Editing Vyre (section)

===The age of Eli===
Several thousand years after the rise of Vyrra, a sixteen year old human by the name of Elijah Crane was attacked by a dog carrying the Black Blood virus. A good chunk of his stomach and left side was eaten by the dog, who then left the boy bleeding to death. When Eli awoke, his heightened senses overloaded and knocked him back out again. When he came to the second time he met Michael Belaire, a man who would ultimately become his firmest friend and greatest ally. Normally turned Vyre, while powerful for humans, are impotent compared to their pure-blooded counterparts; not even a tenth as strong, and barely able to wield the most basic of energies. However, even by pure blood standards, Eli was a prodigy the likes of which are only seen once in a millennium, under the tutelage of Michael, he mastered his natural talent for manipulating electricity at the age of eighteen, by which time he was also proficient with fire and ice techniques. Eli rose quickly in the ranks of the Vyrran military, achieving the rank of Knight Commander in the legions of the Baliqa clan at the age of thirty nine. After this stellar rise in the military, the Patrician of the Baliqua had become quite suspicious of Eli; he believed that being turned, there was no possible way that Eli was as powerful as he was purported to be. Thus the clan head promoted Eli to the rank of Vyre lord, in the employ of his nephew, Michael Belaire. while Eli was delighted to be once again working with his old friend and superior, he felt that he would be a poor statesman and applied immediately for his appointment to be redacted. the request was, of course, denied, so Eli halfheartedly applied himself to his new job, at which point the whole of the empire was thrown into an extremely violent civil war, started by the demise of the emperor. The war concerned the Baliqua and Volkiskreb clans, who tried to oust the currently ruling Vijaya clan. At the climax of the war, Eli and Michael faced down the entire ruling courts of the Vijaya clan. Nothing is known of what happened in the throne room that day, for sixteen men walked in and only two walked out. nonetheless, whatever Eli and Michael did to defeat those ten men earned Michael a Clan Lordship and Eli an entire new clan to call his own, made up of volunteers from other clans and Turned Vyre. thus began Eli's career as a clan head, and eventually, as emperor.