>>62969
>So are IRL vampires immortal undeads or just blood-suckers? Can they change into bats and have more monstrous look? What's with their rivalry with werewolves?
I would call them oldest wizard society on earth. People who suck blood and dress goth today are just amateur satanists who don't know what they are doing. I knew a guy like this, he was doing rituals and drinking from wrists but he was clueless. It also made his friends distance themselves from him and calling him an idiot satanist that hippies and new agers should stay away from.
My take on the whole idea of trying to make vampyrism into something vague about energy-stealing is; it's just like some people want to call Bushido, "way of the warrior" a way of self improvement and "inner war against your own limits."
It's not, "way of the warrior" is the life of a soldier and accepting that death can come today or any day, and living with this fact.
In the same way Vampyrism simply means drinking blood to fuel physical immortality and physical "super powers."Living for a long time increases your awareness and senses overall so some of them had time to develop some unusual skills, including very accurate magic. But this does not come from the vampyrism itself.
Stealing energy is just low tier qi gong.
They also say werewolves are a myth.
>What's the difference between Vampires, Alps, Nosferatus, and those other types known from Rumanian mythology? Why they appeared only in Slavic folklore aside that?
You would have to ask one of them these specific things.