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Chapters:

  1. Summary of Known Information
  2. The Order of Aurelius
  3. An Alternate Theory of Vampirism
  4. Appearance and Habitat
  5. Feeding Habits
  6. Preferred Victims
  7. Sexual Idiosyncrasies
  8. Torture
  9. Other Known Idiosyncrasies
  10. Pre-Death Biography
  11. Summary of Strengths and Weaknesses
  12. Conclusions

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Watcher's Academy, London

Abstract

William the Bloody

by Lydia Chalmers

Chair of the Supervisory Committee

Mr. Quentin Travers

Council of Watchers

This thesis summarizes the available data on the career of William the Bloody, a vampire of the Line of Aurelius, drawing what conclusions are possible on his origins, abilities, habits, and expected behaviours.

A summary of confirmed information is given briefly in chapter 1. This is data confirmed by eye-witnesses of known trustworthiness (usually Watchers). I will depend on this information as certain, but will build the argument of the thesis also on information less reliably confirmed but which seems to me on various grounds to be credible. Speculative data will be so noted.

Chapter 2 will give an overview of William the Bloody's clan, the Line of Aurelius, as background to his own history. Chapter 3 gives an alternate theory on the nature of vampirism, on which I will base many of my later conclusions on the nature of William the bloody. In chapter 4 I include an account the debate over the identity of William the Bloody's sire, and the date of his siring. Chapter 4 also gives a summary of his appearances over the years, and the habitats he prefers.

Chapters 5 through 9 give a behavioural account of his known (and deduced) habits, divided into the following categories: feeding habits, preferred victims, sexual idiosyncracies, preferences in torture, and other known idiosyncracies. Chapter 10, an admittedly speculative chapter, gives an account of what we can attempt to deduce about his pre-death biography.

Chapter 11 gives a summary of his strengths and weaknesses in convenient format, for the use of watchers and Slayers who may encounter William the Bloody in the field. Chapter 12 gives provisional conclusions on the history and character of William the Bloody, and includes a reappraisal of the nature of vampires in general.

I have included appendices giving an index of confirmed victims, and a set of confirmed images of William the Bloody.