The Archivist's Den Welcome to my Vampire site!   Needless to say I've put a lot of work into this so read, enjoy, and let me know what you think. I really like to hear from people, especially if you've found it interesting, or even if you have something constructively critical to say! The story of Guido Alvarez comes from three chronicles I have run in which he appeared. The games here form part of an ongoing greater story, called The Millennial Cycle. So far, it has been a trilogy, but my new chronicle Midsummer expands it, acts as both prologue and epilogue, perhaps tying up some of those loose ends (though of course, not all). La Serenissima Chronicle began the journey in 15th Century Madrid and then later in modern-day Venice (1996).   A big hello, welcome and 'where the f**k are you these days?' to Chris, Terry, Andy, Nigel, Pete and Sandy. Special thanks to Nigel for the "ballerina leaps from palazzo window into a watery grave" sequence! The Alvarez Chronicle took place in Cornwall and Amsterdam (1997/98), in which Guido's tortuous family tree showed its sinister roots, and he helped to stop his ghoulishly seductive mortal father Juan Tertius from selling the soul of the world into the depths of hell - with the help of a serial-killing band of local students! But Guido had his own agendas, and was finally driven insane by diabolising an ancient Malkavian Methuselah, the very first and original Socrates... Thankyou Mehran, Selena and Ebeth for making the whole thing very, um, erotic! The Millennial Tension Chronicle ("...can you feel it...?") was set in Lisbon at the very end of 1999. After years of research, Guido finally awakens the Dragon, unites with Tremere and uses the Sabbat and Settites to bring about Gehenna and the defeat of Caine. Well, in one timeline, at least... Hi again to Mehran and Selena - I really am genuinely grateful for being my loyal fan club! Thanks also to Phillip the Tin Man and Agne - was it mean of me to make you Toto?! Thankyou for creating a great story. Midsummer 1845 - was last part of the Millennial Cycle trilogy, a kind of Prologue and Epilogue set in the deceptively genteel Dickensian world of the1840s, and the nightmare post-Apocalyptic Distopia of 2045.   I like Guido - he's not as bad as his detractors make out. Some pretty nasty things happened to him in Amsterdam, although in the Millennial Tension version of Gehenna, he makes up for it by becoming High Priest to the Dragon and temporal master of the Empire of Blood. Not a bad reward for a lifetime of murder, rape and death, eh? Who says crime pays... But some of the sick Rituals he created, just look at them! Or maybe that was me who created them... I have a great NPC (non-player character) multiple-personality-disorder thing going. Just look at Mabel.... *blinks quickly* oooooOhi i i i itttwasn't me... dadDy DId iT!!! Yes, yes, he diiid... he... he floats, you know, yes he does.... he does..... *blinks again* Ahem. "Homunculi of Mirrors" and "Curse of the True Soul's Vision" are definitely my favourite rituals out of the ones I created for the Order of Draco (which I pronouce DRAH-ko, for those of you who've wondered), although I have never been truly nasty enough to inflict the latter ritual on any of my players. That's something my devious mind has been saving for a rainy day... The picture of Guido, by the way, is in fact Giuseppe Balsamo - the famous 17th century alchemist, magician and fraud, known as Count Alessandro Cagliostro, who provided the first outlines of Guido's unpleasant character (magic, sex, death and an incestuous family tree). And finally, I'm not just a sad vampire-addicted goth-net-head-role-player. Yes, I do have a real life! And to prove it, anything more you wanted to know - and bucket-loads of things I'm sure you didn't like to know - are revealed about me on my personal webpages Lastly, I love to hear feedback and comments, so click below: