Wixth

Wixth Chapter 1 this time in first person

2009-12-03T20:58:00.001-05:00

Wixth chapter 1

Nobody knew exactly when it had started. It was just that, as long as everyone could remember, Vampires had ruled the world.

I grew up in Rome, not exactly a small town, and I had led a relatively good life. As a child everyone had called me "angel" (although my name, Daray, was practically the opposite). Always commenting on my eyes and my hair. Everyone seemed to love me, and they always said I would grow up to do great things. They had no idea.

The vampires were always a bit of a thing for me. When I was younger, I admired them so much. Then as I grew older, I realized just what they were doing to people. Like I said, no one knows exactly how they came to rule the world, but one day, the three ancients, Romulus, Sun Tzu, and Attila the Hun (some people call them Quirinus, Chang Quin, and Atli) just announced their existence, and it was almost as if people just handed over power. As I grew older I began to realize what that had done to people. No one believed in vampires, and if so they thought that they were just a small, hidden, weak group.

When the Ancients took over the world, it drove people mad. So many people were sent to the manicomio (a Roman insane asylum), it would make your head spin. I decided to work there, to help out. Just to see what I could do. I tried so hard, but sometimes I couldn't do much.

The manicomio was, admittedly, rather spooky. It had dark grey brick walls and all the plants in its "garden" were decaying, dead, or dying. It tended to keep people away.

Then one day, it seemed like any regular day, they brought in a new man. He seemed different from the other patients. Not only was he one of the worst cases I had ever seemed, but something seemed rather familiar about him. However, when they brought him in screaming desperately, and thrashing against his restraints, trying so hard to bite anyone or anything that went near his mouth, I quickly dismissed the idea and helped out.

The doctors told us that he had been found horribly injured - a gash in his forehead, several broken ribs, and a broken arm – in an alleyway in the city. Once he had recovered, physically at least, in the hospital, he started talking about people chasing him. Being as full as they were, and how all his injuries were gone (not even a scar), they decided to bring him to our manicomio. They said his name was Rendor.

I was sitting, keeping an eye on him as the doctor had told me to do, by his bed one night watching him sleep. He was restless, and talked a lot in his sleep. But when he started to talk about Romulus, Sun Tzu, and Attila I was terrified. I wanted to calm him down, maybe so I would be able to ask why he was talking about them, so I reached towards his hand.

As soon as I touched him his eyes opened wide. He looked at me…it seemed almost in recognition, and he whispered something. I leaned down towards his odd, almost surreal looking face and he said it again.

"Save me… Angel." Suddenly an electric shock ran up my arm and I saw a flash of white, then black as I fainted.

The next thing I knew I was opening my eyes to plain blue walls and the sounds of medical equipment. Someone must have moved me to the infirmary. I listened and heard voices outside my door.

"What happened to her?"

"Our doctors aren't sure. She seems perfectly healthy! But it is very weird just a few seconds before that man- …." The voices faded away as they walked off down the hall.

Had something happened to Rendor? Why had he seemed so familiar? Why in the world had I fainted? I questioned myself as I sat up and looked in the mirror next to my bed.

As soon as I saw my reflection I froze. What had happened to me? My eyes were blue…but now they were a beautiful purple? It was almost as if I had become a… no I thought. I grimaced at my reflection and almost fainted again when I saw my teeth. I had two pairs of fangs. I, Angel, no, Daray, had turned into a vampire.

~*~

Quirinus snapped his head up to look at Leonardo Da Vinci. "What did you say?" He asked menacingly.

"I said" stated Leonardo "that our scientists may have been successful in the experiment. They may have found a new way to create vampires. Unfortunately there a few…problems with it."

"What are the problems?"

"Well, it needs a relatively powerful vampire-"

"That shouldn't be a problem for us." Quirinus cut him off.

"-it also…kills the vampire that does it."

Quirinus cringed inwardly when he heard that. "…Well, that's a bit more problematic. What exactly is the theory?"

Leonardo read off of a paper "The vampire must be dying, and must have physical, and eye contact with the human. Then, as a dying effort to… continue living, they push their vampire 'entity' into the human, thereby creating a new vampire. They don't know if it will work though. So far it's only a theory."

"Not one that I believe we will have to test" Said Quirinus after a moments thought. "What would be the point in killing one vampire, only to create another, probably weaker one?"

