Legend has it that a race of people, superhuman, immortal, drinkers of blood, existed since time began. Alas, few records have been found to prove this. The ones that have, they’ve all been destroyed.
Until now.
The Nocturni, a race of superhuman, immortal vampire-like people, have existed for 2000 years, if not longer. This is their story.
The Library of the Nocturni
Their origins are unknown. Some believe that they originated in the Roman province of Dacia, long before Rome herself conquered it. They are Sarmatian peoples, evolving from Dacians, Sarmatians, Scythians, and eventually into the present day Romanians.
When Emperor Trajan (the second of the ’Good’ Emperors of Rome, beginning with Nerva and ending with Marcus Aurelius) conquered Dacia in 104 AD, Rome conscripted the warrior races into her army. Rome wanted more people who were loyal and eventually subservient to her. But, eith the fall of the Empire, Rome no longer needed Dacian men, and eventually, Rome withdrew from Dacia, leaving the warrior races to their own devices.
Rome’s conscription of the warrior races had spread the Nocturni across the Empire. There were males as far east as the Persian Empire, as far south as the Lower Egyptian Kingdom, and as far west as Britain.
The Nocturni needed blood to survive. And thus, they evolved with the times. Men scattered, taking to different continents as the centuries wore on. In the 15th century, one man chose to stay in the mountains. His name was Vlad Dracula or, as history remembers him, Vlad the Impaler, for his countless atrocities of impaling his enemies. This was the first evolution of the ‘vampire’ a seperate entity, but the same basic structure of the Nocturni race. A man who did not find his lifemate would turn to the animalistic demon inside himself and wreck havoc on the world, only to have to be killed by the hunters of the Nocturni Race.
Lifemates were a huge part of the continum of the Nocturni Race. Women had become scarce. The women that were alive were already taken. Children that were born of the women rarely survived past their infancy due to disease and the constant attack of vampire ’slayers’. Vampire ’slayers’ began to pop up in Europe during the Dark Ages, shortly after Dracula’s reign of terror. The swept a bloody path across Europe, hunting and killing Nocturni and vampire’s alike. Very rarely, a Nocturni male would find his lifemate in a human woman with special abilities to heal and see the future. He could convert her into a Nocturni and find happiness in his lonely existance. But there were a few men who did not find their lifemates. Life became something of a trial for them, and, instead of going into the sunlight as the law decreed, these men went into themselves, turning into a vampire, embracing the inner lust for blood and the pleasure of the kill.
Now, these men who turned into themselves and became an animal, they looked like normal people. They could be mistaken for someone of the Nocturni race. But they were not. Only the Nocturni race could tell them apart. Inside the vampire beat the heart of a demon, killable by decapitation, stake through the heart, and direct sunlight.
This caused the furthur adaptation and evolution of the Nocturni race. They became secretive, primarily residing in America, Europe and parts of Australia, Peru, Central America and a few other places. The vampires tended to go all over the world, seeking to have their head of operations where they once lived as a Nocturni. The vampires had one mission: to rule the humans and the world, letting evil reign. The Nocturni were to prevent this, thus the created the Hunters, an elite few that were to hunt the vampire and destroy them, lessing the hold of evil over the world.
Camden Miklos:
Camden Miklos
Camden Miklos, the Record Keeper of the Nocturni People. He was born in the year 1AD. His blue-green eyes contrast nicely with his dark hair.
Camden was the son of a mortal woman, Anya, and a Nocturni male, Tepes. Though his mother was a mortal woman, the blood of the Nocturni from his father was enough to convert Camden. Thus he grew up, immortal, hitting the age of thirty and perserved his looks for his long life.
Camden, as the current century shows, is a handsome man. He wears glasses. He has a necklace that he never takes off, a sort of circle with a triangle in the center. Camden favors turtle necks, because the library is in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains. He wears dark pants, mostly jeans, but often slacks.
Camden rarely leaves the library. About six months every three years, if that. His death without a suitable heir to take over the record keeping could leave the library unprotected and vulnerable to vampires and humans alike. Camden knows this, and is fully prepared to name his heir. Camden is skilled in weaponry, sword fighting, fighting with a lance, and battle tactics. He is fully aware that the library is not so well hidden from the people who know the way through the deepest parts of the Carpathian forests around it. Many a person has tried to find it, and only few have succeeded. The Leader of the Nocturni race, Lucian, and Evangeline Dimitrios are two of those few.
Evangeline Dimitrios:
- Evangeline Dimitrios
Evangeline Dimitrios, the only woman ever to fight in a war alongside the Nocturni males. Evangeline was born in 121 AD, the same year that Marcus Aurelius was born. She was born to a Nocturni male, Tiberius, and his lifemate, Apollonia.
