The characters are each distinct within themselves. The lore reads almost like a bestiary whilst Gabriel recounts and describes each terrifying monster à la Geralt. The world-building was incredibly expansive, and Kristoff has created a hellscape that feels desolate and dark enough to hold the monsters that live there. Kristoff has beautiful detailed the words here and the sense of impending threat and foreboding is stagnant throughout. This is not a straightforward journey, and the perspectives jump around and are told via this unreliable narrator. The story is told in two parts with Gabriel reciting the events that have led him to being imprisoned by a vampire historian, documenting the tale whilst the older, broken Gabriel speaks to them. Vampires waged war with humanity and have built an empire that lasts eternal. A medieval landscape where the world is filled with darkness and monsters that once feared the sun and instead now wreak havoc. Empire of the Vampire had me feeling like I was playing Bloodborne again.
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