what are your vampires like
What are your vampires like
Jaxon Thompson
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Lincoln Brown
they drink blood
David Johnson
Rare, dangerous, arrogant, but feral if they're cornered.
The usual.
Logan Anderson
Sort of like demons.
Monstrous, cunning, extremely rare and among the most powerful creatures in the setting.
Joshua Cooper
The result of tortured animal spirits that possessed people and turned them into transforming canniballistic monsters.
The spirits themselves were created by necromancers who tortured animals until their spirits were driven mad and used as attack ghosts essentially. One particularly powerful one escaped and possessed the necromancer that made it but even if the body was killed the spirit would possess the killer and keep going until a warrior with a strong will was able to resist the bloodlust. However, even resisting it they would eventually give into the desire to feed as their body is altered by the possession allowing them to access a number of powers (transformation, regeneration, etc). However, over time they became so monsterous they couldn't appear in public anymore because they couldn't even pretend to look human.
This original vampire eventually learned of the ritual to create the corrupted spirits and came up with a ritual to create new vampires bound to the will of the creator. If you can't reisit the bloodlust you become a mindless thrall, if you resist you become a true vampire and have powers and appereance in keeping with the spirit used on you.
Sebastian Smith
Full blown eldritch abominations that are descended from even greater blood drinking aberrations, who in turn are descended from even greater horrors.
Gabriel Ross
pirates
Josiah White
I put my players up against a vampire, a strigoi specifically. He was being transported downriver when the boat bearing him was boarded by river wardens. The smugglers got nervous and a fight broke out belowdecks, rousing the vampire. Outraged, he killed everyone, raised them as he killed them, and then had them eat each other before calming down.
Taking the time to identify the corpses of the river wardens by scent, he sniffed out the way back to their home village and slaughtered everyone in it for the crime of attacking his royal person.
He was gorging himself on this rare meal of non-corpse blood when the PCs showed up and actually uncovered a survivor. The PCs not having offended him, he resurrected the mangled corpses of the village people, hopped down from a grain silo, introduced himself, and demanded the survivor be handed over, using his necromancy to make the undead villagers speak for him (he was more monster than man and his own speech was squalling and incoherent).
The PCs refused.
Gavin Jackson
Vampires are one of the 3 types of variants I've split Undead into. Vampires would be a part of the "Corrupted Living" or "Natural Undead" variant. There are also "Unnatural Undead" and "Burning Zombie" types of Undead.
Natural Undead are corrupted souls of still-living people who's bodies eventually take on a shape to match said corruption.
Most undead in my setting are corrupted by one of the Deadly Sins. Not always mind you, those are just the easiest to have happen. I'm still torn on Vampires being Lust, Pride, Gluttony(although I can make use Ghouls or Pretas for Gluttony I guess), or something else.
Vampires(and other of the "corrupted living" variant of undead) don't get to go the the afterlife, as corrupted souls can spread it's corruption to others like a disease, and that going to land where the souls of the dead gather can cause problems. Instead, they're simply annihilated by Death and cease to exist altogether.
Vampires are typically mad, as the corruption damages the mind quite a bit, although some can fight it off enough to stay rational. There's even a rare few who lasted long enough to overcome the madness and lead fairly normal, if secluded lives.
The general approach to undead by even the most vile gods is "Destroy them on sight," since the gods require souls to maintain their immense power, and undead that can keep the souls they believe rightfully theirs away from them is considered heresy, although in rare cases the gods have harbored certain undead if they believe it would keep souls away from their rivals.
Dylan Garcia
The first Vampire was Prometheus who stole from the gods long before the material plane was protected from such evil. He made his body into a home for Souls effectively became immortal (which is impossible in this setting) and able to cast magic without outside help (also impossible for mortals, mortals usually can't hold others Souls or monsters souls thus making them unable to use powerful magic without burning up ).
In the end the gods all cursed him and he has tons of weird little things like needing to count all the rice in a room before leaving, not able to walk across moving water, and obviously drinking blood and sunlight killing him.
He can and has had children and they form the first level of Vampire society, full bloods. Then you get to different levels of seperation from full bloods. They act more or less like a God and his worshippers would, sacrifices and calling on his power, but also all have increased human attributes that vary from lineage to lineage. The curses also vary from lineage to lineage though everyone fears the sun and drinks blood.