Court of Blood |Vampire/Historical/OOC| [Reboot]

[Nishas]

Yeah Hull would have a Quaestor

Hull it is

[Britanania]

So we're saying Louis XIV was a vampire? The character concept I'm working on would have been at Versailles during his reign, so I'll rewrite it now to include this. Tbh it might even make sense that Louis was her maker then, if that'd be okay with OP?

This does pose one question for my bio though, lore-wise, what kind of political relationship would a powerful vampire king of France have had with the societies therein? I feel like it would put a strain on the vampire hierarchy as described above and just want to know if it'd be worth including this tension to spice up my bio?

Well, before he was put down, while he would have had a strong hold over mortals, as a vampire he would have had very little, if any power. If he had tried to use his mortal power to leverage the society a Praetor would have put him down rather quickly. I'd be fine with Louis XIV being your maker if you're fine with the societal implications of having a rather pathetic (by vampire standards) maker.

It is also worth noting that the relationship between maker and brood is like parent and child, so you might want to check with Brit about your character effectively being their grandchild.

I'm cool with it.

[Cheye]

Well, before he was put down, while he would have had a strong hold over mortals, as a vampire he would have had very little, if any power. If he had tried to use his mortal power to leverage the society a Praetor would have put him down rather quickly. I'd be fine with Louis XIV being your maker if you're fine with the societal implications of having a rather pathetic (by vampire standards) maker.

It is also worth noting that the relationship between maker and brood is like parent and child, so you might want to check with Brit about your character effectively being their grandchild.

Thanks for clarifying! I think having a rather pathetic (by vampire standards) maker who she's already clearly surpassed, but who wasn't there to train/nurture her will make for quite an interesting background and gives her a bit of stigma among vampires that she'll have to overcome. But let me know your thoughts?

I'm cool with it.

Thank you! App is incoming...

[Endem]

[Decided to remove this]

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

Well, before he was put down, while he would have had a strong hold over mortals, as a vampire he would have had very little, if any power. If he had tried to use his mortal power to leverage the society a Praetor would have put him down rather quickly. I'd be fine with Louis XIV being your maker if you're fine with the societal implications of having a rather pathetic (by vampire standards) maker.

It is also worth noting that the relationship between maker and brood is like parent and child, so you might want to check with Brit about your character effectively being their grandchild.

Thanks for clarifying! I think having a rather pathetic (by vampire standards) maker who she's already clearly surpassed, but who wasn't there to train/nurture her will make for quite an interesting background and gives her a bit of stigma among vampires that she'll have to overcome. But let me know your thoughts?

Sounds fascinating

[Nea Videssos]

I notice these things have a habit of being set in America for some reason. Well, my curiosity is piqued, anyway.

Would be such a shame if some vampires happened to "accidentally" kill George Washington and the other founding fathers of the US.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

I think I'm gonna make a vampire who "inspired" the headless horseman

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

I think I'm gonna make a vampire who "inspired" the headless horseman

Well considering the Legend of Sleepy Hollow won't be published for another 60 years and the Horseman is the ghost of a commander in a war that won't occur for another 10, that's rather impressive.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

I think I'm gonna make a vampire who "inspired" the headless horseman

Well considering the Legend of Sleepy Hollow won't be published for another 60 years and the Horseman is the ghost of a commander in a war that won't occur for another 10, that's rather impressive.

Sorry, mistype, I meant will inspire

That's the plan anyways

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

What's the status on vampire hunters then? They exist?

[Britanania]

What's the status on vampire hunters then? They exist?

I assume so, and I alluded to some in my app at least.

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

What's the status on vampire hunters then? They exist?

Yes, a variety of institutions and organizations across the world have knowledge of vampires and hunt them. The Catholic Church is a notable example, but I intend for some other more secretive orders to crop up.

In the source material Andrew Jackson is in fact a vampire hunter.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

What's the status on vampire hunters then? They exist?

Yes, a variety of institutions and organizations across the world have knowledge of vampires and hunt them. The Catholic Church is a notable example, but I intend for some other more secretive orders to crop up.

In the source material Andrew Jackson is in fact a vampire hunter.

