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Entire Thesis (pdf)

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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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work would not have been possible without the support and encouragement of my colleague and friend, Dr. Rudolf Fliesning, under whose supervision I chose this topic and began the thesis. Mr. Quentin Travers, my advisor in the final stages of the work, has also been abundantly helpful, and has assisted me in numerous ways, including summarizing the contents of documents which were not available for me to examine, and in particular for allowing me to read as soon as they were available date copies of recent extracts from the field diaries of Watcher Rupert Giles and the current Slayer Miss Buffy Summers, who encountered William the Bloody in 1998, and for arranging full access to journals of earlier watchers relevant to the career of William the Bloody.

I would also like to thank the Council for the award of the Wyndham-Price Fellowship, which has supported me during my two years of research, and for the award of two travel grants, one to study documents in the sealed Watcher Archives in Munich, and one for field research in Prague. I would like to thank Mr. Travers, again, for facilitating my security clearance for the work in the Munich Archives, and Dr. Fliesning for his collegial support and assistance on both research trips.

I cannot end without thanking my family, on whose constant encouragement and love I have relied throughout my time at the Academy. I am grateful also to the examples of my late brother, Desmond Chalmers, Watcher in Training, and my father, Albert Chalmers, Watcher. Their unflinching courage and conviction will always inspire me, and I hope to continue, in my own small way, the noble mission to which they gave their lives. It is to them that I dedicate this work.