Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers is the sixth book in the Necroscope series by British writer Brian Lumley. This was the first book in the Vampire World Trilogy. It was released in 1992. Plot It is revealed that after the Battle in the Garden (Necroscope III: The Source), while recovering from the ravaging of his mind by his son, The Dweller, Harry Keogh, fathered two sons unknowingly with a Szgany woman Nana Kiklu, in Starside/Sunside. The book covers the boys growing up among the Szgany of Lardis Lidesci. With the vampires destroyed (Necroscope V: Deadspawn) by Harry Keogh and Lady Karen with the help of the wolf, The Dweller the Szgany have stopped traveling and settled into towns. The boys grow up with their mother in the Lidesci town named Settlement with their friends and especially a girl named Misha and Lardis' son Jason. The boys suffer from dreams and sometimes nightmares of people whispering in their graves and they also talk to three wild wolves who for reasons unknown to them call the boys their uncles. We also learn of a long-forgotten part of the world to the far east of the known Starside/Sunside. Discovered a long time ago by an exiled Wamphyri Lords Turgo Zolte, it is now home to around 40 Wamphyri Lords and Ladies and similar Szgany tribes all under the command of the Lord Vormulac Unsleep. But whereas the Szgany of old Starside fights back against the Wamphyri, the Szgany in Turgosheim have become worn down and supplicant. They settle in towns and allow the many Wamphyri to visit and take as they want, using a tithe system where they are forced to choose or find a certain number of "volunteers" to be taken and used by the Wamphyri. Aggravated and tired of the Turgosheim life and aware that the land in the west is free of vampires, a group of six travelers flee Turgosheim for the west. As they grow older Nathan and Nestor's once close relationship deteriorates due in part because of their affection for Misha. While they are fighting over the Szgany girl, their unprepared village is attacked by the Wamphyri led by Wratha. After the attack Nathan journeys away from Settlement, believing his mother, brother, and Misha have been taken by the Wamphyri. He ends up alone, weary and destitute, and ready to die in the desert. His dead speak thoughts are answered by a dead elder of the underground desert dwellers, the telepathic Thyre.