Vampires

### Main powers

immortality, regeneration, enhanced immune system, transmutation/teleport, mind control, super speed, super strenght, eletromagnetic interference, night vision, enhanced senses, vampiric conversion, immunity to possessions

Vampirism originates in Eastern Europe, more specifically in Transylvania, present-day Romania during the Castles Age, vampires are portrayed by folklore and by various cultures as beings that feed on blood and possess some supernatural powers and are described as immortal and eternally young.

## The first mutant

In a large family that lived in Transylvania, there was an unknown mutation in the blood and germ cells, these mutations hit the patriarch of one family, the Wallachian king Vlad Dracula. The mutation caused Vlad an anomaly in his aging process, making him younger and with an impeccable and very strong immune system, but this mutation caused Vlad a side effect that was a defect in the hemoglobin enzymes, which is responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood, leaving Vlad with a frequent thirst for blood, during battles he impaled and then fed on the blood of Muslims he captured during his reign.

Vlad would later have been defeated and faked his own death, moving to Transylvania with the family where he lived in a large castle, Vlad never aged due to his mutation which was seen as a curse by himself. Vlad had children who inherited the mutation from him, they grew to the age of full sexual maturation, at the end of growth in their twenties, after which they remained always young and with flawless skin and impressive health. Although the skin was extremely strong and elastic, the mutation caused the skin to become sensitive to sunlight, which caused Vlad and his family to remain hidden in the castle until sunset, when night fell they would go out to feed.

Vlad was murdered in his own castle at the age of 487 by a vampire hunter, the legends about them had already spread throughout Eastern Europe, people feared for these beings and considered them to be demons, although their origin is linked to a mutation that provided them with extraordinary abilities that include immortality and regeneration, but a great thirst for blood.

Some of Vlad's sons survived the attack on the castle, and passed the hereditary mutation on. For a few generations the mutation underwent changes and adaptations that gave rise to retractable fangs, the canines became large and sharp and could be hidden and revealed when it was time to suck blood, their vision quickly adapted to the dark, in addition to the mutation becoming the senses of mutants much more developed and powerful, such as sight, hearing and smell. But another side effect emerged which is the weakness to items with apotropaic qualities, capable of causing discomfort and allergy in these mutants.

### Mutation's origin

The Vlad's family have possessed a unique genetic makeup and bloodline that made them more susceptible to genetic mutations. Over generations, natural selection could have favored individuals within the family who exhibited vampiric traits, allowing the mutation to persist and become more pronounced. Later, a particular virus native to that environment played a role in the emergence of the transylvanian mutation. This infectious agent have interacted with the genetic material, leading to alterations that resulted in the vampiric traits observed in later generations.

## Pineal gland mutation and powers

The pineal gland is a structure about the size of a grain of cooked rice, weighing approximately 0.5 grams, and which is located in the most central portion of the head and is known to be related to chronobiology, ie, with the regulation of the biological cycles of humans. The pineal gland represents the union of body and soul, making the region the center of the soul in the physical body and receptor or sensory structure, being able to perceive electromagnetic fields.

Vlad's mutation caused strong changes in this body structure, which made it much more powerful and provided so-called "vampires" with practically supernatural abilities such as **super strength**, **super speed**, **transmutation**, **mind control (hypnosis)** and **electromagnetic interference**.

Due to the long lineage of this mutation, several changes in the biology of the carriers took place, many of them allowing the mutants to manifest superhuman powers.

### Super speed

Vampires possess highly developed musculature, allowing them to generate significant power and force with each stride. This, combined with exceptional coordination and agility, could enable them to move at incredible speeds. They have an exceptionally efficient energy system, allowing them to convert stored energy into rapid bursts of movement. Their bodies could utilize energy sources more effectively than humans, providing the necessary fuel for quick and sustained running. They also have heightened reflexes and reaction times, allowing them to process sensory information more rapidly and adjust their movements accordingly. This enhanced awareness could enable them to dodge obstacles and maintain balance while running at high speeds.

### Mind control

The vampires possess advanced neurological abilities that allow them to influence or manipulate the thoughts and perceptions of others. This involve the ability to emit certain frequencies or patterns of brain waves that can override or bypass the normal cognitive processes of their targets. They also have the capacity to induce a hypnotic state in their victims, making them more susceptible to suggestions and commands. This could involve using specific vocal tones, gestures, or even the release of certain pheromones that influence brain activity and alter the target's mental state. This power also allow them to show other abilities such as induce people to sleep, cast hallucinations and alter people's emotions.

