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Vampire Glossary
A – C
- A Neg: 'A Negative' is a brand as well as a flavour of synthetic blood. (see True Blood)
- Anemia: A disease of the blood caused by reduction of either red blood cells or hemoglobin. Symptoms include pallor, fatigue and fainting spells. These symptoms are usually associated with a vampire attack.
- Antediluvian: An antediluvian would be over 4,000 years old. "Antediluvian" means something that existed prior to the Biblical flood during the time of Noah which Biblical scholars estimate to have occurred approximately 4,000 years ago. According to some sources, the Antediluvians are third generation of vampires.
- Angel: A vampire cursed with a soul.
- Bauhaus: A rock band whose best-known song is "Bela Lugosi's Dead," which put vampires on the pop music charts
- Blood Bond: A bond shared between a human and a vampire. After the human drinks the vampire's blood, that vampire always knows where they are. If shared three or more times, the human becomes attached to the vampire in different ways such as being blissfully happy around said vampire or knowing if the vampire is in pain or not. (See Charlaine Harris's "From Dead to Worse" for a better description.)
- Blood Doll:A willing human who gives blood to a vampire that is usually their Master. Generally, these have to be disposed of when they become useless or a threat, while many develop feelings for their Master. It is a more formal term for a Fangbanger, who is devoted to just one vampire, though they can be passed around.
- Blood Head: A vampire blood junkie.
- Blood Lust: A strong, almost uncontrollable need for blood due to hunger, sex, or pain.
- "Bring Someone Over":(A phrase sometimes used in reference to making a human into a vampire.
- Childe: What a vampire calls those who he or she has embraced/turned/brought over.
- Childe of Darkness: Poetic wording for a vampire.
- Caine: One story relates that Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, was the first vampire.
- Claws: Large nails on the hands of vampires.
- Coffin: Container used for the ritual burial of human remains. Used by many vampires as a resting location during daylight hours due to the desired effect of blocking out all the damaging sunlight. Considered archaic and primitive.
- Cold Ones: A slang term used for vampires.
- Coven: Term describing a group of vampires who live or cooperate together. See also Nest.
- Crucifix: A holy object believed to deter vampires. Obviously, this only works on those vampires who came from a religious tradition where the crucifix is revered and hence is considered both personal and psychological to that certain vampire.
- Cruentus: Spilled blood.
- Daytime Guy: Essentially a gofer, albeit an important one. This person handles the affairs of their vampire master that must be done during the day. These tasks include banking, shopping, dry cleaning, and other assorted things that can only be done during normal business hours. A prime example of a Daytime Guy is Bobby Burnham, Eric Northman's DG. (p.100 of All Together Dead)
D – F
- Dark Gift, The: A poetic way of saying "being a vampire." To make someone a vampire, you would "give them The Dark Gift." Also can refer to the multiple talents that one may acquire when they become a vampire, like telepathy, flight, strength, etc.
- Daywalker: A term used for a half vampire. Often the person is a child of a human and a vampire. Though this is rare to see. The child can go into the sun but must be watchful of how bright the sun is, how hot it is outside, and wear sunglasses most of the time. Not many Daywalkers have been born. Though in some movies like Blade, Blade 2, abnd Blade 3 there is a daywalker, his name happens to be Blade. Some daywalkers have serum made to keep their vampiric bloodlust in check. Most daywalkers can live besides humans and nother be found out, at least not until they have drained a victim in plain sight out of a Frenzy.
- Dazzle: A Vampire's ability to trance a human or weaker vampire to do their work.
- Drainer> Someone who drains the blood of vampires to sell as a drug on the black market. They usually have a short life expectancy.
- Embrace, The: Another way of saying "to turn a human into a vampire."
- Embrace the Darkness: Amplectere Tenebras.
- Fang: Slang term for a vampire or the vampire version of People magazine.
- Fangbanger: A person who hangs around, sleeps or tries to get involved with vampires. Many enjoy being bitten or want to be -- and don't usually last very long.
- Fangtasia: Shreveport vampire bar owned by a very old and strong vampire named Eric Northman, who uses the bar as Area 5 headquarters.
- Final Death: When vampires are killed, they experience what is called a final death, where their bodies are destroyed and thus they cannot return.
