The Origins of Vampirism...
In the time before time,
there were the primordial deities -- the beings
that would split into every god and goddess in
existence, entities of great power that shaped
the universe and the world that we live in today.
One such being was Night -- who ruled over the
hours of darkness and presided over the ordering
of the stars and planets, consort of Moon and
Hunt.
Night saw that humans were largely afraid of Her
domain, that they feared the other creatures who
walked the dark and could not protect themselves
very effectively from many of these creatures and
she felt pity for them. She wanted for every
being that existed to be able to enjoy the
tapestry she had woven in the immense darkness of
the sky.
And so, Night, with the help of Hunt and Moon,
would create a blessing for those most devoted of
humans who felt most at home during the hours of
darkness. They would be given claws and fangs
like the animals that frightened them, eyes that
could see with nothing but starlight, enhanced
strength and speed, the ability to heal from
almost any wound, the ability to subsist only on
the blood of the animals they killed and a
seemingly endless lifespan. In return for the
blessing, they would have to forsake Day
andprotect their human brethren from the other
predators that dwelled in the darkness of Night.
They were also given the ability to gift this
state of being to those they most loved so that
they might share the beauty and joy of Night with
others.
After a time, a new Entity entered the world -- a
being that came from beyond the boundaries that
the primordial deities protected and maintained.
Something that did not belong in the world. A
being known as The Myriad Eyes. It corrupted the
stars, corrupting Night and Moon and turning them
into Stars like Eyes and The Watching Eye... This
corruption in turn affected Night's Chosen --
they became possessed of the same endless hunger
as the Myriad Eyes and were driven by this
endless hunger to abandon their duty to protect
humans and instead, hunt them down and feed upon
them. In addition to this endless hunger, the
corruption of the Myriad Eyes drove the Chosen to
infect as many as possible with their
"blessing"...
In a great war, the primordial deities would
split The Myriad Eyes into spirit, mind and body,
separating the three and, in essence,
"killing" it. In doing so, they were
also forced to "kill" Night and Moon,
using the last of their power to create new
Deities to take their place. The death of Night
and Moon would complete the process by which
Night's Blessing became the modern day curse of
vampirism. Deprived of their divine font, the
Chosen died -- but the influence of the Myriad
and their endless lives prevented their souls
from leaving the mortal plane and returning to
the Cycle of Reincarnation, leaving them trapped
in bodies that were neither dead nor alive and
yet both.
Over the centuries, the curse mutated and
changed, splitting into multiple bloodlines. In
the modern era, only seven of these bloodlines
still exist: Nightingale, Revenant, Siren,
Stryzga, Ancient, Lamia and Felis... Along with
the pseudo-bloodline, Feral.
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 The Origins of
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General Vampiric
Traits
A Note on "The
Veil"
The Curse
The Change
The Hunger
Vampiric
Relationships
Thralls
Dhampir
The Bloodlines
The Nightingales
The Revenant
The Siren
The Stryzga
The First
The Felis
The Lamia
The Feral
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