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The group began to call him Blade, thanks to his proficiency with bladed weapons. His lust for getting revenge on Dracula led Brooks to China, where he joined up with Orji Jones’ crew of vampire hunters, among them Azu M’Dammen, Musenda and Ogun Strong. The final tragedy that led Eric to become the man he was destined to be came when Dracula himself turned Brooks’ mentor Afar, leaving the protege to kill the man who helped him when no one else would. He had also stolen away the ousted Bloodshadows leader’s girlfriend, Glory, but when a vampire called Lamia turned his lover, Brooks had to slay them both, rededicating himself to the mission at hand rather than interpersonal relationships. Eric would wrest control of the group from their leader, then bring his new allies back with him to England as his personal vampire fighting force. Years later, Brooks would accidentally murder an innocent man while on patrol, causing Afar and Madame Vanity to send him to New York to join a Tyriana gang called the Bloodshadows. Afar took the youth under his wing, training him to be the ultimate killing machine. Brooks threw himself in a melee of vampires attacking an old man, who turned out to be Jamal Afar, a jazz trumpeter and professional enemy of the undead. As a child, he encountered a figure who would change his life. The supposed physician, Deacon Frost, turned out to be a vampire who fed on Tara as she gave birth, transferring certain enzymes into the baby’s bloodstream.Įric was raised in Madame Vanity’s brothel as an orphan, poisoned by the vampire’s kiss but not yet fully turned. There, Tara took the last name Brooks, but encountered complications with her pregnancy, seeking out a man who claimed to be a doctor for assistance. Cross was held captive in Latveria when his lover Tara was pregnant with his son, so he gave her explicit instructions to flee to England and gain shelter from fellow Order member Madame Vanity.

His father was Lucas Cross, a member of the Order of Tyrana, an ancient secret society. A Tragic Beginningīlade, born Eric Brooks, came from complicated beginnings. His life is the tireless pursuit of eradicating the world of the beasts who seek to destroy innocent life. Blade is more than just a slayer of the undead, but a boogeyman’s boogeyman, the thing that makes ghouls and monsters lose sleep.īorn from a mother ravaged by vampirism and gifted super human abilities by a bite from Morbius, the Living Vampire, Blade is the Daywalker-a skilled martial artist who possesses most vampire strengths and none of their weaknesses. There are many men and women in the world who hunt vampires, but few strike as much fear into bloodsucking hearts as they do stakes.