Dick already knew that the Blood Clan in Blüdhaven was now broadly divided into two major factions-
[Blood Queen] Mary Seward, who commanded the vast congregation of the [Blood of the Blood Moon].
Queen Mary carried the bloodline of Blüdhaven's legitimate Blood Clan royalty and wielded absolute, supreme authority. For centuries, she had enforced a policy of secrecy, restraining all vampires and forbidding indiscriminate hunting of humans.
She required her people to keep a low profile within human society and prohibited mass slaughter, lest they expose the Blood Clan, spark human panic, and prompt the superheroes to join forces and wipe out the vampire race.
This was not born of love for humanity, but a rational concern for her race's survival.
Lord Pandora was the oldest and most powerful Vampire Lord in Blüdhaven apart from Queen Mary, and the leader of the [Shadow Attendants].
Compared with Blood Queen Mary's conservative faction, she leaned more toward radical rebellion.
Pandora refused to obey Queen Mary's secrecy decrees. She believed the Blood Clan was a race superior to humans, and that humans, as their food, ought to be eaten. It was as natural and right as wolves eating sheep and sheep eating grass.
Pandora scorned Queen Mary's policy of seclusion and denounced her as a "false queen." She believed vampires should not hide, that the Blood Clan should unleash its nature and hunt humans freely rather than scrape out an existence in the shadows. This had drawn a large number of fanatical followers to her side, who hunted humans without restraint and built an Underground Palace beneath Blüdhaven.
Pandora's goal was to overthrow Mary and break the Blood Clan's shackles.
Queen Mary, leader of the conservatives, maintained the fragile balance between humans and the Blood Clan while suppressing the radical vampires.
Pandora, leader