D from Vampire Hunter D was 10,000 years old. I'm sure a few of the other vampires featured in that series were even older. Also, Acheron Parthenopaeus from the Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon was around 11,000 years old. Thank you for the video! Really enjoyed it!
Ummm.. wasn’t D 15,000 years old at the end of just bloodlust? And his dad was 25,000 years plus? I would have said this.. but I want you getting the credit for saying it first
@@andrewsowl8696 I appreciate you being considerate. It wouldn't have bothered me though if you had posted a separate comment about VHD 😊. And you are no doubt correct. I knew the timeline and year of VHD but didn't remember finer details off the top of my head so I did a simple Google search and that is what came up at the top of the search.
@@andrewsowl8696 I started reading the novelizations myself a few years ago. I need to get caught up on them again. And the Mangas are always a better representation of the story. 😊
Mr. Oliver from the Anita Blake series was considered to be about 1 million years old. He was identified as Homo Erectus and was only about 4 feet tall. Oldest one I can think of - now to watch the video to see if he made the list 😅🎉
Is this the “Father of Days?” I can’t remember his name. He and Mother Night were the two oldest in her series, if I remember right. I need to read the series again, lol.
@@erisisthename No, the he was The Earth Shaker. The Father of Days was actually a surprise reveal, he was pretty weak and appeared relatively 'normal' when introduced.
I am a huge fan of your work! My first vamp film was "Fright Night" cause i was born in 1981. But when i got the "Interview with a Vampire" Movie, i literally got addicted to every Anne Rice Book! I appreciate your hard work and i love that you dig in every vampire story as deep a you possibly can! Especially now, that i now that you do everything yourself! Thank u so so much! Greetings from Vienna Austria! 🇦🇹 Ps: Sorry for my bad english, because i speak deutsch (german) Have a nice day! 🥰
FINALLY!! SOMEONE ELSE GIVING PENNY DREADFUL THE FUCKING RESPECT IT DESERVES!! I swear that show was so underrated! People have seem to have forgotten that Dracula and his brother Lucifer were here before before we were! ❤
@@Rachael-d9i Hahaha thank you 😊 And I agree, it was an excellent show. Their concept of Dracula and portrayal to me is unique yet feels familiar. Was sad they ended after only 3 seasons. I'm glad my comment was appreciated haha.
@@Rachael-d9i On a side note, I think it would be interesting to see a vid comparing the different Draculas from TV and films. NBCs Dracula, Castlevania and Van Helsing (movie and TV show) comes to mind.
@Vinyls77 I wish so bad someone else would pick it up! The adaptations of all the great horror & folklore! 1. Lucifer 2. Dracula 3. Dr. Frankenstein & his monsters 4. Dorian Grey 5. Werewolves 6. Even african voodoo/warrior
My favorite vampire series is the Necroscope book series by Brian Lumley (first book published in 1986. His take is unique in that the vampire comes from a world similar to Earth but is created from a parasite that starts as a spore in the swamps of the alien world and if it infects a human it forms a leech inside the human and becomes what we think of as a vampire and grows as a symbiotic creature inside the human. The vampires came to Earth in prehistory via a 'grey hole' that exited somewhere in the Transylvanian region, underground. The oldest vampire known in that universe is Shaitan who was exiled many thousands of years in the past to the arctic due to his unacceptable excesses. He's so old that his leech has completely overtaken and subsumed his human host.
If I remember there were about 12 books in total. Read them all in sequence in the early '90s. A great take on the vampire origin and source. The Lords and lady's in their aeries. Book 3 was brilliant from start to finish.
Lilith in VTM also has a religion called Ba'Hari that follows her as their creator instead of Caine. Her works and lore can be found in the VTM sourcebook: 'Revelations of the Dark Mother', which I think is better written than 'the Book of NOD'. Also historically Lilith is an invention of Rabbinical Judaism that can be found in the Talmud that claims her to be Adam's first wife. The word Lilith is based off of a Sumerian/Babylonian demon named Lilitu, that would drink blood and eat children.
Next to the already mentioned Mr. Oliver, there's also Gon from Joseph Duncan's "Oldest Living Vampire" series. He's said to be around 30,000 years old, and is a mix of homo sapien, Neanderthal, and Cro Magnon.
Isn't Mr Oliver from the Anita Blake series? Name sounds familiar but I haven't read those books since I was in high school, so probably 20 years ago. He was also a Neanderthal if I remember correctly.
I'll love your videos. I would listen to you and do a deep dive into anything. Every video you do is so well researched, produced, and well thought out. Would you ever consider the vampire genre that comes from more spicy content? I've actually come across different kinds of vampires that have unique qualities as well as normal tropes.
Thank you *VAMPIRE LORE* for another brilliant video. *Congratulations* on your channel’s growth! It seems like just yesterday when you started. Check out D from *Vampire Hunter D* …he’s a minimum of 5,000 years old (but could be up to 10,000).
The Space Girl from Lifeforce, known only as She, should absolutely be at the top of the list for the 10 oldest vampires. She’s millions of years old-likely one of the oldest beings in the universe. Not only is she an ancient alien, but it’s suggested that her kind wiped out the dinosaurs, making her responsible for mass extinctions long before humans ever existed. Her origins trace back to a massive spaceship hidden in Halley’s Comet, and she’s been feeding on life forms for eons, unlike any typical vampire..
Could you make a video on all of Akasha's fletchlings???? Have been searching about them recently, but couldn't find info on all of them Love your videos!!!
