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Those who must be kept

Fun fact: If you google “Those who must be kept”, this is the second picture to come up… and it was done by me… in December 2009. That’s 8 years ago!! And I still kind of like it. A lot.

The clothing is all wrong, of course…

I remember how proud I was about the texts having some meaning… I cheated a lot and just copied existing texts and changed some words in them… and added some “I’ll just write it like usual but with a hierogyph-font”… 

It sais something like this:

at their feet

Left:
“Mother of Gods”
“Full Of Magic”
“Ruler Of The Universe”
Akasha

Right:
“Ruler Of Eternity”
“Great God”
“The Perfect One”
“First Son”
Enkil

on the left
See! They are the Beginning. She is the Mother. He is the Father. Those Who Must Be Kept. Protect and enshrine them, the progenitors of all vampires. They are our destiny.

*Beloved Son Marius, for us you give your freedom and your love. We will always remember you.*

They are the Beginning.

***
All those Names are the Names used for Isis and Osiris. (Except the “first son”)

(On a sidenote and before people come at me and accuse me of whitewashing: Read the books: As vampires they had Alabaster skin. On this picture they are supposed to have been vampires for quite some time already. So cut my younger self some slack, ‘kay?)

Oh!! And I think THIS is the first piece of my works that @amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance ever commented on.

This is how we had our very fist contact… in 2010!!

Beautiful! I love these kind of stories!

(I’m sorry you felt you needed to add the side note about POC. This is a hotly debated thing. 1) AR was adhering to the vampire physiology rules she had already set in place in the first few books, that vampire skin becomes lighter with age, and 2) we do not know definitively what color mortal!Akasha’s skin would have been, given that not all Egyptians are necessarily dark skinned. Rami Malek, for example, is a light-skinned Egyptian-American).