In Hungary 5029 BC, Markus the first vampire, came to Viktor a noble king who was close to death. The next breath to Viktor meant more than land and gold. Markus made a deal with him that he would make Viktor immortal if he is able to turn his army to help him stop his twin brother, William the first werewolf, from killing more people. Viktor agrees only if he is put in charge of the army and anything else they do afterwards.
Markus turns Viktor into a vampire. They soon find out that people turned by Markus is a lot stronger than those bitten by others he have turned. Viktor feared that someone would try to over through him. So Viktor banded Markus from turning anyone unless he says he can.
So Viktor changed his army and let only the people he trust be bitten by Markus. He chose Amelia, Aro, Caius, Marcus to become the armies elders. Some of the elders had children while they were human. Viktor had Sonja, Aro had Selene, and Amelia had Jacob. Viktor let Markus turn their children in hopes that they will follow in their steps to become elders someday. Jacob was the eldest so he was changed first at the age of 19. Followed by Sonja and Selene, both at the age of 18.
When they became as strong as the elders, Viktor told them that it was time to join the others as elders as well. But they loved hunting down and killing the werewolf's so much that if they were to become elders they would not be able to hunt them anymore. So they all declined and formed a group know as the Death Dealers that they would lead to kill the werewolf's. The Death Dealers grew in numbers over the years and continued to hunt down the werewolf's, and soon it became a war.
List of Death Dealers
Jacob
Sonja
Selene
Michael
Kraven
Erika
Kahn
Soren
Nathaniel
Rigel
Alec
Afton
Chelsea
Corin
Demetri
Felix
Heidi
Jane
Renata
Santiago
James
Victoria
Randall
Alistair