Michael Roa Valdamjong, the unofficial 28th Dead Apostle Ancestor.
Dead Apostles (死徒, Shito?) are humans that became vampires either by the use of magecraft (like Nrvnqsr Chaos, though this kind is rare)[1][2][3][4] or by the actions of another vampire of similar nature (in this case, either a True Ancestor or another Dead Apostle).[5][6][7] Dead Apostles also includes creatures that weren't vampires from the beginning, such as animals.[8]
Among the creatures that fall under the vampire category, they are the most numerous.
Dead Apostles are the main targets of the Executors of the Burial Agency, an organization created for the purpose of stopping the spreading of the heresy known as vampires by exterminating the Dead Apostles and sealing The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors.[5][6]
Origin
The original members of this kind of vampire were created to act as countermeasures in the case of a True Ancestor being overwhelmed by their thirst for blood. In exchange for losing their free will and becoming a tool to relieve the vampiric impulses of the True Ancestors as emergency meals, these individuals were granted powers and longevity similar to their masters.[5] However, what they received was still a flawed form of immortality and it was soon discovered that they needed to suck the blood of others to survive.[6][7]
Just like the True Ancestors, these vampires have Vampiric Impulses (吸血衝動, Kyūketsu Shōdō?),[9] which pushes them to suck the blood of others. But differently than the vampiric impulses of the True Ancestors, they have the physical need to suck the blood of others in order to maintain their own bodies.[6] For those Dead Apostles who used to be human, it is something not entirely dissimilar from an expression of love.[9]
The result of repeatedly sucking the blood of humans was the emergence of a sense of superiority in the heart of the servants of the True Ancestors. Such a thing eventually gave birth to a feeling of rebellion towards their masters, which then lead the servants to find ways of strengthening their abilities and mental control to escaping from the domain of the True Ancestors. After the rebellion, these blood-sucking humans became known as the Dead Apostles.[5][6]
Although the Dead Apostles are maverick and individualistic by nature, there is a form of ruling body among them: The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors. A group formed only by the original Dead Apostles who escaped from the True Ancestors, but by modern day it is more of a collection of very odd, but powerful bloodsuckers who are divided into multiple rival factions. Most of the original Dead Apostles were destroyed along the generations or sealed away by the Holy Church. Afterward, their seats among the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors were either left empty or filled by somewhat suitable replacements.[10]
On a side note, those sealed away are actually just placed into eternal imprisonment inside special Coffins (棺, Hitsugi?), for the Church lacks the means to definitely destroy them. Meanwhile, some of the factions of those sealed Dead Apostle Ancestors still remain and are slowly gaining power to either free their masters or destroy them.[10] There are two primary factions that divide the Dead Apostles:[11] there are those who follow the formal King of the Dead Apostles, Trhvmn Ortenrosse, who led the largest faction of Dead Apostles,[12][13][4] and those who follow the Princess of the Dead Apostles, Altrouge Brunestud.[14][15]
Society
For the Dead Apostles, amusement is the same as breathing. For those who were once human and achieved imperfect immortality, boredom is their greatest enemy. As soon as someone realizes they have no value – that their life is stopped, then their meaning of existence disappears too. So they started to wear down and to counter this they started to create their own amusement.
Dead Apostles began a game of conquest and saw themselves as lords of a castle expanding their Territories (領地, Ryōchi?). Additionally, Ortenrosse suggested a game of hunting the remaining True Ancestors.[4] Most Dead Apostles choose their hiding place close to or in a human city, town or village and built it into a strong castle. These castles are guarded by their loyal followers during the day and they will never let their followers feed near their castle or concentrate their victims in a single place or location. They also prepare, deep within these castles, a coffin for themselves to sleep in and are very cautious of their surroundings. Experienced Dead Apostles also have an escape route ready for when their castle get attacked by the Church or if an individual stronger than themselves approaches, then they flee at once. But if an Dead Apostle is successful and manages to gain enough followers, they rule their city with an iron fist. Once a city is this far gone, even the Church will be then to late to interfere. And when the Dead Apostle is finished with devouring the city, they move on to a new hunting ground.
Dead Apostles find territorial wars and power struggles within their own factions entertaining[14] and, for their own enjoyment, they place their own blood inside the humans they preyed upon. These corpses go through the growth process to become vampires and eventually kill their parent vampire in order to become new Dead Apostles themselves. For the Dead Apostles, killing another Dead Apostle is not something wrong, for the overall number of vampires doesn't change. However, those Dead Apostles, like Enhance who want to destroy the existence of all vampires, in a manner similar to vampire hunters, become unforgivable traitors.[16][17][18]
Should a Dead Apostle be killed then all of its children vampires should die as well, but those who are treated as successors can live on even after the parent's death.
Dead Apostles, however, try to maintain the balance between society and themselves. As for them a city or a village is nothing more than a farm and yet, they exploit humans in secret, for no other reason than self-preservation. They don't want it to be known that vampires exist at all and to protect their own lives, they hide the bodies of their victims, expand their territory, increase their followers, create their own society and use various magical techniques to make things appear not out of the ordinary. But there were also Dead Apostles, like Einnashe, with values unchanged since the Middle AgesWP and sucked blood with reckless abundance.[19] The Dead Apostles set their own rules, and by abiding by them, enjoy bloodsucking as entertainment.
Most of the long-lived Dead Apostles don't use their names from their human lives anymore, and they don't make up a new name for themselves, but the Church assigns them one. They add on names as they find new, special characteristics of the vampire, so some of them have names as long as spells.
The common goal of all Dead Apostles is to achieve perfect immortality that does not rely on the ingestion of blood. There exist a variety of approaches of Dead Apostles who tried to achieve it, but no one has succeeded yet. It could be said that another goal of all Dead Apostles is becoming an Dead Apostle Ancestor. Even those Dead Apostles at the very bottom, who were changed into vampires by lowly Dead Apostles with no standing or reputation, dream of one day being able to gather enough power to become one of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors themselves.[14]
Characteristics
Although they appear to have capacities beyond human limitations, most Dead Apostles actually acquired their powers by constantly refining human-inherent abilities throughout their extended lives. In other words, anyone with a similarly long lifespan has the potential to reach a level comparable to the Dead Apostles. They are beings clad in Mystery,[20][21]
Also, contrary to popular belief, Dead Apostles can be killed with conventional weaponry. However, that is a feat near impossible to accomplish since their superior reflexes, senses, instincts, and physical abilities allow them to see and dodge a bullet after it has been shot.[22] And as long as you are human, you can't deceive the Dead Apostles' sense of smell[16] or their sense of taste, which can even detect alcohol in the blood of their victims. Dead Apostles can gain these inhuman physical abilities because their bodies are not connected by nerves, but by the blood of others. They also developed fangs to suck blood and can turn their hands into vampiric claws at will.
Dead Apostles are able to develop their own special abilities by training their abilities or by finishing their magical research. Examples would be the Dead Apostle Ancestor Gransurg Blackmore, who has the ability to change his shape into a large bird several kilometers in size, or the Dead Apostle Michael Roa Valdamjong, who altered his soul and attained the magecraft of Reincarnation.[23][24][25] Most of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are able to utilize Reality Marbles and the top 10 Dead Apostle Ancestors can no longer be killed by ordinary means, having lived in Mystery for so long, that they even conquered the weakness of sunlight and move around during the day, the only way to defeat them is through an even greater Mystery.[21][20]
However, the downside of acquiring a power that humans originally would not have is that the genes that compose their bodies are constantly degenerating, and once they die, they won't leave a trace as their bodies turn into ash. The only way to interrupt and reverse this degeneration, even if just temporarily, is by regularly ingesting the blood of living creatures in order to absorb genetic information and stabilize their own bodies. On that note, even though human blood and especially the blood of virgins, because one's blood cells are more pure before one has exchanged bodily fluids with others, are the most suited to the needs of the vampires, the blood of animals is a viable alternative.
Due to their advanced age, Dead Apostles that have lived for at least one thousand years require enormous amounts of energy. Rather than a measure of their power, it is instead because compensation is needed for the maintenance of such a long-lived existence.[26][1] One such Dead Apostle, Nrvnqsr Chaos, has colossal meals including over one hundred people in ten minutes.[26][27] The older and stronger a Dead Apostle gets, the more its genes begin to buckle under the strain of that growth. If they don't grow more powerful, they begin to break down. On the other hand, if they become too powerful, their body won't be able to maintain it's own integrity.
