The 10 Oldest And Most Ancient Vampires Of All Time

[@GeminisEmerald]

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!

[@andrewsowl8696]

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

[@GeminisEmerald]

​@@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]

@@GeminisEmerald I might be wrong.. but I’m also more of the manga follower in most cases…

[@andrewsowl8696]

And the third manga was set REALLY late in the timeline

[@GeminisEmerald]

@@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. 😊

[@sammireyoung]

Oh and thanks for your video! Youve actually corrected me with thinking Anne Rice having the oldest vamps in fiction. Though i knew of Vampire the Masquerade not through the game, but through the TV show called Kindred The Embraced as a child, i never knew they had the oldest general vamps in fiction. Thanks! I learned something today! Love the videos! Keep them coming!

[@Vinyls77]

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!

[@Rachael-d9i]

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! ❤

[@Vinyls77]

@@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.

[@Vinyls77]

@@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.

[@Rachael-d9i]

@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

[@Rachael-d9i]

@Vinyls77 You are now my new best friend! Well..... my only friend.... I have the social anxiety.... it's pretty severe, actually 😕

[@angelikafrey9744]

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! 🥰

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

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

[@sammireyoung]

"Father" The Alpha Vampire in Supernatural i nearly forgot! Had to come back and mention him. He is said to be hundreds of thousands of years old from the point of Humanity discovering fire, but according to him, he was there at the continental divide, which places him at millions of years at that point. Creatures such as this begin to predate Mankind in the Supernatural TV series, so he simply had to be mentioned when he randomly crossed my mind when discussing this video at work. Youre getting conversations going! lol

[@Hylindril]

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 😅🎉

[@GeminisEmerald]

Came here to say this! 😊

[@erisisthename]

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.

[@Hylindril]

@erisisthename It's been awhile for me too 🙃

[@MrTybrown1983]

They might have been older than Mr. Oliver only because they could body jump and my predate homo erectus in their original bodies too.🎉😊

[@skipmage]

@@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.

[@goaway3717]

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.

[@EquineDreams3]

YES! The Source World, Wampyri, what a series! Wild vampires and wish I was reading that series for the first time. Loved it!

[@unkle_Enkil]

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.

[@briant8]

Man, it’s been a while since I read them, but damn… they were disturbing!

[@danieldavis7434]

I love that book series! Been trying to find them all over the years.

[@KaijuBiologist]

Loved that series. Never had a chance to finish it. Necroscope was the first book I ever read cover to cover in essentially one sitting. Yes, all 1000 + pages!

[@cyan8921]

Count Chocula is not the oldest, but he is the most powerful by far ❤❤😂

[@jaredmartin6164]

Thanks!

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

Thank you so much for the super chat! That means a lot to me! Thank you again

[@PatrickWentzell-jd9gq]

​@@VampireFolkloreVideos ah villagers are throwing up ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!! 😄

[@enricocastellucci5012]

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!!!

[@ladymecha8718]

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..

[@TheCourtsOfLove]

Caine WOD is older.

[@sammireyoung]

Hmmm... i think that means shed be a Succubus. Not a Vampire. Close. But that makes her more a "cousin." lol

[@ladymecha8718]

@ that’s fair, but in the movie they didn’t say succubus, they said vampire… so we can leave it as a grey area then.

[@sammireyoung]

@@ladymecha8718 im sure youre right. Its been like 6 years or so i think since i saw it i guess. So im sure youre right. Its just that the term vampire is so commonly used even when its not blood and Succubi and Incubi tend to be forgotten about often. But im sure it was written that way in the film for that reason as audiences are more familiar. Alein life form instead of a supernatural or not. A Katsune is a Korean Fox sprit thats the same as a Succubus, but yet would still be called a vampire. Its just unfortunate is all.

[@ShadowCthulhu]

@@sammireyoung I read the book and saw the movie, In the book they were specifically called Energy Vampires while in the movie they were just called Vampires. Also the book and movie are very different after she escapes, especially the ending.

[@Defiantflame96]

Its great content I really appreciate you Mr folklore

[@amyhamaker7803]

Now this was a unique list!

[@ScreamingMarmotMedia]

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.

[@EliteSpetzNaz]

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.