So the Native Americans were vampires? Huh, who knew

[Cheye]

NS Name: Cheye

Character Name: Nadia-Marie d’Maryvonne
Appearance: Long black hair, pale skin, slender build, favours black and white clothes and a choker pendant given to her by Louis XIV.
Age: 119
Maker: Louis Dieudonné de Bourbon (Louis XIV of France)
City of Origin: Versailles/Paris
Abilities: Basic Abilities only
Religion: Non-practising Roman Catholic
Languages Spoken: French, English, Latin
Biography:
Born into a family of aristocrats on the fringes of the French upper class, Nadia-Marie would have had an uneventful and traditional upbringing were it not for her father’s close friendship with Laurent de la Vallière, whose teenage daughter Louise had been appointed as the maid of honour to Princess Henriette of England, the new wife of King Louis’s brother; Prince Phillipe. Nadia-Marie who was the same age as Louise, soon joined her as one of Henriette’s maids.

When Henriette and the King were implicated in an affair, the Princess hatched a plan to end the gossip, having the King pay court to her maids publically instead of her. Several young ladies were selected for this honour, including the fair blonde Louise and the raven haired Nadia-Marie, who were by far the most successful at gaining the King’s affections. Sadly for Princess Henriette, the King became entrapped in the ruse, taking both Louise and Nadia-Marie as lovers.

Later, while on campaign in Flanders, King Louis fell victim to a vampire who had been masquerading as a General in his court and upon his return began to demand blood over other wants from those closest to him. This caused issues for some of Louis' many mistresses, including Louise, who began to put more distance between herself and the King, but Nadia-Marie was among others who continued to serve willingly. While the King’s newest mistress, the Marquise de Montespan, went out of her way to please the King in this manner, cavorting with satanic practitioners and other charlatans to try and improve the quality of her blood for the King’s consumption and maintain his affections, Nadia-Marie simply did only what was asked of her. Happy to serve in the knowledge that her increasingly dominant position amidst the lavish splendour of Versailles rested solely on Louis’ contentment, natural or otherwise.

For her loyalty, she was rewarded by Louis, who as a novice vampire was still learning how to properly bestow the gift of vampirism (he had accidentally killed Princess Henriette in a blood frenzy while trying to do the same to her), and she became the only mistress of the Sun King to be turned into a vampire, much to the fury of her rival Montespan, who began outright begging the King for the same treatment. A competent manipulator of people from even before she became a vampire, Nadia-Marie succeeded in implicating Montespan in the Affaire des Poisons which revealed her satanic practices and forced the King to send the deranged mortal into exile. She also had a hand in arranging the King’s mildly controversial second marriage, which she knew would distract attention away from their nocturnal activities. During the later years of his reign, Nadia-Marie played a decisive role in influencing her maker's decisions and gained political experience among mortals in the process, for his part Louis played along, allowing his lover-turned-protege to influence him here and there, impressed with her keen mind for intrigue and manipulation.

Alas Louis, for all of his indiscretions and scandals, was held in low contempt by the church and when rumours began to spread about his remarkable age and the ever-lasting youth and beauty of one of his favourites, the church took interest. A plot was launched, in which Louis was quietly murdered and Nadia-Marie was forced to flee Versailles, hounded by an angry mob. She first fled into Paris, where the city’s vampiric governor sheltered her, but when it became apparent that the church was furiously hunting for her and burning many suspected-witches, fortune-tellers and other non-conforming people, all in the hunt for those who had 'corrupted the King', the entire French domain had to take extra care and go into hiding, with many vampires therein angrily cursing and blaming the juvenile vampire-king and his favourite whelp for the crisis caused by their near-exposure.

Fearing the repercussions of this, Nadia-Marie fled to the Americas. First she settled in the Caribbean, where destitute, she hid for several years among pirates and mortal castaways in Nassau. There she specialised as an alchemist and healer, and witnessed the fall of Nassau before eventually seducing a rich and gullible British ship captain and relocating with him to his inherited family mansion in Boston. When the mortal man died childless soon after, he left his estate and fortune to Nadia-Marie, and she lives comfortably off his wealth for the time being, trying to decorate the mansion with anything Bourbon she can find in an attempt to make it feel more like Versailles and the ostentatious life she left behind.

She is so far blissfully unaware of the sudden interest society vampires have been showing in the region, and though she longs for the kind of influence and power she once held in the mortal court of the Sun King, she has not yet had a chance to work out how, if at all, she might fit into an unliving one here in the new world...