The conversation was over and Quirinus dismissed Leonardo after whispering one more thing in his ear "let's not tell anyone about this little theory shall we? And that does include Chang Quin and Atli. Especially Atli." Leonardo nodded hesitantly and left.

~*~

I was astounded and absolutely terrified. How could I possibly have become a vampire? I haven't remembered my dreams for months! Wasn't that the only way to create vampires? I was also so confused by my purple eyes. I knew, like everyone did, that when a human changed their eyes would changed, but no vampire I had ever heard of had purple eyes. Actually… there was one. But I'd only heard of it once.

She thought back to that time…

"Ever heard about the True Ancient?" the bartender murmured, nudging me.

"The True Ancient?" I had asked.

"Oh come on now! The only female vampire! They say even the ancients are afraid of her! Imagine it! I've heard she has purple eyes and is even stronger than Attila the Hun, smarter that Romulus, and more calculating than Sun Tzu! The most powerful vampire in the world!" claimed the bartender in reverence.

"But I thought that the ancients didn't make female vampires?" I had asked, bemused.

"Oh aye, they don't. But she's the true ancient! The first vampire!"

"That's not what I heard!" yelled out another customer "I heard that she was actually a time traveler! That she went back in time to create Romulus because she knew that if she didn't, she would never be able to exist! I heard that the Ancients don't make women vampires because they're afraid that if they do they'll accidentally create her, and she'll come and kill them!"

I left them then, thinking skeptically as the bartender and customer continued their heated argument.

Suddenly I remembered where I had met Rendor before. He had been the customer that knew about the True Ancient. I thought back to the moment before I passed out and realized something. When Rendor had opened his eyes they had been sparkly and surreal... and when he had opened his mouth to speak I realized that he had had two sets of fangs. Just like I now did.

Rendor had been a vampire. Was it possible that there was another way to create vampires? Had Rendor been the one that had turned me into a vampire? If he was a vampire than why had he died? I didn't know… but I needed to find out.

~*~

"Sir! Update on Rendor Josephson!" Exclaimed Julius Caesar.

"Yes? What is it? Did you catch him yet?" asked Chang Quin (also known as Sun Tzu, one of the ancients), the leader of the vampire military.

"Well… not exactly sir. He… he got away…" Caesar said, looking worried.

He had good reason to be worried, Chang Quin was famous for his temper, and was furious. "What? You let him get away?"

"I'm very sorry sir! We did all we could!" He begged as Chang Quin banged his hand on the table and shot up, walking towards him. "But there is good news sir!"

He stopped his advance at Caesar and leaned back against the table "good news?"

"Yes sir! We have just learned that Josephson has died!" Caesar was now talking rapidly "we're not sure exactly how but we know that died on the 15^th of December, year 1215 at approximately 12:15 pm CET in of the Roman manicomio."

"Excellent, excellent. Find out which one, and exactly how he died as soon as you can." Chang Quin said, seeming to calm down a bit. "And is there any news from our scientists about the experiment?"

Julius hesitated for a moment, remembering the threat he'd heard about from Leonardo "No news yet sir."

THE END OF CHAPTER 1

the complete Wixth chapter 1

2009-08-25T23:46:00.002-04:00

Wixth

The world had fallen into dark times; the vampire ancients ruled the world and the thought of not only vampires actually existed but also that they were actually strong enough to rule the world drove many people to madness. Daray was a nurse at the Roman manicomio (asylum). With it’s dark, grey, brick walls and dead plants it tended to keep people away. She tried to help as many people as she could, but sometimes there simply wasn't much she could do for them.

It seemed like any regular day at the asylum when a new patient came in. Somehow he seemed different from the others. Not only was he one of the worst cases she'd ever seen, but he also seemed rather familiar. When they brought him in he was screaming and desperately thrashing against his restraints, trying to bite anyone who got near his mouth.

The doctors said that they had found him horribly beat up on a city street; he had a huge gash in his forehead, several broken ribs, and both his arms had multiple fractures. Once he had physically recovered from his brutal beating in the hospital (a miraculously fast recovery), he started talking in his sleep about somebody chasing him with dogs and they had took him to the asylum. The hospital attendants had said that according to his id, his name was Rendor

Daray was sitting next to his bed, watching him sleep. He started moving around, mumbling about Quirinus, Atli, and Chang Quin (otherwise known as Romulus, Sun Tzu, and Attila the Hun). Daray was instantly terrified because she knew that these were the three vampire ancients that ruled the world with cruelty. She gently reached towards his hand.

