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History
Oct 18, 2009 19:50:33 GMT -1
Post by Dove Alexander on Oct 18, 2009 19:50:33 GMT -1
No one knows where the Creatures of the Night came from, all they know is that they have been around for as long as the humans have been. Whether they are the next step in the evolutionary road for the humans, or just a freak mutation that survived, it doesn't really matter. What does matter is that they exist.
The Vampyres have been at the top of the food chain as far back as History tells, ruling over the Creatures with a mixture of fear and contempt. They treated all the other Creatures as animals, seeing them as beneath them and therefore not worth bothering with.
For hundreds of years, this went unchallenged. The Werewolves and Werecats were unable to control their changes and the Elementals their powers. Then it all began to change; they learnt control.
Eventually, the Were's were able to stop changing sparodically, only being forced to change at full moon. They taught the Elementals how to harness their powers in exchange for a promise; when the time comes, they had to help.
For centuries they waited for their chance and eventually it came. They were finally able to rise up and attack. Years of bloody battles ensued, the likes that had never been seen before. Most of it was done away from the eyes of the humans, but some of the deaths were not able to be hidden and have been forever recorded in their History.
The Weres eventually lost the forced changing completely, developing the ability to change completely at will, causing the break in stalemate that they needed.
Finally, the battles ended with the forming of the two Families; The Family of Blood and The Family of The Moon.
The Elementals wanted their own Family, feeling they didn't fit within either and so, when the Were's betrayed the them and forced them back into slaverynot long after the celebrations had died down, splitting them between the two Families, they were dubbed The House of The Fallen.
They bided their time, knowing eventually they'd have another chance but that this time both the Families would be expecting it.
After 500 years, when the past was all but forgotten and new battles were being fought, the Elementals finally managed to break free and form their own official House, keeping their name as a reminder as where they came from and what they had to endure to get where they are.
Whilst the other Families were fighting over who controlled the Humans they kept as stock, the Elementals fought for their freedom. They took in all the Creatures that were banished from court or walked away. Even those sentanced to death for breaking the ultimate crime, Vampyre/Were relationships, were welcome and protected, though many of these poor creatures were unable to hide from the wrath of their Family.
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