Chapter 12 Appendix II A Brief History of Vampires

"...The Lord said this again: I will judge you because you do not want to shed the blood of your children to the Caleb moth. Because of my anger and jealousy, I will lay the sin of hunger and thirst on you. I will Deliver you into their hands, and they will destroy your gardens, strip you of your garments, take away your beautiful treasures, and leave you naked. And they will bring many against you, and they will stone you, pierced you with the sword, burned your house with fire, and committed adultery to you in the sight of many women..." "The Book of Eternal Commandments" 16:35-41

Vampires have a long life span and an unfading memory, making them ideal historians.But also because of these characteristics, many vampires think that it is enough to rely on their own memory, and lack the motivation to record history in words; coupled with the years of fighting between tribes, many historical documents have long been lost.The most detailed text that can survive until now, the classic of "Vampire Guild", the "Book of Eternity" that combines myths, biographies, history books, laws, and admonitions. The origin of vampires is difficult to study.Since there are "living dead" and bloodthirsty taboos in the beliefs and myths of many local nations, it can be concluded that the history of vampires is at least as long as human civilization.

According to the first volume of "The Eternal Book", "The Chronicles of Origin", vampires have been divided into three major tribes since ancient times.The basic physique, abilities and habits of the three vampires are similar, but there are also slight differences: The clan with the largest number and power is the "Eaters"—the predecessor of the "Vampire Guild" and the clan to which most modern vampires belong.The scholars of the guild conducted textual research based on the records of the "Book of Eternity", and concluded that the "Eater" originated in the present-day Eastern and Southern European regions.

The other tribe is "Bloodrage", scattered in North Africa and even the Middle East.Compared with the "Blood Devourer", the people of "Blood Fury" are better able to adapt to life in the wild or in hot areas; "Blood Fury" is also used to not killing the blood-sucking objects immediately, but to imprison them as "cattle" or Take it around to move around, and don't discard it until it dies from exhaustion. It is recorded in "Book of Eternity: Fa Yi Lu": One of the sects of "Bloodfury" regularly held rituals of drinking pig and sheep blood. "The Devourer" believes that it is extremely despicable behavior for a noble vampire to drink the blood of animals, so he regards "Bloodfury" as a lowly pariah.

"Zhen" is the most mysterious tribe, and its origin is indeed unknown. According to "Falling Yilu", it is only known that its ancestors came from the "distant east". The physique and abilities of the "Zhen Clan" are generally not as good as "The Devourer" or "Bloodfury", but the "Zen Clan" has accumulated profound knowledge on poisoning and preparing medicines, making them extremely difficult opponents to guard against.Even when hunting humans, the "Zhen clan" often likes to use drugs to make their prey lose their resistance.

The "Zen Clan" produced a mysterious humanoid weapon called "Ou", which made the warriors of the other two clans fearful.However, due to the difficulty of finding the "materials" for making "Idols", the manufacturing process is complicated and the failure rate is high, and it is difficult to mass-produce them, so the "Zen Clan" has not been able to dominate with "Idols". Why did the three tribes fight against each other at first, and then developed into a large-scale war, fiercely vying for the supremacy of the vampire world? The "Book of Eternity" has no direct records, but judging from the laws and teachings it records, as well as the condemnation of "foreign races", it is not difficult to imagine that it is related to differences in beliefs.

Regarding the first and second "Vampire Wars", the records in the "Book of Eternity" are quite brief, and are full of myths and legends of heroes. The two wars are estimated to have erupted in the BC era. Although they are called "wars", their scale is only equivalent to the conflict between tribes.But also in order to deal with these two wars, the three major tribes greatly consolidated and deepened their own rule and organizational structure.Among them, the "Eater" appeared for the first time in the "Council" ruling mode similar to the House of the Republic.

After that, the three tribes lived in a long period of peace. It was not until the "Third Vampire War" broke out in more than 600 AD that the power structure of the vampire world underwent a complete change. Before the "Third War", there was already a tense atmosphere among the three tribes; and the "Gate of Heaven" was a major historical event that directly intensified the confrontation among the three tribes, and finally ignited the flames of war. The "Gate of Heaven" incident is recorded in detail in "The Book of Eternity: Chronicles of Death": more than 1,300 years ago, there was a veteran named Balgan in the "Eater" tribe at that time. Humiliated by his political opponents, he was angry and plotted revenge, and he did not hesitate to use the power of a foreign race to assassinate his enemies.Under the guise of holding a banquet to celebrate his birthday, Balgan issued an invitation called "The Gate of Heaven" (it was written in an ancient southern European dialect that has now disappeared), and secretly contacted "Bloodfury" and The "Gen Clan" killer organized and used the banquet guests as a cover to lure the alien killers into the largest base of "The Devourer" at that time - the ancient city of Pastie.

