Thousands of years ago, a war among the Gods of creation spilled into the mortal world and forced the Gods to bind themselves away from mortal affairs — a self-imposed punishment to prevent it from happening again. Faith in them faded as their influence disappeared. One force survived the intervening millennia: the Sanguis vampire family, who spent those centuries working toward a single goal — freeing Niscura, Goddess of Dimensions and Shadow, from the binding. They succeeded.