Midnight Moons

A millennia is like a year for us........a century like a day and a year.......like a blink of an eye...... We live in the darkness......rarely stepping our foot in the light.....for various reasons.....and dose it bothers us? No....cause we are the creatures of the night....


You might have heard of us in folklore and fairy tales, thinking that we didn't exist and were just some crazy fools' imagination but we are very real and we......have always been there, hiding in the shadows.....staying out of sight and away from the curious eyes of man....ever since the dark ages where we were born. It's not because we are frightened by you mortals but simply cause its better this way.....you and the others would never understand or leave us be and the world as we know it would fall into a darkness so dire and dense that not even we could thrive in it and most of all....we would all drown in the biggest blood bath the world had ever seen. Extincting you and ourselves until the last man stand, alone and surely taking his last breath moments later.

Is that a clear enough picture to answer your silly question? Good.......now this is how it all started:

As i mentioned before we were born in the dark ages or as you like to call it the medieval ones, tho not even we are fully sure when this happened exactly since we lost a lot of ancient script due to.....incidents....and when i saw we i mean the very first ancestor that started this whole thing. A man born with this rare gene of immortality that then had two children, a son that was as a mere child bit by wolf and a daughter the same by bat. These two became the pure blooded ones of the vampire and werewolf race. They had mere ounces left of humanity left in them, making them downright monsters or animals due to the overwhelming dose of the pure blooded genes. It transformed them into a beastly mixture of the'ire respective animals, turning them into vessels and powerful leaders of the'ire race. At first we called the werewolves "Lycans" since in Latin it means wolf men, while vampires have always been known as such....tho with the slight adjustment from vampiria in Latin.

They were called Renok and Ravenna, they were siblings yes but they rarely saw each other after the'ire transformation in which according to what we know happened after they were playing around in the snowy forest together. Only to then be attacked by a pack of wolves and bats. The only reason they got away and is still alive today is due to the'ire transformations when being bit by these animals. After this event the'ire father locked them away from each other, not because they showed aggression towards each other but because of sheer fear of losing one or the other since they were destroying everything in the'ire path with ease. Renok was locked up and shackled in the highest tower of the castle due to him not being able to fly like his sister and also cause he was not showing any different behaviour against sunlight like her. And Ravenna you ask? She was locked up with chains and shackles in the dungeon, both to prevent her from flying away but also to protect her from the rays of light that seamed to harm her more than anything else in the world now.

After some time they managed to escape and with the furry built up inside of them they caused the biggest havoc the world never knew of since all the documents of it were burnt. But believe me....they never forgot it due to what happened after it. The very same night tons of newly turned Lycans and vampires awoke and carried on to spread this "disease" as the'ire father liked to call it. Spreading it by biting every mortal in the'ire path, driven by this new found instinct and downright craving for more like them. He tried to stop them but it didn't take long before they both had massive armies of the'ire kin, standing behind them loyally and ready to give the'ire lives to the'ire leaders. However, neither of them were after war or more bloodshed once they had created and gathered the'ire people. Instead, the siblings went separate ways, to live with the'ire kin in peace. They could had stayed together at this point since there was no dispute between them yet but they figured that they were too different and needed different kind of environments to live in. However, they would visit each other and even trade certain things due to them having different set of skills.

But as time went by Ravenna and her people evolved and became "civilized" a lot faster than Renok and his Lycans. Which without the need to say had him jealous and soon greedy for what she had achieved with her people. So much in fact that he wanted to take it by force when she wasn't willing to share it with him but this ended in him and his people becoming enslaved by Ravenna and her people due to the'ire slightly more superior minds. Renok and his Lycans may have been much stronger than Ravenna her vampires and they fought long and well but they were outsmarted in the end by her. She had crafted traps and contraptions to both capture and then keep them under her thumb or well leash. It was a unique looking collar that would force the Lycans from doing anything foolish, if they wished to live that is.

Tho for her brother she had a much more complex punishment and prison, it was once again a high tower that he feared and hated with a burning passion. Only this time he would be punished by a certain contraption in the roof that basically dripped drops of silver onto his exposed back every day when the sun was high. She did this since he has had the nerve and cowardly idea to attack her and her people at day, which he very well knew was the'ire the biggest weakness. But unfortunately for him she had figured out his weakness as well, which was silver. So to put it simple, he was locked and shackled in a tower that had a contraption which spilled a couple drops of silver onto his back when the sun was high and shone onto the top part of the contraption, making the hunk of silver melt a little and then punish him, letting him feel a similar burning pain caused by the sun.

Renok remained in the tower for ages if not centuries while Ravenna was enjoying her new slaves of fur and fangs, with most near to all of them turning loyal and submissive towards her. Seeing as she had "defeated" the'ire leader and now was the'ire leader in his steed. And every day at noon Renok's roars of pain could be heard echoing through her dark castle, as a reminder of her power and superiority over them. Soon enough they were all loyal to her and her people and were serving them without complaint. But obviously this didn't last forever nor very long as one of Renok's most loyal Lycans freed him and together with his help freed the rest and then fled as far away as they could from Ravenna's castle. He had been imprisoned in her castle and tortured by that device for nearly two centuries, making him furious but also cautious of Ravenna from that day on. He swore that he was gonna have his revenge on her one day....and he is still trying.

This is where the famous war between vampire and werewolf came from. Which started like a simple and quite normal argument between siblings due to Ravenna not willing to share cause of pride and because of Renok's hot blooded and dull headed actions. But then turned into the longest and still ongoing war within the shadows......

The Vampire Pureblood: Ravenna
The Lycan Pureblood: Renok

(Inspired by Underworld and other vampire/werewolf lore)