Post by Victor Van Alberict on Sept 1, 2007 9:40:45 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]War Of The Ancient Races[/glow]
Introduction
Vampires in folklore are made of a corpse that rises from the ground during the night and for nourishment sucks the blood of humans. Vampires have two shapes: Their human shape and that of half human half evil bat. Various herbs and talismans are said to avert vampires, and it is believed that a vampire can only be destroyed by a cremation or a stake driven straight through their heart. Though this is not always apparent, the strongest and the oldest vampires can live through such things.
A lycan (aka Werewolf), according to ancient superstition, is a man/woman who transforms, or who is transformed into a wolf (nature and appearance). There Lycan is believed to transform due to the event of a full moon and roams around at night devouring infants or corpses.
A demon on the other hand is a supernatural spirit or force capable of influencing human lives, usually by means of evil. Demons have played a role in the traditions of most religions and also have appeared in mythology and literature. The study of demons is called demonology. Many early people believed that spirits occupied all elements of nature. Evil spirits or demons were the spirits of ancestors who brought harm to living people. The word demon originated from an ancient Greek term, daimon, which referred to beings whose special powers placed them between people and the gods. These beings had the ability either to improve people's lives or carry out the punishment of the gods.
How they came forth…..
Before anything else had come to the earth, before Adam and Eve, Demons and many other creatures walked on earth in darkness. Then, as years passed, evil vanished to a darker place, waiting on dooms day too arrive. Many went but some stayed to make sure the world would be ready for the dark arriving. Those who stayed behind where early in the age called “Creatures of the night.” Some would say that Prince Vlad III of Transylvania (Dracula) was the first true vampire of them all who had the ability to turn into bat or wolf whenever he wanted, a cursed man by the devil. But this might not mean he was the first, before him there is many legends of other vampires. People have vanished while they have been with some and suddenly got bitten by them until they somehow died but stood up again later as a totally different person.
Lilith, according to Hebrew Jewish texts, was the first woman created for Adam. After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.' He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other in as much as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. (In this act, Lilith becomes unique in that she is not touched by "original sin", having left the garden before Eve came into existence. Lilith also reveals herself to be powerful in her own right by knowing the name of God).
After her failure, she was allowed to stay out on her own, as a witch, mother of all demons. She was allowed to kill infants up until their naming day (7 days for girls and 8 days for boys), unless they had a charm over their sleeping place with the names of the angels on them. Then, she promised, she would not kill them. Cain was the firstborn son of Adam and Eve. He was banished, with a mark, from the land of his parents because he killed his brother in a jealous rage. Cain wandered until he found Lilith by the Red Sea. She took him in and showed him the power of blood. From Cain and Lilith came a host of demons and vampires in the vague myths. Cain is mentioned in the Bible as having a number of legitimate children, with an unnamed woman/ wife. Some of his children are even highly regarded, as they are listed with their inventions, such as the harp and metal working. But, past Gen. 4:26 there is no more mention of Cain's children or his line. Cain himself is referred to only twice more, in the New Testament, as "the prototype of the wicked man."
As the people spread threw out the world and so did the others as well but hid among the population, some humans suddenly disappeared while they got cached by the dark ones and returned as they never had been before. Rumours arrived all over about the mysterious incidents and legends about it started to get rolling. In the ancient times tribes were all over until they decided to unite, war broke out and many people died for their rulers and land. But somehow the dead ones came back, either as ghosts or zombies who haunted the people who were in their family, or they killed them. Not all believed this was true and so they didn’t care, those who did believe though got scared and often went crazy. Then after some time Gods were started to be believed in by the Greek people and so by the Roman Empire later but also Christianity spread all the way from Egypt to Northern Europe, and made the other people want to have gods on their own and to worship them. Lykaon from the Greek mythology was earlier said to be the first of the evil moon creatures called “werewolves”. He and his fifty impious sons entertained Zeus and set before him a dish of human flesh. The god pushed away the dish in disgust and either killed the king and his sons by lightning or turned them into wolves. This gave rise to the story that a man was turned into a wolf at each annual sacrifice to Zeus Lycaeus, but recovered his human form if he abstained from human flesh for ten years. After Lykaon and his sons were turned into werewolves they spread and started to hunt, those who got bitten or scratched by them in the wolf form also turned into these huge wolves.
How they became enemies
Raven Lestat, one of the oldest of all vampires, also called "The Master" or "The First", was born in the beginning of the world when all were still a darkness and emptyness. As the world took shape and the population grew, so did his followers that were called "Vampires", though few they were at the start, but strong and powerful. He lived a long and mighty life as lord of the vampires while he and his kind were hidden and breeding threw out the years under the ground or in caves with killing people that went past.
