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{{5e Monster Short|Vampire|Vampire|Overview|Undead, Vampire
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{{blockref|Awakened to an endless night, vampires hunger for the life they have lost and sate that hunger by drinking the blood of the living. Vampires abhor sunlight, for its touch burns them. They never cast shadows or reflections, and any vampire wishing to move unnoticed among the living keeps to the darkness and far from reflective surfaces.|<ref name="mm5.295" />}}

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{{blockref|A '''vampire''' is a creature from {{wikip|folklore}} that subsists by feeding on the {{wikip|Vitalism|vital essence}} (generally in the form of {{wikip|blood}}) of the living. In {{wikip|European folklore}}, vampires are {{SRD5|Undead|undead creatures}} that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore {{wikip|shrouds}} and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century.

Vampiric entities have been {{wikip|Vampire folklore by region|recorded in most cultures}}; the term ''vampire'' was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century {{wikip|mass hysteria}} of a pre-existing folk belief in the {{wikip|Balkans}} and {{wikip|Eastern Europe}} that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism.<ref name="SU223">Silver, A., & Ursini, J. (1997). ''The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Interview with the Vampire'' (pp. 22–23). New York: Limelight Editions.</ref> Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as ''{{wikip|shtriga}}'' in {{wikip|Albanian mythology|Albania}}, ''{{wikip|vrykolakas}}'' in {{wikip|Greece}} and ''{{wikip|strigoi}}'' in {{wikip|Folklore of Romania|Romania}}.

In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the ''{{wikip|chupacabra}}'' still persists in some cultures. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of {{wikip|decomposition}} after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. {{wikip|Porphyria}} was linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited.<ref>[http:/ /www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1321/did-vampires-suffer-from-the-disease-porphyria-or-not "Dear Cecil" column from straightdope.com]</ref><ref>{{cite <!--news-->|url=https:/ /www.scientificamerican.com/article/born-to-the-purple-the-st/|title=Born to the Purple: the Story of Porphyria |last=Lane |first=Nick |authorlink=Nick Lane |date=16 December 2002 |newspaper=Scientific American |archive-url=https:/ /web.archive.org/web/20170126142231/https:/ /www.scientificamerican.com/article/born-to-the-purple-the-st/|archive-date=26 January 2017|url-status=live|access-date=26 January 2017}}</ref>

The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of "{{wikip|The Vampyre}}" by the English writer {{wikip|John William Polidori|John Polidori}}; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century.<ref name="SU373">Silver, A., & Ursini, J. (1997). ''The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Interview with the Vampire'' (pp. 37–38). New York: Limelight Editions.</ref> {{wikip|Bram Stoker}}'s 1897 novel ''{{wikip|Dracula}}'' is remembered as the quintessential {{wikip|vampire literature|vampire novel}} and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after {{wikip|Sheridan Le Fanu|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's}} 1872 novel ''{{wikip|Carmilla}}''. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire {{wikip|genre}}, still popular in the 21st century, with books, {{wikip|vampire films|films}}, television shows, and video games. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the {{wikip|horror fiction|horror}} genre.|<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire Wikipedia - Vampire] ''(excerpt, accessed 2020-04-04)''. Licensed [[CC-BY-SA]].</ref>}}

{{otherlore|Vampires appear just as they did in life, although their features are often hardened and feral, with the predatory look of wolves.

Like liches, they often embrace finery and decadence and may assume the guise of nobility. Despite their human appearance, vampires can be easily recognized, for they cast no shadows and throw no reflections in mirrors.|{{SRD3ref}}|3.5e lore}}

==List of Vampires==
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{{5e Monster List|Vampire}}
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==Sources and Notes==
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{{5e Footer|Undead}}
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Canon	true +
Creature Name	Vampire Overview +
Habitat	Underdark +, Underground + and Urban +
Name	Vampire Overview +
Publication	"Varied" +
SortText	Vampire AAA Overview 5e +
Subtype	Undead + and Vampire +
Type	Overview +