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{History on Mesopotamian Vampires}
04:11 Feb 17 2013
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{Ekimmu Vampires}



The first legends on vampires predates back to roughly 4000 B.C.E. from the ancient Sumer civilization. The ancient Sumerians existed in Mesopotamia and facts prove that by 3100 B.C.E., their culture brought the earliest archeologically proven dynasty; the first cities were built along with establishing the city and state religions were set up and practiced. The Sumerians is the first civilization to receive our attention as the first and oldest vampire like being that is the Ekimmu.

The Ekimmu, was believed to have been created when someone died a violent death or was not buried properly. Although not referred to out right as a vampire, the way they are described as helps us to draw the conclusion that these creatures were real intentional psychic vampires. They were described as demonic in nature, phantom like entities that roamed the earth, unable to rest, in search of victims. The creatures preferred the attack pattern of finding a helpless individual, then tormenting this victim until a priest or priestess could come and perform a ritual or exorcism to force the vampire off.



{The Uruku}



Another creature from the Mesopotamia the Uruku is actually referred to as a "vampyre which attacks man" in a {cuneiform inscription}. There is very little known about the Uruku, but, the mere fact that it has been referred to as a vampire.



{The Seven Demons}



Another "race" of vampires is also mentioned as a vampiric entity which was much feared: "The Seven Demons". These beings have been mentioned in many Mesopotamian religious texts and incantations.



Demons that have no shame,

Seven are they.



Knowing no care...

Knowing no mercy,

They rage against mankind:

They spill their blood like rain,

Devouring their flesh and sucking their veins.

Where the images of the gods are they quake...



They are demons full of violence

Ceaselessly devouring blood.

Invoke the ban against them,

That they no more return to this neighborhood...



The creatures described above clearly have attributes similar to {sangunarian vampires} blood drinking vampires. The blood drinking and vein sucking make it clear to assume that they are vampires of some sort indeed. The eighth line in the excerpt indicates that the creatures are afraid of the images of the Sumer gods, or of the temples in which most god images are kept.







Another interesting Vampire from Ancient Aztec culture:

{The Baital Pachisi}



Also called Vikram and the Vampire, is an ancient text written in Sanskrit thousands of years ago. It’s perhaps the oldest piece of Sanskrit tablet written about a vampire. It was rewritten by the dramatist Bhavabhuti some time in the eighth century.

It’s written as a story within a story. It begins with the tale of King Vikram finding a vetala, or baital, depending on the translation, hanging from a tree. Sounds kind of similar to our vampire image of the bat, doesn’t it? Vikram is egotistical and a macho character, so he immediately tries to capture the vampire. He cuts the branch away and seizes the vampire. He intends to take the vampire to a yogi named Shanti-Shil.

The vampire evades Vikram’s attempts at capturing him. He eventually allows himself to be captured, and merely laughs and offers to tell Vikram a story. This part is pretty awesome. Here’s this creature who is typically viewed as a demonic, terrifying monster, and the tale definitely puts a different perspective on the situation. Here it is the king who happens upon a vampire, who’s just hanging in a tree not hurting anybody, and the king just sets out on this malicious path of destruction against it. The vampire is definitely the bigger person in this situation; reacting to the king with such a magical phrase as, “Let me tell you a story…”

There are conditions, of course. The vampire tells the king that at the end of every story he will pose a question or riddle to the king. If Vikram answers the riddle correctly, then the vampire will return to his tree. If he doesn’t answer correctly, then the vampire will consent to go with Vikram. Here too is an interesting ploy. The vampire is making an offer of going with the king if the king does not answer the riddles correctly. Surely it would be a simple thing for the king to pretend not to know the answers and be able to capture the vampire, right?

Except Vikram knows all of the answers at the end of every story, and he has to answer them. In some versions, if Vikram does not answer even though he knows the correct answer, his head will explode. In other versions, Vikram is too egotistical not to answer a riddle he knows the answer to. So he continues to have to recapture the vampire after every story. There are twenty-five stories in all, and in the last one, the king fails to answer the vampire’s riddle correctly.

