A/N: I do not own Harry Potter or Legacy of Kain

Thousands of years ago, the world was far different from the world of today. It was back when humanity was still a new race and the world was ruled by two other races.

One, known simple as the Ancients, were a noble race who worshiped an entity known as the Elder God and actively encouraged the newly formed human race to worship

their god as their own. The second race was known as the Hyldens, a mysterious race that little was known about. The Hyldens strongly opposed the Ancients' belief in

predestined fate and refused to worship the Elder God. The feuding between the two races eventually escalated to all out war that devastated both races and the land they

resided in. The bitter war continued until nine Ancient sorcerers banished the Hyldens to the Demon Dimension and sealed the passageways between the realms with nine

pillars but their victory was short lived. For as they were being banished, the Hyldens cursed the Ancients leaving them sterile, immortal, and with an insatiable thirst for

blood. Their immortality made their god abandon them and their thirst for blood drove them to attack the very humans who had been their allies. Some killed themselves

to be with their god and others were killed by humans. It seemed as though their race, now known to humans as vampires, was doomed to die but as their race teetered

on the brink, something curious happened. Some of the Ancients were able to pass their curse to humans, creating the second generation of vampires. The Ancients

eventually died out but they were succeeded by the new, human vampires. Hundreds of generations passed and the vampiric race continued to teeter between two

extremes; overpopulation and near extinction. However, each generation evolved more than the last in both form and mindset until they no longer resembled the

Ancient vampires of the past. They kept their numbers low enough to avoid detection and their appearance hardly changed from the time they were turned until the

day they were killed. They could blend in and hide amongst the very humans they hunted. They no longer evolved like their ancestors, instead being reborn with

unique powers and stealing powers from other vampires. However, they regained their ability to reproduce but even then, both the conception and birth rates were

frighteningly low. During this modern era, many vampires believed that the old bloodlines were dead, killed off because their spawn was weak and unable to adapt to

the times. Oh, how foolish they were...