Psychic Vampire

A psychic vampire is a human who uses a form of psychic power, either innate or gained through external means, to feed from the vital essence and life energy of mortals and other living beings.

Overview
Either born with their gifts, as is most common, or gained through a ritual, curse, artifact, or infection from another of their kind, psychic vampires draw power from other humans and supernaturals through their life force or force of will. Unlike true vampires, psychic vampires are the result of a phenomenon rather than a complex supernatural race of their own, with most psychic vampires banding together in small and isolated groups while only a few psychic vampire networks are known to exist. Many psychic vampires prefer to separate themselves from their own kind and accompany normal mortals, non-vampiric psychics, or other forms of supernaturals.

Psychic vampires steal and manipulate ephemera, using it as fuel for their supernatural abilities while consistently losing an amount of it with each passing day; the absence of ephemera causes a psychic vampire to become significantly and increasingly agitated and volatile towards others until they are able to replenish themselves. Among numerous abilities, psychic vampires are capable of spending an amount of ephemera equal to their current age in order to abstain from the natural process for a year, effectively granting them a form of eternal youth for as long as they can supply ephemera.

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