How Shall We Feed?

Feeding is one of the most basic functions of kindred. It is an essential thing from which none can escape, any more than a mortal man can survive without water. Some can endure a week or two at a time between feeding, yet ultimately each of us must feed.

It should not be surprising that the Testament of Longinus has much to say on the subject of feeding. Many things are forbidden. "You shall not feed on children" (Golgotha 3:6). "You shall not feed on the simple or the mad" (Golgotha 3:7). "It is anathema to feed among the pure and righteous" (Golgotha 6:6). While we are predators, we are not demons. Whatever acts of evil we might perform, one is to spare those who are blameless. The child, the mad, and the pure alike are to be protected from predation.

We feed to live, we do not live to feed. "You shall feed only enough to satisfy your hunger" (Golgotha 3:10). Indeed, those who can feed upon the blood of animals are called to do so in that fashion rather than upon man. "For those that can be nourished by beasts, let them be fed" (Golgotha 7:4).

Why is this so? It is because our predation, in feeding and in all other things, must serve a purpose greater than our own selves. We do not do these things for ourselves, but to enable us to pursue a purpose beyond our own individual requiems. All that we do must be for the salvation of man. "Where we walk, evil is destroyed" (Golgotha 1:4). Let us all take heed of this call for humility and service. Let us order our requiems, from feeding to that with which we fill our nights, that it might be in service to something greater than ourselves.

Sum Sanctus,

Simon Patterson Gloveli

Inquisitor Generalis de Lacus Magni