[@ScreamingMarmotMedia]

@@EliteSpetzNaz Homo Erectus actually, which would put him at between 108,000 and 1 million years old.

[@KaijuBiologist]

Thanks, I'll have to look into that series.

[@sifilore]

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?

[@xengen212]

It's a series of games. Most recent one I know of is a duos battle royal type game. Called bloodhunt

[@AustynSN]

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.

[@meganshillinger8294]

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.

[@MuslimTemplar]

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.

[@shadowdemonx258]

When I hear oldest vampire, my mind usually goes to Caine since he is usually considered the first vampire in VTM. I'm not really sure if Lilith is vampire or a demon.

[@goosebxmps]

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

[@izladoom]

thats a very underrated book series i have never found someone that actually read it

[@Anonymouscreature33]

@@izladoomI’ve read Christopher Pike’s Last Vampire. Love his books.

[@goosebxmps]

@@izladoom i own all 6 volumes! it’s one of my favorite vampire novels just behind the vampire chronicles

[@theredmistiscoming609]

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?

[@goosebxmps]

@ yes correct! it’s been so long since i read them! eyeing them on my shelf rn and considering a re read!

[@SlenderSoulJunkie]

Yes!!! A new video✨🥰

[@sammireyoung]

Klaus Mikaelson of Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Legacies, Nightworld, Secret Circle, and The Stefan Diaries was credited as the first vampire of that franchises world. However Silas predates him as the first immortal in known existence. Technically a "Vampire" because he drank blood, he hated being called one because he considered them to be lesser and inferior to himself. His powers also GREATLY outclassed any other vampires. Klause included.

[@willhuey]

One of my favorites movies well my first vampire movie was bram stokers Dracula 1992

[@yamanuhem.netjer3165]

Castlevania, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Vampire Hunter D, ForeverKnight, From Dusk Til Dawn to name a few more are also very good settings.

[@EquineDreams3]

I love your channel and I wanted to thank you for all of your hard work. You are much appreciated.❤

[@LennyAllen-j7g]

Really loved this list, it introduced me to some vampires I didn't know if, thank you for all your research!!! Keep it up

[@kimcox66030]

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.

[@bhall]

I just posted that and then read the comments and found that you beat me by about 50 minutes.😅

[@EDPDBZ89]

Technically, Homo erectus was human. Just a different human species from Homo sapiens AKA "modern" humans.

[@bhall]

@@EDPDBZ89 I just said that he was a caveman so millions of years old.

[@autumnhomer9786]

🎀Now I need to start reading the series again.🎀

[@KaijuBiologist]

Great list. Didn't even mind the self advertising. Great way to garner some views. FYI, speaking of Blade, you might want to check out the Marvel Comics Vampires. They have a vampire named Varnae dating back 10,000 years to Atlantis. Actually, Lillith was the first wife of Adam and therefore Older thsn Cain.

[@robertmaxwell1016]

Another excellent video

[@TheCourtsOfLove]

WOD Caine is 200,000,000 years old, Lillith's older but she isn't a Vampire objectively (She can be in games) but canon Book of Nod attributes her to being the first awakened Mage which is where Caine gets his incomprehendable powers known collectively as disciplines. 2nd Generation are unknown but far younger than Caine, 10,000+ minimum, The Antediluvians aren't that much younger than the 2nd Gen being assumed to also be 10,000+ The Methuselahs range from 1000 to 12,000 (The oldest known being Vasilisa, a Nictuku turned by Absimillard 14,000+ in 1999)

[@willchurch8376]

I'm a noob when it comes to WoD lore, but how do you get 200 million years for Caine? That puts him in the Jurassic period.

[@TheCourtsOfLove]

@@willchurch8376 Because in WOD the 'blibical'' era is set right when the world is created before the Jurassic era - Abel & Lillith were the first beings to exist in the Garden of Eden - Caine was born sometime later to Abel & Eve. WOD Lore actually follows the account that humans existed way more than millenia.

[@willchurch8376]

@TheCourtsOfLove Ah, thanks! So the exile from Eden occurred more or less simultaneously with the dinosaurs. That...would actually be a really sweet setting to develop.

[@fistan5447]

@TheCourtsOfLove Abel? You mean Adam? Abel was the brother Caine murdered.

