Editing Dhampir (section)

=Chronicles of Darkness=
Dhampir in the original [[World of Darkness]] were introduced in the ''Time of Thin Blood'' sourcebook.  Full-on kindred couldn't have kids at all.  But "thin bloods," fourteenth or fifteenth generation vampires whose connection to Cain is extremely tenuous can, though the pregnancy is long and difficult because undead bodies aren't well suited to carrying kids.

The result is a dhampir, a creature mechanically all-but-identical to a revenant, or hereditary ghoul that produces its own vitae.  Dhampir are living creatures, and have a pool of vitae separate from their normal blood, though they do get tired if they exhaust it.  They suffer frenzy like a vampire, but can resist it much more easily, and like ghouls can go out in the day light and so on.  Because thin-bloods have only started showing up in the last twenty or so years, no one knows what happens to an old dhampir.

Dhampirs were introduced to the New [[World of Darkness]] in the [[Vampire: The Requiem]] sourcebook ''Night Horrors: The Wicked Dead''. Born of either blasphemous occult rituals or deep, sincere, obsessive love between a vampire and a mortal, dhampirs are cursed creatures who are hypnotically alluring to vampires, but whose blood is not only devoid of nutritional value for them, but exposes the vampire to a powerful curse if they share the same clan.

They're also mildly infamous for the fact that, because they're born of unnatural magical origins, they don't adhere to the standard rules of baby-making. So, they could be test tube babies or chestbursters depending on what dark rituals are used to make the dhampir in the first place.

2e revised them significantly, making them technically human but tainted by their vampiric parent's Vitae. They retain their ability to do strange things to the vampires who drink from their blood, but they also possess a unique connection to the workings of fate and a curse based on their vampiric parent's clan. As most dhampir are treated only slightly better than ghouls by their vampiric parents (if the vampire doesn't simply abandon them and leave them ignorant of their half-damned heritage), it is unsurprising that some of them end up becoming vampire hunters.