From the moment of my awakening, the image of my vampyric identity has changed many times, shifting and crystallizing the more I learned.

A tool in every psychic Vampyre’s arsenal that often goes unused is the Phylactery, which Father Sebastiaan, in his Black Veils, refers to as a potentially endless source of energy for the Vampyre to draw from. In both magickal and religious traditions, the Phylactery is sometimes referred to as a reliquary, a soul jar or vase, or an amulet into which the practitioner places a piece of themselves.

When we first came up with the system of Vampyre alignments as a tool to describe and label where one might position themselves in relation to the many perspectives, philosophies, and attitudes found within the contemporary Vampyre subculture, we did not at all expect that the terminology might gain popularity beyond Black Rose Society. As it stands, the terms of Traditionalist and Modernist, as well as..