Vampire Knight Terms to Know

Here is a list of items, things, and terms used in Vampire Knight that may help to clear up confusion like, "What's that?".

Day Class
The Day Class attends Cross Academy during the day and live in the Sun Dorms. They are not allowed to leave their dorm at night. The students in the Day Class are regular human beings, oblivious to the fact that the Night Class is a student body of vampires.

Night Class
The Night Class at Cross Academy attends school at night and lives in the Moon Dorms. The Night Class consists of vampires and only vampires. Only pure blood vampires and aristocrat vampires attend Cross Academy in the Night Class.

Disciplinary Committee
A committee which consists of only Yuki and Zero. It is their job to keep the Night Class and Day Class from mingling while the Night Class comes from their dorms and into the academy. They also enforce general rules of the academy. This job is necessary because adoring girls from the Day Class wait until nightfall to get a glimpse of the beautiful students of the Night Class and things can sometimes get out of hand. And even though most Night Class students are well disciplined, some can't be trusted to be alone with with humans of the Day Class. It is also first and foremost the Disciplinary Committee's job to keep the secret from the Day Class that the Night Class students are vampires. Yuki and Zero carry special guns and weapons that are meant to stop vampires in their tracks, but are only used in the most extreme situations.

Blood Tablets
Pills to dissolve in water and drink, meant to curb a vampires craving for blood; helpful, but nothing like the real thing. All of the night class takes them and Zero tries to, but for some turned humans, blood tablets only make them ill.

Pure Blood Vampire
A pure blood vampire has no human blood in their line of ancestry. Only pure blood vampires have the power to turn humans into vampires by drinking from them. Any lower class vampire will not turn a human into a vampire by drinking from them.

Vampire Hierarchy

Level A Vampire: Pure bloods - A pure blood vampire has no human blood in their line of ancestry. They are the most revered and most powerful in the vampire world.
Level B Vampire: Aristocrats
Level C Vampire: Commoners
Level D Vampire: Former Humans - Aristocrats tend to watch over Level D vampires to prevent them from becoming Level E vampires.
Level E Vampire: Berserk Former Humans - Once a vampire hits level E, they go mad with blood lust and live only to drink blood. They are very dangerous and are hunted and destroyed, either by a vampire hunter, or another higher ranked vampire.

Council of Ancients
A group of very old vampires that make major decisions in the vampire world. They make the decision to try and capture Shizuka after she kills the Kiryuu hunters and to kill Zero for murdering the pure blood Shizuka.

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