[@TheCourtsOfLove]

@@fistan5447 Adam (He's not important/mentioned a lot in WOD) but yes.

[@larslornothfloki5998]

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

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

Never heard of it.. I’ll definitely look into it

[@pantherseye]

@@VampireFolkloreVideosthis is one of my favourite book series of all time! I first read it at 12 years old and still go back to it 20 years later

[@Glider34]

Miriam from “ The Hunger” . Great video

[@GreatGreebo]

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).

[@emilyspector2728]

I appreciate all the work you put into this. And yep, vamps are my thing!! 🖤🖤😈😈😈

[@1Comecoco]

I love your channel

[@PrincessJupi]

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.

[@sammireyoung]

The Master of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel The Series universe was the oldest of "normal" vampires, even Dracula in this franchise, but the Uber Vamps predate him.

[@wtfmynamestaken]

Maximillian from Vampire in Brooklyn should have been on this list.

[@tittyfartcramps]

HOW OLD HE

[@davidmartin2572]

The Strain was just so damn good.

[@Daily_Survivor]

I really enjoy your videos. The vampire chronicles is my favorite

[@katmaresparkles9578]

Cain is also part of the shadowhunters world. There is also the fairy vampire Waldo from true blood. He was turned by lilith.

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

I left warlow out because he was half fairie

[@hackman669]

​@@VampireFolkloreVideosGood move.😂

[@theblackflame4002]

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.

[@1QuebecSierra]

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.

[@gonzoguy-ra]

Sooooo… as punishment for murdering your brother, God makes you an immortal murderer capable turning others into immortal murders. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@BuddyMarvin-w8t]

His punishment was to never rest or see the kingdom of Heaven. I.e. Immortal. Plus, to eat of the ashes or never feel the warmth of the sun.

[@TheCourtsOfLove]

Actually no, Caine was cursed by God to live forever and never produce children - his spawn could only be stolen and they were cursed to fight among each other, he'd never enter 'Heaven' forced eternally to watch his own children plot to kill one another - 3 angels gave him these curses (Sunlight torturing him) It was Lillith, an Awakened Mage who gave Caine his powers.

[@nancypetersen105]

Love this video and a big Vamp fan . in a pc I was a member of the Ventru Vamps From the masqurade

[@GroppeljohannKlotenkempe-vr6oh]

2:40 it takes this video to come to the point and start the list

[@skipmage]

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."

[@ravenmoon3510]

Okay, hear me out... In my books the oldest vampire was Empusa... She's a daughter of Typhon, who is the titan of darkness... Empusa was procreating with every mammal that she saw, and because as the daughter of an deity she can have children with every creature, she gave the birth to vampires (inteligent species) and vampiric creatures (non-inteligent or half-inteligent creatures)... It's important to say that in my universe vampires are not immortal, yeah, they can live for even thousand years, but their organisms are mostly giving up at the age of about 650-750, in this age they are still stronger than normal human, but they can die much easier in this age... Vlad Dracula Tepesh for example lived for 836 years, his father, Bram Alosius Tepesh lived for 742 years, Vlad's children, Alucart Vincent Tepesh and Rosalina Kara ''Rika'' Tepesh are living to this day (in my books 'this day' is somewhere in year 2027)

[@ericcastillo4026]

Oldest and most powerful Vampire is Cain, then there is the one born to Lilith, but I don't even think his name has ever being mention.

[@slipkid1267]

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 👏🏾😁

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

Thank you my friend! That comment really cheered me up!

[@davidholdren967]

You forgot the 2nd gen vampires from Vampire: The Masquerade. They are Cain's Children and the creators of the 13 Antediluvian vampires.

[@Psity]

The... 5 or 6 of them are already dead. The three mentioned on the book of Nod, the two killed by the assamite antediluvian and the one murdered by Set. Then there is the whole Troile and Brujah bit... But in the end they all fall under the category of "antediluvian".

[@williamgoen1398]

Finally 💯💯💯

[@blairinnyc]

Great list, thanks! Here’s another, Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, Kurt Barlow is described as being ancient-thousands of years old. He is implied to have been around since antiquity, with references suggesting that he predates Christianity, possibly originating from an era steeped in darker, older mythologies.

