the true ancient's vampiric traits and non traits

• The strength of ten men: False (she has the strengh of 100 men)
• Venom that kills instantly: False (its only venomous when she wants it to be)
• A thirst for blood: True (but she can also survive on human food)
• Beauty: True (she was comparible to an angel before she turned. Now she is a goddess)
• A longer life span: True (she lives for 10,000 years like all the other vampires)
• Doesn't have a reflection: False
• Doesn't show up in pictures: False
• Burns in the sunlight: False
• Burned by crosses/churches: False
• Drinks human blood: Ture (but also human food)
• Allergic to garlic: False
• Not being able to enter a house without being invited in: False
• Not able to water: False
• Have to have dirt from the graveyard they were buried in: False
• Cannot touch religous objects, wolfsbane, or wild roses: False, False, False
• Very pale: False (she is an alive vampire, blood still flows through her veins, she looks human)
• No soul: False
• She can shape shift: true (she can look however she wants, human or animal)
• Psychic (influential) powers: True (she can bend peoples actions to her will)
• A stake to her heart will kill her: true (her heart still works)
• Chopping off her head will kill her: True
• Fire will kill her: True

A quote from bloodline

The vampire in Bloodline said this:

"One should never shield children from darkness. For the darkness will find them anyway. And all the more easily if they are not prepared."

Joan of arc, the true ancients death

She (the true ancient) was 9,981 years old and she new she was going to die soon. She became Joan of Arc. She lived for 19 nineteen years, and was burned at the stake. She died.

One of the stories of Joan of Arc's death was that while she was burning...she was smiling. 

The true ancient, a paradox

The true ancient is, in fact, the female ancient. 

She is the true ancient vampire. Becuase she was turned diffrently she is almst invincible (she doesn't have a lot of the weaknesess that other vampires do). She can also Travel in Time.

She created the ancients, she gave suggestions for the colliseum, and the cats. She is the true ancient, the most powerful, she is the first vampire.

how the true ancient is created

As I said before, the true ancient, the first female vampire, was turned diffrently then then all the other vampires. 

Becuase the male vampire was so traumatized,  in so much agony, he was able to turn her into a vampire in a diffrent was. He basiclly transfered all of his "vampire energy" into her, turning her into a vampire. Also killing him. 

This turned her into a diffrent kind of vampire (more on this later).

dreams

I also figured out how the vampires are turned while I was reading bloodline.

Dreams. The ancients can control dreams, and if a human has a specific dream, they become a vampire. Also, it is mentally IMPOSSIBLE for a human to have this dream.

"Angel...save me"

okay, so once again, I was reading bloodline, and on the ninth page this is basiclly what happened:

There was a wounded man who had been fighting in a war. He was in a hospital (a sanitorium actually) and a nurse there knew him. He isn't responding so she starts reading his journal to him. He says stop and she takes his hand. He finally opens his eyes, looks at her, and says "angel...save me" then he falls asleep.

This gave me an idea. 

A man (a vampire) is checked into an insane asylum. His nurse was a great freind of his before he had become a vampire (she doesn't know that he is a vampire yet) and she had a huge crush on him when they were little. He looks at her and seeing her beauty says "angel...save me." She takes his hand and recognizes him. He turns her into a vampire

Bloodline=main plot?

So last night I started reading this new book, bloodline (it's about a descendant of Dracula). After I read 9 pages I came up with six great ideas, including what would be the main plot of this story I would never write! Now the question is, which one should I post first?

quick note about Atli and Quirinus

they, well, hate each other. They are almost total opposites (not to mention the whole huns vs. romans thing) and get along horribly. They would never be able to work together if it weren't for the third ancient.

Attila the Hun the original and new story

I'm doing pretty much the same thing as with the Romulus and Remus thing, story is in red, comments are in white. Enjoy (btw, I got this one from echeat.com/essay.php?t=25)

"Attila the Hun is known as one of the most ferocious leaders of ancient times. He was given the nickname Scourge God becuase of his ferocity. During the twentieth century, Hun was one of the worst names you could call a person (I mean, who wants to be killed a vampire, right?), due to Attila. The Huns were a barbaric and savage group of people, and Atilla, their leader, was no exception. He was the stereotypical sacker of cities and killer of babies (so, he got a little hungry!). The Huns lasted long after their dissapearance in mythology and folklore, as the bad guy. Generally, they were not fun people to be around.

