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all time, became so enamored with his own beauty and power that he came to believe his light
was as great as the Almighty, and that the throne sh ould be his and his alone. And so he gathered his
loyal army of angels for the War to End All Wars, and with swords blazing, trumpets blasting, and
hellfire in his heart, he came to cl aim what was not his to claim.
The battle was a day of black smoke and searing flame, clashing swords and cracking whips. Alas,
with victory in Lucifer’s grasp, at the crucial moment to deliver the crushing blow, the twin Angels of
the Apocalypse—Abbadon and Azrael—his most loyal lieutenants, stayed their hand. They betrayed
the Morningstar and knelt to the golden sword of Mich ael instead, turning the tide of battle. But it was
too late to save themselves. All the rogue angels were banished from Heaven. They woke to the cold of the earth as immortals,
condemned to walk the world forever, and cursed until the end of days to feed on the blood of their
human brethren. Where once they were angels, they were now “vam pyres.” Angels of fire and death.
Soulless creatures bereft of light and love, with th e immortal blue blood running in their veins.
But they were not withou t hope. Gabrielle, the Virtuous, out of love for her people, chose to
descend with them, to bring a ray of light to the damned. She was joined by her mate, the mightiest of
them all, Michael, Pure of Heart, who could not b ear to spend eternity apart from her. Gabrielle and
Michael were called the Uncorrupted, va mpires by choice instead of sin.
Together, Gabrielle and Michael established the Co de of the Vampires, a foundation of rules that
would govern their commun ity through the centuries, and help them to forge a way b¶€forge a we
w„ack to their glorious home in Paradise. The life cy cles of the vampires were coordinated to match a
human lifetime, and so the vampir es followed the rites of life (Expression), death (Expulsion), and
reincarnation (Evolution). But Lucifer and his minions remained contemptuous of their fall from Paradise. They had no desire
to regain God’s grace or to live by the Code. They preyed on their fellow vampires, feeding on their
blood and memories until they became beings of chaos, misery, and delirium. Thei r blood turned silver,
and they were called Croatan, the Silver Bloods. For a time they were subdued and controlled by the power of the Uncorrupted, and for centuries
served as the Blue Bloods’ slaves . That is, until the day the slaves rose up against their masters in a
merciless slaughter. Thus did Mich ael declare war against Lucifer and his followers, seeking revenge
and bringing death and havoc to his enemies. The war culminated in a final battle in ancient Rome, when Cassius (Michael) unmasked the
emperor Caligula, who was revealed to be Lucifer hi mself. Michael sent Lucifer into the fires of Hell

by the point of his golden sword, forever locking him behind an impenetrable gate.
After Rome, for millennia the Blue Bloods lived in relative safety. However, every hundred years
or so, rumors persisted of attacks on young vampir es in Venice, Florence, Barcelona, and Cologne, but
information was inconclusive, and later suppresse d. For all intents and purposes, the community
believed the Silver Bloods had been destroyed. Distressed by the rise of religious persecution in Europe in the seventeenth century, a coven of Blue
Bloods crossed to America, looking for peace. But the ancient evil followed them th ere, with a rash of
mysterious disappearances at Plymouth. A few year s later, their entire settlement at Roanoke was
taken, with no clue as to their whereabouts exce pt for a lone message—“Croatan”—nailed on a tree.
During this time of chaos in Plymout h, John Carver (the angel Metraton) called for a White Vote to
challenge the leadership and gain the title of Regis of the Coven. John and his wife, Catherine Carver
(the angel Seraphiel), were convinced that the Silver Bloods had never been fully vanquished and that a
traitor Silver Blood was hidden among their ranks; th at one of their own was Corrupted. John Carver
agitated for vigilance and an investigation. But Myles Standish (the archangel Michael) was equally passionate in his belief that the Silver
Bloods no longer walked the eart h. For the first time in