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    There wasn't much she could find in the history books, but there were complete profiles on the three top vampire clans in the overseer journals. The Statsny clan, in particular, had detailed entries regarding their history as recalled by their servant, Stillwel, in a series of conversations with the prior overseer. After discovering that Stillwel had shared the family secrets with the overseer, he was banned from entering town by his master, Havel Statsny.
    The Statsnys had a long tradition of being masons and carpenters. They helped to build many villages and cities sometime before the start of the 1400s. Nobody knew for sure when it happened, but during that time the family had been turned and became one of the most brutal vampire clans in Europe. Some of the bloodiest massacres in recorded history occurred due to their lust for blood. Unlike most clans, the Statsnys rarely turned others, choosing to keep their own bloodline as pure as possible. If someone was fortunate enough to be turned, it was most likely because they were a distant cousin or an in-law through marriage.
    Fed up with the endless butchering of his people, the King of England personally demanded that a group of ten of the best vampire hunters in all the lands be rounded up before him. The King’s men did find hunters willing to aid the crown and they stalked the Statsnys all over Europe, killing them one by one until the remaining clan went into hiding.
    Shortly after it was decreed that "a great purge shall begin" and every manner of demon-hunter and fed up peasant began tracking down and destroying all creatures of the night. Some scholars would call it the first proclamation of genocide, and there were many humans that would give protest, believing that these monsters should be worshiped as gods and not exterminated like rats. Those that would sympathize with the creatures would be locked up or executed as traitors. It began as a fight for survival but turned into an all out war for dominance. Modern history would never tell the tale of what would be the only time the world was united against a single enemy.
    The tides began to turn in mankind's favor and the soulless monsters were on the verge of extinction. Assuming that victory was already theirs, many ceased to fight and returned to their normal lives. This would turn out to be premature and some remaining vampires and werewolves moved underground, weakened by being forced to live on the smaller game, like rodents and carcasses abandoned in the woods. Those that could not find a way to survive out of sight were killed or faded into starvation. Although there were still monsters in the world, they were powerless. That all changed in 1492 when the New World was discovered, and with it new opportunities for a better life. Or death.
    The first colony ships set sail for what would eventually be known as North America. The Statsnys' only living pedigrees managed to stow away on the first of these vessels—Drahomira and Havel, the children. Starving and half crazed, the two of them worked through the passengers one by one. Most of them would be drained for food while the strongest and most beneficial to them would be turned to rebuild their numbers. Nobody knew for sure just how many survived the trip to the shore, but the assumption was that the crew was left alive and still human to continue piloting the ship during the daytime.
    There is little written after their arrival in North America until the second great purge when all were magically banished to Malevolent sometime after the founding of the United States. During this time in between there were other vampire clans that had made it across the ocean, but the Statsnys remained the strongest and most brutal out of all of them.  
    "Fascinating," Tara muttered to herself.  
    "This place is a mess!" Maddix interrupted her private