The duke was one of us, a vampire who also mixed with human society due to the fact that his title had been given by some long-ago human regent. There weren’t many supernaturals among the nobility since humans didn’t know we existed and we tended to avoid them to keep it that way. Unlike the vampires of myth, real vampires died just like the rest of us. His family had held the title for centuries and passed it down generation after generation. Humans knew him as a duke, but we knew him as the vampire duke.
