No

The age of majority for your country, generally 18

There are many great websites out there today. Please see our section on Vampire Sects for links to other groups, or our suggested links section for vampires.

We have no formal religion. All religions are welcome as long as you are a Real Vampire. We are considering developing a Priest Caste as an option for members, but House Quinotaur is not a religion, nor will it be a requirement to be part of any religious path we may introduce.

If you pass our basic interview, you are a 9th Cousin. Attaining the rank of 8th simply means agreeing to follow certain rules and then continuing to follow them. 7th, 6th and 5th are all self-given! In other words, we don't hand out these ranks, you give them to yourself. You must be honest with yourself and decide when you have truly attained them. As for 4th, 3rd and 2nd; 4th Cousins are voted on by their territory, 3rd are chosen by their Dominion leader, with final approval by the founders, 1st Cousins and other Dominion Leaders. 2nd Cousins are chosen by the founders of House Quinotaur and 1st Cousins must prove their lineage to a Professional Genealogist Narradas knows.

Founders, 1st Cousins and 2nd Cousins are all equally responsible for the Caretaking of the House.

We are developing a formal system of Vampire Magick. In the meantime individual members are always free to teach others what they know!

We ask you some basic questions, to make sure you're not a total flake or a role-player.

If by this you mean physically, you've come to the wrong place. If you mean spiritually, House Quinotaur doesn't preclude this. While we have no official opinion on the `immortal spiritually' theory yet, our genetic theory doesn't exclude it.

We do not believe in turned vampires. We believe vampirism is something you are born with. Someone who is `turned' is actually a Latent Vampire who just needed help Awakening.

Yes.

Oh my no! He is simply a concrete figure in history, who based on our genetic theory is the most visible and provable member of our line. Obviously, Vampirism is much older than him.

We don't believe he was necessarily. We believe vampirism is genetic. (it may be more but we think genetics play a part)

If it's genetic we are left with two possibilities:

1. A whole pile of random mutations in each generation (unlikely)
2. A recessive gene/genes handed down from generation to generation.

Do all humans cary this gene? (if so we'd have a lot more cases of vampirism)

If not all humans do carry the gene then it stands to reason that the ones who do are descended from 1 or possibly more family lines. (in other words vampires all have a common 'father' and 'mother').

At this point we have the following:

1. Vampirism (corporeal) is at least in part genetic.
2. It comes from recessive gene or genes.
3. It comes from 1 or possibly a couple of other family lines.

This more or less left Merovech's line. :) Now keep in mind, his descendents number in the 1000s at the least, and possibly in the 10s or 100s of thousands. It's statistically possible ALL vampires are related due to this line. (a genealogist can prove this)

Now is this totally provable? Not really. People who manage to trace their lines back to this bloodline (through luck and skill) will help to prove it, but even that doesn't totally.

What we are attempting however, is to find a common ground that ALL vampires can bond to. A _real_ family as opposed to a fake one. Are we wrong? Quite possibly. *grin* However with each person that can prove descent it strengthens the theory a little more.

As for Merovech being 'vampiric' we totally agree, there is no evidence for this. In fact he may not have been. Keep in mind if it's genetic and recessive he may not have been a vampire. He may have been a carrier from something before him. We only go as far as him however because anything before him (or possibly his father) is pure myth and legend.

No.

No, but we have a few.