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Vampire Fans?
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: Araneae on January 16, 2009, 07:30:28 PM ---That's a good one that I don't see used in a lot of modern interpretations. I've always liked it though. (Empathy I think - I don't like water :D )
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The flowing water thing and need for his "native earth" are also factors of P.N. Elrod's vampire characters, Jack Fleming and Quincy Morris. They don't have the ability to be active during daylight, though.
Infamous as Elle!:
I picked up one of those books and for some reason, it just didn't grab my attention. I couldn't keep track and there seemed to be something tedious about getting through the words. I don't know why, maybe it was just me.
I also love the story of St. Germaine as it pertains to the tale told down in New Orleans. The house on Rue Royale is staggeringly beautiful and is enormous, taking up one entire block. In fact, it's featured in the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Apparently, they can't keep it occupied though. The price tag was somewhere around four million for the place but the tale behind it all intrigues me. A mysterious gentleman showing up with gobs of wealth, dwelling in the worst parts of townn, hosting parties for the rich but never eating any food and having everything catered....then the lurid tales that began with the horror story of one terrified woman before she died, his disappearance and all the massive blood stains found soaked into the beautiful wooden floors.
Yes, very eerie and I'd love to write something around this tale sometime. After all, I think Vivian will want to be plenty far from Dante, so living down in New Orleans for some period of time may help.
ballplayer72:
ooo thats another thing.
Does running water, garlic, crosses, holy ground etc.... have any effect?
What, if any, sorts of other creatures, creepy fairy biddies, wizards, etc... exist in your world?
So Dante doesn't have a speciality yet? Ok then (got confused when you listed Vivians and just put really ridiculously good looking for Dante ;D) i suggest something flashy and ostentatious. Like fireballs. Fireballs are always a good decision. *nods head sagely*
If they're up during the day, and living their 'true' life at night, when do they sleep? Do they sleep?
If they must sleep, or rest, do they do it in a coffin? (do they do it in a coffin? lol sorry couldn't help the pun it was toooo good)
Can they regenerate lost limbs? How about fingers if not limbs? Do normal weapons harm them? Must they be staked in the heart to die? What about decapitation and scattering of body parts?
Another question, is a vampire born, turned, or can it be either? (think the Blade series.)
Does someone have to get munched on (literally none of the eating ambient energy) to rise again? Is there some esoteric process?
Are there many vampires? Do they know about each other? Is there a club with a cool handshake and nifty badges? Are vampires common knowledge to normies?
Since this is urban fantasy, let me give you some advice from a concerned reader and all around bibliophile (book lover). IF you are going to have other mythical/supernatural etc.. beings in your world and IF you are going to have some of those be were-wolves, please please please for the love of all that is good reading don't make said were-wolves and vampires automatically hostile to each other. Its been done to death. Not to say that some were's and some vamps can't hate each other. Just don't make it some sort of given for the universe. Please. I'm literally begging you on my hands and knees.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
Of all things, an early Silhouette Nocturne romance featured one aspect of vampire lore that is too often overlooked in pop culture, except for Count von Count in Sesame Street:
Obsession with counting things. In a lot of traditional vampire lore, you can curb a vampire by scattering a lot of little things -- usually seeds, but in the Silhouette Nocturne I mentioned, the heroine helps her vampire sweety curb his desire for her blood by scattering rose petals (If I remember correctly) -- where the vamp is likely to find them.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Morraeon on January 16, 2009, 10:23:40 PM ---Of all things, an early Silhouette Nocturne romance featured one aspect of vampire lore that is too often overlooked in pop culture, except for Count von Count in Sesame Street:
Obsession with counting things. In a lot of traditional vampire lore, you can curb a vampire by scattering a lot of little things -- usually seeds, but in the Silhouette Nocturne I mentioned, the heroine helps her vampire sweety curb his desire for her blood by scattering rose petals (If I remember correctly) -- where the vamp is likely to find them.
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This is a good one. I'm gonna try to somehow use it in the story I'm trying to work on.
One good thing I found with lots of info about vampires, and a lot which is overlooked or not well known, is the Vampire Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunson. It has several tables of different things, like things to distract vampires, what can hurt/kill them, how they can be made, and so forth. Along with entries of people considered to be vampires in history and movie vampires and so forth.
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