It's all in the Family... (to the tune of Korn's song.)

In my haste to pack you full of information, which could also be mistaken for sharing…I realized you should probably learn how vampires came to be before I tell you about families or stereotypes.

I’m going to make this short and sweet, mainly because I’m considered young and don’t know the whole scope of the story, but pay attention anyway.

In the beginning there were only Celestials. From what I understand, Celestials are essentially “heavenly bodies”, deities, consisting of pure magic and energy. They wandered around the universe wreaking havoc on everything around them, creating and destroying on a whim.

Aligon is the oldest. One day he apparently looked around and said, “Hey, this is whack. You young bitches don’t know anything about patience, so here’s a lesson.” He then created the earth. And because he was so proud of it, he gifted it to his twins: one boy and one girl. For our purposes, we’ll call the girl, Sem, and the boy, Lev. You never want to use their true names, it’s BAD.

Sem, being all good and beautiful, gave the world the sun and all the pretty things.

Lev, being a dark, hateful bastard, gave the world the moon and all things dark and angry.

Thinking his kids had created a pretty good balance, Aligon shed a tear of pride and BANG! humans sprouted up from it.

To make a really, really long story short. Six humans started worshiping Sem, while another six started worshiping Lev. Each Twin gifted their followers (I like to call them cults) with certain magics and powers to make them more powerful than the other cult, and the rest of the humans.

Sem’s cult became known as “The Children of Dawn”.

Lev’s cult became known as “The Children of Shadow”.

You see where this is about to go bad, don’t you?

The Twins got pissed when neither of their cults were able to convert everyone to their cause. So, in a hissy fit of epic proportions, the Twins started cursing each other’s cults.

When all was said and done, Sem’s Children of Dawn became werewolves, and Lev’s Children of Shadow became vampires.

But somewhere in the mix, a husband and wife ended up in opposite cults. And the wife was pregnant. So now there’s a kid running around (we call him the Equilibrium) who’s both a werewolf and a vampire, and he has no idea where he fits in. Poor guy.

In any event, Aligon got pissed, yanked his kids out of the world, then lectured them in the cosmos long enough that all the innocent humans rose up and forced the cults into hiding. In the meantime, Aligon created Paladin’s out of some innocents (I guess they’re born to every generation of humans or some crazy shit like that), who were charged with protecting humanity from the vamps and werewolves.

Then Aligon tossed the Twins back into the world and bound them to it. And then, the spiteful bastard took away their ability to see each other. Can you say dysfunctional family? I can.

There, now you have an idea of how vampires and werewolves came to be. They are cursed, but not by God, which is what Aligon is called now. They’re cursed by the Twins who couldn’t share. Now the vamps and wolves hide behind the Veil and continue the war between Sem and Lev, while Aligon sits back and refuses to do anything to help anyone.

Aligon says “destiny will seek its own end”. Personally, I just hope that’s meant figuratively, and there isn’t some pissed of woman named Destiny running around deciding the fate of the world.

So there you have it. A brief and rather witty synopsis of “The Legend”.

Tomorrow we’ll move to vampire families and the stereotypes surrounding them. Like I said, I figured you needed to learn where vamps came from before we got into what they’ve become.