
The seven Ancients, including the Master, arose from Ozryel - the archangel of death. He is aided by Mr Quinlan, the vengeful half-vampire who was created when the Master infected his then-pregnant human mother.įlashbacks to biblical times reveal the origins of the vampire race.

Following the death of his friend Abraham Setrakian, Fet struggles to decipher the Occido Lumen, a tome holding the key to defeating the Master. Goodweather's lover, Dr Nora Martinez, left him for exterminator Vasiliy Fet. The Master, occupying the body of rock star Gabriel Bolivar, adopted Goodweather's son Zach as his protégé and is grooming the boy to be his next host body. Epidemiologist Dr Ephraim Goodweather grows distant from his friends. The weak were forced into camps to harvest their blood.Ī few survivors manage to resist the vampire occupation. The strongest and the most influential humans were exterminated and those who were spared were made slaves. The vampires restructured society as a police state.

Two years have passed since the vampires, led by the Master, used atomic weapons to create a nuclear winter, which blocked the sun and allowed the vampires to move freely, except for a few hours a day. It is the final novel in The Strain Trilogy beginning with The Strain and continuing with The Fall. The Night Eternal is a 2011 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
