 When Blade s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade grew up to be a vampire hunter for revenge on his mother s death. The vampires, who managed to infiltrate nearly every major organization, need Blade s very special blood to summon La Magra, the blood god, in order to reign over the human cattle, as they call us.