Order of the Ancient Blood

Origins

The Order of the Ancient Blood are a powerful order of heartless vampires who can maintain the ability to raise armies from the dead and the living alike through extreme mastered usage of Hemomancy and Necromancy. Before embracing vampirism, however, the Ancient Bloods were once an ancient sect shrouded in mystery. All that is recorded about them can be found written below, however it is known that they formed through a gathering of exiled Enîan Sages who organized themselves to form the Order. As old as the Realm of Enîa itself, the members of the Ancient Blood were fanatically devoted cultists, determined to unlock the secrets of immortality and power.

Throughout the centuries, the Order of the Ancient Blood was slowly transformed from a band of forbidden scholars into a cult of cruel and dark murderous cultists who delved into forsaken moral depths to unlock the true essence of their power, blood magic(otherwise known as Hemomancy). Blood is often largely considered to be the life force of an individual: the connection between a living being and the very earth itself. When used in certain ways, blood can be used to fuel the needs of others for the most heinous of purposes. This is what the cultists of the Ancient Blood discovered.

Long have the cultists of the Ancient Order dabbled in Hemomancy. Through kidnapping and sacrificing the purest of individuals, such as children and virgins, the blood cultists eventually unlocked total mastery over the dark arts. Through this unholy violation of righteousness, these enigmatic masters of darkness discovered the pathway to Necromancy, unbeknownst to them yet.

Unsurprisingly, the first recorded act of Necromancy was brought into this world when a Blood Vicar experimented on and over-drained the life force from one of his victims so extremely and intensely that the Blood Vicar's mana stores were completely destroyed, rendering him unable to cast spells until he had subsided from magical casting for a long duration of time. During this window, the drained body he had left behind slowly began to regain its physical abilities and rose from the ground as the world's first walking corpse: the Unliving.

This unholy revelation unlocked a new and vast array of abilities for the Ancient Bloods, allowing them to raise the dead by pouring all of their mana reserves into a living being and taking the living being's life force so quickly that their soul became trapped in their own body, however no longer in control. Through this cruel method, the Ancient Bloods began spreading their infamy throughout the Realm as necromancers and murderers, however it wasn't before the Culling of the Unblooded that they transformed into fully fledged vampires.