Priscus saw Attila the Hun at a banquet in 448. Priscus described him as being a short, squat man with a large head and deep-set eyes. He also had a flat nose and a thin beard. Historians say that his general personality was irritable (he was hungry, and therefore grumpy....he was hungry a lot), blustering, and truculent. He was said to be a persistent negotiator (he always wanted his way), and not at all pitiless.

While Priscus was at the banquet in 448, he observed a few other details about Atilla. All of Attila's cheif lieutenantswere served dainties on silver platters (quite a few of them were vampires and ate as little as possible of the 'human food' so they could eat properly later), but he was served only meat on wooden plates (as raw as possible). No other qualities of Attila as a general really survived through time (but he did!), but he is thought to ave been an outstanding commander from his accomplishments as a barbarian.

Huns themselves were mysterious and feared people (many were vampires). They first appeared in the Fourth Century around the Roman Empire. They rode their warhorses around and caused the Germanic barbarians and Romans alike to fear them. Yet, it was said that they were very uncivilized. It was said that made no use for fire (vampires don't like fire), and just ate the roots of plants they found in the fields (actually they just ate the animals they found in the fields). They were also said to have eaten the almost raw meat of animals (...speaks for itself). The only reason the meat was almost raw was becuase they were said to have cooked it by placing it beetween their thighs and the backs of their horses to give it warmth (if it's warmer, it seems more like human blood).

The Huns sometimes engaged in regular battle (...what? This is not a typo on my part, this is what is says in the essay...I'm just copying and pasting....) . They would attack in an order of columns, and scream very disorderly and savage cries (that was the men that they were eating that would scream). Most of the time, though, the Huns just fought in a very random way. (early in their history, vampires didn't get along very well)They would scream and run about and then all come together in a large group. They would then, as a group, approach the camp or town of the people they were attacking, and destroy it  (slaughter). Most of the time, the people the Huns attacked never even saw them coming (once again, VAMPIRES).

There were many ways in which the Huns chose to fight. They often started from a distance, and missiled sharpened bones (from humans) and other objects attached to a long stick into the territory of their victims (totally the right word). When they were forced to fight in close combat, they often fought without regard to their own safety (vampire skin is very tough, they are hard to injure). They often fought with swords, and they threw a net over their enemy to entagle his limbs so that he could no longer walk or ride his horse (blood is better the fresher it is). This is how they earned the title of Barbarians.

The Romans initial impression of the Huns was fear (at that time Quirinus did not rule). But after awhile, the Huns settled on the coast of the Danube, the great Hungarian plain, and became allies of the Romans, instead of attacking them as enemies. In return, the Roman Empire paid them a sum of money (and bodies) to not attack the Roman Empire. The Huns agreed with this, and remained mostly neutral toward the Romans for about fifty years.

Things between the Romans and the Huns began to fall apart when Attila was named King of the Huns in 434 (really, he already ruled them, according to my legend, this was just when the former king died...mysteriously). Attila and his brother (not a vampire), Bleda, inherited a large empire. They had been made joint kings of a vast area from the Alps to the Caspian seas, in the east, to the Baltic Sea in the West. Becuase of the Roman treaty with the Huns at Margus, the Romans had to pay the Huns seven thousand pounds of gold (and blood) annually to leave them alone. Attila's actions beetween 435 and 439 are basically unknown, and were not major or overly important. It is said that he amy have subdued barbarians to the north of east (what?) of his domain, but no can be sure.

