My vampires are split into two groups. The first, and most traditional, are feeders. These Vampires are very territorial and have an entire book of etiquette and protocol. I wanted to have a group of Vampires that everyone could recognize (everyone that have read about vampires before), as well as a different kind of vampire that people are not accustomed to. The origin of Vampires is unknown. I have left it intentionally ambiguous. The question is really irrelevant; my trajectory is not the beginnings of Vampyrism, but the group that they represent. The second type of vampire began with an experiment to create the perfect human being in an effort to isolate a gene strand with which to gain eternal life.
An ancient advanced civilization wanted to know how to live forever, the essence of Vampyrism. The prototype, however, required a protein that the scientists had not included in their blood they'd given the person they'd created. They did not have time to begin teaching their prototype about morality, or rules of society in regards to human behavior, before he began to die. Accidentally, they came to realize their prototype seemed to crave blood by mouth, instead of injection. When their blood supply ran out, their prototype, who did not recognize right from wrong, acted on animal instinct, and took the blood it craved from one of the scientists. He drained him completely. A bloodlust had been born and he proceeded to feed off the other six, leaving only one alive, a female.
This was a very important female. She was born of royal birth, and possessed magic of Fae origins. Her name was Athenasya, princess to the lost kingdom of Arkenata. She was not the heir to the throne, and so she decided to pursue her lifelong interest in science. She studied with the leading scientists and scribes of the time before she joined the most important experiment of her people's history. The person they'd created killed her fellow scientists before he fed off her, as well. However, this time, he did not drain her completely. He found something particularly fascinating about her, it is unknown what exactly drew his interest. He watched as she turned into something...else. The first vampire coven had been born.
Something else happened turning the feeding, and turning. The experience dislodged something in the girl's mind, and soul. Another consciousness came to life inside Athenasya. That person's name is Lilith. For those of you knowledgeable about mythology, Lilith is mentioned in the Jewish Kaballah as the first wife of Adam, who is also the mother of the Incubi and Succubi. In my story, Lilith is a monster that comes forth from the best of women, a woman of nobility, justice, intelligence, and grace. She is much like a split personality, in the way that she is born from a traumatic experience when the subject has no protector, but unlike MPD, this is not a fracture of the mind, as it is a fracture of the soul. Lilith is Athenasya, but a dark side of her that is in each and every one of us. I have to mention one of my favorite quotes by Stephen King, "Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." This is the essence of the character of Athenasya/Lilith.
After killing her maker, Lilith goes on a killing spree that crosses two continents. Eventually, Athenasya manages to regain control, and enters a time of peace and isolation. She returns to her family, and stays with them until their kingdom recedes to a territory, to a province, and finally, a city. Her descendant marries a young lord who takes his province and creates a kingdom. Eventually, the name of his kingdom is Athenais. Certain members of her line have her magic, and Athenasya observes these with particular suspicion and care. Above all, she does not want another emerging like the person that lived inside her. Centuries pass before the young prince of Athenais comes of age to marry. Athenasya's descendant approached her about becoming his bride.
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