He opened his eyes wide as soon as she took his hand. He looked up at her in recognition and whispered something. She leaned her head towards his odd, almost surreal face and he said it again.

"Angel...save me." An electric shock ran up Daray’s arm and she saw a flash of white as the shock ran through her body.

The next thing she knew, she was opening her eyes to plain blue walls and the sounds of medical equipment. Someone had moved her to one of the beds in the infirmary at the manicomio. She listened and heard voices outside her door.

"What happened to her?"

"Our doctors aren’t sure. She seems perfectly healthy! It is, however, very weird that she fainted just a few seconds before that man..." the voices faded away as the men walked down the hall.

Had something happened to Rendor? Why had he seemed so familiar? Why had she fainted? She questioned herself as she sat up and looked in the mirror next to her bed.

As soon as she saw her reflection, she froze. What had happened to her? Her eyes were blue! But now they were a sparkly purple! It was almost as if she were a.... no ... she grimaced at her reflection and almost fainted again at what she saw. She had two pairs of fangs. Daray had turned into a vampire

~*~

Quirinus snapped his head up to look at Leonardo Da Vinci. "What did you say?" he asked menacingly.

"I said,” stated Leonardo "that out scientists may have bee successful in the experiment. They may have found another way to create vampires. Unfortunately, there are … a few problems with it."

"What are the problems?"

"Well, it needs a relatively powerful vampire-"

"That shouldn't be a problem for us" Quirinus cut him off.

"-it also … seems to kills the vampire that does it."

Quirinus cringed inwardly when he heard that "...Well, that's a bit more problematic. What exactly is the theory?"

Leonardo read off of a paper "The vampire has to be dying, and must have eye contact with the human. Then, as a dying effort to continue living, they push their vampire ‘entity’ into the human, thereby creating a new vampire. So far it's only a theory though."

"Not one that that I believe we have to test" said Quirinus after a moments thought. "What would the point be in killing one vampire only to create another, probably weaker one?"

The conversation was over and Quirinus dismissed Leonardo after whispering one more thing into his ear "Let's not tell anyone about this little theory, shall we? And that includes Atli and Chang Quin" Leonardo nodded hesitantly and left.

~*~

Daray was panicking. How could she possibly have become a vampire? She hadn't had any dreams for months! That was the only way vampires were created! Wasn’t it? Another excellent question was why she had purple eyes. She knew that human’s eyes changed when they became vampires but she'd never seen a vampire with purple eyes. She'd only ever heard of one, in rumors and whispers

She thought back to one such rumor she'd heard...

"Ever heard about that true ancient?" murmured the bartender, nudging her.

"The true ancient?" she had asked.

"The only female vampire! They say even the ancients are afraid of her! Imagine it! I've heard she has purple eyes and is stronger than Atilla the Hun, smarter than Romulus, and more calculating than Sun Tzu! The most powerful vampire in the world!" claimed the bartender in reverence.

"But I thought that the ancients didn't make female vampires?" She asked, confused.

"Oh aye, they don't. But she's the true ancient! The first vampire!"

"That's not what I heard!" yelled out another customer "I heard that she was actually a time traveler and went back in time to create Romulus because she knew that if she didn't, she would never exist! I heard that the ancients don't make women vampires because they're afraid that if they do they'll create her and she'll kill them!"

Daray left then, thinking rather skeptically as the bartender and customer continued they’re heated argument.

Suddenly she remembered where she had met Rendor before. He had been the customer whom had known about the True Ancient. She thought back to the moment before she had passed out and realized something. When Rendor had opened his eyes, they had been sparkly and surreal, and when he had opened his mouth to speak she realized that he had had to sets of fangs.

Rendor had been a vampire. Was it possible that there was another way to create vampires? Had Rendor been the one that had turned her into a vampire? If he was a vampire how had he died? She didn't know, but she did know that she needed to find out.

~*~

“Sir! Update on Rendor Josephson!” exclaimed Julius Caesar.

“Yes? What is it? Did you catch him yet?” asked Chang Quin (one of the ancients), the leader of their military.

“Well…not exactly sir. He… he got away…sir” Caesar said, looking worried.

He had good reason to be worried, Chang Quin was famous for his temper, and he was furious “What? You let him get away?”

“I’m very sorry sir! We did all we could!” He begged as Chang Quin banged his hand on the table and shot up, walking towards him. “But there is good news sir!”

He stopped his advance at Caesar and leaned back against the table “good news?”

