Thread: A tale of fangs and shadows. (Xellos & DelightfulRevenge)

It was a an usualy dark night for this time of the month in Kingdom of Setharan, and the rules of this kingdom did enjoy this unsual darkness as they were vampires and it was a known fact what are they even to its human subjects who rarely achived anything other then a minor military officer rank at best let alone nobility. The ruler of this kingdom was Marathan an elder vampire as he was alive for over five houndred years now and was condisered a young elder vampire. Powerfull and feared by the lesser creatures of the night. He had two sons who only had a smal age diffrence between them. The older son was called Aniukha a more calm and disciplined of the two who was more intrested in politics and intrigue rather then combat and glory as his younger brother Dearg-dul who reveled in combat and enjoyd fighting and drinking more then it was necesary. They were both lords of their own duchy's as their father granted them rulership over one duchy of his kingdom so that they learn the arts of rulership while being mentored to do so. They were given a lot of power over their own duchy's but ofcourse there were limitations. Aniukha's duchy was considering a scholar's heaven even by the humans as it offered a lot of knowlage in its librarys and universities. Dearg-dul's duchy was considered a craftman's place to find work as his militaristic character always provided the blacksmiths armourers and all sorts of craftmans whit work whit his constant requests for arms and armour along whit other craftman items. The Kingdom of Setharan was bordered by three other kingdoms on the island they all shared as homeland and they were all ruled by vampires whit the execption of one kingdom. The purely human ruled kingdom of Xairag but it was a vassal to Setharan since it was safer for it to became a vassal then fight the alliance of vampire kingdoms. But even if the other two were vampire ruled kingdoms it didn't mean they were all happy about the existance of the other kingdoms on their island homeland but a stalemate provided a relative peac between the three. But despite this stalemate hostility between Setharan and Merethan were strong and so to speak unoffical skirmishes happened between the two kingdom's borders from time to time. Dearg-Dul was one of the reasons of the hostility as his duchy bordered Merethan and his warbands of humans and lesser vampires crossed the border for raiding and looting and skirmishing whit their fighters. He was considered evil by human standards but somewhat acceptable by vampire standards... But he would been behaded if he was only a lordling and not a prince. But even if he was only performing skirmishes his last raid was more then succesfull as he managed to kidnap the only princess of Merethan unknown to his father and brother and other lords of the realm he thrown her into his dungeon specialy reinforced for vampire captives to negate their powers and metal bars to whitstand their streght. A week later after his succes his brother is Aniukha made a suprise visit to his brother unbeknown to him as he had heared of the recent increas of combat on the border....