When Ryan was but a small boy of five years old, a civil war took place near his village. His innocent parents along with many others perished, leaving defenseless children behind.
The little village he lived in was unable to take care of so many orphaned children, so the village head had a brilliant idea.
Just send the children over to the vampires, they would know what to do. Even if they didn't, the children would no longer become the village's problem.
The children were but a flock of sheep that were sent to a lair full of vampires.
Quick death, prolonged death, bloodshed, mutilation, there was nothing that Ryan did not witness at his young age.
When the future seemed to have reached its darkest point, Ryan was saved.
A vampire from the Caldwell family fell in love with his eyes and decided to adopt him.
"They are the blue color of the deep ocean," he used to say.
He happened to be Lord Marcus Caldwell's eldest and favored son, Evan Caldwell.