The Asura Bhutas
One philosophy left its original land of India and has, over the centuries, bled into the beliefs of many Circle coteries. This belief — independent of faith in particular gods — says that spirits were the progenitors of the vampire “race.” Once upon a time, a man was on the verge of death and he was possessed by a spirit of hunger, and vampires were born. Any time the man would bite another and drink his soul, the man would replace part of that soul with a new spirit. Followers of this philosophy accept that all vampires are half-human, half-spirit.
One can guess at the spirit’s provenance — a lean man with sharp cheekbones and a cruel wit may purportedly be possessed by the spirit of a razor. A woman of round, white flesh and limitless wisdom might be half a spirit of the moon, or perhaps an owl. The Acolytes who follow this system of belief have no concretized way of determine what spirit resides in whom — each vampire is given to his own ideas on the subject, and is free to act in accordance with his supposed spirit.
The name of the philosophy comes from an amalgamation of two Hindu terms: asuras, which are the evil spirits that tested the gods, and bhutas, which were the ghosts of those who died unnatural deaths.
One can guess at the spirit’s provenance — a lean man with sharp cheekbones and a cruel wit may purportedly be possessed by the spirit of a razor. A woman of round, white flesh and limitless wisdom might be half a spirit of the moon, or perhaps an owl. The Acolytes who follow this system of belief have no concretized way of determine what spirit resides in whom — each vampire is given to his own ideas on the subject, and is free to act in accordance with his supposed spirit.
The name of the philosophy comes from an amalgamation of two Hindu terms: asuras, which are the evil spirits that tested the gods, and bhutas, which were the ghosts of those who died unnatural deaths.
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