Alena Wolf was born in Rome a couple years after its founding around 750 B.C. as an only child to a 'common' family. When Alena was about five years old, suspicion about her family developed and was about to uproar in her home country, so the family fled to another country and settled there peacefully for about ten years. Alena had always had a fascination for wolves, even though they were feared by many, and the time she spent in this new country strengthened her admiration (especially after an incident when she was saved by a wolf, although none save her parents would believe this claim; and because of that she didn't make friends easily and was often alone). As Alena grew and became a teenager, the reputation of her parents had caught up, and many of the same suspicions that had been risen in her birth country were now being questioned here. Around Alena's sixteenth birthday, her mother was charged with associating with the devil and practicing witchcraft, and was sentenced to burn at the stake. Alena's grief was maddening, but instead of letting it show and confiding in her father, she kept it all inside and became estranged from him. In the beginning, she felt guilty because she too had been practicing witchcraft, and believed she should have shared the same fate as her mother. But she continued the Craft and often employed the aid of wolves as her familiars in her magick. In one ritual during the full moon, Alena asked to bond herself with the spirit of a wolf; and she drank of the water sifting in the paw print of her wolf and chanted. During the chant, her wolf bit her arm to warn her that people were approaching; but the people did not find her or her ritual. The combination of magic and the will of the wolf and herself, gave her the form of a wolf and the ability to use the transformation how she wanted; but other changes happened too that Alena had not expected. She traveled to many lands and found others (although very few) like to her, and she learned that she was the first female werewolf and was named the Mother of Lycanthropy.
At one time, Raven and Alena were in Rome at the same time, and through an incident they learned to know of each other's powers. Raven only has heard of the power of wolf-people in old tales of Lykaon, never has seen them before in reality, and he was stunned, as he never has believed in these tales. But now, that they were proven to be true by Alena, they learned to love each other and so united their powers, never to be seperated again.
Many centuries later, in 500 AD, Alexander Corvinus lived in today's Hungary as a lord, and through a virus that was sent to him by a demon, as the legend tells us, he recieved immortality. At this time, Raven and Alena came to this area and incidentally met Alexander.
Alena fell in love with Alexander, and left Raven for him. This was the hour the great war between werewolves and vampires started, because Raven was heartbroken and tried to get Alena back through war. Although, in the end, it was too much for Alena to see this war going on for her, and she left Alexander as well, moving away.
Years later, Alexander married a woman called Helena. She gave birth to three children, but only two of them inherited their father's immortality: Marcus and William. By accident, Marcus was bitten by a bat, and so became a vampire, caused by his father's hate for Raven. William was bitten by a wolf and so was transformed to a lycan, caused by his father's love for Alena. William became a savage beast that was unable to ever assume human form again, something Alexander attributed to his uncontrollable rage.
William went on to ravage the countryside of Hungary, infecting the population with his highly infectious lycanthropy virus. In order to combat the growing lycan threat, Marcus approached Viktor, a dying warlord, to borrow his military genius and army (who became the Death Dealers) in exchange for immortality. Viktor accepted and became one of the Vampire Elders. Marcus also personally infected Amelia, making her the first Vampiress Elder.
In 1202, Viktor led a charge into a Hungarian village which William supposedly passed through. Instead of finding only William, they found an entire village of lycans. Death Dealers, including Amelia, subdued and injured William before Marcus, who pleaded for his brother's life before Viktor. Viktor, thinking that if any of the Corvinus brothers were killed the immortal bloodline would eventually die, locked William far away from the reach of Marcus. Marcus, then swore vengeance against Viktor and all those loyal to him, but was able to do little, as the Death Dealers were loyal to Viktor alone.
Lucian was once a Lycan servant to Viktor's clan until the early 1200s. At this stage, the Lycans were slaves to the Vampires, acting as their guardians during the daylight hours. In return, the vampires locked them up at night, thus ensuring the survival of both bloodlines by not alerting the humans to their presence. They were treated like dogs, but Lucian had no complaints, although his high status among the servants may have contributed to this - indeed, he was sometimes accused of considering himself to be better than his fellow Lycans. He was instrumental in the tracking of rogue Lycans. He later helped defending the vampires in the castle he served in against angry mortals, driving them off by releasing a swarm of vampire bats on the attackers, causing them to flee as they believed them to be the vampires themselves. Having been responsible for repelling the attack, he was rewarded with a steel dagger with a wolf motive on the hilt. The next time he met those angry mortals was in an ambush while on the way to Viktor's castle with vampires and lycans, where Viktor's wife was killed and when his relationship with Sonja truly began, the two of them forced to hide together in a crypt when the sun rose, while they were hiding from the mortals and a crazy preacher.
Lucian and Sonja began an affair shortly after Sonja's arranged marriage to Marcus's son Nikolas was announced, and it was revealed later that Sonja was pregnant with his child, making their child a Lycan-Vampire hybrid. Before Sonja was killed for her child, Lucian had married Sonja in the Chapel they used for their many secret rendezvous, in a ceremony just between the two. However, their plan to escape together was stopped short by Leyba, a wanton lycan servant that had an eye for Lucian and resented his rejection of her for Sonja. Frustrated at being spurned, she went to Soren and told him of the yellow ribbon Sonja had given to Lucian, which she had taken from Lucian's chambers. Soren then went to Viktor and told him of this.
