The Vampire was left a sterile creature unable to reproduce, so they transformed others by blood exchange calling it Unveiling. Those who were newly Unveiled, known as a Tyro, underwent not only a transformation of their awareness, but also the beginning of an eerie physical alteration.

This was called the Change, a painful experience that assaulted the victim in a brutal manner simultaneously affecting both their mind and body. First, they were overwhelmed by an acute awareness of their environment caused by their recently enhanced senses. Minute details became painfully obvious as objects began to have sharp clear definitions that made them appear hard to view, as if too large for focus.

Colours appeared glowing, vibrant and there was a temporary but acute sensitivity to light, which gradually reduced over the first weeks. Noise was particularly disturbing. Sound became sounds when every noise was accompanied by a range of others never noted in the past. Smells were divided into their components, the sensory overload assaulting a mind unable to cope, and the Tyro could be terrified into self-destruction until the protective mantle of their first drink of blood.

The physical transformation did not stop at augmented senses, for the dominion of fragile human DNA was overwritten as the entire body was modified into a structure tainted by Demonic infection.

In the first few weeks after the Unveiling, the novitiate found they were not only in a nightmare of new perceptions, but also discovered their actual physical form transmuted into the most attractive semblance their body could attain. Even those who embraced their new Vampire beauty soon discovered they would lose their former life.

The price of longevity was their identity, because they no longer resembled their human self. This enhancement had become essential to survival as the Vampire relied upon being attractive to those they must seduce, their human prey.

Plagued by vivid dreams with foreign emotions that lingered after awakening, the new Vampire found themselves confused by overwhelming desires. They did not know their yearning was starvation and their need was for blood. They only could feel their depths unsettled while life became a waking desperation. The consuming desire hurled them into despair as they watch in horror while their physical being altered into only a semblance of their past person.

The evolution of the Vampire had them acquire many tools of survival with each tailored to the frailty of the beings whose existence they depended upon. The Vampire required more than strength and agility, because the Vampire had to be able to approach their victim close enough for intimacy. They soon discovered that their new disguise of beauty would achieve this. For the human eye was programmed to appreciate beauty of all forms and this foible of human nature was one the Vampire as Demons did best: the weakness of others.

After the Unveiling, the Tyro watched their skin turn smooth and unblemished while their eyes glowed with colours to mesmerise. Their features would shift into a more pleasing aspect as their bodies achieved an attractive shape and the Vampire became the reflection of human desire.

The virus transformed its host during sleep and the infected awoke to find themselves in a bed of ashes while any surplus weight had mysteriously dropped away. So the muscled became well built, plump became slimmer. The recipient of this change had no say in their metamorphosis.

Their hair would become thick and glossy while any abnormalities that made them less appealing shifted into an aspect that suited the human eye. There were Vampires with big noses, small noses, short legs, long legs, big eyes, and small eyes, but whatever their proportions it was never ugly to the viewer.

The change created by the virus altered the balance towards the attractive and the uniform as their features would allow. So while there was some deviation it existed within a range of allure with some more appealing than others, but all were striking enough to seduce. Those whose bodies rejected or were unable to embrace the change fully did not transform and became the primal Revenant, a beast without thought or direction.

The fledgling was usually eased through this change by their Numen, the one who created them, for to traverse this alone could drive the unsuspecting human into self-destruction. Tyros were known to be driven mad by this change when unable to reconcile their new physical being with the loss of their former identity.

Fearful of the potential damage unsupervised Tyros could cause the Ghuvk ruled that all Unveilings had to be sanctioned in order to ensure that a Tyro did not inadvertently bring attention to their plight. However there were those of the New and Old Houses who would ignore this stricture causing the Council to create the Accord in order to help the unclaimed survive the journey through the Unveiling.

Once changed the Vampire would discover new abilities. Some of these were reminiscent of the preternatural powers assigned to them by myth, as there was always an observer somewhere recording the truth.

A Vampire saw the world through eyes acclimatised to take in minute details. There was no hiding in the shadows since a Vampire could see perfectly in the dark and while at first daylight was difficult to manage, this soon passed. Vampires heard the sounds made by creatures usually too small to be noticed, and they also comprehended sounds from a distance that allowed them to identify unfolding events.

They possessed uncanny strength, which allowed them to leap a vast distance up and down which was often mistaken for flying. They could move at speeds that make them a blur and stand so still they were unnoticed in the dim light.

The Vampire did not worry about fingerprints, for these were left by the oils of human tissue and their touch disappeared within seconds. Their hair, blood, skin, once freed from their body turned to dust and disappeared back through The Reveal as the universes adjusted the balance between them. The Vampire, through the nature of their evolution and the position of power of their nation, survived in the modern world, even one equipped with the tools of forensic science.

The Vampire was not the undead as the lore suggested because this creature was a frozen moment in time aging at a different pace and no longer prisoner of the transient existence of humanity. Fearful only of exposure the Vampire had adapted, was adaptable, and this ensured they remained the silent shadow within the evolution of mankind.