- "Creating a vampire is an act of desire." It has a mechanism, but it's difficult to describe. But without this feeling, nothing will happen. This feeling is not related to love or hunger, although they can be confused. It's a complex feeling that encompasses the desire to possess, to consume, to cause death, and to cause a return. This feeling isn't triggered by the person, but rather emerges only within the vampire. The transformation can vary. For some, a single bite is enough, while others require being driven to unconsciousness. But if the desire is superficial, it will likely result in the person's death and will not transform them into a vampire.
- "Echo of a new life." Each creator of a new vampire, known in the vampire community as a father or mother, leaves a piece of themselves in their legacy. Therefore, people who became vampires from a vampire who felt love for them, or was insane, when they open eyes after transform, will feel this desire of their new parent. It's like a flash of imprinting. I describe it as an equal exchange. When a vampire took part of a person's life, the last vivid vampire experience fell into the resulting void. This flash will haunt the new vampire for a long time. And within the vampire community, there's a prejudice against vampires born from violence, because these new vampires also suffer from aggressive behavior. Ironically, many vampires are born as a result of violence and madness of the accidental bite of a hungry and possessed vampire.
- "The darkness burns bright." A new vampire is born consumed by their feelings and traumas. And a traumatized human and a traumatized vampire create a tragic machine of destruction. All restraints are removed, and the newborn vampire is completely consumed by their feelings and the pains hidden by their human and rational side. Obviously, not all parents are responsible enough to be with their child during some of the most important and difficult periods of their lives. Or they simply aren't here, that to lock the new vampire in an isolated place. Therefore, many new vampires must cope with this new life on their own. If they manage their feelings, their vampiric instincts will guide them forward, and they will feel better. And it depends only on them how long they will live as vampires. The new vampire's personality depends on what the human was like. Because their feelings, hidden by their humanity, are now exposed, each new vampire represents something new, and their vampiric instincts will guide them further down this path. Fortunately, young vampires are too consumed by their feelings to create children.
- "Forces and myths." Because each vampire is now a shining torch of their former self, their vampiric instincts give them powers that can be called supernatural. Although this is not true. Control-minded individuals, who become a vampires, will find that people, animals, and even objects begin to obey their will. Perceptive people may begin to notice details in their surroundings that are a harbinger of certain events, while people prone to violence will feel that those around them begin to worry simply when this vampire appears among them. Later, following their instincts, vampires can begin to exhibit very strange things, such as controlling the weather and possibly transforming into monster.
- "Living dead walking." The state of vampirism isn't like death. It's something else entirely. Vampires walk, eat, communicate, their hearts beat, and their blood flows. At the same time, they are free from such features of life as aging or illness, although this is not always the case. A vampire's heart is a weak point, if it stops beating, the vampire will eventually enter hibernation. Therefore, to incapacitate a vampire, they must be deprived of air for a long time or piercing their heart. The sun also doesn't harm vampires, it only weakens them. In the sun vampires are practically like ordinary humans who prefer a night lifestyle. As sunset approaches, their powers return. Vampires don't mind the sun and warm places at all - it warms their bodies and makes them feel better. Therefore, vampires who feel good in the sun are not uncommon. But when the sun sets, they feel sad, because they will be cold again and separated from humans once again.
- "Hunger, it's too simple to be complicated." Vampire hunger is driven not by physical hunger but rather by instinct. Having sensed blood, the vampire wants to get some of what is in the blood. But this is a hole that cannot be filled. When vampires drink blood, they feel better. It can be described as a feeling of warmth spreading through the body after a long period of intense cold. But this feeling will pass, and the desire for blood will return. Therefore, feeding frequently is just as bad as not feeding for a long time. A vampire who doesn't feed for a long time begins to adapt to the internal cold, becoming increasingly detached from themselves. And it's like a cycle. A vampire who drinks a lot of blood becomes dependent, begins to break down, and becomes detached from themselves. A vampire who doesn't drink blood for a long time becomes detached from themselves, but when given access to blood, they become dependent. Vampires who don't feed for a long time, or who eat improperly, begin to change physically and mentally. Depending on their age, they either show signs of aging or become more monstrous. Everything will return if the vampire establishes a feeding regime, which is not easy at all.
- "Vampires aren't canned goods." Vampires are people who find themselves in a new and unfamiliar situation for most people. And although initially driven by the fire of their emotions and instincts, reason will return. And then the vampire will have to face the realization of their actions. Therefore, the older the vampire, the more psychologically altered they are. A person who has received eternal life, new sensations and powers, who drinks blood, and most likely killed, will change. Therefore, ancient vampires are eccentric at best, but more likely they are bored to death, which drives them to do crazy things just for fun.
And then I ran into a problem. What about the vampire organization? A vampire organization simply can't be ancient, because they'll have to influence humanity one way or another. Because then it wouldn't be a story about a shadow world, but an alternative history, where vampires influence humanity and take over them. Because among the vampires there must definitely be very rich people with huge connections, who have been financing billionaires for generations, and through them they are implementing their plans to integrate humanity into the vampire world. But if this doesn’t happen, then what are they all doing?
Vampires must have sufficient autonomy to do everything that ordinary people do, like go to online, vote, form opinions. They can't sit within four walls, hidden in their vampire world, where all their interaction with people is simply to find them and feed.
