FIRST CURSE

FIRST CURSE

Cain and the first night

According to our legends, the first in the family Cainite was Cain - the first murderer. For his crime of Cain was cursed by God and turned into a vampire. Banished by his people, Cain was forced to wander on the margins of civilization, who is afraid of the sun and hungry for blood.
In his solitude, Cain ran into a powerful witch, whose name was Lilith, she was the first wife of Adam. Lilith Cain learned to use his blood for the powerful magic (which is why some renegades known as the first vampire Lilith, not Cain). Lilith Cain taught many things, including knowledge of how to use their blood to call mystical abilities, and knowledge of how to create other members of their species.

The second generation and the first city

At first, Cain refused to be the ancestor, assuming wrong to infect the world with different members of their species. But in the end, his loneliness grew, and he created the first three vampires. These three were the forefathers for another 13 years, and these voracious monsters went to the world's first people, frivolous satisfy their hunger, and using people as puppets in its intra-hostility. Cain, outraged by such conduct, prohibited the creation of new vampires. By bringing their children and grandchildren of Cain built a great city - the first city in the world where vampires and mortals co-exist together.

Patriarchs and clans

This was not the end. Descendants of Cain sorilis with each other for the location of their ancestor, and again death became pawns in their hostility. In the end, the city was destroyed. Some say that the cause was a natural disaster, others that a child's careless vengeful magic accelerated cataclysm. Cain lost in the desert, and nobody ever about it is no longer heard. Three vampires of the second generation just disappeared under the cloak of secrecy. No 13 grandchildren, Cain, no one more restrained, began to create new vampires forgetting everything. These 13 vampires are now known to us as the patriarchs (Antediluvians). And their descendants are created by their likeness, inherited the ability and the curse of the Patriarchs. This is how the clans.

Dark Ages

Clans spread around the world, bringing strife and suffering. Each successive generation of vampires turned out weaker than the previous one, but it recovered a large number of converts. In zigguratah Babylon, in the palaces of Crete, in the courts of Rome's vampires ruled as secret tyrants, constantly using the death as food and as the unsuspecting soldiers. Vampires at war with the vampires, the clans fought with the clans, and thus, the ancient rivalry, dating back to the First City, has created a great jihad, which continues to this day.
Cainites reached a critical state of overpopulation in the early Middle Ages. At that time, many vampires ruled openly, death commoners and nobles were in the bottom of their night of culture. Number of vampires has grown to dangerous numbers, and it seemed that the earth will belong to Cainites forever.

Revolt

But this was not the end. Children of Cain in his arrogance became outrageous flaunt their power. Frightened peasants whisper discussed monsters with each other, but the Church began to listen. The horrific reports of several priests have created a frenzied Inquisition, and the revenge of death turned into rivers of fire and blood. Being a person is much stronger than death, even the powerful vampires can not stand against them taking the number of people. Vampire for a vampire dragged from their shelters and gave into the power of fire or sunlight.
The suffering caused by the Inquisition, summoned another rebellion in the ranks of children of Cain. Converts vampires, which frightened the elders used as sacrificial lambs, started to rebel against their masters and mentors. In eastern Europe, a group of vampires has provided an opportunity to break a mystical connection, through which Sira manage their children. Soon all over Europe erupted night rebellion, the rebels threw off the yoke converts their owners. With the advent of the Inquisition and before the insurgency began, it seemed that the world Cainite doomed to destruction.
Thus, in the XV century, was convened by the collection. Seven out of 13 clans united in the structure called the Camarilla (Camarilla). With the advantage of including Camarilla suppressed the revolt and initiated the Great Masquerade. That's what decided Lords Camarilla: "Never again will the vampires will not change the open. We'll be hiding among the people, and to hide our nature of our production, and in a few decades, death will be known only from the vampire legends."
After the Masquerade has been installed, the Inquisition gradually forgotten their original purpose. Those rebels, who have not joined the Camarilla, were expelled in the uninhabited land, and subsequently appeared in the form of horrific cult Cabbat (Sabbat). With the opening of the New World and the flowering of science humankind gradually forgot about Cainites, becoming a think of them as the generation of myths.
But, staying in the shadows, vampires continued to exist. War Jihad continued to rage, and the open night of the battle degenerated into an ambush and sinister intrigue with the use of people-pawns. Enmeshed in its web of constantly developing city, vampires have abandoned their old games in favor of new, no less deadly.

Tonight and Gehenna

The war lasted for centuries and are still. Jihad is rampant, as something eternal. Skyscrapers have replaced palaces, machine guns and missiles have replaced swords and torches, packages of securities replaced the repository of gold - the game remains the same. Cainites fight with Cainites, clans are at war with each other, fighting with Camarilla Cabbat, and always will be. Hostility, born during the reign of Charlemagne, reaches its climax on the streets of New York, insult to the court of the Sun King, will be avenged in the corporate war in Sao Paulo. Constantly growing cities provide countless opportunities for hunting, building strength and war.
Vampires are increasingly talking about hell - an ancient prophecy of a night - the Apocalypse, when most of the ancient vampires leave their shelters in order to destroy all the young vampires. Gehenna, the vampires as they say, is a portent of doom, where vampires and mortals would be absorbed into the inexorable flow of blood. Some vampires are trying to prevent hell, some are waiting for it with fatalism, others think its just a myth. Those who believe in hell, they say that doomsday is near, and it is literally a matter of few years.