The youngest child of the firstborn vampire. The Daughter of Fortune. The embodiment of Venus. Matriarch of Hell’s Sirens. Ally of the Order of Unending Radiance. These were all titles bestowed upon Arabella Firros. Born in the early second century CE, Arabella grew up with her mother in the land of Catalonia during the era of the great Roman Empire. However, Arabella’s mother died twenty-five years after giving birth to Arabella. During her first one hundred years, Arabella witnessed the constant in-fighting of both the human and vampire politicians and the mortal’s bloody battles against invaders with a cold disdain. Killing was never something she enjoyed, though there was nothing she could do about drinking mortals.
When Arabella wasn’t busy weaving and creating an immense fortune for herself, suitors from all over the land tried their hand at wooing her. However, every single one of them failed upon witnessing Arabella’s incomparable beauty. Many poets were inspired just by laying on her in the night as she walked the streets, compiling songs and lyrics about the princess of the night. Some mortals called her Venus, while others swore she was Proserpina.
By the time Arabella was two hundred years old, she married a powerful noble vampire and gave birth to her firstborn daughter, Victoria. Arabella’s marriage to Victoria’s father soured within a few years due to the father’s selfish tendencies and growing ties to the vampires who sought to restore her father’s ancient vampire empire. However, Arabella did not expect her husband to attempt to murder her and her daughter. With a dagger in hand, the father tried to murder Arabella in her sleep, but the Matriarch sensed his movements and caught his hand before he could plunge the dagger through her heart. Heartbroken but resolute, Arabella steeled her will and prepared to slay her husband.
The resulting conflict lasted about an hour, but Arabella arose victorious and scooped her daughter out of the villa. It would take several months for Arabella to gather all of her things and travel to the heart of vampire civilization in the Mesopotamian region, but with her daughter in tow, the two reached the heart of her father’s old empire. Swaddled in cloth from head-to-toe, the two Firros vampires wandered until a dense black veil consumed the dwindling sunlight. A figure emerged from the veil with a smile on her face and rushed the two women. Arabella prepared herself and shoved Victoria behind her, but the woman just hugged the mother. This new vampire introduced herself as Arabella’s older sister and called herself Corella. Corella was revered as the Goddess of Night in many ancient cultures, though Arabella herself had only heard of her through rumors.
Corella guided her much younger sister and her niece through the interior lands of the Mesopotamian River Valley until they reached an ancient ruin deep in the valley. Arabella thought the realms were full of things only from the ancient mortal civilizations, which it was for the most part. However, Corella led her family members to the Corridor of the Ancients, the heart of the ancient vampire empire. Once there, Arabella met her other siblings, Wilhelm and Sigmund, though the two older brothers did not greet Arabella with the same familial affection as Corella did.
The four siblings entered the corridor with Victoria following her mother. Corella led the group to the sealing site where their father, Khadlerin, was bound by a ritual to the deepest layers of Hell. Arabella took note of all the various sigils and seals all over the walls and began breaking them down and reconstructed them within her mind. It was something none of her siblings noticed nor knew of at the time. Arabella had deciphered the basics of sealing magic from just these scrawls, but she could not implement the spells yet.
The family reunion did not last long as Corella fled into the night sky shortly after. Wilhelm and Sigmund continued their brutal campaigns in the Northern stretches of Europe. Arabella would remain amidst the dwindling Roman Empire as the western half shrank, where she would retain her immense wealth and hide in the land of what would be known as Catalonia. Amidst the continuous changing rulers in Catalonia, Arabella found herself a quiet place on the outskirts of civilization where no one really bothered her, but Arabella knew this wouldn’t last. She spent hundreds of years preparing and plotting a land where no one could harm her offspring, especially since her second child was on the way.
While Arabella did her best to hide amongst the mortals, Victoria always made a scene wherever she went. Victoria had all the bloodlust of her father with the charming power of her mother. It made Victoria one of the most efficient hunters in the Vampire world, something that caught the attention of many Vampire nobles throughout the years. Arabella did her best to mask her daughter’s presence as much as she could, but there were often times when Arabella had to kill both vampires and mortals who sought to bring her daughter harm. Victoria herself slew many of her suitors out of principle, though Victoria seemed to have no problem bearing children for these suitors before she slaughtered them. So, Arabella’s coven continued to grow as her grandchildren flooded the lineage.
