The earliest origin of the Strigoi is said to be Cain in the Bible. According to the Bible, after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they came to the wilderness and had many children. Among them, Cain is the eldest and the third human being in the world. He is a farmer and lives with his younger brother ***, a shepherd. One time, the two of them offered sacrifices to God as usual. Because the younger brother was unable to raise livestock, he offered rich meat. Cain's vegetables and radishes caused God's dissatisfaction. Cain was angry and murdered his brother. The next day God asked Cain where his brother was, and he claimed that he did not know. God said angrily: "Cheat! Your brother's ghost cried out to me about your atrocities, so you have to accept my punishment!" Cain then begged God for mercy, but God said: "No, I will not kill you, I know you You will definitely be despised by others in the future, so I will give you a mark. Everyone will torture you, but if they don’t kill you, you will be cursed forever!”
In the legend of vampires that have been hidden for thousands of years, Cain House The damnation he suffered was that he had to feed on the blood of living people for the rest of his life, and he would live forever and suffer from this curse for generations to come. Moreover, God made His mark visible to everyone and punished it. This is different from what is written in the Bible. The book later pairs him with Satan's lover Lilith (Lilith, first appeared in Sumerian mythology, the first wife of Adam in the Old Testament of Judaism, who left the Garden of Eden because she was dissatisfied with God), saying that Lilith She is a powerful witch and teaches Cain how to use blood to generate power for his own use. Because of this, some people believe that Lilith was the real first vampire.
Driven by loneliness, Cain created a second generation of vampires, and they produced Cain's thirteen grandsons. This third generation was the survivors of Noah's Flood. They established thirteen large clans, and later rebelled and destroyed the second generation of vampires. The ancient third generation claimed to have power comparable to that of gods. Today, thousands of years later, the bloodline of the vampire clan has reached the thirteenth to fifteenth generation.
Before the Middle Ages, members of the vampire clan could usually become the overlord of one party due to their special powers and immortality, and even competed with each other for power and caused fear among ordinary people. It was not until around the fourteenth century that the Catholic Inquisition became aware of the existence of the Vampire Clan, and immediately carried out mass killings. Although the Vampires have superpowers, no one Vampire can stop the cooperative threats of thousands of mortals at the same time. As a result, the survival of the vampire clan has fallen into an unprecedented crisis. In order to cope with the bad situation, several blood clans (approximately the sixth to eighth generations) at that time had to form an alliance, and the Camarilla ('Camarilla' or translated as 'Secret Party') alliance was born. This is an alliance composed of seven clans, and it is also the largest alliance so far. When Kamalila was founded, six strict commandments and traditions (Six Traditions) were established, requiring future generations of vampires in the alliance to abide by them forever. The highest purpose of the entire commandment tradition is to stipulate that vampires must hide in human society and must not expose their identity to avoid causing a crisis for the survival of the vampires. This is the origin of the "escape from the world" commandment.
Camalila’s political operations are not simple. The integration between the clans is mainly carried out by the Ventrue clan. The elders of the seven clans hold regular high-level meetings (Inner Circle), in which the justices of each clan are elected. The Chancellor can be said to be the highest authority in Camarilla. Most of them are held by senior people (which means they all have powerful powers). They are responsible for judging and punishing all behaviors that endanger Camarilla's survival. In principle, They are the rulers of the entire Kamalila (of course, they have no control over the elders who participate in high-level meetings). Sometimes the justices do not decide matters themselves, but invite important local vampires to convene a secret meeting (Conclave) to decide matters by voting. At the same time, there is no doubt that justices usually have their own spies. This entire set of political operations is usually full of political struggles and conspiracies between peaks, and young vampires mostly play the role of pawns.
Another alliance besides Kamalila is the Sabbat (The Sabbat---or translated as 'Sabat'). Although every clan can join the Demon Party, it is mainly controlled by two clans.
The Devil's Party is Camarilla's old enemy. They do not recognize the doctrine of escapism. They use fear, force and threats as their way of rule. Legend has it that the Devil's Party will bury the newly joined vampires alive, causing them to fear, and then use rituals and bloodlines to (Blood Bound) to control. The demon party also regards humans as lower animals and kills them at will. Members of Kamalila often refer to Sabat as the "Hand of Darkness".
In addition, the remaining four clans that have not joined Camarilla or the Demon Party usually remain neutral or act according to circumstances in the struggle between the two alliance factions.
Under the Kamalila Alliance, members of the Blood Tribe also divided into local forces. Generally speaking, vampires will use cities as their gathering places, because cities are very suitable for foraging. In principle, there is one Vampire for every 100,000 people in a city (roughly calculate how many Kindred there should be in your city^&^). This ratio is very suitable for Vampires to hide.
There will be a blood prince (Prince) in every city. This title has nothing to do with the royal family, and it is not necessarily a male. The prince is the leader of all vampires in the city, and is generally called the prince of a certain city, such as Prince of New York.
When Camalila was first established, there was no "prince" position. However, due to the rebellion of traitors within the Blood Tribe in London in 1743, which seriously violated the rules of escape, a person responsible for governing was established in each city to prevent rebellion.
