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The Darker Side => The Blood Track => Topic started by: Nina on July 01, 2008, 03:19:14 AM
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VAMPYR-DHAMPYR: what are the differences?
Ok, until I get to do more research on this, does anyone know this?
By monstropedia definition of a vampire is: http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Vampire
and of a dhampyr: http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Dhampyr
Why this thread? cause the legend goes that only a dhampyr can kill a vampyr.
Trze or false? What do YOU think?
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false vaintines,elves(not those short ones those arn't even real),antlanteans,and aquas can all easily kill a vampire if u have any ?'s email me at millermatt66@yahoo.com
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That wasnt targeted on a kind of humanoid, there are dampyrs and vampyrs in any humanoid kind. And no, the Chitah doesnt count....
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killops,rodes,dargons,dragons,and some types of dragnitites know how to kill a vampire and they're not humanoid
plus vaintines,tolkas,elves and antlanteans cant become vamps
aquas can but they're just like humans except they have 2 stomics(1 for storing energy,not the kind that comes from food but aroras)
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A dhampyr is half human and half vampire. The mother is human and the father is vampire and from what i've heard dhampyrs are suposed to hunt vampyrs. I'm not sure about that last part so im sorry to any dhampyrs who might be offended
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Yes, that is what legends say, dhampyrs should hunt vampires. But I didnt say that they do that, at least not all, and I really dont think that today people are always aware of their... vampiric heritage....
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Actually, Dhampirs can have a human father & a vampire mother, they just come out as a second category, like Ligers & Tylons. Don't know the exact name, but they do have similarities & differences. <=/
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Well, I researched it a little bit. Got some confusing answers. :?
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well what about what latathia said
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I wonder if my sisters are dhampyrs? Those soul sucking leeches wouldn't surprise me if they are. :|
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*<:) *<:) *<:) *<:) *<:)
:-D that nice
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According to the original Slavic and Roma folklore, a dhampir is born when a dead man from the grave as a vampire to repeatedly rape his widow. If you had a an unusual parentage of the above nature, then it's safe to assume that you're a dhampir.
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But what about today's psychic vampires? & their offspring? :?
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They'd just be vampires,I guess. Not dhampirs.
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According to the original Slavic and Roma folklore, a dhampir is born when a dead man from the grave as a vampire to repeatedly rape his widow. If you had a an unusual parentage of the above nature, then it's safe to assume that you're a dhampir.
Reverse necrophilia? EWW....... anyway, that could just be the wifey there getting jiggy with someone else. *<:)
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dead thread but I'm interested in this subject so I will post, dhampir is the term for any half vampire, not psychic vampires as psychic vampires are only called vampires because they drain something from their victims like normal vampires do, dhampirs are ideal vampire hunters as they share some of their father's superhuman powers and the unique abbility to be able to see through a vampire's disguises, including their invisibility, however the preception might only work against their father.
Several so called dhampirs swindled people by supposedly fighting an invinsible vampire when they were just jumping around like a maniac. . .
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Several so called dhampirs swindled people by supposedly fighting an invinsible vampire when they were just jumping around like a maniac. .
Ahh,yes, I recall reading about that somewhere. Not that hard for a group of clever con men to convince supertitious Slavic peasants that their village was under attack by a vampire, even when you take into account the widespread belief that dhampirs were suposed to entirely lack bones of any kind. Just makes one wonder how these confidence tricksters were able to pass themselves off as beings that did not possess a skeletal structure.
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In that region, most vampires where considered a spiritual entity, usually after their re-animated rotten corps just falls apart. So they go around literally sucking the life out of people, sounds a lot like the work of psychic vamps. ^.^
Anyways, I think that back then, swindlers probably didn't exist. I mean come on, EVERYONE believed in vampires back then. I don't think there where even any mindsets that said, "Hey, lets go pretend to scare off a vamp to get money!" it would have been more like, "Those people are saying a vamp is attacking them, we better freaking leave before it decides to come after us!"
People back then just didn't have the modern mind set, they didn't believe that undead vampires weren't real, or that you could swindle people by using that beliefe.
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if that was the case then why did dhampir's get paid to do it, paid any amount they asked, anywhere there's money involved, no matter the time, swindlers will follow. . .
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For a mixture of reasons, some people are born with psy abilities and so forth, so they can obviously "see" Undead vampires and stuff. No explanation for it, so people say they are Dhampirs. Now, these are obviously limited amount of folks who are willing to admit to any of these things for fear of prosecution. So those few who ARE willing to go out and battle evil, have to be paid a TONE to make them live a life of wandering from one town to the next,putting their lives in danger from predators, disease, starvation, and so forth. Especially if they happen to have a cozy life on a farm or in a town already.