### Telekinesis

Some vampires may show a certain level of telekinesis, that is not strong comparing to witches and warlocks, but some vampires have at least a ability to move some objects without touching. The Transylvanian mutation could have led to subtle alterations in the structure and function of the brain, particularly in regions associated with motor control and cognitive abilities. These changes could result in heightened neural connectivity and synaptic efficiency, allowing for increased mental control over physical objects. The mutation have also affected the energy systems within the vampire's body, enabling them to tap into and manipulate subtle forms of energy. This energy manipulation could be directed towards objects, allowing vampires to exert a force on them through focused mental effort.

### Odorless

The vampires possess specialized biological mechanisms that keep their bodies clean and free of debris. Their skin have properties that repel dirt and prevent it from adhering, making regular bathing unnecessary.

### Transmutation/Teleport

Vampires possess a unique ability to manipulate and harness the principles of quantum entanglement, which is a phenomenon in quantum physics where particles become linked regardless of the distance between them. By tapping into this phenomenon, vampires can establish a connection between their current location and their desired destination.

## Weaknesses

Garlic is a famous and common example as a weakness of vampires, also wild rose and hawthorn scents have the power to hurt vampires, legends say that crucifixes and holy water hurt vampires but it doesn't work, the mutation has nothing to do with it with religious items.

### Garlic

Vampires have an hypersensitivity to certain compounds present in garlic. These compounds, such as allicin, could trigger an immune response in vampires, leading to symptoms of weakness, discomfort, or even physical harm. Garlic also contains volatile compounds that have strong odors, such as sulfur-based compounds. Vampires possess an acute sense of smell, making them highly sensitive to these odorous compounds. The strong scent of garlic could overwhelm their senses, causing temporary weakness, dizziness, or even a repulsive effect.

However, some vampires may develop a response to this weakness. Advanced vampires possess superior physiological capabilities compared to newcomers. Their bodies have developed more efficient mechanisms for metabolizing or detoxifying garlic compounds, rendering them immune to its effects.

### Sunlight

Melanin, the pigment responsible for skin coloration, provides some protection against UV radiation. Vampires, being creatures of the night, possess a reduced amount and altered form of melanin, making them more susceptible to the damaging effects of sunlight. This could result in severe sunburns or even death. In advanced vampires, their skin cells have adapted to better withstand or repair, making them immune to sunlight and are not damaged.

## History

During ancient Europe, there was a frenzy of vampire sightings and a mass hysteria of people in fear of these creatures, believing they were the undead who had come back to suck the blood and vital energy of Christians. The legend and fear grew so much that it quickly spread to western Europe as well, where stakes and burials were frequently digging to identify and kill potential undead and, like witches, many people were accused of being these creatures and dead for it, most were ordinary people who might have some kind of illness or albinism.

Vampires were hunted and many were killed by surprise, as they were so much stronger and more agile than an ordinary human being, the most efficient way to kill them was to take them by surprise. People started to leave garlic wreaths on their doors and rooms to protect themselves from vampires, there were also locals digging up bodies and, in some cases, driving them with stakes.

Vampire hunting was very common at that time, a hunter was usually hired by the church to permanently destroy them, hunters developed special weapons tactics, surprises or stealth to defeat vampires who were much stronger than they were. One of the most famous hunters was Jason Jordan, when the Jordan family started hunting vampires, the family is dedicated to killing such creatures. And with Jason it's no different that he went the way of becoming a hunter and ridding the city of bloodsucking creatures, he always walked with garlic, stakes and crucifixes, Jason was killed by a trio of vampires as he went out at night to hunt , he appeared in the morning dead on a trail with all the blood drained, the vampires killed him on purpose, as it is not common to suck the blood to the point of leading to death.

## Vampiric conversion

Vampires have the ability to turn someone into one of them through their own blood that contains the mutation, the vampire will bite the person and then offer their own blood for the person to drink, the mutation will enter the person's organism and will alter the entire in their biology, the transition process takes a few days to complete, so then the person has aging stopped by the time they are transformed, staying in that appearance for good.

## Types of vampires

Vampires can be born vampires or transformed by ingesting the mutation from Transylvania, there are many vampire families that are the **Pure Vampires**, who are the direct descendants of Vlad's family and have preserved the bloodline, they are more common in Eastern Europe, however the mutation itself has passed on to various groups of people who do not have a link to Vlad, through conversions performed by those infected with the Vlad mutation and thus passed on to other people. Anyway, even if a person was born human and was later transformed into a vampire, generating a child will result in a vampire if both parents are vampires or at least one of them would already have the possibility of being born a vampire, because the mutation is passed on to the fetus.

In other continents there are legends about creatures with vampire characteristics with similarities to vampires, for example in Africa where it is believed in a being with iron teeth that lives in trees, in Mozambique there is a myth about bloodsucking dragons, which attacked the population during the night. There are many other legends around the world, in Asia, in the Americas, but they are legends and these beings have nothing to do with the mutation generated in the lands of Transylvania.

