SPECIES

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VAMPIRES

First order of business: they do not walk in the sunlight. This is not Twilight. Vampires do not sparkle. They turn into ash when they come in contact with ultraviolet rays.

A telltale sign of a newborn vampire is their eyes: they are bright red, and remain this way for several months. This is because upon turning into a vampire, the melanin (the pigments that induce color in the iris, protects it from the sun, etc) in their eyes is stripped because, quite frankly, they don't need it anymore. The blood in their bodies needs time to drain, and after that, their eyes become the silver-grey color of the older vampires (note: your model doesn't actually have to have silver-grey eyes).They have heightened senses, which allows them to detect their prey and act accordingly to the emotions that come from them. The reason for their blood drinking is because bodies need blood to move. Therefore, it keeps them from become more or less a statue. The older a vampire gets, the less often they need to feed. The reason for this is because their body retains the blood better, and they are able to drink more at a time.

Another thing about blood. Human blood is needed to retain a human image. The philosophy is that the more you drink a certain animal's blood, the more like that animal you become, both physically and mentally. Drinking the blood of bears makes you more and more like a bear. Drinking the blood of rats makes you more and more like a rat. Drinking the blood of humans makes you more and more like a human. Also, blood can only be drunk if it is fresh from a body. It is for this reason that blood cannot be stored.

Vampires cannot reproduce. Period. They are technically dead. Dead people cannot have babies.

Another thing about being dead is temperature. They are not freezing cold all the time, they are the temperature of their environment.

There are a few special abilities that comes with vampirism. The first is the uncanny ability to retain and repeat information very quickly. They are able to replicate things after seeing or hearing them only once. Vampires are also immune to most attacks other than their known weakness and even then are apparently able to heal quickly, especially if they feed or are covered in vampire blood. All vampires can potentially heal from any non-fatal wound, but time and blood are needed. A bullet wound, for instance, would heal within seconds, but serious burns from a fire would require decades, if not centuries, to heal.

Vampires are created by not draining a body completely of blood.

The most classic ways of killing a vampire don't work. Try to use garlic, stakes, and holy water, and all you get is a wet vampire with a weapon and bad breath. However, holy water and crosses do actually have the potential to work, but only if the vampire it's being used against has religious faith. Needless to say, most don't. The only guaranteed ways to kill a vampire are the following: exposure to sunlight, beheading, or dismemberment.

WEREWOLVES

Perhaps the only method of identifying a werewolf (aside from seeing it in its natural form, of course) is when you cut off part of its skin, fur can be seen within the wound. When in its natural form, the telltale sign is that it is relatively larger than most wolves, and it has no tail. Their bodies more resembles a human, and their fur is much shorter. They have a taste for recently buried corpses and young animals. When in human form, they like their meat more rare than most.

The transformation into a werewolf usually is preceded by a state of extreme anxiety and/or depression. Werewolves are drawn to this particular emotion. You will be scratched, either across the chest or back, and the werewolf will lick the wounds. During a three-day converting process, you will be plagued with intense pain and seizures. On the third night, the werewolf characteristics begin to appear. The older a werewolf gets, the less human they become. A werewolf nearing death no longer has a human form, whereas a newborn werewolf will be more human-like in his wolf form (ie: standing on two legs, maintaining some form of human language, etc). Also, their life expectancy is about five times longer than a human's. They are not immortal. They are not immune to disease.

Like vampires, many classic methods do not work. Rye and mistletoe, silver only has a rather nasty smell. The only classic method that works is wolfsbane. Legend says that this is the plant that was watered with the drool of Cerberus when Heracles led him out of Hades. When touched with it, the werewolf in question is burned. If it is eaten, the werewolf will slowly burn from the inside out.

They are, in actuality, much more grounded and much less proud than vampires. They can die of old age, and also reproduce. However, a human-werewolf cross breed will die somewhere between the ages of 1 and 3. The reason for this is that the genes of each species battle each other for power, and body of the child becomes worn out very quickly. A baby that is born of two werewolves will actually be stronger than his or her parents, due to not having the conversion process from human to werewolf.

Like vampires, their senses are heightened. They can hear things at a higher frequency, see things that would go unnoticed by humans, have an extraordinary sense of smell. All that good stuff. :]

HUMANS

Can do all of the stuff humans do.

OTHER

Just in case you missed it in the rules ...

NO HYBRIDS. HYBRIDS = BAD. Vampire/werewolf, not possible! Human/vampire, not possible! Human/werewolf, you are dead before your third birthday! And for the love of God, do not use "oh, they were an experiment, so that's why they're a hybrid." IT'S 1793. There are no super high-tech labs, no sophisticated synthetic DNA, no secret alien conspiracies.

That is all. :]