New Ancient- Sun Tzu/Chang Quin

So, I have decided to make the third ancient Sun Tzu, the chinese military leader who wrote "the art of war" As per usual, here's the actual story (according to http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/sun-tzu/index.htm), although I'm not sure how accurate it actually is becuase apparently, not much information is know about him. Sun Tzu originally named Sun Wu and also called Chang Qing (what the other ancients call him), authored The Art of War in the sixth century BC. This military strategy book became one of the most influential books of war and Sun Tzu became well known as not only a military strategist but also a realist in international relations theory. There are no exact records of Sun Tzu's birth or death (he erased them). The only known records of his life were from a biography written in the 2nd century BC by a historian named Sima Qian (he tried to erase that also, but Sima managed to escape while Chang Quin was still a new vampire and weak. By the time Chang Qing found him and killed him the book was already to popular to erase). Sun Tzu is believed to have been born in 544 BC under the name Sun Wu, possibly in the state of Qi in ancient China. His family were members of the shi, an ancient class of landless aristocrats who lost their land during the Spring and Autumn Period of territorial consolidation (actually vampires attacked them, that's when he got turned into a vampire) . During Sun Tzu's time, most shi travelled as academic scholars, but Sun Tzu decided to work as a mercenary (he liked the blood). After working throughout the country, the ruling king, King Helu of Wu, hired Sun Tzu as a general in 512 BC (he used a bit of mind control on him, even though he really didn't need to). Sun Tzu consequently authored The Art of War (in all of the original copies, between all the regular lines, there are more words that can only be seen by vampires, commenting and adding more and better details on everything), which, at the time was named Sun Tzu based on the custom to name a work after its author. Sun Tzu's military strategy soon became legendary and he even proved his knowledge by training battalions of previously untrained female soldiers (a large number of whom were actually vampires). Sun Tzu gave control of each battalion to King Helu's concubines. After they disobeyed orders and laughed at him, Sun Tzu executed two of the concubines, per military law, and finished his training with a powerful team with exceptional leadership skills. At the time of Sun Tzu's generalship, the kingdom of Wu was considered a semi-barbaric state and incapable of military regulation or cultural power . After Sun Tzu took control, however, the military in Wu went on to conquer the state of Chu, the most powerful state in the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history (once again, vampires). After the defeat of Chu, Sun Tzu disappeared, wanting a quiet, peaceful life as opposed to one of constant conflict (yeah, with the whole drinking blood in private and everything). His teachings, however, went on to influence not only military strategies, but also martial arts in both armed and unarmed combat (do I even need to say it?). In fact, his teaching known as Bing Fa became the basis for most Asian martial arts. Historians argue that Sun Tzu's work did not advocate war but, instead, told of strategies to employ should conflict arise. In fact, according to historians, Sun Tzu's philosophies were more about how to avoid war while still maintaining control over an enemy in tight situations rather than war itself (they're wrong. It's all about fighting, and fighting vampires). Although there are no confirmations that the two met, Sun Tzu lived during the time of Confucius and may have been influenced by the man's work (or may have influenced him). It's estimated that Sun Tzu died in 496 BC in the state of Wu. (or not...) actually, he just dissapeared. And eventually joined the ancients.

Elizabeth Bathory

www.vampires.monstrous.com/erzsebet_bathory.htm

ok....this is the full story of Elizabeth Bathory. It is unbelievably gross and nasty and terrifying and bloody, and I wouldn't suggest reading it. But if your simply that curious to find out who she was, you can read it, but I would definetly not suggest it....

edit: Reelah pointed out that the url link didn't work, but it was only a slight mispelling on my part, so I fixed it

thank's for pointing it out! :3

Vampire council

The vampire council are in charge, only outranked by the ancients, and simply do everything that the ancients are to busy to do. The council consists of:

• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Anne Boleyn
• Dante
• Catherine the Great (of Russia)
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote)
• Joseph Priestley (basiclly discovered Oxygen)
• Charlotte Brontë (author of Jane Eyre)
• Constantine (roman emperor)
• Julius Caeser
• Sequoyah (invented the cherokee written language)
• Galileo Galilei
• and eventually I'll think of more, if you have any suggestion, just tell me

what other animals can be turned into vampires, which ones can't

If a vampire becomes attached to a creature that isn't a cat and wants to turn it into a vampire, the creature has to follow some rules:

• it has to be unusually intellegent
• it has to be impressive, so like an eagel or something, but nothing like, say, a toad
• it has to be well behaved
• it can't be a dog or anything that doesn't like cats
• it has to behave well around other creatures
• it has to behave well with other vampires
• it has to be able to not interupt classes
• etc.

