wide surveillance, a decisive weakness during his own rule 349.

Weaknesses and Restrictions

• Sunlight: Early exposure burns and chars his body, nearly blinding him while he reports to Norton 210.
• Religious objects: Early Blood Clan members are vulnerable to Church items; Abraham relocates holy imagery and insists that his descendants remain concealed 77 79.
• Existence-level suppression: Norton can immobilize him and inhibit regeneration. Becoming a Blood Progenitor makes Abraham more aware of the disparity rather than removing it 198 239 339.
• Dependent existence: Abraham believes that Norton's death or collapse could also destroy him, restricting his plans to sealing rather than straightforward killing 151 317.
• Advanced weapons: Even after enormous physical evolution, specialized modern weapons remain dangerous; his human form does not retain the full combat power of his gigantic body 363 431.

Equipment and Possessions

• Hooded robes and Church vestments — Used to conceal his changed appearance and maintain a clerical presentation 77 239.
• God-portrait book and final testament — The portrait obstructs Norton's surveillance, allowing Abraham to record an analysis intended to warn future generations against Norton's revival 324.
• Kerosene lamps — Retained instead of electric lighting out of nostalgia for the old era 324.
• Luxury residences and transport — His later possessions include a mountain villa, private cars, private spacecraft, and newly released electronics 416.
• Pale Church banner — Carried when he publicly declares himself emperor and launches the interstellar holy war 443.

Relationships

• Norton — Progenitor, master, patron, and repeated target of betrayal. Abraham fears and resents his control but also depends on his protection and develops a lasting emotional attachment. Norton values him as both a useful subordinate and a companion capable of relieving the loneliness of immortality 198 249 279 295 388.
• Elizabeth — Fellow first-generation vampire and rival bloodline leader. Abraham initially plans to kill her, later cooperates with her against Norton, and eventually becomes suspicious of her during his own isolated rule 123 151 295 349.
• Duoxia — Former archbishop, intermediary with the New Faith, and recipient of Abraham's intelligence leaks. They later serve together under Norton and participate in the staged capture of the Pale Church's leadership 183 264 431.
• Bishop Good — Cleric whom Abraham overpowers and begins transforming to create an ally within the Church 77.
• Alexander — Subordinate who reports on resistance and explains entropy research. Abraham subjects him to intimidation while increasingly resembling Norton's earlier authoritarian manner 348.
• Jonah — Primordial God of Death whom Abraham sees as a possible means of overcoming Norton through his soul. That hope becomes part of Norton's larger trap 311 339.
• Unnamed wife and daughter — Family members Abraham offered to powerful churchmen. His later recollections of the act expose the humiliation beneath his pursuit of status 324 339.

Notable Quotes

“I shall take his place!” 260

“I will also sink into ruin alongside His Eminence.” 295

“His Holiness's soul isn't even from this world. What gives you the nerve to claim the universe is an isolated system?” 348

Trivia

• Abraham coins “Blood Clan” to distinguish the new-style vampires from those described in Church doctrine 79.
• Norton gives Abraham a dedicated place in his fabricated Blood Pact, depicting him as an exile who avoids sunlight to escape death. This is Norton's invented scripture, not an account of Abraham's actual origin 156.
• Norton's staged war includes a false Abraham, allowing the real Abraham to watch the fighting beside him 459.
• When ordered to “roll out,” Abraham literally curls into a ball and rolls out of the hall 472.