Vampirism is the disease/ability described many ways throughout
history creating Vampires. The main concept for vampirism can be someone who is drinking the blood of humans or animals, or someone draining the psychic energies of somebody else. Many sources tell of several accompanying attributes like fangs, pale
skin, mild to severe allergy to sunlight,
silver and garlic. Stories tell of ability to fly, shapeshift, about the need of coffins, immortality and vampires being living dead.
Many of these beliefs are myth or fiction but there lives a
society claiming to be
real vampires today, and they assert the following:
Vampirism is the disease or abilities related to vampires.
Vampirism can be conducted two ways. Either someone is turned (created by another
vampire), or awakened (become one by him/herself in
time). When someone shows the symptoms of being sensitive to sunlight, prefering to be awake during the
night, having very acute senses, and instincts, somewhat resistant to common illness.. as well as having a thirst/hunger nothing seems to be able to ease, and an easily triggered 'secondary personality' the
beast, who is violent, very temperamental, and impatient. V
Related to this community, vampirism DOESN'T mean immortality, death when contacting garlic,
silver, or sunlight, blood tears, consumption of nothing but blood, sacred symbols are not lethal to- nor feared by vampires, they do show up in mirrors, they dont heal instantly, they are not all pale, not all beautiful, they'
re not all evil, and they dont live a secluded life away from human society.
