The story so far
(1916 – 1933)
Seventeen years before the start our tale, an unusual yet remarkable baby girl was born to a nineteen year old Irish-American woman named Eliza Rebecca McDougal in a New York City hospital. The child, named Rayne Amelia McDougal, otherwise known as Rayne, was a dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire hybrid. She was the result of her mother's rape by her vampire father Kagan, an event her mother tried to put behind her as she tried to raise her daughter. However this was not to be. Shortly after her tenth birthday, Kagan marked his debut into Rayne's life by having her family massacred and forcing his child to drink her mother's blood.
This act would ensure that Rayne's vampire powers would awaken. The event scarred Rayne and she develops a passionate hatred for her father and all vampires. Three years later, she kills her first vampire and then goes after the ones who created him. Her second victim is Clayton Gordon, a vampire who masqueraded as the son of Patricia Gordon, a wealthy philanthropist and owner of a soup kitchen in New York City. Behind closed doors however, Clayton was a sadistic, pedophile and monster who preyed on the young waifs of the city.
Needless to say he got what he deserved by Rayne's hands.
After escaping a fiery death caused by Patricia, Rayne follows the woman across the Atlantic to England. Upon landing, Rayne is exposed to opium whilst hiding in a crate on a Bournemouth wharf and subsequently goes through the symptoms caused by the drug and she is arrested and put in jail for attacking a couple when she began to suffer from withdrawal. Things get better for her however, when she is saved by Nadya, the Romani maid of Professor Trumain. At Trumain Manor, Rayne meets her half-siblings who were adopted or rescued by the Professor.
Gabriel and Gabriella, Hashim, Holly and Mathias.
Rayne eventually re-encounters Patricia in a London Street one February day, and she kills her in a burning theater the following night. Besides Patricia, another monster from Rayne's past reemerges, Ophelia Rosales, the female vampire that helped Kagan murder Rayne's family. Rayne goes to rural Aragon, Spain to confront her foe and there she encounters the Guerra family, triplet siblings who bullied the village there and were also werewolves. Rayne slaughters them one by one and she eventually gets her long awaited confrontation with Ophelia. Seven years of pent up rage is unleashed upon the vampire that night and is climaxed when Rayne brutally blinded Ophelia.
Despite the handicap, Ophelia continued to fight but it was all in vain and she was killed by Rayne in her family castle's chapel just as dawn was approaching. With her dead, Rayne set her eyes on her father but, her actions have caught the interest of the Brimstone Society. This top-secret fraternity of monster slayers and order preservers believe that Rayne will be an invaluable asset to their group. But first, she must prove her worth to their leader.
Dark Man…
And so begins our tale...