I agree with Shonai above - should probably move this somewhere else, maybe Stories?
Anyway, little vampire drama I found once (hope y'all don't mind a little embellishment, for the sake of story):
Quamun Rapidstars was born in the year 6 to Ebka Chasmdives and Sushsath Buttercurls. She and her younger brother, Bedo Campedphrase, were raised in the town of Snarledlull by Ebka, who was at that time the First Right of the Faith of Steel, the priestly organization devoted to Bathru the warrior-god. Sushsath, her father, was largely absent - he lived in the farming community of Scrapesweep outside the town.
In the year 7, only months after Bedo's birth, Ebka profaned the Shrine of Right, Bathru's temple. In retribution the god placed upon her the curse of the werewolf [yes, an actual werewolf], and she was forced into the hills, leaving the two infants with neither mother nor father in town. Sushsath showed no interest in caring for the children; before Quamun was twelve years old he joined a traveling performance troupe and left for distant lands. As for Ebka, as part of her curse she was made an especial menace to her own family, and the very next year attacked her infant children in the town; she was driven off, however, before any harm could come to them. It would not be the last they dealt with her, though, nor of the many other poor souls to whom she passed the curse of the werewolf.
An orphan in all but name, life was hard for Quamun. As an urchin in the streets of Snarledlulled she often turned to crime to survive, and by the time she was twelve she was known as a petty thief. At fifteen she met Puti Shellstowers, a ranger from Dangerpaths who had recently arrived in the town. He was the son of peasants from Marketreigned, and had known Quamun's father Sushsath in childhood. The two began a romance and were quickly married, and the next year Quamun gave birth to her first child, Gel Nutssinge; over forty years the couple would produce 15 children. Puti plied a fishmonger's trade for a few years, but by the year 23, making use of Quamun's contacts among the town's lowlives, he formed the "Fuchsia Band," which became and remained the primary criminal organization in Snarledlull. With the Saffron Nuts Tavern as their base of operations he and Quamun ruled the city's underworld for a decade.
In the year 34, however, Quamun had a religious awakening; she dedicated herself to the worship of Buthra, and joined the Faith of Steel. This was not much to Puti's liking: he was a casual worshipper of the sun and thunder gods but generally cared little for religion; most of the couple's children followed him in this regard. But Quamun was ardent in her newfound faith, so much that in the year 52, when the old Shrine was abandoned and a new priestly organization, the Faith of Towers, was formed, Quamun was named the First Judge.
Tragedy had already began to overrun Quamun's life, however. The town had always been endangered by night creatures--Ebka and her werewolf progeny among the rest--and Quamun's children had often been attacked, though never harmed. But in 46 Quamun's tenth child, 5-year-old Sinur, was mauled to death by his own grandmother, the accursed Ebka. Two years later, her infant daughter Ejel, only three months old, was bitten by a werewolf: the townsfolk demanded the child's death, so Quamun took her to the hills and abandoned her there. The same happened to her son Cegad in 57; this parting was worse for Quamun, for Cegan was not a speechless infant but a child of three. Quamun herself was also attacked again by her cursed mother--and although no one had ever told her the truth of her mother's disappearance she suspected Ebka's fate, for rumors and whispers always find their way to the wrong ears.
Such tragedies took there toll on Quamun's psyche. One night in the year 61, just after her last child Uja's birth, frightened for her new son's fate and angry for her past sufferings, Quamun flew into a mad rage and desecrated the temple of Buthra. Though she covered up the crime to the earthly authorities, claiming it was the work of robbers, the gods knew the truth. Soon Quamun began to feel a strange hunger, at first mild but ever growing; food would not satisfy it, nor drink quench, and when she looked on the temple priests, or worse on her own family, she felt the gnawing appetite of a predator for its prey. At first she feared the wolf-curse had come upon her, but it soon proved a curse of another kind: and a few weeks after the desecration the priests awoke to find one of their number dead, pale and bloodless, with no mark upon his corpse but two small punctures, like bite-marks.
Quamun learned to navigate her vampirism, taking to back-alleys at night and preying on the lonely and unknown, disposing of the bodies in the temple crypt to which she had easy access. For nearly twenty years she hid her curse, but the hunger grew and grew, and finally in 79 she had brought too much suspicion on herself: she fled Snarledlull, never to return. Her son Uja Searingassaults was made First Judge after her, and kept the position until his death.
Quamun needed a place to live in safety. It so happened that, although many of her children had followed their father's path into criminal life, organizing their own bands in the hills, her third son Bolli Nurtureurges had become lord of the village of Minttrumpet, miles distant from Snarledlull. To his hall she came in disguise, revealing herself to her son in secret and begging asylum. Under his protection she took up fishing and lived quietly as a peasant. She fought in Bolli's ranks during the goblin wars, and tried her best to restrain her hunger--in such a small community even one suspicious death might betray her.
The curse, however, began to affect Quamun's mind. Over the years, hunting at night in the shadows, preying on the living while they slept, she began to feel safe, and then untouchable. She discovered new powers as her hunger grew, including the ability to charm mortals with a look, putting them under her spell. By the year 97 she had gathered a cult of worshippers in the village; and in the year 110 she formed a group of robbers and highwaymen under her command.
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