It is told that long ago there lived a noble lord in a land which name has been lost to the ages. He was kind and beloved by his people, intelligent and successful in his conquests. The lord is said to be one of Caine, a line that is no more.
The lord had a beautiful wife, told to have been blessed by both Lilith in her beauty and Heron in her strength. But through a curse from one of his rivals, the Lady was stricken with an incurable disease that had her rot away before his eyes.
The lord spared no expense, summoning healers and sages from all the world to help him save his wife. As all hope was lost, the Lord found it again with the Order of the Grotto. He was approached by one of the sect's most powerful clerics, who hinted at the powers the Rat god gained by reaching to the Deep Void. Out of options and drained from years of desperation, the Lord Caine ventured with the cleric to the sanctum of Nahua, where he was allowed to study the dark ceremonies and secret tomes in search of a cure. The price was his own life, as dictated by the Order.
But the lord was on the verge of madness already, and as he studied the secrets before him he was consumed by the presence of Nahua. He found the scriptures he needed, but only after years of maddened seeking and no way of knowing that his wife had long since passed. Without hesitation the Lord performed the darkest of rituals in the inner sanctum of Nahua. His soul was ripped from his body in an awful transformation. He became filled with the bloodlust of the damned as his soul was replaced with a piece of Nahua's essence.
The lord rushed back to his beloved. When he realized that she was no longer alive, and that he was lost in his mad search for years, he was overcome with a blind rage. Within minutes the damned lord slaughtered all his subjects, ripping out their throats with his teeth and clawing out their hearts. He burst forth in a swarm of bats and rushed across his kingdom. As he slaughtered his people, his hunger slowly sated, but bu the time he was able to stop his rampage, half the kingdom lay at his feet as corpse.
It is believed, at least by those who know the will of Nahua, that this Lord Caine was the first of the damned, the Prince of Darkness, the Chosen of Nahua.