Vampire supernatural

[sauvin]

Traditional vampires are dead people reanimated by some kind of maleficient supernatural entity. Stoker's Dracula appears to have remained truly dead south of the belt buckle, witness so many soft science types pointing to his oral fixation and other infantile traits. Maybe it's just a problem of hydraulics (what with having no heartbeat), but in terms of metaphor and thematic ground rules, I'd suspect the lady vampires would have to be similarly inert. Unlike Eliform vampires, at least according to the Stokerian line, new vampires are not created by accident; it's a deliberate process in which the sire gives the vampire-to-be some of his blood.

Eliform vampires are a different proposition. One bite, and then you become one of them. One presumes rate of transmission by this means is 100%. Under these conditions, it would take a single careless vampire to launch a pandemic that probably cannot be arrested or reversed. One begets two, who beget four, eight, sixteen, and so on. Under these conditions, I'd say that if there's some kind of maleficient entity behind this infection, its design intent was to depopulate the planet via some kind of genetic engineering.

From this kind of perspective, why would Eliform vampires be allowed to procreate?

[metoo]

From this kind of perspective, why would Eliform vampires be allowed to procreate?

Well, it might create an interesting story. Consider an infected mother bearing an non-infected child, and all the complications following that.

[dongregg]

From this kind of perspective, why would Eliform vampires be allowed to procreate?

Well, it might create an interesting story. Consider an infected mother bearing an non-infected child, and all the complications following that.

A procreation variation is well handled in Cold and Cold Part 2.
http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/for ... =12&t=9110
http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/for ... =12&t=9147

[Drakeule]

Well, it might create an interesting story. Consider an infected mother bearing an non-infected child, and all the complications following that.

Sounds allot like the primus of Blade.

[Cthulhuthanos]

I think it would be interesting for the infection to allow the fetus to grow, then it would devour it. Someone could write a story about a vampire committing suicide because of this.