About

On the Keeping of Records

I kept journals before the Embrace. The habit predates any undead necessity — it was a professional practice, carried over from a life spent in classification and documentation, and retained afterwards because it turns out that dying does not change what one finds clarifying. If anything, the scope has broadened. The mortal journals concerned themselves with transactions, observations, catalogues of what was known. These concern themselves with the same, plus whatever it is that the blood is teaching me about what I am now.

The journal is written in the voice it has always been written in. The tone will seem cold to those who expect grief or wonder from the newly made. I found neither. I found, instead, a great deal of practical information that needed to be organised.

This site is a companion journal for a character in an online text-based RPG in the vampire genre. The in-character entries are written in first person from the character's perspective. The out-of-character sections, labelled on each entry, contain mechanical notes, game system observations, and anything else that exists outside the fiction. The site is a Jekyll blog hosted on GitHub Pages at **bloodandink.co**. New entries are added by creating a post in `_posts/` and pushing to the repository — the Actions workflow handles the build automatically. See `HOWTO.md` in the repository for the full workflow. **Design:** dark academia, not gothic horror. No dripping blood, no bats, no coffin imagery. The character is precise and unsentimental and the site reflects that.

The Character

A Praenomen of the Dominion. Embraced in year 17 AM by Primus Iadora. Prior life involved extensive work in documentation, classification, and the kind of meticulous record-keeping that turns out to be a useful skill set for undead existence.

Skill trees in development: Corpus (pre-Embrace), Mentis and Sanguis (recently unlocked). Blood management remains the primary practical concern of the early period.