Authors Comments on "The Three's" (click bullet squares for drop down lists)
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Besides Jason's affinity with fire, everything in Saga is directly related to the numeral 3 or a multiple thereof. Jason was indentured to Elsabeth for nine years as a mortal. It took three days for the vampire "Seed" that Elsabeth impregnated him with to fully attach itself within him. He was 33 years old when he became the vampire. His mark, the hidden symbol, he uses to seal documents is the triangle. As a mortal he had a wife and two son's ~ Three all told. He first visit's Chauni when she comes of age at eighteen. You get the point...
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Humanity begins young, we mature and then we grow old; except in Jason's case as a vampire, he stopped aging. He is missing a part of "Three"... Overall the number three is a reoccurring theme throughout Saga. Keep an eye out for it
Why is 3 so significant?
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I feel that everything in life (or in Jason's case, his existence) is connected to the number 3. We are born, we live then we die. If you look at a triangle each side is connected, i.e.; The base being the Blood, the left side Life, the right...Death. I have it used as a simile for Jason. He feels that he is perched on the tip of that triangle (pyramid). He balances himself between Life and Death all the while being connected to the Blood.
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There are three "main" characters who must come together and fulfill Prophecy; Jason, Chauni and someone else who I won't name here. The three of them are interwoven throughout the novel. One cannot exist without the other. Tessalonika is the wild card character of the lot.
What is the meaning of "The Three's"?
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Basically, I felt that if I created a series of vampire ~ like seductive poems that Jason pens to Chauni the book would make for a better read. We all enjoy a vivid sensual scene in novels, don't we? (some of us do more than others I reckon).
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In truth, there are five poems for the "Three's" but to display the fifth would be a dead giveaway to the book's ending. Keep in mind that all of the poems that Jason writes, Chauni will never read ~ unless Jason dies at the end. He's made arrangements to have his journal delivered to Chauni before the Seed in her takes hold (which of course, is in three days).
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He does this because he knows that she'll have no "teacher" to help her adjust to her new being. Beside Elsabeth in the 12th century, Jason has never seen, created or even heard of another vampire. He doesn't know how to create another like him...Nor does he want to. He hates the creature he has become and has reservations about making Chauni into his image. He must follow the Tome though. That he does know, for it is the only thing that makes him stride forward in his existence. It is his "Hope" for a future with Chauni. So... He doesn't want Chauni to be by herself, hence the reason for the journal he keeps for her.
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Jason has Chauni flown over from England to the Manor ninety days before her 27 birthday toward the end of the book. During these months the Tome he has deciphered tells him that 3 rituals must be performed between himself and Chauni (once a month for three months) with the Final of Three's being performed prior to midnight of her twenty-seventh birthday, the First of May, in order for her to become the vampire, thus fulfilling Prophecy.
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May the First is a very religious Wiccan holiday; Beltane. It's roots are in fertility rites. During these rituals Jason recites the verse of the "Three's" poems to Chauni as the rites are acted out between them. The poems are not read in their entirety in the chapters that they appear; Character dialogue and plot unfold between each stanza. The "First of Three's, The Second of Three's, and The Final of Three's", are the only poems that Chauni ever hears being spoken by Jason.
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"The Three's" are directly related to preparing Chauni's mind, body and soul. (There's that multiple of three again, huh?)
Why have you posted the "The Ritual Three's ~ Prologue," and not the last poem of the "Three's"?
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I thought that by posting the Prologue to the "Three's" would give you a better look at what the other three mean. I chose not to post the last one of the series simply due to the fact that it is the last page of the novel. (You didn't think I was going to give away everything here, did you?)
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Enjoy my creations here. I still get teary-eyed whenever I read "The Final Of Three's" and I wrote the damned thing.