The Vampires are one of the Supernatural beings of the World of Darkness who mostly call themselves Kindred, licks, or Cainites though the younger Vampires have gone back to calling themselves Vampires to establish their claim to this status despite the thinness of their Blood.
The Vampires are the undead blood-drinkers who stalk the nights of the World of Darkness very reminiscent of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. They are night-time predators of mortals whose blood they need to drink to survive and like the Vampires of folklore they cannot go out in the day. But they certainly do not have the same weaknesses of Vampires of folklore but they do exhibit strange powers which depends on their origin.
It is common folklore within the Vampires that they all originated from Caine, the first born son of Adam and Eve, who was the first and most powerful Vampire of the World of Darkness who was cursed by god with vampirism for killing Abel his bother.