House Animus

The Beginning
House Animus was founded after Alvearium Animus learned of the history of Carpe Noctem and it's vampires, learning that the most noble vampire families were ones of not only purer blood, but earlier generations. They also learned that typically, vampires of purer blood had strange and powerful abilities, with a limited few being able to control undead hordes. Hearing this, Alvearium founded House Animus, seeing as they were not only the first in their bloodline, but also possessed certain unnatural abilities. Through haphazard testing on weak-minded animals Dr. Alvearium Animus discovered something; when injected with Alvearium's blood, they could telepathically communicate with the animals, and the connection was seemingly unaffected by range, or physical objects. They also realized --with the addition of a rat and a maze-- that not only could Alvearium see through the eyes of the animal, but vice-versa as well. Alvearium came to the conclusion after further testing that this was likely due to their mushroom genes mixing in with their vampirism; therefore, causing these strange, almost hive mind-esque effects to occur. Alvearium theorized that this could be a very beneficial ability to have if applicable to humanoid/stronger-minded subjects, but at the current moment, they had no one to test it on.