#vampire history

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I love the history of vampires so much.

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Strange Encounters #3

This time Henry gets transported to the world of Kindred: The Embraced.

Meet Julian Luna

He is of the Venture clan of vampires and is the current Prince of San Francisco.

To set things up, Julian was told of Henry's arrival by a psychic while he was at one of his clubs. They were guided by spirits so they were very subtle and once the message was relayed the psychic didn't even know where they were and walked away with their life. Lucky them.

He was told that his visitor would appear on the bench outside of his home.

And so night after night, right after he awakens and prepares for the evening, he spends around 10 minutes looking out at the bench. It takes 3 and a half months for his special visitor to appear. In that time, he made arrangements to have free time to play host. Barring an emergency, he should not be interrupted.

On the night that Henry arrives, Julian was just about to finish his vigil at the window. He saw that Henry truly did appear out of nowhere. He got on the phone and implemented his vacation protocol.

He goes out to meet his new visitor. After opening the gate he invites his new visitor to come inside.

Henry is wary. He has to be, he isnt used to interacting with other vampires. But Julian gives off the air of nobility so he goes. They flash their vampness at each other without bearing their teeth, almost as a show of mutual respect and power.

Once they get into the house, Julian asks if his guest was hungry. Henry declined as he had just eaten before being transported.

Julian introduces himself by stating his name, his clan, and his title of Prince. Henry introduces him self in name only, because he doesn't have a clan. Julian accepts this as well as Henry's black eyes, because he knows that Henry is a visitor from some other place. This Henry must be important if he was heralded with enough time for Julian to make proper preparations.

Julian tells him this.

He asks about where Henry is from and how his world operates. Henry obliges.

Julian is honored to be in the presence of a vampire who is that old, but appalled at the solitary nature of Henry's kind. He could never imagine going through the world alone like that.

It was now Julian's turn to explain his world and he does, in great detail over the course of the days Henry is there.

He goes into all of the clan, their disposition, their strengths and their weaknesses. He even goes into The Masquerade and the seriousness of it. Which is why there were so many preparations made for Henry's arrival.

This fascinates Henry because he could never imagine vampire clans and structure. It inspires him with new story ideas.

Henry ate what was presented to him, which was gorgeous and delicious. He listened to Julian, and he draws as they converse.

They both got the tell tale sign that their time was almost over.

Before Henry was whisked away Julian told him that he had the Bearing of a Ventrue with the heart of a Toreador.

This makes Henry smile and ask if that was a compliment. Julian told him to take it as he wished. With that being said, Henry disappeared. Julian put the art Henry drew away in a safe for he treasures the gifts that they are and goes about his business.

Henry starts working on a new series of books that are very popular by the time he completes the 6th book of the series.

Alls well that ends well.

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"Late Victorian writers... as exemplified by Bram Stoker... began to imagine beings that defied the natural order of the Darwinian paradigm... The newly constructed notion of the 'mutant' crystallized a type of monstrosity that escaped existing modes of categorization... The opium addict, like the mutant, threatens the imperial center as a peripheral being unhinged from historical lineage and natural form. As Thomas Richards observes, 'overwhelmingly the mutation tends to be represented as the revenge of the colonial world on the colonizer'. Although not from a British colony, Dracula and his cohorts infiltrate Britain from a peripheral region on the margin between East and West. The vampire is like the Chinese addicts who began in the late 1800s to inhabit London's East End opium dens. Both are like new diseases arriving from peripheries that attempt to 'colonize the center'. Against such threats the imperial center summons all its powers of knowledge and mastery of science and technology to defeat the vampire and, in parallel fashion, ultimately to justify legally outlawing the addict."

Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth Century China, p. 16

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Slavic vampires?? In this economy??

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From Dust to Ashes - Vampire History

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If you have questions about specific parts of vampire lore, feel free to send asks. I love talking about worldbuilding.

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The first vampire was rumored to be truly immortal, that not even a holy ash stake to the heart could kill them, though no evidence of this vampire exists as of yet.

It is said that this ancient vampire, also known as Isut Jeoalt, created lesser vampires to serve him, giving his servants the power to create more of themselves. Vampires were not well known through most of history, living on the sidelines typically, picking off humans and hunting animals for their food.

We do know that vampires started working with human civilization around 3000 BC as vampires were hired by the early Pharoahs to hunt and kill the hippos that often disturbed their abilities to farm and travel. (See Esial's account)

Vampires and humans seem to have developed a beneficial relationship as societies grew and spread. There are records of Vampires being servants to the rulers of countries, acting as guards, assassins, spies, and healers in return for blood.

It wasn't until the Roman empire fell, sending the world into the dark ages that vampires became terrifying creatures of the night, "sent to destroy all of the humans." During this time, vampire fell on hard times and began to gather. This is when Covenistic traits began to appear in vampires as they could work together to find food, developing the ability to feed on each other and share blood to survive.

