Russian Dolls

Reality come in layers, you know, like computer programming and digital painting. Also, onions, and those Russian dolls everyone loves. I have a collection of 311 myself. Matryoshkas.

Just because vampires ‘came out of the closed’ now, you should not assume there is no secrets in the world anymore. I know more than most, and I should know more, is nothing to brag about in my case. However, I am under no illusion of being familiar with the core of reality. What I know is more than what I can tell you, but not by much. Those are things that is better not gossip about, but no really strategic information.

You are aware of my personal history, broadly speaking. I was born in the Silver Toad Family, my father was the head of the human part of the family. Answering directly to our Vampire Patriarch, since ours is a Vampire Family.

That was around 50 thousand years before the Egyptians start building pyramids. I was the six son of one among many ****-girls my father kept. No one immediate candidate to became a vampire. However, my blood had a rare seed of power, and it got me the position. Strangely, the subject didn’t came up for a long time after I became part of the timeless core of our family.

No one told me what that rare blood-seed was. The powers they got me developing seemed quite ordinary, actually. Nothing that should justify someone like me getting the great prize when my brothers, born from important mothers, aged and died as humans.

About 10 thousand years latter the wars between vampire alliances almost ended our family, so many old timers died that I got the position as patriarch.

Strange times, things must be extremely bad in a vampire family for someone who does not have the Royal Seed to end up in the head. But that was when I first saw a cell phone with internet. Cameras, and computers.

No, nothing to do with time travel.

This part was not included in the “end of the secret” six years ago. As a former Vampire Hunter, and one of the competent specimens if what I was told has roots in fact, you may have crossed some strange gadgets in the home of a few vampires. Technologies far ahead what humanity has, advanced enough to make shocking contrast with what is out in the streets. Or even in the hands of the best military forces on the planet. And most Noble Vampires too.

Personal ****-fields, weapons with infinite ammo, teleportation devices, androids that can pass for humans and fight like tanks but have no blood or mind that can be read or influenced.

Is common knowledge that vampires have technology humans do not have. Officially that is just a consequence of applying our supernatural powers to some gadgets. What explain why we don’t mass produce those things. Reality is more complicated.

I, myself, was under the impression that this superior and seclude technology and sciences related where a product of millions of years of research and study. Logically, timeless beings do not lose their accumulated experience like ephemerals do. Was, natural, to expect some advantages.

Took me a couple thousand years to finally get pass that explanation.

What I now believe is this: there is nothing supernatural about being a vampire. Our nature, our powers. It is all part of the same nature, has the same origin, of life. We have advantages, special advantages, for some specific purpose.

Our entire universe, planets, stars, galaxies. It all is the product of intelligent design. Not one individual, but a race of deities designed it. Those deities are descendants of beings very similar to humans. Maybe one day some among them turned into vampires. Maybe their universe of origin was natural, maybe it was also the product of intelligent design from a even older specie. I have no way to know.

What I was told is that our universe is inside a “box”, not a computer, it is not a simulation and is not under total control of its creators in every detail. However, it is isolated from their society and only a restrict group of individuals from their specie has access to what is inside to that box. Supposedly there is still a lot of “empty space” inside the box, and new universes parallel to ours are still to be created in some future. Distant from our time in astronomic scale.

This inter-dimensional technology is not accessible to us. Most of it is forbidden to us by those beings, the Creators.

I don’t know which was their purpose in creating out universe, and live, humans and vampires. Or why they visit us. Some speculate that is just for fun, we are a sort of touristic attraction. Like a thematic park. That explanation is as good as any, albeit not very flattering.

What I know is that many habited planets exist in our Universe, some galaxies have many thousand populated systems. Some are more advanced than Earth today is, some less. Some are in the beginning of life. Every where there is a hard limit no intelligent specie can cross in terms of technological development. It is far beyond the current stage of humanity on our planet, but it exists.

Our blood-seeds are beyond that limit. No race created in our universe is allowed to hack them or reverse-engineer their principles. Many other “supernatural” races exist with powers that fall in the same category. Some planets are richer in those beings, in number and variety, I have visited a few. Ours has a very modest presence of non-human linguistic species. And “supernatural” phenomenon.

There is a blood-seed that was designed specifically to give us access to inter-galactic technology. That was placed in our reach, on purpose, by the Creators. That is the rare blood seed I have. To develop it I needed contact with extra-dimensional gadgets left to us. Access points to invisible space-stations in orbit of our planet and in other places.

Those things are supposed to remain secret. Even most vampires do not have access to them. However, from that contact we are allowed to get access to many technologies, that are not inter-dimensional. We can make limited commerce with other planets, in other galaxies.

That is how I brough my family back, from almost destruction. And made us one of the strongest and most solid Vampire Families on Earth. In the curse of three human life times.

Having done that I left the position of Patriarch to the first vampire we manage to recruit who had the Royal Seed. Since families are supposed to be ruled by vampires with that seed. Because only they can turn humans into vampires. I only managed to get a human with the dormant Royal Seed turned into vampire to save our family tanks to a special favor. A "miracle", if you will. Received directly from one of our creators.

All that does not came from free. Having this blood seed makes us agents of contact for those who serve the Creators more directly than we do.

Those beings are to us what we are to humans. Fortunately, they do not need to hunt us or drink our blood. However, they are more powerful than the most powerful vampire ever will be, some of them at least. Some are also older than life on our planet, and possibly older event than our universe itself. Arrived from other layers inside this box.

I imagine that is where the notion of angels and demons came from. Messengers of the Gods, from favourable and unfavourable beings of power so beyond our imagination that to us it is identical to absolute and infinite power.

There is no need to mention, but I will say anyway. There is one reason for me to share that kind of information with you. Only one.