Vampire cats

So as I said, there are no vampire animals, other than cats. When the true ancient was turned and she went back in time (to create romulus, remember?) to Rome, she found a cat. Now, if you've ever been to Rome (or pretty much anywhere in Italy), you will know that there are cats everywhere (mostly strays). The True Ancient found one such cat and was astounded by how smart it was. It feared her, yet boldly came up her (as cats do). Just the way it walked and acted proved how smart it was. She took care of this cat for about a week or so, but one day she got away. Just for about half an hour, but that was enough. When she found the cat again, it was near death; it had been mauled by a wolf (the same one that took care of Romulus and Remus actually; it had smelled the vampire and oversense of death on the cat and had tried to kill it). She then Just in that short week she had learned to love the cat, and managed to turn it into a vampire just before it died. She then gave the vampire cat to Romulus (shortly after turning him) and he made it a tradition from there. Every time any ancient, or even any regular vampire find a cat that they become unusually attached to, if they go to the vampire council (the vampires directly under the ancients, more on this later) and have the cat approved, then they can turn it into a vampire cat (similar with almost any other animal, but it takes a lot more to get it approved, more on this later). The vampire cats wander around the Coliseum and well, act like cats.

bathing in blood

simply has no effect. The only way that blood actually helps them is if they drink it or actually inject it into their blood stream.

vampires catching human diseases

so simple human diseases such as the cold or the flu don't affect vampires. Technically, they ARE already dead, so anything that affects the lungs, the heart, the liver, the blood, almost any organ, simply have no affect (diseases need a living host, vampires are, once again, not alive). However, diseases that affect things such as the eyes, the ears, the nose, arms, legs, hands, things like that, do affect them. If it would dim any human sense, then if a vampire gets it, it affects them 10 fold. and the brain. Any mental illness or anything that would affect a normal human brain is very very dangerous for vampires. especailly becuase their brain is their most important feature.

Vampire lessons?

Ok, so the coliseum is not just a place for the ancients to rule the world from, and not just a place for Vampire scientists, it is a vampire school, almost like a college. They teach lessons on vampire history (so for example, what famous people were truly vampires, such as Leonardo Da Vinci was a vampire. Also they teach what they usually teach in history...except the true version, more on this later), languages (more on this later), vampire biology (more on this later), human and vampire culture, vampire medicine, economics, politics, chemistry, literature, physics, math, journalism, psychology, philosophy, art, music, p.e., (more on all these classes later) pretty much everything they teach in regular college except their based on vampires instead of humans, and they're all on a higher level of intellect (vampires, on a basis, are smarter than humans).

Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley

ok, so I'm reading a new vampire book called "Sucks to be me" by Kimberly Pauley. It's about a teenage girl (of course -_-) both of whom's parents are vampires. She needs to decide whether or not she wants to be a vampire, and to do that the vampire counsel is sending her to a month of lessons about vampires (more on this later). 

At one lesson, the teacher starts telling them more about how vampires can catch human diseases (more on this later), and how they should be careful with where the blood they drink comes from (more on this later). At one point she says "And I don't want to hear about any Elizabeth Bathory copy-cats. Let me just say, once and for al, that bathing in blood has no effect whatsoever (more on this later) and will not sate your hunger (more on this later AGAIN ;-.-)." The main character then turns to the boy sitting next to her and asks who Elizabeth Bathory is. He says "Romanian Countess from the 1500s. She like to kill her chambermaids and bathe in their blood. Thought it made her look younger."

I found this very interesting, so I looked her up. Once again, I'll write more on her later, but for now, just quickly:

The main charecter of my "story," the true ancient, is the decent of Elizabeth Bathory (as I said, more on this later).