Basically, there are a few "weaknesses" common to all Dead Apostles which are sunlight that greatly hastens their bodies' degeneration, magical energy depletion and the Executors, who use holy Sacraments and other holy weapons, from the Holy Church. Therefore they hide themselves, create their own society and use the advances of technology like a plane or a ship for their advantage.
On the issue of the actual bloodsucking process, a vampire can either hunt prey themselves or acquire the blood indirectly through the use of Familiars. The actual bloodsucking process is described as if all the life in the body is liquefied and sucked out, and the consciousness of the victim is destroyed. A victim that gets all of their blood sucked dies and becomes all shriveled up like a mummy. A vampire can kill a victim and then by transferring their blood into them intentionally skip the process of becoming a vampire by turning the dead body into its Familiar.
Although The Dead are the traditional Familiars of the vampires few actually use them today since their presence will alert vampire hunters such as the Burial Agency.
The use of Familiars from different species is also somewhat more widespread. These Familiars are created when a vampire feeds his immortal blood to a living creature. For a Dead Apostle living a long time and stabilizing his body with normal lives is not sufficient, so it's more effective to repair one's body by absorbing beasts, as they surpass the human species in this respect. By pushing their capacities to their limits, a Dead Apostle can possess about 30 animals of the same species, however they can take only one member of the Phantasmal Species that belongs to the Monstrous Beast or Phantasmal Beast-class as Familiars. Stronger Dead Apostles were known to have used Familiars of different animal species simultaneously, showing that the strength of the user's willpower is apart from others. Those Dead Apostles who repair their own bodies with beasts can return them to their previous forms and use them as Familiars when they need to.
Dead Apostles have a regenerative power that operates under normal conditions called Curse of Restoration (復元呪詛, Fukugen Juso?). The Curse of Restoration do not simply heal a Dead Apostle, but cause their bodies to turn their time backwards to a point in which they were unharmed; thus, you cannot cause wounds greater than the speed of their recovery. However, the Curse of Restoration is also tied to the phases of the moon. As the moon waxes, the degree of injury that can be repaired, as well as the speed of the regression increases dramatically.[28]
Since Dead Apostles are related through the True Ancestors with the Moon, the lunar cycle over the Earth has effects on them. Granting to them more power than their normal state is depending on the lunar cycle: they are weakest during the new moon and it is in the night of a full moon the time when the Dead Apostles reach the height of their strength.[28]
Most Dead Apostles possess the Mystic Eyes of Enchantment, which are capable of high-level hypnosis within the user's field of vision by making direct eye contact with their victim. A rare number of powerful Dead Apostles posses Mystic Eyes of Enchantment that can penetrate a person's mind and enforce their will upon them. While some possess other forms of Mystic Eyes, but most of them are considered useless in the world of vampires.
Dead Apostles are also known for turning into mist. They accomplish this by transferring their consciousness into body doubles, which all Dead Apostles can create from their Dead familiars, to acquire information from a different perspective. Once it has served it's purpose, they cut the magical energy flow and it returns to dust, which gives them the impression of turning into mist.
Dead Apostles who know magecraft make layers of Bounded Fields to form Territorial Fields (領地田畑, Ryoudo Tahata?) when creating their lairs. This invisible protection is similar to the ones that hide away the world of the Fairies, which fool even nature itself. The lair is accessible only by those who are invited in, and they are difficult to invade, taking even the trained magi of the Mage's Association several years to find one. These lairs are enshrouded by darkness, by shadows, by longing for rationally, and by fear towards the taboo, so they cannot be found by humans.[16]
Growth Process
If a vampire injects some of it's own black blood into a human victim’s bloodstream, the said victim will be infused with some of the vampire’s own power and their body becomes unable to completely die. The black blood violates and burns the whole body from the inside. But in most cases however, the body dies and with it, the soul of the victim. The final result would be a mindless Familiar known as The Dead. But in the rare occurrence of the said victim possessing an high physical potential and the capacity of their soul is excellent, it prevents the body and with it the soul from dying. He will instead become a Ghoul and embark on climbing the ladder to becoming a full-fledged vampire.[29]
The extension of its powers, physical abilities and form is dependent on it's parent vampire, to whom it is bound, both mentally and spiritually. Example's would be Sion Eltnam Atlasia, the child of the Night of Wallachia, who acquired abilities related to manipulating Malignant Information (悪性情報, Akusei Jōhō?)[30] or the children of Gransurg Blackmore who, rather than transforming from humans into pure vampires, get turned into hybrids with the heads and wings of birds.[3] Furthermore, the powers of the blood, shared by vampire relatives of Dead Apostles, would exponentially increase when fighting together, since their powers are not calculated by addition but by multiplication.[16]
Shokushiki
Shokushiki (食屍鬼, Shokushiki?, alternatively "Ghoul", lit. "Corpse-Eating Demon") are born when the body of a vampire's victim is unable to completely die. After, their corpse is buried and left for several years in the grave, their brain will rot and the human soul will be freed from the cage of the body. The decayed corpse now begins activity as a kind of living dead called a Ghoul.
Their transformed souls, have now bypassed the necessity of the brain to hold the soul, as the soul is now separate from the body. The Shokushiki have mental capacities pretty much equivalent to that of a savage beast and they must devour other corpses to reconstruct their own degenerated flesh. After many years of this they restore their bodies and thus, their brain, which now anchors their soul again to the body. The soul can now reshape itself with the brain and the body and they fully recover their intelligence and memories.
Vampire
After several years of development, a Shokushiki regains all of it's memories and a full human intellect. They finally become a mature Vampire (吸血鬼, Kyūketsuki?, Blood-Sucking Demon) who acquired their parents abilities and can now attain power of their own, move by their own will, capable of creating other vampires and having their own minions. It takes decades, of acclimating to life in the darkness, to complete this Growth Process. Satsuki Yumizuka was a rare case among rare cases, for an unknown Psychic ability that made her complete the rebirth into a full-fledged vampire almost immediately.[31] She is one of 27 to 30 individuals in the whole World who possesses this special idiosyncracy to become a Dead Apostle.[32] The newborn vampire gains the necessary knowledge to understand the changes of it's body and quickly grows accustomed to living as a vampire.
However, it is still bound to the will of it's parent vampire, as they cannot escape from the rule of their sire's blood. They are forced, when they acquire blood, to supply the majority of it to their parent vampire. Consequently, the child vampire will eventually try to become a parent vampire themselves. They will start to threaten the world by creating servants of their very own, while remaining subservient to the vampire that made them. A vampire can only become a full-fledged Dead Apostle after breaking free from the control of their parent vampire.[33]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Nrvnqsr Chaos [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.050 Nrvnqsr Chaos [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
One of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors. Alias, Chaos. He uses all the creatures of the earth as familiars. Because of the fact that he is preserving even extinct species, he is also sometimes called Dr. Beast.
Though he had no business in Japan, he was selected as the executor of the True Ancestor hunt proposed by the White Wing Lord, and followed Arcueid to the island nation in order to defeat her.
Dead Apostles who can measure their lives in millennia require a colossal amount of energy. This has nothing to do with their strength – it is merely the compensation required to maintain such a long-lived existence.
Because he is one of these millennium-class Dead Apostles himself, Nrvnqsr's appetite is voracious. It took devouring every single person in a ten story hotel just to satisfy him.
The factors of 666 beasts are swirling around within his body, but it's probably alright just to think of it as him being equipped with 666 familiars. Because this is essentially like having 666 lives, properly speaking he's a Dead Apostle that even a serious Arcueid wouldn't be able to kill.
As one who became a Dead Apostle through sorcery, he has absolutely no interest in territory or building a faction. The only thing he cares about is completing his thesis.
When he was still a human, his name was Fabro Rowan. He was a magus hailing from the Wandering Tomb, located in the northern Sea of Estray, one of the three main branches of the Association.ネロ·カオス【人名·死徒】
死徒二十七祖の一人。通り名は混沌。地球上のあらゆる動物を使い魔として作り出す。絶滅した種すら保存している事から獸博士とも呼ばれる。
日本にはまったく目的のなかった祖ではあるが、白翼公の提案した真祖狩りの実行者に抜擢され、アルクェイドを討つ為に彼女を追い、日本にて対決する事になる。
千年単位の死徒は莫大なエネルギーを必要とする。力が強いからではなく、長く生きるほど存在の維持に代償を必要とするからだ。千年単位の死徒であるネロの食事量は膨大で、十階建てのホテル内全ての人間を十分ほどで完食するほどである。
体内に六百六十六の獣の因子を渦巻かせているが、六百六十六匹の使い魔で武装している、というのが正しい認識であろう。六百六十六もの命を持っているようなもので、本来ならば本気になったアルクェイドですら殺しきれない死徒。
魔術を極め死徒になったタイプで、領地や派閥作りに興味を持たない。彼に有るのは、ただ自らの命題の解決のみである。
人間だった頃の名前をフォアブロ·ロワイン。魔術協会は三大部門の一つ、移動石柩こと北の彷徨海出身の魔術師だった。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: Nrvnqsr Chaos [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.187 Nrvnqsr Chaos [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
The vampire pursuing Arcueid. One of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors.
