Bloodeaters of the Old Ways

Describes various traditions of vampires and their followers throughout recorded history. Includes information regarding vampire types common places for their lair to be located.
Types of Vampire:
Alp: Folktales tell the tragic story of the noble and mysterious eladrin race, elves from the Feywild. Its said that when an eladrin loose all hopes and take its own life, a living nightmare is created. Dreams are powerful things in the Feywild, gaining a will of their own. The nightmare will travel through time and planes, seeking a desperate elf, usually a virgin if the legend is to be believed. The unfortunate fairfolk will die of exhaustion in the following days, ceaselessly tormented by visions of death. The following night, it will

raise as an alp vampire.
Bruxa: The eerie bruxae possesses numerous myth of origin, but some of them are more common than most. It is said that bruxae were once the most beautiful and innocent of the fey, nymphs, dryads and other lively creatures. Succumbing to the bite of a higher vampire, their playful nature was twisted and turned them into manipulative killers, eager to drink the blood of their former sisters. Ancient grimoires also speak of a degrading ritual that can turn a witch into a bruxa, similar in principle to the ascension into lichdom. It is unclear if the ritual is used as a punishment on an unwilling subject or a mean to achieve immortality.
Ekimmara: Nobody really knows how an ekimmara is made. Many legends claim to know how they came to be, but none could be verified. Some say an ekimmara is born when a vampire bat feeds on the blood of a newborn illegitimately conceived during the full moon, which of the child or the bat is turning is unclear. Another popular legend pretend they are the damphyr children of mula and katakan vampires, conceived with a mortal, or that a giant bat drinking the blood of a katakan will raise as an ekimmara, depending on who you ear it from. Regardless of what scholars might think, it's probably for the best that nobody really knows the truth, for a deranged mind with the knowledge to create them could unleash a terrifying plague of bloodsuckers on the realms.

Katakan: Oddly enough katakans myths have a lot in common with tales of lycanthropy, rumored to be the stillborn offsprings of men and beasts. Most of this folklore probably contains a grain of truth, but it is difficult to separate the legends told by illeterate peasants from the actual facts. One of the reoccuring myth states that a powerful lycanthrope that is turned into a vampire will become a katakan, or that eating a lamb killed by a lycanthrope will turn you into one. One point were most legends seem to coincide is that stuffing the mouth of the dead with garlic will prevent its transformation.
Mula: Mula, the scourge of mankind, are born of wrath, cursed by an angry god. The fondation myth differs from story to story, but the theme stays the same: a man slaughtered his own family out of love for god. In his folly, to prove his faith and devotion, he committed the most vile of sacrifices. Ashamed that such a despicable act was perpetrated in its name, the god banished the fool into an unfathomable abyss. When the man emerged from the pit, he was transformed, afflicted by an insatiable blood-lust that could only be quenched briefly by the blood of the wicked. In other parts of the world mula vampires are supposed to raise from the grave of a killer or particularly bloodthirsty soldiers. The only way to prevent this is to behead the body in its grave, fill its mouth with salt and garlic and to drive a silver stake through its heart.