Vampire

**Bloodlines**

* 1, 2, 3

**Movies**

* Teen Wolf: The Movie

> at first... at first, it was gross, the metallic taste, it felt wrong. But then, it was like an explotion in my entire body-- this electric feeling was coursing through me. I'd never felt that amazing before. And all I could think, was I need more.
>
> **Rosalie** to **Scott**, in *Apotheosis*

**Vampires** are magically or scientifically reanimated human corpses which are inhabited by the spirits of the deceased person and who closely resemble the living human they were before their transformation. Vampires feed and survive on the blood of the living, typically on that of humans, and they can also transform other humans into more of their kind by sharing their own blood with them.

## Creation

> from everything I've read about them, the legend is a Witch casted a spell upon her ex lover after he cheated on her, to punish him for his crimes. it's said he walks the earth killing every man who has wronged a woman.
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> **Rosalie** to **Stiles and Harper**, in *Parasomnia*

A human who has consumed vampire blood in some way (whether by drinking it, having it poured into their open wound, or by being injected with it) and has subsequently died with the blood in their system will be magically revived as an undead vampire, just like the vampire who sired them. The exact nature of the human's death is irrelevant to this process; the only condition that must be met is that the body has to be more-or-less intact and able to function once they reawaken in transition, though the upper limits of physical damage upon a human body by which vampirism can recover has yet to be defined.

### Vampire in Transition

In order to complete the transition into a vampire, the person must then consume a significant amount of human blood, at least a sip's worth, within the next twenty-four hours, or else they will die. Vampires can only feed on human blood in order to complete their transformation—animal blood or vampire blood is not sufficient to finish the transformation from human to vampire. However, in this case, "human blood" can include the blood of a human witch, as was proven by William St. Claire, who completed their transformations by drinking the blood of a random witch. Additionally, the blood need not be from a live human; Eli Hale completed his transitions by feeding on donor bags of human blood and Penélope de Martell completed her transition by drinking from the a newly-deceased human.

A vampire in transition is neither truly living nor truly dead until they make their choice to either complete their transition or to abstain from feeding and ultimately die. This puts the semi-vampire in a strange liminal space between the two states that can affect them in different ways. Until a person in transition drinks human blood to complete their transformation, they will not be susceptible to the standard weaknesses of a vampire (i.e. they can still walk in sunlight and can enter homes without an invitation).

### Sirelines

Every regular vampire who has ever existed is descended from those of their kind known as the Original Vampires, not much is known about these Original Vampires, except that they were created using magic and after the Original Vampires awakened in transition, they fed on the blood of another human from their village and were officially transformed into the world's first true vampires, from which all other vampires were created. Their blood possesses mystical properties that are passed down to each and every one of the vampires they sire, along with every vampire sired by their progeny, connecting all vampires to one of the Original Vampires from whom they are descending by a bloodline. Due to this link, the death of an Original Vampire will result in this connection being severed, and every vampire in the deceased Original's bloodline will follow them in death within an hour.