Apart from wounds (healed with blood), vampires are restored to their condition at the time of Embrace every time they rise up for the night. Once Embraced, vampires are locked into a form of stasis. Certain clans have more extreme physical changes, such as the Nosferatu or the Cappadocians.
As a result of these processes, the vampire is paler and generally thinner than they were before the Embrace. Physically, they are incapable of eating food, with most vomiting it up almost instantly (and even those that can keep it down for a while will still have to regurgitate the food later), they have no need for sex as the need to feed replaces all physical and emotional urges, although they can imitate the physical reactions for sex if needed and will even feel pleasure from it, though all such mortal pleasures pale in comparison to the ecstasy of the Kiss. Vampires change considerably after the Embrace. Vessels who are drained regularly can become addicted to the Kiss. The Feeding process is highly pleasurable (arguably the only pleasure) for vampires, and is also extremely pleasurable for victims. Vampires can hide the puncture marks of feeding by licking the wounds, making the process fairly subtle. Vampires do not have to completely drain a victim, although frenzying vampires are likely to do so. The process of taking blood is euphemistically called the Kiss or feeding.
While vampires can feed on other creatures, they do not enjoy the taste of animal blood and older vampires will acquire no sustenance from it (whilst the blood of the supernatural creatures are an entirely different matter). Finally, vampires can use blood to heal damage.īlood is generally replaced by sucking it out of humans. Blood is used to Embrace, as noted above, and also to create Ghouls.
In addition, vampires can use blood to enhance their physical attributes and use supernatural powers called Disciplines. Blood is also used to get up and move every night, vampires expend a certain amount of blood to rise. Vampires use blood (also called Vitae) for a variety of purposes blood replaces most bodily fluids, so vampires will cry blood and sweat blood under certain circumstances. The only exception being the stomach, which pulses with the blood that the vampire consumes. When a vampire is Embraced, their internal organs wither away, and almost all their body fluids are replaced by blood. The vampire who initiates the Embrace is the Sire the new vampire is the Sire's Childe. This causes the corpse to rise as a (very hungry) vampire, usually instantly (though those of the highest generations may appear to lie dead for some time before they awaken). Vampires are created through the Embrace during the Embrace, a vampire drains a candidate of all their blood and replaces it with a small amount (generally a single drop) of their own.
In modern nights various scientific minded members of the species have classified their kind as Homo Sapiens Sanguineus, Homo Sapientissimus or even Homo Vampiricus. Since the Inquisition the majority of the Cainites have lived under the Masquerade, an enforced campaign to hide the existence of their kind from humanity. They are creatures ruled by fear, most importantly the fear of exposure to the Kine, everyday humanity. They are forever subject to the Beast, their raging animal urges of hunger, fear and rage.Ĭainites generally live in cities, which are run feudally by Princes life in a city is one of constant political manipulation and paranoia, as the powers of the city vie for power, control and food. The Cainites (also called Kindred), are descendants of Caine (the Biblical Cain), cursed with a thirst for blood, vulnerability to sunlight and immortality.
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