Because vampires began to gather together and develop the need for bonds with one another as they evolved, their fledglings no longer leaving the nest when they were old enough to do so, they were able to form something of a community. With the world in so much strife during the Dark Ages, the more powerful Vampire Sires began to rally the covens together to take the world for their own. Vampires quickly rose into power, with some families, such as the Blutfang and Atwood families, ruling over the lesser families. Most vampires continued in their roles of servitude, now serving under Vampire lords rather than humans ones.

Many humans became slaves during this time, and much knowledge was lost as the vampire lords destroyed as much of it as they could to make humans believe they had always been slaves to the vampires. They told humans stories about how they came into power and how humans were created to serve them by the mother of Isut Jeoalt.

When the black plague swept Europe, Vampires grew crueler towards humans as there were a great deal less of them in the area and they wanted to stay firmly in control. Eventually, humans rediscovered a trove of greek and roman texts and the renaissance began, with humans slowly coming to realize they were not beholden to the vampires and, alongside discovering art and philosophy, discovered ways to kill the vampires that tried to hold them captive.

Vampire Hunters became fairly common, and children were taught how to slay the fanged ones from a young age. The vampires fell swiftly, after that, and vampires who could only feed on humans were quickly killed out. The vampires that could stay hidden and under the radar, feeding on animal blood soon became the majority, though they were still often hunted.

Vampires slowly became a nonissue and the world kept spinning. Vampires hid themselves as best they could, though when the great wars started, they came out of the woodworks, claiming to want to help and prove themselves. This was their bid to join society again, and it worked as they fought with their chosen sides until after World War 2.

Vampire hunters were still hunting vampires, now killing those who had not managed to get a citizenship in their chosen country or had fallen into the urge to drink the blood of the humans around them. The practice is abolished now, with the police taking the task of capturing feral vampires and putting them through fair trials.

Vampires still have limited rights, though there are many ongoing campaigns in motion to get them everything they need. They have the right to life and liberty, with people being jailed for killing or critically injuring a vampire or keeping them trapped in any way, shape, or form, though they do not necessarily have the right to peruse happiness. Those vampires who can have children are allowed to, though the laws for whether vampires can create fledglings is still in the courts. There are some allowances for finding someone one death's door and bringing them back as a vampire, though that is a case by case basis until it can all be sorted out.

Surprisingly, there are a fair amount of humans who want the fledgling laws to pass, which would allow a vampire and a potential fledgling to put in papers to be approved to turn the potential fledgling. There are many chronically ill and terminally ill people who desperately want another chance at life, though the laws around terminally ill children may be very muddy as they are not old enough to consent to being turned.

Still, the outlook seems well enough and vampires have integrated well into society, taking on jobs no human could or are reasonably considered too dangerous for humans to take care of, such as long deep sea operations and getting bodies and trash out of remote places such as mount Everest, as well as taking up their old jobs as bodyguards and soldiers.

Most notably has been the rise in Vampire scientists who can test dangerous items, such as radioactive materials, often living together in radioactive covens while they do so. There is a popular reality tv show 'The Juggernaut' centered around one such coven which has done a surprising amount to soothe people's remaining fears about vampires in recent years.

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Bought this from work.

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Some LGBTQ+ & Horror History:

🩸Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890.

🩸The Oscar Wilde trials were in 1895.

🩸Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897.

🩸In the Interview with the Vampire tv series, Louis met Lestat in 1910. (1791 in the novel.)

Thus, it is absolutely reasonable that Louis didn't identify as homosexual or gay in 1910.

think about louis telling daniel about having sex with lestat for the first time in s1 ep1 and ending it with "at the time i did not consider myself a homosexual". that is the funniest fucking mental image because it essentially went like this;

louis: yeah so after i sucked his thumb i couldnt hold myself back from him anymore and we had gay sex. now daniel lemme tell you this was no ordinary gay sex, this was HEROIN gay sex. i had his dick in my ass like god damn it feels like im floating. it turned out we actually were, we had sex so good we were actually levitating in the middle of the room. it wasnt gay tho

daniel:

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Bite-Sized History: The Vampire Almanac's Delightful Deep Dive

Ah, The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History by J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D.! Where do I even begin to praise this truly monumental and fascinating work? Calling it merely a “book” feels like a disservice. It’s more akin to a meticulously curated museum exhibition. The work is a comprehensive and engaging journey through the sprawling landscape of vampire lore, history, and cultural impact. You…

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reading vampire books + birthday vlog 🎈

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Yes!!!

If anyones interested in learning about the first black vampire short story, published in 1819, heres a link to the wiki, its called The Black Vampyre, and its about a former slave turned vampire who seeks revenge on his slave master. Its actually a first in many categories!

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Lesbian Vampire Night

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"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

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I don't like anything that Stephanie Meyer stands for but she definitely doesn't even use this trope. Bella is only ever interested in one sensitive vampire. And both TVD and True Blood pre-date the Twilight series. In a way it's nice that the whole mess of the Twilight universe lives in a world of it's own because of Meyer's lack of research and respect for the genre.

It's so weird to realize the impact Anne Rice had on the gothic genre and vampire stories and then have the inspirations be super straight. I blame hetronormativity and SMeyer.