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   |frequency=1
   |genocidable=Yes
-  |attacks=[[Claw attack|Claw]] 1d6 [[Physical damage|physical]], [[bite]] 1d6 [[Drain life (monster attack)|drain life]]
+  |attacks=[[Claw attack|Claw]] 1d6 [[Physical damage|physical]], [[Bite attack|bite]] 1d6 [[Drain life (monster attack)|drain life]]
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 {{for|the starting race in multiple variants|Vampire (starting race)}}
 {{for|other instances of the term|Vampire (disambiguation)}}
-A '''vampire''', {{monsym|vampire}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The vampire is a form of [[Intelligent monster|intelligent]] human [[undead]] and the most basic type of [[Vampire (monster class)|vampire]]: they are [[breathless]], capable of [[flight]], have [[Regeneration (property)|enhanced regeneration]], and can [[follow]] a [[hero]] to other levels if they are adjacent. Vampires are [[shapeshifter]]s that can [[polymorph]] at will into [[vampire bat]]s or [[fog cloud]]s, and will disguise themselves as the former when outside of the player's sight, while often shifting into the latter to flow under locked or inaccessible [[door]]s&mdash;a vampire that is "killed" in either form (including [[stoning]] but ''not'' [[disintegration]]) will revert to their base form. A hero standing on an [[altar]] will [[scare]] vampires, similar to standing on [[Elbereth]] or a [[scroll of scare monster]].{{refsrc|src/monmove.c|154|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+A '''vampire''', {{monsym|vampire}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The vampire is a form of [[Intelligent monster|intelligent]] human [[undead]] and the most basic type of [[Vampire (monster class)|vampire]]: they are [[breathless]], capable of [[flight]], have [[Regeneration (property)|enhanced regeneration]], and can [[follow]] a [[hero]] to other levels if they are adjacent. A hero standing on an [[altar]] will [[scare]] vampires, similar to standing on [[Elbereth]] or a [[scroll of scare monster]].{{refsrc|src/monmove.c|154|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-A vampire in their base form has a [[claw attack]] and a [[Drain life (monster attack)|life-draining]] [[bite attack]]. Vampires possess [[sleep resistance]] and [[poison resistance]] like other undead, along with [[drain resistance]] and [[death resistance]], and are vulnerable to [[silver]]&mdash;these traits are carried across all of theirforms.
+Vampires are [[shapeshifter]]s that can [[polymorph]] at will into [[vampire bat]]s or [[fog cloud]]s, and will disguise themselves as the former when outside of the player's sight, while often shifting into the latter to flow under locked or inaccessible [[door]]s&mdash;a vampire that is "killed" in either form (including [[stoning]] but ''not'' [[disintegration]]) will revert to their base form.
 A hero polymorphed into a vampire is [[Warned of monster type|warned of humans and elves]] ({{mcsl|@}}). Polymorphing while in vampire form or using the [[Monster (command)|#monster]] [[extended command]] will cause the hero to become a vampire bat&mdash;they can decline to do so if they have [[polymorph control]]. Heroes that become vampire bats this way cannot revert back to vampire form using the command.
-A vampire is [[poisonous]] to consume, which primarily comes up if they are [[digested]] by another monster in their base form&mdash;a shapeshifted vampire that is digested will escape and return to base form as normal.
+A vampire is [[poisonous]] to consume, which primarily comes up if they are [[digested]] by another monster in their base form&mdash;a shapeshifted vampire that is digested and 'killed' by it will escape and return to base form as normal.
-{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|a27ca52b0354b58e2f498c21865f18d725e75480}}, a hero polymorphed into a vampire that shifts into bat or [[fog cloud]] form can use #monster in those forms to shapeshift again.}}
+{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|a27ca52b0354b58e2f498c21865f18d725e75480}}, a hero polymorphed into a vampire that shifts into bat or [[fog cloud]] form can use #monster while in those forms to shapeshift again.}}
 ==Generation==
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 Vampires can be generated in [[graveyard]]s at level creation if the [[level difficulty]] is appropriately high.{{refsrc|src/mkroom.c|475|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-At least five vampires are generated in [[Orcus-town]] on level creation: two are placed near Orcus himself, and the other three are randomly placed across the town.
+At least five vampires are generated in [[Orcus-town]] during level creation: two are placed near Orcus himself, and the other three are randomly placed across the town.
 Vampires can appear among the servants of [[Vlad the Impaler]] resting atop the [[chest]]s at the top of [[Vlad's Tower|his tower]].
