Aniketos was born in 1979 BCE in one of the port cities of ancient Minoa. He was one part of a set of identical twins, his twin Melitta (μέλιττα) being the other of this set. His childhood was relatively normal barring an incident that nearly cost him his right eye and left him partially blind in it. As a child he had claimed a burning start fell from the sky and pierced his eye, splitting his face open, but his family believed he just had an accident playing.

When he was a young man an illness broke on the island his family lived on. Many died, including him and his sister's parents, and all the deaths led to a famine as farms were no longer to tended to, and there were less fishermen. This is when Aniketos' life would forever be changed.

As the people starved, they began to turn on one another. Aniketos and Melitta, being young and fit, avoided much of the early cannibalism which had so far focused on the already dead, the feel and the elderly. As the famine continued and those that were already weak before it dwindled, the twins quickly became endangered. They took to hiding near the coast to avoid others, using the coastal caves and tides they played in as children to their advantage. One day, while waiting for nightfall to return to the city and scrounge for resources, Melitta ventured farther into one of the caves than they ever had before. She did not return and Aniketos not only grew impatient waiting for her, but somewhat worried, and went to find her.

When he found Melitta it was to find his sister looking healthy once again. No longer were her eyes and cheeks sunken, her skin sallow, and her body thin. She looked like she did before the famine— in fact, she looked better. There was a strength to her body that he couldn't remember there being before, her skin seemed to glow and she even appeared to be taller. However his sister's gaze had sent a chill down his spine that he couldn't place. He wasn't given much time to think about his sister's sudden, magical seeming change, before she had approached him and grabbed him by the arm. His surprise at her physically dragging him further into the cave was an understatement, Melitta had never been this strong and his demands to know what had happened to her, to let go of him, would fall on deaf ears. Soon Aniketos would be dragged into a large cavern and his demanding would grow silent at what he saw.

A great and terrible beast.

It was huge... and dead. As Aniketos would stare at it, his mind trying to comprehend what it was seeing, a sense that something lingered here in this cavern began to grow. Unease licked at the corners of his mind and Aniketos would turn to his sister, whispering that they should leave. *Now*. Melitta would still ignore him, only sparring a passing glance, before her grip tightened and she drug him towards the felled monster. Aniketos protested, violently, the sense of unease growing stronger and stronger. He even pleaded but that too was ignored, and before he knew it Melitta had shoved him to the floor, forcing him to look at the creature's face— or what Aniketos could only assume was the face. As soon as he looked, as soon as his eyes met one giant, glossy and half rotted eye, something in him changed. There was a pressure in his mind, and a promise. Although it was not words in a way he had ever understood them to be, something spoke to him that day, and Aniketos answered.

He would get up and walk around the creature, until he reached it's middle and there Aniketos would rip a piece of soft, rotted flesh out of the creature— a deity, he now knew— and consume it without hesitation. As soon as he had finished is when the most unimaginable pain ripped through his body, his screaming, vomiting, and crying would echo throughout the cavern and twisting tunnel connected to it. Aniketos' last thoughts were of jumbled fear, pain, and confusion before he collapsed, heart ceasing to beat and mind growing quiet. His body would undergo a transformation, a death of his own self, only to revive into a stronger, better being. It could have been minutes, or hours, but when Aniketos blinked awake suddenly, air filling his lungs, thin shapes would wriggle under his skin when he rose to his feet and looked to Melitta. He understood now what happened to her, what she was now. What he was now.

Aniketos would soon leave the cavern with Melitta and venture into the city as they always did at night, only this time they weren't scavenging for scraps of food. This time, they were hunting. When they'd had their fill, bellies full of blood from sickly and weak villagers, people they'd recognized the faces of, the twins would start luring people back to the cavern with promises of food and shelter. When they were done all, of those who survived the famine and the twins would be what they had become, the creatures that would one day be called Vampires.

After converting those they could and disposing of those that refused the offering to be made anew, Aniketos and Melitta would be seen as the leaders of their newborn kind. Their first order would be to start venturing out to the other islands in the Minoan area. Every few nights the vampires would leave their island for others nearby. When there they would feed on the denizens and even kidnap a few. Those they kidnapped would be treated as little more than chattel to feed off of and do their bidding.

As time went on, the twins would selectively pick and convert those they brought back to the island. One of these would be a young man named Manethon (Μανεθών) from one of the larger islands. Aniketos would find that he got along very well with Manethon and even preferred the other's company over his sister. Due to the proximity to the twins and that Aniketos favored him, Manethon became seen as the unofficial third leader of their growing group.

One day, when taking a new group to convert it would be discovered that the tunnel to the cavern had seemingly vanished. No matter how much the cave systems were searched the cavern could not be found. This caused unrest, even panic, as the cavern and what it contained had become seen as a place of religious importance. Their maker itself— their God— had been contained there. It would be Manethon who would later discover how to impart the gift of their kind onto a human again. He would tell Aniketos of how he had just seemed to know what to do, that it had just been natural, and Aniketos would find that he to could do it and pass it onto . This knowledge would be kept somewhat secretive, only Aniketos, Manethon, and Melitta knowing for a time, and furthered an idea that the three were demigods even more amongst their own kind.

Aniketos quickly garnered a reputation for himself over the years of being exceedingly cruel, especially with humans, and was given the moniker of "The Monster of Minoa". Even some of his own kind viewed him with trepidation. Further, his relationship with Manethon would only deepen over the years and the other vampire would become who Aniketos trusted most and was closest to. This wouldn't go unnoticed by Melitta, and Aniketos's sister would grow resentful of her brother and once closest companion.