[ᴠᴇʀsᴇ] ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛᴏᴏ ᴍᴀɴʏ ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇs;;

[vampyre]

13 Families

Sanguines: Blood creeps
Rigors: True Undead
Elementals: Lame and obvious name
Ferals: Animal powers!
Thralls: Mind powers!
Arcanums: Magic (?) Powers!
Allurers: Seducers & sex focused
Aureas: Angel-like
Sulfurers: Demon-like
Humanes: The most human ones
The Swarm: One mind, many bodies
Cains: Vampire drinking SOBs

Daywalkers: Nobody likes the special kid

The Names

Vampires typically have two names: their "Human name" and their "Family name", this being whatever their Maker decided upon the Turning and their "type" working as their surname. While in the Vampire Society, it's expected of vampires to go with their Family name at all times, and many don't know the Human names of others.

Position Names

Certain positions and/or jobs within Vampire Society are so important and/or carry so much power that their occupants receive a new name, which works both as a title and as the vampire's actual name for as long as they keep the position, which commonly lasts until they Die. These names are accompanied by a numeral depicting how many vampires have held the position so far. The surname remains. Some names to remember in Vampire Society are:

Thesis -- The Vampire Ruler (Currently Thesis XVII Aurea after Thesis XVIII Daywalker abdicated, making it the first time the "new" Ruler is a number lower, and the first time the "next" Ruler will be two numbers higher).

Mother -- The Swarmspeaker of the Swarm (Currently Mother Swarm; it has always been the same one, which is hella creepy)

Ella -- The HBIC in charge of the Allurers (Currently Ella X Allure)

TBC

Naming Conventions

Those that have been granted Position Names usually default to these, although close friends/family will continue to use their Family names, be it in private or publicly to demonstrate their bond.

The Thesis Situation (official name pending) is an odd one, as she didn't only abdicate, but also self-exiled herself from Vampire Society. Nowadays the vampires refer to her by three different names; that of Thesis XVIII Daywalker, Rena Daywalker (her Family name) and those that find her outside of Vampire Society, forced to follow the ways of the world, are urged by her to simply call her Lorena Cross.

They still mix them all the time though.

[ᴠᴇʀsᴇ] ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴜʟᴛɪᴠᴇʀsᴇ sʜᴇɴᴀɴɪɢᴀɴs;;

[kabbalah]

Congrats, your universe is hardly important because there are trillions upon trillions of those, give it or take an infinity or two. No big deal.

The Ministry of Multiverse Management (MMM and they totally did it on purpose) is composed by the deities that rule over their respective universe. See, once upon a time they were All Together, but the Gods are feisty and possessive and greedy, so that didn't go too well for the Big Universe they shared. So after a few millenia of debate (and the biggest Name Poll never recorded in history) the MMM was formed and the Big Universe was taken apart, thus making the Multiverse! It wasn't as exciting or complicated as it sounds, though.

But it was slightly complicated, though, because even the omnipotent beings that rule everything ever, forever (or do they?) have to follow The Rules, even if they don't like them. Who made The Rules and why do they follow them, they don't know, it's just part of the Things That Are, so Shut Up and Get To It.

So, The Rules were many and The Rules were varied, but some were more important than others; the different universes had to retain some semblance between each other, they couldn't affect events directly, they couldn't transplant things from their universe to another (or receive transplants) and they couldn't, under any circumstances, do anything to another god's universe.

There was also the matter of The Prophesy. What prophesy? They didn't know, either, but The Rules indicated that there should be a prophesy linked to the separation of the Big Universe as a way to...well, something. Some gods thought it would eventually bring all the universes together, others that it would further divide them, some that The Prophesy would destroy the Multiverse...and even themselves. But they didn't, couldn't know, as The Prophesy was to grow and develop alongside the Multiverse, until it was ripe and became whole. So they basically hooked it to the creation of the Multiverse like one would hook a keychain to...a key, I guess.

Bad metaphor.

TBC