Page 70 of The Diary of the Vam'pir Jacques

Honestly, I guess I sound very immature to you, and I was. I craved the attention, and I wanted the sympathy, and I set out to get it in a very underhanded way.

I wasn’t old when I turned, and I’ve never grown up. There was one very adult thing I suggested, and that was for the breakup of Har’ches.

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We’d more deaths than births over the next five hundred years, and everyone realised we were slowly dying. I hated this, and at the same time, we noticed the barbarians had started toevolve. We thought it would be possible to help them and at the same time preserve our knowledge.

Thoughtfully, I suggested we send out teams of twelve all over the world. The plan was to share our knowledge and experience, so Har’ches would not be forgotten.

The plan’s acceptance was slow; three centuries elapsed before serious consideration.

Har’ches now only supported nine hundred people; such had been the loss of life and low birth rate that we’d experienced. Within another thousand years, Har’ches would no longer exist. The knowledge of Kaltos, Mora and Har’ches would finally disappear. There would be nobody left to learn from our mistakes.

If fate hadn’t been so unkind to us, Har’ches would’ve thrived. But every society must come to an end, and it was our turn.

I claim that Har’ches would have continued, and it probably would have if not for fate. This I feel because the Har’chen had learned from the past and its mistakes. Har’ches should’ve become a great civilisation, remembered like Egypt or Rome, and nothing would have stopped them.

But fate put a stop to the future Har’ches first showed. In our egotism we hatched a plan so upcoming races would learn from this, rather than our knowledge die out. We wouldn’t give them our technology, which was much too dangerous for a primitive society, but we could impart our learnings.

In mankind, we could see great potential, and we thought you would take our lessons and integrate them into your past, and you did. You took the best of us and made it your own history. Vam’pirs and Har’chen left you puzzles and legacies that you claimed as yours, and you forgot where they come from.

I both like and dislike being forgotten. A positive is the Har’chen legacy kept your minds busy trying to unravel yourroots. I admit freely that you would not have become what you have if not for Vam’pirs and Har’chen. Humans would’ve remained barbarians scrabbling in the dirt if we hadn’t instilled hope and curiosity in you to solve your hidden, mysterious past.

A mysterious past built by Har’chen and Vam’pir together.Who wants to be forgotten? That stings my ego.

Mankind slowly learns the lessons we left you, but you don’t recall your teachers.That isn’t very nice.

Man showed the greatest promise, and you could still achieve it. The great pyramids built by us in Egypt had hieroglyphics covering them. This was an ancient form of writing in Kaltos, and we taught the early Egyptians how to write using them. Only a few chosen could read and understand them. This we allowed.

If there were only a few to read them, then the rest of mankind would stretch their brains and try to decipher them. Over time, you forgot how to read them, but they were a puzzle modern-day men could not stand. You had to understand, and you did!I’m very proud of you.

It is a great shame that the earthquake destroyed the hieroglyphics written on the pyramids. They confirmed the story that I’ve told you.

But we placed the tale elsewhere in Egypt. In several places, to be exact, and you will one day find it for yourself and then have proof of what I’ve told you.

Har’ches left you clues; the two long tunnels in the great pyramid (or air vents, as they’ve been called) lining up to the stars in Orion’s belt. Only in our time did they line up. The great Sphinx itself faces the sunrise, but we chose a lion, not a pharaoh’s face. That was man’s ego to put a human face upon it. Once more, the lion serves as a clue, as Leo’s constellation was in the sky during Kaltos’s destruction. The way the Nile was channelled to match the Milky Way during our time.

Look at the erosion on the Sphinx. There is horizontal weathering of the stone. The last time the Giza area was submerged was 9000 years ago. This is a fact. It is also true about the wearing on the Sphinx. This means for the Sphinx to have such water damage, it must have been built before 7000 BC. Yet archaeologists claim it was built in 2500 BC.

Anyone see the problem here?

These clues suggest the existence of a once great and special civilisation that perished. Har’ches was vain enough to wish to be remembered. So, we ensured Har’ches would be remembered somehow. Even if it’s through humans solving the puzzles that we’ve left.

There are several people now who look outside what conventional archaeology tells them and ask, ‘What if? What if there is something that we’ve forgotten in our history?’

There is, and its name is Kaltos. You will find other evidence buried on the bottom of the sea, lost cities can be found in Peru and Mexico. England holds numerous other clues, including Stonehenge.

We wished to ensure that if another Reckoning hit, something would survive. If it didn’t, the Vam’pirs would have ensured it had. The fact remains that Kaltons had their own puzzles to solve. There’d been another civilisation before Kaltos rose.

Kaltos been given puzzles to solve ourselves, when our ancestors were little better than the barbarians we helped. Kaltons had help in becoming what we once were, and so we helped humanity.

I’ve no doubt that, someday, you’ll leave a legacy for whatever follows you.

That legacy could transcend this planet. I firmly believe humankind will explore space, discovering other life andplanets. I can see a great and powerful future for you if you set your minds to it.

Of course, I’ll be around to see it, hopefully.

As I look to the challenges that face humanity, I feel energised and not as tired or as worn as I previously felt. Hope floods me as I yearn to join mankind in your quest for greatness.

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