The Kurian Order is anything but an order. It is actually chaos.

Competing families, factions, races, and species (by no means always organized along those lines, reputedly some groups of Grogs in the Pacific Northwest are actually allied with some Freeholders) vie with each other for resources, pre-overthrow technology, and above all livestock and productive farmland. And since to the Kurians man is just another type of livestock this means that sometimes the Kur are contending amongst themselves with the vigor of the great colonial powers blackguarding each other over a slice of Africa or Asia.

The gateways between the worlds of the Lifeweaver, or more accurately, Pre-Entity Interworld Tree brought new intelligences, some more formidable than man's, to Earth. The Kurian Lords rule their little dominions like Mafia Dons with the power of Hitler's SS behind them. Through their individual covens of Reapers (also known as "Hoods", "Scowrers" or "Kurlings" among other names, depending on region) the Kur maintain their control and feed themselves on our vital auras. Their brutal creations, the Grogs, serve as troops to keep order and break resistance, although the Grogs, at least the intelligent ones, often have agendas of their own.

The Lifeweavers have been battling with their fallen brothers for thousands of years, and their weapon of choice is homo sapiens. They select a few promising men, and through technology so advanced it might as well be magic enhance their ally's abilities to make him or her a match for the Reapers. The Hunters in their various roles are actually throwbacks to the first fetish-warriors of our early history.

Even stranger, unknown visitors have been reported, are they a new faction of Lifeweavers who have learned to travel between the stars instead of with the Gates, or are they something else?

These are the inhabitants of Vampire Earth.