Kirov was born deep in the Russian Countryside in the 1600's. The Russian time of troubles began with the appearance of a false Dimitri- a pretender to the Russian throne. He gained support from the Poles and the Cossacks. For a period of nine years, virtual anarchy reigned in Russia, as the various parties fought over rule. It was a period when roving bands would rape and pillage all that lay before them.

Kirov's mother was a werewolf and part of a pack that lived mostly deep in the forests without excessive exposure to human civilization. His mother was drugged and then abducted by an obscure order of brothers obsessed with the creation of an ideal being. They decided that such a being would result by the combination of immortal beings (a vampire whom they'd convinced to join their cause) and a werewolf.

They mated Kirov's mother with the vampire until she concieved. After that they restrained her and administered doses of vampiric blood to her so that the infant would be inundated in the womb with vampiric bloods so that it might develop to the peak abilities of both races. Repeated doses of vampire blood drove Kirov's mother out of her mind and by the time that she was delivered, twins (one fair and strong and health and the other dark and small and sickly (Kirov) ), she was beyond all communication or understanding. The infants had to be taken from her to keep her from savaging them. She switched between wolf and human form without reason.

When the pack discovered this they stormed the stronghold of the abbey and killed most of the order. A young friar along with one of the babies, the first born. The pack killed Kirov's mother, a mercy by that time, and took Kirov back to be raised with the pack.

But the efforts to 'engineer' Kirov had not been entirely unsucessful. He was not a normal child, he possessed traits of both of his parents. But he seemed to possess the flaws of both and very few of the strengths. He frightened other members of his pack craving blood, but not the blood of the kill, and intense periods of nightmares. A battle seemed to be constantly raging inside of him. He was also much smaller than most other pups his age.

Because of his innate difference Kirov began to seek out the company of others. He was able to find solace in just one place, amidst humans. He could pass as one of them while taking human form. One extra dirty peasant child went unnoticed inside the town church. In the church was where so many came to find refuge and comfort in the chaotic times.

Kirov's early exposure to the Russian Christian church was the most profound influence of his childhood. He has retained a sense of longing for the innocence and feeling of community that he felt in those days. The smell of inscence and the press of a crowd still brings up strong feelings, even hundreds of years later.

When Kirov was in his mid-teens he was involved in a tragic accident where he and six other children his age were trapped inside a burning barn. The other children were killed in the fire and Kirov lived because of his vampire blood. He could not bear the guilt and the looks of distaste that he, the freak , had lived and so many better young ones had died. He left his pack and fled to the human cities.

He left Russia entirely, working in fields and at other manual labor tasks in order to earn food to eat and shelter from the cold. His life changed drastically one Christmas as he was praying in a Western European style church, feeling almost physical pain because of how empty it felt, how different it was from the churches of his childhood, when he met Caleb.

Caleb was a wealthy aristocrat. He brought Kirov to one of his mansions and cleaned him up and began to educate him. Kirov learned Greek and Latin and French and German and he began to study the great works of philosophers, theologians, and ancient Greek and Latin texts. Caleb brought him abroad, treating him as a sort of consort and steward. Kirov learned about many things under Caleb's attentions.

But Caleb was also obsessive and could change his moods at the drop of a hat. He would be kind one moment and might fly into a dangerous rage at the slightest notice. He became convinced that Kirov was seeing other people in secret and he demanded all of Kirov's constant attentions. He was alternately manic and depressed and Kirov couldn't even begin to keep up with it. Caleb finally went into a rage and burned down one of his mansions. Kirov, terrified for his own life and his sanity, fled Caleb, leaving behind everything that Caleb had given him, except, of course, for the education.

Kirov retreated deep into the monasteries and took up the life of an ascetic. He studied the works of Christian theologians and philosophers as well as doing some brilliant translation works and writing remarkable mystical poetry and philosophy of his own. He remained with various religious ascetic orders until the very late 1700's when the Age of Reason pulled him back into mainstream society.

Caleb tracked him down and that began what would be centuries of a sadistic game of cat and mouse that would plague Kirov into modern day.