Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-12634038-20131008035810/@comment-11533671-20131025131101

^ Thank you. I understand everyone has their own opinions and visions as to the two creatures. I was only summing up what I've come to believe most based on my own accumulated knowledge of them from multiple platforms. I'm sure there are variations here and there. For those that like the movie series Underworld, you'd be surprised to know that the creators of that movie were RPG geeks. In fact they built their movie world using a pretty good established world made for RPG gamers.

White Wolf / Wizards of the Coast publishers had created an entire world that was a little more Gothic oriented and supernatural. They had published books that were used as Player Guides for those that wanted to be a Werewolf or a Vampire. What is interesting about this is the movie series Underworld is based upon this RPG.

Their were different guides put out for both creatures. There was an original one that is said to take place more in the 14th-17th century. This was still the period of middle ages but also the era of the renaissance. Then there was a modern/updated guide in which some minor changes took place with some clans surviving, some supposedly dying and new clans arising.

The original Werewolf guide  - has varied clans of werewolves which in turn have differing philosophies. Some clans are more bestial than the others, some are the epitome of the horror movie archetype and others are more akin to Teen Wolf types.

The original Vampire guide was subtitled, The Masquerade - it also held that there were various covens of Vampires that held different philosophies and varied in their appearances/abilities. The aristocratic vampires were clan Ventrue....the underground and ugly vampires take their name and appearance from the original German vampire film, Nosferatu. There are others as well.