#but lately they've been stopping just outside of range of where i can feed them

[squisheebugdoodles]

Started a new realm with @lunaroceanic last night and one of the very first things i did was frantically punch fish to catch a cat in the middle of the night

[eventidespirits]

☥ European Vampire Masterpost ☥

Origins...

While no one can know the origins of vampires for sure, it’s believed that the curse of vampirism started, originally, as a blessing from the Goddess of Night – enhanced strength, stamina, speed and an endless lifespan were given to her chosen but in return, they would have to forsake daylight. When this blessing became a curse, no one knows but eventually, it did and the Chosen of Night began to turn into monsters, dedicated more to themselves than to their human brethren...

☥ Basic European Vampire Information  ☥

While the European Vampire is split into (at least) seven distinct “bloodlines” or “sub-types” certain traits are common among all variants these include:

Enhanced strength, speed and stamina – though certain bloodlines (Revenant, Lamia, Feral, Stryzga) possess  far greater strength than others, it can be expected that every vampire will be a good deal stronger, faster and more resilient than they were as humans.

Increased Emotional Volatility – Thanks to the vampiric curse, the emotions of vampires are highly volatile. Everything a vampire feels will be magnified – but negative emotions will be felt especially strongly

An Addictive Personality – All vampires have a high likelihood of becoming addicted to something, whether that be gambling, drugs, dangerous behavior or simply blood (the most common of all) nearly all vampires will have something that they cannot say no to.

Highly Attuned Senses – All vampires have enhanced senses as compared to a human. In addition to this, they have excellent night vision thanks to a highly reflective layer at the back of their eyes (similar to a cat’s)

Sensitivity to Sunlight – While this will vary from bloodline to bloodline, there is no vampiric bloodline that is immune to the damaging effects of the sun’s rays.

Low Level Mental Manipulation – While some bloodlines take this innate, instinctual ability to new and terrifying heights (Nightingales, Stryzga) all vampires are able to influence the mental and emotional states of those around them.

Low Level  Telepathy – like the mental manipulation, all bloodlines are able to pick up on the general emotional/mental state of those around them and can often pick up on things such as fear, dishonesty or lust before the mortal feeling them is even aware.

Highly Addictive Blood – Vampire Blood has a number of properties, ranging from inducing a euphoric state to promoting healing to making a mortal more susceptible to a vampire’s mental/emotional powers and manipulations to causing a mortal to feel an emotional bond/connection to the vampire in question when no such emotional bond existed before.

A NOTE ON “THE VEIL”

“The Veil” is not unique to vampires but rather, something which effects the entirety of the Supernatural. As human belief in their existence waned, the Supernatural began to fade from the sight of Mundane humans, not because it ceased to exist but because humans simply stopped being able to see if for what it was.

A vampire, to the average mortal, will show a few signs of what they are (such as an incredibly languid pulse, lack of respiration, unnaturally cool skin, a sickly/pale complexion) but most signs of their true nature will be invisible to the human until they’ve “Crossed Over” (i.e., been inducted into the supernatural world, thus opening their eyes to its existence).

Most children are naturally able to see through The Veil (due to the imaginative nature of children) but often lose this ability by the time they reach puberty. Some humans maintain this ability (called The Sight) into adulthood and some will only develop this ability at puberty.

The Bloodlines: -The Nightingale -The Revenant -The Siren -The Stryzga -The First -The Lamia -The Feral Other Information: -The Curse -Sire/Fledgeling Relationships -The Change

A Quick And Dirty Vampire F.A.Q.

