First Caine refused to curse the world with other of his kind.
Eventually he got lonely and embrased three. These three embrased 13,
these monsters fed carelessly and used mortals as puppets.
Caine, outraged by there behavior, forbidd the embrasing of more progeny.
Caine gathered his children and grandchildren to him
and built a great city - the First City - Enoch. The city were held by Caine,
three kindred of the second generation, 13 of the 3rd,
several of the 4th generation and a rare 5th generation.
Some of the kindred traveled the world, but all called Enoch their home.
A war arose, the 2nd generation fell, and Caine passed into the wilderness.

Most of the 3rd generation gathered their progeny around themselves
in the Second City. Vampire population grew to the 5th generation
and a rare 6th gen. Again, war came between elder and youth,
and the city fell. It is likely half the 4th generation
and most of the 5th and 6th were slain in the battle.

Vampires grouped along familial lines,
and each city held of a single powerful vampire and her brood.
Most of the Antediluvians still walked the earth,
and engaged in titanic struggles amongst themselves.

Kindred population expanded during this period,
as vampires spread throughout the civilized world,
mostly in the Fertile crescent and Egypt.
Vampires ranged from the 3rd to the 7th generation,
with 5th and 6th being "average" and a handful of rare 8th and 9th gen "rabble".

Vampires lived more or less openly amongst the kine,
as gods demanding blood and worship. The kindred of this time were powerful.
They began to recognize the limitations of their city-states,
and cast their eyes further afield.

The Empires Kindred began to work together, manipulating civilizations.
Various empires rose and fell, Egypt, Persia,
and the empire of Alexander the Great.
The kindred fought for control of these empires.
The growth of empires peaked with Rome,
as most of the known world fell under the sway of a single nation,
and the last of the great vampiric city-states, Carthage, fell to Roman legions.

The vampires of the time ranged from the 4th to the 8th generation,
with 6th to 7th being typical, and the occasional 9th and 10th generation.
The clans became less like "families" and became more like
the lines of descent that they are today.
Younger vampires knew less and less of their history.

In the Roman Empire,
vampires of different clans began to inhabit
the same cities for the first time since the Second City.
Rome had members of nearly every clan,
and significant numbers of Ventrue, Lasombra,
Malkavians, Toreador and Nosferatu. Most of the large Roman cities were multi-clan,
with as many as a half dozen or a dozen vampires in each city.

Vampires of this time no longer lived openly.
Vampires were powerful patrons of worthy mortals,
and if one pried deeply enough one could learn of their true nature.
With the fall of the empire there was a bloodletting of unprecedented proportions.
Competition for the declining feeding grounds was fierce.
As much as half the worlds kindred died in the ensuing turmoil,
a disaster as great as the Inquisition that was to come.