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The Dark Ages were a time of peace and solitude for the Children of the Blood. Mankind was ignorant and insular and frightened of the night. Easy prey. Easy to frighten, easy to hunt, easy to dominate. The Children were scattered over the lands of Europe; solitary, ensconced in their fortresses, pursuing their own personal lusts. Little was their regard for the fates of the mortal-born or for that of their fellow Immortals.
Then came the Death-Dealers, the bearers of the Holy Flame, the Inquisition. The culling of heresy and the burning of the remnants of the pagan faithful was but a ruse. The Inqusitions true calling was the uncovering and destruction of the creatures of the night; the demons, the magi and the immortals whose sustenance was the blood of man. The Children of the Blood fell before the organized might of the Almighty's Warrior-Priests. They were many, well equiped and well led. All the arcane knowledge of the Church was at their disposal and all the eyes and ears of the faithful informed them of their prey's hiding places.
When the purge was complete, not a single Child of the Blood could be found in any society in the lands held by the Church. The great race of the immortals was no more.
Or was it?
Paris, France, 1550
In the bustling crowds of Paris creatures of the night unheard of for centuries creep through the shadows and coverge in a dark place hidden deep in the bowels of the city's catecomes. The surviving Elders of the Children of the Blood, those too clever or too paranoid to have fallen to the Inquisition's sword, come from their hiding places and meet for the first time. One has called them together, she with the vision of what their kind could become if they pooled their strength and tempered their lusts with caution and guile. Evangeline the Gold, Mother of the Masquerade.
London, England, 1552
A call goes out, to those lands where the Inquisition was weak or their culling incomplete. To the remnants of the Bloodlines. They come together and are met by one bearing the seal of the Elders of the Blood. The envoy reveals the existence of the new order, the Society of the Blood, and their role in it. To protect the new society there are needed guardians, those who seek out enemies of the Bloodlines and destroy them. The most able of the survivors are chosen to become the Red Death. The Death which inexorably comes to those who seek ill towards the Children of the Blood or their Society.
London, England, 1664
With the last paragones of the Inquisition slain or redirected, the time for the re-emergence of the power of the Children of the Blood is at hand!
This is the time of our story. The first great Houses of the Bloodkin are forming and asserting their control over immortal and mortal society. Our stage is Restoration London. Our players are the members of the House of Rose, all Bloodkin in the Domain of the Lady Rose, Tyrant of the British Isles.
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