Undead for 15 centuries, and having fed on countless innocent lives, a monster escaped the final judgment his kind so richly deserved. He has lost his favorite feeding ground, and his most trusted lieutenant is a pile of ash beneath a temple in Hillfort. But was his lair beneath Ilmater's temple all that this Vampire had to show for one and a half millennia of terror? Is the life of a hunted fugitive all he can look forward to?