Once ancient, the Aunsin was no longer able to pass easily as human, so they had no reason to remain with other Vampires and left their Houses to off-world settlements. There they remained silent guardians eternally devoted to the continuance of their kind and ready to strike if the Ghuvk failed in its obligations.

The Aunsin monitored the ongoing Vampire world, invisible, mysterious, and imperious. Their word was still law, and they removed with quiet efficiency those who transgressed. They protected the Vampire Nation from harm and most importantly from itself. As with any political body, the Ghuvk found itself subject to the usual squabbles and factions that power generated.

Leaving those approaching Aunsin on the human realm for as long as possible ensured that there would always be a dispassionate observer at the helm. Tolerated, but hardly welcome within the Demonic universe, the Aunsin realised the prudence of retaining an active Vampire presence upon a world that might become their last port of retreat.

Those in the last stages of Aunsin were to enter an Ashre, the spiritual retreat of Vampires, where they learned to control the new manifestations of their power. The Ashres were run in remote geographical locations, and the only ones allowed entry were those approaching their Ancient status, as not even Zhismi served these Vampires. Those of lesser status served the older ones until transformation was complete.

This endless cycle ensured that whatever occurred within the Ashre remained contained within the compounds and so the only information of the Ashre was a statement of its purpose with the rest being conjecture of the observer. The Aunsin were as powerful as most high caste Demons, matching the Varkja and Martyc in strength with the ingenuity of their human origins.

This created an impressive mutation, and the Aunsin Vampire was respected and often feared throughout The Reveal. One organisation the Aunsin never interfered with was the Martyc Empire. Realising there was open knowledge of the human world throughout The Reveal and reluctant to allow their world to become a perpetual battleground for resources, the Martyc Empire seemed a tolerable protection.

The Empire promoted peace as it had learned that prosperity went hand in hand with it, so in general they left the local populace alone. While the Ancients could have queried an Empire that rarely stopped and sometimes even promoted wars, famine, disasters, they had become too entrenched in their own history to question it too closely.

Finding humanity unoriginal at best, and clichéd at worst, the Ancients, before scattering themselves through many realms, stayed aloof from most human plots while neither acknowledging nor supporting the agendas of those beneath The Veil.

Those approaching the end of their Vampire tenure, who remained outside the Ashre or on the human realm would be unable to attain the final transformation of their being. Fettered by clinging to the vestiges of a human life that no longer pertained to them they were caught within the remnants of human emotions and desires that restrained them.

Unable to release the last of their humanity and embrace their Demonic heritage, they couldn’t take the last step before evolving into Ancient. Those close to Aunsin lived within the Vampire world, arrogant with the knowledge that none dared to cross them because their powerful contemporaries were off world and unlikely to intervene.

With this new power, and in control of the fury dancing within their Demonic blood, the Aunsin were rarely challenged in their quest to create settlements upon worlds too weak to protest. In true Demonic fashion they exploited the exploitable and, using their human connection, traded in one thing the human realm excelled in: luxuries.

The Aunsin settlements became wealthy and powerful forces upon the worlds they occupied and with wisdom seldom employed by their human ancestors the Ancients left well enough alone. Seeing the wealth of trade the new arrivals brought to a world, the indigenous population soon realised the value in protecting those who rarely interfered in local politics.

Only once within memory did the Ancients return en masse to the human realm, and that was during a strange period in the 1960’s when hippy Vampires decided to embrace the entire human world. With the blinkered rationality of a New Age they saw only a Utopian resolution and never the reality of a Vampire world minus a food source.

The furious Ancients took down all the unsanctioned New World Houses that had sprung up for they were easy to find as their flower children creators gave them names like ‘House of Rainbow, Sunshine and Karmic Benevolence’.

If the Ancients of the past were shrouded in a cloak of mysterious hearsay and legend, they were at that time excruciatingly real, silent, and deadly. They cleaned house with a vicious precision that put a chill through the entire Vampire populace leaving a message that resonated throughout their world. The newly appointed Ghuvk observed the sanctions with a religious fervour more suited to an auto da fé than regulation of the Vampire world.

Those who survived learned that in the future the Council would not hesitate to call upon the Aunsin to clean house if Vampires refused to acquiesce to the Code of Aeternus. The antics of Old World Vampires became rare as they progressed in their own journeys towards Aunsin; however, there were always a few chasing personal agendas. Too powerful to restrain and often with influential friends off world the Ghuvk resigned itself to cleaning up the aftermath of Old World transgressions.

The fully evolved Aunsin took the Vampire hypersensitivity of their composition to a merging of desire and effect, and the Ancient did not do as much as will to happen. Demons from Aunsin-occupied worlds were interrogated by Vampires hopeful to learn and discover clues to their future, if they could survive the centuries of evolution required.

Since the Aunsin rarely used their abilities in the worlds they occupied the quizzing resulted in little information other than the Aunsin’s business efficiency. The few that remained in the human world had not finished their development and did not have access to the same powers as those who left, so few could state what the powers of an Aunsin entailed. They could only recite tales of the great purge of how the Ancients appeared and suddenly entire Houses had disappeared.

The Vampire world had been reduced by a full third and those who lived through the elimination would never forget power, raw and visceral, destroying all in its path. The Aunsin became the gods of the Vampire Nation resting in their hidden worlds, the threat of their power ever-present, rarely seen and so their myths remained intact.