However, the vampire, a baital or vetala, is merely possessing the body of a corpse, and can simply leave it. The plot thickens when the vampire tells Vikram about the yogi Shanti-Shil’s plot to kill him. After revealing this, the vampire leaves the body of the corpse it was possessing, and the king confronts Shanti-Shil.

At the end, it would seem the two had formed almost a friendship. The vampire doesn’t appear as an evil villain, but more as a trickster and a storyteller like {Loki} He ultimately helped Vikram in the end, through his riddles, and finally through saving the king’s life.



Stories in History: {Now remember people in school we are shown the history they want us to only know}

In time as we get older. We have the choices to look deeper. Some of these things can be life changing. You start realizing someones been lying to you.

There are many things in history that are hidden from us. Reason behind world events that are questionable. I'm sure today there is an organization that is hiding a lot of these things from the mass population. Keeping people wondering what really has happened.





{Longinus Vampire Emperor}



Longinus in Herculean garb,

During the early days of the Roman Empire, vampires were hunted and destroyed by an elite squad of the Legion.

The Roman ability to control vampires was widely respected and made it easier for them to colonize farflung nations. Captured vampires were brought to the the Coliseum in Rome, where they fought lions, tigers and Christians in nighttime battles.

A frequent spectator at these contests was the young Emperor Longinus, who began his reign in AD 68 at the age of 17. Longinus' favorite was Brittanicus, who was captured in England in AD 65 and had developed a formidable record as a vampire-gladiator. Against the advice of his Praetorian bodyguards, Longinus had Brittanicus installed in a lavish suite inside the palace. One night, Longinus paid his guest a visit and the inevitable happened: Longinus was bitten and became Rome's first vampire emperor.





{Frieze The Slaughter of the Vampires}



The vampire emperor's short reign over Rome was disastrous. The Praetorian Guards who had defended Longinus were expelled from the Palace, and vampires became protected throughout the Empire. Longinus and Brittanicus led other vampires on nightly hunting parties through the streets of Rome. Vampirism, which had previously been contained within Rome, exploded.



Facing a dire future, the expelled Praetorian Guards took it upon themselves to save the Empire. On a warm summer morning in AD 69, about a dozen Praetorians burst into the palace. The vampires, drowsy and bloated from the previous night's feast, were easy pickings and the Praetorians methodically dispatched them, saving Longinus for last. He was decapitated, and his head was stuck on a pole outside the city gates as a warning to any vampires who might want to venture into Rome.



{Rome is Saved}



The decline of the Roman Empire left Europe in a turbulent state. In an absence of any central authority, the countryside was overrun by a series of vampire armies, each more terrifying than the last. The armies, generally consisting of between 50 and 100 vampires, would swoop into towns on horseback in the dead of night, howling with the need to feed on blood.

The only saving grace for the people of Europe was the limited range of these armies, as it was difficult for them to stray far from their daylight havens. But in the Ninth Century, a charismatic leader named Quadilla united a number of vampire armies into a mobile, fearsome fighting force that had many in Europe believing the end of the world was night.



{Quadilla}



Quadilla grew up riding horses and tending goats and sheep on a farm near the Po River in northern Italy. His bucolic upbringing came to an abrupt end at age 16, when a corrupt local priest confiscated his family's property. The evicted family had the distinct misfortune of settling in a gypsy camp shortly before it was set upon by a small vampire army. Quadilla's parents were killed; he was bitten, then taken away to join the army.



Quadilla quickly distinguished himself as a great horseman and fearless warrior whose ambitions outpaced the limited scope of his precursors. Quadilla envisioned himself as the leader of a vampire empire stretching from Gibraltar to the Danube. With his great skills as an orator, Quadilla was able to convince local vampire armies to join his cause. After winning important victories against the Lombards, the army began a slow, inexorable march down the Italian peninsula toward Quadilla's ultimate goal: the papal leadership in Rome.