Viktor feared the blending of the bloodlines that Sonja's pregnancy entailed, and had Lucian whipped in front of her. He then had her tied to a stake in a specially-designed room, exposing her to the sun and burning her alive, forcing Lucian to watch. When night fell, the full moon rose and shone down on Lucian, allowing him to change into Lycan form and escape before Viktor could kill him. Before escaping he managed to take Sonja's pendant with him, the sole memento he would ever have of the love of his life. That night, he swore an oath to reunite the bloodlines, as his own child should have, and to destroy Viktor. After Sonja's death and Lucian's escape, Lucian raised an army of rogue Lycans and those who wished to fight against the vampires. His first accomplishment was capturing Viktor's silver mine. After failing to defend the mine and the loss of several Lycans to a surprise attack by the vampires, he fought against Nikolas. It was here he was first able to assume his Lycan form without the use of the full moon, and killed him. This caused that no solution was found to stop the war for centuries.
Alexander in the meantime was not unactive. He tried everything so that the war between the two races would not be noticed by the humans, and so hired humans to clean up all signs of the war.
How the war continued
As the war continued between the lycans and vampires, Raven and Alena who first had started this war were also on the move. After they had seen what had happend they decided to involve to end this, Alena Wulf decided to help Lucian the lycan lord to continue the war against Victor and Amelia while Raven Lestat decided to help Marcus to gain his revange over Victor cause of his deeds to his brother William. Together once again Raven and Alena united but together with Marcus and Lucian to fight Victor who had become a powerful vampire, and after a long war the death dealers and their leaders(Victor and Amelia) died because of their less of strenght. William became free from captivity but Raven had not forgotton the past. Suprisely he killed both sons of Alexander Corvinus and this made Alena and Lucian shocked cause of his hate and cruelty. Now Raven was not only hated by Alexander but also Alena which had Lucian as her second commander and so the war once again went on.
Years passed and the losses on all sides were huge though they kept spreading throughout the world, now there was Raven and his clan of vampires on one side as Alexander Corvinus had his own small imortal army and Alena Wulf with Lucian along with their lycans. Three sides they were though Raven was strong and held out long against Alena and Alexander cause of his speed but also power. And as the crusades had begun, Raven found a lost man on the beach close to Jerusalem and so decided to turn him into one of his kind and though he could be useful for the future. This person was also named Victor though his last name was Van Alberict, he was turned but soonly left alone cause Raven had other buisniss to attend to.
Not long after Raven Lestat managed to sneak into the head quarter of Alexander Corvinus and killed him as he was in deep sleep, that way the clan of his got distroyed and scattered. Now there were only Raven and Alena`s clan left and they fought each other for centuries but Lucian got killed in an ambush by the vampire legions.
As Victor Van Alberict's family thought he was dead after drowning, and his mother passed away one year later and his father died in the war. His sister was all alone, but Victor didn’t know anything about what had happened with his family. When Victor was turned he decided to forget about the war that was going on, but to travel through Europe to find his family again. He took another ship from Malta and over to Greece, from there he traveled and back home. Victor was thirsty many times and killed lots of people on his way, he got vampire hunters after his neck and it got more and more difficult for him to find his family again. None of them managed to capture or kill him, he was too clever and strong for them.
As he travelled threw the woods of Schwaz in Austria he saw a woman who was alone and lost, he talked with her and pretended he was just a normal human. It was on that time he changed his first human to a vampire. When he had turned her he left her and kept walking to find his family again. As he came back home he found it in ruin, the people that used to work on the farm said that his mother and father were dead and his sister suddenly hae disappeared. This made Victor angrier and so he killed every human that had worked on their farm and as he had done so he started to walk through Europe, searching for his sister. In many years he wandered around looking but with no luck. Victor gave up and he thought she had died, he had been looking for her in 100 years.
When many years passed, Victor was a legend around the world. People were telling stories about him and what he had done with their families, and some hunters were still after him. But as the hunters showed up he killed them all.
Vlad Dracula was born in 1430 in Schassburg, Transylvania, as the second son of a Transylvanian nobleman. He was named prince of Wallachia and became ruler while still a child. Over the next several years, he struggled against the Ottoman Turks, losing and regaining his throne. Through an arranged marriage to a Hungarian noblewoman, he sired his daughter, Lilith. He sent his wife away and later married a woman named Maria, with whom he had a son named Vlad Tepelus.
In 1459, Dracula was mortally wounded by the Turkish warlord Turac, who brought Dracula to a gypsy named Lianda to be healed. However, Lianda was a vampire, and transformed Dracula into a vampire as well. Turac raped and killed Maria, and in revenge Dracula slew Turac, causing him to become a vampire. Dracula gave his son Vlad Tepelus to the gypsies to raise.
