[Shadowhunter] Encyclopedia

✺ Vampires

Description:
➳ Vampirs are pale, sallow and usually very thin
➳ They are immortal, just like warlocks
➳ Their heart doesn't beat and they don't necessarily have to breathe, so they also can't drown etc
➳ The dirt of the grave where a vampire was burried holds special properties for that vampire

Abilities
➳ superhuman strength
➳ superhuman speed
➳ quick healing
➳ enhenced senses
➳ Encanto (ability to mesmerize and essentially control others)
➳ shape-shifting (into bats and rats etc)
➳ temperature insensitivity
➳ immortality

Weaknesses:
➳ extreme vulnerability to fire
➳ holy items (like holy water and religious symbols)
➳ sunlight
➳ wooden sticks

Creation:
1. Get bitten by a vampire
2. Consume either vampire blood or saliva
3. Die a mortal death
4. Get buried by someone
5. Dig your way out of the grave
6. Drink blood within 24h for the first time in order to survive
(Let me know if it works...... Not that I'm intending to try it out...... I'd neeeever do that)
➳ A fledgling and their sire have a very strong connection (a fledgling can even feel their sire dying and experience the same pain)
➳ A fledgling needs the help of a sire to stay alive in the first weeks

Diet:
➳ Vampire need to drink some kind of blood in order to 'stay alive' (doesn't matter if it's human, animal or vampire blood)
➳ They can't eat normal food because they can't digest it. If they do eat, they have to spew it out some time later
➳ Blood Lust makes their fangs extend
➳ The salvia of a vampire acts as a relaxant and a euphoric that dulls pain
➳ Vampires can drink normal human drinks
➳ If a vampire doesn't feed for a while their veins become darker and their skin paler. The hunger drives them into wild beasts at some point
➳ Vampires can't get drunk by consuming alcohol, but they can get drunk by drinking blood of someone who is drunk

Culture:
➳ Vampires are allowed to feed from humans, as long as they don't kill them
➳ Vampires prefer to live in clans, rather than on their own
➳ If a vampire kills the leader of a clan, they become the leader
➳ Vampires usually have an immensense dislike against werewolves

History:
➳ The first vampires were created in 1444 A.D.
➳ The first vampire was called Vlad III and he was created by the greater demon Hecate
➳ Vampirism first spread in Transylvania
➳ Nephilim fought vampires because they killed Mundanes, until the Accords were set up

Known Vampires:
➳ Raphael Santiago
➳ Camille Belcourt
➳ Simon Lewis
➳ Lily Chen

Article by MountainChild01