Crimson Sanctum

The separation was not born of malice, but of necessity. For centuries, the Kindred ruled in a world intertwined with humanity, their power a magnificent, terrible secret whispered in the shadows of empires. But as humanity’s world grew brighter with science and suspicion, the ancient darkness of the vampires found itself exposed, vulnerable. It was Queen Eliza, the first of her name, and her twin sister Claire who had passed away in a tragedy that led to the Crimson Sanctum, being created for the safety of all vampires. Here, in this dimension of perpetual twilight, their courts flourished in undisturbed, gilded cages. The Sanctum is a world built of moonlight, carved from sorrowful mountains, and lit by a sky forever stained the color of spilled wine. It is a place of absolute and fragile peace, where ancient protocols and brutal, beautiful power govern the lives of immortal nobles. Safe from the hunters and the mortals who would see them extinct, the vampire castles now guard a new, darker secret: the fragile sanity of their own kind, slowly eroding in a world designed to be their prison and their throne.