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Introduction
Vampires are the undead captions, which feed on human blood and fleeing the sunlight and the flame of fire. Although some attempt at all costs to maintain ethical behavior, they become over time more and more subject to their predatory instincts, they call the Beast.
* From the nature of vampires
* Their political organization and their laws
* The clans, “families” of vampires
* Their powers disciplines
The origin of vampires and the nature of the Beast
The vampires are the inheritors of the curse of Cain, who was condemned to wander for killing his brother Abel. They can pass it in turn to a mortal by an act they call the embrace, which is to drain the lifeblood of his prior to swallow a bit of vampire blood. The death brings then, and will in turn be immortal, but obliged to feed on fresh blood.
All the powers of a vampire from the blood and can for example spend to improve his physical strength. Of course, it is dead, his heart beats no more, and it does not own body heat. Only the consumption of blood allows him to preserve his body from decomposition. The vampire must feed regularly on pain of falling into torpor for lack extended. Fortunately, the quantity required is sufficiently low that they should not kill their victims, and lick the wounds carried by the hooks used to close without sequelae.
Like all the characteristics of the vampire from the blood, hence its parent through the embrace, it acquires, to some extent, the strengths and weaknesses of it. This gives rise to distinct lineages, clans. On the other hand, each new generation, the blood is diluted, and its power decreases. The current young vampires are the thirteenth generation from Cain.
The first mark of the curse of Cain is the sensitivity to the “vital forces” as the sun and fire. Submitted a vampire in daylight suffers from very serious injuries and can ignite spontaneously. On the other hand, the vampires are generally inactive and unconscious during the day, like corpses. They may wake up in case of danger, but the more they move away from their humans, and it is difficult, and they can not act even if they are aware. As evil creatures, vampires are repelled, not by religious symbols as we might think – because they have no power in itself – but by the faith of the person who brandish. Fortunately for them, sincerely pious people are very rare …
The second mark of the curse, and perhaps most important, is the entrance to the Beast in them during the embrace. Every time the vampire is subjected to stress conditions, such as the effect of an intense thirst, anger and even fear, his instincts may be traced back to the surface and submerge to the point that lose all control of his actions, often at risk to commit the irreparable. And every time he commits such a crime, he slips a little more about the slope of inhumanity, away forever from what it was for the further to the Beast … It is said, however, that some vampires have managed to achieve a state of grace, Golconda, where the Beast and humankind are in balance, breaking the vicious circle. But few people have that chance.