Post by Mekare on Dec 15, 2007 5:25:07 GMT -7
First Name: Mekare
Age: 6000+
Time when made: 6000 years ago
Age when made: unknown
Place of birth: Mount Carmel
Place when made: Egypt
Hair: Red
Type of Creature: Ancient Vampire, Queen of the Damned
Powers:
History: “In the beginning,” she said, “we were witches, my sister and I. We talked to the sprits and the spirits loved us. ~ Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
Born a witch at the dawn of time, myself and my twin sister, Maharet were brought into the blood by Khayman, after our capture by Akasha and Enkil. Maharet and I escaped our execution by being brought into the blood, but in the process, I lost my tongue and Maharet her eyes.
Maharet and Mekare were twin sisters, from a Palestinian tribe who lived during the Egyptian reign of Akasha and Enkil. They were witches who could control the rainfall and they spoke to spirits, both good and bad. Their religion required them to consume their dead mother's brain and heart in a cannibalistic ceremony but Akasha and Enkil's soldiers intercepted before they could fulfill their task.
They were forcefully taken to Akasha and Enkil's court, where Akasha questioned them about their powers and beliefs. Akasha ordered her court steward, Khayman, to rape them to see how the spirits would react - which infuriated them. Then they were freed. As a result of her sexual attack, Maharet became pregnant and give birth to a daughter, Miriam.
The soldiers came again, led by Khayman, telling them of a terrible curse which had befallen the Egyptian King and Queen. Akasha demanded to know what the spirit had done to them - why did they feed on three to four men at night yet they were still tortured by thirst? When it was explained that for the spirit to die then they would have to die too, as a new thing was formed, Akasha and Enkil asked the witches if they were now divine beings, blessed with gifts that only gods share. When Mekare remarked that this new condition would very likely pass to anyone, the phenomena would be duplicated, Akasha was furious. So the twins were to be punished. Maharet had her eyes taken from her, and Mekare's tongue was torn out. She managed to shout out this final curse to Akasha:
"Let the spirits witness; for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will! You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! But I shall stop you, if I must come back from the dead to do it. At the hour of your greatest menace it is I who will defeat you! It is I who will bring you down. Look well upon my face, for you will see me again!"
At night, before they were to be burned, they were visited by a transformed Khayman, distraught because he was also made into a vampire, unwillingly. He offered the new Dark Gift to them both, for their survival and so they could get their revenge on Akasha and Enkil. Mekare took his blood first and then she gave hers to her sister. That night Khayman helped them escape.
They were gone for only two weeks when they were recaptured. Khayman escaped, but as the King and Queen feared that by destroying the twins' bodies, they would feel the same pain, they ordered that they be separated. They were sealed in separate stone coffins which were placed on rafts; one set adrift Eastward and the other Westward. Maharet eventually escaped her stone prison when she came ashore on the Eastern coast of Lower Africa. From there on she began her endless search for her mute vampire twin, Mekare.
For six millennia, Maharet endured her vampire existence without the need to go into the ground or go mad. She instead kept a watchful eye on her descendants from her daughter Miriam to modern day Jesse.
How Mekare spent those six millennia is unknown except that she contacted no one. Yet when the Queen of the Damned awoke in the twentieth century it was Mekare that told the story of the Twins to all the vampires through dreams. It was Mekare that arrived at Maharet’s Sonoma compound, as she had predicted, at the moment of Akasha’s greatest mischief and destroyed her. It is Mekare that is now the Queen of the Damned.
Upon Akasha's awakening, I returned from the jungles in which I'd lived to claim the title of Queen of the Damned.
Mekare
- Paramours: Maharet
- Fledglings: Maharet
- Maker: Khayman
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Age: 6000+
Time when made: 6000 years ago
Age when made: unknown
Place of birth: Mount Carmel
Place when made: Egypt
Hair: Red
Type of Creature: Ancient Vampire, Queen of the Damned
Powers:
History: “In the beginning,” she said, “we were witches, my sister and I. We talked to the sprits and the spirits loved us. ~ Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
Born a witch at the dawn of time, myself and my twin sister, Maharet were brought into the blood by Khayman, after our capture by Akasha and Enkil. Maharet and I escaped our execution by being brought into the blood, but in the process, I lost my tongue and Maharet her eyes.
Maharet and Mekare were twin sisters, from a Palestinian tribe who lived during the Egyptian reign of Akasha and Enkil. They were witches who could control the rainfall and they spoke to spirits, both good and bad. Their religion required them to consume their dead mother's brain and heart in a cannibalistic ceremony but Akasha and Enkil's soldiers intercepted before they could fulfill their task.
They were forcefully taken to Akasha and Enkil's court, where Akasha questioned them about their powers and beliefs. Akasha ordered her court steward, Khayman, to rape them to see how the spirits would react - which infuriated them. Then they were freed. As a result of her sexual attack, Maharet became pregnant and give birth to a daughter, Miriam.
The soldiers came again, led by Khayman, telling them of a terrible curse which had befallen the Egyptian King and Queen. Akasha demanded to know what the spirit had done to them - why did they feed on three to four men at night yet they were still tortured by thirst? When it was explained that for the spirit to die then they would have to die too, as a new thing was formed, Akasha and Enkil asked the witches if they were now divine beings, blessed with gifts that only gods share. When Mekare remarked that this new condition would very likely pass to anyone, the phenomena would be duplicated, Akasha was furious. So the twins were to be punished. Maharet had her eyes taken from her, and Mekare's tongue was torn out. She managed to shout out this final curse to Akasha:
"Let the spirits witness; for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will! You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! But I shall stop you, if I must come back from the dead to do it. At the hour of your greatest menace it is I who will defeat you! It is I who will bring you down. Look well upon my face, for you will see me again!"
At night, before they were to be burned, they were visited by a transformed Khayman, distraught because he was also made into a vampire, unwillingly. He offered the new Dark Gift to them both, for their survival and so they could get their revenge on Akasha and Enkil. Mekare took his blood first and then she gave hers to her sister. That night Khayman helped them escape.
They were gone for only two weeks when they were recaptured. Khayman escaped, but as the King and Queen feared that by destroying the twins' bodies, they would feel the same pain, they ordered that they be separated. They were sealed in separate stone coffins which were placed on rafts; one set adrift Eastward and the other Westward. Maharet eventually escaped her stone prison when she came ashore on the Eastern coast of Lower Africa. From there on she began her endless search for her mute vampire twin, Mekare.
For six millennia, Maharet endured her vampire existence without the need to go into the ground or go mad. She instead kept a watchful eye on her descendants from her daughter Miriam to modern day Jesse.
How Mekare spent those six millennia is unknown except that she contacted no one. Yet when the Queen of the Damned awoke in the twentieth century it was Mekare that told the story of the Twins to all the vampires through dreams. It was Mekare that arrived at Maharet’s Sonoma compound, as she had predicted, at the moment of Akasha’s greatest mischief and destroyed her. It is Mekare that is now the Queen of the Damned.
Upon Akasha's awakening, I returned from the jungles in which I'd lived to claim the title of Queen of the Damned.
Mekare
- Paramours: Maharet
- Fledglings: Maharet
- Maker: Khayman
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