Quadilla's offensive was greatly aided by the Italian topography. Each night, he would raid a village for blood, then take shelter in the numerous caves of the Apennine Mountains. Remindful of the corrupt priest who took his boyhood home, Quadilla saved special cruelty for houses of worship. He plundered monasteries and left the heads of priests impaled on stakes outside the churches. These horrific displays convinced many that Quadilla was the Devil himself, and that the advances of his army represented the end of the world prophesied in the bible.





{Charlemagne}



In December of 772, Quadilla's army took Siena, leaving it only 150 miles from Rome. As the Italian capital swelled with refugees, the stories of Quadilla took on an out sized, mythological scale. Eyewitnesses told of a ten-foot tall, fire breathing man with horns, wings {This is were perhapse the order of the Dragon took place} and a tail.



{Pope Hadrian II}



The Pope, facing desertions in his own army, sent envoys to the Frankish Kingdom of the north to ask the young king Charlemagne for help.



Though Charlemagne had come to power only two years earlier, at age 29, the six foot six inch King of the Franks already had ambitions to match his towering frame. He wanted nothing less than to rule Europe, and he knew that having the imprimatur of the Pope would help him greatly in his quest. He told the papal envoys that he would take his men into Italy as soon as the snows melted.



In the spring of 773, Charlemagne led his army across the Alps into Italy. He followed the coast south and made camp along the Tiber River north of Rome, not far from the site of Quadilla's most recent assault. Charlemagne had planned to use the camp as a base from which to conduct sorties into the mountains, but Quadilla had different ideas. That night, the vampire army attacked the camp and inflicted heavy losses on Charlemagne's army before retreating back to their caves.



{Charlemagne slays Quadilla from the manuscript}





As the day dawned, Charlemagne surveyed the wreckage of his camp and realized he could not fight the vampires by conventional means. After breaking his army up into smaller groups and setting them in defensive positions in the hills, he sent his most experienced vampire hunters into the mountains to conduct reconnaissance. That night, the men located the vampire cave network, and as soon as the sun came up, Charlemagne led his army there. Rather than send his men stumbling blindly into the dark caves, Charlemagne had them heap timber onto modified horse carts, light the pile on fire and roll the carts into the caves. The plan worked beautifully: vampires were smoked out into the light and beheaded by the hundreds.



Working from cave to cave, it took four days for Charlemagne's army to kill the last of the vampires. Quadilla himself fought gallantly; though effectively rendered blind by the bright sun, he killed over 20 soldiers before Charlemagne dispatched him with a blow from his sword.



{Charlemagne's fire cart, seen in this medieval illustration, outlived him by almost 1000 years}



On Christmas Day, 773, a grateful Pope crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor in the city he had saved. During Charlemagne's 47-year reign, Europe enjoyed a relative respite from vampire armies. The fire carts Charlemagne had improvised lasted even longer; they were employed against vampires well into the Eighteenth Century.



In 1974, a team of Italian archaeologists discovered a huge cache of artifacts in caves near the Tiber. Among the finds were armor and weapons bearing the broken cross symbol peculiar to Quadilla's army. A museum was built nearby to house the relics and honor the men who saved the seat of Christianity from a grisly fate.



{The vampire Trial of Fatinelli}



During the Middle Ages, the scientific study of vampirism was tangled up in religious notions of good versus evil. Vampires were the Devil's foot soldiers, and victims of vampirism were thought to have had some sort of moral failing which left them vulnerable to attack. The large number of prostitute victims was held up as proof of this. The church, at perhaps the zenith of its power, had a vested interest in keeping this notion afloat, as nervous worshipers tended to spend more time in church and give more money. But the dawn of the Renaissance gave rise to a number of visionary scientists who, at their own peril, began to question previous about vampirism.

And one of them, an Italian named Ludovico Fatinelli, paid for it with his life.



