Vampires

## **Factions**

Vampires worship the mother moon, Selene. She is the goddess of vampires. The Thanatos Family all have glowing red irises with black sclera. Seraphine Malechiv has glowing purple irises with a black sclera, Arcadia has black eyes with veins forming underneath her eyes and Cindy Mayberry has lilac irises with black sclera and veins forming underneath her eyes.

* **Eternal Keepers:** A deranged cult formed by Ileana Thanatos, her cult worship Selene by performing sacrificial rituals.
* **Ministry of the Moon:** Formed by Dahlia and Seraphine Thanatos, they worship Selene and their ministry is based in their mansion, Nightgrove.
* **Kazimir's Followers:** Kazimir created some vampires in ancient greece, and then some more in Louisiana during the 1800s. He compelled these vampires to aid him and become his personal army. During 1903, Kazimir attempted to overthrow his wife and queen Belladonna, and tried to conquer the world by turning all humans into vampires. His efforts were halted when Belladonna singlehandedly defeated him and his followers. She desecrated them of human blood and imprisoned them in a tomb on the east coast of Canada. She then made a deal with the witch Sybil, who sealed the tomb shut with powerful magicks in exchange for human flesh.

## **Practices**

Vampires believe the moon to be Selene’s daughter and symbol of power. Selene’s symbols are the crescent, the billowing cloak and the bull.

Vampires can be born through birth, however the main transformation is by having vampire blood in one's system, and when they die they come back as a vampire. During this process, the 'cattle' is the victim with vampire blood in their system, and the vampire whose blood is in the cattle becomes the master. The cattle is extremely weak and vulnerable, due to an unnatural substance in their body. The master has complete control over the cattle, until they die and become a vampire.

One can turn themselves into a vampire if they devote themselves to Selene, drink blood under a full moon and recant the prayer; “*Oh Vampire Mother, let me be reborn as your child, guide the dark ones again, so I shall rise like cain*.”

Every Monday the vampires pray to Selene, compared to daily prayers.

The vampires sometimes refer to Selene as the Luna Mother.

There are four notable traditions for vampires, one in each season. All of the traditions include the vampires under the moon absorbing the lunar energy from Selene. The following are:

* **Blood Moon:** On the day of the lunar eclipse in autumn, the vampires bathe in the blood of a mortal and lie under the eclipsed moon. First they eat and pray, then they lie under the moon. This process strengthens the vampires and grants them a significant power boost. Other vampires, such as the eternal keepers, take drastic measures to secure their power gain, such as sacrificing dozens of mortals in the name of Selene, and feasting on them under the eclipsed moon. The Eternal Keepers say this prayer as they feast on the mortals, whereas the Ministry of the Moon says the prayer as they eat blood pie. On this day, the vampires recant the following: “*Hail, Selene, attend now our tune. Darken your daughter, our night lamp, the moon. Piece by piece, and slice by slice. As they go down, let the moon be consumed.*”
* **Blue Moon:** This lunar festival is about thanking Selene and occurs in winter. Vampires traditionally rub celestial ointments onto their bodies and chant a prayer, lying under the blue moon. This process makes their bodies glow with lunar energy as they are imbued with it. They tend to bake blue moon cakes and pies and have a picnic underneath the moon. The prayer is: “*We call Selene, mother and queen. Under your moonlit daughter, radiate our celestial water.*”
* **Harvest Moon:** In this festival in spring, particularly April, the vampires make a feast and consume it as well as leave many gifts and offerings under the Pink Supermoon. They then glow pink in colour as they absorb the lunar energy. The chant is: “*Selene, mistress of the moon; the silver crescent crowns your hair, cloaked in darkness you watch so high, to you we offer our greetings to bare, may your carriage cross the moonlit sky.*”
* **Honey Moon:** This lunar festival takes place in summer as the vampires bathe under the yellow strawberry moon and absorb the lunar energies. They prefer to partake in a hunting game, as this moon tends to turn the vampires feral, forcing them to kill many mortals, resulting in significant bloodshed. Due to the animalistic associations of this holiday, most vampires try to prevent the process of them turning feral by hanging garlic in their homes and praying to Selene. The Eternal Keepers turn feral whereas the Ministry of the Moon do not, and so have to recite the prayer: “*Mother Moon, hear our plea, under the light of the honeymoon bee. As wild honey turns feral, tame our peril. Goddess of the moon, all hail Selene.*”