“Yes sir! We have just learned that Josephson has died!” Caesar was now talking rapidly “we’re not sure exactly how but we know that he died on the 15^th of December 1215 at 12:15 pm CET in the roman manicomio.”

“Excellent, excellent. Find out which one, and how exactly he died as soon as you can.” Chang Quin said, as he seeming to calm down a bit. “And is there any news from our scientists about the experiment?

Julius hesitated for a moment, remembering the threat he’d heard about from Leonardo “No news yet sir.”

fangs

2009-08-24T21:59:00.006-04:00

I Just realized that I never clarified something: My vampires do have fangs. Not big ones though. They're on the canine teeth on the top and bottom. The ones on the bottom are the poisonous ones, the ones on top aren't. So if they want to bite someone or something without killing them they cover their bottom fangs and bite them only witt the top ones.

I did some writing

2009-08-23T22:57:00.009-04:00

Daray was a nurse. The world had fallen into dark times, the ancients ruled the world and that drove people to madness. Daray tried to help them as much as she could, but sometimes there simply wasn't much she could do.

It seemed like any regular day at the asylum when a new patient came in. He didn't seem special, but somehow he seemed different from the others. Not only was he one of the worst cases she'd ever seen, but he seemed rather familiar.

The doctors said that they'd found him on the street. Once he was stable and had started talking about people chasing him they had taking him to the asylum. They had said his name was Rendor

Daray was sitting next to his bed, watching him sleep. When he started moving around and mumbling about Quirinus, Chang Quin, and Atli - the three vampire leaders - she knew something was wrong and took hold of his hand.

He opened his eyes wide as soon as she took his hand. He looked up at her and whispered something. She leaned her head towards him and he said it again.

"Angel...save me." A shock ran up her arm and through her body.

The next thing she knew, she was opening her eyes to plain blue walls and medical equipment. Someone had moved her to one of the beds at the asylum. She listened and heard voices outside her door.

"What happened to her?"

"We're not sure. She seems perfectly healthy! Really, the only weird thing is taht it seems as though she fainted just a few seconds before that mad died..." the voices faded away as the men walked away.

Had Rendor died? Why had he seemed so familiar, and why had she fainted? She thought all these thoughts as she sat up and looked at the mirror next to her bed.

As soon as she saw her reflection she froze. What had happened to her? Her eyes had been blue, but now they were a sparkly purple. It was almost as if she were a .... no...she opened her mouth and almost fainted again at what she saw. She had to pairs of fangs. Daray had turned into a vampire

Romulus (also known as Quirinus) snapped his head up to look at Leonardo Da Vinci. "What did you say?" he asked menacingly.

"I said" snapped back Leonardo "that out scientists may have found another way to create vampires. Unfortunately, there are a few problems with it."

"What are the problems?"

"Well, it needs a relatively powerful vampire-"

"That shouldn't be a problem for us" Quirinus cut him off.

"-it also kills the vampire that does it."

Quirinus cringed inwardly when he heard that "...Well, that's a bit more problamatic. How does it work?"

Leonardo read off of a medical paper "The vampire has to be dying, and have eye contact with a human. Then, as a dying effort to continue living, they push there vampire enitity into the human. It's only a theory though."

"Not one that that I believe we have to test" he said after a moments thought. "What would the point be in killing one vampire only to create another, probably weaker one?"

The conversation was over and Quirinus dismissed Leonardo after whispering one more thing into his ear "Let's not tell anyone about this little theory, shall we?"

Daray was panicking. How could she possibly have become a vampire? She hadn't had any dreams for months! That was the only way vampires were created!

Another excellent question was why she had purple eyes. She knew that humans eyes changed when they became vampires but she'd never seen a vampire with purple eyes. She'd only ever heard of one, in whispers and rumors.

She thought back to one of the rumours she'd heard...

"Ever heard about that true ancient?" asked the bartender.

"The true ancient?" she had asked.

"They say even the ancients are afraid of her! Imagine it! The only female vampire! I've heard she has purple eyes and is stronger than Atilla the Hun, smarter than Romulus, and more calculating than Sun Tzu! The most powerful vampire in the world!" claimed the bartender in reverance.

"I thought the ancients didn't make female vampires?" She asked, confused.

"Oh aye, they don't. But she was she's the true ancient! The first vampire!"

"That's not what I heard!" yelled out another customer "I heard that she was actually a time traveller and went back in time to create Romulus becuase she knew that if she didn't, she would never exist! I heard that the ancients don't make female vampires becuase they're afraid that if they do they'll create her and she'll kill them!"

