The Purge

The Purge was a catastrophic event that took place over two thousand years before the common era. It turned every Heron from Lamia's bloodline into immortal beings against their wills and knowledge. The end of the LM Herons marked the birth of vampires.

This sole event led to the infamous and devastatingly tragic war, The Battle of the Bloods.

The Purge
The Purge is a historical event that happened in 2534 BCE when the Goddess Lamia, who was a mother to thousands of herons decided to cleanse her children and re-imagine them into more powerful and immortal versions of themselves.

She had considered enhancing her breed for many years before this had happened until one day she just snapped and turned to dark magic. All LM Herons were unaware of this change and they all dropped dead and awoke the next day in a terrible pain while thirsting for blood.

History
Obsessed with the pursuit of total domination over her sisters, Lamia had studied over many years ways to create her children into the superior race so that they could rule over their counterparts by being inherently more exceptional then her sisters own children. The Moroccan Goddess was so intent on elitism over her sisters that she used dark magic from the afterlife abyss to change her children into more immortal and powerful versions of themselves.

Like all things that involve dark magic, Lamia had to pay a price. Although she was a deity and technically not bound to the Earth within natures laws, the balance was restored into her children by giving them heavy and severe limitations for nature to allow their survival.

Aftermath
Many herons that lived alongside the now vampires found out the hard way that their loved ones had turned into viscous and foul creatures. There was no guide nor did Lamia offer aid to her children so they instead unknowingly consumed themselves into their blood lust and caused a enormous drop in both human and heron lives.

This sole event alone sparked the largest scale battle on Earth - still to this day.