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The timeline in Owari no Seraph is a little bit confusing to me.

When did vampires first come into contact with humans? I was initially under
the impression that this happened when the "disease" struck some 5-10 years
before the "present" of the show (i.e. "during episode 1") - but if that's the
case, _where_ did the vampires come from at that point in time? Given that
they have robust, structured, hierarchical societies, it can't be that they
just appeared out of nowhere then, could it?

And if the vampires have been around longer than that, where were they, and
how is it that a modern human society didn't run into them sooner?


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For how long have humans and vampires coexisted?


You're correct: the [vampires](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Vampires)
have regenerative abilities and thereby would are essentially able to be
immortal, so long as they don't starve to death, get their head destroyed, or
get [too much exposure to ultra-violet
light](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B5%82%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%82%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95#.E5.90.B8.E8.A1.80.E9.AC.BC).
Their structured, hierarchical society lived for a very, very long time
underground.

During the prequel light novel [_Owari no Seraph: Ichinose Guren, 16sai no
Hametsu_](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Volume_1), which opens about 10
years prior to when the virus strikes, the vampires were not yet rampant above
the surface of the Earth.

[The reason they decided to
emerge](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Japanese_Imperial_Demon_Army) was
when the [Four Horsemen of
John](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse) (a.k.a.
Horsemen of the Apocalypse) surprisingly arrived in 2012 and started killing
humans. The _Owari no Seraph_ Wiki says,

> **In response,** vampires came into the open and saved as many humans as
> they could as human livestock **out of concern for their drastically
> diminished food supply**.

It is likely that, until that point, vampires preferred to covert travel above
ground to snatch individual human prey without alerting humankind to their
existence (during that period, it's very reasonable to assume that once in a
while a human got tipped off about the existence of a vampire, but it was
never accepted as fact by human society at large [chalked up to the level of a
report of monsters, ghosts, or UFOs]), but once the humans started dying off
at a rapid rate, the vampires reasoned that they could not continue their
subtle hunter/gatherer style and needed to turn humans into livestock (a
farming style that they could control themselves).


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