Daray left then, thinking rather skeptical thoughts, as the bartender and customer got into a heated argument.

Suddenly she remembered where she had met Randor before. He had been the customer that knew about the true ancient. She thought back to the moment before she had passed out and realized something. When Randor had opened his eyes, they had been sparkly and surreal, and when he had opened his mouth he had to sets of fangs.

Rendor had been a vampire. Was it possible that there was another way to create vampires? Had Randor been the one that had turned her into a vampire? She didn't know, but she knew that she needed to find out.

temporary name

2009-08-23T22:56:00.002-04:00

the true ancients (temporary) name is Daray. It means dark, and was originated in America.

What the first paragraph of the book would be (maybe)

2009-08-23T22:24:00.001-04:00

She hated herself. She hated what she had become. She knew she was the only one of her kind, and she hated it. She knew what she had to do. She needed to create more.

villian?

2009-08-23T22:16:00.002-04:00

The true ancient fell for a human man. Completely head-over-heels in love with him. Would do anything for him. Including turning her into a vampire. Not just a regular vampire either, but one like her. A much more powerful one. However, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and he became absolutely corrupted. So corrupted that he started one of the worst epidemics of all time. He created the bubonic plague.

If I were introduce him in a book, here's how I would do it:

He smiled at her as he snapped back the girls neck and took a leisurely drink. He looked up and smirked. She took in his cold, almost mezmerizing, black eyes as he said "I was wondering when you would show up. Want some?"

4pi-con

2009-08-23T22:12:00.003-04:00

So I just got back from 4 pi-con (I got to be a panelist which was awsome) and I was on the "Not all Vampires Sparkle" panel, so, of course, I got some new ideas for my vampires (I also got to meet Innana Arthen which was really awsome)

the people are governed by fear. They respect the vampires but they are absolutely terrified of them

I need to figure out what the book (if I wrote it) would actually be about

Anything is a vampire as long as its a parasitic consumer (mine just drink blood for now, more on this later)

There has to be a defining enemy

and another more important one that I'll put in another post

Hidden sect

2009-07-09T21:25:00.002-04:00

so, as a kind of side story that would be in my book of vampires that I'm never going to write... there is a small, hidden sect of rather ancient, very powerful vampires that do not believe in the ancients. They worship the true ancient, and know that she is female. They are actually powerful enough that their leaders can also create more vampires, and they also make female vampires, but not very often. Every once in a while they try to rebel, and get almost completely obliterated, then build themselves up again in total secret.

Vampire hunters

2009-07-09T21:20:00.007-04:00

Do exist. Usually they're actually people that knew the true ancient very well and know her story and hate all other vampires. If they aren't, they never last very long. Usually, the ones that SURVIVE are very powerful, but if they took on an ancient, they probably wouldn't last a second.

Drinking human blood vs. Animal blood

2009-07-09T21:10:00.003-04:00

Vampires Can drink either human or animal blood, but they don't get as much blood out of animals, and it doesn't taste as good (although some vampires actually prefer the wilder taste). Most prefer human blood, but when they can't get it, they're willing to drink animal blood.

Does Turning into a vampire change their personality etc.

2009-07-09T21:09:00.004-04:00

Sometimes it makes humans go crazy to become a vampire, sometimes it makes them a lot colder and more detached, and sometimes it doesn't do anything. They do remember their previous lives, but sometimes, when they get to old, they start to forget things. Other than the physical changes and new powers (oh, and the teeth of course), their aren't any changes when they become vampires (usually)

How all this backstory ties into today

2009-07-08T21:36:00.005-04:00

somebody made an excellent point to me. She said "is your story you will never write all about the ancients and there lives and how the have interacted for forever? Or is that background tto a modern day urban fantasy of interaction between human and vampire worlds?" So, just to make it clear and such, if i ever write this book (which I doubt), it would be set in modern day. In Rome. If you read some of my early posts, I talk about the main character working in a hospital and a vampire turning her into a different kind of vampire and then she goes back in time and turns Romulus into a vampire. That is what my book would be about. Her going back in time to create the first vampire, and all of her other time adventures, and about the ancients being evil and trying to kill her becuase she's more powerful then them but at the same time with many vampires worshipping her. That is what my book would be about, a lot of the background stuff is just to kind of figure out the characters of the ancients and the council and everything so that if I do write this book I know how the characters would react to, well, everything. edit: sorry, my mistake, yes she does go back to change the ancients (the ancients changed all of the other vampires), but Romulus is still kind of the head of the ancients becuase he was the one that got everything organized.

