Editing Vampire: The Requiem (section)

==Blood-Drinking Kin==
Vampires who aren't Kindred, brought-up in the book Wicked Dead. Their Blood Potency is 0, so each time they meet a "true" vampire, they cower in fear. Thousand Years of Night also introduced some new beings that hunt the kindred for their own reasons.

===[[Aswang]]=== 
Actually several kinds of blood-drinking shapechanging supernatural creatures from the Phillipines, with one variety from World of Darkness: Antagonists and three from Night Horrors: The Wicked Dead. All share the common trait of being Technically Living Vampires, and thus suffering no effect from sunlight other than reverting to their human form during the day. The "vanilla" Aswang is a [[Monstergirls|race of exclusively female blood-suckers]] who never smile with their teeth because they have four pairs of canine teeth instead of the human two pairs - they reproduce by having sex with human men, producing perfectly normal human sons and aswang daughters. At night, they revert to the forms of ugly, [[hag]]gish versions of themselves with claws and elongated, fang-like teeth, who use their hypnotically beautiful voices to lure prey into their reach, as they must feed regularly or be trapped in their monstrous form even during the day. The Halimaw assumes the form of a demonic winged humanoid at night and feeds with its mawful of jagged fangs and ripping claws, as well as being prone to suffering from a split personality that makes it actually delude itself about being human during the day. The Tik-Tik becomes a monstrous blood-sucking bat/mosquito hybrid. The Sigbin becomes a fang-mouthed hornless goat that lulls people into a trance by clapping its oversized ears together. All forms of Aswang are hated by the Kindred, as they don't make any attempt to uphold the Masquerade and so "real" vampires have to work harder to cover up for them.

===Baykosh=== 
A (mercifully) unique ghost who hunts down and murders people who have survived conflict in order to feed on their cut-short lifespan.

===Bhuta=== 
Ghosts so desperate to experience life once more that they possess human beings, even knowing that this will A: damn them to an incessant craving for human blood and flesh whilst they are so incarnated, and B: result in the inevitable destruction of their host body.

===Chihuateteo===
An ancient cult composed of witch-priestesses of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca in his aspect as a god of malice and discord. Each one is a woman who has suffered a stillbirth (which, ironically, makes them the opposite of the honored-if-dangerous ghosts of women who died giving birth that they take their name from) and was found by the other Chihuateteo and offered a way to give the tragedy meaning and never have to face the spectre of death personally again. Should she accept (and destroy something dear to her to show her willingness), they initiate her into the order and she becomes a claw-fingered spectre that looks like the unholy lovechild of a human and the world's largest owl. With her new vocation, she gains the ability to turn into one or gain an owl's talons as well, the secret Rites of the Crossroads they use to cause their god's holy strife, Age Without Youth, and the Disciplines of Majesty and Obsfucate, as well as a Beast of her own. She can't generate Vitae herself despite being fully alive (she has to steal breath instead), and her Beast is a tame one (it only risks frenzy in response to anger and is easy to bring to heel before it gets that far), but Kindred wise in the ways of Strix look at the Chihuateteo and wonder. Also, they're Mexican ultranationalists (rather fitting, since their benefactor was one of the most revered members of the Aztec pantheon and was said to be the patron deity of the Aztec kings).

===Chimera Virus===
This unusual virus kills ordinary people within a day due to the speed at which it causes tissue to rot, but in a vampire's body it reacts strangely with their Vitae-fuelled regeneration. Infected vampires find that their flesh becomes malleable as the virus-infected cells proliferate, granting them the ability to reshape their bodies in unnatural ways at the expense of requiring more Vitae and eventually only being able to feed on the flesh of a living victim. By the final stages of the infection, the virus essentially turns its host into The Thing (the John Carpenter version).

===Cymothoa Sanguinaria===
You ever seen that tongue-eating aquatic bug that shows up in fish? This is basically that, but it infests humans and animals. Victims are slowly mind-controlled and ultimately become rotting, blood-drinking zombies who literally shit out their own guts, now filled with more cymothoa eggs, spending their last few days (hours) guarding whichever water source they've infected with their larvae. And the host is fully conscious throughout the whole process, in case it wasn't horrid enough yet.

===[[Empusa]] & [[Lamia]]===
Blood-drinking monsters that appear as regular humans, but use Auspex and the Empusa has one leg made of bronze and a donkey's leg, while that Lamia has a snakes lower body. Other than these, they're no different from other vampires.

===Fomorsae===
Emotion eaters who feed on self-loathing and body issues. Getting fed on by them causes a person to look more and more beautiful... at the cost of their life force, leading as many times as not to a beautifully preserved corpse. Ironically, the Vitae so gained is stored in fatty deposits, meaning that the Fomorsae are, to the last vamp, horrendously obese and ugly themselves. They are extremely touchy about this.

They're also the exception that proves the rule of Blood Potency 0, since they do have one or higher points in it... and they know Dominate.

===Ghûls=== 
Arabian mages who have gained immortality, as well as alchemy and a few other powers, at the expense of cannibalism. They're also... not undead. In fact, they probably have it better than Kindred.

