This series will be dedicated to :iconvaledheleven: because her Faerie Origins series reminded me that I should show the origins of my lovely Vampires which rule the world in Danté’s Prayer . So this is a series to show the first Vampires of my world.

This is part of a series. No one character is any more important than the next or the last, they are nine equal characters.


LARGE HISTORY EDIT AHEAD:

Ten people from all over the main areas of civilization in the Ancient World were told to travel to the Far East, by elders of their communities. They were to travel for reasons they were never told. Upon arrival, they were informed that they were to become Gods for their peoples, to be worshipped for all eternity -- or until their respective religions died out. Once this happened, they were once more allowed to roam the world as they saw fit; as Living Gods. In this palace where they congregated the Ten were pampered and kept well for the time they stayed, one month exactly. On the night of the Full Moon they were brought from the palace into an already ancient temple, a temple of Gods and Magik which none had ever heard.

A religion based upon Magik, and a Magik and Language already thought by the lifetimes of the Ten to be lost forever to the antiquities. But in this remote pocket of the ancient world the spells the last living practitioner; a woman, ancient in both appearance and age, was dwelling. The last of the long dead society and culture whose language and spells she alone retained.

On the night of the Full Moon the Ten were gathered into the temple of jade, and here they stood side by side. Each equal and none forgotten; around a sacred fire beside which stood the ancient mage. A secret incantation, which has since been destroyed and the language and culture of which it was born long forgotten, was read out as both palms of each of the Ten was slashed open. As the blood dripped, the mage ordered them to join hands. The spell had awoken inside of them a primeval and powerfully strong energy, held within their very blood. An energy that all possess, but only a select few could ever harness. As they pressed their slashed and bleeding palms together their blood flowed from one to another and back and forth until each of the Ten possessed energy from the others; forever binding them as a family, and together in their fate. The sacred blood ceremony, which had never been conducted between people but only ever upon one’s self to lengthen life in the body (allowing the ancient mage to still be living) instead gave them a power unexpected. Awakening a lust for blood and lengthening their teeth to allow for the drinking of blood. Making them into the forever ageless, the forever beautiful, and the forever immortal beings which came to be called the Vampires. But with this ceremony they became more than any other human had been since the days of old; they became a race of Higher Beings, and more spiritually awake than any others. Open and sensitive to even the smallest changes in energies in the world. This allowed for them each to develop a “gift”, a power of nature in which they could control.

After the ceremony, each of the Ten were to return to their own homelands once more, where they were to be worshipped until the ending of the world; where most of them still live being worshipped by those that still practice ancient pagan traditions. Or they live as the rest of us, hidden in the very life which brings them their own with its death.

This is the Vampire Citlalli, one of the first nine Vampires made. She is of course part of the Revered Heart; the Vampires from which all Vampires spring. The original family and parents, if you must.

Citlalli is Aztec by birth, and after becoming a “Goddess” she returned to her people, as Goddess of the Night and of the Moon. She was named Metzli. Since the fall of the Aztec Empire however, many scholars are confused as to the gender of Metzli, some claiming male, others female.

Citlalli and the Revered Heart are © to aka Stephanie Potter

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Citlalli/Metzli: (no longer available, found through another stock community)
Moon:
Glyphic in the moon:
Ruins:
Green feather:
Jade earring and ‘bra’:
Sky:
Glowing earring brush:
Hand print brush: [link]
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