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 The [[Wizard of Yendor]] may create a clone of himself in the guise of a vampire via the [[Double Trouble]] [[monster spell]].{{refsrc|src/wizard.c|50|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-A vampire is considered [[corpseless]], instead leaving behind a tainted [[Human (monster)|human]] [[corpse]] if it drops a corpse upon death.{{refsrc|src/mon.c|147|nethack=3.6.7|name="undead_to_corpse"|comment=<tt>undead_to_corpse()</tt> maps undead to corpses of their living counterparts}}{{refsrc|src/mon.c|171|nethack=3.6.7|comment=<tt>undead_to_corpse()</tt> case for vampires}}{{refsrc|src/mon.c|351|nethack=3.6.7|name="make_corpse"|comment=Undead corpses and their ages are handled with other "special" death drops}} [[Human (starting race)|Human]] heroes killed by a vampire or any other vampiric monster will arise as a vampire instead of a [[ghost]] if a [[bones]] file is created.{{refsrc|src/end.c|517|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+A vampire is considered [[corpseless]], instead leaving behind a tainted [[Human (monster)|human]] [[corpse]] if it drops a corpse upon death.{{refsrc|src/mon.c|147|nethack=3.6.7|name="undead_to_corpse"|comment=<tt>undead_to_corpse()</tt> maps undead to corpses of their living counterparts}}{{refsrc|src/mon.c|171|nethack=3.6.7|comment=<tt>undead_to_corpse()</tt> case for vampires}}{{refsrc|src/mon.c|351|nethack=3.6.7|name="make_corpse"|comment=Undead corpses and their ages are handled with other "special" death drops}}
 {{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|0c3b9642e4207ed3c0b756585b83477f59116305}}, vampires will grow up into [[vampire leader]]s of the appropriate gender, rather than always becoming male vampire lords.
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 ==Strategy==
-Vampires often make for annoying fights due to their ability to rob you of [[experience level]]s unless you have [[drain resistance]], e.g. from an artifact weapon like [[Excalibur]], and [[MC3]] is the next best option in the event you lack this resistance. A vampire can wear armor to bolster their base [[AC]] of 1, though this usually occurs more often with bones files where a hero has turned into one&mdash;most vampires will approach you as a vampire bat or be found in fog cloud form, which forces them to shed any armor they would find.
+Vampires often make for annoying fights due to their ability to rob you of [[experience level]]s unless you have [[drain resistance]], e.g. from [[wielding]] an artifact weapon like [[Excalibur]]&mdash;[[MC3]] is the next best option in the event you lack this resistance. A vampire can wear armor to bolster their base [[AC]] of 1, though this usually occurs more often with bones files where a hero has turned into one: most vampires will approach you as a vampire bat or be found in fog cloud form, which forces them to shed any armor they would find.
 Vampires that shapeshift roughly retain their HP between forms, making it possible to bring them to low health and wait for them to assume their humanoid forms before finishing them off. A silver weapon with decent enchantment and/or skill level can bring them low in a few hits, and the silver damage applies regardless of their current form.
-Vampires of deceased heroes found on bones levels can be formidable opponents: their natural AC of 1 will combine with the dead character's full set of armor, resulting in a monster that can be very difficult to hit. While they are thankfully unable to wield the late player's weapons, they ''will'' use any attack wands left behind; tricking them into shapeshifting may be a saving grace for a savvy hero.
+Vampires of deceased heroes found on bones levels can be formidable opponents: their natural AC of 1 will combine with the dead character's full set of armor, resulting in a monster that can be very difficult to hit. While they are thankfully unable to wield the late player's weapons, they ''will'' use any attack wands left behind, and tricking them into shapeshifting may be a saving grace for a savvy hero.
 ===As pets===
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 ===As a polyform===
-Vampires are a decent polyself form for heroes: they are [[strong]] with 12 speed, can wear the same armor as the player and allow wielding of any non-silver weapon, and have regeneration, flight, and breathlessness, all without needing to eat to survive. While you can easily compensate for the lack of elemental resistances, the silver weakness is just as much a danger to you in this form as it is to other vampires, and you will need to avoid engaging certain monsters such as [[cockatrices]] in melee, lest your bite attack lead to [[YASD]]. Additionally, most heroes capable of controlled polymorph will usually opt for vampire lords, which are strictly better in all aspects.
+Vampires are a decent polyself form for heroes: they are [[strong]] with 12 base speed, can utilize all non-silver armor and weapons, and have enhanced regeneration, flight, and breathlessness, all without needing to eat to survive. While you can easily compensate for the lack of elemental resistances, the silver weakness is just as much a danger to you in this form as it is to other vampires, and you will need to avoid engaging certain monsters such as [[cockatrices]] in melee, lest your bite attack lead to [[YASD]]. Additionally, most heroes capable of controlled polymorph will usually opt for vampire lords, which are strictly better in all aspects.
