You'd think that ancient vampires, after centuries of existence, would be the wisest of their kind, right? Well… not exactly. If anything, age didn't make them wiser—it just made them more stubborn.
Saving a kingdom meant exposing themselves to the outside world.
And after spending centuries perfecting the art of staying hidden, living in self-imposed obscurity when they could easily have ruled over mortals as gods (or been hunted down by them), was it really worth risking all that for a single kingdom?
Sure, the balance of the world might be at stake. But did the ancient vampires care enough about the world to actually do something about it?
They had called an emergency meeting when they first felt that surge of power—but that was less about concern for humanity and more about self-preservation.
Any unknown force powerful enough to rattle them was a potential threat, and vampires had survived this long by not ignoring potential threats.
