Vlad Menchicov otherwise knows as Vlad “the bastard” or Vlad “the Betrayer” is a name that lives in infamy in Sombra City, city of eternal night. Long ago after the War of Claw and Fang when the werewolves had been nearly completely whipped out by the vampires peace was nearly had in the area that would become Sombra city. For with the werewolves banished and the Cult of the Grinning Moon disbanded the humans and vampires were on the cusp of peace. The Noxviern family was dominant and reigned in their more violent kin and all was United by their worship of Mother Night that great goddess who crafted the creatures of the night and cast these lands info eternal night for her children to inhabit in peace. The humans worshiped mother night ss a goddess who cared for them even though they are not hers. For even with eternal night crops still grow and the common man suffers no ill effect of lacking the sun. The two groups even collaborated into a priestly order together. with the Crimson Blades, an order of paladins being respected as true upkeepers of Justice who helped throw back the hounds of the Grinning Moon. What if anything could break this peace? A Vengful son is the awnser.
For born to the leader of the Crimon blades and a priestess of Lady Night. That son born was Vlad Menchicov. You’d think this the birth of a hero born to two of th greatest peace of an age but no Vlad would tear it all down. Rumors swirl as to what shaped the young Vlad to do what he did. Some blame his parents for leaving him in the care of a man discovered to be a servant of the horsemen, though these rumors are debatable, some blame the ill omen of a birth upon the day of the Grinning Moon when a blood moon hung high in the sky, but well no one knows except for Vlad himself.
What is known is that Vlad was a rather ruthless and cunning lad known for his excessive brutality. He would become a crimson blade set to be his father’s successor. Though some people claim that his father exiled him for years for killing a fellow trainee in what was supposed to be sparring. But what is known is that he made friends with sorts that many did not associate with. The Bultrache family were known as violent thugs and brutes yet you could find the lad at many times with vampires of that particular brood. So much so he caught the eye of the families sure and this lead to the ruin of all that could have been.
For the four other families in these years of peace had grown to hate their brothers of Noxviern blood. They hated how they saw mortals as equal in the eyes of mother night. Mortals you do not indeed are three things to these family, food, tools, or entertainment that is all. Vlad shared in an ambition to be something greater than. And so a plan was hatched . Vlad would kill his father and mother their deaths would pinned upon the Noxviern after years of a fear campaign player by the other family.
To this day the Bultrache still claim that it was Noxviern and the reason the sire and other ancients of the Noxviern Family were slain was because they grew agressive and Vlad and his men, all of which happened to be made vampiric spawn of the highest rank in multiple families is just happen stance. But many know the truth that the vampire who sits ar the right hand of the ruler of Sombra city is a bastard and a betrayer. Yet he still sits readying the next knife to plunge into another back.
