Plot Summary:Stolen by crusaders on the night of his birth, he has no knowledge of his bloodline: his mother is a demon; his father is a vampire. Trained and exploited by a brotherhood of mystic monks to slay all enemies of the church, fate brings him back one night to the castle of his father, armed with the monster-slaying Sword of Laertes, to destroy the vampire Vladislas and reclaim a holy relic: The Bloodstone. The events of that night turn Radu from a noble man into a vampire with no master, setting him on a centuries-long quest for sustenance, and companionship, for the treacherous one who stole him from the sun, and for the Bloodstone he hopes will bring him peace. Spanning 500 years in the life of the vampire Radu Vladislas, this long-anticipated prequel to the Subspecies series chronicles Radu's descent from a noble warrior for the Church to a depraved creature of the night.
他在出生当晚被十字军偷走,对自己的血统一无所知:他的母亲是一个恶魔;他的父亲是个吸血鬼。在神秘僧侣兄弟会的训练和利用下,他杀死了教会的所有敌人。一天晚上,命运将他带回了父亲的城堡,带着杀死怪物的莱尔特斯之剑,摧毁了吸血鬼弗拉迪斯拉斯,并夺回了一件圣物:血石。那天晚上发生的事情把拉杜从一个贵族变成了一个没有主人的吸血鬼,让他开始了长达数百年的寻找食物和陪伴的旅程,寻找那个从太阳下偷走他的奸诈之人,寻找他希望能给他带来和平的血石。这部备受期待的《亚种》系列前传跨越了吸血鬼拉杜·弗拉迪斯拉斯500年的一生,记录了拉杜从一名教会的贵族战士到一个堕落的夜晚生物的故事。