When the Demons crossed The Reveal they brought with them their illness, and one particular virus mutated to jump across the species and infect humans. Some died, some went mad, and some developed into a being belonging to neither world, a mutant, called the Vampire.

Immaculate, Vampires possessed a pristine beauty that could attract or repel depending upon their audience. The Vampire, with their unnatural perfection and preternatural qualities, survived the centuries in a life lived in the shadows. Neither human nor Demon, and gifted with the best from each world, they blended into the darkness as an unobserved passenger. Fluid, silent, immobile, beyond nature and beyond fate, they endured despite the hostility of the worlds surrounding them.

Evolving alongside their human counterpart, they soon acquired the features a predator required to capture their prey with the least expenditure of effort. The traits of the modern Vampire developed at an unnatural pace. Those who survived the mutation and survived detection successfully passed their effective traits onto those they also Unveiled.

The Vampire fared best on the outskirts of the human world. While they never lost the tie to their origins, remaining human in form and often in their preferences; their mutation, if detected, ensured immediate death.

Once their transformation was complete, the Vampire was deemed Ancient with an appearance more Demonic than human. Now able to survive passage through The Reveal and with an appearance startlingly Demon they quickly left the human realm. In their world within a world, a superior being amongst men despite their dependence upon the beings that sustained them, Vampires developed their gifts to suit the environment they currently inhabited.

With the grace of a cat, they moved amidst humans while keeping peripheral to human consciousness. They were no more than a glimpse out of the corner of an eye, there for a moment and gone the next. When changing their surroundings, the Vampire had no issue moving from light to dark with the supernatural ease of one adept at handling both.

Contrary to human mythology, the Vampire, even when a fledgling, once exposed to sunlight did not burst into flames. The sun reduced the strength of the young to being as weak as humans. The older the Vampire the stronger their tolerance of sunlight, until they reached the state of Aunsin when it no longer affected them.

Vampires, as they aged, gained possession of their Demonic strength and could lift heavier weights, leap up and jump down from great heights, break through many solid objects, and if attacked heal within hours. They were capable of enduring prolonged periods of extreme cold, tolerate intense heat, and lack of food did not affect them as they could achieve a stasis which could last centuries.

Bullets did not kill them, water did not drown them, poison could not stop them as only fire, beheading, or grief could kill a Vampire. Once dead, the Vampire left nothing for forensic technology to examine for their remains turned into dust and passed back through The Reveal, as the universes rebalanced themselves.

There were those within the human world that had the natural ability to recognise the traits of Vampires without having years of Oric training. This small percentage of the population was hypersensitive to their surroundings and without trying seemed to notice the abnormality lurking in the shadows.

Of those that did, some would associate with this world either to offer themselves as fresh blood, warmdri, a luxury in the modern Vampire world, or in fascination with the power of this anomaly. The traits of a Vampire were not too difficult to notice with educated eyes for this being while appearing human exhibited their Demonic influence immediately.

The Vampire had skin tones that reflected their cultural heritage some were amber, some pale, some ice, some ebony. Their features, though diverse, were all similar in that they attracted. Their proportions were always in alignment and they were built to please the eye.

Their symmetry encouraged the granting of their requests, minds to be open to their suggestions, for the Vampire evolved into whatever pleasure their victims desired. Their genetic predisposition changed from human towards Demon and as the Vampire aged towards Ancient, their Demonic ancestry became more evident. Those of greater age gathered silver streaks in their eyes and hair until they were almost glowing in appearance.

The Vampire could sense the presence of one of their kind in the immediate vicinity, and if their bloodline was New World or Old World. Demons provided a different challenge for Vampires as they could sense lower caste Demons because they were clumsy and obvious.

Those from more evolved worlds such as Poqir and Varkja could avoid notice if they were careful. As for the human realm, Vampires were able to detect movement in the shadows, hear sounds beyond human capacity, and react faster than the human eye could register. The humans who viewed such qualities gave supernatural abilities to Vampires, even the belief that they could read minds. Vampires did not have this ability, though they could read the blood memory of humans; with Demons, they had to be hyper-observant, reading body language and sensing the emotions of those around them.

The older the Vampire the more powerful their abilities, an Ancient could travel an enormous distance on foot, endure circumstances that would render a fledgling helpless, and even survive for centuries within suspension. Despite the accusation of the undead ringing throughout their history the Vampire evolved as a living being reflecting the desires of their environment and left little to the quirks of chance.

The Magical world viewed the evolution of the Vampire with indifference since they ascribed to the Demonic notion of Vampires as mutants, not from scorn as much as ease of reference. Vampires were not considered important throughout The Reveal for they were not the powerbase of their own world.

Ruled by the Empire and hidden from humans the Vampire fought to be accepted and respected. This did not occur until they had evolved into an Ancient and were in full possession of their strength and abilities. Those Magical that crossed paths with the Aunsin enjoyed a mutual disregard. Neither creature wished to accost the other, the Magical because they preferred aloof observance, the Aunsin because they knew the folly of approaching a creature as unpredictable as it was powerful.