#CoB1764

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

NS Name: Cheye

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Character Name: Nadia-Marie d’Maryvonne
Appearance: Long black hair, pale skin, slender build, favours black and white clothes and a choker pendant given to her by Louis XIV.
Age: 119
Maker: Louis Dieudonné de Bourbon (Louis XIV of France)
City of Origin: Versailles/Paris
Abilities: Basic Abilities only
Religion: Non-practising Roman Catholic
Languages Spoken: French, English, Latin
Biography:
Born into a family of aristocrats on the fringes of the French upper class, Nadia-Marie would have had an uneventful and traditional upbringing were it not for her father’s close friendship with Laurent de la Vallière, whose teenage daughter Louise had been appointed as the maid of honour to Princess Henriette of England, the new wife of King Louis’s brother; Prince Phillipe. Nadia-Marie who was the same age as Louise, soon joined her as one of Henriette’s maids.

When Henriette and the King were implicated in an affair, the Princess hatched a plan to end the gossip, having the King pay court to her maids publically instead of her. Several young ladies were selected for this honour, including the fair blonde Louise and the raven haired Nadia-Marie, who were by far the most successful at gaining the King’s affections. Sadly for Princess Henriette, the King became entrapped in the ruse, taking both Louise and Nadia-Marie as lovers.

Later, while on campaign in Flanders, King Louis fell victim to a vampire who had been masquerading as a General in his court and upon his return began to demand not just carnal relations but blood from his mistresses. This caused issues for some of Louis' many mistresses, including Louise, who began to put more distance between herself and the King, but Nadia-Marie was among others who continued to serve willingly. While the King’s newest mistress, the Marquise de Montespan, went out of her way to please the King in this manner, cavorting with satanic practitioners and other charlatans to try and improve the quality of her blood for the King’s consumption and maintain his affections, Nadia-Marie simply did only what was asked of her. Happy to serve in the knowledge that her increasingly dominant position amidst the lavish splendour of Versailles rested solely on Louis’ contentment, natural or otherwise.

For her loyalty, she was rewarded by Louis, who as a novice vampire was still learning how to properly bestow the gift of vampirism (he had accidentally killed Princess Henriette in a blood frenzy while trying to do the same to her), and she became the only mistress of the Sun King to be turned into a vampire, much to the fury of her rival Montespan, who began outright begging the King for the same treatment. A competent manipulator of people from even before she became a vampire, Nadia-Marie succeeded in implicating Montespan in the Affaire des Poisons which revealed her satanic practices and forced the King to send the deranged mortal into exile. She also had a hand in arranging the King’s mildly controversial second marriage, which she knew would distract attention away from their nocturnal activities. During the later years of his reign, Nadia-Marie played a decisive role in influencing her maker's decisions and gained political experience among mortals in the process, for his part Louis played along, allowing his lover-turned-protege to influence him here and there, impressed with her keen mind for intrigue and manipulation.

Alas Louis, for all of his indiscretions and scandals, was held in low contempt by the church and when rumours began to spread about his remarkable age and the ever-lasting youth and beauty of one of his mistresses, the church took interest. A plot was launched, in which Louis was quietly murdered and Nadia-Marie was forced to flee Versailles, hounded by an angry mob. She first fled into Paris, where the city’s vampiric governor sheltered her, but when it became apparent that the church was furiously hunting for her and burning many suspected-witches, fortune-tellers and other non-conforming people, all in the hunt for those who had 'corrupted the King', the entire French domain had to take extra care and go into hiding, with many vampires therein angrily cursing and blaming the juvenile vampire-king and his concubine for the crisis caused by their near-exposure.

Fearing the repercussions of this, Nadia-Marie fled to the Americas. First she settled in the Caribbean, where destitute, she hid for several years among pirates and mortal castaways in Nassau. There she specialised as an alchemist and healer, and witnessed the fall of Nassau before eventually seducing a rich and gullible British ship captain and relocating with him to his inherited family mansion in Boston. When the mortal man died childless soon after, he left his estate and fortune to Nadia-Marie, and she lives comfortably off his wealth for the time being, trying to decorate the mansion with anything Bourbon she can find in an attempt to make it feel more like Versailles and the ostentatious life she left behind.

She is so far blissfully unaware of the sudden interest society vampires have been showing in the region, and though she longs for the kind of influence and power she once held in the mortal court of the Sun King, she has not yet had a chance to work out how, if at all, she might fit into an unliving one here in the new world...