{Ludovico Fatinelli}



Fatinelli was a native of Florence whose father was employed in the relatively new profession of making eyeglasses. The young Fatinelli took an interest in his father's trade and made his own magnifying glasses to study the world around him. As his lenses got more sophisticated, he was able to discern a world previously unknown to science. His notes from a look at a sample of water from the Arno River capture the excitement of discovery: I then saw, with great wonder, that in the water were very many little animalcules, very prettily a moving. The animalcules were in great number, and oft times spun around like a tail. Fatinelli had taken the first recorded look at bacteria.



The young Florentine went on to study medicine at the University of Padua, where one of his teachers was the great scientist and philosopher Galileo Gallilei. While there, Fatinelli, through the use of increasingly more sophisticated microscopes, discovered that {animalcules} also appeared to live in human tissue. From these observations, the young scientist developed the radical theory that it was these microscopic entities, not moral failures, that were the real source of vampirism. Experiments on animals seemed to bolster his hypothesis, and he set to work on a treatise that would summarize his findings and, he hoped, establish his reputation as a great scientist.





{The trial of Fatinelli}



In Januay, 1616, Fatinelli published his findings under the title, Treatise on Vampires. Alas, his timing couldn't have been worse. Pope Paul V, worried about the rise of Protestantism, had been taking a hard line against any new interpretation of church dogma and decided to make Fatinelli an example. The young man was brought up for the Inquisition, and when he refused to recant the conclusions in his treatise, he was charged with heresy and brought to trial. Though a simple recantation probably could have gotten him off the hook, Fatinelli stood behind his findings. Judgment was swift: the verdict was guilty, the sentence, death.





{Florence's Piazza Signoria the morning of Fatinelli's execution}



On April 23, 1616, a huge crowd gathered in Florence's Piazza Signoria to witness the execution. Fatinelli was tied to a pole atop a pile of logs, which were then set ablaze. The fire ate through the rope securing Fatinelli to the pole, and his left arm flew up in the air. A shriek went through the crowd; many fainted, thinking that the Devil was passing a curse from Fatinelli's body onto them. But the man on the pyre was only flesh and blood. Once the spectacle was over, one of the most important scientists of the time was ignominiously heaved into a pauper's grave, where the church hoped he would be forgotten forever.



It was not to be. Though Fatinelli was gone, his research lived on. For years after his death, illicit copies of his banned treatise made their way through Europe's scientific communities and helped pave the way for important work by scientists like the Englishman Edward Jenner, who created the first vaccine in 1795. Fatinelli had indeed been far ahead of his time: too far ahead, for the church's.





{The Ship of the Dead}



{Portsmouth in 1607}



The voyage of the British merchant ship Cormorant from Portsmouth, England, to the Caribbean island of Nevis had special meaning for Andrew Oglethorpe. After ten years as a sailor, Oglethorpe had decided to call it quits and live out his days as a fisherman in the British West Indies. And so, on June 15, 1607, the night before his last voyage, Oglethorpe set up shop in a Portsmouth pub and drank to his good fortune.

It wasn't to last. As Oglethorpe staggered toward the docks an hour or so before dawn, a prostitute called to him from the shadows. Inebriated, and facing three months at sea with no female companionship, Oglethorpe eagerly followed her into a dark alley, ignoring the old seafarer's maxim: harlot for hire, might be vampire. No sooner had they found a private spot than the prostitute sunk her fangs into him, and Andrew Oglethorpe's dream of a life of tropical ease was over before it started.



Like many victims of vampirism, Oglethorpe chose to deny what had happened. He boarded the Cormorant and assumed his duties as the ship left port under the direction of Captain Horatio Wheeler. By nightfall, Oglethorpe was in sick bay with a fever and chills. As Oglethorpe's wounds were not easily visible, the ship surgeon probably confused his symptoms with one of the more common ailments of the day. Eventually, Oglethorpe slipped into a vampiric coma; he was being prepared for burial at sea when he came back to life.





