Millions of years ago, God appeared and brought light to the earth, which was previously filled with darkness. The once-shadowed world now glowed with divine radiance, and from that radiance all things were made possible.
From this light, God created all the animals that roam the earth today. To assist in his grand design, he formed seven demigods: Arathes, Zalas, Herma, Collern, Atha, Quinn, and Marteh. Each was endowed with a gift unlike any other.
Arathes carried the power of creation, the ability to breathe life into form. Zalas was gifted with strength and dominion over shadow. Herma could bend the minds of the living. While Collern shaped the earth itself, raising mountains and carving rivers with a thought. Atha wove the fabric of time. Quinn commanded the winds and tides, and Marteh held mastery over fire and the unseen forces between worlds.
Together, they were God's most magnificent instruments.
They designed the sky, adorning it with stars that twinkled like precious gems, and molded the cosmos into its current form. Each constellation was placed with intention, a record of their shared work written in light across the heavens.
After completing their work, Arathes felt a lingering emptiness in the earth. With God's permission, he created two beings in the image of the demigods and named them humans. These new creatures roamed the earth, bringing life and diversity to God's creation.
Impressed by Arathes's creations, God decided to reward him. He created a companion for Arathes named Mirel, who possessed powers almost equal to those of the demigods and was blessed with immortality, allowing her to be with Arathes forever.
Mirel was unlike anything that had existed before. Her presence seemed to bind the heavens and earth together. She would walk among the humans, learning their ways, and returning to Arathes with stories that pleased him.
Arathes rejoiced and praised God for his generosity, and for the first time, the emptiness inside him was gone.
However, not all the Demigods were pleased. Zalas, in particular, envied the attention and respect Arathes received. He also developed an intense attraction towards Mirel. Driven by jealousy and desire, Zalas sought to eliminate the humans, but he knew this would anger God.
Determined to fulfill his desires, Zalas retreated to the darkest corner of creation, where God's light barely reached. There, consumed by bitterness, he secretly created creatures in the image of humans, naming them vampires.
He poured his resentment into their very bones, crafting beings that mirrored his corruption.
Unable to grant them life himself, he tricked a weaker angel and transferred its life force to his creations. Doing this created an insatiable hunger within the vampires. Thus, the vampires gained the ability to drain the lives of humans to sustain their existence.
Chaos soon followed, and Arathes pleaded with God to erase the vampires. However, God refused to intervene directly as he could not take life. Arathes discovered that the vampires' venomous fangs could turn humans into vampires, allowing them to multiply since their females couldn't give birth.
To counter this threat, Arathes cursed the sun, causing its rays to burn vampires to ashes. In retaliation, Zalas blessed his vampires with super speed, heightened senses, incredible strength, and beauty that far surpassed that of humans.
To combat the growing vampire menace, Arathes created superhumans, later named vampire hunters by Mirel. These warriors were endowed with powers similar to those of angels and fairies. The battle between vampires and vampire hunters intensified, causing greater turmoil in heaven and drawing God's wrath.
Meanwhile, Zalas's obsession with Mirel grew darker. He deceived her into meeting him and raped her. Mirel, overcome with shame and fear, and terrified of what the truth might cost her kept it a secret, carrying the wound of it alone while Arathes and the other Demigods tried to find who had created the vampires.
Zalas continued his quest to make his vampires immortal but failed which made his actions exposed to all. God was furious and subjected him to intense pain before banishing his soul to hell for eternity.
Despite Zalas's punishment, peace remained elusive.
Mirel became pregnant with Zalas's child, causing an uproar in heaven. Arathes, torn by grief and anger, wanted to kill the child, but Mirel pleaded for its life. The child, she argued, had not chosen what it was. It deserved the chance to be more.
The child was born a vampire, and God cursed the vampires with the same agonizing pain on the day of their birth. Mirel, unable to bear the guilt and humiliation, transferred her immortality to a heavenly flower she had created and took her own life.
Arathes was devastated by Mirel's death.
A fairy, witnessing his sorrow, cursed the child to experience the same love and loss that Arathes had with Mirel. To find someone precious and irreplaceable, and to lose them in a way that could never be undone.
Unable to bear the sight of the child, Arathes sent him to Earth, marking the beginning of the end.
Centuries passed, and legends spoke of the half-demigod, a being of immense power, hidden in the shadows. No one had ever seen him, or if they had, they didn't live to tell the tale. The legends say he wanders the earth without purpose or allegiance, carrying within him the blood of heaven and the curse of hell, belonging to neither. Some say his immortality is his curse, as he is forever trapped on earth.
As war raged on Earth between vampires and hunters, a prophecy surfaced. It spoke of a savior, a divine hunter sent by God to restore balance and heal the world. The prophecy was ancient and had been passed through a dozen civilizations, each one adding its own interpretation and fear.
Yet, there was no savior.
Humanity waited.
Hunters prayed.
But questions lingered: would the half-demigod threaten the savior's mission with him being on earth, or were their fates bound together in ways no one could foresee?