This old town was founded by a man named Edmund Lewise. It had been a cold winter day when he had been wondering aimlessly with a small group of men and women. Then, he stumbled across a rather medium area at the edge of a forest. The land was relatively flat and seemed almost perfect for a small town. When the small group came upon the area, it was dawn and the scenery was so beautiful. That’s how Dawning got its name.

As time grew on, a beautiful woman appeared in the small, but growing, town. She was quite beautiful with long flowing hair that was as red as fire. Her eyes were amazingly green like an emerald jewel. The men fawned over her and soon enough, she captured Edmund Lewise’s heart. Her name was Autumn Eve.

Soon enough, the two were wed. Within a year of their marriage, Autumn gave birth to a handsome son. The two named him Edmund II. When Edmund II was one and twenty years of age, Autumn grew sick and eventually passed on due to the lack of medical information to save her. In great pain, Edmund I committed suicide.

In all of this drama, Edmund II claimed the title as Mayor or the head of the town. He grew to have a dark personality and seemed to always lock himself away in his large house. However, this didn’t stop one young female from trying to win the heart of the very emotional young mayor.

Helen Sole had grown much attached to the young mayor from the time she was a very young girl. After some time, Edmund found him self to fall in love with the young woman and soon made her his wife.

Hardly soon after they were married, Helen Lewise became pregnant. Edmund II began to come out of his shell more and more everyday and found that he was excited that he was going to be a father.

However, when Helen gave birth to their beautiful daughter, she died. Edmund would go into his seclusion once more—his daughter, Penelope Eve Lewise was taken care of by the maids.

It stayed like this for a long while, until Penelope was eighteen. She was an adult now and had been of marrying age for two years. Her father hardly left his office. Penelope normally visited him there to keep him company.

However, things were destined to change when a mysterious young man traveled to the village in the middle of the night. He was “entertained” by the mayor and the next day everything seemed different—or should it be said as “the next night.”

Edmund II grew into something beautiful, yet dangerous. His short brown hair seemed to grow more lush and dark while his blue eyes brightened like the seas. His skin became as pale as the moon and he became graceful and powerful at the same time.

No one knew what the aging man had become, though it can be assured that it was not mortal at all. His daughter began to worry for him and wondered if this had to do with the strange man, who had fled the following evening.

It was not long before Edmund II decided to change his beautiful daughter into what he was, not wanting to loose her like he had his mother, father, and wife. Despite the pain it had been and what she lost, Penelope was turned into a child of the night.

Years past and the town seemed to dwindle in its population. It soon appeared as if no one lived there, until Edmund II, brought in new people. Years went on and again the same thing happened. What was happening to these people? Penelope, having the same urges of hunger as her father had began to see how wrong this was, but couldn’t stop him.

Years and years went by with the same history, that was until Penelope came out and told her father that she was turning to animal blood rather then human blood. It was a hard decision, seeing as animal blood was hard to survive on for immortals and that it didn’t give them the nutrients they needed, but she was determined to try. She told him to do the same, but he would not and in the end she destroyed him.