Curiosity Killed Humanity (2nd draft)

For four millennia, vampires ruled over mortals with an iron fist. Enslaved humans served not only as blood dolls and vessels for pleasure but also as manual labor. From household chores to achieving grand architectural feats, they were put to work under their merciless and cruel masters.

From mankind rose legendary warriors and mages to lead humanity in a war against the tyranny of their masters. A war that would span three centuries and claim millions of souls during which arose the most ruthless of them all, an immortal that even other vampires feared, the Vampire Hadrien. First captured and turned by his own vampire master, he was kept a lowly servant, shackled by steel and magical bonds to dank dungeons, starved until the thirst drove him mad, crafted into a vicious weapon by the unthinkable torments and tortures endured over four hundred years.

The humans neared victory when he broke free and begun his rise to power. He delved into dark magic, visiting the Lords of the Underworlds to achieve powers beyond all that his kind possessed. He turned the tides of war, and for the first and only time, united the world under a single Sovereign.

The human resistance persisted and at last, five grand mages combined their might to defeat Hadrien, at the cost of three of their own. His defeat marked the end of the great war, the vampires' ultimate downfall and the retreat of the supernatural from the mortal world.

1,300 years passed. Without accurate records, vampires, magic, and even the great war were turned into fairy tales and folklore. Stories were told about the Vampire Hadrien to scare children into behaving. Who could have foreseen that in her curiosity, a carefree girl would chance upon his marmoreal grave? And that in the hour of her most desperate need, Princess Lianna of Aydendril would awaken Hadrien into a world fashioned out of his worst nightmare? Here, humans reigned themselves and vampires hide like cockroaches amongst them!