A sci-fi vampire epic · Book One
EMPIREOF BLOOD
Beneath the mortal world lies an empire of vampires — ruled through science, spectacle, and fear.
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The descent begins
No Name.
No Light.
No Escape…
Ten kilometers beneath the earth exists a world like no other. Devoid of sun and kept ever in eternal night, the Underworld is an Empire of limitless technological horror.
It is here that a man with no memories to call his own wakes on a strange black-glass elevator. A Convert of the vampire world, he is hated on sight by all and thrown into the brutal Blood Games — a televised arena where death and blood are but mere spectacle.
However, in this world, a painful death is far from the only thing to fear. Terror comes in many forms, and even when he shuts his eyes he is haunted by screams and nightmares of a twisted red-eyed machine.
Imperial cartography · V.L.A.D.
The World Above.
The Empire Below.
Explore the cities, trace the transport routes, and follow the descent. V.L.A.D. — the Virtual Linguistic Archive Daemon — will be your guide to the Imperial Atlas.
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V.L.A.D. Is Expecting You.
Cities · Routes · Depths · The Book One journey
Four pillars of the Empire
Power Has a Bloodline.
Dominion, war, science, and industry. United by fear and force — divided by everything else.
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House Draconi / Dominion
“Alle müssen dienen.”
All must serve.
Cousins to the Imperial bloodline, they are the coldest of the vampires. Every Draconi, coming of age, dons a faceless mask, never to be seen without it. A cruel aristocracy that governs the Underworld and answers only to the Empress.
- Population
- ~1 million
- Ancestral city
- Grelock · Berlin
- Sigil
- Purple bat on a black void
- Trade
- Governance & dominion
Transmissions
Follow the Empire.
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Leave the Light Behind.
Enter the Underworld.
Dark fiction by Christopher Kilgore