In 441, Rome had become delinquent on their payments to the Huns, so Attila and Bleda decided to attack to Roman Empire. While the Roman officials were occupied in the Western Front, Attila attacked the Eastern Front on the Danubian Frontier (who's a smart little vampire? Who's a smart little vampire?....sorry I couldn't resist) The Huns managed to attack and raze many of the cities they came upon (at this time, once again, Quirinus was not an emperor, he was disquised as a farmer), and attract the attention of the Roman Empire. The Romans called a truce in 442, but this only satisfied Attila for a short amount of time. In 443, the Huns attack the towns in Danube again, destroying Naissus and Serdica. He proceeded toward Costantinople and took Philipopolis (i don't know about you, but that sounds like a ridiculous name for a city to me). He defeated the main Eatern Roman forces in a succession of battles. Finally, the Romans arranged a peace treaty  that gave the Huns 2,100 pounds of gold each year. This made Attila happy, and the Huns went back to protecting the Romans as their allies.

In 445, Attila decided that he no longer wanted his older brother, Bleda to rule with him. So he killed him (the opposite of Romulus, who's brother was killed by someone else). He planned in 447 to attack Rome again, on an even larger scale that his previous attack. But this idea turned out to be much less that he thought (I'm not sure what that means...). He sent his army to attack the Utus River, and defeated them. But he himself suffered loss and devastation (Romulus had become an 'advisor'). After that, he moved on to the Balkan provinces, and devestated them. Then he traveled down to Greece, but was stopped by Thermpylae (Atli was still a young-ish vampire after all).

Attila spent the next three years working out complicated agreements and negotiations with the Romans. He spent most of his time with the diplomats of the Eastern Emperor Theodosius ||. The result of the agreement was that Attila gained the territory of land to the south of Danube. The Romans also had to pay the Huns even more money to not attack, though the sum of money is not known (it was mostly blood/bodies).

In 450, Attila claimed Honoria, the sister of Valentinian ||| as his wife. The problem with this was that Valentinian ||| was the emperor of the Western Empire. Becuase of this marriage, Attila decided that he deserved half of the Western Empire (pompous like Romulus, but more foolish). In order to get his way, he invaded Gaul in 451. 

Aetius got the Visigothic King, theodoric |, to resist the Huns with him when they invaded Gaul. It is told that Attila almost succeeded in occupying Aurelianum before the Allies came. Aetius and Theodoric forced him to withdraw from the city, which he had already gained foot in.

In 452, the Huns invaded Italy. They sacked many cities, including Aquilieia, Patavium, Verona, Brixia, Berfomum, and Mediolamun. There wasn't much Aetius could do about. Luckily, famine and pestilence caused the Huns to leave before crossing the Apennines (can vampires get sick? hm...).

In 453, Attila planned to attack the Eastern Empire becuase the Empereor wasn't paying the money set in previous treaties (I think they were starting to run out of  homeless to give the Huns). Nothing ever actually came of these plans because, quite suspiciously, Attila died (yeah , 'died') in his bed the night after his marriage (remember the whole killed by his wife thing?).

When Attila was buried, the Huns went through a lot of trouble. They had to kill anyone who was involved with the burial, so that no one would know of the exact place that Attila was buried (huh, that's conveniant. the part of Attila's ranks that he had turned into vampires quickly realied what happened when they heard how he had 'died' and killed everyone who knew where he was buried. They then went and unburied him. Attila rewarded them by...killing them. He is the the least rational, most easily provoked, angriest, grumpiest, thirstiest of the ancients). Attila was succeeded by his sons, between with the empire was divided.

Attila didn't have a huge inpact on history (I think he would disagree), becuase the Romans very well couuld have done without him. He mainly caused trouble for the Romans, and killed a lot of innocent people just to get his way. Attila the Hun was one of the most important kings of the Huns, though, and he definetly has his place in history (and still does to!), as a barbaric, baby-killing, rude leader of a very ruthless group of warriors."

by the way, did you know that you can't copy and paste using blogspot (or at least I can't)? I had to retype THAT WHOLE THING (I did with the Romulus and Remus one to)

Vlad the implaler

No, Vlad the impaler is not in fact the third ancient (although I did consider it). For one thing, it is just to cliche. Also, as I found out recently, Vlad did not in fact drink the blood of his enemies. He did impale people, but the whole "setting fire to a pile of peasents" and "dipping bread into blood before he ate it" myths are totally false. In fact,Vlad was considered a hero to the Romanians. The Germans made up those myths to disgrace them. 

