Vampires, in order to protect The Veil, had kept a low profile for centuries. Even before being subject to the rulings of the Ghuvk, they saw what occurred when to those of reckless natures exposed themselves to a paranoid, reactive human society. Protection by their Houses did not give defence against those who would disrupt Vampire affairs as, over the centuries, there had been those who would break The Veil for their own motives.

Realising that they could only call upon human aid as an extreme measure, those who would kill Demons first were bound to kill Vampires next. The beings reluctant to surrender their freedom grasped that they had to do just that to survive. Outnumbered on their own world and weaker than many of the Demons that traversed The Reveal, Vampire policing paralleled human development. Stealing from what they already knew, and using the experience of a world suffering the same lack of control, they took their pre-trained regulators from those of human experience.

Ageing towards Aunsin had many realise their legacy needed be more than the order of Houses or clubs of pleasure. They gave those still waiting to embrace their new heritage a system of governing as well as a force capable of policing, and most importantly the ability to meet an act of war with a competent, trained force.

By creating the Aeternus, a regulatory code of Vampire conduct, they became the Council of Aeternus, the local body known as the Ghuvk. Rulings of the Council were often set by, or run past, the Ancients because they were the only ones with enough power to stop the wayward behaviour of Houses.

The being least in control of his world was the one that provided the realm with a force considered one of the more superior in training and values within The Reveal. The Runners, named after the famed human Bow Street Runners, embraced the ethos to serve and protect the Vampire Nation without corruption or agenda. Failure to do so was dealt with within the ranks and none questioned the absence or inclusion of a new Runner. It was the experience of the Ghuvk that the often fanatical Vampire spirit required little motivation to embrace or employ their zealotry.

There were many threats within and exterior to the Vampiric realm. They were often disposed of without the benefit of trial or explanation. The strict training and internal knowledge of the swift and brutal justice dealt to those who would betray their code kept Runner corruption at bay. The Runners were left to regulate Vampire affairs without interference from the local Demonic prince.

The Vampires hated that they were not masters of their own world, for while the Demonic rule protected The Veil and respected their laws, they were always conscious of the superior force of the Martyc Empire.

Of those that threatened The Veil none was considered worse than their own kind becoming deviant. These were composed of those either tired of life or psychologically impaired, for Unveiling would not cure what ailed them before. The Devs tended to be rational beings determined to make irrational choices, while Revenants were beings whose lives were reduced to no more than the primal urge to kill.

Usually their creators removed them, but the human world still managed to observe enough of these terrifying creatures to place them into their myths. During Unveiling there were those that did not survive the transition of the Demonic infection, which destroyed the remainder of their humanity to leave an incomplete creature, Demonic, insane, and the basis of the legend zombie.

Another threat was human detection as there were varied responses to the discovery of Vampires and visitors from The Reveal. Some were amazed, some exploited the situation by promptly organising enterprise exchange, and then there were the hazards. Those that could not accept their new reality and with their minds broken they were hidden away in Vampire owned mental institutions.

Finally there were the extremists, those that believed humanity had a right to deal with the deviants among them. Even these were divided into two groups, the Oric, the human hunters that protected The Veil and Corts, those with the intent of exposing the mutations among them. Paradoxically, the Vampire Nation sanctioned Corts for immediate removal and tolerated the group that would murder them without hesitation.

The Oric were no match for Vampires or Demons, so they targeted those least able to protect themselves, the Tyro. If a newly Unveiled Vampire was unsanctioned and left to wander the world unaware of their changing state, then they became a liability to the Vampire Nation. Vampires had their own system for capture and relocation of these lost souls, but if the Oric happened to dispatch the unfortunate then this also answered Vampiric need.

During history the general lawlessness, which reached a crisis point in the urban centres of a quickly modernising world, was also reflected in the Vampire world. Despite the constraints of protecting The Veil, its citizens were as unruly and haphazard as their human counterparts. The vanity of those who deigned to grant eternal life upon those they loved or hated never considered that transformation could have failures and soon their world was littered with creatures that could not be left to wander a world now cohesive enough to take note of the fiends within their domain.

In the past local villagers would have hunted down Revenants as their belief in monsters had them accept the malformations as a natural part of their world. A modern world was an educated world, and one that questioned all, even the creations of their gods, so it was within their failures that the Vampires risked detection.

Revenants, the weak link in the chain, were removed quickly upon emergence and those reluctant or unable to do so would leave one roaming at their own peril. First the creature was destroyed and then they would attempt to discover who created an unsanctioned monster. The Runners rarely left hunting errant Demons solely to the Aegai, because it was simple to thwart the clumsy guards. Not known for their intelligence, the success of the Aegai lay in their determination to achieve the task set them and their hope that the being in question would eventually cross their path.

The early Vampire, without a formal system of regulation, used punishment by consensus at first as a method to contain those dangerous to The Veil. As their numbers grew, it became impossible to ascertain exactly who was doing what to whom. As the urban world became more refined, so also did the sophistication of the Unveiled. The Vampire Nation became governed and in turn created guardians to protect Vampire interests. The thief-takers, stolen from the human world soon became the regulators of their new Vampire world.