| Question/Answer To Determine Fact and Fiction |
| The following segment is a question and answer section.It will determine what is fact and what is fiction.Maybe this will clear up what people know and think they know of the Vampire. |
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| Vampires are Immortal? True.While they can be killed *a very difficult process*, they do not age or die from natural causes.They need no food such as humans eat,and they do not need to breath. Vampires are living dead and must sustain themselves with the blood of the living? True.A vampire is clinically dead---its heart does not beat,it does not breathe,its skin is cold,it does not age---and yet it thinks,and walks,and plans,and speaks....and hunts,and kills.To sustain its artificial immortality,the vampire must periodically consume blood,preferably human blood.Some penitent vampires eke out an existence from animal blood,and some ancient vampires must hunt and kill others of their kind to nourish themselves,but most vampires indeed consume the blood of their former species. Vampires drain their prey of blood through the use of retractable fangs,which are magically gifted to vampires when they first become undead.Each vampire can also magically lick closed the wounds made by their fangs,thus concealing the evidence of their feeding. Blood is all-important to Kindred,for it is both the crux of their exsistence and the seat of their power.Mortal food,mortal air,mortal love---all of these things are meaningless to a vampire.Blood is the Kindred's only passion,and without it,they will quickly wither and fall dormant.Moreover,each vampire can use its stolen blood to perform amazing feats of healing,strength and other magic. Anyone who dies from a vampire's bite rises to become a vampire? False.If this were true,the world would be overrun with vampires.Vampires feed on human blood,true,and sometimes kill their prey---but most humans who die from a vampire's attack simply perish.To return as undead,the victim must be drained of vlood,and subsiquently be fed a bit of the attacking vampire's blood.This process, called the Embrace,causes the mystical transformation from human to undead. Vampires are monsters---demonic spirits embodied in corpses? False...and true. Vampires are not demons *per se*,but a combination of tragic factors draw inexorably toward wicked deeds.In the begining,the newly created vampire thinks and acts much as he/she did while living.He/She does not immediately turn into an evil,sadistic monster.However,the vampire soon discovers his/her overpowering hunger for blood,and realizes that his/her existence depends on feeding on her species.In many ways,the vampire's mindset changes---he/she adopts a set of attitudes less suited to a communal omnivore and more befiting a solitary preditor. At first reluctant to kill,the vampire is finally forced into murder by circumstances or need---and killing becomes easier as the years pass.Realizing that he/she is different,he/she walls himself/herself away from the mortal world. Realizing that his/her existence depends on secrecy and control,he/she becomes a manipulative user of the first order.And things only degenerate as the years turn to decades and then centuries,and the vampire kills over and over again,and sees the people she loved age and die.Human life,so short and cheap in comparison to his/hers,becomes of less and less value,until the mortal "herd" areound him/her means no more to him/her than a swarm of insects.Vampire elders are among the most jaded,unfeeling,paranoid---in short,monstrous---beings the world has ever known.maybe they are not demons exactly---but at that point,who can tell the difference? |