Elder #Vampire, Gideon Kain, adopted Ursula after killing her parents in a feeding frenzy and couldn't bring himself to kill her. He turned her and raised her as his own in her family home (not that she would know). Leland came to him out of fear of getting old. Mark lost his family in a fire and Gideon thought being a vamp would curb his anger (it didn't). Ian was a lonly geek boy who was bad with the ladies and Lynette is a mother who is to scared to go back to her family, #Forgottenhollow