It's originally a Tabletop RPG. Within the same universe, they also did Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and three others of which I'm less familiar that focused on ghosts, mages, and fae.
In Christopher Pike’s the last vampire novel series, the oldest vampire Yaksha is around 6,000 years old, brought into creation by the God Krishna around 3000 B.C
I was gonna mention this but you beat me to it by two weeks lol. though yaksha is only 5000 I’m pretty sure because sita was 5000 and she was there when yaksha was born wasn’t she?
Just so happened to stumble upon this channel as a suggestion on my home feed. To my surprise it’s you Dean!!! It’s good to see you still doing consistent content and on a another channel as well 👏🏾😁
Like this list. Im curious if you have heard of Sita AKA Alisa Perne from the Last Vampire Series by Christopher Pike, she is a 5,000 vampire that is worth a look at
Just found your channel. Good stuff, but I'm looking through your list and wondering why you haven't covered Brian Lumley's Wamphyrie from the Necroscope series. Talk about bad ass death machines, they're from another dimension and their form of vampirism is a leech that over time becomes more and more dominant. They fight wars among each other and even have BDSM style sex, the longer they live the more they change and can control their shape. The father of their kind is Shaitan who is so old his shape has become that of the leech. You need to cover these guys.
Vampire hunter D and castle Vania, Alacard and his father Dracula. Have you ever touched base with these characters. They are great comic book and movies too.
As far as I remember, Caine was the first. After he killed his brother Abel he was "marked". The mark of Caine was to be a vampire. And from then on, all vampires were "Cainites". And of course, Lillith, the first wife of Adam, she was among the first. The vampire who represented immortality? Hands down it was il Comte Saint German. Who is remembered at parties in France saying that he had "lived forever" as he regularly drank from the "elixir of life" which he had intimated, but never came right out and said it, that it was human blood. As quickly as he showed up in French Society, he vanished, just as quickly. At the time he also said that he was an Alchemist, though they were popular at that time, sort of like being a rockstar. There have been a number of fictional and factual books written about him. I recommend them highly.
I hate to be that guys, but actually, in VtM, Caine was cursed by God but not yet a vampire. He met Lilith who was a powerful sorceress and she Awakened Caine. Since Caine was cursed by God, the Awakening transformed him as he discovered a path of Blood. And thus was born as the first vampire.
True Blood-Godric is over 2000 years old, which is older than Marcus Corvinus. Godric was turned in Ancient Rome after being taken prisoner from Gaul during Julius Caesar's reign. He was turned around 50 BCE. Macklyn Warlow/Ben Flynn is just over 5500 years old, and he was turned in 3500 BCE. This would place him between Drake and Meharet & Mekari.
There was this one vampire who looked ancient so I asked his age. “Well first I was one. One year old hahaha. Then I was two. Two years old hahaha…” I walked off but as far as I know, he’s still going.
In Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series, there is a Vampire called The Earthmover, or Mr Oliver, he was thought to be the oldest living vampire, and he wasn't even originally human, he was Homo Erectus. He is around a million years old. He isn't the only super ancient in her series either.
Damon Julian, the ancient Blood Master in George RR Martin's early-1980s novel Fevre Dream, is older than modern humans. It's been a long time since I read it but iirc he hunted older, now extinct humanoid species and watched modern humans slowly take over the Earth. So we're talking at least 200,000 years old. He might not even be the oldest, he's just the oldest he knows for sure still exists. Great novel, btw. Truly is Bram Stoker x Mark Twain as described by reviewers at the time of release.
Thanks. This resonates with my understandings of this media and in a pleasing way as well. I have only not watched a few of "the sources" of the rank list. Also putting Cain from VtM B on top was a nice move. I really liked it. Another good thing not "watering it down" with one and the same character from different media. For Example Count Vladislav Tepesh as explained in one of Hellsing`s OAVs is one of the best Dracula origin stories, even if animated. FYI here`s a brief review of this side story as opposed to Babylonian ~Drake. Alucard is Dracula in reverse (obsolete news flash). Just as "the real" Vladislav Tepesh... he was a Count born in Romania (btw lemme up front the age... not so old as Drake). It was story about loneliness and sorrow... I will not be able to represent it, but what happened is... the Turks invaded and he kept Impaling them rear to and through throat in vertical on his Castle`s front yard entrance to it`s gate... thus "Vlad the Impaler"... than stuffs happened... (I don`t remember what) but maybe some pact with like Satan or something, maybe loved one maybe not (probably) (I know this is not doing what I've said about it being good, justice for me being unable to remember it in details, but bare...). So his "core" ability in ~immortality becomes absorbing both the souls and the genetic makeup of >all< his victims. The part of the Turkish army that attacked his domain, all the other vampires he encountered and defeated (I guess they have their own origin stories in this franchise, rather than being his direct "offspring", unlike Ceras Victoria... but that`s yet another story). But they are also of course "him" ~in their guise... so he have like close to countless variations of himself, within himself... and he can "reboot" of either one of them or if "all his seals are temporary taken down" he can unleash the entirety of him with all of them at once... (which he does in a scene against army of Nazi Warewolf zombies lead by a robot, attacking UK o_0... long live The Queen). Ultimately he is "tricked" to consume more or less "the Schrodinger cat" (which in this franchise is a character with the power of being everywhere at all times at once... or something) which effectively makes him divide himself by 0 (no joke it`s how it works) and we all know that should not be done :P. Resulting in him being constantly toggled in between all of his personalities, yet being non of them... effectively rendering him ~non existent.. That`s for dividing yourself to 0 :P. However it is latter on explained ~by his truly ~as he of course returns to serve Integra... (even of that) that he still manage to somehow "outfight all of those infinite himselfs within him" and thus remain homogeneous present and self aware himself ~once again... I know it sounds a bit mambo jambo, but keep in mind it begins with legion absorbing being that is everywhere all at once... So one may ask themselves "but had he became less powerful of that"... The answer is "no" and this is something I am ~making myself up... But for the sake of the argument there are actually 2 arguments... By outfighting everyone within himself (even thou he at the same time was non of them as well o_0) he remained only >the strongest< of an infinite of himself (kind of like that Jackie Chan, dimensions movie, or was it Jet Lee, I am sorry) so that puts him once again as a "stronger" in fact being than he previously was, since he defeated the entirety of himself... a.k.a. he surpassed himself. The second argument "tones down" things a little and than also ~not. By re emerging ~"exactly himself"... he is actually in fact "Exactly Himself" (I know there is an exact word for the that tautology or something) Meaning he just regained presence of mind and thus consistent existing state. Still actually being all that legion and all. It all can also be explained ~that second argument with this joke about this guy having only one of his certain body parts being longer than the other. It is only one of the two forms pre and post consuming he Schrodinger car of Alucard that is stronger than the other.
