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Arcueid Brunestud is the White Princess of the True Ancestors—a title reserved for those rare few capable of manifesting the Millennium Castle Brunestud. Think of it as the closest thing the True Ancestors have to royalty, though that comparison only goes so far.
The True Ancestors themselves are basically copies of TYPE-MOON, the moon's ultimate lifeform (also called the Crimson Moon). When humanity was young and the planet had no natural predators to keep them in check, the Crimson Moon descended and offered a solution: create a supreme race to act as the planet's will. That's where the True Ancestors came from. They're less like individuals and more like natural disasters—their actions flow from them as naturally as breathing, amoral and inevitable.
There's a catch though. The True Ancestors inherited their template's greatest flaw: an insatiable craving for blood. They've spent their entire existence burning massive amounts of power just to suppress the urge, and it doesn't work forever. Over the centuries, more and more of them fell to it anyway, descending into frenzy or retreating into eternal sleep.
Arcueid was created for a specific reason—or rather, no real reason at all. The other True Ancestors decided they wanted to know what the strongest possible being would look like, so they made her. By the 12th century, when fallen True Ancestors and rogue vampires had become a serious problem, Arcueid was repurposed as an executioner. She was brilliant at the job. They trained her to kill and nothing else, wiped her memories after each hunt, kept her isolated from the fact that she was the same type of creature she was destroying.
Critically, she never developed the blood hunger that plagued her kind. Everyone assumed she was simply immune to it.
Then Michael Roa Valdamjong entered the picture. This priest had mastered his potential as a human and needed to become a Dead Apostle to continue his research into immortality. He tricked the unsuspecting Arcueid into drinking his blood. She went berserk—wiped out most of the remaining True Ancestors in a single rampage, transformed Roa into one of the most powerful Dead Apostles ever created, and drained a massive chunk of her own power in the process. She only managed to regain control by chaining herself to her throne and forcing herself back to sleep. When she woke, she was like any other True Ancestor: bound by constant hunger.
The remaining True Ancestors were hunted down and killed by Roa and his fellow Dead Apostles, who turned exterminating their creators into a game.
Arcueid eventually destroyed Roa's original body, though she had to team up with the Burial Agency to pull it off. Problem was, Roa had already mastered reincarnation. He couldn't be killed permanently—every time he died, he'd just slip into a new host body, always choosing wealthy, influential families with strong magical or physical potential. After that, Arcueid fell into a cycle: wake up, hunt down Roa's latest reincarnation, fail to get her power back as he slipped away into a new body, go back to sleep. By the time of Tsukihime, he'd reincarnated seventeen times. His latest host? A boy named Tohno SHIKI.
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