## Forgotten Hollow

Forgotten Hollow is originally a vampire community located in San Myshuno, California, is one of the oldest locations in the city, founded by Vladislaus Straud, who came from the lands of Transylvania and built his own mansion and founded the community that would house the vampires who arrived in the Americas. Straud Manor was built using the lands of Transylvania, the ground is mystical and carries all the vampiric energy.

Vladislaus created a clan of vampires that had him as leader in addition to the members, Natasha Lefraux, Lilith and Caleb Vatore, Kayla Fox who was not a vampire but was an ally and servant along with boyfriend Mark Smith, besides these main members there were another eight vampires who often joined them. During the first decades of the founding of Forgotten Hollow a war broke out between the vampire clans that inhabited there, they were two families that fought each other for control of the territory, the Vandrac and Straud family.

During the territorial war, the Vatore brothers switched sides, thus deciding to defend the sovereignty of the Vandrac, Vladislaus declared enmity to the Vatore and considered Lilith an ungrateful one, as it was Vladislaus who passed the mutation on to her, turning her into a vampire, but the Vatore they decided to abandon Vladislaus because he was extremely tyrant and bloodthirsty. After the departure of the Vatore from the clan, there was another internal conflict within the clan of Vladislaus, Natasha hated Kayla and treated her very badly for being a servant, during an argument Kayla beat her with a stick, but Natasha was more agile and held in with her vampire strength, she exacted revenge on Kayla by murdering Mark with a stab to the chest in her sleep. Vladislaus was going through a very turbulent time for being at war and at the same time having strong tensions inside his mansion, he was losing members due to betrayals, disagreements and deaths.

Kayla Fox was murdered by Natasha Lefraux after repeated attempts to kill her in revenge for her boyfriend's death, Kayla was strangled to death by Natasha who kept her and Mark's bodies in coffins in the basement of the mansion, which would remain there for eons. Natasha was later killed by an attack by vampire allies of the Vandrac family, she was attacked by a crossbow and in addition to her the remaining eight vampires were also killed during the attack on Straud Manor, with no more allies, Vladislaus lost the war and the throne as King of the Vampires was passed to Alexei Vandrac. A few months later, the Vandracs were killed in a fire at their home caused by none other than the defeated Vladislaus Straud, thus reassuming the role of King of the Vampires (later passed on to Lilith during the apocalypse when Vladislaus was murdered by the ressurected Natasha Lefraux).

## Vampiric Society

The Vampiric Society is an international and secret community of vampires, this community unites vampires from all over the world and is responsible for establishing order and the protection of Transylvania mutation carriers, as well as the secret of existence, although many believe in vampires due to popular culture and legends, a Vampire Society realizes that the best thing for vampires is disinformation regarding their actual existence.

The headquarters of the community is found in Romania in the Transylvania region where there is a world vampire king who occasionally comes into contact with other vampire kings and queens from other territories around the world.

### The issues of the possibility of overpopulation

As vampires are beings that do not die from natural causes, such as aging, they are also immune to disease, considering that they reproduce, there could be a risk of a large population of vampires that do not die and instead of being replaced by new ones generations, more vampires are just added. With this, the vampire society, to preserve the human species, even for being the main source of energy for vampires, encouraged vampires who want to have children to have a human partner, so the individual can have a descendant who may or may not inherit the mutation, so the vampire can pass on his lineage without contributing to the risk of vampire overpopulation. However, in order to keep the bloodline of vampires pure, to preserve mutation, vampire society also selects various vampire families to breed with each other, in order for mutation to continue onwards.

## Trivia

* Vampires who do not want to drink human or animal blood can feed on the plasma fruit, which was created by vampires, the fruit contains a gummy liquid that mimics human blood, although it tastes different.

* There is a "cure" for vampirism, it is a combination of various substances and materials including garlic, it blocks the functioning of the mutation which, although it is still inside the person, the function of it is blocked. The cure preparation is known only to small groups of people, few people know how to create it, Lilith Vatore used this mixture to turn Natasha Lefraux into a human again as punishment for the murder of Vladislaus Straud during the first apocalypse.

* More powerful vampires who develop their own powers are able to bypass the sensitivity to the sun and substances like garlic, thus being able to get out the daylight normally. Vampires don't have all the powers of mutation at once, they need to develop and train them (like Spellcasters developing their powers and spells), by sucking blood or the plasma fruit, they gain the vampiric energy that is responsible for "unlocking" their powers.

* Vampires are immune to possession, the mutation in the pineal gland blocks the access of other spirits or demons to the body, however Lilith Vatore could be possessed by the extraterrestrial Yut Zalger because he projected his own consciousness into her brain, it was not a spirit itself. , so the mutation did not recognize him as an invader.

**List of vampires HERE**