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judgment was made, it was enforced. But Companions didn’t have to be asked. If a situation came to
their notice that upset the Balance they stepped in and did whatever it took to restore the Balance."
"Companions were humans but a different branch of humanity or maybe a natural evolution by the
species to protect itself against their vampiric predators. No one knows for sure, but they started
appearing soon after vampires or it may have been simultaneously. They were born mutated with a
secondary circulatory system that acted as a reservoir, similar to a camels hump really, a storage
system for blood. They had a natural inborn resistance to magic. They were more intelligent and
physically stronger, with quicker reflexes."
"The vampires that mated to Companions fed exclusively from their mates and no one else. Vampires
after they were chosen by Neutral were meant to be mated to Companions; they weren’t intended to go
around eating the general human population and adding to the side of the Dark." This then is where the
legends of the Pomme de Sange originated."
"Now vampires and Companions were meant to be together. And when a Companion and a vampire
produce offspring they’re Companions a majority of the time, the rest of the time you have a vampire
human hybrid. And the parents complete the turning when they’re mature enough. Thus the legend of
Daywalkers came down through the ages."
Gorge expanded into explanation.
"Mated couples produce a child every fifty years or so if they choose. So we’re not prolific as a
species and our numbers are small. And we tend to live in multigenerational households and clans.
We’re similar to the Sidhe in that we live without fear of true death from sickness, or old age. We are
much more difficult to kill however, once we’re mated. Therein lay the seeds of our downfall and
almost our annihilation as a species."
"Okay onward."
"Humans began to multiply and left behind the hunter gatherer society. They built cities and towns.
The educated humans that were left behind when the demon war was over taught other humans what
they had learned. They developed writing, music, numbers, math and philosophy. They learned how to
mine metals, and make weapons and other useful objects with iron. Religion developed, matured and
differentiated in different places. They eventually had their own lords and wars. They developed their
own judicial codes, for example the Code of Hammurabi. The codes were harsh but nowhere near as
harsh as demonic rule had been in the near forgotten past."
"It was also at this time that humans started to realize the value of written history. They began to keep
records. Reading and writing was mostly done by clerks and religious figures, some Kings learned but
mostly they left it to servants as did most of the wealthy. Widespread mandatory education did not
come about until much later in history."
"Demons, who had kept mostly to themselves since the Great War, had become legends and tales, the
stuff of bedtime stories and nightmares."
"Real demons that made themselves known were worshipped as gods and human sacrifice, blood, and
pain became commonplace in the religious rites and practices attached to that particular deity."
"Civilization more familiar to us sprang up in the Middle East, Egypt, Africa and Greece in roughly
the same period in different degrees. Japan had developed much more quickly than elsewhere but it
didn’t affect the rest of the world much at the time. Greece had more of an influence than any I
believe."
"Alexander the Great spread knowledge and trade as well as conquest. And for the first time since the
demon lords disappeared, a single ruler held sway over a large portion of the known world."
"The birth of the Roman Empire brought about many changes on the earth. It seemed as though it
would follow in the steps of Alexander the Great but decayed from within first due to various
individuals and factions fighting each other for power and wealth."
"It was during this time that I was turned by Aurelius. I was a Druidic priest. In other words, I was
charged with the keeping of oral tradition all learning and Lore. I served as arbiter, judge, jury,
executioner, confessor, advisor, teacher, philosopher, lore-master, poet, mage, doctor; the position is