To my brothers and sisters who seek to understand our people you must understand the origins of our people. How the dark father blessed us with power and how we gained the right to rule over and endless empire.
The origins of the dark brood stretch to the madness that destroyed the first world, in a village in the mountains to the north of the realm of Sahal. It began when my mother got remarried, I was a young man then at first it seemed to be well my new stepfather was the wealthiest man in our village. Owning a large villa and having many servants. He also had other children who lived in the villa. Some from other marriages and others taken from off the street. The man had been married multiple times, and each marriage had ended in the unexpected death of his wife. It began well enough I found my new father and my siblings to be nice and pleasant. Among my new siblings I began to bond with a few of the boys, and I called them my brothers. The pleasantness lasted for a few weeks before I began to see the cracks. Anytime I spoke with my new brothers of our father. They stopped and got a look of fear. It was several months before the abuses began. The servants at the villa were apparently not there to do anything and they expected us to do everything for them. Failure to do what they said resulted in physical punishments. At first, I had hope that when my mother and stepfather saw what was being done, they would step in and intervene. My mother just watched with a haunted look and My stepfather laughed as we were beaten. It was then that things turn darker.
It as was several months into this new life that the darkness fell on me. The beatings were not the worst of what was done by the servants at night they would pick certain children and take for the night. I was not sure what happened only that they came back with bruises and haunted expressions and were jumpy for several days. I then found out what happening when I was picked by one of the worst of the servants. He was a drunken sot and loved nothing but causing pain. He took me to a private room and began to beat and violate me. I tried to resist but was overpowered by the monster. I did not think it could get worse than that, but the man found a liking to me and sought to use me whenever it pleased him. I discovered my mother was faring little better and my stepfather was an even bigger monster than his friends. He made her watch as his friends beat us and told her what they got up to at night. He then beat her and violated her mercilessly. I pitied her and the others, and I wanted to kill my stepfather and all his friends.
Each day was as bad as the last and my desire to resist began to wear away. One day after a particularly savage beating I decided to that it was too much. I decided to try and kill my stepfather. I managed to sneak a knife from the kitchens and went to find my stepfather. I tried to kill him at night in his sleep, but I failed he woke up. He seized me and beat and violated me right there in his room in front of my mother. She watched to fearful to act or speak as she watched him try to break me. When he was done, he took me out of the villa to an outer shed. He told me that this was just the beginning.
I spent several days in that shed. Each day one of the monsters came and tried to break me. I spent each day praying to the darkness to give me the power to destroy them. It was in the deep of the night I was praying to any and every god and spirit for power. When something answered, I felt a presence come to me it whispered of the power it could give me and of the price to be paid. I offered everything that I had and was for that power. The dark father then gave me his blessing. I saw a golden cup appear before me fill with a dark liquid-like blood. I was bidden to drink, and I did. Then fire flowed through my veins and through the pain and darkness the dark father whispered.
I awoke in the darkness and yet I could still see. I looked around and saw the cup sitting glittering on the floor. I heard the door to the shed open and saw the drunken sot come in. He saw me and I saw the smile as he thought he was going to use me as he had before. As he came at me, I waited until he was close then i struck. I felt the power flow through me as I brought the man down, I then yanked his head up and bit into his neck feeling the blood fill my mouth I drank deeply of his life blood. When I finished with him, I ripped him apart. I then left the shed with the cup. I knew that this was time. I went first to my brothers and made them drink of the cup. I watched them turn and awake as new beings. I did not offer the cup to any others, but I did offer my own blood, and the others offered theirs to allow them to turn and be bound to us. They then began moving through the villa hunting the monstrous servants and killed them. I moved up to my stepfather's room. I saw them sleeping while my brothers and sisters killed, they slept. I came to my mother first I looked at her and in the last act of human mercy I could give I put my hand on her chest and stopped her heart. I then turned to my stepfather I awoke him and saw his fear as he saw me. I grabbed him by the throat and felt his fear before I bit into his neck. I drank his blood and tore his body apart. After our slaughter was complete, we took control of the villa.
It was after this my brothers and sisters that we spread I rechristened myself the dark herald of the dark father. We spread our power out and carved an empire in the madness before the cataclysm of the first world. Now after the cataclysm we are awake again and now it is time to grow again. This world is ours and we will take it. We are the Dark Brood, the Night Host, we are Vampires.
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