The Pillars choose their guardians from birth, Raziel, and vampires are no longer born.
This is the crux of our dilemma, and this is the terrible irony: with their vampire purge, the members of the Circle have assaulted the very architects of the pillars they are sworn to protect.
They have embarked on a treacherous path.
With every vampire they kill, the humans are slitting their own throats.