The experiments became increasingly brutal as time passed. They turned countless people into vampires, some with false promises, most without any consent at all.
It did not matter whether the subjects agreed; they would simply be killed, their Vitalis Cores removed, modified, and forced back into their bodies after Corvane changed them. But still they've failed again and again.
Lance or Roanna usually performed the turning, and neither of them showed hesitation.
The worst part was not even the forced transformation. It was the cruelty before it. They believed torture enhanced the blood. Physical pain, mental despair, fear; everything, they claimed, made the taste richer.
Roanna once said it openly, tilting her head with blood still staining her lips and dripping onto the marble floor while a bruised girl trembled in the corner.
