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We, are the oldest of clans---far older than the Camarilla. The Camarilla had not yet gathered into clans when the Assamites were born, and their vaunted council was millennia in the future.
It began in the first city, which we call En'esh. Here, Khayvin (Caine to the Kafir) ceased his wandering and began the Second Generation, whose number was five. The kafir speak of three, but five was their true number.... For it was in En'esh that Haquim our ancestor lived, and where we, his chyldren, were born.
Haquim was the Lord of the armies of En'esh, a great and noble warrior, loved of the King... feared and loved by the people. He saw how the wanderer Khayyin entered the city with lies, and forced the King and Queen to his will. He saw, though Khayyindid not know how they were made, and how they were taught, and he knew that great evil that would spread from them. He knew that priests could not stop this evil, nor armies, nor city walls, and he was greatly troubled.
He brought to him certain soldiers whose hearts he knew, and they came upon the King and Queen. They slew them and cut off their heads. They gathered up the blood in a goblet. Then, with his own hand did our ancestor cut his throat, and watched as his blood flowed. When the last of his strength was leaving him, the soldiers gave him the cup to drink, and though he was gravely wounded, he did not die.
A few of the soldiers were in great fear, in fear that our ancestor would be tainted as the King and Queen were tainted, but he reassured them, saying "Be not afraid, for my purpose is true, and I shall use the Beast's own strength against it." The soldiers rejoiced, and freely gave of their blood that Haquim might live and be strong.
That night, Khayyin arose from where he lay, since he was hidden and the soldiers could not find him. When he seen what had become of the King and Queen he grew angry, he fell upon the soldiers as a djinn, tearing their bodies apart. Haquim arose and fought with him; all through the night they struggled, but Haquim was still young in Blood and sore from his Change, and Khayyin prevailed. He drained Haquim and flung his body on the sand.When the sun rose, he fled to his hiding-place.
When Khayyin was gone the soldiers covered Haquim with a cloak, and shut him in a casket. The soldiers took him from the city. The still had some blood from the King and Queen. With this blood our ancestor was healed, though it took many months as he was desperatly wounded. For a long time they traveledin a pack, until they came to the far mountains where Khayyin could not find them. There they built a great and secret fortress which they called Alamut, the Eagles Nest. It was secluded and strong. Haquim rested and tended his wounds,He grew stronger in the Blood. A few of his soldiers, whom he found worthy, he made of the Blood also. He bade them to make war upon Khayyin and his progeny, that their evil should not taint the earth.
Haquim knew that Khayyin would make more children in the First City, and indeed he did. These were the three whom the munafiquin call the Second Generation. They did not know of the King and Queen, for Khayyin would not frighten them with their own mortality, and they did not know that Haquim lived.