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The Vampire Hierarchy:

All vampires have a classification divided up by age and power based on how they came to be. There are several ways this is able to happen. In the begining of time, when all living things came to be, there came forth the "originals" which are sometimes refered to as "The first ones". Occasionally, some extremists and overly devote worshipers refer to them as gods as well and revere them as our holy (or to most humans...unholy) creators. The Originals are most powerful and there are only three known to be alive in this era. coming across an Original is either a huge blessing or an extremely unfortunate matter depending on the situation. Usually if an Original is present it likely means you messed up royally and they're probably there to envoke only the worst most extruciating punishments upon you. Vampire-kind are seemingly immortal, however, this is not the case and is a common misconseption even among most of my younger fellow vampires. We live around 25 centuries and by then either get bored and go into an eternal sleep-state out of sheer bordom or we get killed off earlier than that by hunters, or due to internal squabbling among the vampire clans and families. This is how the "Ancient" class came to be. Some vampires get so old they beome known as Ancients, and any decendents of these vampires and their offspring are under strict control by the one who turned them. In a way the Ancient acts the same way a govenor does in American political systems. They control their territory, and the people in it, but still answer to a higher form of leadership they also are a part of in most cases. Then besides ancients and originals there are also purebloods, which differ merely because they can be procreated by the aforementioned types if they so choose to do it by giving up a shred of their power in order to make what is almost a younger version of themselves in a way, but not in that exact sense since it turns into an entirely different sentient being who still has to grow in power and age. Vampires of lower status cannot procreate and any victim who attempts it goes mad with bloodlust and dies. Many non purebloods and or ancient vampires have tried to mate with humans and had this unfortunate occurance and it usually ends with the vampire being forced to a hearing in front of the council of ancient, and the human dying violently, or the vampire losing control, sucking the life out of the human, and then choosing to go into eternal sleep out of greif from losing the one they loved and being unable to bear the heartbreak. The lower classes of vampires consist of the rare occurance of "Dhampires" or half-breeds which are usually half-human, half vampire and typically these creatures don't live long if they do manage to be successfully created. The only way this is possible is if an ancient-class vampire and a female human/other non-vampire procreate and succeed in creating a decendant. This for obvious reasons is extremely forbidden by both vampires and most other races. A good example is Count Dracula and his son Alucard who had a human mother. His mother was murdered by the Catholics, and he was then forced to choose to hunt and kill his own father in order to keep him from destroying the world. He then awhile after was slain by hunters for being half-vampire. From the time of alucard's death it was then decided that all Dhampires would be considered abominations and interatial mating was then forbidden by the counil of ancients.even lesser creatures than Dhampires are "Thralls" which are humans who are turned via a bite directly on their juglar which drains them completely of their human blood and then the vampire who inflicts this normally life-ending wound then provides the then drained human with a little less than a fourth of their own blood usually by slicing open the left palm with a special ritual dagger, and placing the hand over the mouth of the chosen person. When the person is "reborn" they're under full mental and physical control by their master until around a week or two has passed. It's another extremely illegal thing to do since most humans are unwilling victims or simply just unworthy of the massive power gain they achieve by becoming a turned one. They also don't usually handle it well physically since humans are much physically weaker than even low class vampires. The pureblood version of a Thrall is a "Fledgeling" which is more powerful but only slightly. Fledgelings develope their power quicker and have more vampiric traits than thralls do as well. All classes of vampires can eventually become ancients if given enough time to survive, but lower class vampires have a very difficult time living more than five centuries without being caught for crimes and hunted. Weakest of all in some respects are vampiric animals that’ve been biten and turned simlar to non-pureblood vampires.

List from most powerful to least:

1. Originals
2. Ancients
3. Purebloods
4. Fledgelings
5. Dhampires
6. Vampiric animals

++Author's note++

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