VAMPIRES
Vampires are undead beings who
have immortality and a wide range of superhuman abilities. They are faster and
stronger than humans, their senses are extremely acute as are their reflexes. If
properly trained or in some cases, self-taught, they can perform other
abilities. Some can become lighter than air and glide through the sky. Some can
transform themselves into nocturnal creatures like bats, rats and wolves. Some can
turn to mist, or produce and
manipulate mist. Some can even control the weather. Some can control humans
through mesmerization and can communicate with lesser beasts.
Vampires can form into many
types. They all come from the basic humanoid look, but due to environment,
ignorance or even creativity, they have taken many different shapes. Some exist
just as shadow or use pointed noses or octopus-like suckers on their fingers to
gain the nourishing lifeblood. Some are just a floating head.
The key about vampires is
that they are still the people they were in life, only magically undead with abilities
and a craving for the blood of the living. If someone was kind and empathetic
in life, they will be that way as a vampire. If they were cruel and
unsympathetic in life, they will be that way as a vampire. They still have the
free agency to improve their lives as well as ruin their lives. As with life,
the more cruel, selfish things they do, the more desensitized and corrupt they
can become.
The blood of the living
nourishes them. It brings them back to full strength. If they can not find any
blood for too long, they will weaken until they lie inert, unable to move or
think. It can be human or animal blood, but human blood strengthens them
quicker. The thirst is stronger, however, if they partake in human blood.
Vampires can life forever. Children
vampires will go through what is called the Advancement. Their bodies will age
one year over day on the hundred-year anniversary of becoming a vampire. This
will repeat every hundred years until their bodies reach maturity which seems
to be roughly eighteen years physically.
Direct sunlight turns them to
ash. A stake through the heart or decapitation does the same, but if the stake
can be redirected and not pass straight through their heart, they will heal. Items
imbued with the faith of believers such as crosses and the Star of David as
well as the sounds of church bells can hurt vampires who have given into a
darker nature. Garlic has no effect except to give them heart burn and the myth
of sleeping in their own dirt and not being able to cross water is completely
false.
Seen in FORESIGHT CHRONICLES SERIES