Unexpectedly, those who entered the city turned out to be the military spies of "Bloodfury" and "Zen Clan". They killed Bao Ergan at the birthday banquet that night, and destroyed the defense of the ancient city from the inside, and cooperated with the main force of the army ambushing outside the city. , captured Pastie almost overnight. The defenders of the "Eater" managed to protect the city after six days and six nights of hard work.The "Third Vampire War" also broke out shortly after this battle. The Devourer was at a disadvantage almost from the start due to Bloodrage's alliance with the Poison Clan. Although General Yuf Solan, the war hero of the "Eater", has regained many lost grounds after his rise, he is still in a bitter battle (about General Solan's heroic achievements, there are detailed records in "The Eternal Book of Solan").It was Etanel Busimma, an archaeologist in "The Devourer", who really turned the tide.He is the discoverer of a decisive weapon - "Mephisdan".

The name "Murphisdan" comes from the ancient vampire tribe, which means "Undead Killer" (Undead Killer)-"living dead" refers to vampires. "Murphisdan" possesses amazing strength and speed beyond vampires; the bones of the whole body can mutate and grow, protruding from the skin to become sharp and long bone blades; more importantly, the blood of "Murphisdan" is vital to vampires It is highly poisonous, capable of destroying the automatic healing function of a vampire, and even melting the vampire's body. The manufacturing method of "Murphistan" is unknown, but similar to vampires, it also changed from humans.

The biggest shortcoming of "Mephisdan" is the lack of intelligence, and the consciousness is in a state of frenzy for a longer period of time, even the master who made him can't control it - "Book of Eternity" describes this as "neither of light nor of darkness" mad will. "Murphisdan" has been tightly sealed since the establishment of the "Vampire Guild" thousands of years ago.Until one hundred and twenty years ago, when the scholar Wayne Busingma (that is, the descendant of Itaner Busingma) betrayed the guild and ran away, he stole the "seed" of "Merfisdan" and made it secretly. "Murphisdan" has just reappeared in London - the real body of the famous serial killer "Jack the Ripper" (Jack the Ripper) at the end of the 19th century. "The Devourer" formed a "Merphistan" special attack team with only ten people, and it took only one year to kill the other two tribes, completely defeated and swallowed them, and the vampire world was unified from then on. The survivors of "Bloodrage" and "Zen Clan" were exiled to remote areas, and the weather has not been restored so far. However, the strategy of "Eater" also caused a huge disaster to himself."Merphistan", once the ace weapon, has a crazy will that is not controlled by anyone, and in turn attacks the "Eater".In this disaster, two-thirds of the vampire population was melted by the blood of "Merphisdan", and the "Eater" himself was also facing the crisis of genocide. After a fierce battle, Yitan Busimma finally found out the only weakness of "Merfisdan": "Merfisdan" will never attack the master who created it by himself. "The Devourer" easily wiped out seven of the "Merphistans" with this method, but since the masters of the other three had already died in battle, the "Eater" still spent a lot of force to successfully kill the last one on the earth. "Mephisdan" was eliminated. Since then, the "Eater" claimed to be the sole orthodoxy of vampires, and the family name "Eater" was canceled (meaning that vampires are "Eater"), and the political group of "Eater" evolved into the "Vampire Guild".And the creation secret of "Merphisdan" - "seed" - was sealed in the deepest part of the ancient temple.The elders of the guild made an oath: unless they faced the crisis of extinction, they would never open the secret of "Merphisdan" again.In the generally circulated version of "Book of Eternity", the part about the history of "Merphisdan" was completely deleted, and the victory of "The Devourer" was revised to the credit of General Solan. The purpose of the establishment of the "Vampire Guild" is based on the ancient prophetic words recorded in the "Book of Eternity" and the research of many scholars in the past. Because vampires do not mate and reproduce, but become by infecting humans; coupled with the long and immortal life of vampires, a foreseeable crisis is formed: if vampires continue to create companions without restraint, the population of vampires will be reduced. Growth in a very short period of time (because the stages of reproduction and rearing are omitted), "eroding" the human population in a geometric progression, resulting in an imbalance between the supply and demand of the two food chains. Many vampire scholars predict that once the ratio of supply and demand reaches a certain point, both vampires and humans will inevitably go to the road of extinction. One of the main purposes of the establishment of the "Vampire Guild" is to limit and regulate the number and activities of the same kind, so as to maintain the long-term existence of vampires. The "Vampire Guild" gathered elite fighters to form a powerful "Arterial Assassination Squad" as the military backing to rule the world of vampires.The vampire world generally maintained stability and peace for the next thousand years, during which there were only two important historical events: one was one hundred and fifty years ago, the hero Rudolf von Gouyuan tried to overthrow the guild's highest decision-making body "Twelve People's Council", after the failure, he was captured by the "artery assassin" and sentenced to permanent exile after interrogation; the second is that thirty years later, the scholar Wayne Bussingma stole the "seed" of "Merfisdan" And fled.However, these two events did not shake the rule of the "Vampire Guild", and its hegemony has been firmly maintained to this day.