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