A voice speaks softly within thy head... and in thy mind's eye... pictures form... and a story is told...

In the beginning there was only one...she was made by a man.. long before any of us were born unto this world...Her name was Aceldama Andromeda...She was the first of our family...

Shortly after she was turned, her sire, Vryn, was killed in a battle to the death with one of our kind named Cyris...The circumstances to this battle are not know...Their reasons and the motivations died with them...

On the day of his death Aceldama fell...her mind slipped slowly out of place without his restraints...and that is how we were started...within the boundaries of her maddness...

She began to search out company...she wanted one to be with for all eternity...she wanted the "companionship" that all of our kind longs for...and she turned her first...

Her name was Sharron...a daughter in Aceldama's image...as we all would eventually be...Sharron was the daughter of a tribal shaman...Her beauty.... far surpassed that of Mother...her eyes were piercing and her hair so radiant in the glimmer of the moon that one should have to turn their eyes away to save face...

Sharron walked with Mother until her wings could no longer be clipped. Sharron wanted to be free and after three centuries Mother seemed to have no choice.... but to let her free...let Sharron find her own footings...Mother thought that she would return home, but Sharron ne'er did...she couldn't. There was so much to do and live for out there...Running home to Mother would make that freedom impossible...

So... Mother could wait no longer...She found another child...a male...

And so Khristopher was born...Legend states that Khristopher was made in the image of Cyris...A replacement for Mother's lost sire...He is beautiful...truly...raven hair...soft skin...a sight to be had...And a replacement he was...she taught him all that she knew and he brought her so much happiness and joy...He was one of the few that were truly dedicated to their lovers...to their mistresses...He was truly devoted to her...

Then one day Mother saw Xanthia tending to her garden... her babes at her feet...and she saw herself...the changed form of the woman she once was...and she saw Xan... she was that girl... Xanthia was the woman she once was... And she was truly in her image...

She had her eternal companion...she had that in Khristopher... but Xanthia was to fill some other void...some hole inside of her that not love... not happiness... not anything could fill... And she thought that Xan could...She told Khristopher that things would ne'er change between them...And then she came to Xanthia...

One day it came time when Xanthia decided to leave... tired of the constant battle for affection she was living... Yet Mother would not free her as she did Sharron...she tried to keep Xanthia...

Xanthia longed for nothing more than to see the world...to live as a free person again... She had about given up hope and then it happened. Mother left her... None know if it was at the prodding of Khristopher...she loved him in a way that she could ne'er loved another... with a love that conquered all... Yet... the purpose for her departure is unknown...

Xanthia wandered... and turned one known as Xander... but he was lost to this world... not by death... but insanity... and fled to the woods and nature... where he seems eternally lost...

Time passed and it came to be that Sharron was destroyed by Ryvkiek...He was an old love of hers and he could not accept that she had gone on...and that he could ne'er go on without her in his arms...So he slayed his fair princess...He slayed the heir to the throne of Andromeda...

When she died Xanthia realized that she still had a duty to her family... She left the House of Ryn in which she had been residing to find her Mistress... but not before she became blood with Duvant and Threatian within the House of Ryn... They did this to ensure her a place in their empire...they did more than that...they linked Threatian and she for all eternity....

Threatian left with Xanthia to search out Aceldama... And they found her...still at her side was her ever faithful Khristopher...he lashed out at Xanthia in his rage...perhaps it was simple self defense... but it seemed as hatred... hatred pure and simple... and they defended themselves from him and in the scuffle he was killed...or so was thought at the time....

Aceldama could ne'er forgive Xan for what happened with him...she blamed her... although she was only trying to mend the breach between Alcemeda and herself...

Things fell apart rather quickly from there...Threatian and Xan suffered the first separation...and Mother took off again... She was lost on that day...and Xanthia was alone again...

Alcemeda wandered the world... and during this time she turned another child...This child was Amenahkken...

He was apparently the manservant of Egyptian royalty... It was lesser royalty... but royalty... nonetheless... He is legended to have been strong and virile... but he was also said to have been inherently evil... It is believed that this is why Aceldama chose him... She wanted to lash out at society... to punish the world... the very earth itself... for taking her Khristopher from her...