The oldest vampire from comics is Varnae, Marvel's origin of the whole vampire race and supposed to have been created during the Atlantean age. Maybe even older is Cain from the Vampire The Masquerade RPG setting. The vampire curse in this setting is actually the "mark of Cain" found in the bible
I understand as a CBBC kids show, it’s not that well known, but Sethius from Young Dracula was said to be over three thousand years old, so deserves a spot somewhere on the list.
The vampire from Salem's Lot is I think it's 14 billion years old if I'm not mistaken, predating the Big Bang. I am not surprised you missed this one. It was a section of another set of stories within the Stephen King universe that explains it all in the dark tower set of books.
Awesome! Though I do believe there is a comic book character, I can't recall his name, who's a Vampire Caveman of some sort and is said to be millions of years old.
Y'all should check out the lore from Vampire, The Masquerade. In it Cain is the first Vampire, but the lore goes all the way back to Adam and his first wife Lilith.
Another older vampire is Lazarus from the sanguinar series by James Rollins. After Lazarus was raised from the dead by Jesus he became a vampire so is around 2000 years old and the first vampire. He runs a group of vampire priests that hunt rogue vampires and other dark forces. Pretty decent vampire trilogy.
I am SO glad VtM is finally getting some mentions here. That game has so much lore from Caine, to his childer, and then the Clans. I would stop at V20 though... the 5th ed of the game just blows changing the Clans way to much.
The Sacred Ancestor or the vampire King from Vampire Hunter D is the oldest vampire period. He predates humans according to the lore. The vampires in this series have existed since the early stages of earths creation.
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter By Laurel K. Hamilton This series has The Earth Shaker, a vampire said to be one million years old, he is in fact so old he's not even human, he's a human precursor. Marmee Noir: The Mother of Darkness, who is so old that she hunted the things that became hominids, within this mythology she is the reason Humans evolved to fear the darkness. This series is great for old Vampires, the first big bad of the series was a roman village girl from the first century. Vampire Hunter D By Hideyuki Kikuchi, The Sacred Ancestor, their stand in for Dracula, was only born in the 15th century, but so long has passed since that he can only recall his age as "uncounted millennia."
Castlevania Dracula is like 600 years old. Something like that. 1400 is when he became into being and was defeated in 1999. That’s the only old one I can think of off the top of my head.
While not fitting neatly into the traditional model of a vampire, the God Emperor of Mankind from 40K does possess many vampiric qualities. And if we accept that as a qualifier, he would be among the oldest at over 50,000 years old in the 41st millennium - even during the modern day for us, he would be 10,000 years old
Would have thought Philip from a discovery of witches would have beat out a few of these, he predated the Roman Empire so a lot older than some of these.
Honorable mentions of oldest vampires that should have been mentioned include Cain from the Shadow hunters series he was 10000+ yrs old a day walker and Vampire diaries/Originals series Silas the first immortal over 2500+ yrs and the Original family the Mikaelsons 1000+ yrs old.
You mention the V:tM game, Caine, a nd the antediluvians. But there are twelve of them in existence. (There were 13. Someone literally dropped a nuke on one, killing him. At his death, all of the vamps in his bloodline went insane. They had to be put down. Since nothing like this has happened before, I am extrapolating the other 12 are still alive. Or at least “active”. But Caine turned three humans, who in turn turned the antideluvians. They turned on Caine, so he cursed them to suffer the same fate. But only one of those actually died when the third generation attacked. So there are at least two (the source book is written to be vague so every game can be modified to suit the GM’s taste). They are older the any antideluvian, but younger than Caine.
One thing about the World of Darkness that nobody ever talks about is that the Bible is clear that Earth is not 4 billion years old, it's not even a million years old. The oldest Nicktuku is 12,000 years old. So the 3rd gen is probably 12,000-15,000 years old. I think that Saulot was the first 3rd gen. But how much time between Cain becoming a vampire and him embracing the 2nd gen. Cain is almost certainly less than 20,000 years old. I don't know anything about Werewolf, Mage, Changeling or Oblivion except that Abel was the first wraith, even older than Cain, which I've heard said makes him insanely powerful. How did those ones begin ? First werewolf/shapeshifter, first fae, first mage. I would love to know how those werespiders came to be. They freak me out.
