Prologue
This is a story of vampires. Let me give you a brief history of the vampires.
The very first vampire was an individual by the name of Caine. According to his own recounting, his mother, Eve, was created to be a companion for Adam,and had brought the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to him in her effort to fulfill that duty. She and Adam ate of the fruit, believing that knowledge of good and evil was Adam's birthright as the first son of God, and were cast out by God for their disobedience. Exiled from Eden, they lived in its shadow, and Eve soon bore Caine and Abel. Adam gave each of his sons a birthright: to Caine, the knowledge of plants, herbs, and growing things; to Abel, the mastery over animals. When the time came to sacrifice to God, Abel chose the finest among his animals, and Caine his choicest crops. But Caine's crops were not a pure sacrifice, as Caine's ability to grow and harvest them was born of God's curse upon Adam: that he should toil in the dust of the Earth. Abel's mastery over the animals came from God's gift of the same skill to Adam, and this made his sacrifice pure. Caine demanded answers from his father, and from God, but it was Abel who provided the understanding: God would accept no impure sacrifice; only the best of what Caine loved, which was not born of a curse, would be accepted. For Caine, that meant only one thing: his beloved younger brother.
Being cast out by God for doing as he was told caused Caine great bitterness, and he spat upon the Earth, disdaining and forever relinquishing his mastery over plants and herbs. He wandered, alone, heartbroken and in pain, until he found himself in the lands of Nod, east of Eden. There he met Lilith, his father's first wife and created in the same manner as Adam, who was cast from Eden for daring to question God and attempt to claim her birthright, rather than be subservient to Him and Adam. She gave Caine succor and showed him the power she had found, and Caine, desiring that power, fed on Lilith's blood to gain it. He then fled her house rather than battle her rage and continued his journey alone. Among his newfound powers were invincibility against Adam's descendants, great speed and strength, ability to manipulate time, shadows, flesh and mind; these powers would later evolve into the Disciplines which his childer would wield, although with far less potency than Caine possessed.
At this point, Caine was visited by the archangels Michael, Uriel, and Gabriel, each in their turn and offering Caine salvation if he would but seek forgiveness from God for murdering his brother. Caine rejected each offer, feeling that God was a hypocrite and that he was the wronged party; enraged by his lack of humility and the bitter defiance he showed them and God, each angel cursed Caine:
Michael cursed Caine to forever fear fire;
Uriel cursed him to be unable to dwell in sunlight and to live forever in darkness;
Gabriel cursed him to be neither living nor dead, neither human nor beast, unchanging, undying and ever without hope; to feed upon blood alone; that hunger shall devour mercy; and that his offspring shall war with one another, young and weak against old and strong, that he may be their judge and know what it is for a father to condemn his children.
When finally Raphael, archangel of healing came to him, he offered a path to redemption called Golconda, on which Caine could find peace if he chose. These curses altered Caine into the first vampire.
sorry that the chapter is so short but all i needed to do is explain the history and story of Caine in this chapter
i promise the next one will be longer...review and tell me what you think and if i should keep going
Majik the Klown