I am currently writing a new adventure for Eldritch Shadows featuring a staple of the Modern Fantasy/Paranormal Genre: The Vampire. Thoughts and feedback are always welcome.
Background
Vampires have
existed since the dawn of time. As the He created all life in the
universe the Adversary sought to counter and corrupt His creations.
The Vampire was the first, but mostly certainly not the last. As
humans basked and grew in the light of day the Adversary children
sought and controlled the night. As humans where made in His image
the Vampire was a dark parody of that image; a sickness, and hunger
brought forth from the depths of humanity. The Adversary sought to
create a predator to hunt, to tempt, to seduce, to rend, to tear, and
to destroy. However, while the Adversary sought to slap Him in the
face, sought to make a mockery of His creations, one thing was
overlooked: free-will.
Free-will still
existed and while the Adversary still had a margin of influence and
control on his creations they fled and sought their own pleasures,
their own delights, and their own truths. In the end, they still
thrive, multiple, and fulfill the command of their father, but not as
the Adversary wished and so much slower than ever desired.
Before the Now
It was the vampires
who first went into hiding, long before the creatures of nightmare
and shadows. During the time of the first enlightenment. when men
like DaVinci where hunting them and bring the Shadows into the light,
the first Enclave was formed and new havens and hunting grounds where
sought. Decades before Columbus the Enclave of Bincheno Gioveni
landed on the shores of what would become Cuba and from there the
vampires spread throughout South America, slowly overtaking culture
after culture, turning the leaders, priests, and headmen to their
darkness. Large swathes of the Americas became footholds of the
Shadows in this time slowly marking the way for the dark and selfish
desires of explorers to come. Only the tribes of the North American
plains could face the Enclave, but as the colonization of the
Americas took place the power of the plains tribes began to falter
and soon the Enclave gained a foothold in North America.
That foot-hold was
short lived, with the second enlightenment of the American Revolution
the Vampires found themselves again thrown back into the shadows.
However, they retained some measure of power in the American South
and in the nations being born out of the ashes of South America.
The Now
The Enclave is
strong, its businesses, law firms and political connections both in
the light and in the Shadows are the strongest the world has ever
seen. One out of Five CEO in a Fortune 500 company is a Vampire of at
least minor nobility, with enough resources and power to sway
governments to their whims. The seat of the Enclave still resides in
South America, in the shimmering towers of Rio di Janeiro. Bincheno
Gioveni still heads the Enclave, moving pieces across a world board
and unknowingly broadening the foothold of the Shadows.
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