Cain was my immediate thought as well. However, Biblically (apocryphally), Lilith was Adam's first wife so clearly older than Cain. Debatable if she was a vampire rather than a demo though.
2:00 I actually named the two oldest I could think of before you asked the question though I admit I don’t know the name of one of them and I’ve just thought of a third. So the first and third I thought of are a bit up in the air for age Lilith and Kain, Lilith is sometimes seen as a vampire in setting and in others she is something else unknown or a demon but I’m thinking vampire the masquerade specifically Kain was the first vampire and as he is like the 3rd or 4th human on earth that’s likely putting him really high on the list, Lilith I’m a little unsure on as I don’t think she is a vampire in the VTM setting but in other setting as she predates eve she would be older so higher on the list speaking of eve she is also a vampire in some setting so he would also be higher on the list than Kain. The second one I thought of was the angel from the strain but I don’t know it’s name if it had one or it’s age as I’ve not watched the show (I just never got round to it, my mental health makes it so I’ll keep putting off starting new things and not feel up to carrying on stuff I’ve already started, it sucks) I believe that they were sent down to witness the destruction of Sodom and Gamora? So quite old.
The original Vampire in Supernatural, I don't believe has a firm confirmed age, but all of the "1rst" of each monster race were a few thousand years old in cannon I believe so he at least beats a couple on the list. If I am remembering lore right.
Come mate. Do Michael Corvin from the Underworld Franchise. Including his role in Underworld: Endless War. Maybe a video about Kraven and a video that goes into depth of the romantic relationship between Michael Corvin and Selene.
In the original Doctor Who there was Yssgaroth who was older than the universe who spawned world eating Great Vampires accross time. (Reusing characters from the same franchise seem a little inappropriate, and inaccurate.)
You can argue Lilith is the oldest. As she is even older the Eve, Cains mother. Lilith was Adam's first wife until she refused to be Adams wife. Btw she was also Caine wife and caine murdered Able. That must of been the first terrible marriage. Lilith wanting to be in charge and Caine wanting to be number 1. Prefect match.
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D from Vampire Hunter D was 10,000 years old. I'm sure a few of the other vampires featured in that series were even older. Also, Acheron Parthenopaeus from the Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon was around 11,000 years old. Thank you for the video! Really enjoyed it!
Ummm.. wasn’t D 15,000 years old at the end of just bloodlust? And his dad was 25,000 years plus?
I would have said this.. but I want you getting the credit for saying it first
@@andrewsowl8696 I appreciate you being considerate. It wouldn't have bothered me though if you had posted a separate comment about VHD 😊. And you are no doubt correct. I knew the timeline and year of VHD but didn't remember finer details off the top of my head so I did a simple Google search and that is what came up at the top of the search.
@@GeminisEmerald I might be wrong.. but I’m also more of the manga follower in most cases…
And the third manga was set REALLY late in the timeline
@@andrewsowl8696 I started reading the novelizations myself a few years ago. I need to get caught up on them again. And the Mangas are always a better representation of the story. 😊
Mr. Oliver from the Anita Blake series was considered to be about 1 million years old. He was identified as Homo Erectus and was only about 4 feet tall.
Oldest one I can think of - now to watch the video to see if he made the list 😅🎉
Came here to say this! 😊
Is this the “Father of Days?” I can’t remember his name. He and Mother Night were the two oldest in her series, if I remember right. I need to read the series again, lol.
@erisisthename It's been awhile for me too 🙃
They might have been older than Mr. Oliver only because they could body jump and my predate homo erectus in their original bodies too.🎉😊
@@erisisthename No, the he was The Earth Shaker.
The Father of Days was actually a surprise reveal, he was pretty weak and appeared relatively 'normal' when introduced.
I am a huge fan of your work! My first vamp film was "Fright Night" cause i was born in 1981. But when i got the "Interview with a Vampire" Movie, i literally got addicted to every Anne Rice Book! I appreciate your hard work and i love that you dig in every vampire story as deep a you possibly can! Especially now, that i now that you do everything yourself! Thank u so so much!
Greetings from Vienna Austria! 🇦🇹
Ps: Sorry for my bad english, because i speak deutsch (german) Have a nice day! 🥰
Thank you very much Angelika. I really appreciate your support. If you ever have any further questions, reach out to me on instagram. Thank you. Dean
Actually #1 is Dracula from Penny Dreadful. He is Lucifer's brother and existed since before the birth of mankind. But yeah, awesome video, loved it!
FINALLY!! SOMEONE ELSE GIVING PENNY DREADFUL THE FUCKING RESPECT IT DESERVES!! I swear that show was so underrated! People have seem to have forgotten that Dracula and his brother Lucifer were here before before we were! ❤
@@Rachael-d9i Hahaha thank you 😊 And I agree, it was an excellent show. Their concept of Dracula and portrayal to me is unique yet feels familiar. Was sad they ended after only 3 seasons. I'm glad my comment was appreciated haha.
@@Rachael-d9i On a side note, I think it would be interesting to see a vid comparing the different Draculas from TV and films. NBCs Dracula, Castlevania and Van Helsing (movie and TV show) comes to mind.
