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Vampire: Origins
Vlad Dracula was a man of faith and war, a ruler who believed God guided his victories and trials alike. Love was his true refuge, and in his wife he found a peace no battlefield could offer. That peace ended when she died, deceived into believing him slain. When Dracula returned, the Church declared her soul damned for suicide. In that moment, the God he had served became unforgivable.
He shattered the chapel altar and renounced heaven. If God offered no mercy, he would seek power beyond divine law, power to defy death itself. In the Carpathians, Dracula entered the Scholomance, where demonic masters taught forbidden arts. He learned to command darkness and sever his soul from God’s judgment, accepting damnation as the final price.
Through blood and blasphemy, he died and rose again. Sunlight burned him, holy ground rejected him, and blood became his sustenance. Love remained only as hunger and memory.
Thus the first vampire was born, shaped by grief, crowned by defiance, and freed by undeath.
Before departing Earth, Maloker, the last of the Old Ones mixed his blood with a human's, thus creating the first vampire. Fearful that his time was up, Maloker sought to raise an army using his vampiric bite on a human.
He was eventually sealed within the Deeper Well.
Judas Iscariot was one of the Twelve Apostles, chosen by Jesus Christ to follow him closely. He traveled with Jesus, heard his teachings, and shared in his ministry. He handled the group’s money, though they also hint at growing inner conflict, disillusionment, greed, or confusion about what Jesus’s mission truly was.
As Jesus’s message challenged religious authorities in Jerusalem, Judas betrayed Jesus for a bribe of thirty pieces of silver. When he saw Jesus dying on the cross, Judas was horrified by what he had done and tried to hang himself but the rope snapped and as punishment he was cursed to live forever, as the world’s first Vampire.
The silver became toxic and even fatal to him, as did daylight and Christian symbols.
The Alpha Vampire was created long before recorded history as part of Eve’s secret plan to populate the world with monsters. Every vampire lineage traces back to him, whether they acknowledge it or not.
Unlike his descendants, the Alpha was not born of hunger or corruption, but of purpose. Eve shaped him as a living seed, an immortal constant meant to endure while civilizations rose and fell. His blood did not merely grant eternal life; it rewrote those who received it, twisting their desires, fears, and instincts into something predatory yet intelligent.
As the Alpha wandered the ancient world, fragments of his power splintered with each turning. These fragments diluted over generations, giving rise to the many vampire strains: nobles and beasts, scholars and savages, creatures of shadow and creatures of bloodlust. Yet all of them carry an echo of him, a subconscious pull toward dominance, secrecy, and survival.
Akasha was a brilliant and formidable queen of ancient Egypt, deeply concerned with law, justice, and the survival of civilization. Enkil, her king, ruled through strength and fear. Together, they governed during a time when spirits and gods were believed to walk among humans.
A powerful and destructive spirit named Amel plagued the land. Seeking to protect her kingdom, Akasha attempted a ritual to bind the spirit. The ritual failed, and Amel fused with Akasha’s body and blood, granting her immortality and an unending thirst for blood.
When Enkil was mortally wounded, Akasha gave him her blood to save him. Amel passed into him as well, creating the first pair of vampires. From them, all other vampires would descend.
Mikael and his wife Esther traveled to what would one day become Mystic Falls. There, among a village secretly inhabited by werewolves, they settled with their children, Finn and Elijah. In time, Esther bore four more: Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik.
Mikael’s relationship with Niklaus was strained and abusive, and tragedy struck when Klaus and Henrik witnessed a werewolf transformation; Henrik was accidentally killed. Grief drove Mikael to obsession, he would never lose another child.
Esther adapted the immortality spell once created by Qetsiyah in order to give their children abilities of superhuman strength, speed, agility and healing that would be even stronger than those of the werewolves. Esther drew on mystic symbols in order to fuel her spell; she called upon the Sun for life, and the white oak tree, long known for being one of the earth's eternal objects, for immortality.
In order to complete the ritual, Mikael had his children drink wine laced with the blood of Tatia, a Petrova doppelgänger and distant descendant of the world's first immortal woman, Amara before he then thrust his sword through their chests. They awoke in transition, and on their father's orders, drank Human blood from a village girl in order to complete their transformation into the Original vampires.
Unfortunately for them, there were consequences for this transformation, and Nature sought to try to restore the balance they upset by giving them a weakness for every new strength they had gained. The sun that gave them life burned them, their thirst for human blood was insatiable, and they could not enter neighbors homes with an invitation. Vervain flowers, which grew at the base of the white oak tree, burned them and protected against compulsion. Finally, the White Oak Tree, which gave them immortality, was also the one substance on earth that could actually destroy them for good.
Every vampire descended from them, and had varying degree of weaknesses similar to the Originals.
According to the Vampire Bible, God created the first vampire, Lilith, followed by the creation of the first humans, Adam and Eve. They were said to have been created as sustenance for Lilith.
Bill Compton has stated that, many centuries ago, vampires created many of the vampire myths themselves in order to protect themselves. For instance, since it was believed that vampires could not be seen in the mirror, a vampire could prove that they weren't a vampire by appearing in a mirror. Other myths include holy water, holy grounds, crucifixes, and photography, which have no actual effect on vampires.