Books on the Shelves: The Sarafan Chronicles

[Chronicles of the Damned]

<font size=4>Preface</font>

The Sarafan. A society comprised of both humans and aliens, male and female. A society with one purpose: to watch and record the lives of Vampyres. For millennia we have recorded their lives in great detail so that future generations may become aware of their existence. We are the Sarafan, and these are our chronicles.

[Chronicles of the Damned]

<font size=4>Chapter 1: A Brief History</font>

Our history begins with the first written accounts of a Vampyre. The founder of the Sarafan, Pyetre Drackov, wrote it over 1300 years ago. He did not know of what he was writing. A beast, what we now know as Vampyres, was killing and feeding off the people of his village and those of the villages in the surrounding area. His was the pre-industrial society of Agamar. It is unknown if this planet was the birthplace of the Vampyres, but it is the first recorded mention.

As time passed, the killings increased exponentially, in his recordings Pyetre realized that the Vampyre’s bite, was not only fatal, but in some instances turned the victim into a Vampyre also. With this realization, Pyetre determined that he could not record the movements of all the new Vampyre’s by himself. Calling on the aid of his friends and family Pyetre laid the groundwork for the institution that we all now call home. Slowly the network of Vampyre watchers spread through the countryside of Agamar and eventually to the early cities. Soon Pyetre began to receive written reports and accounts of Vampyre actions and sightings of new Vampyres, and after less than 10 years Pyetre compiled the first Chronicles out of those reports. He named The Sarafan Chronicles, or loosely translated “The Watcher Chronicles”, and gave his network the same name. In that the Sarafan were born.

For 273 years the Sarafan recorded the lives of Vampyres, both the elder Vampyre from the days of Pyetre Drackov, and the fledglings that have followed. By the Sarafan year 273, the Sarafan had recorded nearly 240 Vampyres, of which 120 still survived to see the drastic change of the 274th year of Sarafan existence. In the Sarafan year 274, the people of Agamar developed the ability for interstellar travel. Jumping at the chance to expand into the galaxy a group of Vampyres quickly used the new technology to leave Agamar for many other planets in the neighbouring systems, and in the traditions developed in two and three quarter centuries the Sarafan followed.

Now nearly a millennia later the Vampyres are still expanding throughout the galaxy, and the Sarafan are continue to be there, lurking in the shadows recording and reporting on their lives.