===Everlasting===
Immortal beings that have existed for millenia and "feed" from routine, using Dominate and Majesty (which they can use remotely as long as the target can smell their scent) to hypnotise people into replaying the same events over and over again down to the tiniest details. Instead of Vitae, they have Ichor, which fuels their powers, can be shaped into a gaseous form that acts like a shield, and allows them to imbue objects and people with a portion of their undying nature. And while they prefer to keep to their own personal domains, they're dangerous if they do have to get their hands dirty since their Blood Potency equivalent puts them on par with the most ancient of elder vampires. Should one of them be slain (itself extremely unlikely, they haven't lasted so long for nothing), their immortal heart remains intact and continues to produce Ichor- which acts like Vitae when fed on by a vampire, although nobody knows what the long-term effects of doing so might be.

===Hypatians===
The accidental "clan" produced by a more than normally unhinged alchemist who thought she could combine Vitae and [[Promethean: The Created|Pyros]] to make herself immortal. They're similar to vampires in most ways save for their inability to perform the Embrace- instead, they rely on using potions like the one invented by the first of their kind. The downsides? They spread something similar to Disquiet (with all the angry mob formation that brings), and if they kill a vessel they can spawn Pandorans that feed on Vitae and are destroyed most easily by inflicting Final Death on their progenitor.

===Inamorata===
Beings that appear as a vampires dead love reborn. When a vampire drinks their blood, they are overwhelmed by a feeling of euphoria and believe themselves to be alive again. This is usually followed by them trying to walk in sunlight and them getting burned by it, with the really unlucky dying.

===[[Jiangshi|Jiang Shi]]=== 
Chinese "hopping vampires", formerly human mages as well. They only have access to Celerity, Resilience, and Vigor, but in return they're not destroyed by anything other than fire (upon "death," they teleport to their graves, torpid, at full health). They are like ghosts in that they cannot stray too far from their anchors, otherwise they'd teleport back. Of course, they can use living beings as anchors.

There's actually two varieties of them, one from Wicked Dead (aforementioned), and one from Blood & Smoke/2e, who are more like a clan of true Kindred, not being as invulnerable to everything but far more mobile and better adjusted to vampiric society. 

The latter would be a sixth great clan, were it not for the fact that (A), they need two deaths, one of a person that is completely pure of heart, to raise another of their number, and (B), the Kiss of the Vampire is denied to them (it feels more like a particularly painless frostbite when they chow down), so they have to be really clever and subtle about feeding, and (C), when low on Vitae they appear more visibly corpselike (mold begins growing on their flesh and they become cold to the touch). On the bright side, they can still do the grave teleporting thing, and can change the location of their "grave" if needed (although that requires the death of another pure-hearted person to do so). They specialize in the Animalism, Obfuscate, and Celerity Disciplines.

Despite their weaknesses compared to more traditional Clans, there's cities where the Jiang Shi have thrived and even joined with the other Kindred - it's not like the whole "two deaths to do an Embrace" thing is anywhere near the worst thing Kindred in general have to do to keep living.

===Lenora===
A quartet of aberrations "born" when an accident drove them to cannibalize a ghoul. They cannot convert blood or flesh into Vitae and are too feral to understand that it can be gained from vampire blood, so they instead feed from the flesh of ghouls and humans affected by the Vinculum. 

===Mnemovores===
These guys eat memories, if the name didn't clue you in, they do this to try and replace their own vanishing memories. They appears people with gray, cracked skin, completely black eyes, and long, narrow tendrils instead of fingers.

===[[Penanggalan]]=== 
A Malaysian variety of vampire that can exist as a relatively normal human during the day. At night, its head lifts up from its body, dragging along its internal organs and leaving its hollowed-out body behind as it goes hunting. To keep the body from rotting whilst the head and guts are away, it has to pickle it, and so even in human form it tends to stink of vinegar (or sometimes booze). It loves the blood of pregnant women and children, and so it prefers to go after these prey. It can be killed by burning it, exposing its head-and-guts form to sunlight, or stuffing its hollowed torso full of blades, broken glass, thorns, etc. so that it tears its entrails apart when it squeezes inside at dawn. 

A sadistic end, perhaps, but unfortunately perhaps the best; the bite of the Penanggalan contains a vicious wasting illness that often kills people the vampire would much rather leave alive (and in particularly bad cases, even Embraces them spontaneously as new Penanggalan). The only known cure is the initial vector's liver-something they are understandably reluctant to part with, even given their power to regenerate.

===Ragged-men===

===Rizzetti Apparatus===
The odd one out, since it's a machine that was never alive in the first place. The Rizzetti Apparatus is an old clockwork device from the heyday of Victorian Science, one of the first blood transfusion devices ever created (if not the first). It never went into full production; besides its titular inventor being murdered by his first patient, there's a very rare vital component of coral (and the bacteria that live in it) that only grows in one very specific lagoon. Worse, the impurity filtering process invariably puts said impurities in the blood donor, killing them. As for the patient, not so much-in fact, the bacteria-filtered and infused blood is not only never rejected, but supernaturally potent. The patient ceases to age, and for a while, is effectively in the prime of youth. Then the bacteria invariably reproduce faster than the body can keep under control, becoming an impurity themselves, one that consumes the patient's blood. To survive, they need another transfusion. And another. And another...

===Sons of Phobos===
People who practice ancient greek blood magic to extend their lifespans by consuming hearts. Then they found out that consuming a vampire's heart extend their life a lot more than a human heart, and would allow them gain their powers if they also consumed their vitae.