Van Helsing was a monster hunter for a secret organization called "The Order" that fights evil. One year after the Frankenstein incident, he was assigned to bring in Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde, but failed by killing him accidentally. Van Helsing was hunted, branded a murderer, as most of the monsters he killed changed back to human form once they were dead and found by the authorities. Also, he was haunted by memories of some sort of past life, most of which were of events that occurred thousands of years ago. The Order sent him after Count Dracula, the most evil of creatures. He, and his assistant friar Carl, arrived in Romania and met Anna Valerious, one of the last of Valerious' family, along with her brother, Velkin Valerious. Their family had been trying to kill Dracula since their ancestor swore to God that their family would never enter heaven until Dracula was dead.) Velkin was killed by a werewolf during a failed attempt to kill the creature, making Anna the last Valerious, and just as determined to kill Dracula. Upon arriving, Van Helsing and Anna were attacked by Dracula's three brides. Using special weapons designed to kill Vampires, Van Helsing defeated one Marishka , loaded with holy water from a nearby church.
Anna and Van Helsing formed an alliance to kill Dracula, who was using Castle Frankenstein for some mysterious purpose. They found that Dracula and his Brides have been breeding and trying to produce offsprings. Because the Count and his Brides were dead, their children were conceived dead as well, and the Count was using Victor Frankenstein's work to bring them back to life. However, every attempt he made failed, and he needed Frankenstein's monster to make it work. He was partially successful with werewolf venom from Anna's brother Velkin, who was not killed and was now in Dracula's servitude, but the results proved insufficient, as the children died after a short period. Dracula confronted Van Helsing (whom Dracula called "Gabriel") and tried to bargain with him, saying that he knew about his past, but Dracula left once he learned his children were dead. Meanwhile, Carl, who had slept with a woman he saved from Dracula's children, found a hidden painting of two knights fighting, framed by a Latin inscription. As he recited it, the knights came alive and fought, one of them turning into a werewolf, the other a vampire. Caught in the rain, and on the run, Anna and Van Helsing arrived at at the windmill that had been burned down in the prologue. Anna tells Van Helsing that no conventional method to kill Dracula would work. While at the windmill, the floor gave way, and Anna and Van Helsing fell into a cavern. Frankenstein's monster was hiding down there, away from Dracula and the merciless townspeople. Van Helsing could not kill the creature, as it was not evil, so he spirited it away to the Vatican in Rome, where it would be safer. A chase ensued, between Van Helsing and the Maidens of Dracula, resulting in one being killed from stakes in a decoy carriage. Velkin, in werewolf form, attacked and wounded Van Helsing. Anna was captured by Dracula's minions, and Van Helsing had only two nights before becoming a full Werewolf. The last of Dracula's brides told them her master is willing to trade Anna for the monster. Helsing wasn't intended on doing it and neither was Dracula. Helsing and Carl tranquilized Frankenstein's monster and hid him in a cemetery.
Dracula was hosting a masquerade ball, where he intended to make Anna another bride, but before he bit her, Van Helsing rescued Anna; however, all the patrons were Vampires and Frankenstein's monster got captured. Escaping by killing all the vampires with a device that produces a powerful burst of light, Van Helsing now had to find Dracula's lair. Carl deciphered the clues in the Valerious house. Apparently, Dracula was the son of Anna's ancestor. After he had been killed in 1462, Dracula had made a deal with the devil for eternal life which can only be sustained by drinking blood. Anna's ancestor had his son banished to a frozen land and went to Rome to ask for forgiveness, which is how the Valerious pact was made. Only a Werewolf could kill Dracula. A map of Transylvania in the study created a portal to Castle Dracula with an incantation Van Helsing had been given back in Rome.
Frankenstein's monster, who was imprisoned in a block of ice, revealed that Dracula had a cure for werewolves, should one turn on him. Helsing went to fight Dracula, while Carl and Anna forced Igor to find the cure. Igor pulled a fast one on them and locked them in the room with the cure. Anna fought another Maiden, while Carl ran to Helsing with the cure but was attacked by Igor. Van Helsing, now a Werewolf, fought Dracula with his new-found strength. Frankenstein's monster helped Anna fighting the Maiden. Dracula revealed that Van Helsing was the "Left hand of God", a name for the archangel Gabriel, which may explain Van Helsing's long life and his aptitude at destroying evil. Dracula revealed that Van Helsing was the one that murdered him in 1462, and that he would tell Van Helsing everything he's forgotten, if he would become Dracula's partner. Van Helsing refused this offer, and killed Dracula. Anna ran in, and was attacked by Van Helsing. She was killed by him, but she injected him with the cure before she died. Anna was given a proper cremation by Van Helsing and Carl, while Frankenstein's monster took to the sea to evade the Vatican's orders to have him killed, and to find somewhere where he is accepted.
