Vampire

Vampires are a powerful variety of undead. Once holy knights fashioned by the Sanguine Prince, Vampires rose to power during the Bloody Years before gradually disappearing following the ruin of the Aladar Dynasty.

Origins
In the time of the old empire, Vampires were the creation of the Sanguine Prince. Called the Maradandok, or the Deathless, they were fashioned to be beautiful paragons of virtue, capable of infinite power. So much power, in fact, that the gods laboured to curse them with weaknesses. Their most famous weaknesses - the sun, running water and stakes - are thought to have been crafted by Ignata, Astra and the Chimera respectively. Whether these weaknesses remain true in the modern day is not known.

The Prince left the world after the Cascade like the other gods, but the Vampires stayed.

Vampiric Undeath
Vampires take small parts of many different minds, extracting select memories from those they feed upon. While Vampires are superficially related to blood, their bite actually pierces through to the spinal column, allowing them to extract memories through nerves. This is, of course, extremely painful, and can prove to be fatal on its own.

The more powerful the thing a Vampire feeds upon, the more powerful its own mind grows. Essentially, they have the potential to become exponentially powerful.

Vampire Hunters
A culture of Vampire-hunting developed during the Bloody Years. This was a tradition that began with the Family Isambard, who are famed for their vampire hunters. Such hunters outside of the Family are sometimes called 'Isambards' as a result.

Famous Vampires

 * Gizella a Maradandó
 * Virág
 * Zsombar of Heaven