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Awakening
The physical and mental changes involved when one's vampirism begins to manifest itself, if one is a latent vampire.
Beast
The primal, animalistic, bestial nature of a frustrated or desperate vampire. It's destructive and cold, and if you don't control it, then you will be under its control.
Black Swan
A non-Vampyre lover or friend who does not feel the draw to become sanguine, but who is nevertheless favourably inclined towards Vampyres. They may or may not frequent vampyre nightclubs and usually understand the vampyre-fetish lifestyle.
Blood Drinker
Anyone who drinks blood, regardless of motivation.
Blood Fetishist
Someone who is erotically attracted to the sight, taste or smell of blood; they generally have no physical need to consume it, and will usually be happy with small amounts.
Blood Junkie
A derogatory term for someone who experiences the physical need to consume blood, a Sanguinarian
Bloodletting
The act of cutting the physical flesh to extract blood. This is commonly used for blood play, fetishism and feeding.
Bloodplay
Similar to bloodletting, bloodplay is the act of using blood in sexual or fetish situations. Bloodplay can also refer to the integration blood and bloodletting in ritual.
Chi
Chi is the Chinese term for life energy. It is also often referred to as pranic energy or life force. Chi is the bio-electrical energy which runs our bodies on a subtle level. Energy vampires and many psi-vamps believe that they can manipulate chi and feed upon it to sate their hungers. To a certain extent, blood vampires also feed upon chi, for a great deal of this subtle energy is believed to be concentrated into the blood.
Clinical vampirism
A psychological condition, also referred to as Renfield's Syndrome, in which the afflicted person experiences a psychological urge to drink blood. This urge is often satisfied with their own blood, and sufferers of Renfield's Syndrome typically bear slashes from razors and knives up and down their arms from where they have drawn blood from themselves. This condition is similar to a new pathology, known as SMS, or Self-Mutilation Syndrome, which is becoming alarmingly common in American youths.
Coming Out (of the coffin)
Being open or frank with people about being a vampire, drinking blood etc. Mirror term for Coming Out (of the closet) for homosexuals.
Coven
Covens are groups of individuals and organizations who embellish the vampyre/vampire lifestyle; who band together under a specific theme, set of ideals, traditions, common Sigel, havens, membership requirements, hierarchy and rites.
Donor
Someone who gives/shares their blood without obligation.
Elder
A prominent member of the Vampyre community who is honoured and respected for their experience, accomplishments and devotion, a teacher. Elders are often those individuals who have helped establish a community.
Embrace
The act of turning one into a vampire by the giving of one's blood to another (fictitious term).
Energy signature
Term used to indicate the unique energy-pattern, feeling, or vibes that each individual has. Vampyres are believed to have a particular energy signature that can be recognized by those familiar with it. In this way, others skilled in magick and psychic practices may identify us for what we are.
Energy Vampire
An individual who has a need to feed upon the life force of others. Most energy vampyres feed upon chi or psychic energy and avoid drinking blood.
Feeding
The act of consuming pranic energy (blood) or psychic energy (emotional and elemental energy)
Haematodipsia
A strong form of hematophilia.
Haematomania
A strong psychological craving for blood.
Hematophilia
An erotic attraction to the taste, sight (or smell) of blood.
Human
Term used for the purposes of distinguishing those who are not vampire. (this term is misleading because it implies that vampires are not human.)
The Hunger
The desire to feed, also identified as the Thirst. The Hunger is both a psychological and physical sensation. Physically, it manifests as an intense hunger or thirst - but not for physical food or drink.
Hunter
Someone that hunts, stalks, threatens, or does harm (whether it be physical, psychical, psychological, or emotional) to someone because s/he is a vampire, or because the hunter believes them to be so. Blade applies to seriously unbalanced individuals who really are on some sort of holy hate crusade and intend to follow through with violence or action.
Immortal
Term commonly used to refer to or describe vampires as incapable of death or dying, it is used much more loosely in reference to vampires, implying that they are not subject to aging, are impervious to disease and injury.
Latent vampire
Someone who is already naturally a vampire, but whose vampiric tendencies have not yet manifested.
Leech
An incredibly rude, derogatory and disrespectful term to call someone who is a vampire.
Mentor
The one who made you a vampire or awakened you and/or taught/guided you.
Mortal
Term used for the purposes of distinguishing those who are not vampire. (This term is, at best, misleading because it implies that vampires are "immortal".)
Mundane
Term used to distinguish those who are not vampires.
The Nephilim
A rather widespread belief within the vampiric community which asserts that vampyres are the inheritors of the Nephilim. The Nephilim are demi-human beings who were sired by angels, as told in Enoch I, a book that was dropped from the Bible in the early stages of its canonization.
of the Blood
A term sometimes used to refer to someone as being a vampire.
Porphyria
An acute medical condition which has been postulated by some scholars to have inspired the vampire myths of the past. Sufferers of porphyria have pale, flaky skin and are very sensitive to sunlight. They are also severely anaemic, and some sufferers of porphyria have been know to drink blood in an attempt to relieve the cravings brought about by anaemia.
Poser
Someone pretending or claiming to be a vampire who is not, with the intent of deceiving others, by making false claims as to their powers, abilities, lifespan, etc.
Pranic energy
Refers to blood and sexual energy.
Primus
A vampyre, almost always an elder, who founded or is the leader of a large family or coven of vampyres.