Can they consume non-blood food/drink: Some of them can and some of them can't -- whether or not a vampire can eat solid food is determined by two factors: whether or not they're willing to put in the effort to learn how to force it down and how connected they are to their humanity. The more a vampire hangs onto their humanity, the easier it is for them to consume human food. However, it doesn't provide any nourishment. Being a hedonistic species, some vampires absolutely eat human food just because they enjoy the taste. All vampires are capable of drinking non-blood liquids but it provides no nourishment (see below) The Monkey D. Luffy Conundrum (aka, do they poop/pee?): No. Vampires can’t process solid food. When eating solids it will, eventually, need to come back up the way it went in. The same goes for non-blood liquids. Do Vampires Fuck: abso-goddamn-lutely. Since vampires are inherently hedonistic, they actually tend to rather enjoy fucking, even if *mostly* as a prelude to feeding/part of feeding. (This ofc varies as ace vamps exist) Do Vampires Cry Blood?: yep. All bodily fluids in a vampire are converted to blood. Including those ones. Do Vampires have Heartbeats? yes, they’re just incredibly slow (35bpm or so). During stress or strenuous activity the heartrate increases to a more human bpm (60-80bpm). Their respiration usually matches this rate. The older a vampire gets/the more they distance themselves from their humanity, the slower their heartbeat becomes and vampires who are detached enough have no heartbeat at all (they're also colder to the touch) Do vampires have problems with silver: some of them. Its sort of a random genetic lottery. Can Vampires Have Kids?: Nope. That equipment doesn’t work that way anymore. They might be able to with some serious magical alteration but in general they can’t reproduce outside of the Ritual of Transformation. Are Vampires effected by holy objects: Yes – though the efficacy of it varies greatly depending both on the faith of the vampire and the faith of the person with the holy object. As long as the wielder has sufficient faith (both in the symbol AND that it will harm the vampire), the vampire will be harmed by the holy object… However, someone who doesn’t believe at all may still harm a vampire with a holy object if the vampire believed/believes strongly in that faith and believes it will harm them.  Will Cutting the Head off Kill the Vampire?: There are a lot of creatures that can survive having their head cut off – chickens are one of them, vampires are not. What about piercing the heart? Since the heart is the core of a vampire’s being, the place where the blood is processed and the place where the magic is centered, piercing the heart can do massive damage to a vampire and if the heart is destroyed, they cannot recover from this. Fire? Fire bad. Vampires don’t fucking like fire because they go up like kindling when exposed to it. While it takes damn near 2800 degrees to burn a normal human corpse to ashes (and even then, the bones have to be pulverized) a large enough bonfire will easily do the trick for a vampire. Can Vampirism be reversed? It takes some pretty serious magical ability to do this sort of thing, but it can be done – provided at least one of two conditions are met: 1) The vampire has never taken the life of a human by draining their blood 2) The vampire has never created another of their kind and spread The Curse. Are half-vampires (dhampir) a thing? Yes. I’m not entirely 100% on how they happen within my lore, but they’re 100% a thing that can happen because a) they occur pretty frequently in folklore and b) I think they’re cool. Can vampires turn into bats/wolves/etc.,?Yes -- though it's usually very old and powerful vampires. Younger vampires within the Stryzga line are capable of turning into various kinds of animals but it still takes at least a century to learn this. Noctem Felidae (an extinct vampire bloodline) were capable of turning into cats and the Lamia bloodline was once capable of changing into

snakes/naga-esque creatures but since the waning of magic after the late Middle Ages, they've lost their ability to do so. Do vampirekin/ “human” vampires exist? Yes! The phenomenon of human psychic vampires/vampirekin/human sanguinarian vampires occurs in my universe – usually, this is because the human in question is a vampire who, at some point, was killed and their soul was able to re-enter the cycle of life/death/rebirth… However, because The Curse has an immense effect on the soul, it carries some of the effects with it into the next life and all lives thereafter. 

(note: most vampiric souls, being lost to the natural order, do not reincarnate ever again… However, if they vampire  manages to avoid either killing a human via draining or making another vampire, their soul is still somewhat tethered and can re-enter the life/death/rebirth cycle, like it’s supposed to! this is where we get “human” vampires. As for what happens to vampires who have done both of those things… No one is sure what happens to the energy that made up their soul. There’s some talk of it becoming part of the entity responsible for the curse)