The factors of 666 beasts are swirling around within his body, but it might be easier if you just think of it as him being equipped with 666 familiars. Because this is essentially like having 666 lives, properly speaking even a serious Arcueid wouldn't be able to kill him. Also, as one who became a Dead Apostle through sorcery, he has absolutely no interest in territory or building a faction. The only thing he cares about is completing his thesis.
Despite his huge, muscular body, he is still a scholar at heart, and becomes extremely agitated when he runs into a situation he cannot understand. As a result, he lost his cool in his battle against Shiki and ended up recklessly charging at him. Perhaps due to his abilities, he is becoming more and more apathetic and indifferent toward everything. Should he continue to live for another several hundred years, odds are he really will end up degrading into nothing more than a mass of chaos.
When he was still a human, his name was Fabro Rowan. He was a magus hailing from the Wandering Tomb, located in the northern Sea of Estray.ネロ・カオス【人名·死徒】
本来ならアルクェイドが本気になっても殺しきれない。 - ↑ 3.0 3.1
[] Character Material - Gransurg Blackmore, p.054-055 Introduction - Gransurg Blackmore
The Black Wing Lord.
One of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, who makes his home in Austria.
Real name unknown. His birthplace and name have both been lost for many years. Gransurg and Blackmore are both simply aliases that originated from his circumstances.
A social, great vampire who has many household members and shows up at every large-scale ritual without fail. …Unfortunately, he is only ever shunned by other Ancestors.
Humans who are bitten and have their blood sucked by a vampire become vampires themselves. But in Blackmore’s case, humans who have blood sucked by him morph into monsters with bird heads and wings.
The other Ancestors belittle Blackmore he doesn’t maintain a human form and because his bird-man chimera underlings lack elegance.
(Although in Blackmore’s opinion, the moment the other Apostles chose a human form, they lost all their elegance.)
The title of Black Wing Lord was a sarcastic one, supposed to contrast with White Wing Lord, the title of the current king of the Apostles.
A black-winged beastmaster who resembled yet didn’t resemble the first noble white-winged sovereign ---- that would be how Blackmore was treated in the world of the 27 Ancestors.
On the other hand, as he is a Dead Apostle whose abilities and history equal those of the White Wing Lord, only the very top of the 27 Ancestors can get away with making sarcastic comments to his face.
Explanation - Lifetime
During his lifetime, he was a magus who worshiped birds as sacred.
He adored the form and inner anatomy of birds, sang praises of them as the true kings of this planet, and lived for the purpose of creating a world (sky) that was easier for them to live in.
In the world of magi, birds are treated as “the carriers of souls”. Setting his biased thinking aside, Gransurg, who made birds the foundation of his thaumaturgy, was an excellent soul carrier.
But. That bias caught the attention of the Crimson Moon. He challenged Gransurg to a battle for fun and defeated him.
Gransurg, who was an average magus and had no special blood or outstanding factors was killed immediately ---- or he would have, if not for a coincidence that saved him at the very last moment.
The Crimson Moon let the coincidence be and let Gransurg go. Instead of using him as a blood pack (Dead Apostle), he ordered Gransurg to live as his personal magus from then on.
As a human, Gransurg honored the dignity of the defeated, and pledged his mind and body to the Crimson Moon, swearing allegiance to him. He decided to walk the path of the Dead Apostle himself.
He became a vampire at the conclusion of his thaumaturgy. “If I am to serve my master, I shall take on a form befitting me.” Thus, he transformed his form into that of a bird.
During the time when he served the Crimson Moon, he was more like a familiar than he was a Dead Apostle, and worked a lot for the sake of the Crimson Moon.
Explanation - Nevermore
He still served under the Crimson Moon after the 27 Ancestors separated from the True Ancestors, but after the Crimson Moon was dispersed by Zelretch, he became an independent Apostle.
He attacked the castle of Apostle 16 fair and square, annihilating his clan and taking on the name of Blackmore. From the beginning, when the Crimson Moon was alive, he was already recognized as “one of the 27”, but once the other Ancestors acknowledged this name succession, Blackmore finally settled into a title befitting his abilities.
The Reality Marble he used during this raid was Nevermore.
A curtain of death wings covers the universe, swallowing up the moon and the stars. It is a “world of death” of absolute darkness.
“Be careful.
The birds that dance in this night of mine, are only unforgiving to the dead----”
Declaring this, Blackmore destroyed a single Ancestor and his entire faction.
Not a single drop of blood was shed. The walls, the garden, and even the curtains were completely untouched. But the vampires, numbering over a hundred, were all dead.
Source: Source/the dark six (alias)
A character on the Dead Apostle side in Tsukihime 2 (in Nasu’s head).
A bird gentleman, vampire Gatchaman.
Just as Merem is a reasonable vampire on the side of both the Dead Apostles and Church, he is a reasonable vampire on the side of both Dead Apostles and magi.
As opposed to his pride as an Ancestor, he fights in order to protect the Crimson Moon’s dignity.
Though this trickster is a supporting character, his abilities rank as top-class among the set of monsters appearing in Tsukihime 2.帽子の少女
出典/スピニングTM
??? - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2
[] Character material - Prelude III: White Wing [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.067 White Wing [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
Trhvmn Ortenrosse.
The eldest Dead Apostle. A member of the Twenty Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors. Number seventeen.
A Blood Sucker evolved from a magus. He was the first follower of Crimson Moon.
The classic Vampire, currently ruling as the Lord of Dead Apostles. He supposedly represented the Twenty Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors, but acted as their voice in name only.
White Wing was the Dead Apostle formulated the game of True Ancestor Hunting, and the cause of Nero Chaos' death in the Far East.
He despised the True Ancestors who reigned, with the only exception being the absolute True Ancestor Brunestud, to whom he demonstrated respect ----白翼公 [人名/死徒]
トラフィム・オッテンローゼ。
最古参の死徒。る二十七祖の一人。十七位。
魔術師から吸血種になったもの、朱い月の最初の従者、とも。
典型的な吸血種で、現・死徒の王。二十七祖を代表する死徒で、形式上だけなら最大の発言力を持つ。
戯れに真祖狩りを提案した死徒であり、ネロ・カオスが極東の地で果てた原因を作った男。
古き君臨者である真祖たちを嫌い、唯一にして絶対の真祖・ブリュンスタッドに敬意を表しているのだが――― - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: Dead Apostles [Term], p.180 Dead Apostles [Term]
The bloodsuckers that make up the vast majority of the subcategory of bloodsuckers known as vampires.
Originally they were meals for the True Ancestors, who would prepare humans in advance for the times when their vampiric impulse became impossible to control. Of course, to keep them from escaping, the True Ancestors sucked their blood and brought them under their control.
These humans who had their blood sucked by the True Ancestors in turn became bloodsuckers themselves. Though, in their case it was mostly as a means of survival. After all, it stands to reason that the apostles serving the extremely long-lived True Ancestors must be possessed of similarly long lives as well.
However. At some point, after sucking the blood of others for such a long time, they began to feel a sense of superiority from the very act of sucking blood itself. They strengthened their abilities, their will, and eventually escaped from the control of the True Ancestors into the world of man, where they repeated the act of drinking blood over and over again to maintain their existences.
This is the origin of the bloodsuckers formed from humans, the Dead Apostles.
The Dead Apostles that escaped the True Ancestors the earliest are known as the 27 Ancestors. Though some of those 27 have been replaced over the generations, there are also those that still reign as Ancestors even now.
In the main story of Tsukihime, not only was Yumizuka Satsuki's transformation into a vampire caused by having her blood sucked by Roa, but she was also lucky (?) enough to have a body blessed with excellent potential, allowing her to complete her rebirth into a bloodsucker in under half a day. It wouldn't be wrong to say her potential as a vampire is close to that of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors of old.死徒【用語】
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Dead Apostle [Term], p.055 Dead Apostle [Term]
Vampires. Basically, humans that have by some means or another been transformed into bloodsuckers.