 ==History==
 The vampire first appears Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are both based on [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]], and is included in the initial bestiary for [[Hack 1.0]].
-The vampire's shapeshifting abilities are added in [[NetHack 3.6.0]]. Some players may prefer them as pets in previous versions and variants based on those versions, where they will not shapeshift out of any armor they are given.
+The vampire's shapeshifting abilities are introduced in [[NetHack 3.6.0]]. Some players may prefer them as pets in previous versions and variants based on those versions, where they will not shapeshift out of any armor they are given.
 ==Messages==
 {{main|Vampire (monster class)#Messages|l1=Chatting to vampires}}
-[[Chatting]] to vampires in their humanoid form will produce various responses from them depending on the time of day, the monster's peacefulness and the hero's current form.
+[[Chatting]] to vampires in their humanoid form will produce various responses from them depending on the [[time]] of day, the monster's peacefulness and the hero's current form.
 ==Variants==
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 ===SLASH'EM===
 {{main|Vampire (SLASH'EM)}}
-[[SLASH'EM]] adds the vampire as [[Vampire (starting race in SLASH'EM)|a playable race]] and make vampires invalid polymorph forms, though other members of the vampire monster class are still valid forms to polymorph into. Vampires themselves are subject to several changes when compared with earlier versions of ''NetHack'', and will not shapeshift as they do in later versions.
+[[SLASH'EM]] adds the vampire as [[Vampire (starting race in SLASH'EM)|a playable race]] and make vampires invalid polymorph forms, though other members of the vampire monster class are still valid forms to polymorph into. Vampires themselves are subject to several changes when compared with earlier versions of ''NetHack'', and will not shapeshift as they do in versions beyond [[NetHack 3.4.3]].
 ===GruntHack===

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 In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], vampires may appear in the court of a [[Throne room#dNetHack|throne room]] ruled by a vampire lord or [[Vampire lady (dNetHack)|vampire lady]]. Vampires also appear in the [[Chaos Temple Quest|Chaos Temple variant]] of the [[Chaos Quest (dNetHack)|Chaos Quest]], where {{frac|9|20}} of the randomly generated monsters on the Earth Temple level will be vampires.
-dNetHack and its derivatives also add vampires as [[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|a starting race]], with similar food conditions for vampire heroes and polyself vampires as in SLASH'EM, though there are some important differences:
+dNetHack and its derivatives also add vampires as [[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|a starting race]], with similar food conditions to SLASH'EM applied for vampire heroes and polyself vampires (as well as other vampiric monsters), though there are some important differences:
 * [[Potion of blood (dNetHack)|Potions of blood]] can be made from tinning the corpse of a monster that has blood.

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 * Quaffing potions of a monster's blood has the same effect as eating that monster's corpse does.
 * Pet vampires can drain corpses for nutrition as a vampire hero does.
 ===EvilHack===

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 ===EvilHack===
-In [[EvilHack]], vampires are renamed to '''vampire sovereigns''', with "'''vampire baron'''" and "'''vampire baroness'''" used as specific gendered terms&mdash;this is done to accommodate [[Vampire (EvilHack)|the placeholder monster]] for [[Vampire (starting race in EvilHack)|the playable vampire race]], which has very similar attributes but both flight and enhanced regeneration, and has the standard base 10 AC as opposed to the usual 1 AC of vampire sovereigns. EvilHack also increases the speed of both monsters to 15.
+In [[EvilHack]], vampires are renamed to '''vampire sovereigns''', with "'''vampire baron'''" and "'''vampire baroness'''" used as specific gendered terms&mdash;this is done to accommodate [[Vampire (EvilHack)|the placeholder monster]] for [[Vampire (starting race in EvilHack)|the playable vampire race]], which has very similar attributes but lacks both flight and enhanced regeneration, and has the standard base 10 AC as opposed to the usual 1 AC of vampire sovereigns. EvilHack also increases the speed of both monsters to 15.
-EvilHack additionally applies similar dietary restrictions for hero and polyself vampires to SLASH'EM, including the ability to bite monsters and drain corpses for sustenance, and also adds [[Potion of blood (EvilHack)|potions of blood]] and [[Potion of vampire blood (EvilHack)|vampire blood]].
