Blaming the Pre-Entities for homo sapiens downfall is a like blaming the Imperial Rome for the Second World War. Nevertheless it is the Pre-Entity civilization, if something so nebulous and undescribed can be called a civilization, which is at the root of mankind's reduced state today. Like deadly dominoes falling over the span of millions of years, consequences of the Pre-Entity death-throes are still echoing in Vampire Earth of 2065.

At the peak of their power and wisdom, the Pre-Entities moved between worlds through space-spanning gates of the Interworld Tree, feeding themselves on auric energies created by living animal and vegetable matter. But for reasons still in the realm of guesswork, they died out.

When the thriving Lifeweaver civilization rediscovered the long-dormant Interworld Tree, and the knowledge of how to manipulate the energies of vital auras to achieve what amounted to immortality, it created a schism in their society. Because the Pre-Entity knowledge was reconstructed, and eventually used, by Lifeweaver scientists on a planet named Kur, the fallen Lifeweavers were known as the "Kurians." Civil War, as distant and unknown to the Lifeweavers as neolithic savagery is to us, broke out when the Kurians tried to establish their dominance over all the Lifeweaver worlds.

One of these worlds, barely known and lightly colonized, was Earth. Each side used prehistoric man in a battle for control of the planet. In a struggle largely unrecorded the Lifeweavers defeated the Kurians on Earth and two other planets, and managed to shut the parts of the Interworld Tree connecting Kur to the rest of the gates.

As man rose, the memories of that first incursion faded into oral history, legend, and finally were regarded as superstition and old wives' tales. Man went about his business building a world, in blissful ignorance of the larger struggle still going on between the worlds.

The Kurians were trapped, but not eliminated, and the gates of the Interworld tree were shut, but only partially destroyed. Given time and access to the Pre-Entity science, the Kurians learned how to build new doors on Earth and other worlds. The bided their time and waited, letting man increase and populate his world as cattle are allowed to increase on the range before their final journey to the slaughterhouse. They sent agents among man, and won over a few evil individuals with promises of demigod powers.

And when the time came, in 2022, they struck. They shattered our civilization using the power of the planet itself in a series of earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanic eruptions. Into the chaos strode the Reapers, the praetorian guard of the New Order. Brave sacrifices, not entirely futile, by those who chose to resist slowed but could not halt the Kurian tide. Within two years the vast majority of Earth succumbed.

Now two generations have come of age under the heavy, grasping hand of the Kurians. But a few pockets of resistance remain. Homo Sapiens has found old allies and new strengths, and the ability adapt to the unique weaknesses of the Kurians. The final, desperate struggle is about to begin.