A Tiefling moves down lonely city streets, trying her best to get home before her husband starts to worry. Something she would never get to do as two powerful hands drag her into the darkness of a nearby alleyway. The beginnings of a scream leave her throat before it is silenced by two fangs. Her life ebbs away as the blood that gives said life is drained into a Human woman’s body.
The Tiefling has fallen victim to the attacks of a Vampire. An undead creature of the night who feeds on the life blood of others. On the following night, the Tiefling rises as a spawn. A weaker Vampire. Yet, how did these beasts come to be?
The answer is: Strahd von Zarovich. Though this incident took place on the world of Toril, the first case of Vampirism occurred in the Shadowfell, when a powerful warlord named Count Strahd von Zarovich entered into a pact with vile entities, and not only slew his most trusted comrade, Alec Gwilym, but also his brother Sergei in an attempt to gain immortality, but also the love of a woman named Tatyana Ferdonova. This act pulled his land of Barovia into the Plane of Shadow and trapped Strahd von Zarovich within his own Demiplane. From there, he slowly learned what he was: Undead. Not just undead... but a Vampire. He also learned he could make more. These creatures served him, yet some went too far in their hunts, chasing creatures that fled into the Mists of the Demiplane.
The Mists would, for a time, transport them to the Material Plane. Varying world such as Toril, Krynn, or Eberron. The Vampires would hunt in these worlds, free from their Masters control, and effectively being like him. As they fed, they found they would make more of their kind, before the Mists would rise and take them back to their home of Barovia, back to the control of their Master, leaving their Spawn as they were... without control.
These Vampires, in turn, created their own spawn. This was the beginning of the scourge known as Vampirism, an undead curse that claimed entire towns such as Merrydale on the world of Toril.
Vampirism was meant to be a restrictive curse... but the will of the Mists of Ravenloft and the evil within the hearts of Strahd’s Spawn had other plans for it. It would stretch far and wide across the multiverse, giving birth to some of the strongest beings in existence.
This is only my interpretation of the text found in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft stating that Strahd was the multiverses first Vampire, and I figured this needed some elaborating on, because Vampires are everywhere.
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A Tiefling moves down lonely city streets, trying her best to get home before her husband starts to worry. Something she would never get to do as two powerful hands drag her into the darkness of a nearby alleyway. The beginnings of a scream leave her throat before it is silenced by two fangs. Her life ebbs away as the blood that gives said life is drained into a Human woman’s body.
The Tiefling has fallen victim to the attacks of a Vampire. An undead creature of the night who feeds on the life blood of others. On the following night, the Tiefling rises as a spawn. A weaker Vampire. Yet, how did these beasts come to be?
The answer is: Strahd von Zarovich. Though this incident took place on the world of Toril, the first case of Vampirism occurred in the Shadowfell, when a powerful warlord named Count Strahd von Zarovich entered into a pact with vile entities, and not only slew his most trusted comrade, Alec Gwilym, but also his brother Sergei in an attempt to gain immortality, but also the love of a woman named Tatyana Ferdonova. This act pulled his land of Barovia into the Plane of Shadow and trapped Strahd von Zarovich within his own Demiplane. From there, he slowly learned what he was: Undead. Not just undead... but a Vampire. He also learned he could make more. These creatures served him, yet some went too far in their hunts, chasing creatures that fled into the Mists of the Demiplane.
The Mists would, for a time, transport them to the Material Plane. Varying world such as Toril, Krynn, or Eberron. The Vampires would hunt in these worlds, free from their Masters control, and effectively being like him. As they fed, they found they would make more of their kind, before the Mists would rise and take them back to their home of Barovia, back to the control of their Master, leaving their Spawn as they were... without control.
These Vampires, in turn, created their own spawn. This was the beginning of the scourge known as Vampirism, an undead curse that claimed entire towns such as Merrydale on the world of Toril.
Vampirism was meant to be a restrictive curse... but the will of the Mists of Ravenloft and the evil within the hearts of Strahd’s Spawn had other plans for it. It would stretch far and wide across the multiverse, giving birth to some of the strongest beings in existence.
This is only my interpretation of the text found in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft stating that Strahd was the multiverses first Vampire, and I figured this needed some elaborating on, because Vampires are everywhere.