Eu nunca li a Red Death Trilogy, a série de romances em que isso aparece. Mas de um resumo de um fã que leu isso:
Sobre a Criação da "Poção da Golconda":
He is stated to have, in the past (possibly 2000-3000 years back), worked on such a formula (and succeeded to create it). But, it is also stated, that there was no way to recreate it, since integral ingredients were not to be found on earth any more (which hints, that bygones or such are needed (horn of a unicorn) and that Banality/Static Reality/the Gauntlet removed these beings. However, the protagonist in question tries to find substitutes, with the help of Horus, a formidable sorcerer (and mummy, obviously).
Sobre quem fez isso:
Lameth (Lamech), the Dark Messiah <4> (~ -7000 or -6000) Progeny of Ashur. As a vampire he became the most powerful sorceror to exist, and as a result of centuries of effort he devised the Elixir of Lameth, which could artificially induce Golconda in its imbiber. Two doses were all that could be made (due to the rarity, and now extinction, of some of the ingredients). Lameth took one draught for himself and gave another to his lover, Anis. Able to lie in torpor and use a chosen mortal as his active form, Lameth chose to escape the bonds of his sire by the early Middle Ages. He manipulated a powerful necromancer, Augustus Giovanni, so that the necromancer would "make himself attractive" to Cappadocius (Asshur) as a new childe. This worked and Augustus eventually did scheme against his new sire as the invisible Lameth hoped. In 1444 Augustus' ambitions were partially fulfilled and he diablerized Cappadocius to become an Antediluvian himself. Never once then, nor even today, had he suspected that his own power and plans are being used by the now forgotten Lameth. Lameth is greatly aided in his actions by his ability to work entirely through a mortal (actually, Lameth "is" the mortal, in a sense). Lameth has used many guises, his most recent being an actual Euthanatos mage, the St. Louis detective Dire McCann. Because of his chosen form, Lameth actually possesses the complete powers of a mage, including complete access to True Magick. He has also literally erased all records and memories of his own existence off the face of the earth, including those beings of might almost equal to his own. Without a doubt, Lameth is truly the most powerful sorceror in existence.