So I just wanted to set everyone straight. 

Oh, and Bram Stoker did not get any idea about vampires from Vlad the impaler (although Vlad was also called Prince Dracula). He heard the name Dracula somewhere and thought it sounded good. Actually, Dracula's original name was Count Wampyr.

The ancients (updated

Just to make sure you (I) remember the facts about the ancients, here are the two so far, what they are called, and what they carry in the vial around their necks

1. Romulus. Called Quirinus. Carries dirt from the first hill of Rome (where it was first created).
2. Sun Tzu. Called Chang Quin. Carries dirt from where he supposedly was burried.
3. Attila the hun. Called Atli. Carries dirt from his grave where he was buried thought to be dead.

Attila the Hun

Attila the Hun is the second ancient. He was (as we all know) a great and bloodthirsy (pun intended) conquerer. But also a great leader. 

There are (according to wikipedia.com) three ways that Attila the Hun could have died:

1. "He suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor."
2. "he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking or a condition called esophageal varices, where a hemerrhoid in the lower part of the esophagus ruptures leaving the person to choke on his/her own blood"

you will notice that the first two both have to do with blood and the mouth. Curious. 

    3. "Attila, King of the Huns and ravager of the provinces of Europe, was pierced by the hand and blade of his wife."

For my non existent story, I'm going with the third one. 

so here's my version:

After being married to Attila for many years, Gudrun (his wife) realized just what Atilla was. A vampire. She had heard legends of vampires, including the one where if you stab the monster in the heart with wood or silver, it will die. So this is exactly what she did. One night while he was sleeping she took a silver knife and stabbed him in the heart. All this served to do was paralyze him, but becuase he didn't have a hearbeat to begin with anyway, when they checked his pulse, they thought he had died and buried him. He came back. 

Attila the Hun is called Atli by the two other acients and in his vial on his necklace he carries dirt from his grave.

Vampiric traits (and non traits) update

as anikoku pointed out, I left out a few things

• allergic to garlic: False (they live in Italy for goodness sake!)
• not being able to enter a house without being invited in: True (or at least the vampires think is it. More on this later)
• not able to cross water: False (they drink blood, and blood is mostly water)
• have to have the dirt of the graveyard they were buried in with them: False   (except for the ancients. They have dirt from the most memorable place to them in a vial on a necklace that they wear always. More on this later)
• cannot touch religious objects, wolfsbane, or wild roses: false, false, true (existed before the religion. Created by humans to make them think that they had a fighting chance. More specifically, they are injured by the thorns. They have tough skin but wild rose thorns for some reason can puncture it)
• Animals can become vampires: false (except for cats. There are quite a few vampire cats around the coliseum. More on this later)
• very pale: True (there is not blood to make them colorful)
• they have no soul: False
• They can shape shift: false (the ancients can but nobody else, they have mastered most of the vampire skills including turning into animals and other humans)
• Psychic powers: True (it's more like charisma so strong that they can almost peacefully rule over the living)
• A stake to heart will kill them: False (this myth doesn't even make sense! They're heart doesn't even beat, so why would this kill them?!)
• chopping off the head will kill them: True (this is how Remus was killed, remember? But you also have to burn the body or they might come back)

Pleae reply and tell me if I missed anything! 

Romulus and Remus the original and the new legend

(according to iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/romans9.html) this is the original story of Romulus and Remus (my additions on how it relates to my vampires and the vampire world are in white):

"According to the Roman legend, Romulus was the founder of Rome and Remus as his twin brother (they were brothers in life, and turned by the same person so still brothers in undeath). Their story begins when their grandfather Numitor, king of the ancient Italian city Alba Longa, was deposed by his brother Amulius. Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, was made a Vestal Virgin by Amulius-this means that she was made a priestess of the godess Vesta and forbidden to marry. Neverheless, Mars, the god of war, fell in love with her and she gave birth to twin sons.

