Dracula himself rose from the grave and reclaimed his title as Lord of the Vampires. Like most spells, the Montesi Formula contained a counter-spell, and within a few short years, vampires began to appear across the world once again.
Ironically, this spell was found within the Darkhold, the same mystical text containing the spell used to create vampires in the first place. Stephen Strange, uncovered a mystical spell called the Montesi Formula that would banish all vampires from this dimension. Dracula retained this title in a nearly unbroken reign until Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Dr. Varnae reigned as the unchallenged leader of Earth's vampires for many thousands of years before ceding the title and position to Vlad Dracul in the year 1459. This Ritual of Ascendance could only be performed once every 2000 years on the vampire's home soil, however, and twice Varnae failed to complete the ritual before he gave up and resolved to instead seek an heir. When Atlantis sank 500 years later after his creation, Varnae went into hibernation, emerging from time to time to confront threats (such as that posed by Conan in 10,000 B.C.) and to coerce the sorceress Aamshed into creating a ritual to increase his power. Other races of vampires - the Adze, Ancients, Charniputra, Huskies, Jumlin, Nosferati, Purebloods, Tryks, and Yiki Onna - either diverged from this original Varnaean line, or else arose out of other circumstances.
Varnae quickly slew the other Darkholders and used them to found the vampire race, with himself as Vampire Lord. The result was Varnae, one of their own raised as the world's first vampire. The race of vampires first appeared in the pre-cataclysmic era (before the sinking Atlantis and Lemuria), circa 18,500 B.C., when the Atlantean cult of Darkholders used the power of the Chthon Scrolls in order to oppose King Kull, who had slain their leader, Thulsa Doom.
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