+ as the necessary end of the vampiric evolutionary step —— recruiting any disillusioned like minded vampires , sympathetic mortals , and carefully chosen humans turned into soldiers for his cause.
His ultimate goal : total eradication of all vampires from existence.
+ life itself. He sought his lost mortality , starving himself and willingly enduring brutal experiments at the hands of human scientists in vain hope of reversal.
Grief and guilt would eventually forge into an apocalyptic vision. He would begin preaching the Great Conversion +