We adapted, strategized, and fought to protect ourselves. Our need for safety was relentless, pushing us to confront human threats head-on. We would not bow to fear or ignorance. We were more than legends. We were real—and we would defend our existence, no matter the cost.

Human hunters captured vampires, tortured them, starved them, and forced them to drink poison, trying to create a weapon to destroy us.

Their cruelty made the old stories about us seem true—that we were monsters, a ...