Being Careful about where they get their blood

2009-07-08T21:20:00.003-04:00

so, vampires technically can drink from animals, but they don't get as much blood and it is considered to be of a worse quality (although some wilder vampires actually prefer it). But, if they do something like, say, drink from a poisoned animal, then the poison will not react well to their dead body. If they drink from a sick human, they might get the illness, depending on what it is. So as long as their careful, their fine.

Is it possible to become a human again?

2009-07-08T21:11:00.003-04:00

very simply, no. No it's not possible to become a human again once you've become a vampire.

New Ancient- Sun Tzu/Chang Quin

2009-01-13T19:14:00.005-05:00

So, I have decided to make the third ancient Sun Tzu, the chinese military leader who wrote "the art of war" As per usual, here's the actual story (according to http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/sun-tzu/index.htm), although I'm not sure how accurate it actually is becuase apparently, not much information is know about him. Sun Tzu originally named Sun Wu and also called Chang Qing (what the other ancients call him), authored The Art of War in the sixth century BC. This military strategy book became one of the most influential books of war and Sun Tzu became well known as not only a military strategist but also a realist in international relations theory. There are no exact records of Sun Tzu's birth or death (he erased them). The only known records of his life were from a biography written in the 2nd century BC by a historian named Sima Qian (he tried to erase that also, but Sima managed to escape while Chang Quin was still a new vampire and weak. By the time Chang Qing found him and killed him the book was already to popular to erase). Sun Tzu is believed to have been born in 544 BC under the name Sun Wu, possibly in the state of Qi in ancient China. His family were members of the shi, an ancient class of landless aristocrats who lost their land during the Spring and Autumn Period of territorial consolidation (actually vampires attacked them, that's when he got turned into a vampire) . During Sun Tzu's time, most shi travelled as academic scholars, but Sun Tzu decided to work as a mercenary (he liked the blood). After working throughout the country, the ruling king, King Helu of Wu, hired Sun Tzu as a general in 512 BC (he used a bit of mind control on him, even though he really didn't need to). Sun Tzu consequently authored The Art of War (in all of the original copies, between all the regular lines, there are more words that can only be seen by vampires, commenting and adding more and better details on everything), which, at the time was named Sun Tzu based on the custom to name a work after its author. Sun Tzu's military strategy soon became legendary and he even proved his knowledge by training battalions of previously untrained female soldiers (a large number of whom were actually vampires). Sun Tzu gave control of each battalion to King Helu's concubines. After they disobeyed orders and laughed at him, Sun Tzu executed two of the concubines, per military law, and finished his training with a powerful team with exceptional leadership skills. At the time of Sun Tzu's generalship, the kingdom of Wu was considered a semi-barbaric state and incapable of military regulation or cultural power . After Sun Tzu took control, however, the military in Wu went on to conquer the state of Chu, the most powerful state in the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history (once again, vampires). After the defeat of Chu, Sun Tzu disappeared, wanting a quiet, peaceful life as opposed to one of constant conflict (yeah, with the whole drinking blood in private and everything). His teachings, however, went on to influence not only military strategies, but also martial arts in both armed and unarmed combat (do I even need to say it?). In fact, his teaching known as Bing Fa became the basis for most Asian martial arts. Historians argue that Sun Tzu's work did not advocate war but, instead, told of strategies to employ should conflict arise. In fact, according to historians, Sun Tzu's philosophies were more about how to avoid war while still maintaining control over an enemy in tight situations rather than war itself (they're wrong. It's all about fighting, and fighting vampires). Although there are no confirmations that the two met, Sun Tzu lived during the time of Confucius and may have been influenced by the man's work (or may have influenced him). It's estimated that Sun Tzu died in 496 BC in the state of Wu. (or not...) actually, he just dissapeared. And eventually joined the ancients.