- Frenzy: When a vampire has gone without blood for too long or has sustained many serious injuries, they go into a frenzy, where they pretty much lose control and attack and drain anything that lives. Some rare vampires are able to pull themselves out of frenzy before they do any or much damage.
G – I
- Galchonda: A fabled state that vampires may attain where they transcend there limitations and are able to control the frenzy perfectly and may or may not need to drink blood again.
- Garlic: Used by humans as a vampiric deterrent. Generally considered useless.
- Ghoul: A human who has been fed vampire blood three times is brought under the spell of the vampire and becomes addicted to the blood and power they receive from the blood. Usually guards the donor vampire during daylight hours. A rouge ghoul is one who has broken free of the vampire's control but is still addicted to the blood and will get any at any cost. Examples of powers include extended lifespan -- as long as the human partakes of vampire blood he or she will continue to live beyond a normal human lifespan, regeneration, heightened senses, and a minor version of that vampire's unique power. Ghouls can also be animals, usually dogs.
- Glamour: Vampire hypnotism or the act of using it. Usually used to make feeding easier and for protection. Does not work on Sookie Stackhouse and other supernatural beings
- Go Into the Fire, Flame: When a vampire commits suicide, and submerses themselves in fire, seeking Final Death. Usually a result of Vampire Madness, which can occur when the mind is unstable before receiving The Dark Gift.
- Great Revelation, The: The name given to the day when vampires all over the world revealed their existence to humans across the globe.
- Hepatitis D, Hep-D: A strain of hepatitis that weakens vampires for up to 30 days and the only virus that can affect vampires. Also known as HDV.
- Holy Water: Sanctified water used as a weapon against vampires.
- Immortal: A person that lives forever and has the power to control his or her age, Immortals also have inhuman strength and speed, some believe that Immortals are the strongest of all living things. Immortals can only be born never made, also very few know how to kill Immortals.
J – L
- Kindred: A vampire, also more generally, all of vampire kind
- Kine: A term that vampires use to refer to Humans, also more generally, all of human kind
- Kingdom: A Kingdom is usually a state within America that is controlled by either a vampire King or Queen, without the humans' knowledge.
- Liber Sanguinis: Book of Blood.
- Lilith: According to some ancient mythology, Lilith, the first wife of Adam, was a blood drinking demon. It has been speculated that Lilith, rather than Caine, was the original Vampire. Jewish mythology portrays Lilith as a demon that feasts upon all humans, where as the Persian mythology portrays Lilith as consuming the blood of newborns.
- Lillium: another name for a Human
- Little Drink: Refers to taking only a little bit of a victim's blood, so as not to harm or kill them.
- Lycan: More commonly called werwolves. A lycan is a person who was either bitten but a wolf and survived or was born a lycan. Though some people go insane and beleive they are lycans when they are not. Some but not all lycans report to a vampire master/mistress, as such in recent times we see the lycan portrade in movies like ' Underworld ' as a slave who is tried of it's place in existance. Lycan only take there wolf form during full moons. They have weaknesses to wolfsbane and silver. Gifted and cursed at the same time with strength, super hearing, speed and agility. Not all Lycans have all these traits but have 2 or 3 of them. A lycans nose is super sensitive to smells, and if flicked there can be painful but will not kill them or hurt for long. No one has escaped for a lycan when they are on the hunt for prey.
- Lycanthropy: Considered a mental illness that drives a person to think he/she is a werewolf. Often times the the person has other mental illnesses that lead to this disorder. Mental illnesses like Phycosis, Hesteria, Paranoid delussions, and the like could actually be the link to why in the earliest reports of lycan or werewolves alot of the Lycan/werewolves seemed to be mad, driven crazy to the point of bloodlust.
M – O
- Mainstreaming: A vampire who is trying to live among humans and live as humans do or at least live in harmony with the humans.
- Masquerade: A now-defunct term for the set of rules vampires had to follow in order to remain hidden from humans and other supernatural beings.Also a ball or dance that Vampires like Vladamir Draculia had created to freely communicate with humans under the cover of costumes now is just for fun.
- Methuselah: A vampire older than a thousand years. Sometime between the thousandth and two thousandth year, a grave change overtakes the Kindred. Sometimes the change is physical, while at other times it is mental or emotional. Whatever the nature of the change, the end result is that the vampire no long bears any semblance of humanity. Methuselahs often retire into the earth where they may slumber away from the thirsty fangs of younger vampires. They generally are so powerful, that they continue to direct their plans mentally to their minions.
