Chief Hunter (Traditions)

A chief hunter joined Manes' efforts to hunt down and destroy the vampire that killed his father, Constans. While the chief and his hunters followed Manes for several weeks, they declined to join him one fateful day, two weeks after a lunar eclipse. The scholar Valerian, who'd joined Manes at the outset, had explained to them that there would be a solar eclipse that day, which was an ill-omen. While the chief and his men didn't fully understand the science behind Valerian's explanation, they did understand that the conditions did not favor hunting that day, and so all refused to go. Exasperated, Manes dragged Valerian off, and both were killed when the solar eclipse essentially turned daytime into night.