Introduction
Vampires in folklore are made of a corpse that rises from the ground during the night and for nourishment sucks the blood of humans. Vampires have two shapes: Their human shape and that of half human half evil bat. Various herbs and talismans are said to avert vampires, and it is believed that a vampire can only be destroyed by a cremation or a stake driven straight through their heart. Though this is not always apparent, the strongest and the oldest vampires can live through such things.
A lycan (aka Werewolf), according to ancient superstition, is a man/woman who transforms, or who is transformed into a wolf (nature and appearance). There Lycan is believed to transform due to the event of a full moon and roams around at night devouring infants or corpses.
A demon on the other hand is a supernatural spirit or force capable of influencing human lives, usually by means of evil. Demons have played a role in the traditions of most religions and also have appeared in mythology and literature. The study of demons is called demonology. Many early people believed that spirits occupied all elements of nature. Evil spirits or demons were the spirits of ancestors who brought harm to living people. The word demon originated from an ancient Greek term, daimon, which referred to beings whose special powers placed them between people and the gods. These beings had the ability either to improve people's lives or carry out the punishment of the gods.
How they came forth…..
Before anything else had come to the earth, before Adam and Eve, Demons and many other creatures walked on earth in darkness. Then, as years passed, evil vanished to a darker place, waiting on dooms day too arrive. Many went but some stayed to make sure the world would be ready for the dark arriving. Those who stayed behind where early in the age called “Creatures of the night.” Some would say that Prince Vlad III of Transylvania (Dracula) was the first true vampire of them all who had the ability to turn into bat or wolf whenever he wanted, a cursed man by the devil. But this might not mean he was the first, before him there is many legends of other vampires. People have vanished while they have been with some and suddenly got bitten by them until they somehow died but stood up again later as a totally different person.
Lilith, according to Hebrew Jewish texts, was the first woman created for Adam. After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.' He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other in as much as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. (In this act, Lilith becomes unique in that she is not touched by "original sin", having left the garden before Eve came into existence. Lilith also reveals herself to be powerful in her own right by knowing the name of God).
After her failure, she was allowed to stay out on her own, as a witch, mother of all demons. She was allowed to kill infants up until their naming day (7 days for girls and 8 days for boys), unless they had a charm over their sleeping place with the names of the angels on them. Then, she promised, she would not kill them. Cain was the firstborn son of Adam and Eve. He was banished, with a mark, from the land of his parents because he killed his brother in a jealous rage. Cain wandered until he found Lilith by the Red Sea. She took him in and showed him the power of blood. From Cain and Lilith came a host of demons and vampires in the vague myths. Cain is mentioned in the Bible as having a number of legitimate children, with an unnamed woman/ wife. Some of his children are even highly regarded, as they are listed with their inventions, such as the harp and metal working. But, past Gen. 4:26 there is no more mention of Cain's children or his line. Cain himself is referred to only twice more, in the New Testament, as "the prototype of the wicked man."
As the people spread threw out the world and so did the others as well but hid among the population, some humans suddenly disappeared while they got cached by the dark ones and returned as they never had been before. Rumours arrived all over about the mysterious incidents and legends about it started to get rolling. In the ancient times tribes were all over until they decided to unite, war broke out and many people died for their rulers and land. But somehow the dead ones came back, either as ghosts or zombies who haunted the people who were in their family, or they killed them. Not all believed this was true and so they didn’t care, those who did believe though got scared and often went crazy. Then after some time Gods were started to be believed in by the Greek people and so by the Roman Empire later but also Christianity spread all the way from Egypt to Northern Europe, and made the other people want to have gods on their own and to worship them. Lykaon from the Greek mythology was earlier said to be the first of the evil moon creatures called “werewolves”. He and his fifty impious sons entertained Zeus and set before him a dish of human flesh. The god pushed away the dish in disgust and either killed the king and his sons by lightning or turned them into wolves. This gave rise to the story that a man was turned into a wolf at each annual sacrifice to Zeus Lycaeus, but recovered his human form if he abstained from human flesh for ten years. After Lykaon and his sons were turned into werewolves they spread and started to hunt, those who got bitten or scratched by them in the wolf form also turned into these huge wolves.
How they became enemies
Raven Lestat, one of the oldest of all vampires, also called "The Master" or "The First", was born in the beginning of the world when all were still a darkness and emptyness. As the world took shape and the population grew, so did his followers that were called "Vampires", though few they were at the start, but strong and powerful. He lived a long and mighty life as lord of the vampires while he and his kind were hidden and breeding threw out the years under the ground or in caves with killing people that went past.
