Part I: Originis
Long has it been since last I looked on the gleaming waters and elegant buildings of Venice. Centuries ago, I left my home here with a new fledgeling and traveled the world over, teaching her the ways of our kind, learning new things myself. Five hundred years later we return to find our city much the same as it was. Only... different.
There is a growing darkness encroaching on the edges of my city of light. An unkindness in the night. Ever have I kept my city and it's people safe from outside threats, but this... I fear this may be too much even for me.
A new breed of our kind have emerged, one the other Elders and I have come to call The Fallen. They are a more feral form of our brethren, one with no care at all for the well being of humans, or any other living thing for that matter. They exist only to create chaos and carnage, feeding of fear and blood alike.
With the help of the other Elders and a specialized force of elite fighters, we hunt down the Fallen, but always there are more. Great numbers of them seem to be converging on Italy in general. I have found a great many passing through the borders of Venice, on their way some place else.
I must find their destination, no doubt the truth of it all lies there. . .