But as it sometimes is... sometimes... regardless of how strong... or young... or brilliant the child is... not all qualities can be turned... some merely fade away... others have worse repercussions... as was this case...

When Amenahkken was turned he was stark raving mad... He had lost any tethers to mortality... and regardless of how many nosferatu claim they have severed their ties... We all know... deep inside... that they hold some mortal beliefs as their own... That is the very quality which allows them to walk amongst mortals unnoticed... But 'twas not the case with this brother fare...he lost everything...and he rampaged...he lashed out at all who crossed his path...not even mother could contain his rage and she was forced to stop him...

She bound him by the very magicks of the earth which he lashed out against and he was trapped inside the Temple of Isis...'Twas there that he was discovered by a band of mortals who knew of what he had done and knew of what he was... These men drank from his parched veins...and they were half- turned... None of them were ever to come all the way across and they all perished with mortal age...

Many years after that event... a harper woman from a klan in the west followed legend and found the Temple of Isis where Amenahkken was trapped...And this great mage destroyed what was left of this lost child of Alcemeda...

Mother lost Amenahkken to the winds... she was gone and heard not of again Xanthia found Jennelle...

'Twas when she met Jennelle that she learned of the fifth child to Aceldama...and that is all that is know of that...We know only that a child was turned between Amenahkken and Jennelle...

This brings us to Jenn... Xanthia had found and lost her love Threatian.... This was the second separation...

She then decided to reacclamate herself to normal daily living... She did this within the walls of the new Egypt...To put things into some kind of perspective... Ceasar was in Rome...'twas the age of conquest for them and they had managed to work their way into the heart of our Pharoah...the lovely and beautiful Cleopatra...This beautiful greek had gained the throne through the death of her father and through the murder of her brother...

Xanthia gained entrance to the palace through word of mouth... For Cleopatra had learned that she had killed a potential assassin of her lover... In return for her deed... she gave her a home in the palace... Where Xanthia worked as a hand servant and confident...

As fate would have it... Jennelle... the sixth child of Alcemeda... also was part of the palace staff... She did some menial chores about the palace... But her main function was as a prophet for the Gods...

Xan did not know of her presence until the passing of four moon cycles...That was when she saw this pristine angel stalking the halls of the marbled palace... She thought... as many did... that she was simply a celestial gift unto the earth... But... the more that she studied her... The more that she saw with her own eyes that she moved not as any mortal could... She moved as one of the nosferatu...

After another cycle of watching her... Xanthia finally made herself known to her... Jenn told her of her Mistress... a fire-haired sereph who took her mortality and abandoned her... Xanthia also noted that this purest nosferatu was weak... her bloodline was tainted because of all the blood Aceldama had shed...This is when Xan made the hardest decision of her life... And chose to feed her... From her own veins... the sweet elixir of the Family of Andromeda...

This choice was hard on her... For she knew already of the madness that can come with the blood... But this puritan angel had to be strong...her gifts had to be hers...fully...

So was born my Xan's first child... the first child to drink directly from my veins... the first to change the potency of her bloods richness...Thus Jennelle became her daughter... her sister... and her eternal companion... And Princess to the House of Andromeda...

Jennelle did not lose any of her purity... nor of her sweetness... She gained the gift... or curse... depending on who thou dost ask... of being an adept empath... As many of our kind hold that gift... She posesses it like none other... not that this world has borne witness to...

Xanthia brought Jennelle to the House of Ryn... and she was accepted there as a choosen daughter...

They wandred the world... and Jenn found the House of Starrs being accepted withing... as well as Xanthia eventually....

Eventually the news reached Xanthia and Jennelle that Alcemeda was murdered... though it is known not by who... though it is said to be a very bloody and horrible destruction...

With that news... Jenn and Xan stepped up as the Joint Ruling Matriarchs of the House... until the arrival and addition of Silvereyes... when it became a Triple Ruling Matriarch... shared by her...

In this same year... was the addition of Silver's daughter Sabian... as First Princess... Ahriman... as First Prince... and the Knight Arphalia Thorne...

Also... there was the remarkable discovery that Kristopher yet lived... and now the house has reunited...