Alena Wolf was born in Rome a couple years after its founding around 750 B.C. as an only child to a 'common' family. When Alena was about five years old, suspicion about her family developed and was about to uproar in her home country, so the family fled to another country and settled there peacefully for about ten years. Alena had always had a fascination for wolves, even though they were feared by many, and the time she spent in this new country strengthened her admiration (especially after an incident when she was saved by a wolf, although none save her parents would believe this claim; and because of that she didn't make friends easily and was often alone). As Alena grew and became a teenager, the reputation of her parents had caught up, and many of the same suspicions that had been risen in her birth country were now being questioned here. Around Alena's sixteenth birthday, her mother was charged with associating with the devil and practicing witchcraft, and was sentenced to burn at the stake. Alena's grief was maddening, but instead of letting it show and confiding in her father, she kept it all inside and became estranged from him. In the beginning, she felt guilty because she too had been practicing witchcraft, and believed she should have shared the same fate as her mother. But she continued the Craft and often employed the aid of wolves as her familiars in her magick. In one ritual during the full moon, Alena asked to bond herself with the spirit of a wolf; and she drank of the water sifting in the paw print of her wolf and chanted. During the chant, her wolf bit her arm to warn her that people were approaching; but the people did not find her or her ritual. The combination of magic and the will of the wolf and herself, gave her the form of a wolf and the ability to use the transformation how she wanted; but other changes happened too that Alena had not expected. She traveled to many lands and found others (although very few) like to her, and she learned that she was the first female werewolf and was named the Mother of Lycanthropy.
At one time, Raven and Alena were in Rome at the same time, and through an incident they learned to know of each other's powers. Raven only has heard of the power of wolf-people in old tales of Lykaon, never has seen them before in reality, and he was stunned, as he never has believed in these tales. But now, that they were proven to be true by Alena, they learned to love each other and so united their powers, never to be seperated again.
Many centuries later, in 500 AD, Alexander Corvinus lived in today's Hungary as a lord, and through a virus that was sent to him by a demon, as the legend tells us, he recieved immortality. At this time, Raven and Alena came to this area and incidentally met Alexander.
Alena fell in love with Alexander, and left Raven for him. This was the hour the great war between werewolves and vampires started, because Raven was heartbroken and tried to get Alena back through war. Although, in the end, it was too much for Alena to see this war going on for her, and she left Alexander as well, moving away.
Years later, Alexander married a woman called Helena. She gave birth to three children, but only two of them inherited their father's immortality: Marcus and William. By accident, Marcus was bitten by a bat, and so became a vampire, caused by his father's hate for Raven. William was bitten by a wolf and so was transformed to a lycan, caused by his father's love for Alena. William became a savage beast that was unable to ever assume human form again, something Alexander attributed to his uncontrollable rage.
William went on to ravage the countryside of Hungary, infecting the population with his highly infectious lycanthropy virus. In order to combat the growing lycan threat, Marcus approached Viktor, a dying warlord, to borrow his military genius and army (who became the Death Dealers) in exchange for immortality. Viktor accepted and became one of the Vampire Elders. Marcus also personally infected Amelia, making her the first Vampiress Elder.
In 1202, Viktor led a charge into a Hungarian village which William supposedly passed through. Instead of finding only William, they found an entire village of lycans. Death Dealers, including Amelia, subdued and injured William before Marcus, who pleaded for his brother's life before Viktor. Viktor, thinking that if any of the Corvinus brothers were killed the immortal bloodline would eventually die, locked William far away from the reach of Marcus. Marcus, then swore vengeance against Viktor and all those loyal to him, but was able to do little, as the Death Dealers were loyal to Viktor alone.
Lucian was once a Lycan servant to Viktor's clan until the early 1200s. At this stage, the Lycans were slaves to the Vampires, acting as their guardians during the daylight hours. In return, the vampires locked them up at night, thus ensuring the survival of both bloodlines by not alerting the humans to their presence. They were treated like dogs, but Lucian had no complaints, although his high status among the servants may have contributed to this - indeed, he was sometimes accused of considering himself to be better than his fellow Lycans. He was instrumental in the tracking of rogue Lycans. He later helped defending the vampires in the castle he served in against angry mortals, driving them off by releasing a swarm of vampire bats on the attackers, causing them to flee as they believed them to be the vampires themselves. Having been responsible for repelling the attack, he was rewarded with a steel dagger with a wolf motive on the hilt. The next time he met those angry mortals was in an ambush while on the way to Viktor's castle with vampires and lycans, where Viktor's wife was killed and when his relationship with Sonja truly began, the two of them forced to hide together in a crypt when the sun rose, while they were hiding from the mortals and a crazy preacher.
Lucian and Sonja began an affair shortly after Sonja's arranged marriage to Marcus's son Nikolas was announced, and it was revealed later that Sonja was pregnant with his child, making their child a Lycan-Vampire hybrid. Before Sonja was killed for her child, Lucian had married Sonja in the Chapel they used for their many secret rendezvous, in a ceremony just between the two. However, their plan to escape together was stopped short by Leyba, a wanton lycan servant that had an eye for Lucian and resented his rejection of her for Sonja. Frustrated at being spurned, she went to Soren and told him of the yellow ribbon Sonja had given to Lucian, which she had taken from Lucian's chambers. Soren then went to Viktor and told him of this.