Originally they were emergency meals prepared by the True Ancestors, to use when they became unable to control their vampiric impulse. In a sense, you could say they were a type of pain-killer.
Humans who had their blood sucked by the True Ancestors would in turn be transfigured into similar bloodsuckers themselves, and forced to spend their now immortal lives serving as the True Ancestors' emergency rations. Without a doubt, they were a "company of the dead".
However, whereas the True Ancestors' desire to drink blood is purely mental, the Dead Apostles need to drink blood to maintain their bodies. Or to put it another way, for the True Ancestors it is merely entertainment, while for the Dead Apostles it is a fundamental aspect of their survival similar to breathing.
At some point, after sucking the blood of others for such a long time, the Dead Apostles began to feel a sense of superiority from the very act of sucking blood itself.
They strengthened their abilities, their will, and eventually escaped from the control of the True Ancestors into the world of man, where they repeated the act of drinking blood over and over again to maintain their existences.
This is the origin of the bloodsuckers formed from humans, the Dead Apostles.
The Dead Apostles that escaped the True Ancestors the earliest are known as the 27 Ancestors. Though some of those 27 have been replaced over the generations, there are also those that still reign as Ancestors even now.死徒【用語】
吸血鬼。基本的に、人間が何らかの過程を経て変貌したもの。
元々は真祖が用意した緊急用の食事。真祖が吸血衝動を抑えきれなくなった時の為の、一種の痛み止めと言える。
真祖に血を吸われた人間は同じように吸血種に変貌し、不老不死のまま真祖の非常食として使役される。まさに“死した徒”と言えるだろう。
しかし、真祖にとっての吸血が“精神の安定”を計る為のものであるのに対し、死徒の吸血は“肉体の保存”の為に必要なものだった。真祖のそれが娯楽であるのなら、死徒のそれは生存に必要不可欠な呼吸と同義、という事である。
他者の血を吸うようになった死徒はいつからか吸血行為そのものに優越性を感じ始め、能力を強化していく。そうして自己の意志を強化し、真祖の支配を逃れた死徒は人間の世界に逃げこみ、自らを保存する為に吸血行為を繰り返す。
これが死徒の始まり、人間から成ってしまった吸血種の馴れ初めである。
この、最も古い時期に真祖の支配から逃れた死徒を二十七祖といい、以来、その二十七つはあるものは世代交代をし、あるものはいまだ祖として君臨している。 - ↑ 7.0 7.1
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Vampires [Term], p.058 Vampires [Term]
Monsters that suck human blood. Refers mostly to the Dead Apostles, or those that have become bloodsuckers because of them. Though they are basically unaging and immortal, they require human blood to maintain their flesh. Thus, their immortality is imperfect.
Those that have been turned into vampires by Dead Apostles can operate by their own will, but because their behavioral principles are bound by their parent vampire, it is impossible for them to escape their control. In the event that they successfully attack a human and acquire their blood, the majority of it will be taken by the parent vampire.
Consequently, the child vampire will eventually try to become a parent vampire themselves. After spending decades acclimating to life in the darkness, they will start to threaten the world by creating servants of their very own.
In order to put a stop to this vicious cycle of vampirism, the Church created the Burial Agency – heresy hunters whose aim is the complete extermination of all Dead Apostles.吸血鬼【用語】
人の血を吸うモノ。多くは死徒、ないし死徒によって吸血種となったモノを指す。基本的に不老かつ不死ではあるが、肉体の維持に人間の血が必要な為、不完全な不老不死と言えるだろう。
死徒によって吸血鬼に成った者は自分の意志で活動できるが、行動原理を親である吸血鬼に縛られる為、その支配から逃れられない。人間を襲い血を得たところで、その大半を親である吸血鬼に奪われてしまうのである。
よって子である吸血鬼は自らも親になろうとし、何十年と闇の生活に慣れながら自分だけの下僕を作ろうと世を脅かす。
この吸血循環を阻止する為、教会には死徒を殲滅する異端狩り·埋葬機関が存在する。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - talk. Glossary: The Engulfing Forest [Colloquial Term • Title] The Engulfing Forest [Colloquial Term • Title]
The common name of Einnashe. It was also called the Sentient Forest.
A magical creature that was active every fifty years. It was a blood-sucking demonic forest that not only targets humans, but also other creatures that dared to tread into it.
The forest was filled with instruments of death. The tree branches were sufficient to wound creatures even when still, but while Ennashe was active, they all assaulted with the intent to kill. One can only imagine the view of such an alien realm.
During periods of activity, blood began to perfuse all the branches and roots. They entire forest flashed dark red. The scenery could be said to be Hell itself.
It was thought to be a Reality Marble.腑海林【俗称·称号】
アインナッシュの通り名。思考林とも呼ばれる。
五十年周期で活動する魔物。その中に踏み入った人間はもちろん、森で暮らしていた動物たちさえも吸血対象にする魔の森。
森というものは凶器に満ちている。なにげない木々の枝ですら十分に生物を殺傷するに足るというのに、それら全てが意思を持って襲いかかってくるのだから、その人外魔境ぶりは推して知るべし。
活動時には枝という枝、根という根に血液が流れ始め、森全体が赤黒く点滅する。その光景は地獄絵図そのものと言えるだろう。
一つの固有結界と考えられている。 - ↑ 9.0 9.1
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Vampiric Impulses [Term], p.057 Vampiric Impulses [Term]
The base desire possessed by both True Ancestors and Dead Apostles.
In True Ancestors it is merely a bad habit, but in Dead Apostles it is a means of staying alive.
For those Dead Apostles who used to be human, it is something not entirely dissimilar from an expression of love.吸血衝動【用語】
真祖、死徒が持つ行動原理。
真祖のそれは病であり、死徒のそれは生存手段である。人間から死徒になったものは、それが人間でいうところの愛情表現に近いのだと論じている。 - ↑ 10.0 10.1
[] Character material - Prelude I: The Twenty Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors [Term], p.020 The Twenty Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors [Term]
The twenty seven ancestors, the greatest beings among the Dead Apostles. More than half of them had been sealed by the Church.
Among the most ancient Dead Apostles, some of the Ancestors had been slain. The reason that the Twenty Seven seats still existed was that the subordinates of the slain Ancestors inherited their seats.
The sealed Ancestors were locked within sarcophagi by the Holy Church. Since they could not be completely destroyed, they were essentially permanently imprisoned. The covens of the sealed Ancestors still existed today. They were working hard either attempting to save the Ancestors or destroy them.死徒二十七祖 [用語]
死徒たちの大元である二十七つの祖の事。現在では半数の祖が教会によって封じられている。
最も古い死徒たちの事で、中には既に消滅している祖もいる。二十七祖の席が今もって不滅であるのは、消滅した祖の配下であった死徒がその座を受け継いでいる為。
封印中の祖は聖堂教会の棺に収納されているが、彼らでは滅ぼしきれない為、半ば永久監獄となっている。祖が封印された派閥は今も健在であり、祖の奪還、あるいは消滅の為に力をつけているとか。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - talk. Glossary: The Twenty Seven Ancestors [Term], p.195 The Twenty Seven Ancestors [Term]
The oldest 27 Dead Apostles.
However, some had already been succeed by the next generation of Dead Apostles. Nowadays it mostly referred to the distinct factions that existed among the Dead Apostles.
The Ancestors established their kingdoms consisted of Territories, Dead Apostles, and the Dead. However, some exceptional Ancestors had neither a Territory nor coven.
The Vampires who were subordinates of True Ancestors favoured Territories, but those Ancestors who became Vampires as a culmination of pursuing magecraft had very little interest in such power.
The Ancestors were non-aggressive against one another. At the present, there were two main factions.
In some sense, they were an organization with power that rivaled the Church and Association.二十七祖【用語】
最も古い二十七人の死徒を指す。
中には次代の死徒に後継した位もあり、今では死徒たちの派閥を指して呼ぶことも多い。
祖は領地と死徒、死者の王国を築いているが、中には領地も配下も持たない特異な祖がいる。
真祖の下僕として吸血鬼になった祖は領地を好み、魔術の果てに吸血種となった祖はそういった権力に無頓着であるようだ。
彼らは互いに不可侵だが、今では大きく二つの派閥に別れている。
見ようによっては教会、魔術協会に対抗しうる組織力をもった勢力と言えるだろう。 - ↑
[] Character material - Prelude I: Dead Apostle Louvre [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.019 Dead Apostle Louvre [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
Dead Apostle of the Lake. Even among the Dead Apostles, his lineage was an ancient one. Because Louvre was created by the True Ancestor as a form of amusement, namely to appreciate the "beauty" of mankind, he did not possess any exceptional powers.
