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During the third century AD, it was believed that a warring lord became king of what was believed to be the present France, a portion of Spain stretching as far as the borders of Italy where the seat of Christianity rests -- in Rome.

Little is known about this brave warrior. But according to some accounts, Vladimir was of German descent and was educated in a monastery in Spain. He left at the age of seventeen and when he returned fifteen years later, he had become the leader of a very powerful and brutal gang of loyal warriors who without a question could vanquish any enemies of the Catholic church.

Because of his fanaticism to the religion, it was believed that the Pope himself took a liking to Vladimir. When he invaded Spain and a portion of France, the Pope allegedly looked the other way to assure him that Vladimir's loyalty was his in exchange for a country he could call his own. Little did he know that Vladimir and his fanaticism would lead an embarrassment for Rome that would end the short reign of King Vladimir as quickly as it started. Rumors started spreading that King Vladimir literally took mass' doctrine of drinking blood of Christ. He wanted to be sure that he would be blessed as Christ was in him, so he opted to drink real blood and not wine, its symbolic counterpart.

He enjoyed drinking blood. He believed that it gave him more strength and vigor. He also ordered all his faithful men and subjects to drink blood as well. Those who refused met with death. Their hearts were pierced with a wooden stake to mark them as traitors.

Mad, despised, but quiet powerful, the king went to join several wars, thereby expanding his territory. He always returned full of his war's bounties and it always included the blood of his enemies contained in barrels. The day soon came when his intake of blood and hid perception Christ led him to believe that his bloodthirst gave him unimaginable powers.

He believed he could see in the dark, his strength multiplied ten-fold and his wounds heal easily. He also claimed that he had established a direct to God and that anyone who look directly into his eyes would be under his spell and would do anything that he desired and ordered. He claimed he could leap so high until he could almost fly.

Imaginary or not, many of his loyal followers claimed the same transformation had happened to them. And so they went to more wars, and King Vladimir became one of the most powerful kings in Europe. Threatened by his slowly growing power, alarmed by his claims of immortality, and of such wondrous feats in the Name of God, the Pope, once an ally of King Vladimir, declared war on the king. For how a king bringing wars, causing so much grief to others, can claim his unquestionable faith to the Church? He who drank the blood of his victims while holding in his hands the sacred cross of Jesus Christ and the symbol of the Church?

It was an abomination.

And so, the Pope rallied all Catholics in Europe to go against King Vladimir. The purged happened and the killer was vanquished. It was believed that it took several days before he was finally killed. He had to be burn down along with his minions for an unbelievable thing happened when the soldiers were ordered to cut him to pieces as a last resort instead of killing him over and over. Every part of his body was cut moved even along after it was amputated from the king. The sight was of such nightmarish proportion that the soldiers, in a panic, began burning the body parts and his followers were burned whole.

The Pope then ordered that the names of King Vladimir and what was once his kingdom stricken out from the history of Europe. The name should never be uttered again and his sinful ways forgotten for as long as mankind lives. All records of the bloodthirsty king were burnt down and no testament of his existence surfaced in Europe or somewhere else. Somehow, a few of the documents recording King Vladimir's existence surfaced during the present time. These very few and incomplete records as well as a painting are the only surviving proofs of the bloodthirsty king.

According to stories, these documents came from very, very old families all over the world who are believed to be descendants of King Vladimir's loyal subjects, those who managed to flee before the last of his purging ended and were scattered all over the world.

Some crossed the Carpathian Mountains and into Italy and Central Europe. Others went to Africa, later in the New World and Asia after braving the cold of Siberia and outer Mongolia. With them, they carried King Vladimir's legacy of the unusual power he had developed, his lust for drinking human blood, and the innate ability to establish powerful clans who are believed to be thriving even now.....