Creatures of Eonil – Creatures of Ghor – Creatures of Quintra and Denday
Angels – Demi gods – Dwarves – Elves – Gnomes – Goblins – Halflings – Half elves – Humans – Night Dwellers – Oakhai – Orcs – Vampires
Vampires are creatures of Denday. They were enhanced creatures that weren’t race specific. Vampires are supposed to be very charismatic beings. They can easily charm a person, even alter someone’s memory. Their senses are enhanced, most commonly smell but sometimes also eyesight or hearing. They were also much faster and stronger than the normal races.
After Quintra was banished by the followers of Denday the vampires started losing their abilities and desperately sought a way to keep them. A group of eight vampires created an elaborate ritual but the followers of Quintra tried to sabotage the ritual and partly managed to do so. The eight remaining vampires seemed to have been killed during the ritual and were buried. But a day later when Denday rose they crawled back out of their graves. The vampires were clearly not alive anymore and yet they were. They found themselves unable to eat or drink anything but fresh blood. As long as they would keep on feeding themselves with blood their live like state seemed to be prolonged. Their abilities were also back, but they found themselves being very sensitive to light. If they would be exposed to direct sunlight they found themselves extremely weakened.
In the beginning the vampires were very troubled by their apparent undead state. People mistook them for Ghor Minions even though they in fact weren’t. The vampires attempted to reverse their undead state but were unsuccessful. Since there were just eight of them they found themselves an elite group and started finding some benefits in their the undead state. They found that drinking blood would heal their wounds where normal healing wouldn’t and they also found that their blood could also be used to heal wounds of others. By accident they also discovered that when someone would die with their blood in their system that they would wake up the next time Denday would rise as a vampire.
A vampire cannot be killed by a steak through the hearth, the only thing they are sensitive for is fire. When a vampire is killed the body has to be burned. If it’s not burned and it comes in contact with blood the vampire will begin to regenerate to the state is was when it originally died. The original vampires decided to start turning more people and slowly their numbers started growing again but then two of their elite group fell to the corruption of Ghor after drinking ‘contaminated blood’. The fallen vampires went on a rampage, killing whole villages and quickly making a very bad reputation for all vampires that they were forced to go into hiding. They were nicknamed Dag’da but only vampires know of the difference between themselves and Dag’da. This is why everyone in the present day seems to think all vampires are Ghor minions and evil.
The six remaining vampires organized themselves in families, saying that the people they turned were their children. They still found themselves to be better than the average person and eventually decided that they would try and infiltrate society again. They were most commonly interested in the noble families and people with high positions and real power. This way the vampire families had a real say in high society without the common people knowing about this.
There is a weaponized peace between the vampire families but there is still a rivalry between them. Vampires are no strangers to intrigue, backstabbing and sabotage if it means their family will rise in status. Still this does not count for all vampires, some just want to live or are somehow clinging onto the life they had before becoming a vampire. They only thing they would not do is betray their own family to anyone.
The six vampire families created the Vampire Court, each family having one representative for their house in the Court. The Court decides on vampire laws and vampire affairs. Most vampires, especially the older ones see themselves as equal to a noble. It’s not uncommon for vampires to have infiltrated noble houses either.
If a person who isn’t a vampire finds out about the vampires they are either turned sooner or later or kept as servants or pets depending on the family they come in contact with. Exposure of the vampire community will always lead to death.