Talk:Bloodbound, Book 2 Portrait Fragments/@comment-36744766-20190831085310/@comment-37915141-20190831134342

Oh, we are doomed. It seems that she ask the true First is more powerful than Gaius was after he drank her blood. In one of the fragments, Rheya is shown to be able to control humans, suffocating many of them with a crunch of a fist. MC said in the last chapter that Gaius couldn't control her, only his progeny, and he never tried either so it might be true. Rheya could also get into the fisherman's mind and learn modern Greek in just seconds, we don't know if Gaius could do that.

But it kinda makes sense, Rheya got her power directly from the tree while Gaius got his from Rheya's blood and vampire blood is said to be diluting. When a human is Turned, they drink a vampire's blood but that blood is more diluted in them than in their Maker. So if it has the same effect when someone who is already a vampire drinks another vampire's blood it makes sense that Gaius is still less powerful than Rheya was.

That said, we don't even know what happened to the original Tree of Eternal Life where Rheya was buried. If it's destroyed, we only have the 'Gaius Tree.' but if Gaius was really less powerful than Rheya could a stake from that tree even kill her?