Just a note for those reading, this is my suggestion that I've been typing most of the day but piecing together for the past week. It's for discussion and editting and I'd like as many people as play the race, or with them, to give their input whenever.
This is where this stuff would fit in with the Althanas Timeline
Approx. 5600 years ago [CDW 4,448]
In truth the true vampire race was not born of a dark, tainted kiss from a vampiric bat, but instead a creation born of the twisted magic’s of the Forgotten. After their defeat during the War of the Tap the Forgotten went into an inform ‘slumber’, leaving the world of Althanas and instead touching it with power now and then. During this time creations and mutilations of the human’s were conducted, considered experiments by the powerful mages.
One of the man experiments was genetic, restructuring the genes of humans and spawning new traits in them. Over centuries the genetic restructuring and testing continued till disgusting mutilations were created. Vampires were one of the children of the Forgotten. In order to spite the victorious elfish nations that had fought the powerful mages a race of immortal blood-sucking undead were created. During this time the first blood rituals* were performed.
Vampirisms, the virus was created by the combined powers of Xem’zhund, Pode, Aesphestos, and Denebriel. From Xem’zhund the race was given their base premise. From the witch Pode the vampires were given the beauty of their race and inability to age. From Aesphestos their immortality came, and from Denebriel came the increase in attributes. What came from the four was the race of Vampires that originally were meant to plague the world of Althanas, feeding and destroying the elven race from the darkness.
3450 years ago [CL 1647]
The disease of Vampirism had spread from the original two through natural birth. The creatures multiplied to the number of 10,000 true bloods. However, the race was cocky, arrogant, and was like a bitter tongue that wagged loose. Most of the Forgotten Ones were pleased still with their creations, but the mage Xem’zhund was growing perturbed with the progress the deadly monsters were making.
Without the knowledge of the other mages, and with a powerful ritual of the necromantic nature, the man turned the true bloods. Their loins became barren and their minds were flooded with the virus. It attacked them from the inside, turning their bodies, twisting their tainted souls. Within the year the entire true blood race of vampires had died and risen again, further spurned and tortured by their virus. No more true bloods were produced after that time, no more vampires born of other vampires.
It was the first time that the original five sects of the vampiric nation truly began to form their hold on the vampiric race. All those that were of the true blood race belonged to one of the five houses of vampiric background…
3000 years ago [CL 2047]
**In addition to info already there**
With the meeting came the inevitable conclusion of a ‘test’. The vampires of Haidia had long since been feeding on the blood of the creatures that roamed the underworld’s realm; to have something from the surface was a mystery to them. Tentatively of course, the first vampire tasted the blood of a living, capture dwarf during one of the many skirmishes. It was the beginning of the vampire’s desire for the blood of the living, breathing races of the surface.
Unfortunately, it was also the first time the vampires found their ability to ‘Sire’ other vampires through the passing of their virus to a surface race. If the true blood bit the other life form they found that without killing it the virus would take hold of the target and literally kill them, reviving them as a much weaker form of vampiric race. But the blood of the dwarves was far too thick and hard to turn, making very few dwarven-vampires and instead killing them without making them undead most of the time.
800 years ago [CP 1001] [1201 DW]
**In addition to info already there**
In order to prepare for the prophesies fulfillment the first of the true blood vampires leave the under-worldly lair of Haidia and begin to scout the world of Althanas. It is the first time that the counter-effects of sunlight, until then never thought about, come to affect the vampires.
500 years ago [CP 1301] [1501 DW]
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It is during these times that ‘Siring’ the now understood vampiric race, little more then demented servants in truth, is begun as a common practice. These vampires are allowed to roam free through the world and the masters of them have little if no control over their creations.
Though the Forgotten Ones see no problem with their creations making smaller forms of themselves, attributing the action as an influence remaining from the when the four originally created the vampires.
200 years ago [CP 1601] [1801 DW]
**In addition to info already there**
More True Blood vampires begin to leave Haidia, looking for the “Keeper”; numbers of the True Bloods dwindle into the 5,000’s.
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