(Early 1900s; New York)

Most people would dismiss claims that vampires, werewolves and other creatures are myth. That they’re simply a story told by parents to misbehaving children, or a tale told by madmen that claimed to have encountered one of these creatures.

What they didn’t know however, was that these so called “myths,” were very much real. Across the country, some towns experienced death from unknown causes. Blood drained from bodies, corpses found in the forest near the towns with their throats torn out and claw marks over their bodies. Some said it was wolves, or bears. But no animal had the precision to leave only two pricks in their necks and just drain their blood, that wasn’t like any known animal to do. But, there was a certain group of people that knew exactly what caused these deaths. A group that dated back to early Renaissance in Italy, called the “Order of the White Rose,” who hunted these creatures, protecting the innocent from their evil.

Some creatures however, weren’t as evil as the Order claimed them to be. One example, is Vanessa Harkness, a vampire who was originally from England, but came to America to escape from the Order of the White Rose. She settled in a manor outside of the city of New York, away from humans but not too far away so she would not run out of a source of blood. Vanessa would have trespassers from time to time on her property, whether it be a werewolf that unknowingly stumbled into a vampire’s territory, another vampire that wasn’t a part of her clan, or a human that she fed upon but didn’t kill, simply taking them back into the woods and leaving them to recover on their own.

“Another werewolf wandered into my territory, again. That is the fifth one this week… those filthy mongrels are getting more and more aggressive.” Vanessa said as she washed the werewolf blood off her hands, sighing to herself. “I suppose I should head into town, and see if anyone has wolfsbane to repel those vermin.”