The prince is usually held by someone with a higher seniority. His main job is to maintain the commandments and traditions of the territory under his jurisdiction. He is the only person in the territory who has the power to reproduce the descendants of the vampires. If the vampires under his jurisdiction want to create new offspring, they must be approved by him. The Prince will be assisted by the Council of Elders in the territory under his jurisdiction. On the one hand, the members of the Council of Elders provide advice and on the other hand, they also silently supervise the power of the Prince. Usually, as long as the Prince can maintain the tradition that has been hidden for thousands of years, the Council of Elders will provide support. But of course, the elders who can participate in the Elders Council must be wily and calculating people.
In addition, as long as a vampire from outside the area enters the jurisdiction, he must accept the control of the prince. The prince can issue an order restricting fasting for the vampires in some or all jurisdictions on the grounds of remaining secluded. Although princes cannot kill vampire members at will, there are still some princes who abuse their power and hire vampire hunters. Finally, the prince has a good chance of rising in Camarilla's political structure.
Historically, mankind’s first understanding of the vampire race began in 1484. At that time, the whole of Europe was under a vampire war. The vampire group goes out at night and meets humans on a large scale for the first time. Many people are unable to accept their first love and suffer from neurological disorders. Because the symptoms of human beings receiving the First Embrace were similar to those of the plague, human society at the time believed that this was another large-scale plague.
Many human beings were buried in underground graves by their peers when they were not completely dead, or before the effects of the first embrace were restored. A few days later, for some reason, people opened the graves and found These corpses have changed postures and are still stained with blood. They are the first vampires that humans have come into contact with. Since then, the legend of vampires has spread in East Prussia, Silesia, Bohemia and other places.
In 1484, "The Secret of Witchcraft" written by two Dominican monks, Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, was approved for publication by Pope Innocent VIII. This was the first time in human history , the Christian Church recognized the existence of supernatural powers for the first time.
In 1710, the vampire war started again. The war took place in the East Prussia area. The crowds that were first embraced once again filled the land, and the cities and villages were shrouded in the breath of death. Ancient legends were once again spread among the frightened crowds. In order to prevent the resurrection of the newly embraced vampires, the East Prussian authorities dug up the graves of dead bodies on a large scale and nailed a large number of wooden nails to each undecomposed corpse. At the same time, the Inquisition mobilized a large number of knights to fight vampires, and every battle was extremely tragic. But these battles are usually only known to the nobles, and most of the people know nothing about them.
In fact, unless there is a big war or under unavoidable circumstances, the vampire group will generally not take the initiative to attack humans on a large scale, because this mysterious group knows what exposure will bring to them. as a result of. However, there are still some vampires who, for some reason, suck human blood indiscriminately.
In 1725, a farmer named Pierre Plogowitz turned into a vampire after being possessed for the first time. He killed eight people in a village called Kilova. Another vampire's name was Arnold Paole, who killed a large number of people in a village called Medwegya.
Human society attaches great importance to these two incidents and has conducted extensive investigations. But in the end they hid the truth of the investigation from the public. The report of the first case is now housed in the Vienna Archives. One of the words - "Vanpir" appears for the first time. This is where the name vampire comes from. Human authorities investigated the second case more deeply in 1731. A military doctor, Fluckinger, made a detailed record of the entire investigation process and results, signed it by several officers and doctors of Heiduques' company, and submitted it to the Belgrade court under the title "Information and Discovery", which was officially published in 1732. King Louis XV of France asked Duke Richelieu to write a detailed report on the official results of the case and submit it to him. This report caused a huge sensation among mankind. On March 3, 1832, the word "vampyre" appeared in the report of "The Gleaner", which was the first time the word vampire appeared in French.
The entire human society has developed a huge interest in the vampire community, and many people have begun to study this phenomenon. However, because the Vampire Secret Party requires the vampire community to strictly abide by the six major commandments, the results of these studies are mostly ridiculous. In "The History and Philosophy of the Chewing of the Dead" published in Leipzig in 1679, Philip Rohr explained the phenomenon of chewing in graves as demonic possession. This view was supported by many people at the time. In 1728, Lenft also Leipzig published a book "The Corpse Chewed in the Grave" which refuted Rohr.
In 1732 Christian Stock's "On the Vampire Corpse" and in 1732 Johann Heinrich Zopf's "On the Vampires of Serbia" were published in Europe. At the same time, Father Dom Augustin Calmet, the abbot of the Senones monastery, wrote a book refuting these pamphlets with an extremely long title: "On the Possessions, Excommunicated Persons, and People in Hungary, Moldavia, etc." Vampires or Living Corpses", the priest collected many traces of vampire actions and listed them one by one in this book. "On Vampires" written by Bishop Davanzati of Florence, Italy, and Pope Benoit XIV (Benedict XIV) also talked about vampires in the fourth volume of his book "Blessed by God and Beatified by the Saints". But unfortunately, the vampire clan is far more strict and terrifying than they imagined.
With the development of science, stupid people think they have mastered all the truth. They begin to abandon their beliefs and smear their souls wantonly. The family crest, which symbolizes glory, is covered with dust, and the legend of vampires strikes many as absurd. Humans seem to think they are powerful enough to despise the existence of vampires. However, in sharp contrast to this stupid behavior: the vampire group is still sipping red blood in the dark corner as always.