I was unprepared then, for what would befall us. I could not see the horror that was coming upon us, I could not know what cruel blow the world would fell me with, what terror would follow me the rest of my days. I am told now that it began somewhere in France, when one inscrutable monster killed in a spree unrivaled in all of history, awakening modern man to the presence of our kind, kindling a fire of vengeance that would spread across time, burning hot and low and dangerous. In that fire was born a new monster, perhaps more bloodthirsty than Crenoral's entire clan could ever have been. They were commissioned by the Church, blessed and sent out on their crusade to save mankind from the devil of the darkness.
Before then we had been creatures of myth and legend, a thing whispered of and
