Van-Fem, a Elder Title Dead Apostle.
Elder Title: League of the Age of Gods (神代連盟, Jindai Renmei?) is a title given to Dead Apostles exceeding four thousand years of age,[1] having existed since the Age of Gods. In Tsukihime Worlds, all known Elder Titles are part of The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors.
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Known Elder Title Dead Apostles[]
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[] 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。 - ↑
[] 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
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