- Necromancy: The art of summoning the spirits of the dead for the purpose of divination. One of the powers possessed by some vampires (e.g. Dracula).
- Nest: Where a group of vampires live together.
- Nod: The land of eternal night to which Cain was banished for killing Abel.
- Official: Term used for a vampire politician in office.
- Orgasmic Overload: To drink a vampire's blood is to have an Orgasmic Overload.
- "Out of the Coffin": A pun often used to describe The Great Revelation.
P – R
- Porphoric Hemophelia: similar to Porphyria this disease is know as Vampires disease because it effects the brains natural instinctive breakdown causing a lust for blood it also cause gum deterioration that seems to lengthen the k-9s and also a blotchy effect to the skin some cases the victim had developed a darker face but a pale body the only cur is a mix of munkroot leeks wolfsbane and vampire ash or blood the cure has been found to be fatal to those weaker of the vampire variety
- Porphyria: A disease that occurs in humans that causes a loss of hemoglobin, pale white skin and can give a fang-like look to teeth as the gums deteriorate. Some believe that porphyrics once tried to treat their ailment by drinking blood.
- Prince: The term used for the vampire that rules over the city, enforcing vampire law.
- Revenant: A person who has returned from the dead. Often, when speaking of vampires suggests those that come back lacking a personality. Generally little better than an animal with a thirst for blood.
S – U
- Sanguinary: Eager for blood or bloodshed.
- Sanguineas: Bloody or covered in blood.
- Sanguis effundatur: Let blood be poured out.
- Sanguis Fluat: Let the blood flow.
- Sangunet: Let him/her/it bleed.
- Shapeshifter: Supernatural being that can change into an animal. True shapeshifters, which are rare, can change into any animal they saw last, wherever it be alive, dead, pictures or movie, etc.
- Slave:A human that is kept as a pet for "little drinks" or light feeding.
- Silus: A very evolved vampire, belonging to "The Brotherhood" in a futuristic world. A sweet, sensitive and "perfect creature."
- Silver: A metal used to hurt and control vampires. It can cause severe injury and though it doesn't result in death unless in bullet form, it can eventually lead to the vampire's death owing to weakness. In folklore, all of the Undead can be killed with silver. The reason vampires had no reflection and could not be photographed was because of silver -- old mirrors were backed with silver and film developing used silver nitrate. Because silver is no longer used for mirrors, and there is none in digital photography, modern vampires would cast a reflection and show up in digital photos.
- Sino-AIDS:An AIDS-like disease carried by humans, which can infect vampires who ingest the infected human's blood. Usually, it makes the vampire incredibly weak and eventually can result in final death.
- Sire: What a vampire calls the vampire that brought him or her over.
- Sheriff: The term given to a vampire who has been entrusted an area of a state by their King or Queen. They are given the responsibility to monitor vampire activity within their area, earn money through tourism and businesses, and insure that their own vampire laws are followed.
- Stake:Historical weapon of choice against vampires; it is a simple wooden pole with a sharpened end. When thrust through a vampire's heart, it causes instant and final death in "True Blood." In folklore, the vampire may be able to pull the stake out unless the head is removed, mouth stuffed with garlic and turned face down.
- Supe: Slang or shortened term for a supernatural being.
- "Take the Night from the Dead": Anti-vampire movement.
- The Old World: A reference to the areas now known as England/Europe.
- The Two-Natured: Slang for Shapeshifters, referring to their human and animal form.
- Tourist: (As it relates to vampire bars) they visit vampire bars and just wear anything black that they already had in their closet. Usually these black clothes are labels such as Lacoste and Polo.
- True Blood:Synthetic blood made by the Japanese, which vampires can drink instead of human blood. This meets their nutritional requirements, rather then physical and emotional.
- Undead: A being that is technically dead (no heartbeat), but is still animated as if it were alive. Whether it is the result of magic, a curse or maybe a virus, the human populace are led to believe it is the latter.
- Unfortunate Incident: What the media calls it when a vampire "accidentally" kills a human, or when a vampire is killed.
Source: True Blood Wiki
