| The Dark Gift also called The Embrace, or The Becoming, is the process by which vampires are created. When a sire chooses to Embrace someone they pass their brand of vampirism to the chosen mortal, cursing them to haunt the night as a nocturnal blood drinker. The experience is incredibly tramatic as the subject is brought to the brink of death only to be thrown into a nightmarish world unlike anything they've experienced before.
]Initiation When a vampire desires a childe, due to loneliness, regret at an accidental feeding, the need for a pawn, or any other reason, the first step is to drain the candidate dry. Any technique that results in a bloodless corpse will do, and unlike many vampire myths the act of biting itself does not spread vampirism. As they on the brisk of death, the sire gives the candidate a small amount of vitae, which transforms the candidate into one of the undead. This process is almost always instantaneous and only rarely fails, but strange things have been known to happen. The first reaction most vampires have after an Embrace is raw hunger. With little blood in their system and no experience dealing with a fully raging Beast, the fledgling will most likely enter a hunger frenzy at the first sight of blood. For most, this means that the Embrace is followed immediately by a moment of degredation. After the Embrace, the fledgling may take several days before the full impact of the curse is apparent. In Vampire: The Masquerade, a Ventrue's preference isn't defined until their first hunt, and the Nosferatu change can take up to a month as the body reforms to accept the curse. |
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