[@cebi3939]

Neferata, the first Vampire of Warhammer, was born over 4,265 years ago, so it would go above the Strain if on the list. She gives off Akasha vibes. She was said to be born late in her father's life, he died in for reference -1741 IC and she died (along with the whole world being destroyed by Demons) in 2524 IC. If you count Nagash ( who is the first immortal, which Neferata recreated a flawed version of his Elixir of Life that made her a Vampire), then he anywhere from 4524 years old to hundreds of thousands of years old as when thr world dies, he ascends to become a god of a new realm where countless eons pass so long that no record is left of how old that realm is.

[@KaijuBiologist]

Nagash is more of a lich turned death god, but you are correct. Neferata was still active at over 4000 years old and is considered the first vampire.

[@IllyrianRauthan-v9o]

Now that you're done the vampires when are you going to do a werewolf folklore channel ❓

[@billcook4768]

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.

[@alexisb659]

Fascinated with vampires.

[@dorusitar7575]

15:58… I do like the video, but from what I can see you’ve included only vampires that are part of movies and you’ve excluded the ones from books. There is actually an installment of books called “the oldest living vampire” by Joseph Duncan. In he’s series the oldest living vampire was name Gon, son of Gan, grandson of Gill. He came to be around 30 000 years ago on the territory of modern days Germany. Even though he was not the first or the second vampire ever created, he and a team of other strong vampires were able to kill the first of their kind. It’s a captivating saga that I recommend. 😊

[@plumreid]

He included Vampires from book series that were made into movies. Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles and Charlaine Harris, The Southern Vampire Mysteries. The books you recommend sound really interesting, I'll check them out.

[@Gangrel442003]

Caine is far older than 14,000 years old. He is almost as old as humanity itself...

[@stanimirgeorgiev.87]

One of the reasons I immediately gave you a 'like' and a 'subscribe' was your non-BOT voice-over and that description that you write, research, edit, post. Doing work is a wonderful feeling. Especially when one is dedicated. Vampires themselves are something that has been my passion since childhood. Although I loved zombies more. Unlike vampires, zombies do not have a particular identity. But for some inexplicable reason Vampires were present in almost all the stories that I wrote. So over time they became something of a constant presence in my texts and Art. So great video. I'm glad to see a ranking for Ancient Vampires.

[@stanimirgeorgiev.87]

You forgot Count Magnus Lee from Vampire Hunter D who is 10 000 years old. ;) I love Vampire Hunter D's lore more than Blade's. Because as a creator of the vampire mythos I can't understand how Blade defeated Dracula and how Blade gets his power from his human nature, other than resistance to light. Whereas in Vampire Hunter D it was explained that the well from which he draws his power is actually the blood and powers of his father Dracula which are inherited, not from his hybrid human form, which actually makes a lot more sense to me.

[@erisisthename]

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.

[@TheHortoncrow]

You must be a fan of vampires. Not especially, but I love Vampire the Masquerade, and am here to show my support for Cain.

[@NoOne-fo1di]

You really do need to check out the Masquerade

[@lordtimothymichel8677]

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.

[@raazazuul32]

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.

[@SamSilk]

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

[@TheCourtsOfLove]

Caine (WOD) was 200,000,000+ according to the Book of Nod before embracing 3 2nd generations out of loneliness.

[@sacpen30]

I know Lilith from the Crimson comic book series from Image comics was not only the first vampire but was created as Adam's mate before Eve. I'd say that's pretty old lol. Good video though. I didn't know about some of these

[@janoschu5877]

Thx you very much. In Vampire the Masquerade the Antadeluvians are the grandchilds of Khaine. Much Younger then lilith

[@archiew168]

Great video. I think the Volturi trio in Twilight are all over 3000 years old, they'd rank on here.

[@kemsari9969]

To my knowledge the oldest vampire i ever read about was in the Anita Blake Series. Also known as "the Earthmover," Mr. Oliver was a member of the Vampire Council and, to his knowledge, the oldest living vampire. Oliver was approximately 4 feet tall, with a sloping brow, absent chin, and expensively cut blow-dried hair. Because it was suggested that Oliver was member of the Homo erectus species, a pre-human vampire, Anita estimated his age at approximately one million years.

