While time passed in a blink of an eye , but one time Alexander showed up in Hadrian's home looking serious and slightly worried.
Hadrian seeing this questioned"Is everything okay?"
Alexander with worry answered, "It is Marcus and William something happened to them, I mean Marcus was bitten by a bat, and William was bitten by a wolf, I mean Marcus now changed and now has a thirst for blood and William seemed to have transformed into a raging wolf."
Hadrian frowned and thought" So the Corvinus Strain they had been born with mutated, making Marcus the first Vampire and William the first werewolf."
Hadrian questioned, "Where is Marcus?"
Alexander sighed and answered"He came to me for help, but any human William infected were not easy to take down and I couldn't ask normal humans to go to war with this. I needed time to gather men who were loyal to me, but Marcus seemed to have misunderstood and he thought I was ignoring to help William, so he went turned to a dying warlord named Viktor in order to create an army to hunt William, who is killing entire villages of people, creating more like him."
Hadrian winced hearing this and was the start of the werewolf and vampire species.
William went on a rampage creating more mindless hordes, Hadrian and Alexander was able to restrict those hordes to just Hungary.
Viktor in twenty years built up an Vampire numbers to match the hordes of Werewolves, before the War begins in earnest.But vampires had an issue,since their movement was restricted to the night.
Hadrian provided Marcus with infomation,but whenever he tried to go after William himself,the first werewolf evaded him,it was as if he had developed and inbuilt sense of danger.
Marcus himself wasn't suprised explained"How William even in his werewolf formed inbuilt fear Hadrian."
Hadrian was thinking Fate was messing with him.
During this time first Vampire Coven is founded, and the Vampire Elders reign in turns as part of the "Chain".Which was an intricate system in which one Elder rules for a full century while the other two slumber in the crypt, thus preventing their conflicting styles of leadership causing division between them and the constituency they rule over.
Amelia founded the Eastern Coven and she along with Vidar found the Nordic Coven.
The Nordic Coven is more independent than the other Covens, as they did not answer to the Council and lived as they wished, away from the politics and the wars among the species.They were also a peaceful Coven.
Twenty ago Vidar's wife had strange vision in which she learnt a ritual,which would later become to known as Var Dohr Sacred Ritual.
The Var Dohr Sacred Ritual is a special and sacred ritual used exclusively by the Vampires of the Nordic Coven.
Vampires that undergo the Ritual are able to gain some more unusual abilities not seen in other members of their species and increase their already-existing ones to higher levels, as well as gaining new insight on the world around them.
Marcus when heard about his knew the one to call Hadrian as they travelled to the Scandinavian Mountains.
At the front of majestic fortress located at top of a frozen cliff, which can be used as a natural defense against outside threats.
Vidar with his wife Frigga and daughter Lena were waiting for them infront of thr fortress.
Vidar is a relatively tall man with pale skin, blue eyes, and a bald head.He wears a simple white robe and a dark robe.
While Frigga was was tall, slim,and very pale, with blue eyes, long blonde hair and their daughter Lena was relatively tall, young looking woman with pale skin, long straight white hair, and electric blue eyes.
Vidar gave Marcus a warm smile and said"Good to see you here,my friend.I know this is very dark time for you."
Marcus was still trying to find his brother,but William once again went into hiding and now they don't know when he will pop out again.
So Marcus nodded and gesturing towards Hadrian said"This is the friend I told you about,if someone can explain more about yours wives visons and rituals it is him.His name is Hadrian."
While Frigga and Lena,both were looking at Hadrian with great awe and curiosity.Hadrian felt the way Lena was looking at him was similar to Luna.
Hadrian and Marcus was taken inside.Then Lena spoke up"You have such a beautiful soul."
Hadrian hearing this was slightly suprised asked"You can see my soul."
Lena nodded and replied"So can my mother."
Hadrian looked at Frigga,who looked at Hadrian with sympathy and said"You went through a lot in your life."
Hadrian suprised they even saw his past,so Hadrian changed topic"Can you explain more about this ritual?....Also it would help if the room where ritual takes place is show?"
Frigga understood Hadrian didn't want to talk about it,so she along with Lena took Hadrian and Marcus to the undercroft, which was a crypt underneath the castle halls, it was similar to a temple where the Nordic vampires go to meditate and perform their sacred rituals.
Hadrian saw several pools and fountains in the area, the vampires were in the water cocoooned their bodies resting until their awakening.
Frigga started explained"A Vampire must first take a poison, to be cocooned and submerged in water. We call this ritual "Valissa", the "in-between place", it allows us to visit the "Sacred World"."
Hadrian channeled magic into his eye and he saw Lena,Frigga and Vidar were enlightned from being or seeing the afterlife for mere seconds.
Hadrian nodded and said"This means you saw the afterlife,somthing that is not meant for the living, so after seeing it and returning from this near death state, you are able to achieve inner clarity and a greater perception of things that even transcends death itself."
This explanation shocked Vidar,Frigga and Lena, as Lena with slight awe asked"You were able to guess everything from just seeing this."
Hadrian nodded and replied"My abilities are special and You'd be surprised how many intersectional planes of untethered consciousness exist."
Lena was excited and said"So their are different worlds like we thought."
Hadrian smiled seeing Lena's excitement,it reminded much of Luna, they discussed more about the different planes of existence.