### belief:

Vampire
* ARE seductive creatures that enthrall their victims.
* All Vampires go blind when the sun comes up
  - vampires have a soul, but it is trapped within the body
* Many vampires have a limited form of empathy.
* Most vampires can take a few moments of sunlight before they begin to burn, but it is painful
  - prey on the innocent
* Some Vampires seek to gain control over the mortal world.
* Some vampires develop substitute addictions who can range from chocolate to more serious drugs
  - have origins
  - notice a change in muscle movement
  - prefer the expression thirst
  - wish to fight mummies, even if they have never met a mummy or been to Egypt
* also comprise a very small percentage of Goths
  - gain enhanced combat abilities at night, suffering penalties during the day
  - have greater reflexes than humans
  - suffer from holy water, treating it like acid
* appear in the folklore and legends of many cultures dating back to ancient times.
* are a form of the hungry ghost
  - able to eroticize whomever they desire, but that desire can be indirect
  - also highly sexual, and they often prey on members of both sexes
  - always rich, because they've lived a long time and accumulated stuff
  - beings of transformation and metamorphosis
  - blood relatives
  - capable of bites
* are creatures of the night
  - that maintain immortality by sucking blood from humans and animals
  - dead people that drink blood to survive
  - energy feeders and feed off the blood and psychic and pranic energy of others
  - evil spirit
  - great lead characters for stories, books and movies
  - intelligent agents
  - legendary for their endurance
  - malleable creatures
  - mammals
  - multilingual
  - myth
  - nocturnal animals
  - normal people taken over by another being
  - only creatures acting like humans
  - similar to man in respect that no two are alike
* are slightly harder to kill
  - more combustible than lighter fluid
  - soluble in blood and cause it to evaporate without leaving a film
  - some of the most popular villains in modern mythology
  - stated to freak out when they smell human blood
  - supernatural
  - terrestrial organisms
* are the bodies of the dead, and ghosts are the spirits of the dead
  - living dead
  - most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore
  - recently dead
  - warriors
* attack in areas without hair or feathers or where the hair is scant.
* bats stomachs and kidneys rapidly separate the water from the rest of the blood.
* can bite monsters to suck the blood of the victim
  - breed with humans, but the birth always kills the mother
  - feed off dead bodies to recover health
  - never resist light
  - only feed upon living blood, though from a variety of sources
* can sleep in the day
  - upside down
  - spread their disease by killing an uninfected player
* can, however, build a type of immunity to sunlight depending on their age and constitution.
* cause fear.
* come from all countries and races
  - nationalities and races
* consider themselves immortal.
* crave the sensations of heightened awareness.
* display no reflection in a mirror, nor do they cast a shadow.
* do exist.
* drink only blood.
* exist on nearly every continent on Earth and in nearly every society
  - outside of time
  - where people fear to go, in the depths all that which culture shuns
* experience a calling to the darker forces and an affinity to a nocturnal lifestyle.
* fear light, have pale skin, and grow fangs.
* feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals such as birds, horses and cattle.
* fly from their roosting caves at night to locate prey.
* generally are male, and rabies is seven times more frequent in men than in women.
* generate feelings of longing, lust and fear of disease and death.
* get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits.
* hate garlic.
* have an aversion to garlic
  - extreme durability to pain
  - incredible healing ability
  - weaknesses during the day
* is evil spirit
* legends originate in occurrences of porphyria, a rare skin disorder.
* love to be hugged.
* only suck blood at night.
* practice the cult of drinking blood.
* require blood in order to live.
* sometimes attack people
  - come in the form of cuddly house pets
* stalk the streets at night.
* turning into bats is found in Dracula.