Amulius, fearing that the boys would grow up to overthrow him, had them placed  in a trough and thrown into the River Tiber (who do you think the servant who did this was? Perhaps the one who turned these two babies into vampires?) . At the time the river was in flood, and when the waters fell, the trough, still containing the two boys, came ashore. They were found by a she-wolf who, instead of killing them, looked after them and fed them with her milk (with her blood) . A woodpecker also brought them food, for the woodpecker, like the wolf, was sacred to Mars.

Later the twins were found by Faustulus, the king's sheperd. He took them home to his wife and the two adopted them (they realized rather quickly that they were monsters, and that they were Rhea Silvia's sons, but being friends of their mother,continued to care for them) calling them Romulus and Remus. They grew up as bold strong young men, leading a warlike band of shepherds (with all those animals, it certainly is rather easy to get fresh blood and blame it on a wolf).

One day Remus was captured (he was suspected for murder- aka, the first known account of a vampire drinking human blood) and brought before Numitor for punishment. Numitor noticing how unlike a shepherd's son he was, questioned him and before long realized who he was (he realized that, not only was he Rhea Silvia's daughter, but also that he was some sort of monster, for the word vampire did not exist then). Romulus and Remus then rose against Amulius, killed him and restored the kingdom to their grandfather (aka the second account of a vampire drinking human blood).

Deciding to found a town of their own (once again, rather pompous) , Romulus and Remus chose the place where the she-wolf had nursed them (it was, and remains to be, a sort of sacred place for them) . Romulus began to build walls on the Palatine Hill, but Remus jeered at them because they were so low. He leaped over them to prove this, and Romulus in anger killed him (Romulus did not in fact kill his brother. A man who lived in the woods nearby had gotten curious about the two young he kept seeing near his home. One day he snuck up behind one of them, Remus, and realized that he was sucking the blood out of a bear. He realized this man was a monster and cut his head off before Remus could even realize a man was behind him. He then burned the body. Later, when Romulus went searching for Remus, he found his dead brother's ashes, the drained bear and axe the man had used to kill Remus. He figured out what had happened and revenged his brother). 

Romulus continued the building of the new city, naming it Roma (Rome) after his own name. Its first citizens were outlaws and fugitives (some of the first vampires) , to whom Romulus gave the settlement on the Capitoline Hill. There were however not enough wives for all these men, and so Romulus decided to steal women from the Sabines, an Italian tribe. He then proclaimed a festival and invited many Sabines to it. While the attention of the men was elsewhere Romulus' men rushed in and carried off the women. This was the famous 'Rape (carrying off) of the Sabine women' , which later became a subject for painters.

The Sabine men were furious and, led by their king Titus Tatius, made war on Romulus. When the fighting had reached its peak the Sabine women, who had grown fond of their Roman husbands (and knew they were vampires, and so feared for their Sabine husbands" lives) , rushed beetween the ranks and begged both sides to make peace. So the battle was stopped, Romulus and Titus Tatius ruled together over the two peoples until Titus Tatius was killed in battle (Romulus did not want to share his throne. He later became more mature) .

For the rest of his life Romulus ruled alone, proving himself a great leader in peace and war. He did not die but dissapeared one day in a violent storm (yeah, this one kind of speaks for itself). The Romans believing he had been taken up to heaven worshipped him under the name of Quirinus"

So that is the history of the ancient, Romulus (or, as he is called by the other two ancients, Quirinus).

Why Romulus hid as a centurion

There are a few reasons why Romulus hid as a centurion. On the battlefield no one would notice if he, for instance, sucked the blood out of his enemies, as he killed them. Also, he could create some of the first vampires, choosing them from the most elite of his hundred men. It would also not be too suspicious when he died at the appropriate time for a human to die (he was a soldier after all. A general, but still a human). By being a centurion Romulus had a certain aspect of importance but still had enough freedom not to be suspected of being a bloodsucking fiend.  

Who created Romulus?

The true Ancient. The one who is hidden. The one who is the oldest. The one who is the most wise. The one who is the most powerful. The one who the Ancients revere. The one who not even the Ancients know.