However, when Arabella met another vampire and became pregnant with her second daughter, it would be Victoria’s turn to protect her mother. It was Victoria who would lure mortals to the family abode so her mother could feed when Arabella grew too heavy-laden with her child. So, as Victoria taught her daughters how to fight, the young princess commanded a coven of vampires that would come to be known as Hell’s Sirens. It was a unique trait among Arabella’s lineage that she and all her children would only bear daughters, forming a coven among themselves. It was during the 10th Century CE that Arabella’s second daughter, Adelaide Firros, was born. Adelaide was born of a vampire painter and inherited many of his great traits. Adelaide was mild-mannered in comparison to Victoria and bore a great appreciation for mortal life. When Adelaide grew up, she would spend almost all her free time painting, so much so that Victoria always found her younger sister boring.
Arabella herself, in the 11th Century CE, gathered all her children and grandchildren and took them to China to escape the growing unrest on the European continent. However, Arabella did not find very much peace in the realm of China as political turmoil was causing disturbances in the North (China., 1000-1400 AD.). There was someone that Arabella and her offspring would meet that would change their lives for the better though. Arabella would meet the ancient vampire, Jinfeng, the most famous healer in the known world and a famous astronomer. Jinfeng taught Arabella ways to blend into the human world and gain followers as she had for 5000 years. There was a great power that Jinfeng held that not even Arabella’s own siblings could compare to. It was no wonder mortals came to Jinfeng as a healer. This woman held the true presence of a goddess with the grace to match.
While Arabella took the time to absorb all the knowledge Jinfeng was so willing to impart upon the young matriarch, Adelaide thrived among the artisans and painters. However, Victoria did not fit in quite as well with this new region. Instead, Victoria did take to fluttering amongst the winehouses in the area and drank to her heart’s content. Every night, Adelaide would welcome her older sister back with a new painting. Each time there would be a new style or technique, some of which Adelaide created herself by mixing European and Chinese techniques. Arabella and her progeny would stay in Southern China until the disturbances of the Mongol invasion would bring Arabella to her final straw in the late thirteenth century (Cartwright). Victoria and Adelaide both expressed very opposing reactions to leaving the oldest human empire, but Arabella experienced a quiet indifference, only regretting the fact that she couldn’t speak with Jinfeng for longer.
Arabella and her children landed in Egypt for a couple of decades at Adelaide’s request, though Victoria’s frustration grew more and more apparent. Arabella and her offspring numbered around fifteen at the time, necessitating a rather high population of humans to sustain them. Arabella herself had discovered at around one thousand years old that she had less of a need to feed upon humans, which came as a surprise to her. Throughout her younger years, Arabella had consumed at least seven people a week but now she consumed seven a month if not less than that. In these decades, Arabella sought the ancient vampire, Ahmose, for his knowledge of sealing spells in the fields of the Sahara Desert, but the matriarch was unable to find the ancient vampire. In the intervening time, Victoria managed herself with hunting people and immersing herself in the Nile River from time to time. Victoria had reduced her feeding to support her daughters, though that left the oldest daughter quite cranky for the decades they stayed in Egypt. So, Arabella led her daughters back to Europe, much to the chagrin of Adelaide.
Shortly after Arabella and her coven returned to the shores of Catalonia, they found themselves in quite the predicament. The previous wealth and fortune they had amassed and the land they had owned was conquered by new ruling parties. Arabella took it upon herself to procure new land for the coven, and they found themselves residing within what would become modern-day Barcelona. Here, Arabella continued her weaving, crafting luxurious dresses for the mortals in the surrounding area and making a fortune. Adelaide found favor with many of the mortal painters and became an international icon for her remarkable art skills. Arabella became more integrated into the political sphere of the region, though she would grow to regret this growing publicity. Everyone flocked from all across the region to meet the so-called goddess of beauty. Arabella hated the excessive attention so much that she’d hide away. This would come to a head when the world became beset by the greatest plague it had seen.
When the plague arrived in the European continent, Arabella did her best to preserve the mortal life around her. Many of the mortals living in Catalonia died fast (Tikkanen), so much so that Adelaide began painting grotesque portraits as the loss of life drew the younger sister into a pit of despair. Despite being immune to the plague, Arabella and Victoria devised a plan to procure a community of mortals and keep them away from the bloated corpses. This plan proved to be successful, keeping a decent-sized population free from the plague. The only requirement was that these people did not leave the region. If someone sick with the plague entered her village, Arabella wielded some of the skills she learned from Jinfeng to treat them before allowing them to enter the safe haven proper.
