The self of the heavens has billions of clones

Chapter 176

Physical features
The vampire in traditional Eastern European folklore is very different from the image in modern pop culture.Characteristics include dark or purple skin color (often attributed to blood).

Corpses swollen.

The left eye is often open.

Hair and nails will continue to grow.

In fact, the theory that hair and nails continue to grow after death is mainly because the skin shrinks after death, causing the hair and nails originally hidden in the body to be exposed, giving the illusion of continued growth.

These traits are often observed on corpses thought to be vampires.These vampires often rise from the grave to attack cattle, sheep, or humans in villages and suck their blood dry.

Typical images and characteristics of vampires

Pale skin, red eyes when angry.

Afraid of being exposed to the sun, it will burn up and turn into ashes in the sun. (Derived from the ancient burning of suspected vampire corpses)

With a strong recovery ability, it is difficult for ordinary weapons including firearms to kill vampires.

Fear of crosses and garlic.This point appears less and less in modern works, and often appears in some joking works.

There are no shadows, and no reflections in mirrors. (probably because of the legend that vampires have no souls)
Has supernatural abilities such as mind control and more.

Normal humans can be transformed into vampires through a ritual known as First Embrace (note: the word comes from the White Wolf game).

Often hostile to werewolves, as both are nocturnal.

Fear of silver objects.

Since Dracula is an earl, the typical appearance of a European vampire is usually wearing a noble dress and a high-necked cloak that is black on the outside and blood red on the inside.Vampires in many works have the ability to turn into bats.But in early legends, vampires did not have this ability until the novel "Dracula" gave this ability to vampires.In fact, vampire bats get their name the other way around, after vampires.The popularity of vampires also affected the Eastern lands.In Japan, the theme of vampires is exactly in line with Japanese tastes. As they continue to rack their brains for creation, vampires have derived a unique form of creation in many related works. The repackaging and definition of vampires in ACGN's works has allowed vampires to form a relatively complete and different system, and even the concept of "true ancestors" has emerged.Vampire culture also affected China.The Chinese zombies, which have been active in Hong Kong films since the 1980s, imitate the main highlights of vampires. They also bite their necks to suck blood, the same victims will be transformed, and they are also afraid of the sun.The foreign name of the film also directly quotes Vampire, the English name of vampires.It is precisely because of these characteristics that foreigners regard zombies as another type of vampire, while Hong Kong people sometimes call breathing vampires "vampire zombies" in order to distinguish the two.There are vampire hunters in folklore and books, movies and video games, who specialize in finding and destroying vampires, are good at free combat and know how to use a variety of weapons, items and weapons are often related to religious beliefs.The most famous is Abraham Van Helsing (Abraham Van Helsing), who was often count Dracula's rival, and his descendants appear in various works.

In Eastern European folklore, vampires can have offspring with humans, and these offspring are called half-vampires (Dhampir).Alucard in the game "Castlevania" series is a half-vampire.There are some half-vampires who volunteer to become vampire hunters.

In Slovenia and Croatia, there are vampire hunters who specialize in exterminating vampires, called Krsnik or Kresnik. They are not human beings themselves, but the opposite of evil vampires. They can often turn into various white animals to fight against them. Krsnik was born from the white amnion, and they will have a fateful duel with Kudlak, the vampire born from the red amnion.

Cain, the eldest son of Adam and Eve, was cursed by God for the crime of fratricide and became an immortal who was forced to suck blood. He met Lilith who had abandoned the Garden of Eden Finally, under the guidance of Lilith, she learned how to extract powerful power from blood.The Blood Race designated the day when the ancestor Cain received the revelation as the first year of Blood Qi.Cain is the source of vampires, the beginning of this bloodline.Driven by loneliness, Cain created the second generation of vampires by using the internal organs of animals and his own blood. The second generation is believed to have 5 people in total.Later, they searched for the descendants of Adam and Eve together, but they were regarded as monsters and were driven away by these "brothers".In grief and indignation, the second generation of vampires began to try to build a "Dark Garden of Eden".They gave birth to 13 offspring of their own, which is the most powerful third generation of vampires.After God launched Noah's great flood, the survivors of the third generation of vampires united to kill their parents. Among them, it was confirmed that Enoch, Zillah and Elard were killed. Irad) and the remaining two remained incognito, and their whereabouts have been unknown since then.

This story and the subsequent doomsday prophecy about the betrayal of the third generation of vampires are all taboo history within the vampire clan. In addition to the extremely remote history, there are very few descriptions about the second generation of vampires.The descendants of the third generation and the second generation of vampires, the most powerful generation of vampires, they claim to have the ability to stand side by side with gods, so they become the main leaders of the next few generations of vampires (later generations call the third generation "blood vampires"). accommodation").The third generation established independent families, which later became the "Thirteen Clans", and each third-generation vampire was the ancestor of their respective families.Due to the distant history, the modern descendants can only recognize the existence of these ancients in legends.The third generation has the highest status within the existing vampires, is the core of vampires and is feared by all vampires.The thirteenth blood lord fought fiercely, massacring creatures in order to improve the strength of himself and his family.They discovered that the blood of the vampire can make mortals live forever and make the vampire sanctified, which opened the prelude to the inheritance of the evil blood of vampires.These thirteen blood hosts eventually turned against each other, fighting endlessly for years, and wantonly spreading their own blood (the blood clan called this war the Millennium Jihad/Jehad).The victims of war are mostly mortals.Although the flood triggered by God did not take blood to die, it caused serious injuries and had to go to sleep.In order to continue the jihad, each of the thirteen blood clans has a clan (fourth to sixth generation), and each clan has inherited the characteristics of the creator, so they are different.Unexpectedly, the clans indulged in comfort and made alliances with each other, leaving their ancestors behind.The thirteen blood constellations who were seriously injured and still unhealed were furious, and the most powerful one dropped the doomsday prophecy: "When we wake up, the earth will burn with our anger, and the sky will fall into darkness forever, you rebels! Will suffer eternal blood and fire."

(End of this chapter)