The Vampires - The Vampire Capital

For centuries, vampires had remained untouched inside the ancient walls of their civilization. Though they existed across the surface of the Earth, in every dark corner and every shadowy passage, nowhere could they rule as freely and powerfully as they had in the Capital. Set deep within the borders of Europe, the Capital was once a great and powerful civilization. Its walled borders provided protection to its vampiric citizens from the brutality of the mortal world, but also served as a prison to those unfortunate human beings which found themselves trapped inside. It thrived as business boomed inside and outside its borders. The city, though beautiful in its architecture and bountiful in its luxuries for the wealthy, seemed to be a shining apple of Ambrosia from the outside. But, on the inside, it was rotting. Corruption seeped into the very pores of it. Murder and slavery ran rampant, and though the Capital had been able to hide these things from the world for decades, what little control the government held was slowly slipping away. Factions went to war, enslaved humans rose up, and finally, the rest of the world began to take notice.

It was the Vatican that first spoke out against the Capital, announcing to all of Europe that the reign of terror within the borders of the city must be stopped. Once the Church had taken notice, it wasn’t long before the European Union did as well. Within a year, the Capital was stormed by both mortal man and supernatural creature alike, and the government was toppled. Those vampires who were not arrested by the United Kingdom’s military, were forced to disperse from the city. Survivors, both human and vampire, escaped the borders as fast as they could. It was clear, after such a war, after such degradation was revealed to the whole world, that vampires were no longer the ones in control, at all. Forced back into the shadows by the mortal world, feared and hated by humans and supernatural creatures alike, vampires once again took to the darkness, operating behind the scenes where the judgments of this generation would not touch them. The fall of the Capital would take years, decades, to forget, leaving the vampires clinging to nothing but the dark of night as their ally.

Months after the demolition of the Capital, a small faction of vampires, led by the Ancient known as Ricardo Spavento, found the borders of a town that seemed to be hidden from the mortal realm – not by high walls or political sway, but by magic. Upon entering, they found that this place was unlike anything they had seen before. It was not like the Capital in its political corruption. It was a small town, a village compared to the expanse of the Capital, inhabited largely by a great number of supernatural creatures that had never existed inside the walls of the fallen city. Fae, shifters, lycans, and humans with extraordinary gifts – they all lived and worked as if they were all... *equals*. This place, this *Haven*, would serve as a refuge for those who had been forced to flee the Capital. Here, vampire and human would co-exist with Fae, shifter, and lycan. Here, they would begin new lives.

Here, they would live.
Here, they would rebuild.
And here… they would rise again.

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Note: The Capital is now nothing but rubble. It is fenced off from the rest of Europe, and constantly patrolled by military police. If you wish your new character to have lived in the Capital, that **is allowed**, however, they cannot currently live there. They must also either be a vampire or an unjoined human, as the other species were not allowed to exist in the Capital.