Elizabeth Bathory

2009-01-08T21:25:00.004-05:00

www.vampires.monstrous.com/erzsebet_bathory.htm

ok....this is the full story of Elizabeth Bathory. It is unbelievably gross and nasty and terrifying and bloody, and I wouldn't suggest reading it. But if your simply that curious to find out who she was, you can read it, but I would definetly not suggest it....

edit: Reelah pointed out that the url link didn't work, but it was only a slight mispelling on my part, so I fixed it

thank's for pointing it out! :3

Vampire council

2009-01-06T18:34:00.010-05:00

The vampire council are in charge, only outranked by the ancients, and simply do everything that the ancients are to busy to do. The council consists of:

Leonardo Da Vinci
Anne Boleyn
Dante
Catherine the Great (of Russia)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote)
Joseph Priestley (basiclly discovered Oxygen)
Charlotte Brontë (author of Jane Eyre)
Constantine (roman emperor)
Julius Caeser
Sequoyah (invented the cherokee written language)
Galileo Galilei
and eventually I'll think of more, if you have any suggestion, just tell me

what other animals can be turned into vampires, which ones can't

2009-01-06T18:34:00.006-05:00

If a vampire becomes attached to a creature that isn't a cat and wants to turn it into a vampire, the creature has to follow some rules:

it has to be unusually intellegent
it has to be impressive, so like an eagel or something, but nothing like, say, a toad
it has to be well behaved
it can't be a dog or anything that doesn't like cats
it has to behave well around other creatures
it has to behave well with other vampires
it has to be able to not interupt classes
etc.

Vampire cats

2009-01-06T18:04:00.005-05:00

So as I said, there are no vampire animals, other than cats. When the true ancient was turned and she went back in time (to create romulus, remember?) to Rome, she found a cat. Now, if you've ever been to Rome (or pretty much anywhere in Italy), you will know that there are cats everywhere (mostly strays). The True Ancient found one such cat and was astounded by how smart it was. It feared her, yet boldly came up her (as cats do). Just the way it walked and acted proved how smart it was. She took care of this cat for about a week or so, but one day she got away. Just for about half an hour, but that was enough. When she found the cat again, it was near death; it had been mauled by a wolf (the same one that took care of Romulus and Remus actually; it had smelled the vampire and oversense of death on the cat and had tried to kill it). She then Just in that short week she had learned to love the cat, and managed to turn it into a vampire just before it died. She then gave the vampire cat to Romulus (shortly after turning him) and he made it a tradition from there. Every time any ancient, or even any regular vampire find a cat that they become unusually attached to, if they go to the vampire council (the vampires directly under the ancients, more on this later) and have the cat approved, then they can turn it into a vampire cat (similar with almost any other animal, but it takes a lot more to get it approved, more on this later). The vampire cats wander around the Coliseum and well, act like cats.

bathing in blood

2009-01-06T17:41:00.002-05:00

simply has no effect. The only way that blood actually helps them is if they drink it or actually inject it into their blood stream.

vampires catching human diseases

2009-01-06T17:34:00.003-05:00

so simple human diseases such as the cold or the flu don't affect vampires. Technically, they ARE already dead, so anything that affects the lungs, the heart, the liver, the blood, almost any organ, simply have no affect (diseases need a living host, vampires are, once again, not alive). However, diseases that affect things such as the eyes, the ears, the nose, arms, legs, hands, things like that, do affect them. If it would dim any human sense, then if a vampire gets it, it affects them 10 fold. and the brain. Any mental illness or anything that would affect a normal human brain is very very dangerous for vampires. especailly becuase their brain is their most important feature.

Vampire lessons?

2009-01-06T17:11:00.002-05:00

Ok, so the coliseum is not just a place for the ancients to rule the world from, and not just a place for Vampire scientists, it is a vampire school, almost like a college. They teach lessons on vampire history (so for example, what famous people were truly vampires, such as Leonardo Da Vinci was a vampire. Also they teach what they usually teach in history...except the true version, more on this later), languages (more on this later), vampire biology (more on this later), human and vampire culture, vampire medicine, economics, politics, chemistry, literature, physics, math, journalism, psychology, philosophy, art, music, p.e., (more on all these classes later) pretty much everything they teach in regular college except their based on vampires instead of humans, and they're all on a higher level of intellect (vampires, on a basis, are smarter than humans).

Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley

2009-01-06T16:51:00.002-05:00

ok, so I'm reading a new vampire book called "Sucks to be me" by Kimberly Pauley. It's about a teenage girl (of course -_-) both of whom's parents are vampires. She needs to decide whether or not she wants to be a vampire, and to do that the vampire counsel is sending her to a month of lessons about vampires (more on this later).

