Basic "Facts" About Vampires
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I "know" that vampires need blood in order to survive. In many stories, it's the only thing they need and they get it by using their fangs to pierce the humans' necks to gain strength. In Nightlord, yes, Eric needs blood, but he doesn't necessarily need to puncture and/or kill people to get strength from them. He can use his 'tendrils' to take some human strength, which is kind of neat. He can just pass through a village and can use his 'tendrils' to take a little strength from many and just make humans sleepy.
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This made me laugh. Eric stays in body bags...a more portable version of a coffin. Other "facts" about vampires that I can remember from previous stories include that vampires make more of their own kind by feeding the convert their own blood. They are the "undead" and are immortal. Many vampires can transform into mist to move quickly. Vampires use mind control, and are very strong....and that is all that I can think of that has not already been mentioned.
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His strength depends on which phase he is in. The living vampire phase during the day he just has enhance body strength. The dead phase at night is when he has super-human strength. That is how I took it.hsimone wrote:Another 'fact' is that vampires have super-human strength, so don't mess with them! Eric/Halar is definitely strong, which I believe he mentions often, but I'm remembering a couple of fighting scenes where he was a bit sore/tired afterwards. Then, that would contradict having super-human strength all of the time.
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Very good point! This is very true and I forgot to mention it. I guess in this aspect this vampire 'fact' holds true to what we have known. Vampires go out at night, while stay hidden during the day. Eric/Halar doesn't doesn't necessarily stay hidden (except for a body bag for a while), but his strength is weakened compared to nighttime. Thank you.Amcdanel86 wrote:His strength depends on which phase he is in. The living vampire phase during the day he just has enhance body strength. The dead phase at night is when he has super-human strength. That is how I took it.hsimone wrote:Another 'fact' is that vampires have super-human strength, so don't mess with them! Eric/Halar is definitely strong, which I believe he mentions often, but I'm remembering a couple of fighting scenes where he was a bit sore/tired afterwards. Then, that would contradict having super-human strength all of the time.
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I think Eric's tendril abilities is what makes this book so unique!hsimone wrote:Ooo...this is a good one.
I "know" that vampires need blood in order to survive. In many stories, it's the only thing they need and they get it by using their fangs to pierce the humans' necks to gain strength. In Nightlord, yes, Eric needs blood, but he doesn't necessarily need to puncture and/or kill people to get strength from them. He can use his 'tendrils' to take some human strength, which is kind of neat. He can just pass through a village and can use his 'tendrils' to take a little strength from many and just make humans sleepy.
I know that in a lot of other vampire books, many vampires struggle when taking blood/energy from humans. Especially newly bitten/formed vampires. A big part of their training to be a vampire is to take enough to satisfy their bloodlust without killing their victim.
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That was most definitely emphasized in the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi using the close ups and eerie lighting effects. It was actually done very nicely and worked in the movie quite well.Gravy wrote:Mind control. It's rare to find a vampire mythology where they don't have some sort of psychic talent, usually for subduing humans.
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