{Captain Horatio Wheeler}



The fate of the crew would have been left to the imagination had Captain Wheeler not been an assiduous journal keeper. Entries in his log became increasingly ominous as the journey progressed.



August 24th: {For the past three days}, we have been sailing through a storm, which has prevented us from continuing a sweep of the ship designed to root out any remaining vampires. Thus far, we have captured and thrown overboard three crew members who were showing signs of the dread disease.



September 14th: The vampires have barricaded themselves in the hold and, despite my entreaties, none of my crew dares go down there to dispatch them. Our nerves are frayed, as none of us have slept for two weeks. Last night, a man leaped off the boat rather than face another night of this torment.



September 16th: They are at my door now. There is no hope. I can only pray that God dash this accursed ship against the rocks, lest it deliver its hellish cargo upon some innocent shores.





{The Cormorant brought vampirism to the New World}



The captain's wishes would not be met. On the night of September 20th, Cormorant cruised into the harbor of the small Caribbean island of Nevis with Captain Wheeler, now a vampire, at the helm. Native islanders paddled out on canoes to greet the ship, unaware of the awful surprise waiting on board.



From this one ship, the vampires would spread rapidly across the Caribbean and the New World. The disaster prompted an overhaul of shipping procedures. Henceforth, all sailors were given thorough physical examinations before boarding.





{Haussman's Children}



The first half of the Nineteenth Century saw a population explosion in European cities. The rural poor and dispossessed flooded urban centers looking for work, and in the process created overcrowded slums rife with disease, crime...and vampirism. All across Europe, vampires found good hunting and ample hiding places in medieval era neighborhoods, with their tumbledown dwellings, narrow streets and alleyways. Every major European city had a concentration of vampires, the East End of London, Lisbon's Alfama, Warsaw's Old Town. In Paris, so many vampires haunted the neighborhood north of the Louvre that it became known as the Vampires Quarter.



{Baron Haussman}



European leaders tried a variety of measures to try and control vampire numbers, including hiring more fighters and instituting strict curfews. But the number of attacks continued to climb. In 1850, Baron Georges Haussman, Paris' top city planner, offered a radical suggestion instead of trying to kill the vampires, why not eliminate their habitat? Haussman envisioned a radical reconstruction of Paris, with broad boulevards, spacious squares and a modern sewer system {it was still common belief that poor sanitation contributed to vampirism}.



Haussman's plan won approval from French Emperor {and Napoleon grandson} Louis Napoleon and, in 1853, work crews began tearing down the Vampire Quarter, building by building. As crowds of onlookers watched, vampires scurried from collapsing buildings, shrieking and shielding their eyes from the sun, only to be methodically destroyed by special legions of the French Army. In one church, more than 50 vampires were flushed from the crypt. While some French, like writer Emile Zola, protested the widespread destruction of architectural treasures and the lack of interim housing for the homeless, the project did seem to be succeeding in slowing the rate of vampire attacks.





In Paris, aging tenements were torn down {l}

to make room for the Paris Opera {r}

Within 20 years, Haussman had transformed the the old rabbit warrens of the Vampire Quarter into posh neighborhoods with grand boulevards radiating from large squares like the Place de l'Opera.

Haussman was celebrated as a genius and European cities raced to follow his lead. From Lisbon to Prague, broad boulevards and wide squares become de rigeur.



{In this sardonic 1913 French illustration,

a lone vampire prowls the sewers of Paris,

unbeknownst to the passersby above}





However, the canonization of Haussman proved to be premature. After dropping for a short time, vampire attacks in Paris rose to their highest levels ever. To make matters worse, the attacks were no longer confined to Paris' slums. Vampires attacked the well heeled of the Tuileries, they preyed on students across the river in the Latin Quarter.

The great irony of Haussman's work was that, while he had driven vampires from their old haunts, in building Paris' extensive sewer system he had provided them with the perfect place to hide.



