High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Marvel Comics` Blade universe, Vampires (Homines Nocturnae) are a sub-offshoot of humanity descended from Drake (also known as Dracula or Dagon), a Sumerian who was worshipped as a god. His progeny are known as "Pure-Bloods", while those beings who are bitten by Drake or his descendants are merely byproducts of vampirism.