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 It is curious, if not unfitting, that the most common
name for unlife among vampires is a musical reference,
the Requiem. The word itself means a mass or musical
composition for the dead. In some cases, a requiem is a
dirge. In other cases it is a chant intended for the dead’s
repose. In still others, it is a gesture of respect.
No surprise, then, that the word has taken on its own
meaning among the vampires who call themselves
Kindred. The word has connotations of its own, suggest-
ing that the Kindred must have adopted it in a more
enlightened or sophisticated time. Tonight, however, all
but the most cloistered Kindred know that the word bears
its own specialized meaning. The Requiem is the
Kindred’s unlife, the grand, doomed waltz through which
every one of their kind dances every night, urged on by
metaphorical strains of music that represent the hidden
powers that guide, manipulate and inspire them.