Who is this vampire and are they still alive (undead) and roaming? Or are they dead?

the coliseum/Rome and my vampires

Romulus and Remus were vampires. They were brothers when they were alive, and they were turned at the same time by the same person. The event of Remus being killed (more on the killing and the legend in general later) was the first act of a "vampire slaying."

Romulus and Remus were the first and second (known) vampires (Romulus is one of the ancients) ever created, and they, being young and pompous, decided that they wanted to have their own city. So Rome was created. Ever wondered why Rome really conquered all? Why they were the undefeatable city? Becuase it was created by a vampire!

After a while (aka, after Romulus realized that by now, according to the humans, he should be dead) Romulus pretended to die. He then lived on as a (hidden) centurion (he then created vampires from the best of his men, which is also where the "only male vampires" came from. More on centurion later) and later reclaimed his throne as Emperor Vespasian and created the Coliseum.

(requested) how they justify their existence, what they do for 10,000 years

These vampires that I am creating live for 10,000 years. So somebody asked me how they manage to not to  be bored to "undeath." you know, what do they do for 10,000 years?

So, here's my answer:

My Vampires are very big on learning. There is even a vampire school (in the Coliseum in Rome just so you know. More on the Coliseum later) where the ancients teach the children.But there is more then that. There are "sects" of vampires specifically designed to answer questions such as: 

•  what is the true purpose of humans (vampire prey or another reason)?
• what is the purpose of vampires?
• who created (more on this later) the first known vampire (Romulus, more on this later))?
• What will vampires do in the future?

etc.

my first post/why I'm blogging

so...this is my first blog post (obviously). This is also my first blog.

Honestly, I always thought that blogging was kinda, well, pointless. 

But then I went to 3pi-con ( pi-con.org ) and a panel called "blogging 101" where they talked about a bunch of stuff like what were good websites, some really good blogs to read, and also why they blogged. 

And I still didn't really get it, until 11:00 p.m. today when I went to another panel ( "can literary vampires exist in the modern world" which you'd think would have nothing at all to do with blogging, and it didn't) and started thinking about vampires and all the diffrent definitions and types and mythos and legends and beginning, etc. And I decided that I would come up with my own version of vampires. And I didn't  know what I'd do with this information because I'm not the best writer, so I'd never really write a story, but I still want people to be able to read what I think...so now I'm blogging! XD

(and just so you know, everything that has to do with my new version of vampires and the idea for the story I'll never write will be in this font)

btw, I will also take requests. If anyone wants to know a certain thing about my vampires I will explain

vampiric traits (and non traits)

When a vampire is turned they gain traits (I also explain why they have these traits/explanation):

• the strength of ten men (to hunt their prey)
• venom that kills instantly (to give mercy and instantly kill instead of a slow death)
• a thirst for blood (survival. Since they ARE dead/undead, they need blood to continue moving)
• beauty (to lure their prey)
• a longer life span (they live 10,000 years unless they are killed)

there are also things about stereotypical vampires that are not true about mine:

• don't have a reflection-FALSE (they were once human)
• don't show up in pictures- FALSE (above)
• burn in the sunlight - FALSE (just created by humans so they would think they had a fighting chance)
• burned by crosses/churches - FALSE (they existed before the religion did)
• drink human blood - TRUE (but they don't kill them...usually)
• sleep in a coffin- FALSE (once again, existed before the coffin, they sleep in beds. They do need sleep but only 1-2 hours per night (4 for new vampires))

how vampires are regarded, who is turned

So this is my first post about the vampires that I am creating for the story I will never write.

Vampires are revered. They are considered god like (except by the wiser people). Vampires run the world.

When new vampires are needed, they are chosen very carefully. The people who are turned are the smartest and the most loyal. They are also always male (so the story I will never write will be about an accidental female vampire). 

They are created by the Ancients (there are three of them, which I am NOT taking from twilight just so you know! Its just the smallest number of people you can have while making a tie impossible) vampires (who do not age), which there will be more about later.

Not all of the vampires are included in this kingdom. There is one male whom they underestimated who ran away from the kingdom (he created the female vampire), but they are very good at keeping this quiet.