@Vinyls77 I wish so bad someone else would pick it up! The adaptations of all the great horror & folklore!
1. Lucifer
2. Dracula
3. Dr. Frankenstein & his monsters
4. Dorian Grey
5. Werewolves
6. Even african voodoo/warrior
@Vinyls77 You are now my new best friend! Well..... my only friend.... I have the social anxiety.... it's pretty severe, actually 😕
My favorite vampire series is the Necroscope book series by Brian Lumley (first book published in 1986. His take is unique in that the vampire comes from a world similar to Earth but is created from a parasite that starts as a spore in the swamps of the alien world and if it infects a human it forms a leech inside the human and becomes what we think of as a vampire and grows as a symbiotic creature inside the human. The vampires came to Earth in prehistory via a 'grey hole' that exited somewhere in the Transylvanian region, underground. The oldest vampire known in that universe is Shaitan who was exiled many thousands of years in the past to the arctic due to his unacceptable excesses. He's so old that his leech has completely overtaken and subsumed his human host.
YES! The Source World, Wampyri, what a series! Wild vampires and wish I was reading that series for the first time. Loved it!
If I remember there were about 12 books in total. Read them all in sequence in the early '90s. A great take on the vampire origin and source. The Lords and lady's in their aeries. Book 3 was brilliant from start to finish.
Man, it’s been a while since I read them, but damn… they were disturbing!
Lilith in VTM also has a religion called Ba'Hari that follows her as their creator instead of Caine. Her works and lore can be found in the VTM sourcebook: 'Revelations of the Dark Mother', which I think is better written than 'the Book of NOD'. Also historically Lilith is an invention of Rabbinical Judaism that can be found in the Talmud that claims her to be Adam's first wife. The word Lilith is based off of a Sumerian/Babylonian demon named Lilitu, that would drink blood and eat children.
Next to the already mentioned Mr. Oliver, there's also Gon from Joseph Duncan's "Oldest Living Vampire" series. He's said to be around 30,000 years old, and is a mix of homo sapien, Neanderthal, and Cro Magnon.
Isn't Mr Oliver from the Anita Blake series? Name sounds familiar but I haven't read those books since I was in high school, so probably 20 years ago. He was also a Neanderthal if I remember correctly.
@@EliteSpetzNaz Homo Erectus actually, which would put him at between 108,000 and 1 million years old.
I'll love your videos. I would listen to you and do a deep dive into anything.
Every video you do is so well researched, produced, and well thought out.
Would you ever consider the vampire genre that comes from more spicy content?
I've actually come across different kinds of vampires that have unique qualities as well as normal tropes.
Thank you *VAMPIRE LORE* for another brilliant video. *Congratulations* on your channel’s growth! It seems like just yesterday when you started. Check out D from *Vampire Hunter D* …he’s a minimum of 5,000 years old (but could be up to 10,000).
The Space Girl from Lifeforce, known only as She, should absolutely be at the top of the list for the 10 oldest vampires. She’s millions of years old-likely one of the oldest beings in the universe. Not only is she an ancient alien, but it’s suggested that her kind wiped out the dinosaurs, making her responsible for mass extinctions long before humans ever existed. Her origins trace back to a massive spaceship hidden in Halley’s Comet, and she’s been feeding on life forms for eons, unlike any typical vampire..
Could you make a video on all of Akasha's fletchlings???? Have been searching about them recently, but couldn't find info on all of them
Love your videos!!!
Castlevania, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Vampire Hunter D, ForeverKnight, From Dusk Til Dawn to name a few more are also very good settings.
Its great content I really appreciate you Mr folklore
I've never heard of Vampire: The Masquerade game before. Gonna have to check it out. Can u make vids upon Castlevania and Drackula 2000?
It's a series of games. Most recent one I know of is a duos battle royal type game. Called bloodhunt
It's originally a Tabletop RPG. Within the same universe, they also did Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and three others of which I'm less familiar that focused on ghosts, mages, and fae.
I love your channel and I wanted to thank you for all of your hard work. You are much appreciated.❤
Really loved this list, it introduced me to some vampires I didn't know if, thank you for all your research!!!
Keep it up
In Christopher Pike’s the last vampire novel series, the oldest vampire Yaksha is around 6,000 years old, brought into creation by the God Krishna around 3000 B.C
thats a very underrated book series i have never found someone that actually read it
@@izladoomI’ve read Christopher Pike’s Last Vampire. Love his books.
@@izladoom i own all 6 volumes! it’s one of my favorite vampire novels just behind the vampire chronicles
I was gonna mention this but you beat me to it by two weeks lol. though yaksha is only 5000 I’m pretty sure because sita was 5000 and she was there when yaksha was born wasn’t she?
@ yes correct! it’s been so long since i read them! eyeing them on my shelf rn and considering a re read!
Now this was a unique list!
Have you ever heard of the Iron Druid Chronicles? There is a vampire in that series of books known as Zdenek. Believed to be exceedingly old.
Just so happened to stumble upon this channel as a suggestion on my home feed. To my surprise it’s you Dean!!! It’s good to see you still doing consistent content and on a another channel as well 👏🏾😁
Thank you my friend! That comment really cheered me up!
One of my favorites movies well my first vampire movie was bram stokers Dracula 1992
I appreciate all the work you put into this. And yep, vamps are my thing!! 🖤🖤😈😈😈
Cain is also part of the shadowhunters world.
