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So unless I do some MAJOR research, you are not getting every single kind of vampire there could possibly be. There's a lot of vampires out there.

I've been meaning to do this for some time. Because the thing is, 'vampire' is as broad a term as 'fairy' and though my usual vamps are alive and have families and so on, the folklore types also exist. There is a type missing here, plus a bajillion monster types as I said.

These are the three sorts you will most 'commonly' find in the Otherworlds(vampires are actually pretty rare, hence the inverted commas...).

Firstly,

The major difference between the first two is strictly how they choose to behave.

'Modern' vampires - They stay awake in the daytime and have the audacity to get things like jobs and girlfriends. They are not dead, and they have neither the strengths nor the weaknesses commonly associated with vampires these days. They wear whatever the hell they like and some of them don't use the accent on principle.
The fact that this one has pointy ears is only because he's a fairy (vampire is a mutation, not a species)

(I would have used Johann as an example of modern vampires, but.. he doesn't look obviously modern enough and he does the whole spooky castle, bats/wolves thing, etc. - note that this is what i should have written at 11pm last night, but brain.)

'Traditional' vampires - They have bats and wolves and wear capes and evening wear. They tend to live in castles and have doors that creak like nails on a chalk board and lots of dribbly candles. Possibly they use the accent. They tend to stay up at night. They are also not dead, and have neither the strengths or weaknesses associated with vampires. Again, any species may be this sort of vampire, but they are usually human.

'Folklore' vampires - In the Otherworlds, they certainly wouldn't be referred to as 'folklore' because Otherworlders call that sort of stuff 'history'. These kinds of vampires are dead, little more than walking corpses reanimated by a curse or some other black magic. Sometimes they may have had a soul attached to them by whoever cast the spell, but they are unlikely to know what they are doing. They tend to shuffle about at night breaking into houses and tormenting people. Sometimes they drink blood, sometimes they only throttle people. Some are the result of a necromancer casting a spell on themselves - they will be fully in possession of their senses and will be seeking blood. There are a bajillion kinds of these, so.. yeah. THESE are the vampires that will drop motionless in the sunlight (I guess the curse only works in the dark) and may be vulnerable to holy things and garlic flowers and whatnot. Varies by type, spell, etc. You can stake them but all it does is prevent the corpse getting up and bothering people. Chopping their head off and putting it at their feet or reburying them upside down also works. They have various abilities, but again, it varies/depends.

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So unless I do some MAJOR research, you are not getting every single kind of vampire there could possibly be. There's a lot of vampires out there.

I've been meaning to do this for some time. Because the thing is, 'vampire' is as broad a term as 'fairy' and though my usual vamps are alive and have families and so on, the folklore types also exist. There is a type missing here, plus a bajillion monster types as I said.

These are the three sorts you will most 'commonly' find in the Otherworlds(vampires are actually pretty rare, hence the inverted commas...).

Firstly,

The major difference between the first two is strictly how they choose to behave.

'Modern' vampires - They stay awake in the daytime and have the audacity to get things like jobs and girlfriends. They are not dead, and they have neither the strengths nor the weaknesses commonly associated with vampires these days. They wear whatever the hell they like and some of them don't use the accent on principle.
The fact that this one has pointy ears is only because he's a fairy (vampire is a mutation, not a species)

(I would have used Johann as an example of modern vampires, but.. he doesn't look obviously modern enough and he does the whole spooky castle, bats/wolves thing, etc. - note that this is what i should have written at 11pm last night, but brain.)

'Traditional' vampires - They have bats and wolves and wear capes and evening wear. They tend to live in castles and have doors that creak like nails on a chalk board and lots of dribbly candles. Possibly they use the accent. They tend to stay up at night. They are also not dead, and have neither the strengths or weaknesses associated with vampires. Again, any species may be this sort of vampire, but they are usually human.

'Folklore' vampires - In the Otherworlds, they certainly wouldn't be referred to as 'folklore' because Otherworlders call that sort of stuff 'history'. These kinds of vampires are dead, little more than walking corpses reanimated by a curse or some other black magic. Sometimes they may have had a soul attached to them by whoever cast the spell, but they are unlikely to know what they are doing. They tend to shuffle about at night breaking into houses and tormenting people. Sometimes they drink blood, sometimes they only throttle people. Some are the result of a necromancer casting a spell on themselves - they will be fully in possession of their senses and will be seeking blood. There are a bajillion kinds of these, so.. yeah. THESE are the vampires that will drop motionless in the sunlight (I guess the curse only works in the dark) and may be vulnerable to holy things and garlic flowers and whatnot. Varies by type, spell, etc. You can stake them but all it does is prevent the corpse getting up and bothering people. Chopping their head off and putting it at their feet or reburying them upside down also works. They have various abilities, but again, it varies/depends.