#CoB1764

This app is mostly good, however it is a noted part of the setting that vampires are *ahem* incapable of the more carnal side of love. You may wish to edit this accordingly. Barring that, Accepted

[Cheye]

This app is mostly good, however it is a noted part of the setting that vampires are *ahem* incapable of the more carnal side of love. You may wish to edit this accordingly. Barring that, Accepted

What an issue to have! *Ahem*

I have adjusted accordingly! Thanks!

Edit: I have readjusted as per the conversation below.

[Nea Videssos]

This app is mostly good, however it is a noted part of the setting that vampires are *ahem* incapable of the more carnal side of love. You may wish to edit this accordingly. Barring that, Accepted

You would've thought that vampires could do that sort of thing, it just wouldn't lead to any children. I've just been looking at Choice of the Vampire earlier, and the vamp that turned me was in a sexual relationship. "but he found me instead. And soon his lust for me was insatiable." Seems to say otherwise.

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

This app is mostly good, however it is a noted part of the setting that vampires are *ahem* incapable of the more carnal side of love. You may wish to edit this accordingly. Barring that, Accepted

You would've thought that vampires could do that sort of thing, it just wouldn't lead to any children. I've just been looking at Choice of the Vampire earlier, and the vamp that turned me was in a sexual relationship. "but he found me instead. And soon his lust for me was insatiable." Seems to say otherwise.

It goes into it if you romance Clotho, so minor spoilers for that plotline, but in essence lust gets replaced by bloodlust. The closest thing to more intimate interactions that Vampires experience is feeding slowly on someone, which serves to sync the persons heartbeat with the vampires and starts the vamps heart for a short period again. Two close vampires will engage in this at the same time.

Don't ask me how the pulses sync up, but that's the explanation.

[Nea Videssos]

You would've thought that vampires could do that sort of thing, it just wouldn't lead to any children. I've just been looking at Choice of the Vampire earlier, and the vamp that turned me was in a sexual relationship. "but he found me instead. And soon his lust for me was insatiable." Seems to say otherwise.

It goes into it if you romance Clotho, so minor spoilers for that plotline, but in essence lust gets replaced by bloodlust. The closest thing to more intimate interactions that Vampires experience is feeding slowly on someone, which serves to sync the persons heartbeat with the vampires and starts the vamps heart for a short period again. Two close vampires will engage in this at the same time.

Don't ask me how the pulses sync up, but that's the explanation.

Well, if the vampire can move the blood in their body, then they'd be able to stimulate their bits and whatnot, right?
Might not be quite the same, but it wouldn't mean that they're completely impotent. Of course, it would make sense that feeding on people would be a much more enjoyable experience than whatever carnal activities they did before, living or unliving. So I guess one could say that generally vampires have more of a focus on feeding in place of the sort of activities they would've done when alive, but it's not that they can't engage in said activities.

I just took a look on a forum, and someone else posted this:

A few nights later, you find yourself reading in your study. Silas has been unavailable since the night of the parade, and so you have been occupying yourself with some of the recent newspapers bringing word of the war from the various fronts.

You are startled by a tap at your window. Looking up quickly, you see Silas smiling through the panes.

“What are you doing?” you scold him as you admit him to your study.

“I could not stand to be apart from you for another moment!”

“It is late! You will be reprimanded if you are discovered away from your Company!”

“Every lash will be received with joy if you will permit me to spend the night with you.”

My response:

“No! You have gone too far… I cannot… not yet…”

Next scene:

“Have I offended you, my dearest?”

“No… it’s not that…”

“What then?”

“Give me a few more days… meet me where I first found you the night after next…”

With a frantic kiss full of longing, Silas departs through the window. You can almost imagine your heart beating in desire as the sounds of his footfalls fade.

As far as you are concerned, the time for your meeting cannot arrive soon enough.

Next scene:
The early March night is crisp and clean, an evening rain having washed the air of the regiment’s campfires. The space between the two of you is pregnant with possibilities. He gazes deeply into your eyes, waiting for that sign that there is no turning back.

My response:

I profess my love for him. Amor omnia vincit!

Next Scene:

He takes your hand in his, and proclaims his love for you as well. The two of you embrace, and spend the rest of the evening in breathless ecstasy.

You steal away before the break of dawn.

This is attainable by both Male and Female players, with slightly different dialogue for genders (YAY!). The above verison is with a Female French Noble vampire (though race does not seem to play a part in sex, but does in the story). I’m not sure if you or Silas is the “Top” in the male/male but I’m thinking you are. So as I said vampires CAN have sex, but maybe just have to be mentally prepared for it and can’t just do it on demand lol! So maybe half vampires are possible! Though probably only for males!

