You can be correct about gold (I am not convinced, but you have piqued my interest) and adrenochrome can also be a thing. I am convinced it is not a red herring.
Adrenochrome plays a few parts in the equation. One, it is a psychotropic inducing mild hallucinations. Second it has been directly linked to schizophrenia, aka disassociation. Both of these would be incredibly useful for turning mostly normal people, who just want a little step up in society into Satanists. Third there are other epinephrine oxidation products in blood that are also psychotropic (also makeable in a lab, but see below). Fourth there are other signaling molecules in blood (especially in a person still growing) that are beneficial for longevity and health (HGH agonists e.g.). Blood from the young is chock full of interesting things that help create and maintain a Satanist.
As for it being able to be made in a lab, this has been going on likely for thousands of years. There were no labs available to make it for most of the time it has been in practice. And that's the most important part. Practice.
This is a ritual. Adrenochrome (and its ilk) are very important, but its source is equally or more important. You drink the blood, you get the adrenochrome, and the soul, and the power, and the other benefits, and maybe even the gold, but its the blood that's important, and the adrenochrome is in the blood. No self-respecting trillionaire is going to settle for lab made shit when they can go vampire instead.
Make no mistake, I think they use adrenochrome as well.
But the gold is the end-game target.
Since antiquity gold has had a significant impact on human cultures. Often it is associated with life and death.
Take a look at the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs. What were they known for?
Gold, Chocolate, and Human Sacrifice.
Chocolate is saturated with heavy metals like copper, silver, and gold.
The Gulf of Mexico was the impact of a large asteroid (possibly the moon) which provided the region with tons of gold deposits. One other such impact site leading to a civilization of gold is Lake Victoria (source of the Nile) where the Egyptians got all their gold from.
Native Central Americans ate vegetation heavy in gold, realized you can get gold from people's organs and blood, and went on mass-murder sprees including child sacrifice to get the gold and adrenochrome serum.
There is a reason all the gold the Conquistador's brought back was in the form of copper-gold alloys. It is because they didn't bother to separate the copper and gold harvested from the natives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbaga
On the vampire angle, why did they sleep in coffins? Maybe they were copper-lined faraday cages to keep out the magnetic waves? Why did they avoid sunlight? Maybe because gold deposits turned blue in the skin when exposed to UV light? Why did aristocrats wear makeup out of mercury to white-wash their faces? Maybe because they were trying to hide/extract the gold deposits in their skin with mercury's ability to bind to gold in an amalgam? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAGYGGmUmUw&t=1s
You can be correct about gold (I am not convinced, but you have piqued my interest) and adrenochrome can also be a thing. I am convinced it is not a red herring.
Adrenochrome plays a few parts in the equation. One, it is a psychotropic inducing mild hallucinations. Second it has been directly linked to schizophrenia, aka disassociation. Both of these would be incredibly useful for turning mostly normal people, who just want a little step up in society into Satanists. Third there are other epinephrine oxidation products in blood that are also psychotropic (also makeable in a lab, but see below). Fourth there are other signaling molecules in blood (especially in a person still growing) that are beneficial for longevity and health (HGH agonists e.g.). Blood from the young is chock full of interesting things that help create and maintain a Satanist.
As for it being able to be made in a lab, this has been going on likely for thousands of years. There were no labs available to make it for most of the time it has been in practice. And that's the most important part. Practice.
This is a ritual. Adrenochrome (and its ilk) are very important, but its source is equally or more important. You drink the blood, you get the adrenochrome, and the soul, and the power, and the other benefits, and maybe even the gold, but its the blood that's important, and the adrenochrome is in the blood. No self-respecting trillionaire is going to settle for lab made shit when they can go vampire instead.
Make no mistake, I think they use adrenochrome as well.
But the gold is the end-game target.
Since antiquity gold has had a significant impact on human cultures. Often it is associated with life and death.
Take a look at the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs. What were they known for?
Gold, Chocolate, and Human Sacrifice.
Chocolate is saturated with heavy metals like copper, silver, and gold.
The Gulf of Mexico was the impact of a large asteroid (possibly the moon) which provided the region with tons of gold deposits. One other such impact site leading to a civilization of gold is Lake Victoria (source of the Nile) where the Egyptians got all their gold from.
Native Central Americans ate vegetation heavy in gold, realized you can get gold from people's organs and blood, and went on mass-murder sprees including child sacrifice to get the gold and adrenochrome serum.
Why was El Dorado never found? Probably because it wasn't a city of gold, but a people of gold. Kill them all, burn the corpses, smelt the gold, make bank, blame it on "Eastern Diseases". https://www.funeralwise.com/plan/cremation/cremation-process/ https://www.cremationsolutions.com/information/scattering-ashes/all-about-cremation-ashes
There is a reason all the gold the Conquistador's brought back was in the form of copper-gold alloys. It is because they didn't bother to separate the copper and gold harvested from the natives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbaga
On the vampire angle, why did they sleep in coffins? Maybe they were copper-lined faraday cages to keep out the magnetic waves? Why did they avoid sunlight? Maybe because gold deposits turned blue in the skin when exposed to UV light? Why did aristocrats wear makeup out of mercury to white-wash their faces? Maybe because they were trying to hide/extract the gold deposits in their skin with mercury's ability to bind to gold in an amalgam? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAGYGGmUmUw&t=1s
The well I've tapped goes deep.