The plague was relatively short lived for the vampires, but it left marks on the human world indefinitely. Food became quite scarcer for the coven than before. Victoria only had three additional children in the intervening time, keeping the coven’s total at eighteen. Yet, the ages of this coven vary widely as some were nearly as old as Victoria, while others were barely fifty years old. This age gap forced the entire coven to continue moving from place to place to escape the growing influence of the Church. Victoria herself grew more and more irritated with all people outside of the coven as she aged, finding fewer and fewer partners as a result. Often many of these potential mates were killed because Victoria got bored of them.
Rumors began floating in the vampire sphere of a militant order growing within the Church, one dedicated to annihilating all supernatural creatures from the world, though no one had dared confirm these suspicions. The four noble houses looked down upon this knightly order as a fad that humanity would grow out of. However, that was not the case when the first order stormed a local vampire lord’s castle in modern-day Hungary and slaughtered every vampire within the building in the late thirteen-seventies.
One night during the late fourteenth century, Corella appeared to her younger sister in her pavilion. Corella warned her sister of an approaching caravan of knights who were coming to investigate the area. Arabella gathered all her progeny and fled out to the Southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. Once there, Adelaide groaned that they went too far because there weren’t enough mortals to feed upon. For once, Victoria agreed with her sister and suggested the family travel to England or Ireland. Arabella decided to take her chances with England, positioning herself as a seamstress in a port town in the Southern region of the island.
It would not be long before Arabella and her children were summoned by the call of London’s growing populace (Stone). Adelaide and Arabella set up a crafts shop in London (Stone), selling their wares to the noble class for relatively average prices to shield themselves from the prying eyes of the Church. Arabella gradually began introducing herself to more mortals and vampires throughout the fourteenth century, beginning to take a greater stage in the world of vampire politics. It was during this time that Hell’s Sirens were becoming a household name throughout the Vampire realm. In years prior, they were names known to the most aristocratic vampire families, but Arabella had forged a crown for herself through bloodshed and charm. Arabella became known as the Beauteous Butcher and the Kin Slayer, something even the fledgling knights of the Church’s holy orders grew to know. However, Arabella was single-minded in her devotion to protecting her children, grand-children, and in some cases great-grandchildren, especially after the death of three of her great-grandchildren upon marrying into the Skaadi line.
During the early fifteenth century, the vampire world collectively called a meeting regarding the growing threat of vampire hunters within these holy orders. Arabella was summoned to this meeting, so she told Victoria to protect the coven while she attended the meeting. Given that the coven was ninety-nine percent Victoria’s offspring, Victoria wasn’t going to let anyone harm them. Adelaide remained with the rest of the coven, preferring to paint more of her paintings at the storefront to keep business open. Victoria, in the meantime, took up her mother’s position as a seamstress.
Arabella travelled across the Mediterranean Sea, specifically the island of Sicily, where the great leaders of the various lineages gathered. The leaders of the Zhao, Reman, and Skaadi families all stood on the port, docked on a special ship prepared just for the meeting. Then, Arabella spotted a young vampire amongst the other three, who would turn out to be Ragnis Cremoux. Ragnis stood with a dignified grace that contrasted with the brutish gruff of Klaus Skaadi and the cruel, vindictive grin of Gregory Reman. Arabella couldn’t get a read on the Zhao family leader, nor would he divulge his name to her.
Once Arabella boarded the ship, the four great family leaders professed their gratitude that Arabella had deigned to join them. Ragnis assured her that the rest of the family leaders were already at the castle for the meeting. After a few long hours at sea, the ship docked in current-day Romania before a grand castle. Arabella knew this castle belonged to the Svolni family, who’s influenced extended well into this region. Aleksandr Svolni had been alive for a couple hundred years by this point and had gathered enough resources to build such a castle within a short span due to the great wealth of various regions nearby.
The meeting would achieve only one thing; corralling the various families into a single room to agree that the vampire hunters needed to be stopped as quickly as possible. However, they all disagreed on how to defeat them, especially after a family had been bestowed angelic weapons potent enough to slaughter almost any vampire in existence. The only exception to this would be those ancient vampires and anyone connected close enough to Khadlerin, the first vampire. Arabella did not divulge any information regarding her parentage within this meeting, nor did she discuss any of the ancient vampires. Instead, Arabella focused on the weapons that the Telwin family had discovered.
