My legal name where I currently reside in the city of liege, belgium, in the year 2010 a.d., is gaspar valessi, but that is not my real name. The name I was given some 30,000 years ago, when I was born in a paleolithic s...My legal name where I currently reside in the city of liege, belgium, in the year 2010 a.d., is gaspar valessi, but that is not my real name. The name I was given some 30,000 years ago, when I was born in a paleolithic settlement in the region that is now called Germany-- the name my father gave me shortly after I was voided, bloody and howling, from my mother's womb-- is gon." So begins the saga of the immortal gon, a 30,000 year old vampire.