VAE VICTIS.

I would have hated for my last photograph on this platform for the time being to have been one where I am unduly stifled by an overabundance of clothing.

I fear you may well be right - asking questions that the powerful would rather not be asked is an easy way to find yourself facing problems that you need not faced… even if they’re problems that need facing by someone, sooner or later.

My understanding of most vampiric embraces are to place some of your vital essence within a freshly emptied corpse - but the question does infer that you have produced progeny in some fashion. The Cainites of the Tellurian I reside in are the most widespread form of Vampiric unlife, and that is where I draw most of my information. The other breeds processes on the subject are less known to me.

As to your relationship with your… ‘sire’? ‘Abusive Father-Figure’? …‘Violator’? Whichever term you prefer, you have my sympathies. To find oneself a pawn to another’s ego can be… harsh, regardless of how little you trusted them to begin with.

At least you are aware of it.

That is one such method to grant someone the gift. To my knowledge it is not possible without some access to either said vital essence, or some manner of vampiric artefact. The state of the receiver can vary.

I do not desire your sympathies for a matter you know nothing of.

Ah, my apologies if I have over-pried. I have a bad habit of taking advantage of my ignorance of sensitive issues to enquire deeply of those fundamentals of mystical development that might speak to greater universal truths.

I do find it interesting you’re familiar with the ‘sparkling vampire’ stigma - are rumours of the issue so widespread? Speaking as one who occasionally sparkles himself, it can be embarrassing, I’ll not deny.

I will confess to some amount of curiosity of the effects of the ritual that made you: can you produce progeny in the manner common to your kind? Were any samples of an existing vampire used in the process? And given your prior response to the discussion of the Tremere, can I infer that this was done to you rather than by you?

Feel free to deny me the answer if I over-pry once more.

That’s the kind of habit that will get you killed, you know.

It is not so much that the tales of vampires sparkling are widespread, moreso that, upon finding this platform, I was greeted with such tales. Apparently they are tied to popular fiction in other realms.

You would perhaps have to define what is considered a “common” way for a vampire to produce progeny for me to offer any substantial answer. Far be it from me to make assumptions on what is common.