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

It goes into it if you romance Clotho, so minor spoilers for that plotline, but in essence lust gets replaced by bloodlust. The closest thing to more intimate interactions that Vampires experience is feeding slowly on someone, which serves to sync the persons heartbeat with the vampires and starts the vamps heart for a short period again. Two close vampires will engage in this at the same time.

Don't ask me how the pulses sync up, but that's the explanation.

Well, if the vampire can move the blood in their body, then they'd be able to stimulate their bits and whatnot, right?
Might not be quite the same, but it wouldn't mean that they're completely impotent. Of course, it would make sense that feeding on people would be a much more enjoyable experience than whatever carnal activities they did before, living or unliving. So I guess one could say that generally vampires have more of a focus on feeding in place of the sort of activities they would've done when alive, but it's not that they can't engage in said activities.

I just took a look on a forum, and someone else posted this:

A few nights later, you find yourself reading in your study. Silas has been unavailable since the night of the parade, and so you have been occupying yourself with some of the recent newspapers bringing word of the war from the various fronts.

You are startled by a tap at your window. Looking up quickly, you see Silas smiling through the panes.

“What are you doing?” you scold him as you admit him to your study.

“I could not stand to be apart from you for another moment!”

“It is late! You will be reprimanded if you are discovered away from your Company!”

“Every lash will be received with joy if you will permit me to spend the night with you.”

My response:

“No! You have gone too far… I cannot… not yet…”

Next scene:

“Have I offended you, my dearest?”

“No… it’s not that…”

“What then?”

“Give me a few more days… meet me where I first found you the night after next…”

With a frantic kiss full of longing, Silas departs through the window. You can almost imagine your heart beating in desire as the sounds of his footfalls fade.

As far as you are concerned, the time for your meeting cannot arrive soon enough.

Next scene:
The early March night is crisp and clean, an evening rain having washed the air of the regiment’s campfires. The space between the two of you is pregnant with possibilities. He gazes deeply into your eyes, waiting for that sign that there is no turning back.

My response:

I profess my love for him. Amor omnia vincit!

Next Scene:

He takes your hand in his, and proclaims his love for you as well. The two of you embrace, and spend the rest of the evening in breathless ecstasy.

You steal away before the break of dawn.

This is attainable by both Male and Female players, with slightly different dialogue for genders (YAY!). The above verison is with a Female French Noble vampire (though race does not seem to play a part in sex, but does in the story). I’m not sure if you or Silas is the “Top” in the male/male but I’m thinking you are. So as I said vampires CAN have sex, but maybe just have to be mentally prepared for it and can’t just do it on demand lol! So maybe half vampires are possible! Though probably only for males!

I'll look to find it for the Clotho plot, but IIRC when the player tries, they can do it, it just has no pleasure for them. They then try feeding and it produces similar ecstasy for both vampire and victim. I was more referring to the feeling of lust over all than a vampires struggles with ED.

[Nea Videssos]

Well, if the vampire can move the blood in their body, then they'd be able to stimulate their bits and whatnot, right?
Might not be quite the same, but it wouldn't mean that they're completely impotent. Of course, it would make sense that feeding on people would be a much more enjoyable experience than whatever carnal activities they did before, living or unliving. So I guess one could say that generally vampires have more of a focus on feeding in place of the sort of activities they would've done when alive, but it's not that they can't engage in said activities.

I just took a look on a forum, and someone else posted this:

A few nights later, you find yourself reading in your study. Silas has been unavailable since the night of the parade, and so you have been occupying yourself with some of the recent newspapers bringing word of the war from the various fronts.

You are startled by a tap at your window. Looking up quickly, you see Silas smiling through the panes.

“What are you doing?” you scold him as you admit him to your study.

“I could not stand to be apart from you for another moment!”

“It is late! You will be reprimanded if you are discovered away from your Company!”

“Every lash will be received with joy if you will permit me to spend the night with you.”

My response:

“No! You have gone too far… I cannot… not yet…”

Next scene:

“Have I offended you, my dearest?”

“No… it’s not that…”

“What then?”

“Give me a few more days… meet me where I first found you the night after next…”

With a frantic kiss full of longing, Silas departs through the window. You can almost imagine your heart beating in desire as the sounds of his footfalls fade.

As far as you are concerned, the time for your meeting cannot arrive soon enough.