A few centuries ago, he was pursued by the Executor of the Church to a lake and subsequently destroyed, but somehow he miraculously survived.
Since then, he became dedicated in enlarging his "coven" which he previously did not care about. Currently he was the subordinate of White Wing, who led the largest faction of Dead Apostles.死徒ルヴァレ [人名/使徒]
湖の死徒。使徒の中でも祖に準じる歴史を持つ古い死徒。ルヴァレ自身は愛玩目的で真祖に汲み上げられた“美しい”だけの人間であった為、超抜能力はない。
数百年前、教会の代行者によって湖に追い込まれ死滅したものとされていたが、奇跡的な生還を果たす。
以後はそれまで関心を持たなかった〝親族〟作りに傾倒し、死徒最大の派閥である白翼公の傘下となった。 - ↑
Kagetsu Tohya - 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors Series, １７／Trhvmn Ortenrosse 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors Series
１７／Trhvmn Ortenrosse
One of the oldest Dead Apostles. Doesn't have a special ability - thinks that a vampire doesn't need any, and should just excel at being a vampire.
A noble that put the ideal of 'simple is best' into practice, but as a result he's only number seventeen on the list.
Has the largest territory out of all the Dead Apostles. If you speak of the current king of the Dead Apostles, this is who springs to mind.二十七祖シリーズ。
１７／トラフィムオーテンロッゼ
白翼公。
最古参の死徒の一人。死徒に特異な能力（ネロやグランスルグ、ナハト等に代表される超抜能力）は必要なく 、ただ吸血種として優れていればよい、という考えの人。
シンプルイズベストを地で行くお貴族さまだが、結果として十七という位置づけにされている。
その領地は祖の中でも最大。死徒たちにおいて、現段階での王といえばこの人物。 - ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors [Term], p.055 The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors [Term]
The 27 oldest Dead Apostles.
There are the Ancestors of the Elder Title, whose age exceeds 4000 years, Ancestors sealed by the Holy Church, Ancestors secretly biding their time in the unexplored regions of the world, and even Ancestors akin to a family that passes on the throne to a successor every 500 years.
They each have their own factions, and are engaged in vicious power struggles within them. Perhaps for them, this is one of the few things that gives meaning to their existence now that their sense for amusement has completely worn away.
On rare occasions an Ancestor will die, but since there is always a successor to replace them, the number of Ancestors never changes. In fact, it could be said that becoming an Ancestor is the ultimate goal of all Dead Apostles. Even those Dead Apostles at the very bottom, who were changed into vampires by lowly Dead Apostles with no standing or reputation, dream of one day being able to gather enough power to become one of the 27 themselves.
On the other hand, there also exist Ancestors who have no interest in such things at all. They are seekers, who eschew building a kingdom of their very own in favor of chasing after perfect immortality. There are many of these "Ancestors without a faction" among the Dead Apostles that used to be magi.
Below is a brief introduction.
1/ Primate Murder
Details unknown. Murderer of primates. The White Beast. Altrouge's demonic dog (the Beast of Gaia).
2/ The Dark Six
The very first Dead Apostles. The six royals of darkness.
Currently resuscitating.
It is said that their revival will unite the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, but not a single Dead Apostle knows their true colors.
3/ Crimson Moon Brunestud
Ultimate One. Currently vacant.
4/ Wizard Marshal Zelretch
One of the five existing magicians. Also called Zelretch of the Jewel.
5/ ORT
Details unknown. Seems to be a mutant species that crash landed in South America sometime before the Common Era. As an attack-type organism, its power is on a completely different level.
6/ Rizo-Vaal Strout
One of the longest-serving Dead Apostles. Black Knight Strout. One of Altrouge's bodyguards. The True Devil Neardark.
7/ Disemboweling Forest Einnashe
The Sentient Woods. A mobile, predatory forest.
8/ Fina-Vlad Svelten
White Knight Vlad. One of Altrouge's bodyguards. The Vampiric Count. Devil of Stratovaris.
9/ Altrouge Brunestud
Hybrid of a True Ancestor and a Dead Apostle. Vampire princess of the Dead Apostles. "Black". Master of blood and contracts.
10/ Nrvnqsr Chaos
A living mass of chaos. A magus whose research ultimately led him to become a bloodsucker.
11/ Stanrobe Calhin
The Duke of Predation. Wraith. Also known as the "City Devourer". …The First Wraith (Stantia).
13/ ?????
Tatari. A Dead Apostle purported to exist. Only the name "Night of Wallachia" remains as a legend handed down through the ages.
14/ Van Fem
One of the longest-serving Dead Apostles. Dark Lord of the Business World. Puppet Master. He created seven great golem castles.
15/ Rita Rozay-en
A self-proclaimed artist. Indulges in a distinctive hobby even among the Dead Apostles. A second-generation Dead Apostle that inherited her castle from the Dead Apostle that made her.
16/ Gransurg Blackmore
Peng. The Black Wing Lord. A Dead Apostle known as the Moon Eater. Uses the reality marble Nevermore.
17/ Trhvmn Ortenrosse
One of the longest-serving Dead Apostles. The White Wing Lord. A magus who became a bloodsucker. The quintessential vampire. King of the Dead Apostles. As the official representative of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors he has the greatest influence – formally, at least.
20/ Merem Solomon
The Great Four Demon Beasts. Despite being a Dead Apostle, he is the fifth member of the Burial Agency. Goes by the alias of Crown. For Ciel, he is something like a pesky senpai.
21/ Sumire
Aquatic Demon Sumire. Water Bottle. An oddball Dead Apostle that lives underwater. A reformed vampire that has overcome the weakness to running water.
24/ El Nahat
Background unknown. The artifact called the Book of the Stomach World. Regarded as the Burial Agency's ultimate anti-Dead Apostle trump card.
27/ Caubac Alcatraz
Dead Apostle of the Millennium Lock. A magus whose research ultimately led him to become a Dead Apostle.
EX/ Michael Roa Valdamjong
The Serpent of Akasha. The Infinite Reincarnator.
Though the Church counts him among the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, the Ancestors themselves despise him as one who overstepped his bounds.死徒二十七祖【用語】
最も古い二十七つの死徒。
齢4000年を超える神代連盟（エルダータイトル）の祖、聖堂教会によって封印されている祖、人知れず秘境にて時間を数える祖、五百年単位で後継者に座を譲る血族のような祖もいる。
それぞれが派閥を作り、同胞でありながら勢力争いをしている。娯楽という観念が摩耗している彼らにとっては数少ない存在意義なのだろう。
希に祖は消滅するが、いずれ後継者が現れるので二十七の席は崩れない。その座はあらゆる死徒にとって最終目的と言える。末端の、名もない死徒によって吸血鬼化した最下層の死徒たちも、いずれ力をつけていつか祖に届く事を胸に抱く。
反面、そういった盤上遊技に興味のない祖も存在する。自らの王国建築に関心はなく、完全な不老不死を求める探求者たちだ。魔術師から死徒になった祖はこういった“派閥を作らない二十七”となる事が多い。
以下に、二十七祖の一部を紹介する。
1／プライミッツ·マーダー
詳細不明。霊長の殺人者。白い獣。アルトルージュの魔犬（ガイアの怪物）。
2／the dark six
最初の死徒。闇色の六王権。現在蘇生中。
蘇生した暁には死徒二十七祖を束ねると言われるが、正体を知る死徒はいない。
3／朱い月のブリュンスタッド
アルティミット·ワン。現在、空席。
4／魔道元帥ゼルレッチ
現存する五人の魔法使いの一人。宝石のゼルレッチとも呼ばれる。
5／ORT（オルト）
詳細不明。西暦以前に南米に落ちた突然変異種、らしい。攻性生物として次元違いの能力を誇る。
6／リィゾ=バール·シュトラウト
最古参の死徒。黒騎士シュトラウト。姫君（アルトルージュ）の護衛の一人。真性悪魔ニアダーク。
7／腑海林アインナッシュ
思考林。動き襲い捕食する森。
8／フィナ=ヴラド·スヴェルテン
白騎士ヴラド。姫君の護衛の一人。吸血伯爵。ストラトバリスの悪魔。
9／アルトルージュ·ブリュンスタッド
真祖と死徒の混血。死徒における吸血姫。黒。血と契約の支配者。
10／ネロ·カオス
混沌の群。魔術師が研究の果てに吸血種となったもの。
11／スタンローブ、カルハイン
捕食公爵。亡霊。別名、“街食うモノ”。……第一の亡霊（スタンティア）。
13／?????