There is also the fairy vampire Waldo from true blood. He was turned by lilith.
I left warlow out because he was half fairie
@@VampireFolkloreVideosGood move.😂
Miriam from “ The Hunger” . Great video
Like this list. Im curious if you have heard of Sita AKA Alisa Perne from the Last Vampire Series by Christopher Pike, she is a 5,000 vampire that is worth a look at
Never heard of it.. I’ll definitely look into it
Just found your channel. Good stuff, but I'm looking through your list and wondering why you haven't covered Brian Lumley's Wamphyrie from the Necroscope series. Talk about bad ass death machines, they're from another dimension and their form of vampirism is a leech that over time becomes more and more dominant. They fight wars among each other and even have BDSM style sex, the longer they live the more they change and can control their shape. The father of their kind is Shaitan who is so old his shape has become that of the leech.
You need to cover these guys.
Maximillian from Vampire in Brooklyn should have been on this list.
HOW OLD HE
Vampire hunter D and castle Vania, Alacard and his father Dracula. Have you ever touched base with these characters. They are great comic book and movies too.
Love this video and a big Vamp fan . in a pc I was a member of the Ventru Vamps From the masqurade
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Great video. I think the Volturi trio in Twilight are all over 3000 years old, they'd rank on here.
You must be a fan of vampires.
Not especially, but I love Vampire the Masquerade, and am here to show my support for Cain.
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I know there’s a bunch of disdain for the series, but twilight’s two Romani Vampires were supposed to be 3K-5K years old, if I remember right.
As far as I remember, Caine was the first. After he killed his brother Abel he was "marked". The mark of Caine was to be a vampire. And from then on, all vampires were "Cainites". And of course, Lillith, the first wife of Adam, she was among the first. The vampire who represented immortality? Hands down it was il Comte Saint German. Who is remembered at parties in France saying that he had "lived forever" as he regularly drank from the "elixir of life" which he had intimated, but never came right out and said it, that it was human blood. As quickly as he showed up in French Society, he vanished, just as quickly. At the time he also said that he was an Alchemist, though they were popular at that time, sort of like being a rockstar. There have been a number of fictional and factual books written about him. I recommend them highly.
I hate to be that guys, but actually, in VtM, Caine was cursed by God but not yet a vampire. He met Lilith who was a powerful sorceress and she Awakened Caine. Since Caine was cursed by God, the Awakening transformed him as he discovered a path of Blood. And thus was born as the first vampire.
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True Blood-Godric is over 2000 years old, which is older than Marcus Corvinus. Godric was turned in Ancient Rome after being taken prisoner from Gaul during Julius Caesar's reign. He was turned around 50 BCE. Macklyn Warlow/Ben Flynn is just over 5500 years old, and he was turned in 3500 BCE. This would place him between Drake and Meharet & Mekari.
There was this one vampire who looked ancient so I asked his age. “Well first I was one. One year old hahaha. Then I was two. Two years old hahaha…” I walked off but as far as I know, he’s still going.
Fascinated with vampires.
In Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series, there is a Vampire called The Earthmover, or Mr Oliver, he was thought to be the oldest living vampire, and he wasn't even originally human, he was Homo Erectus. He is around a million years old. He isn't the only super ancient in her series either.
I just posted that and then read the comments and found that you beat me by about 50 minutes.😅
Technically, Homo erectus was human. Just a different human species from Homo sapiens AKA "modern" humans.
@@EDPDBZ89 I just said that he was a caveman so millions of years old.
Now that you're done the vampires when are you going to do a werewolf folklore channel ❓
Godric,warlow,Eric Northman Klaus Elijah Rebecca Cole, Finn Michaelson
You should do more videos about the strain vampires really good show when was big as some other
Did you use AI for the voice over? I love your videos but with the audio here there’s a bunch of weird pauses mid sentence. Still a great video.
no i didn't. That's my voice. The pauses are a plugin that eliminates when i inhale
Damon Julian, the ancient Blood Master in George RR Martin's early-1980s novel Fevre Dream, is older than modern humans. It's been a long time since I read it but iirc he hunted older, now extinct humanoid species and watched modern humans slowly take over the Earth. So we're talking at least 200,000 years old. He might not even be the oldest, he's just the oldest he knows for sure still exists.
Great novel, btw. Truly is Bram Stoker x Mark Twain as described by reviewers at the time of release.
