Terms and Acronyms as Used on Echoes of Night
Some of these terms are also included because they are commonly mis-used or misunderstood.
Beast: Mental, animalistic, manifestation of the Thirst. Thought processes turn away from the more normal day to day
and toward satisfaction of the Thirst however it can.
Bigoted: a person who is extremely intolerant of another's creed, belief or opinion.
Donor: Person who voluntarily gives some of his/her blood to a Sanguinarian to help them live.
Hypothesis: An untested or unproven thought about the cause of an event or condition.
IMO:In My Opinion
IRL: In Real Life, as in non-RPG, as opposed to a character played...usually I use it to mean face to face, or personally, however.
Libel:Written (text or images) defamation of character. Intended to maliciously harm a persons image
with untrue statements.
Morii: A living vampire. A living human who drinks blood to lead a stable life.
Prejudice: 1) an unfavorable opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge,
thought or reason. 2) unreasonable feelings. opinions or attitudes especially of a hostile nature
toward a racial, religious, or national group.
Psi-vamp: A person that requires extra energy to live.
Racist: a person who believes in
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or
individual achievement. Usually involving the idea that ones own race is superior.
RPG: Role play game or role play gaming
Sanguinarian: A person who relies on blood to live, though not necessarily to survive. Abreviated "Sanguin". Not to be confused with "Sanguinarius" or "Sangi" who is a person.
Ok, now why is "live" accented? because there is a difference in my mind between Live and Survive. I don't
believe the blood is necessary to survive... but it is needed to live. One can think of it as a person can
survive on bread and water, but lives on a well balanced diet.
Slander: A malicious and false statement meant to defame character (audible).
Slayer: A type of hunter who kills living or mortal vampires (ie: not the undead variety)
Tease-the-vamp: A "game" often played by either non-sanguins or well fed sanguins in which
they taunt a sanguin with the idea or actual presence of blood they cannot have. Rather like waving a
stake before a hungry dog. A very cruel past time and one I will not tolerate... Word of note
to play this game too long can result in the sanguin in question either beasting or twoofing... not
kind at all.
Theory: A hypothesis that has been tested repeatedly by different researchers and found to be true.
Thirst: the general term for what a sanguin feels when s/he hasn't had any blood for awhile,
often capitalized to distinguish it from thirst for more mundane liquids.
Troll: An annoyance usually on message boards or chat rooms who posts for the purpose of causing a disturbance. Often by making comments
of a libelous nature, accusatory, or just general pain-in-the-assness.
Twoofing: Same as Vamping Out... however carries less connotation and sounds better :) Credit to Lady Slinky for this one!
Turned: To be changed to a vampire by another vampire. A hollywood invention, NEVER found in the original myths or history.
Vamping Out: Physical manifestation of the Thirst. Usually marked by rapid pulse and rapid or deep breathing.
Will often occur in tandem with the Beast.
Vampire: The hollywood ideal of a blood-sucking creeper. The term has gone too far away from its old meaning to be useful to
describe what I am. So, I am not a vampire, I am a sanguinarian. I do use it on the pages if I am including psi-vamps.
Vampire Hunter: Someone who hunts blood-drinkers for whatever reason.
VH: abbreviation for Vampire Hunter
V:tM:Vampire: the Masquerade, an RPG
WW: White Wolf...Vt:M publishing company, also does Dark Ages and a few others.
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