タタリ。存在する、とされる死徒。ワラキアの夜、という俗称のみが伝承として残っている。
14／ヴァン=フェム
最古参の死徒。財界の魔王。人形師。七大ゴーレム「城」を想像する。
15／リタ·ロズィーアン
自称、芸術家。死徒の中でも特出した趣味の持ち主。親である死徒から城を受け継いだ二代目。
16／グランスルグ·ブラックモア
鵬。黒翼公。月飲み、とも呼ばれる死徒。固有結界ネバーモアを操る。
17／トラフィム·オーテンロッゼ
最古参の死徒。白翼公。魔術師から吸血種になったもの。典型的な吸血鬼。死徒の王。二十七祖を代表する死徒で、形式上だけなら最大の発言力を持つ。
20／メレム·ソロモン
フォーデーモン·ザ·グレイトビースト。死徒でありながら埋葬機関の五位。王冠の通り名を持つ、シエルにとってイヤな先輩。
21／スミレ
水魔スミレ。ウオーター·ボトル。水中に棲む変種の死徒。流水を克服した変革吸血鬼。
24／エル·ナハト
経歴不明。胃界教典、と呼ばれるアーティファクト。対死徒用の最大の切り札とされ、埋葬機関の手によって運営される。
27／コーバック·アルカトラス
千年錠の死徒。魔術師が研究の果てに死徒になったもの。
ex／ミハイル·ロア·バルダムヨォン
アカシャの蛇。転生無限者。教会では二十七祖の一人と数えられるが、二十七祖たちの中では分不相応と軽蔑視されている。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors [Term], p.180-182 The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors [Term]
The 27 ancestors who are the original source of the Dead Apostles. Currently, about half of them are being sealed by the Church.
As the 27 oldest Dead Apostles, there are those among them that have already disappeared. The reason that they are still counted as the "27" Dead Apostle Ancestors despite that fact is because whenever an Ancestor dies, one of his subordinates will inherit the position.
However, although proper Dead Apostles will create subordinates and work to expand their influence, there are some Ancestors who have no interest in any of that at all. Those Ancestors that used to be magi before they became Dead Apostles tend to be more akin to "seekers" rather than "bloodsuckers". In that sense, both Roa and Nrvnqsr could surely be said to have been brothers.
Though it isn't really related to the main story of Tsukihime, below is a brief introduction of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors. The missing numbers represent those Dead Apostles that have either been executed by the Church, or are currently "atoning".
1/ Primate Murder
Details unknown. Murderer of primates. The White Beast. Altrouge's demonic dog (the Beast of Gaia).
2/ The Dark Six
The very first Dead Apostles. The six royals of darkness. Currently resuscitating.
It is said that their revival will unite the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, but not a single Dead Apostle knows their true colors.
3/ Crimson Moon Brunestud
Ultimate One. Currently vacant.
4/ Wizard Marshal Zelretch
One of the five existing magicians. Also called Zelretch of the Jewel.
Despite being a Dead Apostle, he cooperates with the True Ancestors. Arcueid thinks of him as a sort of grandfatherly servant. He toppled the Crimson Moon in battle, but had his blood sucked at the last second and became a Dead Apostle. However, even after becoming a vampire his position as a magician stayed intact, and he traveled around the world to various countries where he would take disciples and uniformly ruin them all.
5/ ORT
Details unknown. Seems to be a mutant species that crash landed in South America sometime before the Common Era. As an attack-type organism, its power is on a completely different level. It uses the encroaching reality marble, Crystal Valley. Its appearance is similar to a spider's. The former 5th capture it, and was instantly annihilated. Afterward, it was confirmed to possess vampiric traits, and is now treated as an Ancestor itself.
Type Mercury.
6/ Rizo-Vaal Strout
One of the longest-serving Dead Apostles. Black Knight Strout. One of Altrouge's bodyguards. On account of Apostle recklessly tried to being inflicted with a curse of time, he is immortal. The True Devil Neardark.
7/ Disemboweling Forest Einnashe
A bloodsucker formed from carnivorous plants. It is a forest unified with a single will, and is very similar to a phantasmal species. Once every several centuries, a deep crimson fruit will mature deep within it. This fruit is the congealed mass of all the blood Einnashe took in over the years, and legends state that it has the power to grant immortality to whoever eats it.
8/ Fina-Vlad Svelten
White Knight Vlad. One of Altrouge's bodyguards. The Vampiric Count. Devil of Stratovaris. Captain of the Ghost Fleet. He has an interest in handsome youths, and only drinks the blood of other men. He and Rita simply do not get along at all. Possesses the reality marble Parade.
9/ Altrouge Brunestud
Hybrid of a True Ancestor and a Dead Apostle. Vampire princess of the Dead Apostles. "Black". Master of blood and contracts. Primate Murder's owner. Appears to be a 14 year old girl.
10/ Nrvnqsr Chaos
A living mass of chaos. A magus whose research ultimately led him to become a bloodsucker.
11/ Stanrobe Calhin
The Duke of Predation. Wraith. Also known as the "City Devourer". An invincible character whose density of existence will reach zero in about 200 years.
13/ ?????
Tatari. A Dead Apostle purported to exist. Only the name "Night of Wallachia" remains as a legend handed down through the ages.
14/ Van Fem
One of the longest-serving Dead Apostles. Dark Lord of the Business World. Puppet Master. He created seven great golem castles, and so is also known as "Van Fem of the Demonic Castles". A man of the world, who holds a prominent position in public society, and even worries about global affairs. The fifth of his castles, Matri, was captured by Parade during an engagement with the White Knight Vlad, and ever since then he has harbored a grudge against Altrouge's faction.
15/ Rita Rozay-en
A self-proclaimed artist. Indulges in a distinctive hobby even among the Dead Apostles. A second-generation Dead Apostle that inherited her castle from the Dead Apostle that made her, but since she was the official successor her situation is not the same as Enhance's. The very model of a noble bloodsucker, she indulges in a hell of debauchery and luscious depravity day in and day out.
16/ Gransurg Blackmore
Peng. The Black Wing Lord. A Dead Apostle known as the Moon Eater. Uses the reality marble Nevermore. A magus whose research ultimately led him to become a bloodsucker. Despite being a Dead Apostle himself, he possesses an ability that is strong against other Dead Apostles.
17/ Trhvmn Ortenrosse
One of the longest-serving Dead Apostles. The White Wing Lord. A magus who became a bloodsucker. The quintessential vampire. King of the Dead Apostles. As the official representative of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors he has the greatest influence – formally, at least. In practice, however, Altrouge's influence is even greater, and the two are constantly at odds. Also, Trhvmn was the Dead Apostle who proposed they start hunting True Ancestors. In a sense, he was the reason Nrvnqsr met his end in that far-off Eastern land.
18/ Enhance
The Knight of Vengeance, Enhance. A Dead Apostle who killed his master, and only just took over the original 18th Ancestor's position. Consequently, he is known derisively as the "Single-edged Enhance Sword".
20/ Merem Solomon
The Great Four Demon Beasts. Despite being a Dead Apostle, he is the fifth member of the Burial Agency.
Goes by the alias of Crown. For Ciel, he is something like a pesky senpai. A collector of treasures from all times and places. Probably the only reason he joined the Burial Agency is because he wanted to be close to the treasures sealed by the Church.
21/ Sumire
Aquatic Demon Sumire. Water Bottle. An oddball Dead Apostle that lives underwater. Traditionally, vampire folklore states that they cannot cross running water.
Rivers and oceans are like impassable barriers to them. Sumire has conquered this weakness, but in exchange it seems that it has become hard for her to move on land. Also, she's perpetually drunk. While this may make her seem pretty weak, in reality she has a strong enough compositional ability to break into the upper echelons. Among the Dead Apostles, she is the only one capable of using Marble Phantasm. If you put her on dry land and dry her out, her drunkenness will disappear and she'll be able to demonstrate her true power, maybe. Her outward appearance is that of an easy to get along with drunk lady, and she has a castle, but it's a completely abandoned husk. There's a rumor that she and Rita are on such good terms they could just kill each other.