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I'm not trying to say dhampirs don't exist, frankly I quite like the whole half-breed concept in general, it's just that like with anything and pretty much everything magical there are fakers and they aren't limited to the present, in either direction, there were con men on the streets of ancient rome and there'll be con men on space colonies in the future. . .
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Dhampyr die faster when you stab them.............but its more fun killing vampyr theyre actually a challenge......sometimes anyway, sometimes is disappointingly easy. :-D
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They cant truly exist today or even other day since you need a true undead and a mortal woman to create one, but how do you get a true vampire? I mean you don't see a corpse rising that dense. After all we could had zombies, mummies rising, but we don't seen that, only in films and you know that they are played only, they are not truly that creature, they are only playing that creature <^>.
Half vampires, half humans can be found in fiction, but not in the real world. This are the facts.
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Rrrrreally? :roll: and yet, u decided to belong to a group of vamps ;) neat. :-D
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I referred to dhampyres, not the vampires generally in the first words, and even you are a true vampire i still want see the proof of immortality, superhuman strength and so on, since in the myths and legends the vampires have those powers, but in real life it would be nice the proof of immortality, don't you think?
Besides a dhampyr wouldn't be that powerful like its father, it could have its powers, but i doubt it would be better than him or other vamps.
Also, on the other hand is a huge difference between a real vamp and a vamp from legends and myths.
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Is that ur personal opinion on the mater or u have some source from where u getting this?
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There are "zombies" in a sense, just not what most people portray or expect them to be. And as for mummies, while I don't believe there are mummies that have risen from the dead, its kind of hard to say since we havn't exactly uncovered every tomb and checked lol.
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As for the vampires: Some vampires can fly. Sometimes this power is supernatural, other times it is connected to the vampire's ability to turn into flying creatures and then create winds as a means of propulsion.
Vampires are sometimes considered to be shapeshifters.
The Vampire possesses supernatural strength, speed, agility, reflexes, and endurance.
One of these abilities is the Vampire’s alleged ability to scale sheer surfaces, vertically or horizontally, much like a spider.
The creature could direct the fog, summon a powerful storm, control the direction and the force of the wind, or even call down bolts of lightning.
According to legend, the Vampire is able to command many of the very animals it is able to transform itself into.
The Vampire has supernatural regenerative capabilities, which allows the creature to recover from injuries that would permanently incapacitate or even kill a human.
This are the facts that vamps in our days cant do naturally right? In the case of you are question
ing me about differences between real vamps and not real vamps; Nina and if you want you can find the source also of the facts.
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Im sorry, but im not convinced, simple cause of the fact u used words that sound like they are from a video game description. For me, i think the better source of info would be from say, an ex exorcist, or real historians. We have those in Europe too ;)
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I do not believe in either vampires or dhampyrs.
People go around saying they are this and that. Mostly it is a labelling themselves into lifestyle choices because of a messed up stuff in their heads.
Humans are awesome we dont need to say we are vampires or some other other equally bizarre story to do some really neat things.
All this endless fiction about vampires throughout modern times just perpetuates an ever evolving story.
Night energy supplies a perfect example of such mental corruption. Stories about stories about ideas about myths, totally believed as literal truth.
Did you know Klingon from star trek has its own language now? Same with Elven language from Tolkein. Yet there is a difference between real and imagined. Klingons are from a fictional story called Star trek. The story about Klingons has not finished yet. It keeps evolving as more people add to the stories mass. Some people now model their behaviour on Klingon concepts. I am sure it wont be long before we have some form of spiritual Klingons making themselves known on the net.
In the case of all the self proclaimed vampires there is a name for shoe horning an idea to fit your circumstances, delusion.
It would be more accurate to say 'I am delusional' than to say 'i am a vampire'.
One label perpetuates a story, the other is the beginning of seeing things for what they are.
So if this small post has killed off any vampires identity thoughts, that makes me a dhampyre yes?
Such delusions are creative and somewhat entertaining, but ultimately empty. There are bigger games to play than this level of fantasy.
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Still waiting for that "Like" button, until then I agree with OldBill's post.
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Nina i used the monstropedia as source, i substracted the information from The Vampire (another version) and Vampire that can be found at corporeal undead. And there are human living vampires without any supernatural abilities.
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NE: So....... Storm calling vampires huh?
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And there are human living vampires without any supernatural abilities.
Right, folks that are wannabes for me hardly fit the real vampire profile ;)
And i think OldBill said what needed to be said way better than i could ever say myself.
Maybe this topic needs a lock....
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who is a wannabe?
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Again, don't reopen old topics... the last post before yours was posted almost 2 years ago