[@uclamordsith]

Selene from Marvel comics is considered over 13,000 years old, sometimes the first mutant

[@Nothingtralaalaa]

Petyr from "What We Do In The Shadows" was 8,000 years old. Until a vampire hunter broke into his flat

[@Trylen]

It's kind of amusing the Lilith falls after Caine on this list.. after all, She was Adam's first wife and according to WoD, later Caine's lover until they had a falling out. Oh dear, yet another rabbit hole... you got a sub out of me on this.

[@ilovejohncenathemost]

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.

[@leeqbui]

Varnae is the oldest vampire in Blade and also the same first vampire from Robert E Howard’s Conan universe.

[@nadialattab8790]

A life of Russel Edington would be cool.

[@Butcherbg]

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.

[@robertjackson1791]

Im a immortal hybrid of vampire and lycan I love this one thanks mate

[@user-jj4pm2wr6o]

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.

[@Longshanks1690]

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.

[@NoOne-fo1di]

I would like to hear about the other supernatural beings in the VC universe

[@travisshorey7296]

You should do more videos about the strain vampires really good show when was big as some other

[@fistan5447]

Tbh, Vampire the Masquerade will top all such lists. The first Vampire himself is Caine, which is literally the oldest man in human history after Adam the first man. Even his grandchildren was quite a bit older than 10.000 years, that is the roughly given time of the destruction of first city, by that time they were already elders in age. In the lore these ancient 3rd generation vampires are described as completely alien to humans.

[@conniecarroll747]

Another vampire that is from books is Count Saint Germain from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. There are at last count about 24 books. I can't exactly place his age, but in "In The House of Death" it talks about his time in Egypt as a vampire in living in the House of death. It was where people went to either die or be healed. He was put there because of what he was, but was the years went by St Germain lerned the art of healing and earned the respect of the healers there. I know this is rather long . I'm not sure how many people may know about this vamire who is a anti hero instead of a villain. I love the novels because they are all based on actual history with St Germain as the main character in a different part of history in each book. The villains are actual people in history who he faces. It may not be to everyone's taste, but there is horror going on.

[@tatsuvoid]

13:32 I was just in the process of writing wtf happened to the antediluvuans and Caine 😂

[@BuffBroc]

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.

[@mandyjones7993]

What about the Earthmover from the Anita Blake series?

[@andrewferguson-hannah6915]

Brian Lumley : the Necroscope. the most bad ass vampires of all time. fantastic series of books

[@bromero93]

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.

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

no i didn't. That's my voice. The pauses are a plugin that eliminates when i inhale

[@samaelcain]

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.

[@kennethkossan5547]

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.

[@jsinjapan1689]

Petyr from What We Do in the Shadows was said to be four thousand years old during the movie.

[@johnnylogical8016]

Lilith was also featured in Tales from the Crypt Bordello of Blood.

[@hackman669]

Making a list and checking it thirice 😅 Juicy vamps make everything nice.😂

[@brennaofarcadia]

I was a bit disappointment there were no clips of Henry Rollins from He Never Died. But either way, great content!

[@seasickviking]

Even without The Masquerade, Cain takes the top spot, because in the Dracula 2000 film, it was revealed that Dracula was actually Cain who became a vampire after being cursed by God to forever walk the Earth.

[@jasonhenninger8220]

Not Caine. Judas Iscariot

[@yournamehere98]

Selene from Marvel comics is kinda a vampire 😊😊😊

[@michaelb8117]

I’ve been watching vampire movies for yrs and I only count 2 Lilith and Carmilla

[@erich2385]

According to the Cycle of Lilith and I believe the Book of Nod in Vampire the Masquerade, Lilith holds top spot as oldest vampire, Adam's first wife. Although technically she is considered all three main supernatural types, depending on the RPG book; Mage, Vampire, and Werewolf, without blowing up from Paradox like Samuel Haight did. Sam then became a Wraith - No getting rid of the guy, LOL.

[@easy6427]

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.

[@MichaelR-kl6hk]

There's a book called the oldest living vampire tells all, it changes your list and is a lot of fun.

[@VenetianErmafrodita]

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[@marsbearmcw3050]

You need to check out the necroscope book series and Brian lumleys take on vampires. I love Anne rice but Brian lumleys is amazing.