Lamia. Shtriga. Draugur. Asanbosam. Vampire. There are many names. But, there is only one origin. In 2013, a group of students searching through the backlogs of university data made a startling discovery. There, hidden among the myriad student thesis projects, they found a manuscript, a manuscript that detailed the history, in several volumes, of humankind's oldest and least understood nemesis. They found the history of the vampire. This is that history.