Viktor feared the blending of the bloodlines that Sonja's pregnancy entailed, and had Lucian whipped in front of her. He then had her tied to a stake in a specially-designed room, exposing her to the sun and burning her alive, forcing Lucian to watch. When night fell, the full moon rose and shone down on Lucian, allowing him to change into Lycan form and escape before Viktor could kill him. Before escaping he managed to take Sonja's pendant with him, the sole memento he would ever have of the love of his life. That night, he swore an oath to reunite the bloodlines, as his own child should have, and to destroy Viktor. After Sonja's death and Lucian's escape, Lucian raised an army of rogue Lycans and those who wished to fight against the vampires. His first accomplishment was capturing Viktor's silver mine. After failing to defend the mine and the loss of several Lycans to a surprise attack by the vampires, he fought against Nikolas. It was here he was first able to assume his Lycan form without the use of the full moon, and killed him. This caused that no solution was found to stop the war for centuries.
Alexander in the meantime was not unactive. He tried everything so that the war between the two races would not be noticed by the humans, and so hired humans to clean up all signs of the war.
How the war continued
As the war continued between the lycans and vampires, Raven and Alena who first had started this war were also on the move. After they had seen what had happend they decided to involve to end this, Alena Wulf decided to help Lucian the lycan lord to continue the war against Victor and Amelia while Raven Lestat decided to help Marcus to gain his revange over Victor cause of his deeds to his brother William. Together once again Raven and Alena united but together with Marcus and Lucian to fight Victor who had become a powerful vampire, and after a long war the death dealers and their leaders(Victor and Amelia) died because of their less of strenght. William became free from captivity but Raven had not forgotton the past. Suprisely he killed both sons of Alexander Corvinus and this made Alena and Lucian shocked cause of his hate and cruelty. Now Raven was not only hated by Alexander but also Alena which had Lucian as her second commander and so the war once again went on.
Years passed and the losses on all sides were huge though they kept spreading throughout the world, now there was Raven and his clan of vampires on one side as Alexander Corvinus had his own small imortal army and Alena Wulf with Lucian along with their lycans. Three sides they were though Raven was strong and held out long against Alena and Alexander cause of his speed but also power. And as the crusades had begun, Raven found a lost man on the beach close to Jerusalem and so decided to turn him into one of his kind and though he could be useful for the future. This person was also named Victor though his last name was Van Alberict, he was turned but soonly left alone cause Raven had other buisniss to attend to.
Not long after Raven Lestat managed to sneak into the head quarter of Alexander Corvinus and killed him as he was in deep sleep, that way the clan of his got distroyed and scattered. Now there were only Raven and Alena`s clan left and they fought each other for centuries but Lucian got killed in an ambush by the vampire legions.
As Victor Van Alberict's family thought he was dead after drowning, and his mother passed away one year later and his father died in the war. His sister was all alone, but Victor didn’t know anything about what had happened with his family. When Victor was turned he decided to forget about the war that was going on, but to travel through Europe to find his family again. He took another ship from Malta and over to Greece, from there he traveled and back home. Victor was thirsty many times and killed lots of people on his way, he got vampire hunters after his neck and it got more and more difficult for him to find his family again. None of them managed to capture or kill him, he was too clever and strong for them.
As he travelled threw the woods of Schwaz in Austria he saw a woman who was alone and lost, he talked with her and pretended he was just a normal human. It was on that time he changed his first human to a vampire. When he had turned her he left her and kept walking to find his family again. As he came back home he found it in ruin, the people that used to work on the farm said that his mother and father were dead and his sister suddenly hae disappeared. This made Victor angrier and so he killed every human that had worked on their farm and as he had done so he started to walk through Europe, searching for his sister. In many years he wandered around looking but with no luck. Victor gave up and he thought she had died, he had been looking for her in 100 years.
When many years passed, Victor was a legend around the world. People were telling stories about him and what he had done with their families, and some hunters were still after him. But as the hunters showed up he killed them all.
Vlad Dracula was born in 1430 in Schassburg, Transylvania, as the second son of a Transylvanian nobleman. He was named prince of Wallachia and became ruler while still a child. Over the next several years, he struggled against the Ottoman Turks, losing and regaining his throne. Through an arranged marriage to a Hungarian noblewoman, he sired his daughter, Lilith. He sent his wife away and later married a woman named Maria, with whom he had a son named Vlad Tepelus.
In 1459, Dracula was mortally wounded by the Turkish warlord Turac, who brought Dracula to a gypsy named Lianda to be healed. However, Lianda was a vampire, and transformed Dracula into a vampire as well. Turac raped and killed Maria, and in revenge Dracula slew Turac, causing him to become a vampire. Dracula gave his son Vlad Tepelus to the gypsies to raise.
