Gaiana Bianili, founder of House Gaiana, circa 5th century AD (Credit: Creative Commons)

House Gaiana was born with its founder, Gaiana, in Yerevan, the modern capital of Armenia, in 782 BC. The lineage barely made it through the brutal violence of the Iron Age, but Gaiana and her followers survived to Christendom, and eventually her house came to reconcile its thirst for human blood with a deeply felt sense of spirituality and ethical responsibility. House Gaiana took many forms over the years: a women’s monastery (where the legend of the massacred St. Gaiana was born), an art school, a veterinary hospital, all the while observing a code of relative peace. Today, House Gaiana represents the unofficial memory of the vampire civilization.

As one of the last surviving vampires of the original ten, Gaiana is one of the oldest people to walk the earth, and the House named for her is the keeper of both history and order among vampires.

House Gaiana has the fewest members, but they take seriously their role as the conscience and memory of Vampire civilization. They keep long and detailed accounts of the history of New Valencia and its citizens, and their headquarters in the city’s museum is packed with artifacts and archaeological treasures from nearly 3000 years of Vampire existence.

House Gaiana makes its headquarters in the city museum.