For the next 50 years, these vampires, known in Paris as "Haussman's Children," made their home in the sewers, emerging at night for hunting. For a short time, the French stationed troops there, but had to pull out due to high rates of desertion. During World War II, French resistance fighters hiding from the Nazis in the sewers encountered vampires in 19th-Century dress.

However, in 1971, a rash of vampire attacks along the river Seine paralyzed Paris. French authorities, working with the assistance of the FVZA, tracked a lone vampire into the sewers. The vampire was cornered near the Place des Vosges, and perhaps the last of {Haussman's children} was destroyed.





{Vampire Population Hits One Million, Public Health Notice, Chicago 1908}





At the turn of the Nineteenth Century, a growing, increasingly urban population, along with rising immigration, contributed to a spike in vampire numbers. In a widely published 1905 vampire study, FVZA scientists estimated the worldwide vampire population at one million.

The vampire population boom forced world leaders to take drastic measures to try and slow the spread of more vampires. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered a curfew in every city and town in the country. At dusk across the land, curfew sirens rang out as children ran in from their play and cities fell dark. The curfew was economically devastating for restaurants, theaters, bars and nightclubs, and led to a mini Depression.

President Roosevelt also authorized an emergency relief fund, with most of the money going to the FVZA to hire more people and upgrade their equipment. In addition, every branch of the Armed Forces was called into service to help the Agency.





{London's Batter sea Station, the end of the line for thousands of vampires}



Large cities were hardest hit by the vampire explosion. Early each morning in London, boatmen would make their way west along the fog-shrouded Thames, stopping at various wharf's to pick up vampires that had been destroyed the night before. The sight of a withered old boatman slipping silently through the fog, his boat heaped with vampire corpses, was one of the indelible impressions of the day. Eventually, the vampire corpses would be brought to the Battersea power station for incineration. At its peak, Battersea station was burning over one hundred vampires a day.





{Bombay's Old Quarter before it was burned to the ground}



Other cities took more dramatic steps to combat the rise in vampires. In Bombay, India, the city's old quarter, with its narrow streets and numerous homeless people, had become a haven for vampires.



While vampires took thousands of victims between 1900 and 1910, their psychological toll on the public may have been even worse. Innocent people were gunned down as panic and paranoia reigned.

Some enterprising Americans tried to leaven the stress by opening illegal bars and clubs known as {Havens} The locations of these establishments changed often to keep away from the prying eyes.





{The Lazo Disaster}



Lazo, Soviet Union and the United States and the Soviet Union began pouring enormous resources into vampire research. The Soviets based their research at a secret lab outside the small village of Lazo in Siberia.

Unbeknownst to the Americans, they made significant progress in the lab and in 1967, under a veil of utmost secrecy, they began animal trials, using chimpanzees as the test subjects.

Sometime in mid February, disaster struck at the lab when an infected chimpanzee bit a technician.

Lazo after the blast faced with an uncontrollable vampireisum; Russian President Leonid Brezhnev was forced to take extreme measures. So, on a bright winter day, a transport rolled into Lazo and left a nuclear weapon in the middle of the town square, while the vampires slept. Once the team was safely out of range, they detonated the bomb.





{Premier Brezhnev explains the disaster to the Politburo}



American officials detected the explosion via satellite and launched an inquiry. The Russians claimed accidental detonation, but American intelligence knew that there were no nuclear installations in that part of the country. The mystery ended in the Summer of '68, when one of the soldiers who had planted the bomb defected to West Germany and told the whole story. The 750 people of Lazo were among the last casualties of the war on vampires.



The mishap created a backlash against vampire research in the United States and thoughout the world. On October 14th, 1970, President Nixon signed into law the Muskie Fineman Act, halting research on vampire blood. It would be 16 years before the ban was overturned, and vampire blood research began anew, with rigorous safety provisions in place to avoid a repeat of the Lazo Disaster.



And that is all i conclude, for now.

