Alric, a Celt from the Dumnonii tribe of Brittany was born to a high born warrior in the service of their King and a Visgothic mother. When Alric came of age, he became a member of the King Erispoe's household troops like his father before him and helped defend their lands from the Franks and Norse men alike. During one of these battles Alric fell on the battlefield full of arrows. That is when the shade of the vampire Edda Brugisdottir descended on him and fed him her blood.
From that day Alric became a fierce defender at the side of his maker and became instrumental in the reformation of the cabal of vampires known as The Conclave of Nine. Dedicated to the gathering of magical texts and artefacts of the arcane Alric serves as its Sargent at Arms.
Defying the orders of the other council members Alric enters the city of London, England on the search for the vampire that made him.
The Northmen call him Bezerker and Einharjar...the fallen warrior, able to take on the form of the Man-Wolf striking fear into the hearts of man and vampire.
Instruments of Darkness: Devourer of Souls is set in gaslit London, 1789 AD. It's a gothic horror story about secret societies, an Egyptian goddess of the underworld and a cable of vampires trying to save humanity from those that created them.
It's a dark historical fantasy that weave's it's way through London's forgotten water ways and ancient sewers, hidden temples and murderous cultists.
Alric ap Alun's sire has gone missing whilst investigating a secret society called The Devoted of Ammit and together with his fellow vampire cohort Chi-Lan, Alric enters the city in search of his maker and the Seal of Solomon an arcane object of great power from an infamous King of Babylon.
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