## **History**

The goddess of the moon, Selene, turned her first followers into the first vampires. They were Seraphine Malechiv, Euphronius Thanatos and Arcadia. The daughter of the titans, Arcadia, lost her powers to her sister and wandered the lands powerless. She eventually offered herself to Selene, and the goddess responded by turning Arcadia into one of the first vampires. As such, Arcadia became an elder vampire and was feared by many. After Seraphine turned into a vampire, she had a son through parthenogenesis, whom she named Acheron, but she secretly had another son, Cain, who was hidden in Thanatos Castle with the help of Euphronius. Acheron then married a human witch called Larysa and had a human-vampire hybrid son called Kazimir. After Larysa died of old age, Acheron was captured by Arcadia and entombed in the east coast of Canada deep in a ravine. Arcadia then made a deal with the witch Sybil, who sealed the tomb shut with powerful magicks in exchange for human flesh. Meanwhile, Selene and Euphronius had a demigod vampire child called Belladonna. She eventually married Kazimir and had eight children together. Kazimir, was dangerous and volatile, and turned 30 humans into vampires. He created some vampires in ancient Greece, and then some more in Louisiana during the 1800s. He compelled these vampires to aid him and become his personal army. During 1903, Kazimir attempted to overthrow his wife and queen Belladonna, and tried to conquer the world by turning all humans into vampires. His efforts were halted when Belladonna singlehandedly defeated him and his followers. She desecrated them of human blood and imprisoned them in the tomb of Acheron with the help of Arcadia. As a result, the only active vampires left are the Thanatos family, including Cynthia Mayberry, Arcadia and the Prodotics.

The expansive Thanatos Family:

* Belladonna lives with Athanasius, Damascus, Vamora and Vlad in Thanatos Castle.
* Belladonna had a ninth child, Quintessa Elvira, but she died during birth.
* Dahlia lives with Seraphine in Nightgrove Manor.
* Ileana lives with Harmodius in her mansion with her daughter, Drusila, and is the leader of the deranged cult The Eternal Keepers.

## **List of Vampires**

* **Euphronius Thanatos:** Still alive, he is said to live under the moonlight and is the groom to Selene. He also went by the name Cain.
* **Seraphine Malechiv:** She is alive and lives with her great-granddaughter Dahlia in Nightgrove Manor.
* **Arcadia:**
* **Acheron Malechiv:** He was killed by Arcadia after his wife died and was entombed in a ravine in the east coast of Canada.
* **Cain Malechiv:** Hidden at birth by Seraphine, he was hibernating in the depths of Thanatos Castle until he was accidentally released by Dahlia Thanatos.
* **Belladonna Thanatos:**
* **Quintessa Elvira Thanatos:**
* **Athanasius Thanatos:**
* **Damascus Thanatos:**
* **Ileana Thanatos:**
* **Harmodius Thanatos:**
* **Dahlia Thanatos:**
* **Vladimir Thanatos:**
* **Cindy Mayberry:**
* **Kazimir's Followers:**
	+ **Demetrius:** Turned by Kazimir during ancient greece. He was a friend of Kazimir's and was the first of his sireline.
	+ **Demidicus:** The twin brother of Demetrius, he was turned by Kazimir during ancient greece. He was the second of Kazimir’s sireline and became good allies with Kazimir.
	+ **Lazarus:** An enemy of Kazimir's during ancient Greece who died with his blood in his system, turning him into a vampire.
	+ **Zephirah:** She was turned by Kazimir in ancient Greece.
	+ **Urzsebeta Batoriova:** More commonly known as Elizabeth Bathory, she was turned by Kazimir in 1590. She is a vampiric serial killer, having killed 650 people during her time as a noblewoman.
	+ **Estrella Bergeron:** She was the wife of the mayor of New Orleans in the 1800s. She was turned into a vampire by Kazimir at a party.
	+ **Isadore Thibodeaux:** She was turned into a vampire by Kazimir in the same party as Estrella. She was a part of the high society of New Orleans.
	+ **Abel:** He was turned into a vampire by Kazimir in the same party as Estrella. He was a part of the high society of New Orleans.
	+ **Erasmus Bellefontaine:** He was turned into a vampire by Kazimir in the 1800s. He was the patriarch of a family in Louisiana who produced and sold moonshine after the abolition of slavery.
	+ **Cataleya Velasquez:** The leader of a gang of outlaws during the 1800s in New Mexico, Cataleya was approached by Kazimir, as she was a cold-blooded killer. She was turned into a vampire and her strive to kill was enhanced.
	+ **Alaska Saito:** A Japanese vampire who is also a supernatural hunter. She journeyed from Japan to Louisiana in the 1800s to kill Kazimir, but he instead turned her into a vampire.
	+ **Macie Gallagos:** Originally bound to Kazimir for centuries on end, she was turned into a vampire in the late 1800s.
	+ **18 other unnamed vampires**
* **Mermaid-Vampires:**
	+ **Sea Maiden**
	+ **Prodotics**

### **List of Vampire-Human Hybrids**

Also known as Dhampyres, they are the result of a vampire reproducing with a human.

* **Kazimir Malechiv:**
* **Drusila Thanatos:**

### **List of Vampire-Witch Hybrids**

Also known as Strix, they are abomination of nature and can be created with loopholes.

* **Vamora Thanatos:** Vamora was born a vampire, but out of all of her siblings she inherited the dormant witch gene from her grandmother Larysa. Vamora became a Strix after asking the witch Locasta to unlock her witch side in a reformation spell. Vamora drank a witch's blood under the moon of Hecate and became a hybrid.
* **Empusa:** The mother of Cindy Mayberry, Empusa is the daughter of Selene and Belladonna. She is a Strix, a vampire-witch hybrid.