Vampire Info

Rearing a Vampire
--Vampires can't reproduce with sex unless they want a half-vampire. A male half-vampire is called a dunpire and a female half-vampire is called a vampiel. Half-vampires live longer than humans, age slower, but will die of old age in eventuality.
--Vampires turn others by sucking them dry, and then getting their victim to drink blood from the vampire's wrist.
--Other causes for turning into a vampire after a normal human death include being the seventh son of the seventh son, improper burial or unrevenged murder (sometimes only causes a haunting ghost rather than vampire), a vampire eying your mother while she is pregnant, and having a two sleepwalking brothers.
--The vampire that turns someone has complete power to order around their fledgling vampire for at least 25 years.
--The time for a fledgling vampire to "grow up" or be strong enough to at least avoid their master (should they want to) is about 25 years.

Vampire Livelihood
--Vampires don't need to sleep in a coffin if they weren't ever pronounced dead and buried.
--All vampires suffer from some form of obsessive compulsive disorder because their brains get thrown for a loop due to the seconds that blood stopped flowing to their brain when they are turned. Obsessions may include counting, interior design, and untying knots.
--A vampire can't drink blood from someone who has a high blood-alcohol content at the moment or anyone having some blood issue unless they want to inherit the problem since the blood flowing in the veins of a vampire is the blood of whoever they fed on.
--Vampires have no sense of science. ((fear my psuedo-science... this isn't meant to be 100% plausible...in fact, don't even try to think about how plausible this is, because it isn't!))
--Vampires will bite anything if they're hungry... and they can't tell the difference between things on hot days... because they have human vision and then they have heat vision.
--Vampire don’t have to breathe to stay alive, but for the simple dynamics of talking as that’s how the vocal chords work, need air to talk.
--Vampires can last three days without any blood at the most. One month without human blood. Newbies need more blood at first to replace an entire blood system. The rest of the feeding for eternity is just upkeep.
--A vampire on a consistent diet needs about quart of blood a day.

Killing a Vampire
--Sunlight is bad... though the older the vampire, the more dead skin cells on the outside (which inexplicably doesn't shed) and the more likely they'll survive for more than a minute in the sun before spontaneously combusting, but it's not worth the bother.
--Stake through the chest is bad, but heck... how many things can you stab through the chest and have still survive?
--Priests can kill vampires, no matter the denomination as long as the priest is a good priest (a priest who secretly sins is completely useless). Same goes for everything associated with priests. Vampires can't enter temples and churches and would be lucky to poke a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple with a ten-foot stick.

Impeding a Vampire and Vampire Weaknesses
--If a vampire enters a building without permission, the owner of the building has power to order the vampire to do anything. However, most humans don't know about this and if they do know, a vampire has to scare them speechless or somehow render them unable to talk. (in this universe, little more than half of humans don't believe in vampires, so some people are silent in disbelief)
--A vampire whose permission to enter is revoked is sent flying out of the building.
--Vampires can't swim and will sink like a rock.
--Vampire can't cross or enter running water. If crossing water, at least a lead board should be between them and the water and they should have a jar of dirt. Vampires are doomed to take baths in a tub after filling it up with water and no pulling the drain until they exit.
--An average person with a religious symbol only has as much power as they have faith in respective god to save them, not usually involving in death but a faithful person can usually make a vampire decide to find easier dinner elsewhere.
--Garlic is also bad. Severe allergic reactions, but not usually death from exposure to one garlic. A truckload could be trouble...
--Even if an injury doesn’t kill a vampire like it would a human, things still hurt.
--Vampires will automatically trip on six-inch bars in thresholds.

Vampire Powers
--Mind reading, varies by experience, but a master vampire can usually read the mind of his fledgling.
--Hovering, sometimes is a bit more like hopping.
--Flight, a bit uncommon.
--Invisibility, takes time to learn
--Mind control, takes lots of training