Thanks. This resonates with my understandings of this media and in a pleasing way as well. I have only not watched a few of "the sources" of the rank list. Also putting Cain from VtM B on top was a nice move. I really liked it. Another good thing not "watering it down" with one and the same character from different media. For Example Count Vladislav Tepesh as explained in one of Hellsing`s OAVs is one of the best Dracula origin stories, even if animated. FYI here`s a brief review of this side story as opposed to Babylonian ~Drake. Alucard is Dracula in reverse (obsolete news flash). Just as "the real" Vladislav Tepesh... he was a Count born in Romania (btw lemme up front the age... not so old as Drake). It was story about loneliness and sorrow... I will not be able to represent it, but what happened is... the Turks invaded and he kept Impaling them rear to and through throat in vertical on his Castle`s front yard entrance to it`s gate... thus "Vlad the Impaler"... than stuffs happened... (I don`t remember what) but maybe some pact with like Satan or something, maybe loved one maybe not (probably) (I know this is not doing what I've said about it being good, justice for me being unable to remember it in details, but bare...). So his "core" ability in ~immortality becomes absorbing both the souls and the genetic makeup of >all< his victims. The part of the Turkish army that attacked his domain, all the other vampires he encountered and defeated (I guess they have their own origin stories in this franchise, rather than being his direct "offspring", unlike Ceras Victoria... but that`s yet another story). But they are also of course "him" ~in their guise... so he have like close to countless variations of himself, within himself... and he can "reboot" of either one of them or if "all his seals are temporary taken down" he can unleash the entirety of him with all of them at once... (which he does in a scene against army of Nazi Warewolf zombies lead by a robot, attacking UK o_0... long live The Queen). Ultimately he is "tricked" to consume more or less "the Schrodinger cat" (which in this franchise is a character with the power of being everywhere at all times at once... or something) which effectively makes him divide himself by 0 (no joke it`s how it works) and we all know that should not be done :P. Resulting in him being constantly toggled in between all of his personalities, yet being non of them... effectively rendering him ~non existent.. That`s for dividing yourself to 0 :P. However it is latter on explained ~by his truly ~as he of course returns to serve Integra... (even of that) that he still manage to somehow "outfight all of those infinite himselfs within him" and thus remain homogeneous present and self aware himself ~once again... I know it sounds a bit mambo jambo, but keep in mind it begins with legion absorbing being that is everywhere all at once... So one may ask themselves "but had he became less powerful of that"... The answer is "no" and this is something I am ~making myself up... But for the sake of the argument there are actually 2 arguments... By outfighting everyone within himself (even thou he at the same time was non of them as well o_0) he remained only >the strongest< of an infinite of himself (kind of like that Jackie Chan, dimensions movie, or was it Jet Lee, I am sorry) so that puts him once again as a "stronger" in fact being than he previously was, since he defeated the entirety of himself... a.k.a. he surpassed himself. The second argument "tones down" things a little and than also ~not. By re emerging ~"exactly himself"... he is actually in fact "Exactly Himself" (I know there is an exact word for the that tautology or something) Meaning he just regained presence of mind and thus consistent existing state. Still actually being all that legion and all. It all can also be explained ~that second argument with this joke about this guy having only one of his certain body parts being longer than the other. It is only one of the two forms pre and post consuming he Schrodinger car of Alucard that is stronger than the other.
The oldest vampire from comics is Varnae, Marvel's origin of the whole vampire race and supposed to have been created during the Atlantean age. Maybe even older is Cain from the Vampire The Masquerade RPG setting. The vampire curse in this setting is actually the "mark of Cain" found in the bible
I understand as a CBBC kids show, it’s not that well known, but Sethius from Young Dracula was said to be over three thousand years old, so deserves a spot somewhere on the list.
Im a immortal hybrid of vampire and lycan I love this one thanks mate
The vampire from Salem's Lot is I think it's 14 billion years old if I'm not mistaken, predating the Big Bang. I am not surprised you missed this one. It was a section of another set of stories within the Stephen King universe that explains it all in the dark tower set of books.
Awesome! Though I do believe there is a comic book character, I can't recall his name, who's a Vampire Caveman of some sort and is said to be millions of years old.
Y'all should check out the lore from Vampire, The Masquerade. In it Cain is the first Vampire, but the lore goes all the way back to Adam and his first wife Lilith.
13:32 I was just in the process of writing wtf happened to the antediluvuans and Caine 😂
Kain, Caim, Dagon, Dracul, Drake, La Magra
Hecate
There's a book called the oldest living vampire tells all, it changes your list and is a lot of fun.
Selene from Marvel comics is considered over 13,000 years old, sometimes the first mutant
Another older vampire is Lazarus from the sanguinar series by James Rollins. After Lazarus was raised from the dead by Jesus he became a vampire so is around 2000 years old and the first vampire. He runs a group of vampire priests that hunt rogue vampires and other dark forces. Pretty decent vampire trilogy.
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One of the vampires in the Anita Blake books is a Cromagnon
My personal favorite vampire would be Klaus from vampire diaries and the originals even though he's only about a 1000 years old
I am SO glad VtM is finally getting some mentions here. That game has so much lore from Caine, to his childer, and then the Clans. I would stop at V20 though... the 5th ed of the game just blows changing the Clans way to much.
I’m gonna do breakdowns on the clans
@@VampireFolkloreVideos oh I can Not wait for those lol that's such a deep rabbit hole
Varnae is the oldest vampire in Blade and also the same first vampire from Robert E Howard’s Conan universe.
The Sacred Ancestor or the vampire King from Vampire Hunter D is the oldest vampire period. He predates humans according to the lore. The vampires in this series have existed since the early stages of earths creation.
Drake - Blade Trinity
Akasha - Queen of the Damned
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
By Laurel K. Hamilton
This series has The Earth Shaker, a vampire said to be one million years old, he is in fact so old he's not even human, he's a human precursor.
Marmee Noir: The Mother of Darkness, who is so old that she hunted the things that became hominids, within this mythology she is the reason Humans evolved to fear the darkness.
This series is great for old Vampires, the first big bad of the series was a roman village girl from the first century.
Vampire Hunter D
By Hideyuki Kikuchi,
The Sacred Ancestor, their stand in for Dracula, was only born in the 15th century, but so long has passed since that he can only recall his age as "uncounted millennia."
Technically Lilith should be first since she was Adams first wife in Edin.
