Demon From the Dark (2 page)

           
Separated into five castes: warrior, healer, enchantress, conjurer, and seeress.

           
Led by Mariketa the Awaited.

THE ORDER

"The immortal takers. Once captured by the Order, immortals do not return. ..."

           
A multinational mortal operation created to study--and exterminate--immortals.

           
Thought to be an urban legend.

THE SCARB A

"Abominations, created rather than born, with unnatural powers--and hungers. ..."

           
Demons poisoned with vampire blood who retain the traits of both species.

Previously thought to be truly mythical; considered abominations by most in the Lore.

           
Strongest of any sentient immortal being.

           
Colloquially known as
vemons
.

THE VAMPIRES

           
Two warring factions, the Horde and the Forbearer Army.

Each vampire seeks his
Bride,
his eternal wife, and walks as the living dead until he finds her.

A Bride will render his body fully alive, giving him breath and making his heart beat, a process known as
blooding
.

The Fallen
are vampires who have killed by drinking a victim to death. Distinguished by their red eyes.

THE ACCESSION

"And a time shall come to pass when all immortal beings in the Lore, from the Valkyrie, vampire, Lykae, and demon factions to the witches, shifters, fey, and sirens ... must fight and destroy each other."

           
A kind of mystical checks-and-balances system for an ever-growing population
    
of immortals.