INTRODUCTION

Hello Dear Reader,

First and foremost, I want to thank and welcome you to my personal journal.

Who am I? You maybe asking yourself.

Well I am happy to introduce myself to you. My name is Gwendolyn Sablewaiter, but my friends call me Gwen and full disclosure, I am a vampire, but unlike what you are probably picturing, I am no blood sucking fiend, slurping on innocent virgins, or threatening poor villagers with violence. I have, however, had to stay thirsty, in order to survive my second life as a blood drink monster of sorts.

More to the point, I am a person like any other, and due to my unique circumstances, I chose to be an adventurer not just to survive or hide, but in order to strive. Unlike most in my industry, adventuring was not the life I had chosen, but the one I had to learn in order to survive. The events of my death forced a drastic change to my otherwise mundane life as a court official. Just because my body has changed doesn’t mean I have to let it dictate who I am or who I want to be.

Having had the opportunity to learn from many other skilled adventures have led me to believe that adventuring when done right, is a noble profession. It exists in the hopes of protecting the weak and innocent. I only hope that by mine and my sister’s examples we have led a life that others may wish to emulate. I also hope that others will remember me as they do my parents. Rest their souls.

Surviving my life after death and keeping to my morals, I have sometimes found it hard to carry on, and have learned some very tough lessons. It can be difficult to feel like you always have to hide what you are from everyone you meet, so you have to take some solace in those you meet to whom you can share yourself with.

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Commonly, It's not safe to live openly as a vampire, or any of the other “monster” races, and meander around in a human province. Tensions still run high since the end of the Demon Emperor’s war with the human kingdoms. However, I was born and raised in the kingdom of men in a small frontier village, and I am happy to call it my home despite the potential dangers.

In life, I’d strived to work with and for the people of the Province of Weimar Glenn. After much hard work and tutoring, I had earned myself a place as a court official for the local lord, Lord Bryan of Weimar Glenn. In death, I have continued to work for the benefit of my home province. I earn my keep by culling dangerous monsters, both men and beasts alike. I hunt beasts to feed my needs, having worked hard to only take their blood as sustenance. Knowing that I have rightfully earned it after having fought both tooth and nail for my survival. I have fed on the strengths of many monsters that plague the Kingdom of Palisfals, stealing their power, and co-opting it to protect innocent people from pain and strife.

This journal is not just my personal story; it’s a full catalog of my errors, efforts, false starts and mistakes early on as a newly minted vampire and later as an adventurer. I will attempt not to omit any details, but please bear with me as these early days were often trying and embarrassing times.

So, I have taken the liberty of adding in my personal notes and the lessons I learned. It has been my fervent hope, that by sharing my mistakes with others, that they may be better able to sidestep them, even if they are not some undead creature like myself. I hope that these writings will one day help to prevent disastrous results, injury, potential death, and the risks that in hindsight I didn’t need to take. I am sharing my story, in order to help new adventurers live longer, safer, happier, more productive lives. I hope that others will live a life that has become as fulfilling as mine, to spite my many errors.

In all likelihood, I will ask my family or my former colleagues to distribute these writings after my true death, so in a funny way they will probably end up missing my most important lesson of all. What was worth me dying for a second and final time.

So once more, thank you for your time, and I hope these words are of some help to you,

Gwendolyn Sablewaiter

Professional Adventurer