The flawed ones

"The Major Council of Clans is the gathering of heads of all the 27 vampire Clans," German explained. "Although the Eternal Dusk Clan is the one with the deciding position on most questions, for certain things, the Clan Head of the Eternal Dusk needs to ask the opinion of other clans. This happens extremely rarely, though. The last Major Council was attended by my grandfather. That was a strange time, he told me…"

Irmilla nodded. "The fall of the Sun-Crowned Empire—the Third Empire, as it is also called now. The humans of the region were very destabilized back then, and the Clans united to conquer certain territories permanently. We studied that in history lessons… That, and how humans crushed our armies, anyway."