Yes lilith is so underrated i really enjoyed the character in 30 days of night sequel
Castlevania Dracula is like 600 years old. Something like that. 1400 is when he became into being and was defeated in 1999. That’s the only old one I can think of off the top of my head.
Nyx-Hecate -Babalon-Lilith-Akasha-
Khayman made the twins I believe and Enkil was older than them as well
While not fitting neatly into the traditional model of a vampire, the God Emperor of Mankind from 40K does possess many vampiric qualities. And if we accept that as a qualifier, he would be among the oldest at over 50,000 years old in the 41st millennium - even during the modern day for us, he would be 10,000 years old
Selene from Marvel comics is kinda a vampire 😊😊😊
Diabolik Lovers is also an amazing anime….
Would have thought Philip from a discovery of witches would have beat out a few of these, he predated the Roman Empire so a lot older than some of these.
Honorable mentions of oldest vampires that should have been mentioned include Cain from the Shadow hunters series he was 10000+ yrs old a day walker and Vampire diaries/Originals series Silas the first immortal over 2500+ yrs and the Original family the Mikaelsons 1000+ yrs old.
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Making a list and checking it thirice 😅 Juicy vamps make everything nice.😂
The Originals from The Vampire Diaries. They were each 1,000 years old in the show….
The first mention of a blood drinking creature is from ancient Mesopotamia.
You mention the V:tM game, Caine, a nd the antediluvians. But there are twelve of them in existence. (There were 13. Someone literally dropped a nuke on one, killing him. At his death, all of the vamps in his bloodline went insane. They had to be put down. Since nothing like this has happened before, I am extrapolating the other 12 are still alive. Or at least “active”. But Caine turned three humans, who in turn turned the antideluvians.
They turned on Caine, so he cursed them to suffer the same fate. But only one of those actually died when the third generation attacked. So there are at least two (the source book is written to be vague so every game can be modified to suit the GM’s taste). They are older the any antideluvian, but younger than Caine.
One thing about the World of Darkness that nobody ever talks about is that the Bible is clear that Earth is not 4 billion years old, it's not even a million years old. The oldest Nicktuku is 12,000 years old. So the 3rd gen is probably 12,000-15,000 years old. I think that Saulot was the first 3rd gen. But how much time between Cain becoming a vampire and him embracing the 2nd gen. Cain is almost certainly less than 20,000 years old. I don't know anything about Werewolf, Mage, Changeling or Oblivion except that Abel was the first wraith, even older than Cain, which I've heard said makes him insanely powerful. How did those ones begin ? First werewolf/shapeshifter, first fae, first mage. I would love to know how those werespiders came to be. They freak me out.
Have you ever watched the show Moonlight it only has one season but I think you would like it
Have you considered Varnaye from the Marvel comics?
Check out the necroscope series by Brian Lumley. The first vampire "shaitan" is 1000's of years old
have you ever watch a show called young Dracula it was a show on the bbc its what got me into vampires
best is Shadow of the Vampire with John Malkovich
Cain was my immediate thought as well. However, Biblically (apocryphally), Lilith was Adam's first wife so clearly older than Cain. Debatable if she was a vampire rather than a demo though.
Lilith was an awakened mage in my mind. Probably the first
2:00 I actually named the two oldest I could think of before you asked the question though I admit I don’t know the name of one of them and I’ve just thought of a third.
So the first and third I thought of are a bit up in the air for age Lilith and Kain, Lilith is sometimes seen as a vampire in setting and in others she is something else unknown or a demon but I’m thinking vampire the masquerade specifically Kain was the first vampire and as he is like the 3rd or 4th human on earth that’s likely putting him really high on the list, Lilith I’m a little unsure on as I don’t think she is a vampire in the VTM setting but in other setting as she predates eve she would be older so higher on the list speaking of eve she is also a vampire in some setting so he would also be higher on the list than Kain.
The second one I thought of was the angel from the strain but I don’t know it’s name if it had one or it’s age as I’ve not watched the show (I just never got round to it, my mental health makes it so I’ll keep putting off starting new things and not feel up to carrying on stuff I’ve already started, it sucks) I believe that they were sent down to witness the destruction of Sodom and Gamora? So quite old.
The original Vampire in Supernatural, I don't believe has a firm confirmed age, but all of the "1rst" of each monster race were a few thousand years old in cannon I believe so he at least beats a couple on the list. If I am remembering lore right.
I'm pretty sure that Caine is about 200.000 years old, give or take...
Some say that Lilith was the first vampire…and I can see it.
Your forgetting about Enoch from 30 days of night.
Caine is far older than 14,000 years old. He is almost as old as humanity itself...
Warlow was around 5500 to 6000 years old.
You forgot Khayman from the Anne Rice series
Come mate. Do Michael Corvin from the Underworld Franchise. Including his role in Underworld: Endless War. Maybe a video about Kraven and a video that goes into depth of the romantic relationship between Michael Corvin and Selene.
Cain from “VTM”
In the original Doctor Who there was Yssgaroth who was older than the universe who spawned world eating Great Vampires accross time.
(Reusing characters from the same franchise seem a little inappropriate, and inaccurate.)
Lilith being Adam's first wife is older than Caine the child of Adam and eve.
You can argue Lilith is the oldest.
As she is even older the Eve, Cains mother.
Lilith was Adam's first wife until she refused to be Adams wife.
Btw she was also Caine wife and caine murdered Able.
That must of been the first terrible marriage.
Lilith wanting to be in charge and Caine wanting to be number 1.
Prefect match.