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Published: 2012-05-04 13:11:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 6013; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 0
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Description This is a Nosferatu. These are vampires who are starved for blood and degenerate to feral monsters. They no longer have their more subtle powers like charming, turn to mist, flight, shape changing, but they are still incredibly fast and can even crawl up the walls as some vestigial power left over from flight. They are still as strong as vampires and even more agile but not too bright and insane. They do not talk and just hunger for blood and flesh. They do not have the ability to assume a humanoid form any longer, being completely given in to their feral instincts. They, of course, have all the same weaknesses as normal vampires.

Vampires often punish other vampires by imprisoning them until they turn into nosferatu. Some vampires turn their spawn into these and use them as fodder and watch dogs. Vampires consider Nosferatu vampires the lowest form of vamphyri.

The worst tales of all is when a good person turns into a vampire and resists the blood lust and goes mad and/or locks themselves up only to turn into these monsters. This is why ultimately there can be no good vampires, because you must drink the blood of the lamb for eternal life. The children of God do it through the Eucharist. Vampires must do this by drinking the blood of the children of God themselves since the Eucharist would kill them and because it is part of the covenant with the devil that has cursed their blood to drink the blood of the lamb through God's children. So, drinking the blood of bad guys doesn’t count as much and evil humans are poor nourishment and you slowly turn into a Nosferatu anyways. So inevitably there becomes a moral dilemma for a new "good" vampire, drink the blood of the lamb or die. Most kill themselves anyways, but some mistakenly lock themselves away only to make things worse. So what we learn in REAL vampirism is that there are no good vampires. The possibility destroys itself.

And no, animal blood is never any good and is just a slower decent to Nosferatu than normal. Animals are not the chosen children of God and do not accept the blood of god for immortality.

Apologies for the religious references but you must understand that TRUE vampires are tied to the religions of Abraham. Without some form of the religion, or some fantasy religion that seems like it, you do not have real vampires, just silly pop-culture tripe, which never counts.
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AlexSkullUterna [2016-01-23 15:39:46 +0000 UTC]

Are this your OC? Can I take inspiration from it (semblance)Β for my upcoming video game?

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Level9Drow In reply to AlexSkullUterna [2016-01-29 02:07:26 +0000 UTC]

No

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nullzz [2016-01-18 18:09:57 +0000 UTC]

oddly this is what my ghouls look like, minus the eyes. Very nice though I didn't know about this guys till now

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Level9Drow In reply to nullzz [2016-01-22 04:49:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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nullzz In reply to Level9Drow [2016-01-30 04:32:50 +0000 UTC]

ew a grammatical mistake. let me fix that up
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Deyran [2012-05-26 04:35:06 +0000 UTC]

Hm, I like the concept and lots of bonus points for actually explaining why the Vamphyri have to drink blood. Everyone else just leaves it at the "Because they're vampires" and you actually gave a believable, interesting and goosebumps-inducing answer.

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Level9Drow In reply to Deyran [2012-05-28 18:08:01 +0000 UTC]

Don't credit me, credit Slavic and Medeval myth. That's why they drink blood.

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ssfl [2012-05-12 19:33:38 +0000 UTC]

you should draw some angels too tht would be SAVAGE!!

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Level9Drow In reply to ssfl [2012-05-13 03:24:32 +0000 UTC]

Check out the Hoof Horn and Wing section of my gallery, there is a ton of angels and demons there. Not sure if I told you that yet...

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Hentai-Ryukami [2012-05-08 08:40:13 +0000 UTC]

I like this concept of a feral vampire. It adds a different side to the vampiric race as a whole.

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Level9Drow In reply to Hentai-Ryukami [2012-05-08 14:15:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks you.

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Lordoffantasy [2012-05-04 18:47:07 +0000 UTC]

much like my mythos; there are no good vampires exactly. however, i deal with a dice rather than a coin, so i have there is such a thing as a less evil vampire.
basically in my book, will power equals strength of the spirit and soul and thus equals magical power. there are humans who are with the inborn ability to resist the vampiric curse. not like those guys morally bound, the infection does cause consdierable change in personality, but not to the point they are unrecognizable. crueler, darker, sadistic, yet if that human had virtues they would remain mostly unaltered. if a nun is turned into a vampire, and her will is strong neough, she may gain cruel tendcencies and perform inhuman actions, but it will not change that she was and sitll is a nun. she prays to god, helps hte unfortunate, and feeds, mostly, on the wicked. in fact her holy standpoint would give her a statistical resistance as well, which would help in the resistance of the change. in general such vampires can be negotiated with, and are far less a threat to humans. they look down on them, but view them as sapient, unlike other vampires. in life the resisted evil temptations that exist in everyday life and refused to do others harm, or they were just good people strongly bound by their own morals, and hwile their benign nature is forever tainted, they are not the entities of pure evil other vampires are. they cannot be cured, but they can be given benefits for their, for lack of a better word, Chasity.
their greatest advantage, along with being more powerful than they should be, is that they stil lretain a considerable amount of their humanity. in my mythos vampires do not feed on sapient beings, mainly humans, because they cannot process any other blood; blood is blood. they need it to restore their constantly degrading humanity. the transformation is a trap! given enough time iwthout human blood, a vampire will almsot irreversably lose themselves, and trust me, they would make this nosferatu seem like a nobleman at that point. fortunately, they will eventually degrade and die without life energy from blood, but that can take months, years even.
these ressitant vampires never have to worry about degrading humanity. they defeated the disease of vampirism. and unlike a normal disease, it cannot make a comeback, for real diseases are just the life proccesses of bacteria and viruses after all.
so it is the difference to choose to be a vampire and losing your soul and mind between refusing the changes and retaining both to some degree.
the vampires hate and fear these beings, as the resistant have a natural hatred for other vampiric beings. however the vampire sources, the core of th disease, have been known to seek out humans with potential characteristics. so that they do not have nothing but absolute heathens disguised in aristocratic clothing in their courts

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