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====Alleycat==== | ====Alleycat==== | ||
(vulgar) : a vampire who keeps no permanent haven, but sleeps in a different location each night. This term also refers to a vampire who feeds exclusively from the homeless, vagrants, and other elements of low society. See [[Lexicon#footpad | (vulgar) : a vampire who keeps no permanent haven, but sleeps in a different location each night. This term also refers to a vampire who feeds exclusively from the homeless, vagrants, and other elements of low society. See [[Lexicon#footpad|footpad]]. | ||
====The Amaranth==== | ====The Amaranth==== | ||
(archaic): the act of consuming another Kindred’s blood. See [[Lexicon#diablerie | (archaic): the act of consuming another Kindred’s blood. See [[Lexicon#diablerie|diablerie]]. | ||
====The Anarch Movement==== | ====The Anarch Movement==== | ||
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====Autarkis==== | ====Autarkis==== | ||
(archaic): See [[Lexicon#unbound | (archaic): See [[Lexicon#unbound|unbound]]. | ||
====Banking==== | ====Banking==== | ||
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====The Blood==== | ====The Blood==== | ||
the supernatural, semi-sentient Blood of a vampire, as opposed to mortal or animal blood. Synonymous with vitae. | the supernatural, semi-sentient Blood of a vampire, as opposed to mortal or animal blood. Synonymous with [[Lexicon#vitae|vitae]]. | ||
====Blood Bond==== | ====Blood Bond==== | ||
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====Blood Doll==== | ====Blood Doll==== | ||
(vulgar): a mortal who freely gives their blood to a vampire. Most blood dolls gain a perverse satisfaction from the Kiss, and actively seek out vampires who will take their blood. blood hunt: a punishment sentencing a vampire to final death at the fangs of their peers. See lex talionis. | (vulgar): a mortal who freely gives their blood to a vampire. Most blood dolls gain a perverse satisfaction from the Kiss, and actively seek out vampires who will take their blood. blood hunt: a punishment sentencing a vampire to final death at the fangs of their peers. See [[Lexicon#lex_talionis|lex talionis]]. | ||
====Blood Leech==== | ====Blood Leech==== | ||
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====Bloodline==== | ====Bloodline==== | ||
a vampire’s heritage. See lineage. | a vampire’s heritage. See [[Lexicon#lineage|lineage]]. | ||
====The Book of Nod==== | |||
a collection of Kindred legend and history. | |||
====Butterfly==== | ====Butterfly==== | ||
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====Canaille==== | ====Canaille==== | ||
(archaic): the bovine masses of humanity, especially the uncultured and unsavory. The canaille are viewed primarily as a source of sustenance. See kine. | (archaic): the bovine masses of humanity, especially the uncultured and unsavory. The canaille are viewed primarily as a source of sustenance. See [[Lexicon#kine|kine]]. | ||
====Casanova==== | ====Casanova==== | ||
(vulgar): a vampire who seduces mortals to take their blood, but does not kill them. See siren. | (vulgar): a vampire who seduces mortals to take their blood, but does not kill them. See [[Lexicon#siren|siren]]. | ||
====Cauchemar==== | ====Cauchemar==== | ||
(archaic): see Sandman | (archaic): see [[Lexicon#Sandman|Sandman]] | ||
====The Change==== | ====The Change==== | ||
(vulgar): the moment an individual ceases to be mortal and becomes one of the Kindred. | (vulgar): the moment an individual ceases to be mortal and becomes one of the Kindred. | ||
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(archaic) : terms used at least since the Dark Ages. Very old Kindred may still use these but young Kindred rarely will.
(vulgar) : street slang of the Kindred. Used more by the young.
Alleycat
(vulgar) : a vampire who keeps no permanent haven, but sleeps in a different location each night. This term also refers to a vampire who feeds exclusively from the homeless, vagrants, and other elements of low society. See footpad.
The Amaranth
(archaic): the act of consuming another Kindred’s blood. See diablerie.
The Anarch Movement
a vampire sect that opposes the tyranny of elders and has placed itself outside the secret society of the Camarilla.
Ancilla
a vampire who has proven themselves, ranking between the elders and the neonates. Plural: ancillae.
Antediluvian
a member of the dreaded third generation.
Autarkis
(archaic): See unbound.
Banking
(vulgar): the practice of “withdrawing†blood from blood banks, hospital reserves, or the dead and dying. This blood has little taste, though it will sustain a vampire. Elder Kindred eschew this base indulgence. A Kindred who engages in this practice is known as a banker.
The Barrens
the areas of a city unfit for life, including graveyards, abandoned buildings, industrial wastelands, and areas of irreversible urban blight.
The Beast
the inchoate drives and urges that threaten to turn a vampire into a mindless, ravening monster.
The Becoming
the moment one passes from being a fledgling into “full†vampire status as a neonate. In the Camarilla, one may not Become until their sire deems them ready and gains the Prince’s approval.
Blister
(vulgar): a vampire “Typhoid Mary†who contracts a mortal disease and spreads it to each vessel upon whom they feed.
The Blood
the supernatural, semi-sentient Blood of a vampire, as opposed to mortal or animal blood. Synonymous with vitae.
Blood Bond
a mystical power relationship between two individual vampires, or a vampire and a mortal with the vampire being the master.
Blood Doll
(vulgar): a mortal who freely gives their blood to a vampire. Most blood dolls gain a perverse satisfaction from the Kiss, and actively seek out vampires who will take their blood. blood hunt: a punishment sentencing a vampire to final death at the fangs of their peers. See lex talionis.
Blood Leech
(vulgar): A vampire who feeds upon the vitae of other Cainites, out of necessity or depravity.
Bloodline
a vampire’s heritage. See lineage.
The Book of Nod
a collection of Kindred legend and history.
Butterfly
(vulgar): one who mingles among the mortal high society elements and feeds exclusively from the famous and wealthy.
Cainite
(archaic): a vampire; a member of the race of Caine.
Caitiff
a vampire of unknown clan, or of no clan at all. Caitiff are typically of high generation, where Caine’s blood is too diluted to pass on any consistent characteristics.
The Camarilla
a sect of vampires devoted primarily to maintaining the Traditions, particularly that of the Masquerade.
Canaille
(archaic): the bovine masses of humanity, especially the uncultured and unsavory. The canaille are viewed primarily as a source of sustenance. See kine.
Casanova
(vulgar): a vampire who seduces mortals to take their blood, but does not kill them. See siren.
Cauchemar
(archaic): see Sandman
The Change
(vulgar): the moment an individual ceases to be mortal and becomes one of the Kindred.
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