Gay erotic male bonding at its best Welcome to Hephaestions world. Twenty-three centuries ago the second most powerful man in the world chose life as a vampire to the uncertainty of death. His lover was none other than Alexander the Great. Legend has it that they were one soul inhabiting two bodies. Before Eternity, Volume One introduces the reader to the whimsical vampire, as he introduces the writer of his chronicles (the little known Stefan Pride), his friends in present day Boston, and recounts his life with Alexander and the beautiful youth Aristenes, their adopted son, before he was turned into an immortal by the mysterious Quermen. Afflicted with AADD, his narration is at times historically accurate, often funny, sporadically sad, and peppered with some of the most visual inspiring homo-erotic stories to ever disgrace a page.