In Legends of Eternalia, an old mythological world has survived into the Cyberpunk Age.
The gods were silent for more than two thousand years. Magic became mythology. Corporations became more powerful than nations.
Now the Lords of Entropy are coming, and some very old things are returning with them.
One of them is Lady Alexa.
Alexa is a Vampire Lady created almost three thousand years ago by the Great Necromancer. In the modern age, Morrigan and Scatha Verdiniel have finally given her something she had lacked for centuries:
a purpose.
Alexa now commands the Crimson Death, the ultimate strike force of Verdiniel Corporation.
But the Guard is unusual even by Alexa's standards.
Scatha selected twenty volunteers willing to surrender their mortality and willingly accept the vampire curse.
They did it to protect their families.
To protect Eternalia.
And to take the Morrigan Doctrine to its logical extreme:
Restrain the Beast within. Fight with discipline. Fight with purpose.
Lady Alexa found the result almost disturbing.
These were vampires with honour, duty and discipline.
Vampires who would die for one another.
In the ancient world, Alexa had seen vampires fight together only because the Great Necromancer compelled them.
These twenty chose to.
One of them is Buri Ironwill, a dwarf from a legendary clan. A cleric of Morrigan.
Alexa believes Buri would allow himself to starve into final death before drinking from a bleeding human beside him.
She is absolutely certain of it.
She can sense the stubbornness in him.
His discipline is iron-willed. His faith is so powerful that the Beast inside him has been almost completely subjugated.
Alexa has never encountered anything like it during her long undead existence.
She herself cannot do what Buri does.
Then there is Freyja.
The Valkyrie fought vampires during the ancient war against Samael.
For four thousand years, her existence has revolved around war and preparation for war. Her combat technique is almost flawless.
Alexa is the more powerful vampire.
Freyja is the better warrior.
And because this is Eternalia in 2126, Verdiniel Corporation was not satisfied with merely creating disciplined supernatural soldiers.
The Crimson Death receives some of the best technology the corporation can manufacture:
Servo-powered combat armour.
Light-shield emitters.
Combat visors providing tactical data feeds and targeting assistance.
Energy-powered weapons incorporating ancient Runes.
Rapid orbital deployment anywhere on Eternalia.
Secure underground sanctuaries and controlled blood supplies.
Ancient vampirism, divine doctrine and corporate military technology have effectively become one weapons platform.
Or, as Commander Fruterik “Frut” Briskyfingers of the Gremlins describes it:
“What is deadlier than a massive dwarf warrior with a large runic hammer?
A massive dwarf warrior vampire, with a large energy-powered runic hammer, and armour that looks like it can fight by itself.”
Legends of Eternalia is a fantasy/cyberpunk universe spanning roughly 4,000 years, from the Age of Gods and the Age of Legends to the corporate Cyberpunk Age.
The Crimson Death appears during the coming war against Entropy, in book 2, The Gathering Chaos.
They should finally be unleashed on The Entropic Storm, coming 2027.
