Moroi
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Moroi in Vampire Academy
- Moroi are good vampires.
- Opposed to the Strigoi, they are alive and mortal.
- Moroi are born. (Not made)
- They are very beautiful. (Rose states that Lissa “looks more like an angel then a vampire.”)
- Their skin is very pale and their bodies slim and tall.
- Female Moroi are taller and much more slim than any human female could ever be.
- Moroi get uncomfortable in the sunlight.
- Moroi can use magic. They specialize in one of the following elements: air, fire, earth, water or spirit. Moroi who specialized in spirit are/were thought to have not specialized at all.
- Moroi are not allowed to use their ability as offensive only defensive. This is why they need Dhampir guardians to protect them.
- Moroi have the ability of compulsion. It allows them to temporarily influence and control the minds of humans. Moroi who’s element is spirit, their compulsion is stronger. Spirit-wielder’s compulsion is strong enough to work on Dhampirs and Morois.
- A Moroi’s diet consist of blood as well as normal food. They can survive on either, but blood is more important to them.
- Moroi bites contain endorphins and many of the feeders are addicted to the bites, giving them pleasure and leave them in a ‘drug-like-daze’ after being fed on
- The longest a Moroi can go without blood is two days. After which after they start to weaken. Signs of this are that their skin becomes even paler, and their strength weaken.
- The Moroi have a ruler who is chosen from one of the twelve royal families. The eldest in the family gets the title of “prince” or “princess”. The royal Moroi are supposed to have at least two guardians.
Source: Richelle Mead
Moroi in Mythology
A moroi is a type of vampire in Romanian folklore. A female moroi is a moroaica (pl. moroaice). In some myths, a moroi is a phantom of a dead person which leaves the grave to draw energy from the living.
Origin of the Moroi;
- The Moroi was the vampiric soul or spirit of an infant who was born illegitimately
- Then murdered by his own parents before being baptized.
- The moroi then punish their parents by creating tempests and hail storms which of course threaten not only the parents but the entire community.
- They are also sometimes referred to in modern myth as the live-born offspring of two strigoi.
The origin of the Romanian term Moroi is unclear. It may be connected to:
- Old Slavonic mora, “nightmare”, *mer-, “to harm” or
- Middle English mare which in English - nightmare; or
- Old English mare “goblin”, “incubus” or
- Latin morbus “disease” and Latin mors “a corpse”.
The moroi can shapesfhift into man, as well as into different animals such as: dog, cat, horse,etc. Moroi is said to feed on cattle, by drinking their blood, or on their own relatives, eating hearts and trying to draw them into their grave. When discovered in its grave, moroi has freshly grown nails and blood streaming in its eyes, nors, ears and mouth.
Fictional treatments in general make a clear and consistent distinction between a Strigoi and a Moroi (or “Moroii”), the former being an undead vampire, the latter a living vampire. However, in Romanian folklore the distinction is not always clear, and a Moroi may also refer to a phantom-like figure.
