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Question about the Black Court

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kbrizzle:
So the Whamps feed on emotion, Ramps feed on blood, Blamps feed on .... life force?

Do we know what the Black Court feeds on? Also blood? Life energy?

Snark Knight:
Blood, but it might be as a medium for life itself. I don't think there have been any in-book instances of blamps cultivating a food human to feed on repeatedly like the Reds do. Plus the WOJ was that they grow in power basically through running up their kill count.

exartiem:
I've tried to imagine how it would work.  The best thing I could come up with is similar to Omega Red in Marvel Comics.  He has a "death factor", to oppose Wolverine's healing factor.  How it works is his body creates a 'death spore'.  He must transfer this spore into other people or the spore feeds on him.  The more spores he infects people with, the better and stronger he gets.

I can see the BC having access to a source of power.  The amount of energy they can draw depends on how many 'batteries' they can put the power into.  They kill someone, then use them as a battery.  The more batteries, the more power.

Or they establish within the corpses a connection to the power source.  The more corpses, the more portals, the more power they can draw on.  The longer the corpse is in their thrall, the better attuned it becomes to the power and the more it can channel.  Sort of like the rules for necromancers and zombies.

Mr. Death:
Definitely blood. We see them taking bites out of and lapping the blood from Lara's wounds in Blood Rites.

They probably don't "cultivate" because unlike the Ramps, they don't have fangs, but regular human teeth -- so instead of a couple little holes to suck from that can heal up with relatively little non-feeding blood loss, they bite out a chunk of your throat. Plus, no venom, so their victim isn't sedated and they either have to kill them to keep them still or just do it incidentally in the struggle.

Other than that, the death itself may well give them power, as a sort of human sacrifice to themselves.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: Mr. Death on December 16, 2018, 05:01:17 AM ---They probably don't "cultivate" because unlike the Ramps, they don't have fangs, but regular human teeth -- so instead of a couple little holes to suck from that can heal up with relatively little non-feeding blood loss, they bite out a chunk of your throat. Plus, no venom, so their victim isn't sedated and they either have to kill them to keep them still or just do it incidentally in the struggle.

--- End quote ---

Well, a Renfield would willingly cut their arm to feed their master and bandage it up after a sub-lethal feeding if a Blamp really wanted to order it. Don't need addictive venom when you can just obliterate the thralls' free will.

So I figure the actual death matters in some way to the Blamps' feeding.

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