+Vampire heroes and other heroes polymorphed into vampires have similar dietary restrictions as in SLASH'EM, with EvilHack adding [[Potion of blood (EvilHack)|potions of blood]] and [[Potion of vampire blood (EvilHack)|vampire blood]] and granting vampires the ability to bite monsters and drain corpses for sustenance.
 Vampires cannot be subjected to [[genocide]] while [[Vlad the Impaler (EvilHack)|Vlad the Impaler]] is alive.
-Vampire sovereigns have a {{frac|2}} chance each of being generated in their base form or a shapeshifted form, and they also have a {{frac|2}} chance of generating with blood-red potions that have a {{frac|3|4}} chance of being blood and will otherwise be vampire blood.
+Vampire sovereigns have a {{frac|2}} chance each of being generated in their base form or a shapeshifted form. They also have a {{frac|2}} chance of generating with blood-red potions that will be normal blood with a {{frac|3|4}} chance and will otherwise be vampire blood.
 Tame vampire sovereigns will not shapeshift on their own, making them more viable as pets since they will keep non-silver armor worn.

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 {{for|the monster class|Vampire (monster class)}}
 {{for|the starting race in multiple variants|Vampire (starting race)}}
-{{for||Vampire (disambiguation)}}
+{{for|other instances of the term|Vampire (disambiguation)}}
 A '''vampire''', {{monsym|vampire}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The vampire is a form of [[Intelligent monster|intelligent]] human [[undead]] and the most basic type of [[Vampire (monster class)|vampire]]: they are [[breathless]], capable of [[flight]], have [[Regeneration (property)|enhanced regeneration]], and can [[follow]] a [[hero]] to other levels if they are adjacent. Vampires are [[shapeshifter]]s that can [[polymorph]] at will into [[vampire bat]]s or [[fog cloud]]s: they disguise themselves as the former when outside of the player's sight, while often shifting into the latter to flow under locked or inaccessible [[door]]s, and a vampire that is "killed" in either form (including [[stoning]] but ''not'' [[disintegration]]) will revert to their base form. A hero standing on any [[altar]] [[scare]]s vampires, similar to standing on [[Elbereth]] or a [[scroll of scare monster]].{{refsrc|src/monmove.c|154|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}

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 {{for|the monster class|Vampire (monster class)}}
 {{for|the starting race in multiple variants|Vampire (starting race)}}
 A '''vampire''', {{monsym|vampire}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The vampire is a form of [[Intelligent monster|intelligent]] human [[undead]] and the most basic type of [[Vampire (monster class)|vampire]]: they are [[breathless]], capable of [[flight]], have [[Regeneration (property)|enhanced regeneration]], and can [[follow]] a [[hero]] to other levels if they are adjacent. Vampires are [[shapeshifter]]s that can [[polymorph]] at will into [[vampire bat]]s or [[fog cloud]]s: they disguise themselves as the former when outside of the player's sight, while often shifting into the latter to flow under locked or inaccessible [[door]]s, and a vampire that is "killed" in either form (including [[stoning]] but ''not'' [[disintegration]]) will revert to their base form. A hero standing on any [[altar]] [[scare]]s vampires, similar to standing on [[Elbereth]] or a [[scroll of scare monster]].{{refsrc|src/monmove.c|154|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
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 ===GruntHack===
 {{main|Vampire (GruntHack)}}
-In [[GruntHack]], vampires are among the [[racial monster]]s that can be generated as one of several races, and can grow up into vampire lords of the same race.
+In [[GruntHack]], vampires are among the [[racial monster]]s that can be generated as one of several races, and can grow up into [[Vampire lord (GruntHack)|vampire lords]] of the same race.
 ===UnNetHack===
-In [[UnNetHack]], randomly generated vampires are often created with opera cloaks and [[Potion of blood (UnNetHack)|potions of blood]] or [[Potion of vampire blood (UnNetHack)|vampire blood]], similar to SLASH'EM. UnNetHack also adds the vampire as [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|a starting race]], and the same food conditions for hero and polyself vampires apply as in SLASH'EM.
+In [[UnNetHack]], randomly generated vampires are often created with opera cloaks and [[Potion of blood (UnNetHack)|potions of blood]] or [[Potion of vampire blood (UnNetHack)|vampire blood]], similar to SLASH'EM. UnNetHack also adds the vampire as [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|a playable race]], and the same food conditions for hero and polyself vampires apply as in SLASH'EM.
 Potions of vampire blood quaffed by non-vampire heroes will polymorph them depending on [[beatitude]]: an uncursed potion will turn them into a vampire, and the same conditions and penalties apply as with quaffing vampire blood of any beatitude in SLASH'EM.