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All of a sudden, a rare, totally underrated, and mis-marketed 'young adult' series by Christopher Pike springs to mind. "The Last Vampire" It's the kind of series smart people don't want to be seen holding because it appears even more juvenile than Twilight at first. But really it fits exactly what the OP described they're looking for, a character that undergoes a lot of interesting changes through the ages. These books are awash with Eastern mysticism, and are far more "Krishna" than Vampire. Way more substance than Twilight, and a good light read for adults too.
Also I'm remembering Piers Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series, is an oldie but goodie about how people take on many different roles throughout life. |
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Your profile doesn't say where you live--here in the US, we have a wonderful folklore of larger-than-life characters who were never deities like those of ancient religions in long-lived cultures (like the Greeks, Romans, Norse, Japanese, etc.). Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, etc. These are the inspirations for Santiago. EDIT: PROLOGUE They say his father was a comet and his mother a cosmic wind, that he juggles planets as if they were feathers and wrestles black holes just to work up an appetite. They say he never sleeps, and that his eyes burn brighter than a nova, and that his shout can level mountains. They call him Santiago. ***** Far out on the Galactic Rim, at the very edge of the Outer Frontier, there is a world called Silverblue. It is a water world, with just a handful of islands dotting the placid ocean that covers its surface. If you stand on the very largest island and look into the night sky, you can see almost all of the Milky Way, a huge twinkling river of stars that seems to flow through half the universe. And if you stand on the western shore of the island during the daytime, with your back to the water, you will see a grass-covered knoll. Atop the knoll are seventeen white crosses, each bearing the name of a good man or woman who thought to colonize this gentle world. And beneath each name is the same legend, repeated seventeen times: Killed by Santiago. Last edited by curtw; 04-09-2017 at 08:11 PM. Reason: After reading what I wrote, I just had to pick it up again. Added the prologue |
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You could try Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's St Germain Cycle, although the later installments can be a bit formulaic. However, they tend to be expensive even as ebooks, but do occasionally drop in price. They are very well researched vampire novels covering at least 2500 years of history.
It's difficult to say whether St Germain changes much - the first published, Hotel Transylvania and The Palace are set in Ancien Regime France and Renaissance Florence respectively, and St Germain's origins are in prehistoric Romania. The earliest setting used is Ancient Egypt, and the entire series so far features Imperial Rome or later. The Ancient Egypt setting (Out of the House of Life) is actually a braided story with St Germain telling his 'child' (Madeleine Montalia from Hotel Transylvania) about his experiences there while she is excavating the site in the early days of Egyptian archaeology. Last edited by maddz; 04-16-2017 at 05:31 AM. |
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