What is a Vampire, and Imortality

 This is a post on Type of character.

And so, What is a Vampire, and Why to play one?

It is impossible to talk about Vampires and not mention The Light, and The Dark. The necessary feeling of being imortal, and feed from the living. A huge effort into finding meaning when everything shows you cruelty, Corruption, and crime.

The main essence of being a Vampire is dealing with these feelings, too real to be ignored.

A daily struggle between what's sacred, and what's profane.

And more, there is no answer after crossing the line.

There are five Types of vampires: 1) Vampýr, the energy vampire, who feed from the energy of the environment, the ambient, Prana, 2) The Nekron, imortals who deals with The Light, and can live daylight, 3) The Sanguinius, also known as The Abbandoned by The Light, and much more sanguinius have poped than nekron, which means they were not transformed, but yes, they became vampires, 4) The Plague, vampires who feed from the dead, they kill first and drink later, and everyone they feed become a new vampire, and it is said they have no soul, and 5) The Vessel, a member of a Lineage, and a Vampiric Lineage is one family who serves the imortals, and then drink their blood, but not to be transformed, simply called Family.

The Light is an issue discussed by the imortals daily, or nightly.

Sanguinius have a problem with sunlight and, specially, with the element Fire. Both may kill the sanguinius -- may kill -- It is said some of them can "Talk with The Divine" and ask for protection, during the day.

The Nekron may live in daylight and, being distinct from the Abbandoned, they are venomous.

Their poison's a deadly substance, but it is said it's used during the transformation. But well, there are other ways of transforming a mortal into an imortal, one of them is taking all the blood and giving the imortal blood to the new member of the family.

Vampires gather in families, they need strong bonds to survive eternity.

Other way, they'd go a distant place and inter deep in the ground.

Take Arda, for example, and the families are strugling to survive for 26 thousand years, including The Great War, which happened the date The Bible says the world was created.

A huge number of Sanguinius poped during that War, and they're called The Cursed.

They're transfigured, the most ugly a person can be, that's what they are.

The War was so strong, people thought the world was being "created", and vows were made by mortals in order to think about the future -- remember, only the egiptians know what "a book" is, and a huge number of mortal elders died, so they had to start it all over again.

But Vampires are much older than this, because Sanguinius reincarnate, and become Vampires again. It means they are moving from world to world for the last millions of years.

The Elders, who decide how the vampiric language is, are more than one million years old.

But there are The Gods, who lived the Vampire's Empire, 15 million years ago.

An Ancient named Tempus convinced The Empire that vampires should go into the hide for protection. The reason's clear, a huge number of worlds had terrible struggles from the mortals, to insurge and kill the imortals, and that would happen Vampires would become vilains. It means something would happen that would destroy Vampires forever.

It made sense to the others, and all vampires went into the hide.

Very soon, Vampires became legends, and myth, and stories were told around the fire.

But, What is Imortality? We can only say ex praxis, by means of practice.

Imortality is, that's the question.

Imortality happens to be a Condition, and the imortal don't learn or forget anything important just for being imortal.

It is said imortals can see what people live, like in thelepaty, but this is just different.

True, but there's a special condition for that: Blood.

When a vampire drinks the blood of a person, or animal, they acquire their memories together with the most sacred liquid.

This way, a vampire doesn't want to kill, because they'd know the person's life, and this is named The Share.

The Sacred Share, for some, the terrible effect of The Thirst, for others.

A Vampire that's attracted for someone's blood may have two origins in terms of ex praxis condition. They want to kill, or they want to save. And this is The Dilemma of a Vampire's sacred or cursed life.

Another way to see this, it is The Voices of The Blood who learn the memories from the donor, or victim. These Voices usually speak with the vampire all the time, and are probably the equivalent of a Wizard's Entity Guide, such as an Eshu, for example.

The Thirst gives actual Damage, one of non letal per day, then one letal per day, until Torpor.

Torpor is a deadly condition, the vampire fall into sleep, and only wakes with the smell of Blood.

It means a vampire needs Blood, but they may feed from animals.

I'll let other more information for future texts.

You can play in the past, as you can play in the present and future.

But remember, Beware of The Thirst.

You'll see that the major Lineages are Ibis, egyptian, then Týr, the warriors, and so Nosferatu, or The Abbandoned by The Light. These are common to the whole Universe. But well, you'll see several other Lineages, as the Agape, ruled by their legend, who live in Arda, our Earth.

Ah, just out of curiosity: Vampires can drink beer.

This may be another source of Water, for them.

I hope you're enjoying the reading, and,...

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