Van Helsing was a monster hunter for a secret organization called "The Order" that fights evil. One year after the Frankenstein incident, he was assigned to bring in Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde, but failed by killing him accidentally. Van Helsing was hunted, branded a murderer, as most of the monsters he killed changed back to human form once they were dead and found by the authorities. Also, he was haunted by memories of some sort of past life, most of which were of events that occurred thousands of years ago. The Order sent him after Count Dracula, the most evil of creatures. He, and his assistant friar Carl, arrived in Romania and met Anna Valerious, one of the last of Valerious' family, along with her brother, Velkin Valerious. Their family had been trying to kill Dracula since their ancestor swore to God that their family would never enter heaven until Dracula was dead.) Velkin was killed by a werewolf during a failed attempt to kill the creature, making Anna the last Valerious, and just as determined to kill Dracula. Upon arriving, Van Helsing and Anna were attacked by Dracula's three brides. Using special weapons designed to kill Vampires, Van Helsing defeated one Marishka , loaded with holy water from a nearby church.
Anna and Van Helsing formed an alliance to kill Dracula, who was using Castle Frankenstein for some mysterious purpose. They found that Dracula and his Brides have been breeding and trying to produce offsprings. Because the Count and his Brides were dead, their children were conceived dead as well, and the Count was using Victor Frankenstein's work to bring them back to life. However, every attempt he made failed, and he needed Frankenstein's monster to make it work. He was partially successful with werewolf venom from Anna's brother Velkin, who was not killed and was now in Dracula's servitude, but the results proved insufficient, as the children died after a short period. Dracula confronted Van Helsing (whom Dracula called "Gabriel") and tried to bargain with him, saying that he knew about his past, but Dracula left once he learned his children were dead. Meanwhile, Carl, who had slept with a woman he saved from Dracula's children, found a hidden painting of two knights fighting, framed by a Latin inscription. As he recited it, the knights came alive and fought, one of them turning into a werewolf, the other a vampire. Caught in the rain, and on the run, Anna and Van Helsing arrived at at the windmill that had been burned down in the prologue. Anna tells Van Helsing that no conventional method to kill Dracula would work. While at the windmill, the floor gave way, and Anna and Van Helsing fell into a cavern. Frankenstein's monster was hiding down there, away from Dracula and the merciless townspeople. Van Helsing could not kill the creature, as it was not evil, so he spirited it away to the Vatican in Rome, where it would be safer. A chase ensued, between Van Helsing and the Maidens of Dracula, resulting in one being killed from stakes in a decoy carriage. Velkin, in werewolf form, attacked and wounded Van Helsing. Anna was captured by Dracula's minions, and Van Helsing had only two nights before becoming a full Werewolf. The last of Dracula's brides told them her master is willing to trade Anna for the monster. Helsing wasn't intended on doing it and neither was Dracula. Helsing and Carl tranquilized Frankenstein's monster and hid him in a cemetery.
Dracula was hosting a masquerade ball, where he intended to make Anna another bride, but before he bit her, Van Helsing rescued Anna; however, all the patrons were Vampires and Frankenstein's monster got captured. Escaping by killing all the vampires with a device that produces a powerful burst of light, Van Helsing now had to find Dracula's lair. Carl deciphered the clues in the Valerious house. Apparently, Dracula was the son of Anna's ancestor. After he had been killed in 1462, Dracula had made a deal with the devil for eternal life which can only be sustained by drinking blood. Anna's ancestor had his son banished to a frozen land and went to Rome to ask for forgiveness, which is how the Valerious pact was made. Only a Werewolf could kill Dracula. A map of Transylvania in the study created a portal to Castle Dracula with an incantation Van Helsing had been given back in Rome.
Frankenstein's monster, who was imprisoned in a block of ice, revealed that Dracula had a cure for werewolves, should one turn on him. Helsing went to fight Dracula, while Carl and Anna forced Igor to find the cure. Igor pulled a fast one on them and locked them in the room with the cure. Anna fought another Maiden, while Carl ran to Helsing with the cure but was attacked by Igor. Van Helsing, now a Werewolf, fought Dracula with his new-found strength. Frankenstein's monster helped Anna fighting the Maiden. Dracula revealed that Van Helsing was the "Left hand of God", a name for the archangel Gabriel, which may explain Van Helsing's long life and his aptitude at destroying evil. Dracula revealed that Van Helsing was the one that murdered him in 1462, and that he would tell Van Helsing everything he's forgotten, if he would become Dracula's partner. Van Helsing refused this offer, and killed Dracula. Anna ran in, and was attacked by Van Helsing. She was killed by him, but she injected him with the cure before she died. Anna was given a proper cremation by Van Helsing and Carl, while Frankenstein's monster took to the sea to evade the Vatican's orders to have him killed, and to find somewhere where he is accepted.