Psychic energy
Refers to emotional and elemental (energy of the earth), also the life-force that surrounds and is contained in living things.
Psychic Attack
A term used for an attack by an psi-vampire. Any uninvited draining of one's vital energy. One is said to have experienced a Psi-vamp attack when a psi-vampire has targeted and successfully fed from you, without your consent. Another view is that psychic vampire attacks ONLY take the form of such draining by the use of the psyche.
Psychic vampire
Someone who feeds from psychic energy, drains life-energy rather than blood from others. Technically speaking in some views, psychic vampire is a vampire who is psychic while a psi-vampire is a vampire who feeds on energy, preferably emotional energy.
Real Vampire
Someone who has a condition which includes but is not limited to a physical thirst and need for blood (which is non-erotic in nature; and in more significant quantity than is generally required or desired by other blood-drinkers), or psychic energy (real need exists for energy draining of others emotional energy and that of the earth.)
Real Vampire/Real Vamp
A sanguine, psychic, or energy vampyre. A real vampyre has a particular condition which includes but is not limited to the following characteristics: a real need for blood or life energy; heightened sensitivities; light sensitivity; a largely nocturnal sleep cycle. The heightened sensitivities are believed by many to include a number of psychic abilities, such as empathy, astral projection, clairvoyance, and energy manipulation. The sensitivity to light and the nocturnal body cycle are not so limiting that a real vampyre cannot be up and out during the day, it is simply an effort for them to do so.
Renegade/Rogue
a) A vampire/blood-drinker's former source who parts company on hostile terms and causes trouble;
b) A vampire who can't handle things and becomes violent and/or irresponsible, posing a danger/threat to both theirself and others.
Renfield's Syndrome
is a psychological condition in which the sufferer has an affinity for drinking blood. Sufferers of Renfield's Syndrome typically bear slashes on their hands and arms where they have withdrawn quantities of their own blood to drink.
RPGer/Role-Player
One who engages in role-playing games like VtM and others. Sometimes RPGers are also lifestylers, others distinguish between their 'human' life and their role and have nothing to do with Vampires.
Sanguinarian
Someone who has a physical thirst, need, craving for blood (which is non-erotic in nature) in more significant quantity than is generally required or desired by other blood-drinkers).
Sanguine
A term which indicates a blood-drinking vampyre. Energy vampyres or psi-vamps, if they supplement their feeding with the active drinking of blood, are considered to be sanguines.
Seeker
Someone who is seeking after vampires, or knowledge of vampires, usually desiring to become one him/herself.
Sexual Vampirism:
A relatively rare variety of vampirism that feeds primarily from sexual energy.
Sire
A very literary term often used by Ann Rice fans and few RPGers. Someone who is responsible for turning someone into a vampire.
Slayer
A person that makes public and obnoxious claims of killing people who are (or who the slayer thinks are) vampires.
SMS
A psychological condition which has apparently begun to grow among American youth. Sufferers of SMS, often known as cutters, feel the need to cut into their flesh and watch themselves bleed. Some sufferers of SMS also drink the blood drawn out this way, although this is not standard for the disease.
Source
Someone from whom a vampire will get blood, commonly used when the blood is not a donation.
Thirst
The craving, need, desire, urge to drink blood, experienced as an intense thirst-sensation or withdrawal.
Turned
Refers to the "making" of a vampire (fictitious term).
Vampire
A much-disputed term with many meanings, depending upon who you're talking to. It can include psychic vampires, energy vampires, emotional vampires, sanguines, blood-fetishists, and the kind of vampire you find in fiction or on the Silver Screen. Here, it is used to encompass all of the above-listed groups into a general category, i.e. may refer to both real and non real vampires.
Vampire bait
A poser or wannabe who is just screaming for a vampire to come after them.
Vamping out
Experiencing an acute flare-up of the thirst, involves a change in the person's manner, breathing, pulse rate, thought patterns, etc.
Vampiric Community
The community of people who identify with or have been identified with the label "vampire".
Vampyre vs. Vampire
"Vampyre" is the older spelling of the word "vampire" used in the 17th & 18th centuries, thus "Vampyre" is used to refer to people who are really into the scene or lifestyle. The more modern "vampire" is most often used to refer to Hollywood, myth and fiction.
Vampyrecrafte
In general, this is the magick practiced by vampyres. Many vampyres are pagan and follow the old ways, and the ways of magick are an integral part of their beliefs. Most vampyres practice numerous techniques associated with energy manipulation. Many also practice some form of magick, most often ritual magick or chaos magick.
Vampyre lifestyler
Someone who incorporates fictional vampire imagery and trappings into his/her personal life, often cultivating a "Vampyric" physical appearance and forming alternative extended families and social structures modelled on the "covens" or "clans" of vampire fiction and role-playing games, and utilizing that terminology.
Wannabe
Derogatory term for someone who wants to become a vampire, usually with unrealistic expectations of what it would be like, and usually without consideration of such practical matters as how one would find sources.
White Swan
Someone who cannot tolerate the Vampyre lifestyle and proves antagonistic to the Scene. In general, White Swans are still a part of the Gothic or fetish scene, which often brings them into contact with the vampyre community despite their disgust of vampirism.
Wannabe
Derogatory term for someone who wants to become a vampire, usually with unrealistic expectations of what it would be like, and usually without consideration of such practical matters as how one would find sources.