Next scene:
The early March night is crisp and clean, an evening rain having washed the air of the regiment’s campfires. The space between the two of you is pregnant with possibilities. He gazes deeply into your eyes, waiting for that sign that there is no turning back.

My response:

I profess my love for him. Amor omnia vincit!

Next Scene:

He takes your hand in his, and proclaims his love for you as well. The two of you embrace, and spend the rest of the evening in breathless ecstasy.

You steal away before the break of dawn.

This is attainable by both Male and Female players, with slightly different dialogue for genders (YAY!). The above verison is with a Female French Noble vampire (though race does not seem to play a part in sex, but does in the story). I’m not sure if you or Silas is the “Top” in the male/male but I’m thinking you are. So as I said vampires CAN have sex, but maybe just have to be mentally prepared for it and can’t just do it on demand lol! So maybe half vampires are possible! Though probably only for males!

I'll look to find it for the Clotho plot, but IIRC when the player tries, they can do it, it just has no pleasure for them. They then try feeding and it produces similar ecstasy for both vampire and victim. I was more referring to the feeling of lust over all than a vampires struggles with ED.

I guess we can say for all intents and purposes vampires can have sex, they just find feeding and generally getting up to their bitey-vamp activities to be more enjoyable. As for that bit about having no pleasure for them, I guess it could be still pleasurable (after all, their nerves and muscles are fully functional), but it vastly pales in comparison to what they feel when feeding. Just thinking of how it's described in Vampire: The Masquerade and some other settings.

Anyway, I'll probably work on deciding what sort of background my character would have. On a less related note, what sort of things can vampires shapeshift into? Is it just normal animals, or is it a bit more varied than that?
Also, looking at the lore in the OP, it said Adonis killed all the older vampires in the Roman Empire (somehow), but isn't it a bit odd that vampires only happened to be within the confines of the Roman Empire? I guess they also had some sort of mysterious barrier around the empire (or republic before it) that somehow blocked vampires from moving elsewhere or escaping/hiding from any attempted purges.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

So exactly when, for a vampire, is "older"?

Also, are vampires here the classic "turn into dust when hit with sunlight" type?

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

I'll look to find it for the Clotho plot, but IIRC when the player tries, they can do it, it just has no pleasure for them. They then try feeding and it produces similar ecstasy for both vampire and victim. I was more referring to the feeling of lust over all than a vampires struggles with ED.

I guess we can say for all intents and purposes vampires can have sex, they just find feeding and generally getting up to their bitey-vamp activities to be more enjoyable. As for that bit about having no pleasure for them, I guess it could be still pleasurable (after all, their nerves and muscles are fully functional), but it vastly pales in comparison to what they feel when feeding. Just thinking of how it's described in Vampire: The Masquerade and some other settings.

Anyway, I'll probably work on deciding what sort of background my character would have. On a less related note, what sort of things can vampires shapeshift into? Is it just normal animals, or is it a bit more varied than that?
Also, looking at the lore in the OP, it said Adonis killed all the older vampires in the Roman Empire (somehow), but isn't it a bit odd that vampires only happened to be within the confines of the Roman Empire? I guess they also had some sort of mysterious barrier around the empire (or republic before it) that somehow blocked vampires from moving elsewhere or escaping/hiding from any attempted purges.

It's less that the Vampires were confined to the Roman Empire itself and were more a problem specifically endemic to the Mediterranean world. Some might have escaped, but the Society would have eventually found them and hunted them down. Or at least that's what the society believes, who knows . Anyways, no forms can be more varied, IE Dracula turning to mist, but those forms would naturally be far harder to master.

[Britanania]

So exactly when, for a vampire, is "older"?

Also, are vampires here the classic "turn into dust when hit with sunlight" type?

That isn't classic, depending on the tradition. In Dracula the Count walks around in broad daylight.

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

So exactly when, for a vampire, is "older"?

Well, it's all relative of course. A vampire is typically considered to be an experienced member of the society when they near their 150th year as a Vampire, however how far that experience goes depends on the location. In Western Europe and the Middle East where the ruling vampires can be well on their way towards their second millennium, an experienced vampire is not going to necessarily be an older one. Where as in America and the Far East, places which have been more recently introduced to Vampirism, a vampire in their second century can be considered an elder.

Edit: and yes, Sunlight is one of the best ways to dispose of Vampires in this setting. If they are out in the day, they burn, plain and simple.