'The Black Chapter' a brief background

It all began back in the year 771bc, when a Sheppard found baby twins suppling on a wolf mother. The babies had been abandoned, and the wolf mother had begun raising the babies as her own. The Sheppard took the twins back to his village to be raised in a human civilisation.

Romulus and Remus grew up with a secret, they were werewolves. Remus embraced his lycanthropy as a gift, Romulus on the other hand believed it to be a curse. Through the years the twins gained control over their lycanthropy, they learnt how to change into their wolf state at will. But Romulus was still ashamed and in his rages he would attack whole villages, ‘punishing others for his condition.’ These actions only resulted in the spread of the werewolf gene, for every human being Romulus stuck his teeth into become a werewolf. Remus spent a lot of his time with the victims of Romulus, teaching them how to control their condition.

Over the years, Romulus calmed down. He began gathering followers and eventually formed the very first Roman Legion. Romulus later became the first King of Rome, naming it after himself. Now with control over the ever expanding Roman Empire, Romulus began flushing out the werewolves and destroyed the ones he came across. This however did not cure him of his own condition. So Romulus left, he was believed to have died, instead he had journeyed to the darkest corner of the earth in search of the rumoured Vampires. The Vampires are demons of this world, an evil fascist race that believed they alone have the right to rule over land and sea. Vampires were conjurers of dark magic, and Romulus knew this. He wanted help in ridding himself of his werewolf curse in exchange for control over the Roman Army.

The Vampires welcomed Romulus as a God, sent to them as a gift to lead them in the war to rid the world of everything non-Vampire. The Vampires agreed to help and Romulus was bitten by one of the oldest and most pure of the Vampires. This new gift gave Romulus un-imaginable strength and immortality. With this new found power, Romulus returned to Rome with a small army of Vampires and murdered his brother. Romulus and his dark army then set out to finish off the rest of the Werewolf population. When they reached the first small Werewolf settlement they were met by a surprisingly large resistance. Word of the murder of Remus, who was popular amongst Werewolves, had reached them, and they were not happy. A vicious battle began, the Vampires were taken aback by the surprising strength and numbers of the Werewolves, there were massive casualties on both sides. Romulus and the few remaining Vampires fled.

The Werewolves had suffered huge losses and knew that if a similar battle took place again in the future, they would not stand a chance. So they decided it would be safest to go into hiding. Most emigrated to other European countries, some even made it as far as Asia and America.

Romulus returned back to the Vampire stronghold wounded from the battle, but this was the least of his problems. His new Vampire genes were reacting to those of his lycanthropy, making him extremely ill. Romulus was dying. Elder Vampires tried their best to find a cure for Romulus, but could only manage to keep him alive. In the meantime large numbers of Vampires made their way back to Italy and beyond in search of the Werewolves, as the Vampire held them responsible for the near death of their new leader. The Werewolves were well hidden and the Vampires grew extremely frustrated, as they could not find them anywhere. The Vampires started setting up covens all across eastern Europe, the largest of these being in Romania.

Centuries past, and this ancient game of cat and mouse continued, unnoticed by normal humans. As the races evolved, so did the weapons, yet nothing is as scary as the Vampires sheer lust for blood and total domination.