Prologue or "In the Beginning"
Somewhere in Transylvania, late December, 1503 Anno Domini.
Once upon a time, there lived two young women. Masters in swordsmenship and sorcery, they lived in supposed peace… that is, until the raid upon their family keep; a group of demonic vampires had come through the forest surrounding their mountain home, and attacked, leaving no one alive (or so they thought). Aeslin, the elder sister (by only a year), had been 14 at the time of the raid; Angelus, the youngest of the family had only been 13. Their father, Nikolas, was a human, and the most-skilled swordman in the surrounding villages, and their mother was a long-dead sorceress. Nikolas told the girls to hide in the long-forgotten family crypt, under the dungeon in the castle, although that did little good in protecting them. The head vampire scoured the castle looking for the girls, and when he found them, well… no one knows what happened next….