24/ El Nahat
Background unknown. The artifact called the Book of the Stomach World. A peculiar vampire embodying refraction. Possesses the unique ability to almost certainly erase an opponent in one-on-one combat, but his own body is destroyed every time he uses it and requires several decades to revive. Thanks to that, he is currently sealed by the Church. Regarded as the Burial Agency's ultimate anti-Dead Apostle trump card, they only bring him out on rare occasions.
27/ Caubac Alcatraz
Dead Apostle of the Millennium Lock. A magus whose research ultimately led him to become a Dead Apostle. He was also a believer, just like Merem and Roa. He constructed a labyrinth to protect the culmination of his ideology, the Holy Scripture Triten, from outside invaders. However, he accidentally trapped himself inside, and so has not made an appearance for several hundred years.
EX/ Michael Roa Valdamjong
The Serpent of Akasha. The Infinite Reincarnator. Though the Church counts him among the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, the Ancestors themselves despise him as an "extra number".死徒二十七祖【用語】
９／アルトルージュ・ブリュンスタッド
真祖と死徒の混血。死徒 - ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Prelude I
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[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: Enhance [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.176 Enhance [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
One of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors. The Knight of Vengeance.
A bloodsucker who only just became an Ancestor, he is known derisively as the "Single-edged Enhance Sword".
Although hostility between Dead Apostles is nothing strange, that only refers to power squabbles within a group. In other words, while Dead Apostles will fight for the right to become their own Ancestor's successor, there is no conflict between the separate Ancestors' factions. However, Enhance is an exception to the rule, and is hunting the other members of the 27 Ancestors themselves.
Even though he's a vampire, he is incomplete, and lacks the superhuman innate abilities possessed by the other Ancestors. On the other hand, his force of will and ability to take action is foremost among the Dead Apostles.
By nature, the immortal Dead Apostles are tranquil beings, but as Enhance is still almost human his vindictiveness knows no bounds.
He fights using the demonic sword Avenger, which he inherited (stole) from the Apostle he replaced, and a gun that was manufactured by the Church. Because the gun is an artifact of the Church, it corrodes his left arm each time he uses it.
If you're wondering what an entry like this is doing in this encyclopedia, it's because he got name-dropped in one of the routes, during a conversation between Arcueid and Ciel.
If there's ever a Tsukihime 2, it's rumored that the story will revolve around Enhance. Though, the author gets bored really easily so maybe take that with a (huge) grain of salt, yeah?エンハウンス【人名·死徒】
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[] Character material - Prelude I: Enhance [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.022 Enhance [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
Avenger. A member of the Twenty Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors. Number Eighteen.
He was given the title Blade (Enhance Sword) by those despised him. A Vampire who recently joined the ranks of Ancestors.
It was not unusual for Dead Apostles to wage wars against each other, and the purpose was to wrestle for power within the organization.
Usually the subordinates fought for the right to inherit the title of an Ancestor. Fighting against the other Ancestors was almost unheard of.
Enhance broke this rule, as he actively hunted for the other Ancestors.エンハウンス [人名/死徒]
復讐騎。死徒二十七祖の一人。１８位。
エンハンス・ソード（片刃）と蔑まれる、祖に成ったばかりの吸血鬼。
死徒と死徒が敵対する事は珍しくないが、それはグループ内でのみの権力争いを意味する。王である祖のの後継者を目指す戦いで、他の派閥（他の二十七祖）と争うことはない。が、エンハウンスはその規律を破り、他の二十七祖そのものを狩ろうとしている。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - talk. Glossary: Einnashe [Person's name], p.195 Einnashe [Person's name]
A member of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors. Number Seven.
Most Dead Apostles were concerned about balancing their needs for blood and the sustainability of the society, but there were also Dead Apostles with values unchanged since the Middle Ages and sucked blood with reckless abundance.
Einnashe was such a Dead Apostle.
However, due to its peculiar nature, it was difficult to eliminate it. As a result, it was currently siphoning blood without control.
It was thought to be a Reality Marble.アインナッシュ【人名】
死徒二十七祖の一人。七位。
多くの死徒は自身と社会とのバランスを考慮して活動するが、中には中世の頃と変わらぬ価値観で無差別に吸血行為を繰り返す死徒もいる。
アインナッシュもそういった死徒の一人。
が、その特異性から粛清は困難とされ、結果として現在も思うが侭に吸血行為を繰り返している。
一つの固有結界と考えられている。 - ↑ 20.0 20.1 talk.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Miscellaneous, p.136
Q: Who would be stronger if Servants fought the 27 Ancestors?
Q: Who would be stronger if Servants fought the 27 Ancestors? Servant's also have superhuman battle ability, but the 27 Ancestors are also superhuman monsters.... I got the impression that ORT, Primate Murder, Altrouge Brunestud, and so on were obviously stronger than Servants.
A: All I can is they're both powerful.... They're both beings that live in mystery, so the only thing that can be said is that it all depends on the situation the moment it comes done to ""having the means of killing the other guy somehow". Among those, Earth rules won't even apply to ORT in the first place and Primate Murder has the super advantage against primates so they're in a league of their own, I suppose. Speaking of which, for one Primate Murder, seven Guardians would be the appropriate amount.Ｑ：サーヴァントと”吸血鬼の二十七祖”が戦った場合、どちらのほうが強いでしょうか？サーヴァントも人外の戦闘能力を持っていますが、二十七祖も人間離れした怪物ですし......。特にORTやプライミッツマーダー、アルトルージュ・ブリュンスタッドなどは、あからさまにサーヴァントよち強いような印象を受けました。
Ａ：どっちもどっち、としか･･････。どちらも神秘に生きるものたちなので、"なんとかして殺す手段がある"時点で状況次第としか言えません。そんななか、 ORTはそもそも地球上でのルールが成立しないし、プライミッツマーダーは霊長に対して超有利なので別格でしょうか。ちなみに、プライミッツマーダー1匹に対して守護者七騎であたるのが妥当なところです。 - ↑ Prelude II
- ↑ Tsukihime - Near Side: Arcueid's Route, 10/Vermillion Crimson Moon II - 10th day/October 30 (Sat.)
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[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: Roa [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.191 Roa [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
Full name, Michael Roa Valdamjong. A Dead Apostle.
Though the Dead Apostles themselves merely see him as a normal Dead Apostle, the Church counts him among the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors. Known as the Infinite Reincarnator, he attempted to realize an immortality fundamentally different from that of the other Dead Apostles. Originally he was a priest of the Church, but for the sake of surpassing his limits he had no choice but to become a vampire.
He tricked Arcueid, the strongest True Ancestor at the time, into drinking his blood, and immediately became a powerful Dead Apostle. Then, by unifying the factions of those Dead Apostle Ancestors who had already been sealed by the Church, he established his influence. In response, Altrouge set out to put the newcomer Dead Apostle in his place, but by that time Roa was already powerful enough to defeat her instead. Of course, it was only natural. Not only was Roa an excellent magus in his own right, but he was able to wield the power of the strongest True Ancestor, Arcueid, at the same time.
As a result, the 27 Ancestors left Roa to his own devices. It wasn't until many years later that he was finally defeated by Arcueid and the Church working together. After that, he reincarnated into new hosts a total of seventeen times, locked in a never-ending deathmatch with Arcueid.
Similar to Nrvnqsr, the identity called "Roa" was fading even as he clung to eternity.
Though the Roa that appears in Tsukihime has a rather brutal personality, that's because he's using Tohno Shiki as his base. The original Roa was a calm intellectual.
…Well, he was still cruel and utterly selfish at heart.
He was obsessed by his thesis of eternity and was convinced he needed nothing else. However, the moment he laid eyes on Arcueid he was captivated, even though he should have seen her as nothing more than a tool. After that, Roa's plan spiraled totally out of control… though he himself never noticed.ロア【人名·死徒】
ミハイル・ロア・バルダムヨォン。死徒。 - ↑
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Serpent of Akasha [Term], p.060 Serpent of Akasha [Term]
Another name for Roa -- the “extra” among the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, and the magus that established the art of transmigration.
While the common goal of the Dead Apostles is to attain perfect immortality that doesn’t rely on the intake of blood, their paths toward this goal are varied.
One tried to become indestructible by turning his body into formless chaos. Another demonstrated an ineradicable existence by becoming a phenomenon.