I hope you've all enjoyed the vastness of vampires throughout history and the ages.





Sincerely: {SangrealVulpes}.

{Sanguinarians VS PSIS}
02:07 Feb 13 2013
Times Read: 645






Over the years I’ve consumed blood from animals and from live human donors. I can honestly say here and now that I find no difference as far as effect goes. Whether I feed from a donor, or from fresh animal blood the effect is the same, and whichever one I feed from, I know I will need to feed again in about 7 to 10 days less if I’m highly stressed; longer if I’m relaxed and not doing anything unduly physical. I consume more animal blood at a feeding than I do human blood from a donor, only because the animal blood doesn’t care and is not harmed by my feeding. I tend to take less from a donor due to guilt and a desire to inconvenience my donor as little as possible. The only difference I can find is that I prefer to have a donor when I can, because the deliciousness of the blood, and much warmer and fuzzier than taking a cube of frozen blood out of the freezer and letting it melt under my blue rare steak. Donors give a lot more than just offering blood. They give us companionship and affection and a feeling of power. No animal can ever replace that...



For some reason all of that doesn’t seem to translate to the entire Vampire Community and I’ve heard far too many times over the years that Sangs make use of pranic energy or some other kind of energy, depending on who you talk to, from the blood, making us another kind of energy feeder, something that is actually a Psi Vamp trait, and not Sanguinarian at all.



I see it on many boards, especially Psi boards. For some reason those who are not Sanguinarians seem to be sure we use energy like a Psi Vampire does, even though there is absolutely NO reason or indication that is the case.



Psi Vampires DO feed on energy for many sources. Without added energy intake Psi Vamps can become as sick as any blood deficient Sang. Psis have been known to feed from humans, animals, crowds, elemental energy and just about any other source of prana or energy that you can name. Psis NEED energy, and I’ll never down them, what they need any more than I’ll ever blame any Sang for needing what they need. The fact we both get sick when we lack what we need, however does NOT mean we are the same creatures using the same thing from what we feed on.



“So how do you explain Hybrid Vampires who can feed on both?” THAT is a question that usually follows the above statements when I say that Sangs and Psis are not the same creatures. So let’s address that issue right now by allowing me to point out that just because a person has diabetes, doesn’t mean they can’t also have fibromyalgia. Just because a person has an energy deficiency that causes them to need to feed on outside energy sources does NOT mean they can’t also have a different kind of deficiency

that causes them to crave blood.



While most Sanguinarians do suck the energy out of everything around them when they first awaken, most of us, after a number of years find that Psi feeding no longer fills our need for blood in any way, shape or form. It’s not that we do not know how to Psi feed most of us do, many of us have done so for years, either to supplement our lack of blood feeding or just for the “high”.



I know. I’ve tried. Almost all of us have. Have you got ANY idea how much EASIER it is to take energy than to get blood? It's night and day! And almost no one has any real moral issue with drawing Psi energy from crowds, or elemental feeding. That’s a lot simpler than having to beg a donor for blood or find an animal source. If we could replace blood with psi for the good of our health, don’t you think we WOULD?! After years of trying, I can honestly tell you all that we just can’t. It doesn’t work. We wish it did. The fact of the matter is: We Need Blood!!!



In the end, it's apples and oranges. As the threat of the return of the Sang / Psi Wars rears its ugly head, threatening to divide, yet again, a community many of us are trying to unite, maybe both Psis and Sangs need to cut each other a little slack. It’s not about how or what we feed on that brings our communities together. It’s the fact that we’re different, and our needs, that bring us together. We don’t have to be the same. Sangs are not “unevolved energy feeders”. Psis are not lesser Vampires because they suck energy. We’re just different. If one can’t be “different” in the Vampire Community, where can we be?



In closing I have only one thing left to say: It’s Ok to be Psi, and feed on energy, and Sang feeding is NOT energy feeding, unless you consider eating a hamburger to be sucking the energy out of a cow.