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This is a vampire spawn, or a vampire made by another. Not a vampire made through a pact with hell, like Vlad Dracul did. They are your basic pop-culture vampires, pale with humans with fangs. They are much like normal vampires except they can't fly, turn to mist, shape change, etc. But they can charm, they are coherent and cunning with agility and strength to match. They have all the same weaknesses as a normal vampire. They can look human if they recently fed. And they don't get that feral looking like the normal vampire or nosferatu. The biggest characteristic of a vampire spawn is they are enthralled by the normal vampire that made them. Vampire spawns cannot create other vampires like their creators.Killing their master does lift the curse from them if they are new, however if they have been a spawn for a long time it releases them from "spawndom" and turns them to true vampires. Also, given enough time, they turn to true vampires eventually as they mature, but this may take a few generations. The last way they can become a true vampire is if their creator lets them drink their blood, then they are free from "spawndom" and turn into real vampires. This would mean their creator trusts them and trust isn't a popular thing amongst the Vamphyri. So these cases are extremely rare.
Again, I see these vampires as the same kind of silly vampires from pop culture Hollycrap vampires, like True Blood, Blade, Underworld (except a few key venerables), etc...These are your basic vampires you are all used to. The true vampires are what most people never see; they are in movies like Brahm Stokers Dracula, Vanhelsing, Blade (the elder brother with wings and bat head) and are less known to common folk.
Oh and... The Twilight fags don't count as even one of these vampires.
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have you ever watched hellsing ultimate? i know its a anime but it actually sticks close to the original vampires. Also do these vampires enthrallment to their... masters (i guess?) remain when they become true vampires?Β
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It seemed too over the top. My favorite vampire Anime is Vampire Hunter D, Blood Lust and the original Movie Anime of Blood the Last Vampire, not the silly girly anime version. Saya was so badass looking in that movie, and then they made her look like a sailor moon character. That made me mad.Β
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sailor moon is pretty annoying to me. also i guess i just like over the top stuff.
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Great outfit, and follows the mythological principles!
Hmmm. 
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I don't understand what you have against modern interpretations of vampires, it's pretty hypocritical as you essentially just pick and choose a couple of modern vampire variants that you like and consider them "True" vampires aswell. There were many vampire myths, there's no unified abrahamic origin as you suggest. You can prefer whatever you want and I even agree with you mostly (Van Helsing was an awful film, monstrous vamps are awesome, humanoid vamps are often awesome and sometimes terrible Twilight things) but you don't decide what's "True" or not, culture evolves. Deal with it.
Although, your art is undeniably awesome...
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the new Fright Night was good though. did you like that one?
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Vanhelsing was indeed an aweful film, I agree, lol. Crappy lines, stupid plot, over the top action, but godamn they had the sweetest looking vampires.
You must like modern vampires then? They're not very scary, have nothing or little to do with Christian myth, aren't evil blood suckers anymore, and in many cases not undead. I s I could make a movie about a repitillian 6 legged monster with laser eyes and name it "the Unicorn" and it would be in my right. I just feel that even myth is tied down by certain characteristics and that artistic liscence can go too far even though it is mythology. Otherwise The Lizzard is a unicorn and no one could say otherwise, but we all know what a unicirn really is, despite any tacky artistic liscence I would take in my cheesy movie or book.
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There's more to being scary than obvious monstrosity, you don't have to look scary to be scary. Granted it's become popular recently to try and ruin vampires by making them...well not vampires. Christian mythology has little to do with it as far as I'm concerned, there are really diverse origins of "vampire" myths.
I like some modern depictions of vampires, White Wolf's World of Darkness RPG has a really rich vampire mythos that takes inspiration from about every vampire legend or variant you could think of. I don't like the twilight type of vampire at all, vampires should be monsters even if they don't always look it or don't always want to be. If there's no inherent moral problem with being a vampire it has no point, it's just another super power. Which would make vampires really boring, I think.
I do really like horrific and monstrous looking vampires though, I just don't think they HAVE to be that in every story. Send me a pm if you want to, I don't want to clutter the comments section but do want to continue the conversation.
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I think just about everything you said I agree with, lol. You don't like Twilight so you earned about +100 respect points, aside from Twilight most vampires are awesome or at least grudgingly tolerable. When you think about it Twilight is the only one that is truely an dembarassment.
I also agree that every depiction of a vampire shouldn't be obvious monsters; I just categorize them for my fantasy world I'm building. Vampire spawns are the typical looking ones, the new ones, freshly made. They look like humans, can't fly, have very little supernatural powers and are somewhat creepy when they want to, sporting fangs and pale skin and claws. Normal vampires can, if they wish, have wings, extended jaws, talons and have generally the normal vampiric might. Vampire lords are just very powerful and have yet even more abilities, being able to tap into their demonic curse. And Nosferatu, in this context, are used to depict the feral monstrous vampires, horribly ugly and animalistic. These are the 4 types i have for my gaming world. And really they're just different stages of the same creature.
Now for the Christian thing, it doesn't have to be Christianity, it could be some fantasy holy releion, but I find the Dracula fiction to be very rich and tasteful as to why they drink blood, why they have certain powers and their general lore. A also like a few others take on the religious aspects of undead, evil and demons, it feels right, it makes sense and can be explained in a feasible way (as far as riligio myth goes) that allows for a decent amount of suspension of disbelief. Mutant vampires, vampire disease, sparkly fairy vampires, and vampires that are just vampires with really no explanation tied to any evil lore are just lacking in my eyes. When I read Brahm Stockers it was really an eye opener and I felt that it was such a huge hitter of the vampire mythos I couldn't ignore it lightly.
Those are my views on the subject and I know I come off as forcefully opposed to pop-culture mythology, but this is a "compensating" facade I do. In reality there is a decent amount of pop-culture mythos, but to be able to oppose the bad ones I take more steps than necessary so that my position is understood, otherwise it comes off as too light. For example, I loved 30 days of night, Fright night 2,Priest and Underworld which are all pop-culture and modern, but I pretend to be "extra angry" so that people know I am opposed to Twilight, Ultraviolet, Life force, Queen of the Damned (what a travesty against Anne Riceβs novels) vampires. Itβs kind of an βactβ to set my position on things, βFantasy politicsβ, lol.
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Yeah, I agree 100%. Glad we sorted that out.
So will we be getting more additions to your Monster Manual any time soon? I especially like the Hobbs and Boggys.
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I am going through the Hobbs for now. I will be ulaoding more soon.
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Neat, the technically most common, movie-type vampire. Good though that you made them distinguishably 'vampiric' in appearance. This way they show their affiliation to both, the human culture and the underworld.
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Excellent! He looks very much like a cross between Dracula and Lestat. ^_^
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