For Thousands of years, vampires reigned in the shadows. They had covens spread out across the land; each one with their own bloodlines and rules, hierarchy and etiquette. Each coven head, however, held allegiance to a central power, The Foundation. The Foundation itself was a large coven headed by the Revarn family line. It was rumored the Revarn were the origin of vampires; a fabled Adam and Eve as it were. Their word was law. The purity of their blood made them exceptional hunters and rulers. They took pride in maintaining their authority over the other vampires, but like all things, even their power didn't last forever. As humans continued to grow in the daylight, vampires were stuck in the past. Their prey slowly moved up in the food chain and the heirs of the original Revarn line realized they too must change.
Hassen Revarn, decided that some humans needed to know of their existence. As a race that lived solely on blood, it was best to find a way to expand their pallet and gain allies among their sheep. His plan was to create a stock for vampire, using select humans for their purposes, and to try and create hybrids that were no longer dependent on blood. It did not go according to plan. Some of the humans Hassen brought under his wing realized what his end goal was and decided it was in their best interest to eradicate the vampires before they grew into a larger force. Thus, the first Vampire Hunters, The Harbingers were born.
Using Hassen's ideas, the humans began to drink the blood of vampires; but only the purest blood would do, and never too much at once least they kill themselves. Slowly, this steady diet of stolen vampire blood gave the humans enhanced speed and sight. It gave them just enough of an edge that they could go toe to toe with vampires themselves. They watched and learned from the inside what weakened vampires and when they knew enough, they rose up against them. The Harbingers had the element of surprise and they easily tore apart the vampires and broke up their networks. Since this was a pet project of Hassen's, the other covens were not aware of the humans' knowledge and most humans themselves knew nothing of it. The Harbingers forced The Foundation into hiding as they went on hunting vampires far and wide, only letting certain humans into their fold as they grew.
Though the Harbingers never eradicated the vampire race, it weakened them and put them on the run, forcing them to abandon previous covens or disperse in different directions least they become a target. The unity of the covens vanished and it was each coven out for themselves or sequester away within human territories to vanish from sight. Eventually the Harbingers couldn't garner any more followers as vampires went silent. The hunters died out, keeping their secrets locked away. Hassen was killed by his fellows for what was seen as a betrayal of their people. Hassen's oldest son himself was murdered by the first hunter uprising and the rest of his family was brought down from their perch. Akaret and her remaining youngest son find themselves at the bottom of the barrel and butt of every joke.
Now, in the modern world, the vampire covens struggle to regain what was lost and the heir of the Revarn bloodline struggles to find a place between the human world, the vampire court, and his mother's expectations for him. What will come of his struggle when he meets a human woman that may just change the course of his life? Will she be his ticket to a regaining himself, or spell out the ruin of his family once and for all?