Krauss, or “Teacher Krauss,” is a professor at the Clan, a public institution meant to aid and raise young vampires who are experiencing their Cocoon Phase. Krauss is often seen as an oddball by students and other teachers, as he spends a majority of his time staring emptily at the sky.

Krauss is a tragic individual who has experienced millennia upon millennia of a never-ending life full of agony and strife, which explains his supposedly delicate psyche. As the very first vampire in the world, 