After the meeting, the Telwin family head offered Arabella a few of servants for her young brood. Arabella politely refused the young vampire’s offer, which earned the Telwin vampire’s respect. It would be a few years after this encounter that the head of the Telwin family would die. Arabella would grow to assume the death of the Telwin family head was from the actions of one of the other families. It took a few weeks for Arabella to return to the shop in London, and when she did, Arabella was greeted by her older brother, Wilhelm alongside a human-looking woman who emanated a potent energy unlike anything she’d ever experienced before.
The human-looking woman announced herself as the progenitor of all vampires, or in other words, Arabella’s grandmother. Adelaide had found it a proper time to close the shop when the two had arrived a few days prior. It was halfway through this strange fifteenth century when Zividua descended upon the mortal realm and taught Arabella the rest of the sealing spells designed to cage her father, Khadlerin. Zividua told Arabella that the specific spell for caging Khadlerin could only be used in the event that he ever escaped from his chains. Then, Zividua commented on a painting Adelaide had made of a city falling and laughed. Adelaide looked at her great-grandmother, confusion glittering in her eyes. Zividua just looked at the young daughter and said Adelaide had the gift of prophecy, something Adelaide must’ve inherited from Zividua herself. It would be a few years later that Adelaide understood what Zividua meant when Constantinople fell (Fall of Constantinople).
Arabella throughout the rest of the fifteenth century, continuing to craft fine robes and linens for the nobles. Occasionally, Arabella would sneak out and hunt for potential suitors as she longed to raise another daughter. However, none of the men she met were of value enough. In fact, Arabella found herself tired and bored of these men. Some nights Arabella brought her daughters with her to find a new suitor, but Adelaide and Victoria hated every single man. With the church’s new holy order bearing down upon the English Channel, Victoria told Arabella to focus on laying low for a while. And for a while, Arabella did just that. However, upon the turn of the sixteenth century, Arabella met a poet. One who’d change her life forever.
This poet was a vampire who dared to protest against the frivolities of the vampiric council. A true romantic at heart, this vampiric lord was named Edward Telwin. He had fled from his family and settled down in England for a few hundred years. This fateful trip in England would lead him to meet Arabella. The two began speaking with one another regularly throughout the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century, something Victoria scoffed at. Adelaide loved to discuss philosophy with Edward whenever he came over while she painted. Around the year sixteen hundred twenty-two, Arabella gave birth to a young woman named Elizabeth Firros. In no time at all, Elizabeth took after her father and, by the age of four, became a poet in her own right.
Edward was famous in both the human and vampire realm, so famous that he became the target of a holy order in London. Edward had met Shakespeare and often recited the poetic works of the great man, which rubbed off on Arabella as well. This was England’s branch of the Order of Unending Radiance, which called themselves the Knights of Saint Zilan. They dedicated themselves to purging as many vampires as possible from the kingdom as they could, slaughtering vast legions of the Clover family and even members of the Telwin family. One day, Edward was cornered by the Brotherhood, and he was mortally wounded on his way to visit Arabella and his daughter. Arabella sensed her lover was in danger from her shop and ran out to find him. When Arabella found Edward’s last location, all she found were ashes on the side of the road. A quiet fury burned through her heart. So, Arabella eviscerated the brotherhood with impunity, burning their base to the ground and leaving no trace of her presence behind. Elizabeth, wallowed in despair after her father’s death, painting her poems a bleaker color. Arabella and Elizabeth mourned in unison, but Victoria and Adelaide went on with their lives as if nothing happened. The trauma of her lover’s tragic death locked Arabella’s speech patterns into that of Shakespearean English, something Victoria and Adelaide grew irritated by.
Towards the latter half of the sixteenth century, the Vespera line of vampire hunters began wielding their angelic swords to slaughter vampires throughout Europe. All the great families lost a small portion of their influence over the world during these ages of colonial expansion. Adelaide suggested that their family travel across the seas to escape the Vesperan hunters. Arabella, desiring to protect her progeny beyond anything else after the loss of Edward, took her kin to the English colonies, and they found themselves living between the settlers and the natives.
Arabella built herself and her children a base in the English claimed Northern Atlantic territories, gravitating toward the regions closer to the Puritans. Arabella and her children found themselves arriving during a tumultuous period commonly known today as the Salem Witch Trials. In fact, Adelaide found herself painting lots of portraits of the various executions as her gift of prophecy took shape. One such portrait served as a precursor to the birth of the ancient vampire, Morrigaine, when she was executed during one of these trials.
