Being born into the Raven House was never an easy beginning.
Ours was one of the mightiest Houses in all Sancta Vedelia, spoken of in the same breath as the great Tepes House and the most renowned bloodlines of the Vampire race. But with the Raven House, power was never the only inheritance passed down from one generation to the next. Expectation came with it, and waiting from the very moment of birth.
Our Founder had established the House a thousand years ago, in an age when the Tepes House stood at the height of its glory among the great vampire clans. Back then, most clans had chosen to bend toward the strongest power, and that power was Tepes. Their influence stretched across Sancta Vedelia like a shadow at dusk, and few believed another House could ever rise to stand beside them, let alone rival them.
Yet history is not kind to certainty.
