Long before written history, vampires ravaged ancient civilizations, preying upon the weak, stealing infants from their mothers, and leaving villages in ruin. Their reign of terror reached Sumer, where desperate humans turned to Iara gods for salvation. But the gods did not answer.

The turning point came when the vampires took the life of a Kashshapu’s son—a powerful priest and practitioner of dark magic. Consumed by grief, the Kashshapu called upon the Iara, spirits of magic, who granted him the knowledge to create a new kind of being: the Deamhan.

Harnessing dark magic, the Kashshapu selected four humans to become the first Deamhan—the Pure Ones—each imbued with unique predatory abilities. These four were the Ramanga, Lamia, Metusba, and Lugat, creatures designed to battle vampires.

However, the plan failed. The Deamhan did not remain loyal. They turned on humans, driven by their own hunger and desire for dominance.

In desperation, the Kashshapu sought to undo his mistake. Calling upon the Iara once more, he created a second generation of Deamhan, even more formidable than the first—Adze, Ekimmu, Empusa, and Estrie—to combat both the original Deamhan and vampires alike.

But history repeated itself. These new Deamhan, like their predecessors, abandoned their purpose and set their own course, preying upon humans, vampires, and each other.

The human king, weary of the chaos, ordered the Kashshapu to undo what he had done. When neither light nor wood could harm the Deamhan, the Kashshapu turned to magic once more. He created Limbo, an astral plane outside of time, to imprison the eight Pure Ones. To further protect humanity, he forged amulets capable of shielding against Deamhan influence.

Before his execution, the Kashshapu documented his dark rituals on a clay tablet, encoding the spells used to create and imprison the Deamhan. The tablet was lost for centuries, only to reappear in history a thousand years later. Fearing its power, those who discovered it broke it in two, ensuring the magic could never again be fully harnessed.

Yet, the Deamhan survived. Though the Pure Ones were sealed away, their offspring walked the earth, spreading their kind throughout history.

One fragment of the legendary Dark Curse Tablet contains the spell that bound the Pure Ones to Limbo and cursed them to the dark. But within its inscriptions also lies the key to undoing that curse—spells capable of breaking them free and removing Deamhan weaknesses.

The secrets of the Deamhan are buried deep in history, but one truth remains: they were never meant to exist, yet they refuse to be forgotte

Deamhan were only the beginning. The same dark magic that created the Deamhan is responsible for all dark supernatural beings that exist in this world. This ancient force, wielded recklessly in desperation, gave rise to creatures beyond human comprehension—shapeshifters, wraiths, shadow spirits, Impa, and beings of nightmares. Some were born from forgotten rituals, others emerged from curses woven into reality itself.

The Deamhan, however, were the first. They are the foundation upon which all others followed—unintended consequences of a power too great to control.