At one lesson, the teacher starts telling them more about how vampires can catch human diseases (more on this later), and how they should be careful with where the blood they drink comes from (more on this later). At one point she says "And I don't want to hear about any Elizabeth Bathory copy-cats. Let me just say, once and for al, that bathing in blood has no effect whatsoever (more on this later) and will not sate your hunger (more on this later AGAIN ;-.-)." The main character then turns to the boy sitting next to her and asks who Elizabeth Bathory is. He says "Romanian Countess from the 1500s. She like to kill her chambermaids and bathe in their blood. Thought it made her look younger."

I found this very interesting, so I looked her up. Once again, I'll write more on her later, but for now, just quickly:

The main charecter of my "story," the true ancient, is the decent of Elizabeth Bathory (as I said, more on this later).

How the "true ancient" is different from the other vampires

2008-10-01T11:56:00.002-04:00

Okay, so here are the vampiric traits and non-traits of the true ancient (how she is different from other vampires). In white is what it is for normal vampires

allergic to garlic: (False) false, she loves garlic
can't enter a house without being invited in: (True)false
not able to cross water: (False)false
have to have the dirt of the graveyard they were buried in with them: (False) false, she never died and was never buried in a graveyard
cannot touch religious objects, wolfsbane, or wild roses: (false, false, true)false, false, false
Very pale: (true)true
No soul: (false)false
Can shape shift: (false)true, she can look however she wants (but her eyes are always the same color)but cannot be an animal
Psychic powers: (true)true
A stake to the heart will kill them: (false)true, her heart still beats
Chopping of the head will kill them: (true)true
The strength of ten men: (true)false, she has the strength of 1,000 men
venom that kills instantly: (true)true
a thirst for blood: (true)false
beauty: (true)true, all men who see her instantly fall in love, but only if she is in her true form (she is who the Greek called aphrodite)
a longer life span: (true)true, she lives 10,000 years
Don't have a reflection: (false)false
Don't show up in pictures: (false)false
Burn in sunlight: (false)false
Burned by crosses/churches: (false)false
Drink human blood: (true)false, she can but she doesn't need to
Sleep in a coffin: (false)false, she doesn't need any sleep but she can sleep if she wants to.

so that's the list for the true ancient!

Eyes

2008-09-30T16:08:00.006-04:00

Ok, so one of the defining vampire (of my vampires, and for most literary vampires) charecteristics is the eyes. So I thought I'd say something about them

For most vampires, most of the time, their eyes look just as they did when the were human. But when they drink human blood their eyes look like this (whichever is closest to their original color):

But the ancients are a little diffrent. Their eyes always look the ones above, and when they drink blood their eyes look like:

And then the true immortal's eyes usually look like this:

But when she gets mad or drinks human blood (which she avoids as much as possible), they look like this:

(all eye pictures courtesy of vampfangs.com, you can buy these contacts there!)

Night World by L.J. Smith

2008-09-30T15:59:00.002-04:00

So I'm reading a new book (Night world), and the first (of three) stories is called Secret vampire, and is, obviously, about vampires.

At one point they kind of explain why vampires need to drink human blood to survive, and I thought that it made a lot of sense, so I'm going to use it for my vampires.

"Vampire blood destroy hemoglobin-the red cells-in human blood. Once it destroys enough of the red cells, you stop getting the oxygen you need to live"..."We take a little and that carries oxygen through our system until our own blood destroys it."

Doesn't that make a lot of sense?

So that and for other mystical reasons is why my vampires need human blood to survive.

the true ancient's vampiric traits and non traits

2008-08-28T21:53:00.004-04:00

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

2008-08-28T21:15:00.011-04:00

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

2008-08-28T21:15:00.008-04:00

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

2008-08-28T21:15:00.005-04:00

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

2008-08-28T21:14:00.007-04:00

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

2008-08-28T21:14:00.005-04:00

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"

2008-08-28T20:24:00.002-04:00

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?

2008-08-27T13:21:00.005-04:00

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

2008-08-26T05:10:00.001-04:00

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

2008-08-25T23:45:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-25T15:39:00.005-04:00

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

2008-08-25T15:01:00.007-04:00

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

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

Attila the Hun

2008-08-25T14:44:00.003-04:00

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:

"He suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor."
"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

2008-08-25T12:59:00.003-04:00

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

2008-08-24T20:15:00.007-04:00

(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

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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?

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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

2008-08-24T15:08:00.005-04:00

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

2008-08-24T14:57:00.003-04:00

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

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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)

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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

2008-08-24T01:39:00.005-04:00

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.