But do not stop to think about it too hard. This is a dark world in which vampires are something very different from what used to be in the old Universal horror films. The world is basically engaged in a secret three-sided war. There are humans, there is the old aristocracy of vampires, and there are the young rebellious vampires struggling to wrest control from the old guard. The older vampires are in a cold war with humans.
Some humans know of their existence but try to cover it up in an uneasy truce.
The young vampires know they can take control in a new order that will rule humans and older vampires. Actually a vampire took his mother just hours before he would have been born. Actually, saying he has the best powers of both humans and vampires does not explain him. It is not clear if it is his human or his vampire heritage that allow him to get a silver stake in the base of his neck and seconds later again be a perfect fighting machine. He THE MT VOID Page 5 also seems to have the powers of an action hero.