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VII. Fledglings
You are responsible for teaching and guiding those of our kind whom you have awakened to their true natures. You must guide them through their transformation, helping to ease the transition from one level of awareness to the next. Those who you guide in this way will be as your children and will share a deep bond with you like no other. You will know their very heart and soul. The mysteries of their Essential Self will be unveiled to you. No distance will separate your awareness of them. The link goes both ways, and they can communicate with you and know your feelings when they choose. Often, even unintentionally, you will each share in what the other experiences, as the space between your spirits is close even when great distance separates your physical selves. You may use the link to feed from them at a distance, to borrow their strength as your own, and they in their turn can draw upon you. Their thoughts will be yours to know; their actions will fall under your control if you so choose�but do not seek to abuse this power you wield over them for as dearly as they may love you and revere you while under your control, they will just as thoroughly hate and revile you once that control has slipped away.
VIII. The Beacon
Our kind has ways of recognizing its own. Often this recognition occurs on an unspoken level and is very subtle, so you must learn to trust your impulses and allow your greater Self to guide you. Especially in the unawakened, this recognition manifests itself as a Beacon, which calls us to them so that they may realize their Potential. The Beacon calls to us on a very basic level, and often speaks purely to our unconscious minds. Thus we find ourselves inexplicably attracted to a Potential, stricken with a sudden fascination for him and a need to draw him closer to us. If we listen to our perceptions and trust our instinctual reactions, we can refine this awareness of others until we can consciously pick out the Beacon in those around us. Sometimes, even after such a refinement has been achieved, the Beacon still slips past our conscious actions and we find we simply responding to its unspoken pull. The pull of the Beacon drives us to feed from the Potential, thus awakening him to the most basic aspect of his hidden nature. We must learn to recognize the Beacon in others, to judge its varying degrees of strength so that we may go about the awakening in a deliberate manner. We must learn to recognize when it is appropriate to awaken a Potential and when that awakening will bring only grief to all involved. We must let our judgment rule us in this matter and we must sometimes resist the merely instinctual pull of the Beacon for awakenings that are not appropriate. Not all of those with Potential are fit for the awakening, and if we act rashly we may unwittingly loose the beast of our destruction through a careless move.
IX. Characteristics
The Beacon is present to a limited degree in those who have already become. It is strong enough for us to recognize one of our numbers when we come into contact with him, even if this recognition is the barest hint of perception. We may also be known by our distinct auras: deep purple sometimes shot through with red, surrounded by a nimbus of black or gray mist. The outer layer often stretches into tendrils that extend far beyond our physical forms, reaching out and feeding from those around us. To those who can perceive that level of reality, we often appear to be a nexus of such tendrils. The tendrils are varying shades of gray, with a smooth, rope-like appearance. We are often noted for our pallor, but more often it is the intensity of our eyes, which gives us away. We tend to be thin with a powerful and often intimidating presence, which wraps about us like a shroud. Our hands are often very cold. This is a cold, which saps heat away, and lingers where it has been touched. It is a symptom of our constant, low-level energy draw. If we consciously channel energy through our hands, they grow very warm. It is not the temperature, which is important: it is the responsiveness of our physical bodies to subtle effects that is distinctive. We are sensitive to strong odors and tastes, as our senses are often acute. Many of us can hear in a more than normal human range. Some of this is physical hearing; some may be limited clairaudience, as our subtle senses extend far beyond our physical selves. We are almost always much stronger and quicker than we look, for the body is merely a vessel for a much more powerful Will. We are sensitive to light and to the excessive heat of the sun. This is symptomatic of our acute sensitivity to energy. The radiation of the sun is an overwhelming form of energy which our systems have trouble assimilating. Many of us burn very easily in the sun. Almost all of us are made sick by it. When required to be out in full daylight, we develop headaches, nausea, and dizziness. The light saps us of our strength, leaving us exhausted and drained.
The night is our natural dominion, for in the mythic imagination, it is the realm of secrets, of magick, and all that the day-lit world rejects. We carry ourselves with a proud determination and can seem arrogant, detached, and cold. It is often hard for us to relate to the unawakened in their blind and ordinary lives. We often possess a predatory nature, and only with difficulty do we avoid using those around us. To most we seem unapproachable. There is an air about us, which seems somehow to set us apart. Even those ignorant to our true natures react to this, treating us with respect, attraction or Fear. The unawakened stare then look away from us and are unable to meet our gaze. They are disturbed by our presence but rarely will they understand what disturbed them or why. Instinctually, they fear us. The Awakened will know us for what we are, though they may hesitate to put a name to it. Still, on an unspoken level they will understand and attempt to define us through the filters of their individual beliefs and symbol systems. Children will know us, though rarely do they fear. In their innocence, they have not yet learned to doubt, and thus are open to a clear perception of the world around them.

X. Subtle Body Changes
To the Awakened who can perceive energy or the subtle body, we often appear flawed or incomplete. This is often mistaken as illness or disease. In truth, our kind partially or completely lacks an energy center. This is most often the one located in the belly, just below the navel. It is because we lack this center that we need to feed, for our subtle bodies cannot sustain the energy necessary to maintain our physical forms. Our physical connection to life is thin and weak. In those of our number who have not become, this may manifest itself in actual physical debility or illness. Birth defects are not uncommon. If they gain awareness of their powers and at the very
least learn how to feed, they may learn to compensate for this weakness. However, once you have learned to compensate, if you are unable to feed enough to sustain yourself, this weakness will return with greater severity than before. Often well-meaning Awakened will offer to heal you so that you need not suffer the drawbacks associated with this lacking. Their efforts should be discouraged for they do not understand our nature. The absence of this center defines us as what we are and is carried over from lifetime to lifetime. In this respect, vampirism is a condition of the spirit, and it is the spirit, which predisposes the body to physically manifest the characteristics associated with vampirism. Occasionally damage can be done to the subtle body of another that will partially or completely destroy an energy center. Such damage may be more permanent than the physical flesh, and thus will be carried over from lifetime to lifetime. This damage is most often the result of an accident, yet it produces much the same results as that which we embody. Those who have been damaged in this way will find that they need to feed. Their subtle bodies can no longer sustain their physical forms, and if life energy is not taken from an outside source, they will suffer debilitating effects associated with the lost or damaged energy center. Though these are not our children, they are technically of our number. It is
our duty to help and guide them in understanding what has happened to them and what this may entail. There is however hope that such individuals will eventually heal on a subtle level, and thus recovers from their state of vampirism.