As for Roa, he focused on the soul, rather than the body, mastering magecraft that allowed him to transmigrate and assimilate into another individual upon the demise of his physical form.アカシャの蛇【用語】
死徒二十七祖番外、転生の魔術を確立させた魔術師·ロアの別称。
死徒たちの目的は“血の摂取にたよらない完全な不老不死”であり、アプローチは様々だ。
ある者はカタチのない混沌を体にする事で不滅を成そうとし、ある者は現象化する事で不消を证 明した。
ロアは肉体ではなく魂に着目し、肉体が滅びた後、魂を他の個体に転移、同化する魔術を極めた吸血鬼である。 - ↑ 26.0 26.1 Tsukihime - Near Side: Arcueid's route - 3/ The Black Beast I
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[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Nrvnqsr Chaos [Person's name • Dead Apostle], p.050 Nrvnqsr Chaos [Person's name • Dead Apostle]
One of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors. Alias, Chaos. He uses all the creatures of the earth as familiars. Because of the fact that he is preserving even extinct species, he is also sometimes called Dr. Beast.
Though he had no business in Japan, he was selected as the executor of the True Ancestor hunt proposed by the White Wing Lord, and followed Arcueid to the island nation in order to defeat her.
Dead Apostles who can measure their lives in millennia require a colossal amount of energy. This has nothing to do with their strength – it is merely the compensation required to maintain such a long-lived existence.
Because he is one of these millennium-class Dead Apostles himself, Nrvnqsr's appetite is voracious. It took devouring every single person in a ten story hotel just to satisfy him.
The factors of 666 beasts are swirling around within his body, but it's probably alright just to think of it as him being equipped with 666 familiars. Because this is essentially like having 666 lives, properly speaking he's a Dead Apostle that even a serious Arcueid wouldn't be able to kill.
As one who became a Dead Apostle through sorcery, he has absolutely no interest in territory or building a faction. The only thing he cares about is completing his thesis.
When he was still a human, his name was Fabro Rowan. He was a magus hailing from the Wandering Tomb, located in the northern Sea of Estray, one of the three main branches of the Association.ネロ·カオス【人名·死徒】
死徒二十七祖の一人。通り名は混沌。地球上のあらゆる動物を使い魔として作り出す。絶滅した種すら保存している事から獸博士とも呼ばれる。
日本にはまったく目的のなかった祖ではあるが、白翼公の提案した真祖狩りの実行者に抜擢され、アルクェイドを討つ為に彼女を追い、日本にて対決する事になる。
千年単位の死徒は莫大なエネルギーを必要とする。力が強いからではなく、長く生きるほど存在の維持に代償を必要とするからだ。千年単位の死徒であるネロの食事量は膨大で、十階建てのホテル内全ての人間を十分ほどで完食するほどである。
体内に六百六十六の獣の因子を渦巻かせているが、六百六十六匹の使い魔で武装している、というのが正しい認識であろう。六百六十六もの命を持っているようなもので、本来ならば本気になったアルクェイドですら殺しきれない死徒。
魔術を極め死徒になったタイプで、領地や派閥作りに興味を持たない。彼に有るのは、ただ自らの命題の解決のみである。
人間だった頃の名前をフォアブロ·ロワイン。魔術協会は三大部門の一つ、移動石柩こと北の彷徨海出身の魔術師だった。 - ↑ 28.0 28.1 Tsukihime - Near Side: Arcueid's Route, 12/The World of the Moon - 11th day/October 31 (Sun.)
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[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Vampires [Term], p.058 Vampires [Term]
Monsters that suck human blood. Refers mostly to the Dead Apostles, or those that have become bloodsuckers because of them. Though they are basically unaging and immortal, they require human blood to maintain their flesh. Thus, their immortality is imperfect.
Those that have been turned into vampires by Dead Apostles can operate by their own will, but because their behavioral principles are bound by their parent vampire, it is impossible for them to escape their control. In the event that they successfully attack a human and acquire their blood, the majority of it will be taken by the parent vampire.
Consequently, the child vampire will eventually try to become a parent vampire themselves. After spending decades acclimating to life in the darkness, they will start to threaten the world by creating servants of their very own.
In order to put a stop to this vicious cycle of vampirism, the Church created the Burial Agency – heresy hunters whose aim is the complete extermination of all Dead Apostles.吸血鬼【用語】
人の血を吸うモノ。多くは死徒、ないし死徒によって吸血種となったモノを指す。基本的に不老かつ不死ではあるが、肉体の維持に人間の血が必要な為、不完全な不老不死と言えるだろう。
死徒によって吸血鬼に成った者は自分の意志で活動できるが、行動原理を親である吸血鬼に縛られる為、その支配から逃れられない。人間を襲い血を得たところで、その大半を親である吸血鬼に奪われてしまうのである。
よって子である吸血鬼は自らも親になろうとし、何十年と闇の生活に慣れながら自分だけの下僕を作ろうと世を脅かす。
この吸血循環を阻止する為、教会には死徒を殲滅する異端狩り·埋葬機関が存在する。 - ↑
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Malignant Information [Term], p.060 Malignant Information [Term]
A requirement for the appearance of the Tatari. Shared common knowledge circulating throughout a closed community. Develops by making use of things like anonymous accusations, improbable testimonies, and popular trends. It will take on various forms depending on the circumstances, but at its core is "nothing". It is for this very reason that the Tatari itself is said to have no true identity.
The "Bad News" used by the Night of Wallachia and the "Terror News" used by Vampire Sion were both forms of this, materialized with magical energy. The creation and control of malignant copies is a particularly advanced application.悪性情報【用語】
タタリ発生の条件となる、閉じたコミュニティーで流布される共有常識。
匿名性の告発、蓋然性のない証言、浸透率の優れた流行、といったものを利用して成長していく。状況によって様々な形に変化するが、その中心たる核には“何もない”。タタリが正体不在と呼ばれるのはこの為だ。
ワラキアの夜が扱う『バッドニュース』、吸血鬼シオンが扱う『テラーニュース』はこれを魔力によって具現化したもの。更に高度な悪性情報の利用法に、悪質なコピーを捏造して操るというものがある。 - ↑ Tsukihime - Far Side: Akiha's Route - 9/ Bloodsucking Ogre
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[] Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] II. lost butterfly Animation Material - Kinoko and Takashi Q & A, p.22[T]
Q: Did Zouken have a choice to become a Dead Apostle when he sought immortality? If he did, I'd like to know why he didn't transform into a Dead Apostle.Q: Did Zouken have a choice to become a Dead Apostle when he sought immortality? If he did, I'd like to know why he didn't transform into a Dead Apostle. <Pon De>
Nasu: If you become a vampire, the Holy Church will be after you all the time, so he couldn't take that risk. If his objective (goal) was to become "immortal", he may have turned into a vampire, but other than that, well, it's whether or not he had the talent to become a vampire. There are only about 27 idiosyncratic people like a certain Ms Yumizuka and her "You thought I was common? but I'm actually SSR!" in this world!
Takeuchi: What? Aren't there actually a few more out there?
Nasu: Yeah, let's say we undercounted and add about three more.？ ＜Pon De＞
奈：
武：
奈： - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: Vampire [Term], p.178 Vampire [Term]
A general term for those that suck human blood. Refers specifically to the Dead Apostles, or those that have become bloodsuckers because of them.
The vampires in Tsukihime extract human blood to maintain their own flesh. If, during this process, the vampire injects their own blood into their human prey, that human will be unable to peacefully pass away. For a normal person, death will still find them before long regardless. However, on rare occasions, if the victim has high physical potential and the capacity of their soul is excellent, they will remain in the world of the living.
Afterward, their corpse is interred, and left alone for several years. During this time their brain melts, their soul is liberated from the cage of the body, and finally they arise as a kind of living dead called a "ghoul".
As a ghoul, they feed on the corpses sleeping in the graves around them to supplement their own missing flesh, restoring their physical body little by little. After many years of this, they will eventually regain their brain and intelligence. At this stage, they can finally be called a "vampire".
However, although this new vampire can move by their own will, they cannot escape from the rule of their sire's blood. Finally, after spending decades acclimating to life in the darkness, the vampire will begin attacking humans to create servants of their very own, while remaining subservient to the vampire that made them.
In order to obstruct this infinite cycle, the Church created the Burial Agency, Inquisitors that exist to slay Dead Apostles. The Burial Agency's goal is the utter eradication of all vampires, and the sealing of the 27 Ancestors that made them.吸血鬼【用語】