Gay male erotic bonding at its best. Welcome to Hephaestion's 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, with whom he conquered the world by the age of thirty-two. Legend has it that they were one soul inhabiting two bodys. Before Eternity, Volume One introduces the reader to the whimsical vampire, as he introduces writer of his chronicles, his friends in present day Boston, recounts his life with Alexander and their unofficially adopted son, the beautiful Aristenes, before he was turned into an immortal by the mysterious Quermen. Inflicted with AADD, his narration is at times historically accurate, often funny, sporadically sad, and peppered with some of the most visually inspiring gay erotic stories to ever disgrace literature.