In the early 1700s, Corella visited her sister once more, though this visit was more informal than their past meetings. Corella merely deigned to play a prank on her beloved younger sister, though Corella touched a sore wound when she mentioned that Arabella had moved on from Edward. Victoria warned her aunt that was a bad idea, and Adelaide pointed towards a painting that showed Corella running from people with torches. Arabella, still grieving her beloved Edward, charmed the townspeople and sent them after her older sister. Corella escaped this crowd with ease, but she remembered to never mention Edward jokingly when she visited Arabella any time in the future. Throughout the Salem Witch Trials, Arabella carved through anyone and slashed through would-be husbands for Elizabeth without hesitation. As the number of suitors increased, Arabella decided to bring all her progeny to the Everglades to protect them from the endless swarms of vampires and humans alike chasing her youngest daughter.
However, while Arabella spent her days mourning her lost lover and slaughtering suitors, Elizabeth quickly became a worldwide phenomenon that any poet knew. Elizabeth wrote under several aliases throughout her lifetime, though something shifted in the mid-seventeenth century. Elizabeth became bored and longed to experience love. She had romanticized the experience of love with pretty words and decorative imagery. Elizabeth began sneaking away with Victoria’s help, though Victoria never let the young maiden out of her sight. In the end, Elizabeth’s poetry blossomed with her new experiences and while Arabella knew Elizabeth was sneaking out, the matriarch trusted Victoria to protect her younger sister.
For a long time, Elizabeth was safe, so Arabella practiced occult rituals to further her understanding of sealing spells. Every day for fifty years, Arabella would travel amongst the Everglades, binding creatures and plants in the region to her will. By the eighteenth century, Arabella sealed a maddened cultist into the body of a giant arachnid, which proceeded to wander the surrounding area of Arabella’s home and never could escape. The giant Arachnid became a guardian of sorts for the family. Whenever a wandering pillager or settler approached, the Spider would ensnare them. Many of the Sirens’ food sources came from catches by the spider in the intervening years. Victoria grew irritated with the lack of people within the nearby areas, wandering further and further out till she found the Oceans.
The Hell’s Sirens continued to spread their reach into modern-day Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley until the young Order of Unending Radiance in the Americas began to spread its wings. Unfortunately for Arabella, the Vesperan family line followed the new settlers and brought their angelic weapons with them. So, Arabella struck a deal with the Elder of the fledgling order. Arabella agreed to aid the Order in securing intel about high profile vampires, alongside conducting a ritual to aid the Elder in preserving his life. In exchange, Arabella was granted special audience with the Order of Unending Radiance. This arrangement continued even after the colonies seceded from the English Crown, past the Civil War, and into the modern era.
All of Arabella’s children survived with the exception of Elizabeth. During the nineteenth century, Elizabeth would agree to marry the prince of the Reman family without her mother’s approval. The two remained married for two years until Gregory slaughtered both the prince and Elizabeth for their perceived weakness. Arabella mourned Elizabeth for longer than she mourned Edward. Every night, Arabella would light a candle at an altar dedicated to Elizabeth alongside Victoria and Adelaide. Elizabeth’s death even shocked the world of poetry as she had taken up a new alias and released three poetry collections before her death.
It wouldn’t be until the nineteen nineties that Arabella would find love once more. Arabella had laid her eyes upon the heir of the Vesperan family, Ezekiel. The two would begin as sworn enemies as Ezekiel sought to murder Victoria for slaughtering his older brother, Isaiah. Yet as they encountered one another, Arabella and Ezekiel would never kill one another. In fact, the Elder would pair Ezekiel with Arabella on missions to slaughter powerful vampires and demons. Arabella found herself in love with the young man, the first mortal lover she had truly fallen for in all the hundreds of years she lived. From this love affair between these two, would emerge Katherine Vespera. Katherine would be born human in a shocking twist of fate, something that surprised Arabella and Ezekiel. So, Arabella would give Ezekiel a year to figure out a way to escape the Order’s grasp after Katherine was born, but the Elder kept Ezekiel bound until Arabella brought Katherine to Ezekiel during one of his missions.
Arabella would watch Katherine from afar, while running from the Order after the Elder double-crossed her in favor of Corella. Arabella and Corella worked together to protect Katherine and Ezekiel from threats even while Corella was working with the Elder. However, nothing could prepare them for what would happen to Katherine when she hit the age of twenty-four…
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