The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

There are many types of vampires, created either through legend, folklore, or through media, including literature, art, and films. Numerous countries all over the world have their own story on how vampires really are. There are Slavic vampires, Romanian vampires, Roma vampire beliefs. There are blood vampires, who are known to have an irresistible urge for blood, and must feast on blood in order to survive. These vampires are also called “blood vamps.” There are also Energy vampires, who feed not on merely blood, but energy. They sense energy around them, and suck it in, in order to survive. This category of vampires includes Sexual energy vampires, Empathic vampires, and Elemental Energy vampires.







Gothic Vampires



The term gothic vampire came about after the arrival of gothic music and the gothic subculture, which gave birth around the late 1970’s. Gothic music and culture was based on a fascination with the dark and gloomy, death, destruction and mystery. The vampire was adopted as a logical image or symbol for the gothic culture, because both vampirism and gothic culture had so much in common. Vampirism also dealt with death, destruction, dark figures in alleys who preyed on the blood of humans, and similar concepts and images. Artists who contributed to the gothic subculture added elements of vampirism to their work. Since both gothic art and dark tales of vampires and monsters shared many similarities, much of gothic art came to portray these images of vampires, graveyards, the undead, etc. Consequently, vampirism became in a sense synonymous with gothic ideas and concepts. The gothic vampire now, may have strayed far from the legendary Romanian vampires from several centuries ago, but it has become a common element of the gothic culture in the modern world.





Emotional Vampires



Emotional vampires are vampires that lure you with their charm, beauty and skill. They are very seductive and manipulative, and can manipulate your emotions. They seem to be unreliable, two-faced creatures, who enjoy creating drama and draining you of your emotions. Emotional vampires usually do not change from their past. If they have committed an action in the past, it is likeable that they will continue on the same path. They usually want to isolate you and lure you towards them. Also, they contradict themselves often, for the things they say do not always reflect the actions they take. Their overly emotional ways tend to drain the life out of the victims they prey on, for they enjoy throwing tantrums, creating melodrama out of absolutely nothing, and changing from one personality to the other. As a result, the victim is tricked and manipulated to follow the path of the vampire, if he or she does not resist. One can fight an emotional vampire by finding his weak points and attacking him there.





Erotic Vampires



Erotic Vampires are believed to be vampires associated with sexual images. Before the novel Dracula, vampires were not represented as sexual beings. They were presented as dead human beings that feasted on blood in order to survive. They were never described as dashing, handsome fellows who stole the hearts of young, virginal women, but rather, creatures risen from the dead that wanted one thing and only one thing: blood. After the novel Dracula, however, vampires became associated with sexual images. Not only did they desire blood, but sex as well. Hence, erotic vampires came about, and the image of vampires changed forever. Vampires were now seen as handsome and mysteriously dangerous men, and stories depicted them as objects of desire for young, pretty ladies. Stories of erotic vampires and their lust for dominance over the mind and bodies of young women became just as common as stories of blood-thirsty vampires.





Demon-Vampires



These are both humanoid demons, with concomitant magickal abilities, and vampires, requiring human blood to live. The magickal abilities and limitations of each Demon-Vampire are unique to that individual. Generally, Demon-Vampires are created directly by the Elder Demons, or Old Ones, setting a deep curse on some human. Demon-Vampires are usually the founders of a vampire lineage; however, the vampires of that lineage do not have the same powerful abilities as their progenitor.



Lillith is the first Demon-Vampire and probably the most powerful. She is the Queen of the Vampires, the progenitor of all Lilith-vampires. Her demonic abilities include raining down the plagues (fire, hail, locusts, frogs, and so forth). She can also transform into an owl form. She has an especially strong connection to magick, so she has innumerable other tricks. In addition, as the First Vampire she commands the loyalty of all vampires, considering all of them, even those of other lineages, under her authority. The other lineages may object, but they still have to face her power and wrath.



Kern, Lillith’s son whom she thought was dead, is another Demon-Vampire, resurrected by the same Elder Demons that cursed her. His powers are limited to the “classic” Lilith-vampire style, including being able to operate as a practitioner. However, his special exception is that he is immortal and cannot die in any way: his unlife will persist to the end of time. He is the progenitor of the Nosferatu, a somewhat bestial and vulnerable lineage. Kern himself, however, is intelligent, has wizard-level spell-casting abilities, and hates his mother with a passion.



Lilith-Vampires



Those vampires sired by Lillith are the original variety, appearing first in antiquity. They have a connection to magick, but do not have the special abilities of Lillith. Lilith-vampires can take up the Craft and often do, but their real power is that they are incredibly hard to kill. These vampires are more reminiscent of those found in traditional folklore. They are not really evil, but their self-centred motivations do sometimes give that impression.



Tepes-Vampires



When Vlad Dracula Tepes rose as a vampire in 1476 CE, he was the first of a new lineage. This was verified when he spent some time in the society of Lilith-vampires. All Tepes-vampires, from Dracula to those he sired to those they sired, cannot gaze upon or touch Holy objects. Holy water, blessed by a priest, can hurt them.

Tepes-vampires have a dark magick all their own that comes from their progenitor Dracula himself. This gives them the ability to ride on a moonbeam, turn into mist, and change form becoming a wolf or large bat. Tepes-vampires also can use normal magick, but only in a negative manner. They treat everything as a conquest using manipulation and scheming to gain what they desire. Even if a desire is simple and intentionally harmless the Tepes-vampire will still scheme to get it. They are like wolves hunting prey, plotting the strike and enjoying their victory. The older they get the more pronounced this desire for conquest becomes. Therefore a recently-sired Tepes-vampire may not exhibit these traits right away, especially if it is untutored, a common problem among Tepes-vampires. Also Tepes-vampires must slowly come into their dark magick, developing it over time. It can take as much as twenty-five years to begin using the major tricks. Tepes-vampires who use magick will generally not exhibit practitioner traits as a morph or Lilith-vampire will. Instead, spells cast to do good will simply fail for no apparent reason, while spells with selfish or evil intent will succeed as if the vampire were a grand wizard.



They are a bit easier to kill than Lilith-vampires. They can be paralysed with fear by Holy objects, thereby rendering them helpless. Then they can be disposed of at one’s leisure. It is said that the reason for all of this is that God cursed Dracula into becoming a vampire. Tepes-vampires are evil with a purpose: their intent is to destroy anything having to do with God, whether it be Christian or otherwise. Their “evil” is connected with religion and religious symbolism.



For those interested in minutiae, since “Tepes” is a Romanian word it is pronounced as “Tep-esh”.



Nosferatu



In 1892 CE, Kern appeared on earth for the first time since his death. He cannot be killed in any way, but those vampires he sired, the entire lineage, are not as lucky. Nosferatu cannot stand being in the sun at all. Once bathed in sunlight they burst into flames and burn until consumed. They are also, of all vampires, the easiest to kill: simply staking them, beheading them, or setting them on fire seems to do the trick. Nosferatu vampires do not act very intelligent. They seem to be more beast than humanoid. They do not tend to practice the Craft.

The Nosferatu acquired their name soon after F.W. Murnau’s film of the same name came out in 1922. This is in part due to the physical appearance of Nosferatu, which is somewhat similar to Murnau’s depiction. While other vampires tend to continue their undead existence with much the same physical appearance as the person had in life, Nosferatu rise in a rather grotesque form which cannot be mistaken for a living human under most circumstances.



It seems that a Nosferatu will follow any sufficiently powerful master. Tepes-vampires often used them as henchman or cannon-fodder.