Arthur Pendragon

Former fourteenth family leader and founder of the punishers. He was a king of humanity during the time of the first vampires, and was turned to help them uphold vampire law.

Past
Arthur was the greatest king of humanity in his time, kind, fair and powerful. During this time the first original vampires decided to turn him into an artificial first vampire to enforce their laws and start a new family of vampires. Three vampires approached him in his bed chamber and asked him to help them and he refused, but the vampires weren't giving him a choice and one of the original first vampires, Eno, used a blood ritual to turn him into a vampire. They said to come find them when he needed their help, and they would also need his help. At first he thought it wasn't to bad to have the power since his natural abilities all improved, but when he accidentally hurt a knight and experienced the bloodlust he felt, he decided he needed the vampires help. The vampires then helped him, they gave him technology and helped his fight wars for his kingdom, making his kingdom's fame raise even higher, and in exchange he gave the vampires a home away from the humans and stopped the humans from hunting them. After this the vampires told him why they turned him and explained that they want him to be their law keeper, which he agreed to. Knowing that he was to weak to keep their laws, they caught a criminal named Truedream, and used him to take the power of the original first vampire king and give it to Arthur, thus giving him the ability of shadows. Then the killed Truedream and explained to Arthur that the man was a thief, and rapist to prevent Arthur from going mad.

After he was made the fourteenth family leader, a vote was held for a new vampire king and the tenth family leader Eno was chosen. Arthur wanted to return to his kingdom to see how it was doing and fake his death so he can return to the vampires, so vampire king Eno decided to accompany him. The vampire king Eno order his familiar Boneclaw to hurt and leave 20 of Arthur's closest allies in a near death state. Returning to his kingdom, he found 20 of his trusted confidants and closest friends left at deaths door covered in blood and the vampire king Eno told him the only way to save them was to turn them into vampires which he did. These people formed the first core members of the fourteenth vampire family, the Punishers. The vampire king Eno told Arthur it was the first family leader Cain that did this and held a trial that proved him guilty, so Arthur was his executioner. Before he died, Cain only said that he didn't do it and that one day Arthur would learn this and the heavy burden of murdering him would be put on his heart.

Plot
Arthur was woken from his eternal sleep by Quinn accidentally in the tower he found from his military academy's orange portal expedition. After waking up he found that the person who woke him up had already left, and decided to thank them later. He left the place of his rest and found that the settlement made for his family of vampires was ruined and abandoned, although he didn't know the cause he wanted to find out what happened and get revenge. After this he left the abandoned settlement and found a girl being attacked by a beast, once saved the implored him to save her settlement that was being attacked by beasts and save all the people, to which he agreed. After saving all the people in the settlement and finding out the military had abandoned them, he decided to stay and protect them.

One day Leo and Erin came through a portal, and Arthur smelling that Leo was a vampire and seeing the ring that Arthur placed as a prize for whomever did his trial, he assumed Leo was the one that woke him and decided to help him. After learning from Leo that he was given the ring by his turner, and that they had a shadow ability, Arthur assumed it was a surviving punisher, part of his family. Afterwards when Leo experienced pain in his chest, Arthur explained it meant that Leo's creator was in life threatening danger, and the three went to help him using Arthur's shadow ability.

he later learns that eno was his dad and looks for him