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Maidenfear...perhaps it sounds a bit frightening and yet somehow alluring at the same time. It is an idea that captures--at least in part--the essence of that which is vampire. "Maidenfear" is a literary device meant to convey the nerves of a new virgin bride going to the marriage bed for the first time...or really the giddy anxiety of anybody about to taste love for the first time. This Order was so named after this romantic idea of mixing pleasure with fear of the unknown.

The Order of Maidenfear is a free community for a free breed. We exist to support and promote the vampire community in its entirety--independents, houses, covens, orders, and any other form we may take. Our goal is to exist in friendly cooperation with other vampires and to make enemies of none. As for the vampires that make up our Order, no one has a true allegiance to anyone or anything but themselves. This is the heart of the Order of Maidenfear.

What is a vampire?

There exists an entity of living energy all around us and in the universe. This energy is both alive itself and imbues all things with life of one degree or another. A vampire is an adept at energy play, an adept at tapping into this living energy for self-benefit. For some this is achieved through drinking blood, for others it is a matter of psychic living energy. A vampire knows how to take what energy they want and need and use it for their own purposes.

Over the years the vampires of the Order of Maidenfear have discovered nine kinds of vampirism--sanguinarianism, lifeforce, astral, elemental, erotic, thanatropic, chaotic, psychic and electric--which overlap and compliment each other into a larger vampiric practice. Vampirism is the practice of one, or all of these devices, or of something entirely different, in order to make a circuit between ourselves and the object of energy, be it a donor or the living force of a wind gust.

You have journeyed and come upon this Order founded in the practice of Pranic Vampirism. What is pranic? The word comes from the Sanskrit prana, meaning lifeforce. The pranic vampire is a creature who absorbs the energies of the living world--a creature of energy play. Blood is most often associated with vampires, and is of course a strong source of prana. But there are other ways of being a pranic vampire too, methods that involve the mind and mental ability.

We of Maidenfear do not claim to have the only true vampire way. In fact we are not a rigid method at all, but rather a sanctuary for all vampiric thought. The secrets you find here will be secrets hidden within yourself. We do not claim exclusivity to the term "pranic". Vampires are a free breed, and the Order of Maidenfear supports this independence by offering a gentle shelter for those of a like mind.

Read the texts offered here at your leisure. Generation teaches generation the discoveries of generations past. We believe that if you have come here, you have an inner drive and a reason to be here, and who are we to deny you that?

Again, welcome to Maidenfear. May you walk in the balance.